- Innocent
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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
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
- Discriminatory
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have had a small handful of truly blatantly discriminatory experiences for being transgender, but the vast majority are simply the differences between being a man versus being a woman in science and business.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a proper man.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always a man of the moment. I think it helped me go through things I went through in life.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
With Pablo, I lose my reason, and with me, he loses his head; and then all that's left is a man pursued by justice and a woman pursued by the media who know and take care of and need each other, despite the pain caused by all the absences, all his crimes and her sins.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man makes a god of his own desire.
- Arms
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- Nov 07, 2020