Top 100 No Man Quotes

#1. I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

Max Beerbohm

#2. There is no greater isolation a man may experience than to be lonely in a crowd.

Claire North

#3. Then let no man attempt to number Israel today, but let everyone have a heart of flesh, a heart of tender sympathy, a heart that, like the heart of Christ, reaches out for the salvation of a lost world. [190]

Ellen G. White

#4. And remember it takes great courage and heart for a man who knows no kindness to show it to another. Even the wildest of beasts can be tamed by a patient and gentle hand.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#5. Every woman should marry ... and no man.

Benjamin Disraeli

#6. No man can die unless Jesus opens the mystic door of death.

J.C. Ryle

#7. Of course she teased the girls, but it was not the same as having a grown man to work on - she had often felt like pinching Bob for being so stolid. July was no better - in fact, he and Bob were cut from the same mold, a strong but unimaginative mold.

Larry McMurtry

#8. But she knew that her father's presence at the table with a man who spewed filth from his mouth - did that make it less filthy? No. it condoned.

Harper Lee

#9. He no longer heard Kellhus speak so much as observed him cut and carve, whittle and hew, as though the man had somehow shattered the glass of language and fashioned knives from the pieces.

R. Scott Bakker

#10. The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.

Daisy Bates

#11. There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire." Atticus

Harper Lee

#12. No man shall be blamed in the maintenance of his own religion.

Thomas More

#13. No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions, not for glory, not for fame. For one person, in the dark where no one will ever know or see.

J. Michael Straczynski

#14. And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

Walt Whitman

#15. No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.

Albrecht Durer

#16. Even when I did my Broadway show, I did 15 minutes no one had seen before, because that was the night that Michael Jackson protested about Al Sharpton bailing on him. I said, "Wow, if that man bails on you, this must be really a lost cause."

Robin Williams

#17. If any man is able to convince me and show me that I do not think or act right, I will gladly change; for I seek the truth by which no man was ever injured. But he is injured who abides in his error and ignorance.

Marcus Aurelius

#18. No man who worships education has got the best out of education ... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

G.K. Chesterton

#19. Love is wonderful. Hate is not. Man seeks woman to love. They do not when they hate. What makes this so? Perhaps no one knows. Man will continue to love and hate.

Lao Chang

#20. Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

Saint Augustine

#21. No man can have a 'yellow streak' and last. He must pay much attention to his nerves or temperament. He must hide every flaw.

Christy Mathewson

#22. I don't care what you write man, just make sure you make us sound sexy. Say that we looked like we'd just come from the beach and that our bodies were glistening. Say we got no hair on our chests. Anything so the girls will like us.

Nathan Followill

#23. I'm no' a good man.

Donna Grant

#24. If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest.

William Kingdon Clifford

#25. You can't take no Chinese man and give him no Puerto Rican woman and talking like they're in love and emotionally in love and physically.

Muhammad Ali

#26. It's no such thing! she said. It's friendship! And if you're a man who can't tell friendship from charity, then you're to be pitied!

Bette Lee Crosby

#27. Let us inquire what glory there was in an omnipotent being torturing forever a puny little creature who could in no way defend himself? Would it be to the glory of a man to fry ants?

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#28. I'm not a conventional leading man at all and have no wish to be.

Tim Curry

#29. I've come to believe that the most dangerous man in the world is the one who feels no remorse. The one who never apologizes and therefore seeks no forgiveness. Because in the end it is our emotions that make us week, not our actions.

Tahereh Mafi

#30. No man can be a Christian by knowingly and willfully taking Christ on the installment plan, as Savior now, and Lord later.

Vance Havner

#31. Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#32. There is no beast more cruel than man.

Leonid Andreyev

#33. No man is ever just one thing.

Michael Scott

#34. Consider the stars. Among them are no passions, no wars. They know neither love nor hatred. Did man but emulate the stars, would not his soul become clear and radiant as they are? But man's spirit draws him like a moth to the ephemera of this world, and in their heat he is consumed entire.

Sarah Monette

#35. I don't know where you'll find her, or what mindset she'll have, but I know one thing with unwavering certainty - that girl loves you like no woman has ever loved a man in the history of the world. She called you her heart. And I believed her.

