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  • Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character. -- Robert E. Lee
  • Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures. -- William Wycherley
  • It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly. -- Virginia Woolf
  • 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
  • A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
  • 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. -- Benjamin Disraeli
  • 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. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • 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. -- Joseph Conrad
  • Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Manly men and womanly women are still here but feeling nervous. -- Mason Cooley
  • Weasel words from mollycoddles will never do when the day demands prophetic clarity from greathearts. Manly men must emerge for this hour of trial. -- Theodore Roosevelt
  • Inspire the Vocal Brass, Inspire; The World is past its Infant Age: Arms and Honour, Arms and Honour, Set the Martial Mind on Fire, And kindle Manly Rage. -- John Dryden
  • I cannot consider fighting in competitive Manly Fun any more than I can consider pitting my running, swimming or climbing body against other bodies. Nothing, then, or now, arouses me or will ever arouse me from a perfect disinterest in ball games. -- Hal Porter
  • [Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • Growing a beard is a habit most natural, Scriptural, manly and beneficial. -- Charles Spurgeon
  • I am in love with Counting Crows. It is so manly and American. -- Margaret Cho
  • Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience. -- Tokugawa Ieyasu
  • 'The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it. -- Elizabeth Olsen
  • Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition. -- John Arbuthnot
  • These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero. -- James Otis
  • I feel like I carry myself in a more manly way. I don't carry myself as a boy. -- Justin Bieber
  • Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly. -- William Wycherley
  • The wussiest thing a guy can do is drive a clean truck. Dents, scratches and mud - that's manly. -- Blake Shelton
  • Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds. -- Homer
  • To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane. -- Jane Harrison
  • I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful. -- Michael Cunningham
  • And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts. -- Abraham Lincoln
  • 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 supporting their own superiority. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
  • When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman. -- Jean de la Bruyere
  • The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail. -- George Washington
  • 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. -- H. L. Mencken
  • 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 yourself and your Maker better than before. -- Mary Baker Eddy
  • 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. -- Jane Harrison
  • Metrics are not a device for restraining the mad, any more than 'open form' or free verse is a prairie where a man can do all kinds of manly things in a state of wholesome unrestrictedness. -- James Fenton
  • 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. -- Glenn Greenwald
  • What makes the perfect kiss? Closing your eyes when you kiss is important. Or lifting up the leg, but that's more of a girl thing, I'm manly. Passion is good! She brings out the best in me. (Selena) -- Justin Bieber
  • The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom. -- Plato
  • Nerds... the 'nerd' has never been precisely defined, thanks to the psychological complexity of the creature. The word has connotations of some level of intelligence. The typical nerd is a male with intelligence but no sense of giving it a manly face. -- Tom Wolfe
  • Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way - that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that. -- Billy Sunday
  • I'm a man. Men cook outside. That outdoor grilling is a manly pursuit has long been beyond question. If this wasn't understood, you'd never get grown men to put on those aprons with pictures of dancing weenies on the front, and messages like 'Come 'n' Get It! -- Bill Geist
  • I always thought my jaw line was manly. I have this pockmark on my chin from when I was 9. I used to get freaked out about it because people thought it was a pimple. But those are the things I've become really comfortable with as I've gotten older. My scars. -- Rosario Dawson
  • Beer commercials usually show big men, manly men, doing manly things: 'You've just killed a small animal. It's time for a light beer.' Why not have a realistic beer commercial, with a realistic thing about beer, where someone goes, 'It's five o'clock in the morning. You've just pissed on a dumpster. It's Miller time.' -- Robin Williams
  • The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity, an opportunity to be polite, an opportunity to be manly, an opportunity to be honest, an opportunity to make friends. -- Orison Swett Marden
  • I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour. But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular class of the society? I answer, the genius of the whole system, the nature of just and constitutional laws, and above all the vigilant and manly spirit which actuates the people of America, a spirit which nourishes freedom, and in return is nourished by it. -- James Madison
  • Opposition strengthens the manly will. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
  • Brown is a manly color -- Cassandra Clare
  • More childish valorous than manly wise. -- Christopher Marlowe
  • A woman's honor rests on manly love. -- Esaias Tegner
  • A sound mind in a manly body. -- Homer
  • Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments. -- Henry Ward Beecher
  • I am normally the manly-ish girl on the planet. -- Rita Ora
  • That's ridiculous." Especially the part about Christian being manly. -- Richelle Mead
