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.
When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.
I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.
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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.
There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.
Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.
I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.
I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'
The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.
Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
Are men and women different creatures? Do we feel things differently? Being a man, I can't know what a woman feels.
