Nimm alles leicht! das Träumen lass und Grübeln! / So bleibst du wohlbewahrt vor tausend Uebeln—Take everything easily; leave off dreaming and brooding; then wilt thou be safe-shielded from a thousand ills. Uhland.
Nimm die Welt, wie sie ist, nicht wie sie seyn sollte—Take the world as it is, not as it should be. Ger. Pr.
Nimm wahr die Zeit; sie eilet sich, / Und kommt nicht wieder ewiglich—Take thou good note of time; it hurries past thee, and comes not back again for ever. Claudius.
Nine tailors cannot make a man. Pr.
Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, 25 and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. Disraeli.
Nine-tenths of our critics have told us little more of Shakespeare than what honest Franz Horn says his neighbours used to tell of him, "he was a great spirit, and stept majestically along." Carlyle.
Nine things to sight required are: / The power to see, the light, the visible thing, / Being not too small, too thin, too nigh, too far; / Clear space, and time, the form distinct to bring. Sir John Davies.
Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually occupied by an ill-placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone. Bulwer Lytton.
Nine tithes of times / Face-flatterer and back-biter are the same. Tennyson.
Nineteen nay-says are half a grant. Allan 30 Ramsay.