- Bad One
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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
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been a proud man.
- Most
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The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.
- Stronger
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- Nov 07, 2020
He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.
- Pride
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Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.
- Character
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A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision.
- Everywhere
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is everywhere still in chains.
- Formulate
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020