N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.”
Source: The Complete Game of Life and How to Play It: The Classic Text with Commentary, Study Questions, Action Items, and Much More
“No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.”
Source: The Savage God: A Study of Suicide
“No man knoweth how another man maketh his love, for women tell not.”
“No man knows distinctly anything, and no man ever will.”
“No man knows he is young while he is young.”
“No man knows himself as an original.”
Source: Lectures on Art, and Poems
“No man knows his day of death.”
“No man knows his final moment in time.”
“No man knows his moment of departure from the earth.”
“No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.”
“No man knows more about women than I do, and I know nothing.”
“No man knows my history.”
“No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.”
“No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.”
Source: The essential Dracula: a completely illustrated & annotated edition of Bram Stoker's classic novel
“No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.”
Source: Dracula
“No man knows to be nice, without being a hypocrite.”
“No man knows what he can do until he tries.”
Source: The Mis-Education of the Negro
“No man knows what the wife of his bosom is until he has gone with her through the fiery trials of this world.”
Source: The Complete Works of Washington Irving: Short Stories, Plays, Historical Works, Poetry and Autobiographical Writings (Illustrated): The Entire Opus of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall and many more
“No man knows where the Castle of King Death is. All men and women, boys and girls, and even little wee children should so live that when they have to enter the Castle and see the grim King, they may not fear to behold his face.”
Source: Under the Sunset: And Other Stories
“No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men; it is life that touches his genuine worth.”
“No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure.”
Source: Hawaii: A Novel
“No man liked to be corrected, especially by a woman. It was better to make one's point, and leave the gentleman to make up his own mind where he could convince himself that it was all his own idea after all.”
Source: Death Comes to the Village
“No man likes to be smoked out of his hole in February.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.”
“No man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation.”
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 lives, can live, without having some object in view, and making efforts to attain that object. But when object there is none, and hope is entirely fled, anguish often turns a man into a monster.”
Source: The House of the Dead
“No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.”
Source: A Study in Scarlet
“No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle
“No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it.”
Source: Crowds: A Study of the Genius of Democracy and of the Fears, Desires, and Expectations of the People
“No man looks with love on deeds that to the high Gods hateful prove.”
Source: The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes
“No man loses his freedom except through his own weakness.”
Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings
“No man loves life like him that's growing old.”
Source: Dramas of Sophocles
“No man loveth God except the man who has first learned that God loves him.”
Source: Sermons Preached in Manchester: First series
“No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.”
Source: The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...
“No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“No man may be completely invulnerable.”
Source: Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian
“No man may be so cursed by priest or pope but what the Eternal Love may still return while any thread of green lives on in hope.”
Source: The Purgatorio
“No man may earn his heart's desire, lest first he brave the smoke and fire”
“No man may initiate the use of physical force against others. No man-or group or society or government-has the right to assume the role of a criminal and initiate the use of physical compulsion against any man. Men have the right to use physical force only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use. The ethical principle involved is simple and clear-cut: it is the difference between murder and self-defense.”
“No man may make another free.”
Source: Moses: Man of the Mountain
“No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.”
Source: The Education of Henry Adams
“No man means evil but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns.”
Source: The Plays of William Shakespeare in Eight Volumes: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Sam Johnson
“No man more truly loves God than he that is most fearful to offend Him.”
Source: The works: Being the sum of his sermons, meditations, and other divine and moral discourses. With memoir by Joseph Angus
“No man must be superior to the things that are common to men.... Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“No man must encroach upon my province, nor I upon his. He may advise me, moderately and without pertinaciousness, but he must not expect to dictate to me. He may censure me freely and without reserve; but he should remember that I am to act by my deliberation and not his. I ought to exercise my talents for the benefit of others; but that exercise must be the fruit of my own conviction; no man must attempt to press me into the service.”
Source: Enquiry concerning political justice: with selections from Godwin's other writings
“No man need curing of his individual sickness; his universal malady is what he should look to.”
“No man need fear death, he need fear only that he may die without having known his greatest power: the power of his free will to give his life for others”
Source: A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer
“No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.”
Source: This Then is Consecrated Lives: Being Essays
“No man needs curing of his individual sickness; his universal malady is what he should look to.”
Source: Nightwood
“No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”