Top 277 Manly Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 15, 2025.
There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.
I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!
I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any manly or humane man.
I was born in Manly Hospital, I pretty much grew up in my grandmother's house until my parents bought their own home.
Shane - "Tell you what: you can be Glammera the vampire hunter. I'll stick with being manly and heavily armed.
Steph's such a good dad for girls. He's super attentive, and he's, like, not too manly to get down on the floor and play with them and have a tea party.
To kill someone, even treacherously is more manly than to wound a friend by betraying his confidence.
These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero.
These manly sentiments, in private life, make the good citizen; in public life, the patriot and the hero.
To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
It is great and manly to disdain disguise; it shows our spirit and proves our strength.
It was in 'Esquire' in the 1970s that I first learned Nora Ephron's recipe for borscht - certainly an editorial first for that manly magazine.
The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so.
One thing I always loved about hip-hop music was the raw, boom-bap element - it felt powerful and manly.
'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.
I suppose I'm quite manly in lots of ways, but I like to be made to feel like a woman.
I have a man cave somewhere in California - a totally undisclosed location where manly things occur. There are motorcycles, there are secret doors and passageways. Women are welcome, but they must knock.
If a man does not investigate into the matter of bushido daily, it will be difficult for him to die a brave and manly death.
Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a manly way and say, Sir, I made an honest mistake.
The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.
It was manly and dignified to rely upon God for the dissolution of all troubles. He was the only infallible help, guide and friend.
Couldn't Lissa have healed that black eye away?" "Its a badge of honor. Makes me seem manly.
Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.
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.
I have had a few gentlemen let me know they find my manly beardiness somewhat alluring. Never any ladies though.
Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds.
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 without fear and with a manly heart.
Honour is manly decency. The shame of being found wanting in it means everything to us. Is this, then, the indefinable, the sacred thing?
It’s not manly to hurt others or belittle them. Respect and kindness require more courage because people take advantage of those.
The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.
Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.
I love the Irish for their attachment to the faith and for many amiable and noble qualities, but they are deficient in good sense, sound judgement, and manly character.
The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he can see himself as patriotic, courageous, and manly only through compliance.
Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature's mark to know an honest heart by.
A woman's manly side is what's sexy--a woman standing strongly, fighting to be desired.
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 manly labour of a wise and spiritual nation.
If I have to lose, although I am a woman, I want to lose in a manly way.
Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.
It is all a mistake that we cannot be good and manly without being scrupulously and studiously good. There is too much mechanism about our virtue.
I'm in need of a man apron. A very manly apron.
When you get older, you mature, and you start liking flowers. Although I try and keep it manly.
I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.
Every manly icon the West has ever admired has embodied the very spirit of American independence.
Weasel words from mollycoddles will never do when the day demands prophetic clarity from greathearts. Manly men must emerge for this hour of trial.
Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth; Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth.
Anything that encourages pauperism, anything that relaxes the manly fiber and lowers self-respect, is an unmixed evil.
Girly’ products can spur Japan’s growth in this century every bit as much as, if not more than, the ‘manly’ technologies.
To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to be manly is to be sensitive to woman.
If I have any sexist feelings they are aimed at men: I hate manly men.
Growing up, Paul Newman seemed like the ultimate manly actor. And then, I got to work with him and we became friends, so that was nice.
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 with fervor.
If your concern is that I may be overcome with manly ardor and ravish you in a moment of weakness… I may. If you ask nicely.
But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou deye a martir, go to hevene.
A ruddy drop of manly blood
The surging sea outweighs;
The world uncertain comes and goes,
The lover rooted stays.
If it was wise, manly, and patriotic for us to establish a free government, it is equally wise to attend to the necessary means of its preservation.
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 with fervour.
Alright, manly man,” he says. “Go prove that you’re a man.
