N Quotes
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“No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself.”
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished
“No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.”
Source: Northanger abbey
“No man is ordinary, only their performances are ordinary.”
“No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.”
Source: The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings
“No man is poor who has a Godly mother.”
“No man is prejudiced in favor of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its being right; and when he sees it is not so, the prejudice will be gone.”
Source: Paine: Political Writings
“No man is quick enough to enjoy life.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)
“No man is quite so much a hero in the dark as in broad daylight, in solitude as in society, in the gloom of the churchyard as in the blaze of the drawing-room. The season and the place may be such as to oppress the stoutest heart with a mysterious awe, which, if not fear, is near akin to it.”
Source: BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL MISCELLANIES
“No man is really changed by success. What happens is that success works on the man’s personality like a truth drug, bringing him out of the closet and revealing… what was always inside his head.”
“No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.”
Source: The Quotable Osler
“No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.”
“No man is really saved unless he is in his heart obedient to Christ.”
“No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.”
“No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.”
“No man is rich enough to buy back his past.”
Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde
“No man is rich enough to waste his money in putting on style.”
“No man is rich who is unsatisfied, but who wants nothing possess his heart's desire.”
“No man is safe above but he that will gladly be beneath.”
Source: The Imitation of Christ
“No man is smart, except by comparison to those who know less”
“No man is so dangerous as the man who cannot decide what he fears.”
Source: Royal Assassin: The Farseer Trilogy
“No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.”
Source: The essays of Michael, lord of Montaigne
“No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.”
“No man is so foolish but may give another good counsel sometimes; and no man is so wise, but may easily err, if he will take no others counsel but his own. But very few men are wise by their own counsel; or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool to his master.”
Source: The Works of Ben Jonson
“No man is so good as to be free from all evil, nor so bad as to be worth nothing.”
Source: The 13th Warrior.: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan, Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in A.D. 922.
“No man is so great as mankind.”
Source: Theism, Atheism, and the Popular Theology: Sermons
“No man is so idle that he cannot rouse himself just enough to get in the way of a busy person.”
“No man is so insignificant as to be sure his example can do no hurt.”
“No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.”
Source: The Complete Short Stories of Washington Irving: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveler, The Alhambra, Woolfert’s Roost & The Crayon Papers Collections (Illustrated): The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, Old Christmas, The Voyage, Roscoe, The Widow’s Retinue, An Old Soldier, Mountjoy, Don Juan, Woolfert’s Roost, Tales of The Alhambra and many more
“No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.”
“No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less.”
“No man is so wise that he cannot benefit by talking things out with others.”
“No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.”
Source: Collected tales, sketches, speeches & essays
“No man is the wiser for his learning”
Source: Table-Talk: being the Discourses of John Selden, Esq.; or his sence of various matters of weight and high consequence relating especially to Religion and State. Edited by R. Milward
“No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.”
Source: Table-Talk: being the Discourses of John Selden, Esq.; or his sence of various matters of weight and high consequence relating especially to Religion and State. Edited by R. Milward
“No man is too good to be the athletic coach for youth.”
Source: Touchdown!: As told by Coach Amos Alonzo Stagg to Wesley Winans Stout
“No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another power over your liberty.'”
Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson
“No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“No man is uninteresting when his hat is blown off and he has to scuttle after it down the street.”
“No man is useless while he has a friend.”
Source: Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)
“No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.”
Source: Colloquies of Erasmus,
“No man is wise enough by himself.”
“No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“No man is without his load of trouble.”
“No man is without some quality, by the due application of which he might deserve well of the world; and whoever he be that has but little in his power should be in haste to do that little, lest he be confounded with him that can do nothing.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius
“No man is worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so.”
“No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century
“No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.”
“No man is worth the whole world.”
Source: The Orphan's Tale
“No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry.”
“No man is worthy of unlimited reliance-his treason, at best, only waits for sufficient temptation.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy