• N.B. Fear itself. See also H. D. Thoreau. by Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • N.B. This quotation is a paraphrase of a much older quote by Aristotle, which see. by Shaquille ONeal
  • N.B. This quote refers to the British disarmament of the Indian Army. Gandhi never advocated the individual right to bear arms. by Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nagging questions remain Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable Where is the line between education as a tool and education as a kind of magic The line is blurred and that is why when education fails, disillusionment is so bitter. by Henry Anatole Grunwald
  • Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies. by Thomas Love Peacock
  • Nancy Reagan fell down and broke her hair. by Johnny Carson
  • Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. by Mary Ellen Kelly
  • Natural abilities are like natural plants they need pruning by study. by Francis Bacon
  • Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. by Cicero
  • Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. by Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. by Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Naturally intelligent people are like lumps of coal. Eventually, we turn into diamonds, And the people we once envied, turn into coal. by Kevin R. Hutson
  • Naturally, we cannot say much about the spiritual body, because we cannot imagine what it would be like to have a spiritual body different from that which we now inhabit but it seems to me reasonable to believe that we are weaving our spiritual bodies as we go along. by William R. Matthews
  • Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. (You may drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.) by Horace
  • Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed by Solomon Short
  • Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled. by Henry David Thoreau
  • Nature does not give to those who will not spend. by R. J. Baughan
  • Nature does not loathe virtue it is unaware of its existence. by Franoise Mallet-Joris
  • Nature does not proceed by leaps. by Linnaeus
  • Nature does nothing uselessly. by Aristotle
  • Nature gave men two ends -- one to sit on, and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. by Robert Albert Bloch
  • Nature has perfection, in order to show that she is the image of God and defects, to show that she is only his image. by Blaise Pascal
  • Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly. by Quintilian
  • Nature herself makes the wise man rich. by Cicero
  • Nature is God's greatest evangelist. by Johathan Edwards
  • Nature is just enough but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions. by Antoinette Brown Blackwell
  • Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom only in men's souls. by Adlai Ewing Stevenson
  • Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous -- indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose. by Richard Dawkins
  • Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere. by Brigham Young
  • Nature is wont to hide herself. by Heraclitus
  • Nature loves a burst of energy. by Boe Lightman
  • Nature made him, and then broke the mold. by Ludovico Ariosto
  • Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature never did betray The heart that loved her. by William Wordsworth
  • Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it. by Archibald Alexander
  • Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another. by Juvenal
  • Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in our lives. by Mary Ann Brussat
  • Nature provides exceptions to every rule. by Margaret Fuller
  • Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. by John Burroughs
  • Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man. by Johann von Goethe
  • Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Nature uses as little as possible of anything. by Alan Bleasdale
  • Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. by Henry David Thoreau
  • Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. by Francis Bacon
  • Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice. by Henry David Thoreau
  • Nay, tempt me not to love again There was a time when love was sweet Dear Nea had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet But oh this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one Would I endure such pangs again. by Sir Thomas More
  • Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires and likewise a weighing of relative social values. by Louis D. Brandeis
  • Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to. by J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. by Abraham Lincoln
  • Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses. by Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molire
  • Necessity has no law. by William Langland
  • Necessity is the mother of invention. by Anon.
  • Necessity is the mother of taking chances. by Mark Twain
  • Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants it is the creed of slaves. by William Pitt
  • Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die. by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
  • Negative thinking is always expensive--dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically--hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury. by Peter McWilliams
  • Neither a borrower nor a lender be For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. by William Shakespeare
  • Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. by Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  • Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. by Dwight D Eisenhower
  • Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language. by Cicero
  • Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. by Buddha
  • Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that. by Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire
  • Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies. by 1 Timothy 14 Bible New Testament
  • Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea. by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. by Herodotus
  • Neo I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid... afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules or controls, borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you. by Matrix, The
  • Neo Mr. Wizard. Get me the hell out of here. by Matrix, The
  • Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law. by Dr. Karl Menninger
  • Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them. by Rita Rudner
  • Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry. by Danish proverb
  • Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry. by Spanish Proverb
  • Never answer a hypothetical question. by Moshe Arens
  • Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth. by Benjamin Disraeli
  • Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own. by John M. Barrie
  • Never assume, for it makes an ASS out of U and ME. by Anon.
  • Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. by Nick Diamos
  • Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost. by Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil. by Vachel Lindsay
  • Never be afraid to sit awhile and think. by Lorraine Hansberry
  • Never be afraid to try something new remember amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic. by Unknown
  • Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life define yourself. by Harvey Fierstein
  • Never be entirely idle but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good. by Thomas a Kempis
  • Never be haughty to the humble never be humble to the haughty. by Jefferson Davis
  • Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. by Edward Everett Hale
  • Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much. by Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  • Never believe anything until it has been officially denied. by Claud Cockburn
  • Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have. by Margaret Mead
  • Never break your putter and your driver in the same round or you're dead. by Tommy Bolt
  • Never call an accountant a credit to his profession a good accountant is a debit to his profession. by Charles J. C. Lyall
  • Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. by Lyman Beecher
  • Never complain about growing old, Because so many never get the chance by Unknown
  • Never complain and never explain. by Benjamin Disraeli
  • Never confuse movement with action. by Ernest Hemingway
  • Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose. by Baltasar Gracian
  • Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined. by Rodan of Alexandria
  • Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined. by Johnny Carson
  • Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins. by American Indian Proverb
  • Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. by Dr. Robert Schuller
  • Never cut what you can untie. by Jeseph Joubert
  • Never deprive someone of hope -- it may be all they have. by Unknown
  • Never deprive someone of hope it might be all they have. by H. Jackson Jr. Brown
  • Never despair but if you do, work on in despair. by Edmund Burke
  • Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. by Plato
  • Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down. by Chinese Proverb
  • Never do anything that you aren't prepared to face the true consequences of. by Dr. Laura Schlessinger
  • Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong. by Baltasar Gracian
  • Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do. by Dawson Trottman
  • Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done. by Aaron Burr
  • Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive injury. by Edwin Hubbel Chapin
  • Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. by Margaret Mead
  • Never eat more than you can lift. by Miss Piggy
  • Never enter into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another. by Thomas Jefferson
  • Never esteem anything as an advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. by Marcus Aelius Aurelius
  • Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. by Henry Adams
  • Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
  • Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that. by Francis Bacon
  • Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. by Elbert Hubbard
  • Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger a miracle may not save you...and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit. by The Talmud
  • Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. by Niels Henrik David Bohr
  • Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. by Niels Bohr
  • Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody. by Helen Gurley Brown
  • Never fall out with your bread and butter. by English Proverb
  • Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment. by Thomas Jefferson
  • Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self. by Millicent Fenwick
  • Never fight an inanimate object. by P. J. O'Rourke
  • Never find your delight in another's misfortune. by Publilius Syrus
  • Never follow somebody else's path it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone...the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way. by J. Michael Straczynski
  • Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle. by Annie Besant
  • Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. by Henry Ward Beecher
  • Never frown, even when you're sad, because you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile. by Unknown
  • Never get a mime talking. He won't stop. by Marcel Marceau
  • Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people. by Mario Puzo
  • Never give a child a sword. by Latin Proverb
  • Never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there. by Mickey Friedman
  • Never give advice in a crowd. by Arab Proverb
  • Never give advice unless asked. by German proverb
  • Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
  • Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. by Sir Winston Churchill
  • Never give up on anybody. by Hubert Humphrey
  • Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. by Harriet
  • Never give up. If you want to be something, be conceited about it, give yourself a chance. Never say you are not good, that will never get you anywhere. Set goals, That's what life is made of. by Mike McLaren
  • Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you. by Calvin Coolidge
  • Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. by Erma Bombeck
  • Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. by Phyllis Diller
  • Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide. by Cicero
  • Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be. by Clementine Paddleford
  • Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight. by Mencius
  • Never hate your enemies, it affects you judgment. by Michael Corleone
  • Never have children, only grandchildren. by Gore Vidal
  • Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed. by Maria Montessori
  • Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom. by Dee W. Hock
  • Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room. by Sir Winston Churchill
  • Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. by Sir Winston Churchill
  • Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
  • Never injure a friend, even in jest. by Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. by Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Never invest in anything that eats or needs repainting. by Billy Rose
  • Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much. by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
  • Never judge a book by its movie. by J. W. Eagan
  • Never judge someone by who he's in love with judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals. by Cynthia Heimel
  • Never judge someone till you've walked a mile in their shoes, cause then you're a mile away and you've got their shoes. by Unknown
  • Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. by Quentin Crisp
  • Never knock on Death's door ring the bell and run away Death really hates that by Matt Frewer
  • Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. by Benjamin Franklin
  • Never let a beautiful woman pick your path for you when there is a man in her line of sight. by Terry Goodkind
  • Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved. by Barbara Johnson
  • Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition. by Terry Josephson
  • Never let people see the bottom of your purse or of your mind. by Italian Proverb
  • Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. by Babe Ruth
  • Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
  • Never let the odds keep you from pursuing What you know in your heart you were meant to do. by Leroy Robert Satchel Paige
  • Never let yesterday use up too much of today. by Will Rogers
  • Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly. by H.L. Mencken
  • Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance. by Anthony D'Angelo
  • Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. by Isaac Asimov
  • Never look a gift horse in the mouth. by Saint Jerome
  • Never look down on anybody unless you helping him up. by Jesse Jackson
  • Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road. by Dag Hammarskjld
  • Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last. by Miguel de Cervantes
  • Never lose hope. by Unknown
  • Never lose sight of the importance of a beautiful sunrise, Or watching your kids sleep, or the smell of rain. It's often the little things that really matter in life. by Unknown
  • Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement. by Johann Georg von Zimmermann
  • Never love anything that can't love you back. by Bruce Williams
  • Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused. by King Charles I
  • Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. by H. Jackson Brown Jr.
  • Never marry but for love but see that thou lovest what is lovely. by William Penn
  • Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. by Dag Hammarskjld
  • Never miss a chance to keep your mouth shut. by Robert Newton Peck
  • Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life. by Sandra Carey
  • Never mistake motion for action. by Ernest Hemingway
  • Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. by Sam Brown
  • Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life. by Jean Paul Richter
  • Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own. by Nelson Algren
  • Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. by Alan Watts
  • Never promise more than you can perform. by Publilius Syrus
  • Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today. by Aldous Huxley
  • Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. by Mark Twain
  • Never raise your hand to your children it leaves your midsection unprotected. by Robert Orben
  • Never read a book that is not a year old. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Never read a book through merely because you have begun it. by John Witherspoon
  • Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you. by Madame de Tencin
  • Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later works belong. by Albert Einstein
  • Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience. by Victoria Holt
  • Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law. by Japanese Proverb
  • Never ruin an apology with an excuse. by Kimberly Johnson
  • Never say anything to hurt anyone. Moreover . . . refrain from double talk, from shrewd and canny remarks that are designed to advance our interests at someone's disadvantage. We are to turn our back upon evil, and in every way possible, do good, help people and bring blessings into their lives. by Norman Vincent Peale
  • Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it. by Gloria Swanson
  • Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it. by Gloria Swanson
  • Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain. by Euripides
  • Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. by Lord Chesterfield
  • Never shall I forget the times I spent with you continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours. by Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Never solve a problem from its original perspective. by Charles Thompson
  • Never speak more clearly than you think. by Jeremy Bernstein
  • Never spend your money before you have it. by Thomas Jefferson
  • Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn. by Miguel de Cervantes
  • Never stop learning knowledge doubles every fourteen months. by Anthony D'Angelo
  • Never take counsel of your fears. by General Thomas Jonathon Stonewall Jackson
  • Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble. by Sydney J. Harris
  • Never tell a man you can read him through and through most people prefer to be thought enigmas. by Marchioness Townsend
  • Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself, 'Why should I tell it' by Johann K. Lavater
  • Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. by George S. Patton
  • Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what you want them to achieve, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. by George Smith Patton, Jr.
  • Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on hold fast hold out. Patience is genius. by George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
  • Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on hold fast hold out. Patience is genius. by Comte de Buffon
  • Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning. by Anthony Trollope
  • Never to suffer would never to have been blessed. by Edgar Allan Poe
  • Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself. by Thomas Jefferson
  • Never trouble trouble until trouble troubles you. by American Proverb
  • Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window. by Steve Wozniak
  • Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody. by John Collins
  • Never trust anybody who says 'trust me.' Except just this once, of course. - from Steel Beach by John Varley
  • Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion. by Eubie
  • Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain. by J. K. Rowling
  • Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. by Aesop
  • Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys. by Jewish Proverb
  • Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out. by Sydney Smith
  • Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig. by Saying Folk
  • Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time. by Norman Ford
  • Never utter these words 'I do not know this, therefore it is false.' One must study to know know to understand understand to judge. by Apothegm of Narda
  • Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. by Theodore Parker
  • Never write a letter while you are angry. by Chinese Proverb
  • Never, for fear of feeble man, restrain your witness. by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  • Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible. by Pearl Bailey
  • Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible. by Richard Jefferies
  • Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. by Sir Winston Churchill
  • Never, Never, Never Say NEVER by Gary Thadani
  • Never... ever suggest they don't have to pay you. What they pay for, they'll value. What they get for free, they'll take for granted, and then demand as a right. Hold them up for all the market will bear. by Lois McMaster Bujold
  • New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology. by Robert E. Kahn
  • New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become. by Kurt Vonnegut
  • New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. by John Locke
  • New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move. by David Letterman
  • News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day. by Gene Fowler
  • Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits. by Stephen Leacock
  • Next in importance to Freedom and Justice is popular education, without which neither Freedom nor Justice can be permanently maintained. by James Abram Garfield
  • Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. by James A. Garfield
  • Next time I will ... From now on I will ... What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow by Hugh Prather
  • Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage. by Benjamin Disraeli
  • Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor. by Eric Sevareid
  • Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in. by Evan Davis
  • Nice guys finish last. by Leo Durocher
  • Nice to be here At my age it's nice to be anywhere. by George Burns
  • Nicky A lot of holes in the desert, and a lot of problems are buried in those holes. But you gotta do it right. I mean, you gotta have the hole already dug before you show up with a package in the trunk. Otherwise, you're talking about a half-hour to forty-five minutes worth of digging. And who knows who's gonna come along in that time Pretty soon, you gotta dig a few more holes. You could be there all f***in' night. by Casino
  • Nicky I think in all fairness, I should explain to you exactly what it is that I do. For instance tomorrow morning ill get up nice and early, take a walk down over to the bank and... walk in and see and uh... if you don't have my money for me, I'll... crack your f***in' head wide-open in front of everybody in the bank. And just about the time I'm comin' out of jail, hopefully, you'll be coming out of your coma. And guess what I'll split your f***in' head open again. 'Cause I'm f***in' stupid. I don't give a f*** about jail. That's my business. That's what I do. by Casino
  • Niether a borrower nor a lender be. by William Shakespeare
  • Nigel It's like, how much more black could this be and the answer is none. None more black. by This Is Spinal Tap
  • Nigel You know, just simple lines intertwining, you know, very much like - I'm really influenced by Mozart and Bach, and it's sort of in between those, really. It's like a Mach piece, really. It's sort of - Marty What do you call this Nigel Well, this piece is called Lick My Love Pump. by This Is Spinal Tap
  • Nightcrawler You know, outside the circus, most people were afraid of me. But I didn't hated them. I pitied them. Do you know why Because most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes. by X2 X-Men United
  • Nihilism is best done by professionals. by Iggy Pop
  • Nineties style isn't. by David Borenstein
  • Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them. by Lily Tomlin
  • Ninety percent of everything is crap. by Theodore Sturgeon
  • Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. by Henry Kissinger
  • Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. by George Washington Carver
  • Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. by Thornton
  • Ninety-nine percent of this game is half mental. by Lawrence Peter Berra
  • Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. by Rabindranath Tagore
  • Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love. by M Scott Peck
  • Nixon bleeds people. He draws every drop of blood and then drops them from a cliff. He'll blame any person he can put his foot on. by Martha Mitchell
  • Nixon had three goals to win by the biggest electoral landslide in history to be remembered as a peacemaker and to be accepted by the 'Establishment' as an equal. He achieved all these objectives at the end of 1972 and the beginning of 1973. And he lost them all two months later-partly because he turned a dream into an obsession. by Henry Kissinger
  • Nixon is a shifty-eyed goddamn liar. . . . .He's one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides. by Harry S Truman
  • No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. by Aesop
  • No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals. by Henry P. Fairchild
  • No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong. by Albert Einstein
  • No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one. by Archibald Wavell
  • No amount of travel on the wrong road will bring you to the right destination. by Ben Gaye, III
  • No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. by Fran Lebowitz
  • No answer is also an answer. by German proverb
  • No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come. by Victor Hugo
  • No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. by Ronald Reagan
  • No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow. by Saint Jerome
  • No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage. by Plutarch
  • No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. by William Blake
  • No birth certificate is issued when friendship is born. There is nothing tangible. There is just a feeling that your life is different and that your capacity to love and care has miraculously been enlarged with out any effort on your part. It's like having a tiny apartment and somebody moves in with you. But instead of becoming cramped and crowded, the space expands, and you discover rooms you never knew you had until your friend moved in with you. by Steve Tesich
