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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.
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to not want to die in any way but in my sleep when I was a young man. I'd like to die awake now, if possible, with people around me who love me.
- Handsome
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father sang well, and he was a handsome man. When he walked down the street, people sometimes mistook him for Cary Grant and asked for his autograph.
- Denies
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a corporate hatchet man, and it's impossible for me to turn that off. It's this curse when I walk into businesses: 'That needs to be fixed, that needs to be fixed.'
- Flowers
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive.
- Dignified
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- Nov 07, 2020
In New York, you are competing with Times Square lights and all of that, so you've got to be 300 pounds and crazy to get anyone's attention. Then, you can refine yourself. I always knew under those 300 pounds and tracksuits was a refined, slim, dignified man.
- Simple
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.
- Maker
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- Nov 07, 2020
Baseball is a man maker.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jesse James's next tattoo should be a warning label: Danger. Loving this man could break you.
- Philosophy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.
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- Nov 07, 2020
People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That's right, records! Man, they don't even make records no more!
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020