- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man Quotes
Short lines on character, patience and what it means to be a man.
This is a smaller, general collection of quotes touching on manhood, character and patience. One well-known line uses golf as an example, a test of temperament disguised as a leisure game, to make a wider point about what reveals a man's spirit. For steadier, values-driven lines, see our Good quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it.
- Smart
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can find all types of men anywhere, but a smart man will always make you feel important and understood. And a woman can always tell when a man does it genuinely and effortlessly.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the 'Science Channel,' the 'Discovery Channel,' I like 'Discovery Times,' which is a fabulous hybrid of the 'New York Times' and 'Discovery Channel.' Maybe I'm just an old man, but I like to watch that stuff.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've done enough for a while and people get fed up of seeing you, but apart from that, although I'm young, I need a bit of rest. You could say I have become a house husband. It's not a new man thing, it's just largely a boring man who doesn't mind staying in the house thing.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the language of, you know, the old black country man with a blues guitar and... boots and the quick banter.
- Frederick
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you meet your heroes, you're always going to be disappointed. Frederick Douglass was a great man, but would I want my daughter to marry him? Probably not. That doesn't mean that I don't think he's a great man.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
James Brown was the Monday-to-Friday guy. He was the hardest man in show business. He was like your dad and your uncle: He showed up, and he hit hard.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
I respect my dad, and he's amazing. He's my hero. He's the Beatles, man - or one of them.
- Affair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man.
- Finely
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mechanical and social achievements of our day must not blind our eyes to the fact that, in all that relates to man, his nature and aspirations, we have added little or nothing to what has been so finely said by the great men of old.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
- Nov 07, 2020