"No Man" expressions

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one_raven

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What different "No Man" expressions do you know?

For example:

Time and Tide wait for no man.
No man is an island.
 
To boldly go where no man has gone before

No man's land

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends

Trust no man even your own brother Whose hair is one color and beard another
 
"Is this yours?"
"No man, never seen it before"
 
Sam,

Where do these come from?

S.A.M. said:
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends

Trust no man even your own brother Whose hair is one color and beard another
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The first one is in the bible, I think; the second one is something I remember reading. I thought it was funny because I know this guy who colours his white beard with henna. So it stuck with me.

edit: the first one is gospel of John 15:13
 
What God has brought together let no man put asunder.

(not really an expression, but....and for those who do not recognize it, it's from the Christian wedding ceremony. But it would make a rather important general rule. I mean think of chemists, miners, farmers and all the other professions where what God has brought together men put asunder. ((and women, too)))
 
In the meadow we can build a snowman,
Then pretend that he is Parson Brown.
He'll say 'Are You Married?' We'll say "No man"-
But you can do the job, when you're in town
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The Sun went down

No Man looked on

The Earth and I, alone,
Were present at the Majesty
He triumphed, and went on

The Sun went up

No Man looked on

The Earth and I and One
A nameless Bird, a Stranger
Were Witness for the Crown
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No Man can compass a Despair
As round a Goalless Road
No faster than a Mile at once
The Traveller proceed

Unconscious of the Width
Unconscious that the Sun
Be setting on His progress
So accurate the One

At estimating Pain
Whose own
Has just begun
His ignorance The Angel
That pilots Him along
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-Emily Dickinson​
 
No Man's Land is an eerie sight
At early dawn in the pale gray light.
Never a house and never a hedge
In No Man's Land from edge to edge,
And never a living soul walks there
To taste the fresh of the morning air;
Only some lumps of rotting clay,
That were friends or foemen yesterday.

What are the bounds of No Man's Land?
You can see them clearly on either hand,
A mound of rag-bags gray in the sun,
Or a furrow of brown where the earthworks run
From the eastern hills to the western sea,
Through field or forest o'er river and lea;
No man may pass them, but aim you well
And Death rides across on the bullet or shell.

But No Man's Land is a goblin sight
When patrols crawl over at dead o' night;
Boche or British, Belgian or French,
You dice with death when you cross the trench.
When the "rapid," like fireflies in the dark,
Flits down the parapet spark by spark,
And you drop for cover to keep your head
With your face on the breast of the four months' dead.

The man who ranges in No Man's Land
Is dogged by the shadows on either hand
When the star-shell's flare, as it bursts o'erhead,
Scares the gray rats that feed on the dead,
And the bursting bomb or the bayonet-snatch
May answer the click of your safety-catch,
For the lone patrol, with his life in his hand,
Is hunting for blood in No Man's Land.
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- James H. Knight-Adkin​
 
No man ever listened himself out of a job.

No man may know the hour or the day.....(can't remember the rest)

Call no man happy until he dies.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends'
 
Hey,
I thought of that. But apart from the 'woman', it is not really a saying, it is an imperative sentence. It does not describe, it tells someone to (not) do something.
 
Its the only one I could think of. Clearly, we need to make up some more
 
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