  • No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems. by Anna Garlin Spencer
  • No business which depends for its existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level--I mean the wages of decent living. by Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  • No call alligator long mouth till you pass him. by Jamaican Proverb
  • No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt. by Robert H Bork
  • No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread. by Robert Burton
  • No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive. by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
  • No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim. by Boris Pasternak
  • No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating. by Harold Rosenberg
  • No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free. by J. Michael Straczynski
  • No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are throughout persuaded of each other's worth. by Robert Southey
  • No doubt there are other important things in life besides conflict, but there are not many other things so inevitably interesting. The very saints interest us most when we think of them as enganged in a conflict with the Devil. by Robert Lynd
  • No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution. by Niccolo Machiavelli
  • No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. by Richard Milhous Nixon
  • No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. by Plato
  • No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us. by Seneca
  • No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • No facts are to me sacred none are profane I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries. by Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • No foreign policy-no matter how ingenious-has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none. by Henry Kissinger
  • No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul. by Ingrid Bergman
  • No form of Nature is inferior to Art for the arts merely imitate natural forms. by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
  • No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. by Thomas Jefferson
  • No good deed goes unpunished. by Clare Booth Luce
  • No good plan survives contact with the enemy. by Unknown
  • No good workman without good tools. by Thomas Fuller
  • No government can be long secure without formidable opposition. by Benjamin Disraeli
  • No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will. by Thomas Jefferson
  • No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk-handsome, twentytwoyearold. by Vladimir Mayakovsky
  • No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty. by Leon Wieseltier
  • No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. by Thomas Carlyle
  • No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. by Epictetus
  • No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him. by Herbert Clark Hoover
  • No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days. by Titus Maccius Plautus
  • No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations. by Cornelius Tacitus
  • No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. by Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragment, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. by Alan Marshall Beck
  • No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish. by John Ruskin
  • No human thing is of serious importance. by Plato
  • No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated. by Ellen Glasgow
  • No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start. by Larry McMurtry
  • No important institution is ever merely what the law makes it. It accumulates about itself traditions, conventions, ways of behaviour, which are not less formidable in their influence. by Harold Laki
  • No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable. by Marquis de Sade
  • No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself and what he possesses else he lives precariously, and at discretion. by James Burgh
  • No legacy is so rich as honesty. by William Shakespeare
  • No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. by Ellen Glasgow
  • No longer forward nor behindI look in hope or fearBut, grateful, take the good I findThe best of now and here. by John Greenleaf Whittier
  • No love, no friendship Can cross the path of our destiny Without leaving some mark on it forever. by Francois Mauriac
  • No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver. by Kahlil Gibran
  • No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot. by George Bernard Shaw
  • No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books. by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy. by Thomas Fuller
  • No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy. by Sigmund Freud
  • No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy. by F Scott
  • No man can discover his own talents. by Brendan Francis
  • No man can know God unless God has taught him that is to say, that without God, God cannot be known. by Iranaeus
  • No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. by Frederick Douglas
  • No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence. by Woodrow Wilson
  • No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched. by George Jean Nathan
  • No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. by Mary Wollstonecraft
  • No man deserves punishment for his thoughts. by Anonymous
  • No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it. by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • No man ever became wise by chance. by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • No man ever listened himself out of a job. by Calvin Coolidge
  • No man ever quite believes in any other man. by Henry Louis Mencken
  • No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another. by George Bernard Shaw
  • No man has a right in America to treat any other man tolerantly, for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. by Wendell Willkie
  • No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit. by Ansel Adams
  • No man is a failure who is enjoying life. by William Faulkner
  • No man is above the law and no man below it. by Theodore Roosevelt
  • No man is an Island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls It tolls for thee. by John Donne
  • No man is an island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the continent. by John Donne
  • No man is demolished but by himself. by Richard Bently
  • No man is ever old enough to know better. by Holbrook Jackson
  • No man is exempt from saying silly things the mischief is to say them deliberately. by Michel de Montaigne
  • No man is free who is not master of himself. by Epictetus
  • No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. by Abraham Lincoln
  • No man is happy who does not think himself so. by Publilius Syrus
  • No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. by Christian Nestell Bovee
  • No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency. by Theodore Roosevelt
  • No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less. by La Bruyere
  • No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less. by Jean de la Bruyere
  • No man is wise enough by himself. by Titus Maccius Plautus
  • No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power. by Charles Caleb Colton
  • No man is wiser for his learning, wit and wisdom are born with a man. by John Selden
  • No man loves life like him that's growing old. by Sophocles
  • No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness. by Alan Alda
  • No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies. by Daisy Bates
