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.
When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last.
Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?
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When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head.
What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.
Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.
A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.
It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.
No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.
Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.
A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.
In Plains, I saw Jimmy Carter as he really is - a nice, decent man... in terms of compassionate contribution to society, he certainly has proven to be our best past president.
To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and...
As no outward motion or change, when normal, in man's external body can take place unless provoked by an inward impulse, given through one of the three functions named, so with the external or manifested Universe.
A woman will toss her head and a man will say, 'Oh she's trying to pick me up,' when in fact she's not doing that at all. So, women actually have to be a little careful with what they do,...
Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
