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.
I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
When I put out a record I don't really like to do covers as much, but I don't mind playing them. I do them mostly for my friends. When a friend's like, 'Man I really like that song,' I go...
Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.
If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man.
I relish any chance to punch A.J. Styles in the face, because he's a man I respect greatly. And I find that I want to punch people in the face that I respect greatly. I like to say it's an...
The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.
