Every man is nearest himself…

  • Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit. ~ W. Clement Stone
  • Every man after his fashion. ~ Traditional Proverb
  • Every man assumes the colors of his surroundings. ~ Chinese Proverb
  • Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are. ~ Philip Dormer Stanhope
  • Every man believes that he has greater possibilities. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Every man dies. Not every man really lives. ~ Brave Heart Movie
  • Every man for himself and God for us all. ~ Spanish Proverb
  • Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost. ~ Traditional Proverb
  • Every man forges his own destiny. ~ Latvian Proverb
  • Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away. ~ Persian Proverb
  • Every man has a fool up his sleeve. ~ United States Proverb
  • Every man has a mission from God to help his fellow beings. ~ James Gibbons
  • Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. ~ John Locke
  • Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him. ~ Jean Paul Richter
  • Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
  • Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test. ~ Samuel Johnson
  • Every man has a sane spot somewhere. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Every man has one black patch, and some have two. ~ United States Proverb
  • Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else. ~ William Saroyan
  • Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Every man is a fool in some man’s opinion. ~ Spanish Proverb
  • Every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts. ~ The Holy Bible
  • Every man is a prince in his own bed. ~ Malawian Proverb
  • Every man is a volume if you know how to read him. ~ William Ellery Channing
  • Every man is a whole volume, just dying to be read. ~ Author Unknown
  • Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse. ~ Miguel De Cervantes
  • Every man is his own ancestor and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past. ~ Francis Herbert Hedge
  • Every man is his own chief enemy. ~ Anacharsis
  • Every man is his own worst enemy. ~ Traditional Proverb
  • Every man is like the company he is wont to keep. ~ Euripides
  • Every man is occasionally what he ought to be perpetually. ~ American Proverb
  • Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. ~ Abraham Lincoln
  • Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. ~ Jane Austen
  • Every man is the guardian of his own honor. ~ Indian Proverb
  • Every man is the king of his own beard. ~ Iranian Proverb
  • Every man is the son of his own works. ~ Miguel De Cervantes
  • Every man knows that he must die, but no one believes it. ~ Yiddish Proverb
  • Every man likes the smell of his own farts. ~ Icelandic Proverb
  • Every man loves what he is good at. ~ Thomas Shadwell
  • Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home. ~ Boethius
  • Every man must get to Heaven his own way. ~ Frederick the Great
  • Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph. ~ Iris Murdoch
  • Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away. ~ Sextus Propertius
  • Every man over forty is a scoundrel. ~ George Bernard Shaw
  • Every man over forty is responsible for his face. ~ Abraham Lincoln
  • Every man paddles his own canoe. ~ Frederick Marryat
  • Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord. ~ The Holy Bible
  • Every man should make up his mind that if he expects to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man’s dollar. ~ Edward H. Harriman
  • Every man stamps his value on himself… man is made great or small by its own will. ~ Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
  • Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is. ~ Jean Anouilh
  • Every man thinks his own thoughts are best. ~ Afghan Proverb
  • Every man to his taste, as the man said when he kissed his cow. ~ Scottish Proverb
  • Every man to his trade. ~ Traditional Proverb
  • Every man treats himself as society treats the criminal. ~ Harvey Fergusson
  • Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts and his higher nature — and another woman to help him forget them. ~ Helen Rowland
  • Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not. ~ William James
  • Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts. ~ Ellen Gould White
  • Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service. ~ Leslie Stephen
  • Every man wishes to rule the world. Unfortunately, the world rules every man. ~ Jeremy P. Johnson
  • Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life. ~ Titus Maccius Plautus
  • Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day. ~ Brendan Francis
  • Every poor man has a dry throat and wet boots. ~ Yiddish Proverb
  • Every smart man is an ignoramus who abuses his ignorance. ~ Cameroonian Proverb
  • Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them…~ Edgar Watson Howe
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