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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
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I had anything and saw a fellow being suffering, I was more anxious to relieve him than to benefit myself. And this is one of the true secrets of my being a poor man to this day.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I now say that the oldest man living never heard of the president of a great nation to come down to open electioneering for his successor. It is treating the nation as if it was the property of a single individual, and he had the right to bequeath it to whom he pleased - the same as a patch of land for which he had the patent.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man who has not tried it can imagine what dreadful hard work it is to listen. Splitting gum logs in the dog days is child's play to it. I've tried both, and give the preference to the gum logs.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a married man. If I want sex at this particular point in my life, I go home for it.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Definitely I love women, I love being around women, I find them incredible and intoxicating, and I've never had that feeling I get with women with a man.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think you have to find the humanity in the character and then the deterioration is a part of the process - the journey of the character. It's like playing King Lear. You can start off as a nice old man who finishes up crazy.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although I'm a very emotional man, I just can't have blind faith; I have to find out for myself.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 16, I played Macbeth at school and my English teacher said, 'I think you may have acting talent. Try to get into the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and see where you get.' I wouldn't have thought of that at all. I wanted to be a surgeon, but I wasn't a clever man.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stephen Fry is a master exponent of the English tongue. Some people might think that he is the most irritating man in Britain, but my wife and I love him all the same.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.
- Will
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man will work for your interests unless they are his.
- Radio
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- Nov 07, 2020