Quotes About Manly

He was a man of his time on the question of guns, writing in 1822 that "every American who wishes to protect his farm from the ravages of quadrupeds and his country from those of biped invaders" should be a "gun-man," adding: "I am a great friend to the manly and healthy exercises of the gun."43,44,45

Lord Peter gave it as his opinion that book-collecting could be a perfectly manly pursuit. Girls, he said, practically never took it up, because it meant so much learning about dates and type-faces and other technicalities which called for a masculine brain.

Somehow, when the authoritarians on the Right search for icons of manly warrior power to venerate, they find only those who like to melodramatically play-act as such, but who ran away when it came time to actually perform.

Friendship is necessary and ennobling; but impersonal despotism is destructive of all dignity and manly virtue.

When I come to Manly I just remember my childhood.

Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it.

The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so.

Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.

Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth; Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth.

What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a manly and glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes.

Liberals have managed to eliminate the idea of manly honor. Instead, all they have is womanly indignation.

Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.

That's ridiculous." Especially the part about Christian being manly.

Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.

adjectives which referred to an ultra-masculine man. The kind of man a woman sighed over. Lou gulped. And wanted. Not the kind of man who she generally kept company with, for sure. But what female

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.

To me, a lady is not frilly, flouncy, flippant, frivolous and fluff-brained, but she is gentle, she is gracious, she is godly and she is giving. You and I have the gift of femininity... the more womanly we are, the more manly men will be and the more God is glorified. Be women, be only women, be real women in obedience to God.

Teaching him to be civil and manly and cool In the face of danger. And then before I knew it The time came for him to go off to school. Off to school to be free of women's teaching, Into a world of men--at seven years old; Into a world where a mother's hands vainly reaching Will never again caress and comfort and hold.

I am very much a girly girl as well as being this tough, athletic fighter. I grew up a tomboy. I got my first four wheeler when I was eight. I got my first dirt bike shortly after. So, I have a lot of these manly qualities, I guess you would say. But, I also like to go get dressed up every weekend.

Because it gives him and excuse to be around her--without making it look like he gave in first. That way, he can still seem manly." "That's ridiculous." Especially the part about Christian being manly. "Guys do ridiculous things for love.

That's ridiculous." Especially the part about Christian being manly.

I didn't realize when I brought him back here that you'd inflict more damage." I said, once I'd finished the story. "I was defending your honor." Adrian gave me that devil-may-care smile that always managed to both infuriate and captivate me. "Pretty manly, huh?