Top 100 No Man Ever Quotes
#2. No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon.
Phillips Brooks
#3. No man ever did me so much good, or enemy so much harm, but I repaid him with interest.
Sulla
#4. Nothing was ever in any man that is not in you; no man ever had more spiritual or mental power than you can attain, or did greater things than you can accomplish. You can become what you want to be.
Wallace D. Wattles
#5. No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist, but by the gracious inspiration and instigation of the Holy Spirit of God.
Roger Williams
#6. No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.
Horace
#7. Boy," said Druss, his eyes cold, "think well about this venture. For make no mistake, you cannot
stand before me and live. No man ever has." The words were spoken softly, yet no one disbelieved the
old man.
David Gemmell
#8. No man ever loved like Jesus. He taught the blind to see and the dumb to speak. He died on the cross to save us. He bore our sins. And now God says, Because He did, I can forgive you.
Billy Graham
#9. I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.
Charles Darwin
#10. No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
H.L. Mencken
#12. It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.
Joseph Conrad
#14. No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#15. No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
Maria Edgeworth
#16. It is a detestable vice not entirely limited to children. Always speak the truth, all the truth in all things at all times! No man ever rose to greatness on the wings of obsequious deceit.
Rick Yancey
#17. No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes: yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience.
Henry David Thoreau
#18. No man ever feels the restraint of law so long as he remains within the sphere of his liberty
a sphere, by the way, always large enough for the full exercise of his powers and the supply of all his legitimate wants.
J.G. Holland
#19. The power of painter or poet to describe what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an ideal but a real thing. No man ever did or ever will work well but either from actual sight or sight of faith.
John Ruskin
#20. No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife.
Aldous Huxley
#21. Why? Will no man ever do something without a why? Just like that? For the hell of it?
Michael Cacoyannis
#22. No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
Napoleon Hill
#23. Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom:
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved
William Shakespeare
#24. No man knows distinctly anything, and no man ever will.
Xenophanes
#25. Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked in poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day, or Warren's blackin' or Rowland's oil, or some o' them low fellows; never you let yourself down to talk poetry, my boy.
Charles Dickens
#26. Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
Cesare Pavese
#27. If Christ had not gone to the cross and suffered in our stead, the just for the unjust, there would not have been a spark of hope for us. There would have been a mighty gulf between ourselves and God, which no man ever could have passed.
J.C. Ryle
#28. No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith.
Louis L'Amour
#29. No man ever came to an experience which was satiating, but his good is tidings of a better. Onward and onward!
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#30. No man ever puts down what he intended to say ... words ... are but crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain and sorrow to commemorate an event which is untransmissible.
Henry Miller
#32. No man ever became extremely wicked all at once.
Juvenal
#33. No man ever sailed over exactly the same route that another sailed over before him; every man who starts on the ocean of life arches his sails to an untried breeze.
William Mathews
#34. No man ever flees from duty without incalculable hurt, not only to himself, but to others as well.
Clovis Chappell
#35. No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.
Ruth Benedict
#37. Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
#38. He has had her today but he has not had her. No man ever shall.
Orna Ross
#40. Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little. ~E.W. Howe
E.W. Howe
#41. No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God incline his heart, and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing.
Blaise Pascal
#42. No man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed.
Hannah More
#43. No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
Heraclitus
#44. No man ever truly possesses a woman, anyhow," said Gidas moodily. "He has her body for a time if he's lucky, but only the most fleeting glimpse into her soul." Gidas was a poet, or wanted to be.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#45. But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is the only good thing which no man ever seeks the good of, for himself.
Abraham Lincoln
#46. No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
Plutarch
#47. No man, ever indulged more freely or happily in that playful facetiousness which gratifies all without wounding any.
William Wilberforce
#48. No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.
George Henry Lewes
#49. No man ever followed his genius till it misled him. Though the result were bodily weakness, yet perhaps no one can say that the consequences were to be regretted, for these were a life in conformity to higher principles.
Henry David Thoreau
#50. Hey, I gotta take a piss. Want to come with me? Said no man ever.
Pamela Clare
#51. Business men are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence ... No man ever manages a legitimate business in this life without doing indirectly far more for other men than he is trying to do for himself.
Henry Ward Beecher
#52. Perhaps we can fly. All of us. How will we ever know unless we leap from some tall tower? No man ever truly knows what he can do unless he dares to leap.
George R R Martin
#53. No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.
Henry Home, Lord Kames
#55. No man ever became very wicked all at once.
Juvenal
#57. I would like to say that no man ever was given finer cooperation than that given me by President Truman.
