- Pain
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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
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
The critics never see my role as it is - as a man protecting his garden killing poisonous snakes. Instead, they say it's just me again committing violence.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020