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

Nemo est tam senex qui se annum non putat posse vivere—There is no man so old as not to think he may live a year longer. Cic.

Nemo ex proprio dolo consequitur actionem—No man can sue at law upon his own fraud. L.

Nemo impetrare potest a papa bullam nunquam moriendi—No man can ever obtain from the Pope a dispensation from death. Thomas à Kempis.

Nemo ita pauper vivit, quam pauper natus est—No 10 one is so poor in life as he was when he was at birth.

Nemo læditur nisi a seipso—No man is harmed but by himself. Pr.

Nemo malus felix, minime corruptor—No bad man is happy, least of all a seducer. Juv.

Nemo mathematicus genium indemnatus habebit—No astronomer will be held a genius until he is condemned. Juv.

Nemo me impune lacessit—No one provokes me with impunity. M. of Scotland.

Nemo mortalium omnibus horis sapit—No man 15 is wise at all moments.

Nemo patriam in qua natus est exuere nec ligeantiæ debitum ejurare possit—No one can cast off his native country or abjure his allegiance to his sovereign. L.