- People
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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
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.
- Grievous
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- Nov 07, 2020
They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
- Better Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not resigning, and I'm going to try very hard to go back to work a better man and a better husband too.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.'
- Fragmentary
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- Nov 07, 2020
Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020