  • No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him. by Martin Luther
  • No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions. by Charles Proteus Steinmetz
  • No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. by Honore' de Balzac
  • No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. by Harold MacMillan
  • No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility. by Gerald W. Johnson
  • No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. by Samuel Johnson
  • No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it...To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends. by Thomas Jefferson
  • No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it. by Andrew Carnegie
  • No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session. by Judge Gideon J. Tucker
  • No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true. by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise. by Marian Anderson
  • No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral courage. by J. Lawton Collins
  • No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up. by Lily Tomlin
  • No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right. by Samuel Johnson
  • No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back. by Turkish Proverb
  • No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not. by Mary Catherine Bateson
  • No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone. by Wendy Wasserstein
  • No matter how long it takes, If you keep moving, One step at a time, You will reach the finish line... by Unknown
  • No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you'd be more productive. by Joyce Brothers
  • No matter how much spin, effort, lunch or dinner you give the media, they will not fail to notice whether you have won or lost. by Robin Renwick
  • No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors. by Tom Thompson
  • No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back. by Meg Cabot
  • No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to. by Lynn Johnston
  • No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much less when there were no controls of any sort and when anyone, convicted criminal or lunatic, could buy any type of firearm without restriction. Half a century of strict controls on pistols has ended, perversely, with a far greater use of this weapon in crime than ever before. by Colin Greenwood
  • No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather. by Michael Pritchard
  • No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen. by Minor White
  • No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot. by Scott Adams
  • No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there-well or poorly. by Joseph Brodsky
  • No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would by Lonny Starr
  • No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it. by Raymond Holliwell
  • No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts. by Al Kersha
  • No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished by Lee Iacocca
  • No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished by Elbert Hubbard
  • No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head. by Terry Josephson
  • No medicine cures what happiness cannot. by Gabrid Garcia Marquez
  • No men can be lords of our faith, though they may be helpers of our joy. by John Owen
  • No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments. by Samuel Johnson
  • No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • No mind should submit their mind to another mind He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still -- that's my motto. I won't be brainwashed. by Muriel Spark
  • No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. by Charlotte Bronte
  • No moral system can rest solely on authority. by A. J. Ayer
  • No more good must be attempted than the people can bear. by Thomas Jefferson
  • No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments. by Pliny the Elder
  • No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves. by John Peter Zenger
  • No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation. by Woodrow Wilson
  • No nation was ever ruined by trade. by Benjamin Franklin
  • No need to teach an eagle to fly. by Greek Proverb
  • No news at 430 a.m. is good. by Lady Bird Johnson
  • No object is mysterious. The mystery is in your eye. by Elizabeth Bowen
  • No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage. by Clifford Bax
  • No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else. by Katharine Graham
  • No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time. by Robert Half
  • No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. by Willa Cather
  • No one can dub you with dignity. That's yours to claim. by Odetta
  • No one can earn a million dollars honestly. by William Jennings Bryan
  • No one can give you authority. But if you act like you have it, others will believe you do. by Karin Ireland
  • No one can give you better advice than yourself. by Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong. by Saint John Chrysostom
  • No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast. by W. S. Gilbert
  • No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. by Roosevelt, Eleanor
  • No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal. by Marilyn Ferguson
  • No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist. by J. Paul Getty
  • No one can possibly know what is about to happen it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time. by James Arthur Baldwin
  • No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see. by Taoist Proverb
  • No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. by Charles Dudley Warner
  • No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject. by Cicero
  • No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices. by Edward R. Murrow
  • No one can wear a mask for very long. by Seneca
  • No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it. by H. E. Luccock
  • No one ever achieved greatness by playing it safe. by Harry Gray
  • No one ever excused his way to success. by Dave Del Dotto
  • No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day. by Elbert Hubbard
  • No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side. by Terry Goodkind
  • No one ever promised that the fastest horse in the race was the easiest one to ride. on managing talented people by Eric J. Joiner, Jr.
  • No one flower can ever symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet. by William Safire
  • No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded. by Yogi Berra
  • No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. by Bertrand Russell
  • No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. by Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn
  • No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. by Sam Rayburn
  • No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit. by Sir Frederick G. Banting
  • No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved. by Mignon McLaughlin
  • No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence. by Ann Landers
  • No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage. by Athenus
  • No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. by Emma Goldman
  • No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them. by Alan B. Watts
  • No one is entitled to the truth. by E. Howard Hunt
  • No one is exempt from talking nonsense the mistake is to do it solemnly. by D. A. Battista
  • No one is exempt from talking nonsense the mistake is to do it solemnly. by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
  • No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. by Pythagorus
  • No one is listening until you make a mistake. by Anon.
