- Family
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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
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find it really funny that men can always get away with being a ladies man. Everyone thinks it's really cool. But a girl can't really date boys all the time because everybody looks down on her. I think boys get away with things so much easier.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a man aspires for a political career, he can start at 18 and go on and on. This is not true about women, who fall back when marriage and children happen, which are equally important. That is not gender bias.
- Muscle
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somebody accumulates a lot of muscle and think himself to be a big man. But this big man is only big when all around him are smaller.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.
- Nov 07, 2020
Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there.
- Emphasize
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- Nov 07, 2020
We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.
- Excluding
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the Canadian confederation took place in 1867, a lot of people in Quebec said, 'Could we have a referendum?' They said, 'Oh, no. In the British tradition, the Parliament can do anything, excluding changing a man into a woman, and, therefore, no referendum' - and that was that.
- Exercise
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- Nov 07, 2020
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in the Great Man theory of science or history. There are no great men, just men standing on the shoulders of other men and what they have done.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of Earth.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a perfectionist. I need to be needed. I need to do things for a man. But I don't need to do them as much, these days.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.
- Animal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020