- Dad
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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
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
- Clad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't go out and get arrested anymore. The most extravagant thing I do these days is play golf. I'm like an old man.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think that's wrong. I think we all need someone.
- Partner
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just didn't know who was going to be my partner. I knew that once I had grown to be a man that I was going to attract the person that I deserved to be with, or deserved to be with me.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
No bad man can be a good poet.
- Brightly
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
LL Cool J was a rapper-turned-actor, and I also relate to him because he was sort of a ladies' man and had a female fan base, but yet he's a positive dude. You never read about him getting into trouble or going to jail.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020