- 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
- Mad
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- Nov 07, 2020
The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.
- Nov 07, 2020
If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't think of a time in the history of man when food was in excess. We're dealing with the same old problems we've dealt with for 60,000 years.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
- Brave Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man, I would have loved to have been fully cognisant of the power of Janis Joplin. I would have loved to have been part of the revolution.
- Hand
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020