- 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
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the King is checked, or any valuable Piece in danger from the attack of an enemy, you are said to interpose a man when you play it between the attacked and attacking Piece.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.
- Portrait
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of recurring themes that I resonated with when I read 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.'
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Either somebody has equal rights, or they don't. And certainly in the Irish constitution, marriage is genderless. There's no mention of a man and a woman.
- Nov 07, 2020
As a young man, I wooed, unsuccessfully, with Puccini. It's important to get your operas right.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
Climate change is not the fault of man. It's Mother Nature's way. And sucking greenhouse gases from the atmosphere is too limited a solution. We have to be prepared for fire or ice, for fry or freeze. We have to be prepared for change.
- Ice
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the two million years during which we climbed from stone-tool-wielding Homo erectus with sloping brows to high-foreheaded Homo urbanis - man, the inventor of the city - we underwent 60 glaciations, 60 ice ages.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Remember the picture of the president in the classroom, being told of the attack by chief of staff Andy Card? The American people thought they were seeing a man suddenly thrust into a grave challenge no one could have anticipated.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good advice is one of those injuries which a good man ought, if possible, to forgive, but at all events to forget at once.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
- Devil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020