Jewel E. Ann

#36. What I have written is but a fleeting intimation of the outside of what one man sees and may tell about the path he walks. No one shares the secret of a life; no one enters into the heart of the mystery.

Howard Thurman

#37. Comedy is a man in trouble. And without it, there's no humor.

Jerry Lewis

#38. His blood is bad. He needs to be leeched. The leeches suck away the bad blood, all the rage and pain. No man can think so full of anger.

George R R Martin

#39. Let man keep his many parts and you'll have no tyrant states.

Ralph Ellison

#40. My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades.

Charles Dickens

#41. A man who possesses a veneration of life will not simply say his prayers. He will throw himself into the battle to preserve life, if for no other reason than that he himself is an extension of life around him.

Albert Schweitzer

#42. There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#43. The Irish tell the story of a man who arrives at the gates of heaven and asks to be let in St. Peter says, "Of course, just show us your scars." The man says, "I have no scars". St. Peter says, "What a pity was there nothing worth fighting for"?

Martin Sheen

#44. No man will revel long in the indulgence of crime.

Decimius Magnus Ausonius

#45. Only those works which are well-written will pass to posterity: the amount of knowledge, the uniqueness of the facts, even the novelty of the discoveries are no guarantees of immortality ... These things are exterior to a man but style is the man himself.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

#46. Some live in poverty but with their honor; some live in wealth but with no honor! Some lives are respectable, some are disgraceful!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#47. No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#48. There is no value-judgment more important to a man
no factor more decisive in his psychological development and motivation
than the estimate he passes on himself.

Nathaniel Branden

#49. Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence behind him, the new generations have all to learn. There may possibly be books without a polished language, but there can be no polished language without books.

Samuel Johnson

#50. I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes

Sophocles

#51. The key to holding a logical argument or debate is to allow oneself to understand the other person's argument no matter how divergent their views may seem.

Auliq Ice

#52. Beware of the man who has no enemies.

Edward Abbey

#53. A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions, and no matter what his pretensions in religion, he moves in daily life very close to the animal plane.

David O. McKay

#54. There is no worse flaw in man's character than that of wanting to belong.

David Adams Richards

#55. I ain't no perfect man I'm tryna do the best that I can with what it is I have.

Mos Def

#56. A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.

Henry Fielding

#57. When a man accepts that he will no doubt die, he is free to live.

M. Glenn Taylor

#58. 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

#59. No normal man ever fell in love after thirty when the kidneys begin to disintegrate.

H.L. Mencken

#60. A man who has the knowledge but lacks the power clearly to express it is no better off than if he never had any ideas at all.

Thucydides

#61. The idolatry the exists in a man's heart always wants to lead him away from his Savior and back to self-reliance no matter how pitiful that self-reliance is or how many times it has betrayed him.

Matt Chandler

#62. While no man in his right mind would advocate sending our ground forces into continental China, and such was never given a thought, the new situation did urgently demand a drastic revision of strategic planning if our political aim was to defeat this new enemy as we had defeated the old.

Douglas MacArthur

#63. My dark prince. The reaper. The man who spilled blood for me without pause. For that reason alone he'll always be on a pedestal that no other can reach. He'll always be the memory I revisit in my darkest of times.

A. Zavarelli

#64. I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.

Agnes Smedley

#65. The town cares for devil's work no more than it cares for God's or man's. It knew darkness. And darkness was enough.

Stephen King

#66. He dressed quickly in silence, refusing her tissues. He shakily pulled a wad of uncounted notes from his wallet, abandoned them in the no man's land between, and escaped in an indecent haste, leaving the shameful tableau in his wake.

Darren White

#67. I dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte.

Don King

#68. no
it won't
be love at
first sight when
we meet it'll be love
at first remembrance cause
i've seen you in my mother's eyes
when she tells me to marry the type
of man i'd want to raise my son to be like

Rupi Kaur

#69. Chosen to hold; and therefore they are of our own ordering; and therefore there is perfect justice in the universe. No suffering for another man's original sin, but the reaping of a harvest that we ourselves have sown. We have free will, but our free will lies in our choice of thought.

