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.
Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.
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A man may not always be what he appears to be, but what he appears to be is always a significant part of what he is.
To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely.
One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.
There's something about the struggle of a sensitive man that we really relate to.
There's such a thing, if you're a finance man, as hitting the figures you need to hit. But there's no equivalent in acting. It's a creative field. It's subjective. That's what I love about it.
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
When I discovered Gil Scott-Heron, I discovered a musical hero, a man who spoke baritone truth to power over jazzy funk at a time when funky music was primarily about shake, shake, shaking your booty.
The upshot here is that Gil Scott-Heron is still a warrior, even if the front lines have moved. He's made a record not without hope but which doesn't come with any easy or comforting answers. In that way, the man...
Man's greed to obtain something for nothing has never yet been able to content itself with a moderate profit.
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.
This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.
