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Quotes About Manhood

I'm not really a relationship expert but ... I'm an expert on manhood and what men think.
~ Steve Harvey
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
Maybe a captain more obsessed with strict protocol and formality would have been stalwart in hiding his feelings, but Riker didn't subscribe to such emotionally stunted ideals of manhood.
~ David W. Mack
Why do old men grow huge beards as if to proclaim a manhood that has long since fled?
~ Jeane Westin
Whoever is ashamed of marriage is also ashamed of being thought a man, or else he thinks that he can make himself better than God made him.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
The more consistent a father can be or a mentor can be in the person's life and teach them principles of real solid manhood, character, integrity and leadership, the more consistent you can be in the person's life and teach them those things at a younger age, and then the better off they'll be.
~ Allan Houston
We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands.
~ Robert Toombs
I was never a weapons person, you're a coward if you have to walk with a weapon, be a man and fight.
~ Anthony Yarde
I have confidence in my manhood to be able to cry at a movie or at a wedding, too.
~ Dwane Casey
It's very difficult to overtly do it. But I try to live my life consistently as a man and as a father.
~ Dwane Casey
I was never in an awkward position where I had to curb my manhood.
~ Beanie Sigel
Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.
~ Kevin Bacon
The werewolf's painful change. Turning his head awayOn the sweaty bolster, he tries to rememberThe mood of manhood,But lies at last, as always,Letting it happen, the fierce fur soft to his face,Hearing with sharper ears.
~ Richard Wilbur
A me pare che un uomo che permette al suo consulente matrimoniale di prendere decisioni al posto suo non è…be', non è un uomo vero
~ Richard Yates
I had to perform an act of faith. I had to prove to myself that I was a man. Not just a producing-consuming economic animal…but a man.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Are you trying to compromise my manhood?" I said. "Oh, yeah, that," she said. "Now and then I forget.
~ Robert B. Parker
By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
I think it's a wonderful song," she said. But she was only shielding his pride, he knew. Obviously this was the first time she had ever heard the song, though she pretended to know it well. She can't penetrate to the feelings deep down in a song like this; or see through the murk of my manhood to the longing that sometimes makes me weep; fair enough: then as far as I'm concerned, she's just another body.
~ Yukio Mishima
To defile yourself, yet not really be defiled—that's true purity. If you're fastidious about defilement, you're not going to do anything. You'll never become a real man
~ Yukio Mishima
Tú eres un verdadero hombre, ¿por qué los hombres no poseen tu elegancia y dignidad? Cualquier hombre, por fascinante que pueda ser, acaba convirtiéndose en ridículo a causa de su deseo sexual.
~ Yukio Mishima
Success is not guaranteed. Males in particular live in constant dread of losing their claim to manhood. Throughout history, males have been willing to risk and even sacrifice their lives, just so that people will say 'He's a real man!
~ Yuval Noah Harari
No nerve, hey? Not half a man!... Buster Jack, why don't you finish game? Make up for your low-down tricks. At the last try to be worthy of your dad. In his day he was a real man.... Let him have the consolation that you faced Hell-Bent Wade an' died in your boots!
~ Zane Grey
Now domestication and sophistication of men by women are the norm and acceptable by society, but they are terrible for manhood.
~ Debasish Mridha, M.D.
For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.
~ Dennis Prager