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.
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
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The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.
All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.
Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.
I am now the target of the most powerful man in this country, with an army of aides whose major responsibility today seems to be to attack me and get rid of me.
I readily admit I was not an expert on foreign policy but I was knowledgeable and I didn't need a man who was the Vice President of the United States and my opponent turning around and putting me down.
I've made a connection with the television audience by being a proud Latino man. I am passionate for what I do, courageous in the face of peril, honest and straightforward.
You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.
When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.
I was out with my mum when a man started screaming at me: 'Georgia Groome. I love you.' Mum and I just looked at each other for a split second - and then ran away as fast as we could.
A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.
For members of a traditional society where many traditions have been discredited, an interest in modernity can result in a restless sophistication. Mehmet Ertegun seems not to have been a restless man.
The Turkish Embassy in Washington is an ornate, eclectic building on the corner of Twenty-third Street and Massachusetts Avenue which was built originally for Edward Hamlin Everett, the man who put the crimp in bottle caps.
Literary men now routinely tell their readers about their divorces. One literary man who reviews books wrote, in reviewing a study of Ruskin, that he had never read a book by Ruskin but that the study confirmed him in his...
