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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head.
- Nov 07, 2020
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whereas economic man maximises, selects the best alternative from among all those available to him, his cousin, administrative man, satisfices, looks for a course of action that is satisfactory or 'good enough'.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think those who object to my characterizing man as simple want somehow to retain a deep mystery at his core.
- Darwin
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- Nov 07, 2020
In arguing that machines think, we are in the same fix as Darwin when he argued that man shares common ancestors with monkeys, or Galileo when he argued that the Earth spins on its axis.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man is a potential genius until he does something.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.
- Any Other Place
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- Nov 07, 2020