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

Nil æquale homini fuit illi—There was no consistency in that man. Hor.

Nil agit exemplum litem quod lite resolvit—An illustration which solves one difficulty by involving us in another settles nothing. Hor.

Nil consuetudine majus—Nothing is more powerful than custom, or habit. Ovid.

Nil cupientium / Nudus castra peto—Naked 30 myself, I make for the camp of those who desire nothing. Hor.

Nil debet—He owes nothing. L.

Nil desperandum—There is no ground for despair.

Nil desperandum Teucro duce et auspice Teucro—Let us despair of nothing while Teucer is our leader and we under his auspices. Hor.

Nil dicit—He says nothing, i.e., he has no defence to make. L.

Nil dictu fœdum visuque hæc limina tangat, / 35 Intra quæ puer est—Let nothing filthy to be said or seen touch this threshold, within which there is a boy. Juv.

Nil dictum quod non dictum prius—There can be nothing said now which has not been said before. L.