N Quotes
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“No man's ambitions (have) a right to stand in the way of performing a simple act of justice.”
“No man's body is as strong as his appetites, but Heaven has corrected the boundlessness of his voluptuous desires by stinting his strength and contracting his capacities.”
“No man's condition is so base as his;
None more accurs'd than he; for man esteems
Him hateful, 'cause he seems not what he is;
God hates him, 'cause he is not what he seems;
What grief is absent, or what mischief can
Be added to the hate of God and man?”
“No man's credit is as good as his money.”
“No man's credit is ever as good as his money.”
“No man's faith, no man's religion, no religion in all the world can ever rise above the truth.”
“No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.”
Source: The philosophical works of Francis Bacon, with prefaces and notes by the late Robert Leslie Ellis, together with English translations of the principal Latin pieces
“No man's hand has ever yet reached up to take as much as the Pierced Hand is reaching down to give.”
“No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”
“No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”
“No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.”
Source: Laws. Appendix: Lesser Hippias. First Alcibiades. Menexenus. Index of persons and places
“No man's pie is freed
From his ambitious finger.”
Source: The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators, to which are added notes by S. Johnson and G. Steevens, revised and augmented by I. Reed, with a glossarial index
“No man's plenum, Mr. Quistgaard, is impervious to the awl of God's will.”
Source: Snow White
“No man's prayer is acceptable with God whose life is not well pleasing before God.”
Source: Lord, Teach Us to Pray: Sermons on Prayer
“No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.”
Source: The Secret of Father Brown
“No man's religion ever survives his morals.”
Source: Twelve Sermons ...
“No man, and least of all myself, could ever disentangle the feelings that animated him.”
“No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands.”
Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays
“No man, however benevolent, liberal, and wise, can use a large fortune so that it will do half as much good in the world as it would if it were divided into moderate sums and in the hands of workmen who had earned it by industry and frugality. The piling up of estates often does great and conspicuous good.... But no man does with accumulated wealth so much good as the same amount would do in many hands.”
“No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality.”
Source: The devils of Loudon
“No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with promoting the corruption of others. He whose merit has enlarged his influence would surely wish to exert it for the benefit of mankind. Yet such will be the effect of his reputation, while he suffers himself to indulge in any favourite fault, that they who have no hope to reach his excellence will catch at his failings, and his virtues will be cited to justify the copiers of his vices.”
Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752
“No man, I suspect, ever lived long in the country without being bitten by these meteorological ambitions. He likes to be hotter and colder, to have been more deeply snowed up, to have more trees and larger blown down than his neighbors.”
Source: My Study Windows
“No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words of Making, and one who could silence them could unmake the world.”
Source: The farthest shore
“No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-'devoted and obedient.' This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.”
“No man, or woman, was ever cured of love by discovering the falseness of his or her lover. The living together for three long, rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed.”
Source: Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms
“No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. Yet the most successful result of the most virtuous heroism is never without its alloy.”
“No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.”
Source: Up from Slavery: An Autobiography
“No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey.”
“No man, with a man's heart in him, gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. - Happy he who is brave enough to push on another stage of the journey, and rest where there are "living springs of water, and three-score and ten palms."”
“No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.”
Source: The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that which is to Come,: Delivered Under the Similitude of a Dream. Wherein is Discovered the Manner of His Setting Out, His Dangerous Journey, and Safe Arrival at the Desired Country
“No man-made law ever, no matter whether derived from the past or projected onto a distant, unforeseeable future, can or should ever be empowered to claim that it is greater than the Natural Law from which it stems and to which it must inevitably return in the eternal rhythm of creation and decline of all things natural.”
Source: Selected Writings: An Introduction to Orgonomy
“No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as that Glen Canyon Dam at Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“No manager ever won no ballgames.”
“No manager in the world gets good results all the time and you know there's people always ready to have a snipe. In fact I'm my own biggest critic, I really am. Because my own standards are so high, I criticise myself behind the scenes more than perhaps I should, according to people who know me well.”
“No mandatory prison term for employers who hire illegals.”
“No mankind can arbitrate for God.”
“No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.”
Source: The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition
“No manufacturer, from General Motors to the Little Lulu Novelty Company, would think of putting a product on the market without benefit of a designer.”
Source: Never Leave Well Enough Alone
“No map to help us find the tranquil flat lands, clearings calm, fields without mean fences. Rolling down the other side of life our compass is the sureness of ourselves. Time may make us rugged, ragged round the edges, but know and understand that love is still the safest place to land.”
“No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.”
“No," Marcus says.
"Yes, take it."
"Don't want it."
"Why so difficult, Marc?"
"Who's Marc?"
"You are."
"Yeah? 'Sup, Gid?”
Source: Seeker
“No mariner ever enters upon a more uncharted sea than does the average human being born in the 20th century. Our ancestors know their way from birth through eternity; we are puzzled about the day after tomorrow.”
“No mark survives this place: you too will yield
to unmemory.”
Source: The Lease
“No marketing technique is complete without a comprehensive understanding of your ideal client.”
“No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant.”
“No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.”
“No marriage is "too dead" for the Lord to restore.”
“No marriage is one person's failure any more than it's one person's success, so it works best to see a marriage that has ended simply as something that didn't work out.”
Source: Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others
“No marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, men and women work together in unity of purpose.”