I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
If a woman possesses manly virtues, she is to be run away from; and if she does not possess them, she runs… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“If I weren’t a gentleman, I would pound you into the ground right now.” He unfisted his hands in order to dismiss… — Nicole Castro Copy Share Image
Growing up, Paul Newman seemed like the ultimate manly actor. And then, I got to work with him and we became friends,… — Dermot Mulroney Copy Share Image
“But he's so cute when he gets all determined and commanding, isn't he?" ... "It's not cute, it's very manly!” — M.R. Merrick Copy Share Image
Shane - "Tell you what: you can be Glammera the vampire hunter. I'll stick with being manly and heavily armed. — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Of all men, Christians should work especially hard, giving more than an honest day's work for a day's wage.” — Richard D. Phillips Copy Share Image
Putting prize-fighting altogether aside as one of the unavoidable evils attending on this manly exercise, the inestimable value of boxing as a… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly.… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, no matter how cool, stylish,… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he can see… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
The poet who writes "free" verse is like Robinson Crusoe on his desert island: he must do all his cooking, laundry and… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Among the droves of men with political ambitions in the United States, I found very few with that virile candor, that manly… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
May I mention earrings and rings placed in other parts of the body. These are not manly. They are not attractive. You… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
American gentlemen are a cross between English and French men, and yet really altogether like neither. They are more refined and modest… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties,… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
The way Mom saw it, women should let menfolk do the work because it made them feel more manly. That notion only… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
Free thought means fearless thought. It is not deterred by legal penalties, nor by spiritual consequences. Dissent from the Bible does not… — George Holyoake Copy Share Image
I have my fears. Yet, notwithstanding the complicated difficulties that rise before us, there is no receding; and I should blush if… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
One of the things particularly admirable in the public utterances of President Lincoln is a certain tone of familiar dignity, which, while… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Is it not the glory of the people of America, that whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I have a lack of practical skills. I can't mend anything or do anything manly; I don't understand how anything works. — Richard Herring Copy Share Image
The wussiest thing a guy can do is drive a clean truck. Dents, scratches and mud - that's manly. — Blake Shelton Copy Share Image
“Based on my perspective of him, man's men do not cheat. They get jazzed just by being manly.” — Wendy Plump Copy Share Image
A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Self-negation is noble, self-culture beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared… — Pope Julius II Copy Share Image
O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Anything that encourages pauperism, anything that relaxes the manly fiber and lowers self-respect, is an unmixed evil. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It was manly and dignified to rely upon God for the dissolution of all troubles. He was the only infallible help, guide… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It’s not manly to hurt others or belittle them. Respect and kindness require more courage because people take advantage of those. — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena... — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The more toppings a man has on his pizza, I believe the more manly he is. A manly man don't want it… — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
These manly sentiments, in private life, make the good citizen; in public life, the patriot and the hero. — James Otis Copy Share Image
A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged. — William Henry Harrison Copy Share Image
