Manly Quotes

163 Manly quotes by 132 unique authors

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… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Manly men and womanly women are still here but feeling nervous. — Mason Cooley
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… — Theodore Roosevelt
If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere… — Theodore Roosevelt
History teaches us no race, no people, no nation has ever been freed through cowardice, through cringing, through bowing and scraping, but all that has… — Marcus Garvey
I have sometimes thought there could be no stronger testimony in favor of Religion or against temporal Enjoyments even the most rational and manly than… — James Madison
The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever… — Joseph Conrad
Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and… — Benjamin Disraeli
Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand… — Mary Baker Eddy
Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character. — Robert E. Lee
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero. — James Otis
Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think… — Billy Sunday
For me, I skate as masculine as I can. I'm not a big strong guy. I'm not interested in fighting or throwing punches or balling… — Johnny Weir
Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly… — Mary Wollstonecraft
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly. — Virginia Woolf
I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful. — Michael Cunningham
Razo hopped back up and adopted a posture that said he was completely unruffled, never had been, and in fact was ready to do something… — Shannon Hale
In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at… — Alexandre Dumas

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