- Own
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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
- Gardening
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.
- Immortality
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- Nov 07, 2020
What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.
- Invention
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- Nov 07, 2020
The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because my master was this renaissance man, I wasn't just learning a fighting style, I was learning how kung fu permeates all aspects of life, from eating to healthy living to mental state.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
A friend often says I'm an old man in a young man's husk. I like that. I am old-fashioned in some ways.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
For some reason, I got really obsessed with Samuel Pepys and his diaries when I read them, and with that period. I was probably a man with a wig and a frock coat in a past life!
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're a young black man, you're not allowed to be emotional. One of the reasons I act is people pay me to be emotional.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of black men running around with crazy trauma scars, and they should be going to therapy. They should be sitting down and talking to people. But they can't. If you've got the armor of being a man, and the armor of being a black man, that hyper-masculine thing can make those scars deeper.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to own the fact that I'm a black man - that's why I did 'Black Panther' and 'Widows' because if I play the industry game, I lose.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
An offensive war, I believe to be wrong and would therefore have nothing to do with it, having no right to meddle with another man's property, his ox or his ass, his man servant or his maid servant or anything this is his.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jackson was not a religious man when he came to Lexington.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020