- 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
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man who is right by your side through everything makes you happy. But he can leave your side to make dinner once in a while!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Man cave' seems retrograde, but 'she shed' seems progressive. Or maybe it's just a place for me to eat embarrassing amounts of chocolate in private.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Was Hugh Hefner a libertine or a dirty old man? Someone who empowered women or commodified them? The answer is yes!
- Nov 07, 2020
One man's content is another woman's crap. And the crappy content - let's call it crontent - will never go away.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hours after I gave birth to my first child, my husband cradled all five pounds of our boy and said, gently, 'Hi, Sweetpea.' Not 'Buddy' or 'Little Man.' Sweetpea. The word filled me with unanticipated comfort.
- Ready
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- Nov 07, 2020
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would strongly recommend any young man to stay away from criminal law. It's not a good place to be, unfortunately.
- Serious
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.
- Phone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.
- Preparation
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- Nov 07, 2020
As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
- Blind Man
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- Nov 07, 2020