- Children
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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
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fresh sneakers are important on a man. It's like a new pair of boxers or a new pair of socks.
- Idiot
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I hold a gun, I know how to be sensible about it. I'm not holding it to wild out or just to shoot somebody because I'm mad at him. There's responsibility in buying that gun, and part of it is dealing with it like a man, and not dealing with it like an idiot, and getting behind iron bars for unnecessary reasons.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to lie about my age at first because you always want to be 18, but then you start looking at it and you're 40, and the money's still coming. And you're like, 'Man, who cares about that?'
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
In high school, I began to dig my way into Ethiopian history, and began to understand myself as a young man formed by multiple narratives.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would have been a frustrated man had I not achieved what I wanted to achieve as a cricketer.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man is hurt but by himself.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.
- Nov 07, 2020
Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020