Manhood

Famous quotes containing the word manhood:

“I yielded, and unlocked her all my heart,
Who with a grain of manhood well resolved
Might easily have shook off all her snares;
But foul effeminacy held me yoked
Her bondslave.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)

“Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)

“It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)