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.
A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
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A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defence of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty...
If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.
I will venture to say that sending a probe to the center of the earth will be more difficult than putting a man on the moon or sending a spaceship to Mars.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