Emmet Fox

#70. Put simply the novel stands between us and the hardening concept of statistical man. There is no other medium in which we can live for so long and so intimately with a character. That is the service a novel renders.

William Golding

#71. If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?

Ken Robinson

#72. She sensed it, saw my eyes wet with tears, and only then must have discovered I was no longer the man I had been, and I endured her glance with a courage I never thought I had.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#73. I often said that never in the history of the world did one man receive so much faith and trust as Hitler. Similary, no one has ever betrayed so many people and abused so much good faith as he did.

Hans Fritzsche

#74. Let no man grumble when his friends fall off, As they will do like leaves at the first breeze; When your affairs come round, one way or t'other, Go to the coffee house, and take another.

Lord Byron

#75. I don't consider myself no attractive man. People like Tom Jones and Elvis Presley - I'm not nothing like that.

Muhammad Ali

#76. I have never found any who prayed so well as those who had never been taught how. They who have no master in man, have one in the Holy Spirit.

Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon

#77. The young man, who intends no ill,
Believes that none is intended, and therefore
Acts with openness and candor: but his father, having suffered the injuries of fraud, is impelled to suspect, and too often allured to practice it.

Samuel Johnson

#78. As if a man's soul were not too small to begin with, they have dwarfed an narrowed theirs by a life of all work and no play; until here they are at forty, with a listless attention, a mind vacant of all material of amusement, and not one thought to rub against another, while they wait for the train.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#79. No one knew who he was. No one knew where he came from. He'd become Kaz Brekker, cripple and confidence man, bastard of the Barrel. The

Leigh Bardugo

#80. In my line of work every man wears exactly one outfit khakis, a late night with Jimmy Fallon t-shirt, and a hooded sweatshirt. If you don't people think you're a scientologist and no one will eat lunch with you.

Mindy Kaling

#81. No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.

Jorge Luis Borges

#82. A man who broods on evil is as bad a man who does evil, if he is no worse.

Mahatma Gandhi

#83. It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#84. Confucious and the Madman (excerpt)

The cinnamon tree is edible: so it is cut down!
The lacquer tree is profitable: they maim it.
Every man knows how useful it is to be useful.
No one seems to know
How useful it is to be useless.

Thomas Merton

#85. Integrity is the value we set on ourselves. It is a fulfillment of the duty we owe ourselves. An honorable man or woman will personally commit to live up to certain self-imposed expectations. They need no outside check or control. They are honorable in their inner core.

James E. Faust

#86. Kepler reportedly said, amid the massacres of religious wars, the laws of elliptical motion belong to no man or principality.'17 The same could be said of music.

John Eliot Gardiner

#87. A man today has to live with the reality of today. He can no longer live with the reality of 100 years ago. The world's changing so fast. Unless you are prepared to adapt every day, then you have a problem, because the world's not stopping.

Mario Testino

#88. No young man ever thinks he shall die.

William Hazlitt

#89. A man's life breath cannot come back again
no raiders in force, no trading brings it back,
once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.

Homer

#90. People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction.

Cecilia Bartoli

#91. No man has the right to bring up children without surrounding them with books.

Horace Mann

#92. There has been no day like it before or since, when the LORD listened to the voice of a man, because the LORD fought for Israel. Joshua 10:14

Beth Moore

#93. Many of you have asked why it's taken me so long to select a running mate. I have no intention of reaching into the political grab bag and grabbing any man to be my running mate. I'm going to reach in and grab a woman!

Pat Paulsen

#94. anarchy should have no place in the life of man or of the beasts who are subject to man.

Plato

#95. Just as the world war is no white man's war, but every man's war, so is the struggle for woman suffrage no white woman's struggle, but every woman's struggle.

Carrie Chapman Catt

#96. Marriage is like war - an experience that no adventurous man would evade, and no sensible man repeat.

Ursula Parrott

#97. I hate metaphors. That's why my favorite book is Moby Dick. No frou-frou symbolism. Just a good, simple tale about a man who hates an animal.

Ron Swanson

#98. A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

#99. And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! - But the great Faith is Love!

Arthur Rimbaud

#100. A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.

Jane Austen

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