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.
I absolutely loved Jerome Robbins. We were all so lucky to be in the same room with this man.
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The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway.
When I'm just tryna funk, it's gonna be the Staple Singers, man - Pop Staples. And Ray Charles. Ray could take 'Eleanor Rigby' and make that funky.
And if these be unprincipled agents who scruple at nothing, he will be a bold man who will deny that there are always to be found men at the bar who lend their services most cordially to back and support...
The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.
I actually got discovered in my hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by a man who worked at a place that sold barbecue sandwiches!
He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.
Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.
That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.
The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it's just the thing that every man wants - to have a son and heir.
Dave Mackay is my definition of a superstar. The man broke his leg three times, but wouldn't be carried off. He walked off.
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
The right of property holds good in all society; but in the West, ethics invade the personal life in a manner unknown to the East, so much so that the Oriental stands agape at our folly, knowing well that every...
To what better purpose can a man's energy be devoted, and his talents, than the resuscitation of his country's language?
You will find in me a middle aged man with a career behind me sufficiently brilliant to enable me to talk about many things interestingly; and I am not an unkindly soul, I believe.
