Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Nehmt die Gottheit auf in euren Willen, / Und sie steigt von ihrem Weltenthron—Take the divine up into your will, and she descends from her world-throne. Schiller.

Nehmt die Stimmung wahr, / Denn sie kommt so selten—Take advantage of the right mood, for it comes so seldom. Goethe.

Neid zu fühlen, ist menschlich; Schadenfreude 35 zu geniessen, teuflisch—To feel envy is human; to joy in mischief is devilish. Schopenhauer.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be; / For loan oft loses both itself and friend. Ham., i. 3.

Neither borrow money of a neighbour nor a friend, but of a stranger, where, paying for it, thou shalt hear no more of it. Lord Burleigh.

Neither crow nor croak. Pr.

Neither exalt your pleasures, nor aggravate your vexations, beyond their real and natural state. Johnson.

Neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder / Shall 40 wholly do away, I ween, / The marks of that which once hath been. Coleridge.

Neither hew down the whole forest, nor come home without wood. Serv. Pr.

Neither lead nor drive. Pr.