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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
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ya know, I always admired Ray Kroc, the man who invented McDonald's. Ray had a vision of the most commonplace thing - a hamburger and fries to go - but to him it was just the greatest thing ever, and he was going to make it the greatest thing ever for everybody else, and he did.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always admired Ray Kroc, the man who invented McDonald's. Ray had a vision of the most commonplace thing - a hamburger and fries to go - but to him it was just the greatest thing ever, and he was going to make it the greatest thing ever for everybody else, and he did.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's not a man, woman or child on the face of the earth who doesn't enjoy a tasty beverage.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a very famous leader in Atlanta who thought that education was appropriate, but on the whole, the view was, 'If you're going to keep people down, you have to keep them ignorant. And so, nothing personal, but we just don't want to recognize the attributes that man of learning would bring. Quite threatening, those would be.'
- Conceded
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe it is conceded that, notwithstanding the fabled blue laws of New England, a man may, without impropriety, kiss his wife on Sunday and possibly, if he have a chance, some other sweet-faced woman.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somebody said something funny to me the other day. They said, 'Wolper, until two weeks ago, your tombstone was going to say, 'David Wolper, the man who produced 'Roots.' I think the tombstone now has a new inscription. It's going to be 'David Wolper, the man who produced the opening ceremony of the 1984 Olympics.'
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
My definition of a producer is 'the man with the dream.'
- Importance
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- Nov 07, 2020
The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
- Hollywood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked with a man named Patty Crane who was Errol Flynn's stand-in back in the '30s in Hollywood.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020