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.
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.
We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.
I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.
Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.
A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.
One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.
Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.
Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any.
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.
Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
