Man quotes

Explore the intricacies of masculinity with our curated collection of quotes about men; their strength, resilience, vulnerability, and everything in between. Gain invaluable insights into what it truly means to be a man through words that inspire, provoke thought, and celebrate the essence of masculinity.

When you have children, you always have family. They will always be your priority, your responsibility. And a man, a man provides. And he does it even when he's not appreciated or respected or even loved. He simply bears up and he does it. Because he's a man.

- Chloe Decker

I'm a simple man. I like pretty, dark-haired women, and breakfast food.

- Ron Swanson

Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Don't teach a man to fish… and feed yourself. He's a grown man. And fishing's not that hard.

- Ron Swanson

As though I wanted people to suffer. All I ever wanted was to be my own man here.

- Lucifer Morningstar

Man, Kids are the worst! who needs’ em, anyway?

- Steve Harrington

I've had the same will since I was 8 years old. Upon my death, I will transfer all of my belongings to the man or animal who has killed me.

- Ron Swanson

Every time she laughs, an angel dies. Even telemarketers avoid her. Her birth was payback for the sins of man. But you know the worst thing about her? She works for the library.

- Ron Swanson

I'm trying to say this from a constructive place. I can feel your negative vibrations from across the room, man.

- Dan Espinoza

Are you going to tell a man that he can't fart in his own car?

- Ron Swanson

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

- James Russell Lowell

Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning.

- Elvis Presley

There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.

- Ken Follet

I had no desire to crash a man's world.

- Ida Lupino

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

- Henny Youngman

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

- Mark Twain

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

- John Mason Brown

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

- Golda Meir

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

- Leon Trotsky

Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.

- Edith Hamilton

If they can prove that I am wrong by that time, I will give it up to their wisdom, but not after to any one's judgment, till I see the end of another year; for the Lord will begin with a new century; and I will see what he will do, before I will hearken to any man's judgment.

- Joanna Southcott

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

- Clarence Darrow

Tomorrow is no man's gift.

- Gilbert Parker

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

- Oscar Wilde

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

- Mark Twain

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

- Bryant H. McGill

The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.

- Publilius Syrus

There is no real wealth but the labor of man.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

- Thomas J. Watson

The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.

- Charles Lamb

Women serve but to keep a man from better company.

- William Wycherley