Be A Man Quotes

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  The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3

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  A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

  David Brinkley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

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• How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Marriage, Valentines Day

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• What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Moving, Angel

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [316]

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• There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.

  Robert Jordan

  Real Men, Feet, Faces

  Robert Jordan (2009). “The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.132, Macmillan

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• When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.

  Elayne Boosler

  Depression, Country, Strong Women

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• The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs. - Jeanne

  Madame Roland

  Dog, Men, Canine

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• When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping.

  Elayne Boosler

  Shopping, Black Friday, Groceries

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• Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with.

  Jill Shalvis

  Jobs, Wine, Dark

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• All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

  The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895). The same lines appear, as a dialogue between Lord Illingworth and Mrs. Allonby, in A Woman of No Importance, act 2 (1893).

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• A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.

  Saul Bellow

  Real Men, Able, Bears

  Saul Bellow (2015). “Ravelstein”, p.72, Penguin

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• Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.

  Mae West

  Funny Love, Running, Wedding

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• He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.

  Stephen King

  Running, Responsibility, Pride

  Stephen King (2016). “The Running Man”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Marriage, Wedding

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Story of a Fashionable Young Man Who Sells His Soul for Eternal Youth and Beauty (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.37, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I come from a long ago era where men could be men and stereotypical humor didn't offend anybody.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Men, Long Ago, Eras

  "Rush Limbaugh denies claims he told caller not to watch Fox News". "The Five", Fox News Show, www.foxnews.com. July 10, 2013.

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• Someone once said "Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make its own judgements."

  Jonathan Frakes

  Motivational, Men, History

  "Fictional character: Cmdr. William Riker". "Star Trek: First Contact", www.imdb.com. November 18, 1996.

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• When I return to the world, I will be a man. I will walk among you. I will lick my lips with my small, dexterous tongue. I will shake hands with other men, grasping firmly with my opposable thumbs. And I will teach all people that I know. And when I see a man or a woman or a child in trouble, I will extend my hand, both metaphorically and physically. I will offer my hand. To him. To her. To you. To the world. I will be a good citizen, a good partner in the endeaver of life that we all share.

  Garth Stein

  Children, Men, Hands

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• To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Men, Responsible, Manhood

  "Wind, Sand and Stars" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, translated by Lewis Galantière, (Ch. II), 1939.

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• It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.

  Quintilian

  Memories, Liars, Lying

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 485-87, IV. 2. 91, 1922.

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• Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Funny, Relationship

  Oscar Wilde (2010). “Epigrams & Aphorisms”, p.56, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Do you know what it is to be a man violently in love? To live for a woman's smiles and laughter, to hunger for her touch until life itself seems impossible without it, to desire her as you desire to breathe?

  Abigail Reynolds

  Laughter, Men, Desire

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• A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at free thought by virtue of his own struggle and toil; but now a new type of born freethinker has been appearing, who’ve never even heard that there have been laws of morality and religion, and that there are authorities, but who simply grow up with negative ideas about everything, that is savages.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Growing Up, Struggle, Men

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• Advice!Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." "That is probably why you make such a bad job of it.- Perrin and Egwene

  Robert Jordan

  Jobs, Men, Advice

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• Only the basic situations in life occur only once, never to return. For a man to be a man, he must be fully aware of this never-to-return. (p.148)

  Milan Kundera

  Men, Situations In Life, Return

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• A man is not merely a man but a man among men, in a world of men. Being good at being a man has more to do with a man’s ability to succeed with men and within groups of men than it does with a man’s relationship to any woman or any group of women. When someone tells a man to be a man, they are telling him to be more like other men, more like the majority of men, and ideally more like the men who other men hold in high regard.

  Jack Donovan

  Men, Succeed, Majority

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