Be A Man Quotes - Page 5

• A woman fit to be a man's wife is too good to be his servant.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Men, Wife, Fit

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• I want to be a man who mixes strengths and compassion. That's my magic elixir, so to speak.

  Terry Crews

  Men, Compassion, Magic

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• At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people.

  Anton Chekhov

  Happiness, Happy, Responsibility

  "Gooseberries". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1898.

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• I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead." "Well," said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job.

  Cassandra Clare

  Jobs, Teenager, Humor

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• It can't only be men who are the focus of assault prevention. Women should be too. To say that that puts the blame on victims to have to prevent their own assault is crap and has to be treated as crap.

  Laura Kipnis

  Men, Focus, Prevention

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I wonder do the gods know what it feels like to be a man.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Wonder, God Knows

  C. S. Lewis (1980). “Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”, p.72, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But you must give him some sign, some sign that you love him... or he'll never be a man. All his life he'll feel guilty and alone unless you release him.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Giving, Guilty

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• I learned that it is better, a thousandfold , for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his pride and fancied innocence. I learned that he that will be a hero, will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work, is sure of his manhood. In nothing was my ideal lowered, or dimmed, or grown less precious; I only saw it too plainly, to set myself for a moment beside it.

  George MacDonald

  Hero, Fall, Pride

  "MacDonalds’ Fairy-Tale Treasure Chest".

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• Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Men

  "Two Society Comedies".

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• But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Purple, Luxury

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works”, p.242, 谷月社

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• The lights of prayer that make us imagine we are beginning to be angels are sometimes only signs that we are finally beginning to be men. We do not have a high enough opinion of our own nature. We think we are at the gates of heaven and we are only just beginning to come into our own realm as free and intelligent beings.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Prayer, Angel

  Thomas Merton (2002). “The Ascent to Truth”, p.209, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To have done no man a wrong...to walk and live, unseduced, within arm's length of what is not your own, with nothing between your desire and its gratification but the invisible law of rectitude-this is to be a man.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Men, Law, Desire

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “Architects of Fate”, p.11, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Writing, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1655, Delphi Classics

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• I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Men, Dreamer, Shadow

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works: Hyperion”, p.225

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• Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.

  Enrico Fermi

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

  Quoted in Laura Fermi Atoms in the Family (1954).

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• Trying to be a man is a waste of a woman?

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Women, Trying, Waste

  "I Don't Know How She Does It" by Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 15, 2011.

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• The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion,but determined to judge for himself.He should not be a respector of persons,but of things.Truth should be his primary object.

  Michael Faraday

  Education, Men, Judging

  Bence Jones, Michael Faraday (2010). “The Life and Letters of Faraday”, p.198, Cambridge University Press

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• Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your
  country, let men label you as they may.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Integrity, 4th Of July

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• Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.

  Thomas Tusser

  Peace, Integrity, Patriotic

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• A great deal of the universe does not need any explanation. Elephants, for instance. Once molecules have learnt to compete and to create other molecules in their own image, elephants, and things resembling elephants, will in due course be found roaming around the countryside ... Some of the things resembling elephants will be men.

  Peter Atkins

  Men, Roaming Around, Elephants

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• Tell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a man. What moves at the margin. What it is to have no home in this place. To be set adrift from the one you knew. What it is to live at the edge of towns that cannot bear your company.

  Toni Morrison

  Women, Moving, Home

  Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, delivered 7 December 1993

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• Marilyn is a kind of ultimate. She is uniquely feminine. Everything she does is different, strange, and exciting, from the way she talks to the way she uses that magnificent torso. She makes a man proud to be a man.

  Clark Gable

  Men, Doe, Different

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• The world is full of guys. Be a man. Don't be a guy

  Lili Taylor

  Men, Guy, Say Anything

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• I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' till I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you're not doing so well. And your restroom is not inside the house.

  B. B. King

  Money, Men, House

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• There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man.

  Anton Chekhov

  Happiness, Men, Doors

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