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.
All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.
The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it.
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There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.
With eye upraised his master's looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich man's guardian, and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.
It demonstrates to his simple mind in the most positive manner that we have no prejudice against him on account of his race, and that while he behaves himself he will be treated the same as a white man.
It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.
If a man has wealth, he has to make a choice, because there is the money heaping up. He can keep it together in a bunch, and then leave it for others to administer after he is dead. Or he...
Our understanding of Shakespeare already depends largely on the vitality of Renaissance elements in our education. Each man must live in his own generation, as the saying is; but the generations are bound together by the golden links of the...
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.
And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.
But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.
