- 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
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm still proud of the 'Fionavar Tapestry.' The fact I don't write the same way is as much as anything else the fact a man in his 50s doesn't write the way a man in his 20s does - or he shouldn't.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our thoughts fly therefore by themselves in this festive hour of our plant community, to the man whom we thank for the ressurection of our Nation: Adolf Hitler, the patron of German labour and German art.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
To have united the purposes of an entire Nation, is the great historical achievement of the man in whose strong hands our President has placed the fate of our people.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
History uses a unit of measure for time that is different from that of the lifespan of the individual, whereas man is only too ready to measure the evolution of history by his own yardstick.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020