  • No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train. by Amos Bronson Alcott
  • No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor. by Danish proverb
  • No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give. by French Proverb
  • No one is so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. by Henry David Thoreau
  • No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. by Charles Dickens
  • No one is without knowledge except him who asks no questions. by West African Saying
  • No one knows what he can do till he tries. by Publilius Syrus
  • No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
  • No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals. by Brian Tracy
  • No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. by Henry Adams
  • No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. by Mignon McLaughlin
  • No one should be judge in his own case. by Publilius Syrus
  • No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know. by Dwight D Eisenhower
  • No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive. by Thorstein Veblen
  • No one wants advice -- only corroboration. by John Steinbeck
  • No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar. by Donald Foster
  • No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed. by Sara Teasdale
  • No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons. by Croesus of Lydia
  • No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstood others. by Johann von Goethe
  • No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstood others. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humaneness. by Robert Oxton Bolt
  • No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. by W. H. Auden
  • No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide. by Sylvia Ashton-Warner
  • No pain, no palm no thorns, no throne no gall, no glory, no glory no cross, no crown. by William Penn
  • No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft. by H. G. Wells
  • No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. by Edmund Burke
  • No path of flowers leads to glory. by Jean de La Fontaine
  • No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good. by Mandell Creighton
  • No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. by Alice Walker
  • No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder. by John Ruskin
  • No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. by Hellen Keller
  • No plain not followed by a slope. No going not followed by a return. He who remains persevering in danger is without blame. Do not complain about this truth Enjoy the good fortune you still possess. by I Ching
  • No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time--but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming. by Charles E. Wilson
  • No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth. by Francis Bacon
  • No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which to thrall the world. Alcohol is king by Eliza Mother Stewart
  • No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking. by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
  • No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it. by Charles Monroe Schultz
  • No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it. by Charles M. Schulz
  • No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. by Booker T. Washington
  • No really great man ever thought himself so. by William Hazlitt
  • No revenge is more honourable than the one not taken. by Danish proverb
  • No Sane man will dance. by Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. by Jacob Chanowski
  • No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. . . by Isaac Asimov
  • No sensible man watches his feet hit the ground. He looks ahead to see what kind of ground they'll hit next. by Ernest Haycox
  • No sin is small. by Jeremy Taylor
  • No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. by George Burns
  • No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. by Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • No stranger can get a great many notes of torture out of a human soul it takes one that knows it well -- parent, child, brother, sister, intimate. by Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue. by Sir Philip Sidney
  • No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. by Agnes de Mille
  • No two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is -- in other words, not a thing, but a think. by Penelope Fitzgerald
  • No two persons ever read the same book. by Edmund Wilson
  • No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets. by Edward Abbey
  • No vision and you perish No Ideal, and you're lost Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, Some rainbow in the sky, Some melody to sing to, Some service that is high. by Harriet Du Autermont
  • No wise man ever wished to be younger. by Jonathan Swift
  • No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world. by William Shakespeare
  • No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream. by Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
  • No, no, you're not thinking, you're just being logical. by Niels Henrik David Bohr
  • No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love by Albert Einstein
  • No. by Amy Carter
  • Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. by Edmund Burke
  • Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall. by Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger. by John Bay
  • Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source. by Ron Nesen
  • Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it. by Tallulah Bankhead
  • Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own. by Sydney Harris
  • Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. by Malcolm X
  • Nobody does good to man with impunity. by Franois Auguste Ren Rodin
  • Nobody ever died of laughter. by Max Beerbohm
  • Nobody ever outgrows Scripture the book widens and deepens with our years. by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  • Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. by H.L. Mencken
  • Nobody gets to live life backwards. Look ahead -- that's where your future lies. by Ann Landers
  • Nobody goes there anymore because it's too crowded. by Lawrence Peter Berra
  • Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content. by Louis L'Amour
  • Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist. by Rene Angelil
  • Nobody has ever measured even poets, how much a heart can hold. by Zelda
  • Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein. by Joe Theismann
  • Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done. by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
  • Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run. by Vince Lombardi
  • Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. by James Arthur Baldwin
  • Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better. by Anonymous
  • Nobody likes the man who brings bad news. by Sophocles
  • Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too. by B. B. King
  • Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view. by Lillian Hellman
  • Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. by Albert Camus
  • Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. by Cynthia Nelms
  • Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time. by Georgia O'Keeffe
  • Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have. by Elizabeth Bowen
  • Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations. by Ralph Charell
  • Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God. by Heywood Broun
  • Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18. by Jim
  • Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself. by Liberace
  • Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy. by Henry Kissinger
  • Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble. by Carl Jung
  • Nobody, as long as he moves about among the currents of life, is without trouble. by Carl Gustav Jung
  • Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is also a disruption of thought. by Arthur Schopenhauer
  • None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. by Ferdinand Foch
  • None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty. by Henry David Thoreau
  • None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license. by John Milton
  • None love the messenger who brings bad news. by Sophocles
  • None meet life honestly and few heroically. by Clarence Darrow
  • None of us are responsible for all the things that happen to us, but we are responsible for the way we act when they do happen. by Unknown
  • None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers If you love your country, don't depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don't leave it all up to big government. by Barry Goldwater
  • None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives. by Kathleen Norris
  • None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, when honour and affection fail. by William Lloyd
  • Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited. by George Santayana
  • Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. by Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever. by Kahlil Gibran
  • Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it. by Ellen DeGeneres
  • Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. by Peter De Vries
  • Not a few who meant to drive out their demons went thereby into the swine themselves. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
  • Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written -- as long as I keep my senses, at least. by Jane Welsh Carlyle
  • Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. by Brendan Gill
  • Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well. by La Rochefoucauld
  • Not all who wander are lost. by J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come. by Bruce Lee
  • Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. by Titus Maccius Plautus
  • Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers. by Edward Shepherd Mead
