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.
You know, Quincy Jones was a great mentor, but he was a man in a man's world. Fortunately he's a very sensitive man and a beautiful human being, and even though he was 14 or 15 years older than me,...
Man City is one of the best clubs in the world. I knew that something big was happening here. I wanted to be a part of it.
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I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four...
I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City...
Man - life in general - seems irrelevant to the workings of the universe: a mere smudge of water, grease, and carbon on a pinpoint planet circling a star of no special consequence.
Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.
Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.
Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.
I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.
Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.
And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.
As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on...
