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.
To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is,...
To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.
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Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.
No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.
In every age have mighty spirits dwelt unseen with man, biding the hour that needed them.
A habit leads a man so gently in the beginning that he does not perceive he is led - with what silken threads and down what pleasant avenues it leads him! By and by, the soft silk threads become iron...
To be weak, and to know it, is something of a punishment for a proud man.
A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage.
A man should have duties outside of himself; without them, he is a mere balloon, inflated with thin egotism and drifting nowhere.
What is newest to one in foreign countries is not always the people, but their surroundings, and those same little details of life and circumstance which make no impression on a man in his own land until he returns to...
Wait the end with joy. It is the end which characterizes everything and which tests a man's expectations.
The rashness of the persecutor hath overspread the rights of the persecuted so that punishment is awarded to him that has gained the victory, the inglorious triumphs, and the man who deserved bonds has carried off the prize.
We know that no trust can be placed on princes and that cursed is the man who placeth his reliance on an arm of flesh.
It is important that the Church of London, which has now lost its ruler, should receive for its new bishop a man whose personal merit, attainments in learning, and prudence in managing public business shall not be unworthy of the...
The poverty of a man of benevolence is not to be considered as poverty but only as his temporary inability to exercise his inherent duty.
A man who always speaks the truth wholeheartedly is greater than those who do penance and deeds of charity.
