N Quotes
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“No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.”
“No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.”
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 who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention, still less can he afford to take the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and the loss of self control, yield to larger things to which you show no more than equal rights, and yield to lesser ones though clearly your own, better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right, not even killing the dog, will cure the bite”
Source: The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Including the Full Text of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates Together with the Essay on Lincoln
“No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.”
“No man who loves or hates is truly free. We are all bound by something or someone that dictates our path. Freedom is an illusion.”
“No man who owns his own house and lot can be a Communist. He has too much to do.”
“No man who respects his mother or loves his sister, can speak disparagingly of any woman; however low she may seem to have sunk, she is still a woman. I want every man to remember this. Every woman is, or, at some time, has been a sister or daughter.”
“No man who says, 'I'm as good as you,' believes it. He would not say it if he did.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“No man who values originality will ever be original. But try to tell the truth as you see it, try to do any bit of work as well as it can be done for the work's sake, and what men call originality will come unsought.”
“No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.”
“No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.”
“No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.”
Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia: A Tale
“No man will be kept in hell loner than is necessary to bring him to a fitness for something better. When he reaches that stage the prison doors will open and there will be rejoicing among the hosts who welcome him into a better state.”
“No man will be present in those mysteries,
yet all men will kneel,
no man will be potent,
important,
yet all men will feel
what it is to be a woman.”
Source: Selected poems
“No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.”
“No man will ever be a big executive who feels that he must, either openly or under cover, follow up every order he gives and see that it is done-nor will he ever develop a capable assistant.”
“No man will ever be President of the United States who spells 'negro' with two gs.”
“No man will ever be whole and dignified and free except in the knowledge that the men around him are whole and dignified and free, and that the world itself is free of contempt and misuse.”
Source: The Hidden Wound
“No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred.”
Source: The Real Thomas Jefferson
“No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.”
“No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.”
“No man will ever escape from his fate”
“No Man will ever love you, no woman will ever love you...Like your creator does.,,,!
--------Lord Jesus”
“No man will ever put his hand up your dress looking for a library card.”
“No man will ever unfold the capacities of his own intellect who does not at least checker his life with solitude.”
Source: The Works of Thomas De Quincey: Suspira de profundis. General index
“No man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him.”
Source: Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson
“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.”
“No man will marry you now,' she said.
I'm not sure there was a thing she could have said that would have struck me as more ridiculous while also tapping directly into my deepest fears.”
Source: Margo's Got Money Troubles
“No man will revel long in the indulgence of crime.”
“No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it has become his interest that there should be none to call him to account.”
Source: An Exposition of the Old and New Testament: Wherein Each Chapter is Summed Up in Its Contents: Job-Solomon's Song. 1839
“No man will subject himself to the ridicule of pretending that any natural connection subsists between the sun or the seasons, and the period within which human virtue can bear the temptations of power. Happily for mankind, liberty is not, in this respect, confined to any single point of time, but lies within extremes, which afford sufficient latitude for all the variations which may be required by the various situations and circumstances of civil society.”
Source: The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus
“No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities.”
“No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him.”
“No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Carefully Selected; with a Biography of the Author
“No man will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key to history, and why history is often so confused is that it has been written by men who are ignorant of this principle and all the knowledge it involves. . . Language and religion do not make a race--there is only one thing which makes a race, and that is blood.”
“No man will work for your interests unless they are his.”
“No man with a complex life can be happy! The simple secret of the happiness is simple life!”
“No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!”
“No man with a sense of humor ever founded a religion.”
“No man with any sense assumes that a woman's words mean to her exactly what they mean to him.”
Source: The Mother Hunt
“No man, woman or child is an island. We are ultrasocial creatures, and we can't be happy without having friends and secure attachments to other people.”
Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
“No man worth his salt does not wish to be a husband and father; yet no man is raised to be a husband and father and no man would ever conceive of those relationships as instruments of his prime function in life. Yet every woman is raised, still, to believe that the fulfillment of these relationships is her prime function in life and, what's more, her instinctive choice.”
Source: Essays in feminism
“No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.”
“No man would ever hold me this well.
I was made to be wrapped in these arms.
A woman could tell a lot by the way a man holds her. She could tell if he had the strength to endure the rougher moments. If he had a mighty yet kind heart. If he could make her feel safe and cherished.
Beau’s embrace said all that and more.”
Source: The Outpost
“No man would ever use both hands to hold a cup of tea, unless he was one day's march from the South Pole, with one chum dead in the snow, dogs all eaten and six fingers about to drop off. And even then he would look around the empty tent to check, in case anybody thought it was girly.”
“No man would ever want a girl who roams nude in a bar and drenches herself in bear on a slumber party.”
Source: FRAGILE
“No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.”
“No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.”
Source: Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things
“No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning.”
“No man's abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.”