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

Neutral men are the devil's allies. Chapin.

Never a tear bedims the eye / That time and patience will not dry; / Never a lip is curved in pain / That can't be kissed into smiles again. Bret Harte.

Never anger / Made good guard for itself. Ant. and Cleo., iv. 1.

Never anything can be amiss / When simpleness and duty tender it. Mid. N.'s Dream, v. 1.

Never ask a favour of a man until he has had his dinner. Punch.

Never be afraid to doubt, if only you have the disposition to believe. Leighton.

Never bray at an ass. Pr. 5

Never burn your fingers to snuff another man's candle. Pr.

Never buy a pig in a poke. Pr.

Never by reflection, only by doing what it lies on him to do, is self-knowledge possible to any man. Goethe.