N Quotes
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“No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“No man threatens His Grace in the presence of the Kingsguard.” Tyrion Lannister raised an eyebrow. “I am not threatening the king, ser, I am educating my nephew. Bronn, Timett, the next time Ser Boros opens his mouth, kill him.” The dwarf smiled. “Now that was a threat, ser. See the difference?”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“No man treats a motorcar as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behavior to sin; he does not say, 'You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go.' He attempts to find out what is wrong and to set it right.”
Source: Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
“No man truly has joy unless he lives in love.”
Source: St. Thomas Aquinas: Philosophical Texts
“No man under forty can be dignified with the title of gourmet.”
“No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.”
“No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.”
Source: ABC of Reading
“No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.”
Source: The Table Talk of Martin Luther
“No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
“No man voluntarily expresses his opinion without some intent to make a difference, and even if he does, he shouldn't.”
Source: Healology
“No man wants a woman who behaves like a slut. Her mother had used that line to get her point across more than once. A flush of shame made her clammy. Had she been too... enthusiastic?
Her fists clenched. No. She had nothing to feel ashamed for. And if Maxu found the way she expressed herself unattractive, then he just wasn't the right man for her and that was all there was to it.”
Source: Resisting Maxu
“No man wants his daughter to be the kind of girl whom he liked in high school.”
“No man wants his wife to be a woman that other men don't desire....But every man wants his wife to be a woman that other men don't get.”
Source: The Four Swans
“No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you're going to bump into somebody that makes you go, 'Hmm, I don't mind seeing this person every day.'”
“No man was born empty.”
Source: Create Your Own Net Worth
“No man was born empty, every man was born with a worth.”
Source: Create Your Own Net Worth
“No man was born in chains; it is their fellow man who has put them in chains, and at any given time, every single man and woman has the absolute right to break free from those chains of any nature and of any form! It is not God who has put you in any sort of bondage! It is your fellow man who puts you in bondage in the name of God!”
“No man was ever a good soldier but the man who goes into the battle determined to conquer, or not to come back from the battle field (cheers). No other principle makes a good soldier.”
Source: Daniel O'Connell's Oratory on Repeal
“No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so.”
Source: The Principles of Success in Literature
“No man was ever great by imitation.”
Source: The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...
“No man was ever great without divine inspiration.
[Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.]”
“No man was ever lost except for one reason: having once left his ground he has let himself become too permanently settled abroad.”
“No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.”
“No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!”
Source: All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography
“No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.”
“No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.”
“No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his pocket.”
Source: Some Buried Caesar
“No man was ever wise by chance.”
“No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.”
“No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.”
“No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.”
“No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had”
“No man was to be eulogized for what he did; or censured for what he did or did not do. All of us are the children of conditions, of circumstances, of environment, of education, of acquired habits and of heredity; moulding men as they are and will for ever be.”
“No man weighs his words who has but a moment to live.”
Source: Five Somewhat Historical Plays
“No man who believes that all is for the best in this suffering world can keep his ethical values unimpaired, since he is always having to find excuses for pain and misery.”
Source: A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42
“No man who can do any one thing well will be able to any different thing equally well.”
“No man who drank or smoked could ever come nearer to me than the telephone. I'd say, I won't let you - you nicotine-soaked, beer-besmeared, whiskey-greased, red-eyed devil - talk to me face to face.”
“No man who enters upon the office to which I have succeeded can fail to recognize how every president of the United States has placed special reliance upon his faith in God.”
“No man who enters upon the office to which I have succeeded can fail to recognize how every president of the United States has placed special reliance upon his faith in God. Every president has taken comfort and courage when toldthat the Lord 'will be with thee. He will not fail thee nor forsake thee. Fear not-neither be thou dismayed.' Each of our presidents in his own way has placed a special trust in God. Those who were strongest intellectually were also strongest spiritually.”
“No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.”
“No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter than you and I.”
“No man who has lived through a temporary spiritual experience is ever likely to forget it. His days will be haunted until he sets out to seek ways and means of repeating it.”
“No man who has managed to keep out of an office can be called a failure in life.”
Source: Richard Aldington: selected critical writings, 1928-1960
“No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light, odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at.”
Source: Organization in Daily Life: An Essay
“No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.”
“No man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.”
“No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.”
Source: The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses
“No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.”
Source: The Story of Civilization: The life of Greece; being a history of Greek civilization from the beginnings, and of civilization in the Near East from the death of Alexander, to the Roman conquest; with an introduction on the prehistoric culture of Crete
“No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.”
Source: The Life of Greece: The Story of Civilization
“No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his rights can give a good reason why he should be entitled to the privilege of living in a free community.”
Source: Fear God and Take Your Own Part