Top 100 No Man Is Quotes
#1. We'd saved him as much by joining in his exultation as we had by witnessing his shame. And all of it depended upon our action, our interference in his life, because no man is saved without love.
Gregory David Roberts
#2. Tessa reached for the words ... You know, in that essay of Donne's, what he says ... about how no man is an island. Everything you do touches others.
Cassandra Clare
#3. No man is wise enough by himself.
Plautus
#4. No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity
Seneca.
#5. No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
William Penn
#7. No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.
George Eliot
#8. No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
Marcel Proust
#11. No man is entirely worthless, he can always serve as a bad example.
Brian Oldfield
#12. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Abraham Lincoln
#13. The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
Clarence Darrow
#15. Thou contentedly let the years slip by and make no effort to repay, then thou hast but the contemptible soul of a slave. No man is otherwise who cannot respect himself and no man can respect himself who does not repay honest debts.
George S. Clason
#16. A light shines in the darkness but the darkness does not understand it." - John 1:5 "No man is a complete mystery but to himself" - Proust
Mark Edward Hall
#17. It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful, but it is worse that no man is fit for society who has fine traits.He is admired at a distance, but he cannot come near without appearing a cripple.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#18. No man is bound by the words themselves, either to kill himselfe, or any other man.
Thomas Hobbes
#20. No man is a man until he is made weak by a woman.
Bee Ridgway
#21. Use this to your advantage. Never get desperate. Maintain the attitude that they need you more than you need them. No man is worth getting desperate over. If
Charles Reed
#22. The self-sufficient does not pray, the self-satisfied will not pray, the self-righteous cannot pray. No man is greater than his prayer life.
Leonard Ravenhill
#23. No man is a failure who has friends.
Mark Twain
#24. The man of culture is one of the poorest mortals alive. For simple pedantry and want of good sense no man is his equal. No assumption is too unreal, no end is too unpractical for him.
Frederic Harrison
#25. And seeing every man is presumed to do all things in order to his own benefit, no man is a fit Arbitrator in his own cause
Thomas Hobbes
#27. The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane; each has a vein of folly in his composition, a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which Nature has taken to heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#28. no man is the slave either of another man or of sin": Augustine, City of God 19.15, ed. and trans. R. W. Dyson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), p. 943.
Andy Crouch
#29. Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.
Mark Twain
#30. Charity is that with which no man is lost, and without which no man is saved.
Robert Bellarmine
#31. Society is itself an education in the extrovert values, and rarely has there been a society that has preached them so hard. No man is an island, but how John Donne would writhe to hear how often, and for what reasons, the thought is so tiresomely repeated.
William H. Whyte
#33. No man is born unto himself alone; Who lives unto himself, he lives to none.
Francis Quarles
#35. No man is really saved unless he is in his heart obedient to Christ.
Charles Spurgeon
#37. No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
Aristophanes
#38. No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.
Jean De La Bruyere
#40. You can be happy even if your bones are broken,
but no man is happy when his heart is heavy.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#41. No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
Susan B. Anthony
#43. In fact, you could almost hold that no man is perfect until he meets the right woman.
Karen Hawkins
#44. No man is worth the pain you're putting yourself through. Don't wither away because of someone who is beneath you.
Jennifer Foor
#46. The only thing of value on this earth is that each of us is an individual and not a cog in a machine. No man is better than another because of circumstance or fortune, but each important to his own.
Harold Robbins
#47. No man is any the worse off because another acquires wealth by trade, or by the exercise of a profession; on the contrary, he cannot have acquired his wealth except by benefiting others to the extent of what they considered to be its value.
Thomas Huxley
#48. If there is an angel who records the sorrows of men as well as their sins, he knows how many and deep are the sorrows that spring from false ideas for which no man is culpable.
George Eliot
#49. No man is poor in real terms, because every man owns a great treasure: Existence!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#52. No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.
John Calvin
#53. No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself
Seneca.
#54. No man is competent unless he can stalk alone and armed in the wilderness.
