- Men
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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
- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm lucky to have my dad in my life. He's very brilliant, I think he's really a smart man, and he's a kind guy.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
- High School And College
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- Nov 07, 2020
As we walked through the National Museum of African American History and Culture, I pushed my grandfather in a wheelchair he had reluctantly agreed to sit in. He is a proud man who also knows that his knees aren't what they once were - that years of high school and college football had long accelerated the deterioration of his aging joints.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a gay man, living an out life for a long time, and it's tiring and anger-making to hear people continue to spit out the same old dreary cliches about the fact that gay men are doing something unnatural, and there'll be a price to pay when the Rapture happens.
- Relationship
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- Nov 07, 2020
After my second marriage failed... I said, 'You know, could I have a relationship with a man? A loving relationship with a man that would involve intimacy?' For a while, before I did get into a relationship, I saw, for a few years, either women or men. And I found that I could be attracted to both.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't go to bed with John Wayne, so I do the next best thing: I go to bed with my girlfriend, who once met the great man. That's how much I love westerns.
- Not Knowing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sex - the poor man's polo.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.
- Enlarging
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain.
- Woman
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're writing, you think: How does intimacy happen in the work? You don't know who your reader is, woman, man, child, black person, Asian, who knows?
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020