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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.
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It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
- He
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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
- Hands
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Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!
- Me
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I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake. To preserve civilisation, we must deal scientifically with the brute element, using only genuine biological principles.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should perceive that man's period of historical existence, a period so short that his physical constitution has not been altered in the slightest degree, is insufficient to allow of any considerable mental change.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The man or nation of high culture may acknowledge to great lengths the restraints imposed by conventions and honour, but beyond a certain point, primitive will or desire cannot be curbed.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
From my experience, I cannot doubt but that man, when lost to terrestrial consciousness, is indeed sojourning in another and uncorporeal life of far different nature from the life we know; and of which only the slightest and most indistinct memories linger after waking.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020