  • Caprice is half man. There is something manly about her. -- Richard Bacon
  • It is not manly to turn one's back on fortune. -- Seneca the Elder
  • Cricket is not illegal, for it is a manly game. -- Anne, Queen of Great Britain
  • Oh, the joys of baseball, manly men in tight pants. -- Carolyn Hart
  • Alright, manly man, he saysGo prove that you're a man. -- Jessica Sorensen
  • What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman's silence? -- Jules Michelet
  • It is not right or manly to lie even about Satan. -- James A. Garfield
  • I like your manly bravado," she said. "Do it some more. -- Patrick Rothfuss
  • Love is active and sincere, courageous, patient, faithful, prudent and manly. -- Thomas a Kempis
  • To be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right. -- Thomas Paine
  • Alright, manly man," he says. "Go prove that you're a man. -- Jessica Sorensen
  • India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • I like my men to be manly, as you'll see from my books. -- Louise Mensch
  • Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so. -- Anthony Trollope
  • A woman's manly side is what's sexy--a woman standing strongly, fighting to be desired. -- Haider Ackermann
  • To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine. -- Isaac Watts
  • To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish. -- Thomas Carlyle
  • Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth; Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth... -- Thomas Moore
  • Our love is principle, and has its root In reason, is judicious, manly, free. -- William Cowper
  • To do nothing and get something, formed a boy's ideal of a manly career. -- Benjamin Disraeli
  • Without the love of a woman, it is impossible to have a manly world. -- M.F. Moonzajer
  • A man.A really manly man with a lot of mannishness in his manliness. -- Robert Thier
  • A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul. -- Juvenal
  • The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • My rookie is manly, so manly, oh so manly his name is Derrick Bateman. -- Daniel Bryan
  • There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character. -- William Hazlitt
  • Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly. -- Seneca the Younger
  • Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues. -- Jean Genet
  • 'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • [All] the manly virtues were oppressed by the servile and pusillanimous reign of the monks. -- Edward Gibbon
  • That woman is happiest whose life is passed in the shadow of a manly, loving heart. -- Suzanne Curchod
  • Harrison Ford's still got it goin' on. He's very sexy in that manly-man kind of way. -- Jacqueline Obradors
  • The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it. -- Elizabeth Olsen
  • It is great and manly to disdain disguise; it shows our spirit and proves our strength. -- Edward Young
  • The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience. -- Tokugawa Ieyasu
  • Anything that encourages pauperism, anything that relaxes the manly fiber and lowers self-respect, is an unmixed evil. -- Theodore Roosevelt
  • Liberals have managed to eliminate the idea of manly honor. Instead, all they have is womanly indignation. -- Ann Coulter
  • A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged. -- William Henry Harrison
  • Non -violence is infinitely superior to violence , forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is the ornament. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • To kill someone, even treacherously is more manly than to wound a friend by betraying his confidence. -- Italo Svevo
  • Couldn't Lissa have healed that black eye away?" "Its a badge of honor. Makes me seem manly. -- Richelle Mead
  • Is this some manly bonding thing I can't be a part of? Are you getting matching haircuts? -- Cassandra Clare
  • The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage. -- Thucydides
  • If I have to lose, although I am a woman, I want to lose in a manly way. -- Caterina Sforza
  • But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou deye a martir, go to hevene. -- Geoffrey Chaucer
  • One thing I always loved about hip-hop music was the raw, boom-bap element - it felt powerful and manly. -- Common
  • The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone! -- Edmund Burke
  • A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs; The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • I have had a few gentlemen let me know they find my manly beardiness somewhat alluring. Never any ladies though. -- Patrick Rothfuss
  • Shane - "Tell you what: you can be Glammera the vampire hunter. I'll stick with being manly and heavily armed. -- Rachel Caine
  • You probably faked passing out the other day, just so you could be carried in my hot, sweaty, manly arms. -- Colleen Hoover
  • I was pretty as a child and I felt that I wasn't very manly and that plagued me for years. -- Bradley Cooper
  • For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue. -- Theodore Parker
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  • It's not manly to hurt others or belittle them. Respect and kindness require more courage because people take advantage of those. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be alone. -- Edward Young
  • To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self. -- William Wordsworth
  • It was manly and dignified to rely upon God for the dissolution of all troubles. He was the only infallible help, guide and friend. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Self-negation is noble, self-culture beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared with self-abuse. -- Pope Julius II
  • I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Honour is manly decency. The shame of being found wanting in it means everything to us. Is this, then, the indefinable, the sacred thing? -- Alfred de Vigny
  • Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • 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. -- Saint Augustine
  • 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. -- Kato Kiyomasa
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