Paul Hoffman
#58. No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
H.L. Mencken
#61. No man ever made himself to live. No preacher, however earnest, can make one hearer to live. No parent, however prayerful, no teacher, however tearful, can make a child live unto God. "You hath HE quickened," is true of all who are quickened.
Charles Spurgeon
#62. No man ever went broke overestimating the ignorance of the American public.
P.T. Barnum
#63. Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#64. No man ever really loved a woman, lost her, and knew her with a blameless though an unchanged mind,
Charles Dickens
#65. The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has; you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all the savants in the world could not produce a reliable map of the poorest human personality.
Alexander Smith
#66. Shakespeare was not a scholar in the sense we regard the term to-day, yet no man ever lived or probably ever will live that equalled or will equal him in the expression of thought. He simply read the book of nature and interpreted it from the standpoint of his own magnificent genius.
Joseph Devlin
#67. Were there once only women warriors, Mother?" "Don't know." "Oh." I started to get up. "Makes sense," she said. "Why?" "Who else should take a life? No man ever brought a child out of his body.
Catherine M. Wilson
#68. No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.
Henry Ward Beecher
#69. I perceive I have not really understood any thing, not a single object, and that no man ever can."
-from "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life
Walt Whitman
#71. No man ever sought Christ with a heart to find Him who did not find Him.
Dwight L. Moody
#72. Multitudes think they like to do evil; yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world.
John Ruskin
#73. Confused and fearful as he was, this one thing Tom knew for certain. No man ever took another man's balls in his mouth to mock him.
Jez Morrow
#74. The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
Edmund Burke
#75. It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.
Jonathan Swift
#76. No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
George Bernard Shaw
#77. No man ever does that under the first fury of despair or remorse or bereavement he does it only when he has realised that even the despair or remorse or bereavement is not particularly important to the dark diceman
William Faulkner
#79. No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.
Horace
#80. I hope you don't get known for nothing crazy, cause no man ever wants to hear those stories bout his lady.
Drake
#81. I suppose they think me an old man and imagine it is nothing for one like me to resign a life so full of trials. But I am not old - at least in that sense; you know I am not. Oh, no man ever left the world with more inviting prospects, with brighter hopes, or warmer feelings - warmer feelings.
Adoniram Judson
#82. No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
David Hume
#83. Many and various are the things to which a man may feel himself drawn, but one thing there is to which no man ever felt himself drawn in any way, that is, to suffering and humiliation. This we men think we ought to shun as far as possible, and in any case that we must be compelled to it.
Soren Kierkegaard
#84. No man ever freely surrendered a portion of his own liberty for the sake of the public good; such a chimera appears only in fiction. If it were possible, we would each prefer that the pacts binding others did not bind us; every man sees himself as the centre of all the world's affairs.
Cesare Beccaria
#85. No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.
George MacDonald
#86. I did feel very sexy and desirable. Those prisoners looked at me like no man ever did. I don't care how many people they killed.
Kathy Griffin
#87. But what [Gansey] said was, "I'm going to need everyone to be straight with each other from now on. No more games. This isn't just for Blue, either. All of us."
Ronan said, "I'm always straight."
Adam replied, "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever told."
Blue said, "Okay.
Maggie Stiefvater
#88. I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
Samuel Johnson
#89. Let us take pleasure in what we have received and make no comparison; no man will ever be happy if tortured by the greater happiness of another.
Seneca.
#90. No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.
Ayn Rand
#91. Tell me about Gang Starr,' said Nishant, in an effort to start a conversation I'd be interested in.
'One MC, one DJ ... '
'Classic combo,' Anand affirmed.
'No hype man?'
'No.'
'What do we need Anand for?' Nishant shrugged, ever the pragmatist, never the catcher of feelings.
Nikesh Shukla
#92. Men explain things to me, still. And no man has ever apologized for explaining, wrongly, things that I know and they don't.
Rebecca Solnit
#93. Body is not veiled from soul, neither soul from body, Yet no man hath ever seen a soul.
Rumi
#95. [] no man is ever free and probably could not bear it if he were ...
William Faulkner
#96. Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it.
George Savile
#97. 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.
Abraham Lincoln
#98. When I met Richard Leakey, I thought, 'This is the most charismatic man I've ever met.' He has no legs. He lost them when his plane was sabotaged. But he's an interesting, sort of narcissistic guy.
Eric Roth
#99. No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#100. The Word no longer belonged to Man because they believed it did not. Man saw the gods alone as Creators and forgot that there had ever been any other way.
Thomm Quackenbush
