- Freedom
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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.
- Blind Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The word of man is the most durable of all material.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because comedy is cheap to put on: if you've got a play or an opera, there's a whole load of people and a set, but comedy is just one man or woman. And because TV has learned to love comics - there's so many more around now than when I started out.
- Beyond
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- Nov 07, 2020