Two translations For we are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness. We are lovers of beauty without extravagance, and lovers of wisdom without unmanliness.
Quotes about manliness (16 Quotes)
Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or lordliness. It consists in daring to do the right and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds, not in words.
First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
In all the silent manliness of grief.
Private and public life are subject to the same rules-- truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better then policy or tact or expediency or other words that were devised to conceal a deviation from a straight line.
History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.
If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness.
I'll be the judge of my own manliness.
One good man, one man who does not put on his religion once a week with his Sunday coat, but wears it for his working dress, and lets the thought of God grow into him, and through and through him, till everything he says and does becomes religious, that man is worth a thousand sermons he is a living Gospel he comes in the spirit and power of Elias he is the image of God. And men see his good works, and admire them in spite of themselves, and see that they are Godlike, and that God's grace is no dream, but that the Holy Spirit is still among men, and that all nobleness and manliness is His gift, His stamp, His picture and so they get a glimpse of God again in His saints and heroes, and glorify their Father who is in heaven.
Your legs and breast bristle with shaggy hair but your mind, Pannicus, shows no signs of manliness
Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.
Humility is the part of wisdom, and is most becoming in men. But let no one discourage self-reliance it is, of all the rest, the greatest quality of true manliness. (Louis
How dwarfed against his manliness She sees the poor pretension, The wants, the aims, the follies, born Of fashion and convention.
Would I kill for that neck, ... Geraldo gives you a sense of mission. He seems to change the world with every story. I love the ego. You put those two together, you get this sexy package of manliness and mission. I just love it.
Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together, I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said ''If you truly love me, kill the bartender.''