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Nag: A woman with no horse sense.

Evan Esar
Naive you are if you believe life favours those who aren't naive.
Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.
(Knowledge is power.)

Francis Bacon
Nationalism is a silly cock crowing in its own dunghill.

Richard Aldington
Nations, like individuals, live or die, but civilizations cannot perish.

Giuseppe Mazzini
Natura lo fece, e poi ruppe la stampa.
(Nature made him, then broke the mould.)

Lodovico Ariosto
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

Francis Bacon
Nature fits all her children with something to do,
He who would write and can't write can surely review.

James Russell Lowell
Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue; to that end that we should hear and see more than we speak.

Socrates
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Samuel Johnson
Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.
Nature teaches us to love our friends, but religion our enemies.

Thomas Fuller, M.D.
Nature, which gave us two eyes to see, and two ears to hear, has given us but one tongue to speak.

Jonathan Swift
Nay, but, for terror of his wrathful Face,
I swear I will not call Injustice Grace;
Not one Good Fellow of the Tavern but
Would kick so poor a Coward from the place.

LXXXVI, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (2nd Ed.)

Necessitas non habet legem.
(Necessity has no law.)

Proverv attrib. to Publilius Syrus
Necessity is a mother.
Necessity is the mother of invention, but patent right is the father.

Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw)
Necessity knows no laws.

Spanish proverb
Necessity turns lion into fox.

Persian proverb
Neckties strangle clear thinking.

Lin Yutang
Neighbor:  One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows to make us disobedient.

Ambrose Bierce
Neighborhood:  The local thug.

Edmund H. Volkart
Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend.

William Shakespeare [Hamlet]
Neither his fellows, nor his gods, nor his passions will leave a man alone.

Joseph Conrad
Neither promise wax to a saint, nor cakes to the child.

Greek proverb
Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

Inscription on General Post Office, NYC (Adapted from The Histories by Herodotus)
Nemo debet esse judex in propia sua causa.
(No man can be judge in his own cause.)

Legal maxim
Nemo repente fit turpissimus.
(No man ever became extremely wicked all at once.)

Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
Nepotism is only kin deep.

Anonymous
Never appeal to a man's "better nature". He may not have one.
Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

James M. Barrie
Never ask of him who has, but of him who wishes you well.

Spanish proverb
Never assume villany when mere incompetence suffices.
Never be led astray onto the path of virtue.
Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Tryon Edwards
Never call a man a fool; borrow from him.

Addison Mizner
Never drink water from you finger bowl - it contains only water.

Addison Mizner
Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Elbert Hubbard
Never fall out with your bread and butter.

English proverb
Never insult an alligator until you have crossed the river.
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

Saint Jerome
Never offend with style when you can offend with substance.
Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.

Rudyard Kipling
Never promise more than you can perform.

Publilius Syrus
Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.

Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw)
Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him.

Johann K. Lavater
Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flame thrower.
Never to have sinned is the unpardonable sin.

Paul Eldridge
Never trust a husband too far, or a bachelor too near.

Helen Rowland
Never trust anyone who says money is no object.
Never try to outstubborn a cat.

Lazarus Long
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
New Yorkers are nice about giving you street directions; in fact, they seem quite proud of knowing where they are themselves.

Katharine Brush
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

Dorothy Parker
Next time, give "the gift that keeps on giving": a female kitten.
Next to ingratitude, the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

Henry Ward Beecher
Nice guys finish last.

Leo Durocher
Nietzsche is pietzsche, Goethe is murder.
Nihil tam absurde dici potest, quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosophorum.
(There is no opinion so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nihilism should commence with oneself.
Ninety-percent of this game is half mental.

Yogi Berra
No amount of careful planning will ever replace dumb luck.
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

William Blake
No brain is stronger than its weakest think.

Tom Masson
No cause is helpless if it is just. Errors, no matter how popular, carry the seeds of their own destruction.

John W. Scoville
No civilized person ever goes to bed the same day he gets up.

Richard H. Davis
No crime has lacked a precedent.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca
No enemy is worse than bad advice.

Sophocles
No evil can happen to a good man.

Plato
No great genius has ever been without some madness.

Aristotle
No great idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
No guts, no glory.
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

Samuel Johnson
No man can be just who is not free.

Woodrow Wilson
No man feels like laughing when he bumps his funny bone.

Mary W. Little
No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas.
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

John Donne
No man is good enough to govern another without that others' consent.

Abraham Lincoln
No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus
No man is lonely while eating spaghetti - it requires so much attention.

Christopher Morley
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.

Martial (Marcus Valarius Martialis)
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

Theodore Roosevelt
No man is worthy of unlimited reliance - his treason, at best, only waits for sufficient temptation.

H.L. Mencken
No man lives long enough to read his obituary.
No man sees far; the most see no farther than their noses.

Thomas Carlyle
No man will take counsel, but every man will take
money: therefore money is better than counsel.

Jonathan Swift
No man with any sense of humour ever founded a religion.

