- Heart
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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
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
And when native man left off this form of development, his humanization was retarded in growth.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
God never does anything wrong. He knows what is best for me. No man can understand God, or know why He deals with us as He does.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the several thousands of years before they became firefighters and physicians, women were sirens, enchantresses, snares. At times it seems as if female powerlessness is male self-preservation in disguise. And for millennia, this has made for a zero-sum game: A woman's intelligence was a man's deception.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is the only wealth that man absolutely needs. Love is the only wealth that God precisely is.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the present. The richer a man, the holier.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.
- Exceeding
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- Nov 07, 2020
She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020