- Language
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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
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
- Patriotism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020