N Quotes
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“No wind blows in favor of a ship without direction.”
“No wind favors he who has no destined port.”
“No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.”
Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays
“No windows give a better view than those a man brings with him in his head, not asking for tickets of admission, since at all functions, festivals, or feasts he looks out with the same nice self-composure.”
“No Winter lasts forever, no Spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep, and we know it.”
“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
“No wisdom that she may gain by experience and reflection hereafter, will compensate the loss of her present hilarity.”
“No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.”
“No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise." "Wouldn't it, really?" said Alice, in a tone of great surprise. "Of course not," said the Mock Turtle. "Why, if a fish came to me, and told me he was going on a journey, I should say 'With what porpoise?”
“No wise forward look can ignore the possibility of many sorrows and the certainty of some. Hope has ever something of dread in her eyes. The road will not be always bright and smooth, but will sometimes plunge down into grim cations, where no sunbeams reach. But even that anticipation may be calm. "Thou art with me" is enough. He who guides into the gorge will guide through it. It is not a cul de sac, shut in with precipices, at the far end; but it opens out on shining tablelands, where there is greener pasture.”
“No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.”
Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].
“No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.”
“No wise man ever took a handgun to a gun fight.”
“No wise man ever wished to be younger.”
“No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.”
“No wise man is ever interested in stupid matters like wars! Wars are always on the agenda of only stupid man!”
“No wise man will go to live in the country, unless he has something to do which can be better done in the country. For instance, if he is to shut himself up for a year to study science, it is better to look out to the fields, than to an opposite wall. Then, if a man walks out in the country, there is nobody to keep him from walking in again: but if a man walks out in London, he is not sure when he will walk in again. A great city is, to be sure, the school for studying life.”
Source: The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals
“No wise pilot, no matter how great his talent and experience, fails to use his checklist.”
“No wise sayings today?" Tiana asked. Ms. Rose loved sharing nuggets of wisdom she said were passed down from her mother.
The woman's brow lifted. "Actually, I do have one for you: Ti bwa ou pa wè, se li ki pete je ou. The twig you don't see is the one that puts out your eye."
Tiana peered at the flowers Ms. Rose had handed her. "Are there twigs in here?"
"Be cautious," the woman said. "It means to always be aware of your surroundings.”
Source: Almost There
“No witch has ever claimed to own the Elder Wand. Make of that what you will.”
“No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.”
Source: Silent Spring
“No wizard has ever made himself useful by magic, or, if they've tried, they've only made matters worse. No wizard ever stopped a war or mended a fence. It's better that they stay in their marshes, out of the way of worldly folk like farmers and soldiers and merchants and kings.”
Source: Pretty Monsters
“No wolf falters before the bite So strike No hawk wavers before the dive Just strike”
Source: Princess Academy
“No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.”
“No woman at our age wants surprises! We want calm and stability, trust and honesty, look what life has done to us, and you still want surprises and suspense!?”
Source: Emotional Rhapsody
“No woman before her had written publicly, with greater candor or less euphemism, about the most intimate secrets of her sex. One of those secrets- the hardest, perhaps, for Beauvoir to avow- is that a free woman may refuse to be owned without wanting to renounce, or being able to transcend, her yearning to be possessed”
“No woman can be a beauty without a fortune.”
“No woman can be completely happy at any one moment in time. They're always anticipating the next thing to argue or complain about.”
“No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.”
“No woman can become or remain degraded without all women suffering.”
Source: Emily Murphy
“No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.”
“No woman can call herself free who cannot choose the time to be a mother or not as she sees fit.”
“No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.”
“No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.”
“No woman can fully understand nor appreciate her femininity without the help of a man, even if he only exists in her imagination.”
Source: Sensual Lifestyle
“No woman could have been Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized.”
Source: Right-Wing Women
“No woman dares express all she thinks.”
“No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.”
“No woman deserved to have a man put his hands on her.”
Source: Life After Natalie
“No Woman deserves to be physically attacked by a Man – if you can't keep up with her psychologically, you are too weak for her.”
“No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.”
“No woman ever ages beyond eighteen in her heart.”
“No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.”
“No woman ever yet either reasoned or acted long together consequentially; but some little thing, some love, some resentment, somepresent momentary interest, some supposed slight, or some humour, always breaks in upon, and oversets their most prudent resolutions and schemes.”
Source: Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son
“No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.”
“No woman had ever made him feel so protective, yet so protected at the same time. He shifted his gaze to her lips. He had to taste them, had to claim them for his own right then, or his heart was going to jump right out of his chest and die on the floor at the ends of her cute little toes.”
Source: Cowboy Boots for Christmas: Cowboy Not Included
“No woman has an abortion for fun.”
“No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me”
“No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.”
“No woman has ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes.”