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A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man. — Don Vito Corleone · 1972I spend my life trying not to be careless. Women and children can be careless, but not men. — Don Vito Corleone · 1972
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. — Apostle Paul · 55
Every man at some point in his life is gonna lose a battle. He's gonna fight and he's gonna lose. But what makes him a man is that in the midst of that battle he does not lose himself. — Eric Taylor · 2006
Any fool with a dick can make a baby, but only a real man can raise his children. — Furious Styles · 1991
You're a good looking boy, you have big broad shoulders, but he is a man. It takes more than big broad shoulders to make a man, Harvey, and you have a long way to go. — Helen Ramirez · 1952
Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. — Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1841
His life was gentle and the elements So mixed in him that nature might stand up And say to all the world “This was a man.” — William Shakespeare · 1599