  • Not even the gods fight against necessity. by Simonides
  • Not every age is fit for childish sports. by Titus Maccius Plautus
  • Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. by Albert Einstein
  • Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. by James Arthur Baldwin
  • Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much. by Erich Fromm
  • Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity. by Alcaeus
  • Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
  • Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. by Socrates
  • Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary. by Peter Minard
  • Not only as each new year dawns, but constantly, persistently, the God of all grace urges His blood-bought children to give themselves to Him in complete surrender and so to prove to themselves how much more blessed it is to yield to His will than to indulge in their own. by Cornelius Stam
  • Not only is life a bitch, it has puppies. by Adrienne E. Gusoff
  • Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. by Sir Arthur Eddington
  • Not only is the universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think. by Werner Karl Heisenberg
  • Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends. by Woody Allen
  • Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith-a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will-but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world-faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity. by George Frost Kennan
  • Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed. by Herodotus
  • Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short. by Henry David Thoreau
  • Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom. by Hellen Keller
  • Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. by Bertrand Russell
  • Not to be cheered by praise, Not to be grieved by blame, But to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers Are the characteristics of an excellent man. by Saskya Pandita
  • Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them in not manly. by Seneca
  • Not to know is bad not to wish to know is worse. by African Proverb
  • Not to know the events which happened before one was born, that is to remain always a boy. by Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge. by Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge. by Cicero
  • Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord. by Albert Einstein
  • Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed. by Robert J. Sawyer
  • Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance. by John Petit Senn
  • Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live Not where I love, but where I am, I die. by Robert Southey
  • Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement. by George Burton Adams
  • Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves. by Jane Austen
  • Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe that they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever searching and striving to become the best they possibly can. If we seek the average level, we cannot hope to achieve a higher level of success. Our only hope is to avoid being a failure. by Lou Vickery
  • Nothing but blackness aboveAnd nothing that moves but the cars...God, if you wish for our love,Fling us a handful of stars by Louis Untermeyer
  • Nothing can be called failure until you accept it as such. You can transmute all past failures and mistakes into assets. Adversity is Nature's method of disciplining people to learn to take possession of their own minds. Greatest blessings often come from the greatest adversities. Study yourself carefully and you may discover that your own emotions are your greatest handicap in the business of accurate thinking. by Unknown
  • Nothing can be created from nothing. by Lucretius
  • Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently. by Publilius Syrus
  • Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half. by Plato
  • Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming. by Quintilian
  • Nothing can be produced out of nothing. by Laertius Diogenes
  • Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nothing can cause turmoil and the defeat of accomplishment as quickly as disorganization. by Unknown
  • Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing. by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
  • Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. by Oscar Wilde
  • Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose. by Benjamin Disraeli
  • Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate. by Mark B. Cohen
  • Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body. by George Santayana
  • Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. by Thomas Jefferson
  • Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his. by Franklin P. Jones
  • Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  • Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers. by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Nothing counts so much as family, the rest are just strangers. (as Nicholas Earpp in Wyatt Earp, 1994) by Gene Hackman
  • Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable. by Seneca
  • Nothing else in the world...not all the armies...is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. by Victor Hugo
  • Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy. by William Shakespeare
  • Nothing endures but change. by Heraclitus
  • Nothing endures but personal qualities. by Walt Whitman
  • Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts. by Jean Cocteau
  • Nothing ever gets settled in this town. ... a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give up, including me. And so that's the atmosphere in which you administer. by George Pratt Shultz
  • Nothing ever goes away. by Barry Commoner
  • Nothing fails like success. by Gerald Nachman
  • Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them. by Homer
  • Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. by Michel de Montaigne
  • Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. by Thomas Jefferson
  • Nothing got him angrier than when people implied he was paranoid. It made him feel persecuted. by Robert Sheckley
  • Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. by Georg Wilhelm
  • Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion. by G. W. F. Hegel
  • Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. by George Ellis
  • Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so. by Charles De Gaulle
  • Nothing had excited me-the huge cars, the entourages, the bodyguards, the policeman jumping to attention, all meant nothing to me ... till I came to the old man's office. (On becoming prime minister) by Shimon Peres
  • Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions. by Ben Stein
  • Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear. by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
  • Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear. by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
  • Nothing happens unless first a dream. by Carl Sandburg
  • Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent. by Carl Jung
  • Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. by Virginia
  • Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. by Marcus Aelius Aurelius
  • Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. by Dbjanski
  • Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts. by Henry Adams
  • Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
  • Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. (Quoting Churchill) by Ronald Reagan
  • Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. by Marie Curie
  • Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity. by Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Nothing in the world lasts Save eternal change. by Honorat de Bueil, Marquis de Racan
  • Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. by Calvin Coolidge
  • Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge. by Scott Adams
  • Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. by Franois Auguste Ren Rodin
  • Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. by Rodin
  • Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy. by Seneca
  • Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-ideaed individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas. by Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
  • Nothing is as far away as one minute ago. by Jim Bishop
  • Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about. by Sam Ewig
  • Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you. by Kin Hubbard
  • Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be. by Jim Horning
  • Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action. by Johann von Goethe
  • Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nothing is beautiful, only man on this piece of navety rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second nothing is ugly but degenerate man-the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
  • Nothing is built on stone all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. by Jorge Luis Borges
  • Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. by Joseph Addison
  • Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true. by Demosthenes
  • Nothing is easier than the expenditure of public money. It doesn't appear to belong to anyone. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody. by Calvin Coolidge
  • Nothing is easy to the unwilling. by Nikki Giovanni
  • Nothing is great like friendship on earth, No jewel No pearl has got it's worth. No one except a friend can be trusted, Your life will never ever get rusted. by Unknown
  • Nothing is hopeless, we must hope for everything. by Madeleine L'Engle
  • Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself. by A. H. Weiler
  • Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others. by Jonathan Winters
  • Nothing is more common than unfulfilled potential. by Howard Hendricks
  • Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all. by G. C. Lichtenberg
  • Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all. by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
  • Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it. by George Saintsbury
  • Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error. by Johann von Goethe
  • Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Nothing is more damaging to a state than that cunning men pass for wise. by Francis Bacon
  • Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. by Albert Camus
  • Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense - no one needs more of it than one already has by Rene Descartes
  • Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them. by Ellis Peters
  • Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action. by Johann von Goethe
  • Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Nothing is more unpleasant that a virtuous person with a mean mind. by Walter Bagehot
  • Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt. by Titus Maccius Plautus
  • Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. by Henry Ford
  • Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles. by Charlie Chaplin
  • Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse. by Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
  • Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject. by George Santayana
  • Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. by James M. Barrie
  • Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means. by Van Wyck Brooks
  • Nothing is said that has not been said before. by Terence
  • Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. by John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey. by Cynthia Ozick
  • Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it. by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend A wise enemy is worth more. by Jean de La Fontaine
  • Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking. by Terence
  • Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known. by D. A. Battista
  • Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. by George Eliot
  • Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant. by Saadi
  • Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. by Jonathan Swift
  • Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas. by Laurence Sterne
  • Nothing is so powerful as gentleness nothing is so gentle as true strength. by Saint Francis de Sales
  • Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength. by Ralph W. Sockman
  • Nothing is stronger than habit. by Ovid
  • Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need. by Titus Maccius Plautus
  • Nothing is to be feared but fear. by Francis Bacon
  • Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. by Ross MacDonald
  • Nothing lasts forever--not even your troubles. by Arnold Glasgow
  • Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. by Paul Tournier
  • Nothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other wordly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them. by La Bruyere
  • Nothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other wordly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them. by Jean de la Bruyere
  • Nothing more dangerous than a friend without discretion even a prudent enemy is preferable. by Jean de La Fontaine
  • Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin. by Quentin Crisp
  • Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that they underestimate the part that discipline plays. But the discipline you have in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority. by Bertrand Russell
  • Nothing quite new is perfect. by Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Nothing recedes like success. by Walter Winchell
  • Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves. by Theodor Reik
  • Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility. by Johathan Edwards
  • Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist. by Harrison Ford
  • Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. by Johann von Goethe
  • Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself. by Thomas John Watson, Sr.
  • Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. by Honore' de Balzac
  • Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so. by La Rochefoucauld
  • Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. by Mark Twain
  • Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. by Bruce Barton
  • Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment. by Eric Butterworth
  • Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Nothing succeeds like success. by Alexandre Dumas
  • Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success. by Christopher Lasch
  • Nothing surely is so disgraceful to society and to individuals as unmeaning wastefulness. by Count Benjamin Thompson Rumford
  • Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. by Charles M. Schulz
  • Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. by Thomas Carlyle
  • Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't. by Russell Hoban
  • Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. by Douglas Adams
  • Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace. by Saint Augustine
  • Nothing will come of nothing. by William Shakespeare
  • Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome. by Samuel Johnson
  • Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood. by Carl Gustav Jung
  • Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore, we are saved by love. by Reinhold Niebuhr
  • Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind. by Woody Allen
  • Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
  • Nothing you can't spell will ever work. by Will Rogers
  • Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped. by Lillian Hellman
  • Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art. by Pietro Aretino
  • Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did. by Lillian Hellman
  • Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, 'I have failed three times,' and what happens when he says, 'I'm a failure.' by S Hayakawa
  • Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature. by Kin Hubbard
  • Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense. by Theocritus of Chios
  • Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest by William Shakespeare
  • Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure men love in haste but they detest at leisure. by George Gordon Byron
  • Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. by Albert Einstein
  • Now I know what a statesman is he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen. by Bob Edwards
  • Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. by Walt Whitman
  • Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. by Walt Whitman
  • Now I shall return to my village and there will remain at the disposition of the nation. by Charles De Gaulle
  • Now is the time for all good men to come to. by Walt Kelly
  • Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York, And all the clouds that loured upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths, Our bruised arms hung up for monuments, Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them,-- Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun. by William Shakespeare
  • Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts. by William Shakespeare
  • Now my innocence begins to weigh me down. by Francois Rabelais
  • Now the alternative to despair is courage. And human life can be viewed as a continuous struggle between these two options. Courage is the capacity to affirm one's life in spite of the elements which threaten it. The fact that courage usually predominates over despair in itself tells us something important about life. It tells you that the forces that affirm life are stronger than those that negate it. by Paul E. Pfuetze
  • Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ. by Martin Luther
  • Now the real beginnings of the 'freedom' which we have discussed for many years--and a heady freedom it is, coming after so many years of reaching outward for it--to finally discover all I had to do was reach inward, and it was there waiting all the time for me by Alisa Wells
  • Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. by Sir Winston Churchill
  • Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
  • Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. by Orson Welles
  • Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.' by Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are. by Henry Fielding
  • Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
  • Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation. by James Thurber
  • Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. by Oscar Wilde
  • Nowhere to fall but off, Nowhere to stand but on. by Benjamin King
  • Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number. by Maurice Druon
  • Numberless are the world's wonders, but none More wonderful than man. by Sophocles
  • Numbers are essential, but not absolutely essential to strength. For many churches are numerically strong but lamentably weak spiritually. Numbers, then, are no display of spiritual power or strength. by W. T. Ussery
  • Nunc scio quit sit amor. by Virgil
  • Nursing Home Orderly You can trouble me for a warm glass of shut-the-hell-up. Now, you will go to sleep or I will put you to sleep. Check out the name tag. You're in my world now, grandma. by Happy Gilmore
  • Nurture an appetite for being puzzled, for being confused, indeed for being openly stupid, and that - despite what you may think - is very difficult...We all know the cliche' that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. It is also true that a lot of knowledge can be a dangerous thing as well...use your ignorance as well as your knowledge for creative means. by Lee C. Bollinger
  • Nurture your mind with great thoughts to believe in the heroic makes heroes. by Benjamin Disraeli
  • Nurture your mind with great thoughts, For you will never go any higher that you think... by Benjamin Disraeli
  • Nurture your mind with great thoughts. by Benjamin Disraeli