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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
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
- Handsome
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy.
- Religion
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- Nov 07, 2020
The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Indian was a religious man from his mother's womb.
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Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is my happy privilege to be able to stand here and tell you that if you elect me you will have elected a governor who has made no promises of preferment to any man or group.
- Credit
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- Nov 07, 2020