Manly Quotes - Page 3

• Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Smart, Heart, Men

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The Book of Snobs: And, Sketches and Travels in London ; [Character Sketches]”, p.273

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• A gentleman, is a rarer thing than some of us think for. Which of us can point out many such in his circle--men whose aims are generous, whose truth is constant and elevated; who can look the world honestly in the face, with an equal manly sympathy for the great and the small? We all know a hundred whose coats are well made, and a score who have excellent manners; but of gentlemen how many? Let us take a little scrap of paper, and each make out his list.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Men, Thinking, Circles

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• I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism; and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Soccer, Sports, Football

  Theodore Roosevelt, Joseph Bishop (2010). “Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children”, p.63, Applewood Books

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• The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the manly labour of a wise and spiritual nation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Spiritual, Art

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.163

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• Among the droves of men with political ambitions in the United States, I found very few with that virile candor, that manly independence of thought, that often distinguished Americans in earlier times and that is invariably the preeminent trait of great characters wherever it exists.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Character, Ambition, Men

  Alexis de Tocqueville, Arthur Goldhammer (2004). “Democracy in America”, p.297, Library of America

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• 'The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it.

  Elizabeth Olsen

  Book, Reading, Sun

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• [Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity.

  James Joyce

  Persistence, Independence, Apathy

  "Daniel Defoe". Book by James Joyce, translated from Italian manuscript and edited by Joseph Prescott, pp. 24-25, 1964.

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• I like my men to be manly, as you'll see from my books.

  Louise Mensch

  Book, Men

  "Louise Mensch: Chick-lit queen who shines at Westminster" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2011.

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• Manly men and womanly women are still here but feeling nervous.

  Mason Cooley

  Men, Feelings, Nervous

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• A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.

  William Henry Harrison

  Government, Presidential, Examination

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• O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be alone.

  Edward Young

  Thinking, Soul, Solitude

  William Danby, Edward Young (1832). “Extracts from Young's Night thoughts, with observations upon them”, p.15

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• Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth; Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth.

  Thomas Moore

  Uplifting, Memorial Day, Eye

  Thomas Moore (1850). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore”, p.177

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• When the masculine mystique is pulling boys and men out into the world to growl manly noises at one another, the only power with astronger pull on the male psyche is maternally induced guilt. The guilt is quite necessary for our moral development, but it is often uncomfortable.

  Frank Pittman

  Boys, Men, Guilt

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• Sometimes you have to wonder if there isn't an ejector seat built into having a popular-music career. We were lucky when we started. We were already old when we started - you could have described our first album as "aging Brooklyn guys." We were in our late 20s. We weren't octogenarians, but a lot of bands were already younger than us. Fortunately, we've held on to our manly good looks.

  John Flansburgh

  Guy, Lucky, Aging

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It is great and manly to disdain disguise; it shows our spirit and proves our strength.

  Edward Young

  Strength, Spirit, Disguise

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• But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou deye a martir, go to hevene.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  World, Ifs

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Illustrated)”, p.447, Delphi Classics

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• It was manly and dignified to rely upon God for the dissolution of all troubles. He was the only infallible help, guide and friend.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Rely Upon, Helping

  Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”

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• To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

  William Wordsworth

  Humble, Character, Two

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• If it was wise, manly, and patriotic for us to establish a free government, it is equally wise to attend to the necessary means of its preservation.

  James Monroe

  Wise, Mean, Patriotic

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• A lot of the time I hate acting. It has a lot to do with the way I was brought up in a world where showing your emotions is frowned upon. It's just not manly. I don't do anything in life because I love doing it. It's because I want to be good at it.

  Matthew Fox

  Hate, Acting, World

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• Girly’ products can spur Japan’s growth in this century every bit as much as, if not more than, the ‘manly’ technologies.

  Morinosuke Kawaguchi

  Girly, Technology, Japan

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• If I have to lose, although I am a woman, I want to lose in a manly way.

  Caterina Sforza

  Want, Way, Ifs

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• There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character.

  William Hazlitt

  Character, Decision, Firmness

  William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”

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• The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Scholar, Thinker

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.26

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• What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a manly and glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes.

  Samuel Adams

  Kings, Struggle, Power

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