- 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
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am happy being a man in a dress. Some people get confused and think I'm a trans woman, but I'm strict about the difference. What I do is performance, it's staged, it's glamour - it's not real life. But for trans people, being born in the wrong body - there's nothing glamorous or easy about that.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just drawing on my own experience, I never - I never - personally reference myself as old. I don't think of myself as old, but I certainly would not say that to a man.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went through a long period of time in that marriage when I didn't believe anything was my fault. I had to face what my part was, and only because of that difficult work was I able to trust a man again.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mark Hopkins was one of the truest and best men that ever lived. He had a keen analytical mind; was thoroughly accurate, and took general supervision of the books, contracts, etc. He was strictly the office man, and never bought or sold anything. I always felt when I was in the East that our business in his hands was entirely safe.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The old Victorian laws against homosexuality were still on the statute books until the early 1990s. As a gay man living in Ireland, I and people like me found it easy to feel less than citizens.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I absolutely had a dream of doing 'Man of La Mancha' one day; that's a long time ago.
- Nov 07, 2020
There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.
- Alive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm against retiring. The thing that keeps a man alive is having something to do.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I come home, I say I'm coming home to Dublin. When I'm in Dublin, I say I'm going home to New York. I'm sort of a man of two countries.
- Religion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion theme aside, most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and it's really just, let's wind this guy up and see him explode.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020