- Living
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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
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Summer boarders often left clothes behind, and of what use were they to the landladies, for no rag-and-bone man ever called at their houses. The truth of the matter was that in less than a week I was well dressed from head to foot, all of these things being voluntary offerings, when in quest of eatables.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a small village or town where his face is known and seen every day. For children take advantage, as I know to my cost, and would gather round him like hens around a farmer when he scatters grain.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am proud to be black man.
- Beast
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- Nov 07, 2020
Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man?
- Nov 07, 2020
A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always felt of myself as a composer, performer, improviser. I've never called myself a jazz man. I make art.
- Nov 07, 2020
There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.
- Popcorn
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- Nov 07, 2020
The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
- Hardships
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage ground.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you don't understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance. The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.
- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020