- Knowledge
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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
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
At last, the newspapers discovered the Bears. I kept writing articles about upcoming games, and by reading the papers, I learned editors like superlatives. I blush when I think how many times I wrote that the next game was going to be the most difficult of the season or how a new player was the fastest man in the West.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women don't like men who know they're good looking. They'd much prefer a man who doesn't know he's good looking.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man lives in a world of meaning.
- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a boxer, I wanted to be champion of the world, not the richest man in the world.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Take care that all your offerings be free, and of your own, that has cost you something; so that ye may not offer of that which is another man's, or that which ye are entrusted withal, and not your own.
- Patriotism
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
We say here that if you fall down in the United States, the ambulance man must feel for your wallet before he feels for your pulse.
- Religions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020