- Heart
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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
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
After a summer trip to Switzerland, which was rich in experiences, I started writing. In the beginning, I aimed at descriptions of nature and folk life until, as the years passed, the description of man became my chief interest.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is very difficult when you grow up without a father because you don't have a man who can give you direction and discipline.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.
- Nov 07, 2020
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
- Nov 07, 2020
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
- Conclude
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020