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 am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That's my lifestyle, and that's what I try to bring to characters.
With us tonight is William Warfield, who is with us tonight. He is a wonderful man, and so is his wife.
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I figured I could do 'It's A Man's Man's Man's World', because I believe it's the truth.
Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good together on screen.
Oscars just ain't gonna do it for me anymore. I need the Nobel Peace Prize. The Oscars have worn off, man.
As a young man... you don't know anything about yourself. And add on to that, you're on the cover of magazines. People are interviewing you about what you think. You feel like a real phony.
I like my man to be witty; he needs a sense of humour and needs to be extremely well-mannered.
After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who...
My motto is 'Man Down,' and I have to live up to it. I don't go in looking for the knockout, but I let it happen naturally.
A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.
As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.
The more the panic grows, the more uplifting the image of a man who refuses to bow to the terror.
You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They...
Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.
Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put...
The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions...
The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of...
