Searching Quotes About Masculinity

Celebrity piercer Brian Keith Thompson told us this week, "There are a billion ways to be a man." Here, ten wise gentlemen offer their take on manhood.


“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” —Ernest Hemingway, writer

“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.” —Albert Einstein, scientist

“Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.” —Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor and philosopher

“No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.” —Abraham Lincoln, US President

“Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and death.” —Barry Jenkins, filmmaker

“The heart of man is very much like the sea; it has its storms, it has its tides, and in its depths, it has its pearls too” —Vincent Van Gogh, artist

“Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” —Voltaire, philosopher

“Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.” —Benjamin Disraeli, UK Prime Minister

“There’s a great woman behind every idiot” —John Lennon, musician

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