- Politics
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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.
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- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there.
- Milk
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
- Honest Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to cook like a mad man. If I could do it all over again? I would be a NBA basketball player.
- Nov 07, 2020
The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, perhaps when a man is growing old, calls come to him, too, from another infinity still darker and more deeply mysterious; and the more he is wearied by life the dearer are those calls to him.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a small spacecraft, it was hard for the other two guys to sleep when the on-duty man was talking to Mission Control regularly.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020