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.
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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If it's unseemly and possibly dangerous for a man to be angry, it's totally unacceptable for a woman to be angry.
I think it's about as likely Jane Austen was gay as that she was found out to be a man.
Everyone finds their own version of Charles Dickens. The child-victim, the irrepressibly ambitious young man, the reporter, the demonic worker, the tireless walker. The radical, the protector of orphans, helper of the needy, man of good works, the republican. The...
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As a young man, Dickens worked as a reporter in the House of Commons and hated it. He felt that all politicians spoke with the same voice.
The fact that there has to be a man behind my success when I genuinely have worked so hard is frustrating.
I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.
Every man has his faults; I have and so have you - you will allow me to say so!
The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.
You come across words all the time that are everyday sexism. I was described as 'competently bossy' and 'bossily competent' by a male journalist, and I thought, 'Gosh, 'bossy' is never used of a man.'
In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.
There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery.
Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.
A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
