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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
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.
- Knows
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any coalition has its troubles, as every married man knows.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
- Pleasure
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- Nov 07, 2020
The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.
- Jealous
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.
- Nov 07, 2020
The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In his final year in office, Clinton decided that his contribution to Middle East peace would lie not in the removal of Saddam Hussein but in a grand attempt to resolve the conflict between the Palestinians and Israel. With this, he missed his last chance to deal forcefully with the man he was publicly committed to overthrowing.
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- Nov 07, 2020