Townsend Whelen
#55. No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
Solon
#56. No man is quite so much a hero in the dark as in broad daylight, in solitude as in society, in the gloom of the churchyard as in the blaze of the drawing-room. The season and the place may be such as to oppress the stoutest heart with a mysterious awe, which, if not fear, is near akin to it.
William H. Prescott
#57. Political power intoxicates the best hearts. No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with much political power.
Hans F. Sennholz
#58. I'm a freeborn man of the travelling people. Got no fixed abode, and no man is my master. Country lanes and byways were always my ways. I never fancied going faster.
Ewan MacColl
#59. No man is happy without a goal, and no man can be happy without faith in his own ability to reach that goal.
L. Ron Hubbard
#60. No man is more important than The Team. No coach is more important than The Team. The Team, The Team, The Team, and if we think that way, all of us, everything that you do, you take into consideration what effect does it have on my Team?
Bo Schembechler
#61. No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
William Hazlitt
#63. No man is safe above but he that will gladly be beneath.
Thomas A Kempis
#65. When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was
Samuel Johnson
#66. No man is fit to be a Senator ... unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.
Henry F. Ashurst
#67. No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times
in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.
Michel De Montaigne
#68. No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
Martial
#69. No man is bound to be rich or great, - no, nor to be wise; but every man is bound to be honest.
Benjamin Rudyerd
#71. It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.
David Simon
#72. What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.
Abraham Lincoln
#73. No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a "clean bomb" yet he will be the first to make public his faith in God.
Marya Mannes
#74. Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
Charles Caleb Colton
#75. No man is satisfied with his fortune, but every man is satisfied with his wit.
Leo Tolstoy
#76. Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is
Oscar Wilde
#77. It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#79. Often in this our life do we begin by cursing men and end by loving them. A sense of the common fallibility of all flesh makes us kin. No man is lovable who is invincible.
Neville Cardus
#80. Without earnestness no man is ever great, or does really great things. He may be the cleverest of men; he may be brilliant, entertaining, popular; but he will want weight. No soul-moving picture was ever painted that had not in it depth of shadow.
Peter Bayne
#81. No man is infinitely strong; for every creature that runs, flies, hops or crawls there is a terminal nemesis which he will not circumvent, which will finally do him in.
Philip K. Dick
#82. No man is more abhorred than a man who is different from his neighbors. They feel violated and threatened if one dares to be as they are not.
Taylor Caldwell
#83. A wise man learns from his mistakes;
a fool won't even learn from his fatal ones.
There is no such thing as an intentional mistake,
but no man is a fool accidentally.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#86. No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
C.N. Bovee
#88. No man is greater than his respect for sleep.
Ogden Nash
#89. No man is so faint-hearted that he would rather hang in suspense for ever than drop once for all.
Seneca.
#90. Life meant reducing expectations and making-do with what one had. What was the point of boo-hooing, as she saw it, when "no man is a prince, except in the imagination"? It was the same thing Marcy had said: "No one is as good as you think they are.
Paula Marantz Cohen
#91. No man is prejudiced in favor of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its being right; and when he sees it is not so, the prejudice will be gone.
Thomas Paine
#92. No man is an island, no
woman lives in a vacuum,
and as much as we'd like
to compartmentalize, our
actions and decisions
affect those around us ... even if that's not our
intention.
Peter Adejimi
#93. Can theology give to the mind the ineffable boon of conceiving that which no man is in a capacity to comprehend? Can it procure to its agents the marvellous faculty of having precise ideas of a god composed of so many contradictory qualities?
Baron D'Holbach
#95. God hath thus ordered it, that we may learn to bear one another's burdens; for no man is without fault, no man without his burden, no man sufficient of himself, no man wise enough of himself; but we ought to bear with one another, comfort one another, help, instruct, and admonish one another.
Thomas A Kempis
#96. It is a very remarkable and significant fact that though no man is quite well or healthy yet every one believes practically that health is the rule & disease the exception.
Henry David Thoreau
#97. No man is a true believer unless he desireth for his brother that which he desireth for himself
Elijah Muhammad
#98. No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
Victor Hugo
#99. Demelza said: 'It seems to me no man is wise enough if the woman is not wise enough.' Ross
Winston Graham
#100. So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson
