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

Neither our virtues nor vices are all our own. Johnson.

Neither painting nor fighting feed men; nor can capital, in the form of money or machinery, feed them. Ruskin.

Neither praise nor blame is the object of true 45 criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award—these are the true aims and duties of criticism. Simms.

Neither rhyme nor reason. Shakespeare.

Neither seek nor shun the fight. Gael. Pr.

Neither sign a paper without reading it, nor drink water without seeing it. Sp. Pr.

Neither wise men nor fools / Can work without tools. Pr.

Neither woman nor man, nor any kind of creature 50 in the universe, was born for the exclusive, or even the chief, purpose of falling in love or being fallen in love with.... Except the zoophytes and coral insects of the Pacific Ocean, I am acquainted with no creature with whom it is the one or grand object. Carlyle.

Neither women nor linen by candlelight. Pr.

[Greek: Nekros ou daknei]—A dead man doesn't bite. Plutarch.