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.
Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
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The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.
There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage.
Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
The true test of a man's style is the haircut. There are some men who look good no matter how their hair is styled, whether it's trendy or not. A man can change his haircut many times, but to pull...
There are a lot of good men's magazines. In England, you have 'Arena Homme+' and 'Another Man;' and in France we have 'L'Officiel Hommes.' But all are looking similar.
The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history...
I can honestly say I am the luckiest man around to be able to have worked at a job I love for so many years. It's truly been a joy for me.
I knew I could never be an actor as a man. It just doesn't work, you know? And so when I was doing drag, I realized I could do that kind of stuff, and then when I was transitioning, I...
