No Man Quotes

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page

A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.

Reform keeps many scores of newspapers in its service, but not one man.

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter

All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.

That which we call wit consists much in quickness and tricks, and is so full of lightness that it seldom goes with judgment and solidity; but when they do meet, it is commonly in an honest man.

I consider an intimate knowledge of the Bible an indispensable quality of a well educated man.

Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.

One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity.

One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word.

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.

Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

Rudeness is the weak man's limitation of strength.

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year.

Don't forget honey. Never let one man worry your mind. Find 'em, fool 'em and forget 'em.

A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else.

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.

The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.

Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him.

Man has not really vanquished Shamanism and its spooks till he possesses the strength to lay aside not only the belief in ghosts or in spirits, but also the belief in the spirit.

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

So here I am - a 75-year-old man sitting on a bar stool in a blues club, trying to figure out exactly how I got here. Any way you look at it, it's a helluva story.

It is sometimes possible to change the attitudes of millions but impossible to change the attitude of one man.

I bequeath all my property to my wife on the condition that she remarry immediately. Then there will be at least one man to regret my death.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.

We are not the worst moments of our lives. Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking.

A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.

There was an Old Man of Messina, Whose daughter was named Opsibeena; She wore a small wig, and rode out on a pig, To the perfect delight of Messina.

Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.

A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.