- Free Man
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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
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a black, working-class man who arrived here with no money in his pocket from Nigeria; my mum came from more of a middle-class background, whose father had prosecuted the Nazis at Nuremberg.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people can act Hollywood and others don't. I just try to live my life as a normal, everyday man. At times, fame does get to you. But you must stay positive and remember two things: It's easier to be happy, and without all those fans, life wouldn't be as good as it is.
- Nov 07, 2020
I myself think that the wise man meddles little or not at all in affairs and does his own things.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The anchovy which is found in the sea at Athens, men despise on account of its abundance and say that it is a poor man's fish; but in other cities, they prize it above everything, even where it is far inferior to the Attic anchovy.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I go on stage, I'm a different man. I become Chubby Checker, And when I'm not Chubby Checker, I'm preparing to be him.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a young man, I shined the shoes of Louis Armstrong and Louis Jordan! Music was just everywhere like that. And in my family, everyone could play something, and if they couldn't play, they could sing.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
- Training
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.
- Plumbing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
- Habit
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father is an intellectual and physical man, which is a rather unusual combination. He's great. As he brought up me and my brothers and sisters, he ingrained in us that your appearance is not your responsibility, other than that you should not be a slob.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
It never occurred to me that I was a leading man until I was 19 years old. I had been acting since I was 10, so that's nine years and 30 or 40 plays, in school and summer stock, professional theater, too.
- Song
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- Nov 07, 2020