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

Non deerat voluntas, sed facultas—Not the will, but the ability was wanting.

Non deficit alter—Another is not wanting. Virg.

Non destare il can che dorme—Do not wake a sleeping dog. It. Pr.

Non è in alcun luogo chi è per tutto—He is nowhere who is everywhere. It. Pr.

Non è si tristo cane che non meni la coda—No 15 dog is so bad but he will wag his tail. It. Pr.

Non è uomo chi non sa dir di nò—He's no man who can't say "No." It. Pr.

Non è ver che sia la morte / Il peggior di tutti i mali; / E un sollievo pei mortali / Che non stanchi di soffrir—Death is not, in fact, the worst of all evils; when it comes, it is a relief to those who are worn out with suffering. Metastasio.

Non eadem est ætas, non mens—My age is no longer the same, nor my inclination. Hor.

Non eadem ratio est, sentire et demere morbos: / Sensus inest cunctis; tollitur arte malum—To be sensible of disease and remove it is not the same thing. The sense of it exists in all; by skill alone is disease removed. Ovid.

Non ebur neque aureum / Mea renidet in domo 20 lacunar—In my dwelling no ivory gleams, nor fretted roof covered with gold. Hor.