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.
An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination.
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I think my wife has always been aware, whatever country we have been in, of my dramatic leading man status; a little too dramatic she would probably say.
Guilt is an emotion that is never very far away from Rick Grimes. He's a man that shoulders the responsibility, and it's one of the forces that keeps pushing him on.
Guilt is never very far from Rick Grimes' shoulder. It comes with the package. He's a man who takes his responsibilities very heavily, not lightly.
I think Michael Crawford realised, I think we all realised, once we'd gone the route of casting a very young girl, you can't really cast a 65 year old man opposite. Slightly different resonance I think. No, we weren't going...
I'm alive. I have my music; I have my children. I am the luckiest man.
Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
If I had a pound for every former editor who hadn't cut the mustard advising me what to do, I'd be a very rich man.
Listen, if Donald Trump were the man you elected president, you'd probably be pretty depressed, too.
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs.
Let me tell you this: if Marco Rubio - even though he's only been in the Senate for a very short period of time, that man has a huge, huge opportunity in this country, and I think he could be...
The jellyfish doesn't actively move anywhere - it's just moved with the tides. Is that what man is? Man's just the jellyfish: stuff happens to you, and you get twisted in different directions.
You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.
Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
