- Me
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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
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have everything and I have nothing. Sometimes I feel like the loneliest man on the planet. All this 'stuff' and no one to share it with. And then when women come along, I wonder if they like the stuff more than me.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
A Western woman is not her brother's or her father's property. She's just herself. She can choose her own lifestyle. But in a Muslim family, the honor of the man is between the legs of a woman.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The stereotypical gay man is someone whose company I enjoy, someone who makes me laugh, someone I'd want my kid to be. The stereotypical gay woman makes me insecure, conscious of my failings as a feminist.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own husband was divorced when we met, but without kids. I don't know what I would have done if he'd had them. I got the message very early on that the worst mistake a woman can make is marrying a man with children.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my YouTube videos started to get really big, I was like, 'Man, this is pretty sweet.' It started as my hobby, and then I started traveling and learning how to play different instruments, and then it just kind of became my life.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite dance move is the 'Old Man.'
- Woman
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- Nov 07, 2020
I make films about black women and it doesn't mean that you can't see them as a black man, doesn't mean that he can't see them as a white man or she can't see them as a white woman.
- Forward
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- Nov 07, 2020
Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.
- Be Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.
- Collectively
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- Nov 07, 2020
In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020