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.
The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
A man who is right by your side through everything makes you happy. But he can leave your side to make dinner once in a while!
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'Man cave' seems retrograde, but 'she shed' seems progressive. Or maybe it's just a place for me to eat embarrassing amounts of chocolate in private.
Was Hugh Hefner a libertine or a dirty old man? Someone who empowered women or commodified them? The answer is yes!
One man's content is another woman's crap. And the crappy content - let's call it crontent - will never go away.
Hours after I gave birth to my first child, my husband cradled all five pounds of our boy and said, gently, 'Hi, Sweetpea.' Not 'Buddy' or 'Little Man.' Sweetpea. The word filled me with unanticipated comfort.
It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.
I would strongly recommend any young man to stay away from criminal law. It's not a good place to be, unfortunately.
Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.
I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to...
Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days,...
As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.
Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
