- 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
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are in grave danger of losing forever not just millions of years of evolution on earth, but the eons of change that have produced man and his natural environment.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
People like Aphex Twin, Jason Pierce, Jarvis Cocker and William Orbit are actively showing their interest in a wider field of music. Jarvis and I met on a benefit for an extraordinary man called LaMonte Young, the father of minimalism, who worked with John Cale and shared a loft with Yoko Ono.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
But to be the Vicar of Christ, to claim to exercise his prerogatives on earth, does involve a claim to his attributes, and therefore our opposition to Popery is opposition to a man claiming to be God.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it a tumultuous multitude, in which every man was a law to himself, free to believe, and free to do what he pleased.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.
- Evasive
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.
- Discrepancy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.
- Forcible
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've been a lucky man. I've only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020