N Quotes
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“No man, no matter how smart or strong, can compete with a motivated woman.”
Source: Killing Johnny Miracle
“No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.”
“No man of any intelligence would pretend to know a female mind.”
Source: When he was wicked
“No man of common sense will value a woman the less, for not giving herself up at the first attack, or for not accepting his proposal without enquiring into his person or character; on the contrary, he must think her the weakest of all creatures in the world, as the rate of men now goes; in short, he must have a very contemptible opinion of her capacities, nay, even of her understanding, that having but one cast for her life, shall cast that life away at once, and make matrimony like death, be a leap in the dark.”
Source: Moll Flanders
“No man of God does something against the Lord”
“No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.”
“No man of honor ever quite lives up to his code, any more than a moral man manages to avoid sin.”
Source: Minority Report
“No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath.”
Source: The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author
“No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover.”
Source: Aims of Education
“No man of sense in the whole world believes in devils any more than he does in mermaids, vampires, gorgons, hydras, naiads, dryads, nymphs, fairies, the Fountain of Youth, [or] the Philosopher's Stone. . . .”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.”
Source: Euripides: Hecuba, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Andromache, translated by J. F. Nims. The Trojan women, translated by R. Lattimore. Ion, translated by R. F. Willetts
“No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental, or emotional. To hurt is as human as to breathe.”
“No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.”
Source: The Iliad of Homer
“No man or woman can live another's fate”
Source: The Mists of Avalon
“No man or woman in this dispensation will ever enter into the celestial kingdom of God without the consent of Joseph Smith...every man and woman must have the certificate of Joseph Smith, junior, as a passport to their entrance into the mansion where God and Christ are”
“No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.”
“No man or woman is uniformly successful... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.”
“No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.”
“No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.”
“No man ought certainly to be a judge in his own cause, or in any cause in respect to which he has the least interest or bias.”
Source: The federalist papers
“No man ought to commit his life into the
hands of that Physician, who is ignorant of Astrologic:
because he is a Physician of no value.”
“No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom; but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him.”
Source: The Table Talk of Martin Luther
“No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth.”
Source: The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...
“No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood; the rest, by right, belonged to the state.”
“No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host.”
“No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once.”
Source: Tracts; Chiefly Relating to Ireland: Containing: I. A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions. II. Essays in Political Arithmetic. III. The Political Anatomy of Ireland. By the Late Sir William Petty. To which is Prefixed His Last Will
“No man preaches his sermon well to others if he does not first preach it to his own heart.”
“No man, proclaimed Donne, is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other's tragedies. We are insulated (a word that means, literally, remember, made into an island) from the tragedy of others, by our island nature, and by the repetitive shape and form of the stories. The shape does not change: there was a human being who was born, lived, and then, by some means or another, died. There. You may fill in the details from your own experience. As unoriginal as any other tale, as unique as any other life. Lives are snowflakes—forming patterns we have seen before, as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really looked at them? There's not a chance you'd mistake one for another, after a minute's close inspection), but still unique.”
Source: American Gods
“No man profiteth but by the loss of others.”
Source: The Essays
“No man provokes me with impunity.”
“No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.”
Source: In Pursuit of Laughter ...
“No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events.”
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 really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.”
“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself. What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can read only a few and those perhaps not accurately. A man is a lonely thing.”
“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.”
Source: The Winter of our Discontent
“No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind.”
“No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.”
“No man rides harder than my Lord Scamperdale - always goes as if he had a spare neck in his pocket.”
Source: Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour
“No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled.”
Source: Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume
“No man runs the race until he sees the dream.”
“No man's advice can change you unless you speak to yourself. Bible school or seminars can't change you, going to church can't change you except you decide to change.
Psalm 139:23 - 24”
Source: Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
“No man saw the building of the New Jerusalem, the workmen crowded together, the unfinished walls and unpaved streets; no man heard the clink of trowel and pickaxe; it descended out of heaven from God.”
Source: Ecce Homo: A Survey of the Life and Work of Jesus Christ
“No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.”
“No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
“No man shall be the avenger of his own wrongs, especially by a deed alike interdicted by the laws of God and man.”
“No man shall ever behold the glory of Christ by sight hereafter who does not in some measure behold it here by faith.”
Source: THE GLORY OF CHRIST
“No man shall rule over me with my consent. I will rule over no man.”
“No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.”
“No man should attempt to teach others what he has never learned himself”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay
“No man should be allowed to be the President who does not understand hogs, or hasn't been around a manure pile.”