- Angered
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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
- Bona
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- Nov 07, 2020
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is high time we found out about this man Cummings. Let us give him every opportunity to show us at once whether he is a genius, a charlatan, or a congenital defective - and get him off our minds.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am.
- Endured
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- Nov 07, 2020
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
- Creation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the really good mountaineer is the man with the technical ability of the professional and with the enthusiasm and freshness of approach of the amateur.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020