- Me
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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
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are three attributes for which I am grateful to Fortune: that I was born, first, human and not animal; second, man and not woman; and third, Greek and not barbarian.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
But then there was Hendrix, man. Jimi was really the last cat to freak me. Jimi was playing all the stuff I had in my head. I couldn't believe it, when I first heard him. Man, no one can ever do what he did with a guitar. No one can ever take his place.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could never drive in a great big car; people like me because I'm a man of the people, a hustler.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
- Distinctive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rousseau ranks among the great educational theorists of the modern era, even if he was the last man to put in charge of a classroom. Young adults, he thought, should be allowed to develop their capabilities in their distinctive way.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Personally, I like to think I'm like my old man. I like to think I have the brains he did.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went into this little reptile park, and Steve was doing the crocodile show, coincidentally... I was absolutely floored. That was it. This man was a real-life hero. I fell then and there, love at first sight.
- Gifted
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- Nov 07, 2020
Martin Sheen was extraordinary. He's a very gifted man.
- Nov 07, 2020
If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame.
- Darkness
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020