- 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
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020
When should a man stop wearing sports jerseys? When the buttons of his White Sox top finally pop, like rivets on a distressed ocean liner? When the pinstripes of his Yankees shirt have grown wider at the midsection than at the top, as the longitudinal lines on a globe?
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you wonder why a man would shave before spending all day in his bass boat, you have never seen an angler's face projected in high-def on the JumboTron at a Classic weigh-in.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I'm a bald, dim-witted writer, people think I couldn't possibly be her husband, so they occasionally confuse me for someone more glamorous. At O'Hare airport, a man asked if he could take Rebecca's photo. When I reflexively stepped away, he said, 'No, no, no. I want your picture too, Andre Agassi.'
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a bald man who happens to play golf, or a golfer who happens to be bald, I'll never know the pleasures of a golf visor.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been offered 'Celebrity Fit Club', where you have to take off your shirt and get on a scale. I got kids, man. I'm not going to humiliate myself. I'd rather drive a cab.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I gotta say, as the father of two beautiful young daughters, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a team player. But I will say that I've never been a 'yes man' in my life.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.
- Sex
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Drag shows are one of my favorite things in the world. As a straight man I love going to gay bars. People at gay bars just love to dance.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we all have demons, but my demons aren't that bad. They're productive demons. They keep me focused on the man I want to be and the life I want to live.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Struggling to end the war and to eliminate slavery once and for all by way of the 13th Amendment, with the amendment's prospective passage undermining the effort to make peace with the Confederacy and vice versa, Lincoln embodied the Great Man theory that leftists disdain.
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- Nov 07, 2020