James Freeman Clarke Quotes

Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

If God made anything better than women, he kept it for himself.

A hard man is good to find.

He is also handsome," replied Elizabeth, "which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby complete.

A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Isao had never felt that he might want to be a woman. He had never wished for anything else but to be a man, live in a manly way, die a manly death. To be thus a man was to give constant proof of one's manliness-to be more a man today than yesterday, more a man tomorrow than today. To be a man was to forge ever upward toward the peak of manhood, there to die amid the white snows of that peak.

The Older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel

Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!

You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman.

To age with dignity and with courage cuts close to what it is to be a man.

If there is anything I hate in a woman, it's want of character.

I guess in my own life I don't really think much about manliness too much. I feel like a lot of men that I know don't sit around thinking, "How am I supposed to be a man?" I don't think that I have to prove anything.

When you get that person out of that dude, that's the real person, you know. And I don't think its dead, but it needs to be more examples, of what a true gentleman and what a true man in every sense of the word is, and that's what I try to be.

I don't think anyone can teach you how to be a man but a woman. You only learn by learning what they need.

You're young and you're always in pursuit your young manhood. You're trying to figure out - what does that mean? What does - you know, there's a lot of pressure on young men to sort that out. And, you know, we tend to gravitate towards one-dimensional iconography as far as what it means to be a fully grown man. And you can get lost in so much of it out there.

Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.

What we want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel. We have wept long enough. No more weeping, but stand on your feet and be men. It is man-making theories that we want. It is man-making education all round that we want.

A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women

Words are women, deeds are men.

Trying to be a man is a waste of a woman?

If you’re a man at night, you’ve got to be a man in the morning.

The opposite of manliness isn't cowardice; it's technology.

Rock & roll mostly is a very butch thing, and it appeals to one hard side of the masculine character. But I don't think the Rolling Stones are only a rock band. They can be other things. They can be very feminine.