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.
Summer boarders often left clothes behind, and of what use were they to the landladies, for no rag-and-bone man ever called at their houses. The truth of the matter was that in less than a week I was well dressed...
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I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a small village or town where his face is known and seen every day. For children take advantage, as I know...
Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a...
Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man?
She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.
A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
I always felt of myself as a composer, performer, improviser. I've never called myself a jazz man. I make art.
There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.
The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.
The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage ground.
If you don't understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance. The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes...
