- Better Man
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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
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.
- His
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.
- Love Is
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.
- Mood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who is the ally of the coach? Who's going to write, 'Man, that was a well-coached game.' Players win, coaches lose.
- Pride
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always could hit, but fielding I had to work at. I took as much pride in fielding as hitting. I became a complete ballplayer. I knew when to take the extra base. I knew about the outfielder hitting the cutoff man. I knew when and how to bunt. I knew when to hit-and-run.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020