I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats; If it be man's work, I'll do't. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it. — J. R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness. — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
Manhood is defined and decided by the ability to nurture and to protect, by the capability to provide and to sustain. — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
The Older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a will in… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
“And he took the slap like a man. No whining. What else do you want from a fella?” — Allan Dare Pearce Copy Share Image
We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Ernest Bevin had many of the strongest characteristics of the English race. His manliness, his common sense, his rough simplicity, sturdiness and… — Ernest Bevin Copy Share Image
Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
The property of manliness in a man is a great possession, but perhaps there is none that is less understood, which is… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
There's nobody better to tell you who's a man and who isn't than a woman. Women will spot manliness, or lack of… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Men are losing power in their daily lives, but manliness is still iconic of power. This creates incredible turbulence around masculinity and… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
Fixing things around the house was the last bastion of manliness. But now, even that is getting taken away. As women become… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
I liked that young man, did not you? There was something particularly pleasing about his manners, which I thought very easy and… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards -- When I find him to… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“Beer: All real men drink a specific brand of cheap beer. While I was growing up, my stepfather, who was the manliness… — Forrest Griffin Copy Share Image
When women's sexuality is imagined to be passive or "dirty," it also means that men's sexuality is automatically positioned as aggressive and… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
Men are enforced into a kind of silence about their gender; they're supposed to not think of it as a performance. That's… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Heterosexual women who've had long-term relationships see their man fall apart. They go, "I'm giving him my whole life - I'm giving… — Anna Biller Copy Share Image
For most Northerners, Texas is the home of real men. The cowboys, the rednecks, the outspoken self-made right-wing millionaires strike us as… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“These were the things that built the world. Not to know or care about them was a betrayal of fundamental principles, a… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“that? Masculinity is and was a broad category that encompassed many forms of behaviour; the manliness of these particular men was inflected… — Christopher Munro Clark Copy Share Image
“...it was not considered right for a man not to drink, although drink was a dangerous thing. On the contrary, not to… — Eoghan Odinsson Copy Share Image
“[Y]ou are not ashamed of your sin [in committing adultery] because so many men commit it. Man's wickedness is now such that… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“But were the coming narrative to reveal in any instance, the complete abasement of poor Starbuck's fortitude, scarce might I have the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“A man needs to feel powerful and respected. Innately within us, as far back as we can remember, we have taught ourselves… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“A man. A really manly man with a lot of mannishness in his manliness.” — Robert Thier Copy Share Image