Robert G. Ingersoll
No man's religion ever survived his morals.

English proverb
No matter how hard the times get, the wages
of sin are always liberal and on the dot.

Frank M. ("Kin") Hubbard
No matter what goes wrong, there's always someone who knew it would.
No matter what we are talking about, we are talking about ourselves.

Prather
No matter what you feed a wolf he will always return to the forest.

Russian proverb
No matter where you go ... There you are.
No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not, the Supreme
Court follows the election returns.

Finley P. Dunne
No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.

Frank M. ("Kin") Hubbard
No one can get ahead of you when they're kicking you in the rear.
No one can have all he wants, but a man can refrain from wanting what he has not, and cheerfully makes the best of a bird in the hand.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca
No one can know what he can do till he tries.

Publilius Syrus
No one ever listened himself out of a job.

Calvin Coolidge
No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the mistake is to do it solemnly.

Michel E. de Montaigne
No one is hanged who has money in his pocket.

Russian proverb
No one knows the worth of a woman's love till he sues for alienation.

Oliver Herford
No one knows what he can do till he tries.

Publilius Syrus
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean.

Henry Adams
No one regards what is before his feet, we all gaze at the stars.

Quintus Ennius
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

Calvin Coolidge
No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.

Publilius Syrus
No problem is so formidable that you can't just walk away from it.
No question is so difficult as that to which the answer is obvious.
No race can prosper till it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Booker T. Washington
No really great man ever thought himself so.

William Hazlitt
No revenge is more honorable than the one not taken.

Spanish proverb
No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.

Robert Burton
No self-made man ever did such a good job that some woman didn't want to make a few alterations.

Frank M. ("Kin") Hubbard
No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.

Quintus Ennius
No tyranny ought to be endured which makes free speech dangerous.

Henry Ward Beecher
No wise man stands behind an ass when he kicks.

Terence (Publius Quintus Terentius)
No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hates a man for being her friend.

Alexander Pope

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age - it looks so calculating.

Oscar Wilde
Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.

Frank M. ("Kin") Hubbard
Nobody ever commits a crime without doing something stupid.

George Bernard Shaw
Nobody ever forgets where he buried a hatchet.

Frank M. ("Kin") Hubbard
Nobody ever grew despondent looking for trouble.

Frank M. ("Kin") Hubbard
Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.

Sophocles
Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

Heywood Broun
Nobody wants constructive criticism. It's all we can do to put up with constructive praise.
Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.

Frank M. ("Kin") Hubbard
Noise proves nothing; often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorn Clemens)
Non Illegitemus Carborundum.

(Don't let the bastards wear you down.)
Non semper ea sunt quae videntur.
(Things are not always what they seem.)

Phaedrus

None but the brave can live with the fair.

Frank M. ("Kin") Hubbard
None but the brave desert the fair.

Addison Mizner
None but the brave deserves the fair.

John Dryden
None love, but they who wish to love.

Jean B. Racine
None so deaf as he that will not hear.

Thomas Fuller, M.D.
None will improve your lot
If you yourselves do not.

Bertolt Brecht
Nonsense is good only because common sense is so limited.

George Santayana
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Not by years but by disposition is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus
Not every question deserves an answer.

Publilius Syrus
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

James Russell Lowell
Not only does beauty fade, but it leaves a record upon the face as to what became of it.

Elbert Hubbard
Not only does God play dice with the universe, but sometimes he throws them where they cannot be seen.

Stephen Hawking
Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.

Werner Heisenberg
Not only is there a skeleton in every closet, but there is a screw loose in every skeleton.

Samuel Butler
Not worth his salt.

Petronius Arbiter
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

Leonardo da Vinci
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing comes from nothing.

Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus)
Nothing cures insomnia like the realization
that it's time to get up.
Nothing deflates so fast as a punctured reputation.

Thomas R. Dewar
Nothing endures like change.

Heraclitus
Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.

Phyllis McGinley
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing in excess.

Solon
Nothing in fine print is ever good news.

Andy Rooney [60 Minutes, CBS]
Nothing in the world is so incontinent as a man's accursed appetite.

Homer
Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

Thomas Fuller, M.D.
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

Andrew Young
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.

A.H. Weiler
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

John Heywood
Nothing is lasting that is feigned.

English proverb
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.

Christopher Lichtenberg
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Nothing is more friendly to a man than a friend in need.

Titus Maccius Plautus
Nothing is potent against love save only impotence.

Samuel Butler
Nothing is so burdensome as a secret.

French proverb
Nothing is so fallacious as facts, except figures.

George Canning
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

Michel E. de Montaigne
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.

Livy (Titus Livius)
Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

Oscar Wilde
Nothing makes a man or woman look so saintly as seasickness.

Samuel Butler
Nothing makes a person more productive than the last minute.

Unknown
Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

Freidrich W. Nietzsche
Nothing prevents us from being natural so much as the desire to appear so.

Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Nothing recedes like success.

Walter Winchell