- 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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played the mini-tours for a lot of years, and man, you see some weird things out there. There are a lot of desperate people, strange personalities and marginal players, and with that you're going to see some cheating.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
- Circumstances
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- Nov 07, 2020
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
- Nov 07, 2020
There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really care what the man on the street thinks. I never did anything to please him in the first place, and I'm not going to start now.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
It does matter that it's the Olympics. I just did it my way. I'm not a martyr, and I'm not a do-gooder. I just want to go out and rock. And man, I rocked here.
- Push
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's only so far you can push a man.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm in this business, man, and I honestly don't know anything about show business at all. I don't know how it works.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020