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.
This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest.
This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!
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In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.
We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the obstacles that prevent the spirit from entering.
If a Chancellor is trying to push something through, he must be a man of power. And if he's smart, he knows when the time is ripe. In one case - the euro - I was like a dictator... The...
You're not going to find a man whose socks don't get dirty or who doesn't snore.
It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.
It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
The hardest task in a girl's life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.
A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.
After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.
Failing to be there when a man wants her is the greatest sin a woman can commit - except being there when he doesn't want her.
And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.
The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
