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.
It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time.
A pretty good test of a man's religion is how it affects his pocketbook.
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There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.
'Last Man on Earth'... Vincent Price is one of my favorite actors; I think he was miscast.
'Omega Man' is a little too tied to a specific generation and a little cult-y to me.
In all my travels I never met with any one Scotchman but what was a man of sense: I believe everybody of that country that has any, leaves it as fast as they can.
In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to whom the idea first occurs.
Even among the married, sexual satisfaction must not be sought in a way which disregards man's character as a person and degrades him to the animal level.
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a...
