- Justice
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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
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one loves the man whom he fears.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
- Elephant
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in this tiny town in Rhode Island, and we didn't have cable. We had three TV stations, and one of them would play old movies. That's what I would watch, and I always wanted to be, like, Myrna Loy in 'The Thin Man.'
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yeah, the first contract I signed, that was the first time I realized, Oh man, never mind, I don’t want to do this anymore, but it was too late. I realized it was a bad thing because I wanted to try out for 'American Idol' and all these different things couldn’t do that because I was in this contract.
- Israel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am the most popular man in Israel.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020