- 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
- Laughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
- Nov 07, 2020
Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
With all my work, I have not more, with my shares in the bank and the Academy, than twelve or thirteen thousand reales a year, and with all this, I am as contented as the happiest man on earth.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.
- Lot
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the lot of man but once to die.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.
- Atheist
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- Nov 07, 2020
An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.
- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020