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.
Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is...
In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.
I used to be a pretty good hit-and-run man when I played in the minors. I handled the bat well and could hit the ball to the right side of the infield. Nevertheless, I know that you often give the...
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience...
Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.
No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.
The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.
