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.
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The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.
I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of nations, and consumes them as rust does iron.
Length of years is no proper test of length of life. A man's life is to be measured by what he does in it and what he feels in it.
Simple honesty of purpose in a man goes a long way in life, if founded on a just estimate of himself and a steady obedience to the rule he knows and feels to be right.
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake -...
A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.
As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.
A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.'
When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.
