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 traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
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If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.
If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
I earned my writing stripes with a large man's shoebox overflowing with rejection slips... more than 100 before I got my first, 'Yes, we want this,' accompanied by a check.
I can't think of a time in the history of man when food was in excess. We're dealing with the same old problems we've dealt with for 60,000 years.
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both.
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
Man, I would have loved to have been fully cognisant of the power of Janis Joplin. I would have loved to have been part of the revolution.
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
