(18 quotes found)
“It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.”
William Shakespeare
“Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man”
“Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.”
Coretta Scott King
“The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The true test of manhood is not age or life experiences, but when you stop looking for solutions and become that of which you are looking for...”
Wilson J. Washington III
“He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“But there is no escaping / that manhood is merely / a revision of one's first edition.”
Alamgir Hashmi
“It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.”
Alex Karras
“Do what thy manhood bids thee do from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies, who makes and keeps his selfmade law.”
Contributed by: Dave Cohen
Sir Richard Burton
“So, then, to every man his chance - to every man, regardless of his birth, his shining, golden opportunity - to every man the right to live, to work, to be himself, and to become whatever thing his manhood and his vision can combine to make him - thi”
Thomas Wolfe