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.
The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.
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Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.
The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not...
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his...
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
How many women in this world are served breakfast in bed every morning by a gorgeous young man? I am. So how do I feel about older age? Crazy about it! Wouldn't trade it for anything!
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.
If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there...
I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote...
I love it when a man cooks; it's one of those points that makes me adore a guy. I think it's so romantic and I feel cared for when a man cooks.
