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 immemor beneficii—Not unmindful of kindness. M.

Non in caro nidore voluptas / Summa, sed in teipso est, tu pulmentaria quære / Sudando—The pleasure (in eating) does not lie in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Seek the relish, therefore, from hard exercise. Hor.

Non intelligitur quando obrepit senectus—We do not perceive old age, seeing it creeps on apace. Cic.

Non intelligunt homines quam magnum vectigal sit parsimonia—Men do not understand what a great revenue economy is. Cic.

Non la philosophie, mais le philosophisme causera des maux à la France—Not the philosophy, but the philosophy of the philosophe will bring evils on France. Voltaire in 1735.

Non liquet—It is not clear. L. 5

Non magni pendis, quia contigit—You do not value it highly because it has been your lot. Hor.

Non me pudet fateri nescire quod nesciam—I am not ashamed to confess myself ignorant of what I do not know. Cic.

Non mihi sapit qui sermone, sed qui factis sapit—Not he who is wise in speech, but he who is wise in deeds is wise for me. Greg. Agrigent.

Non mihi si linguæ centum sint oraque centum, / Ferrea vox, omnes scelerum comprendere formas / Omnia pœnarum percurrere nomina possim—Not if I had a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, and a voice of iron, could I retail all the types of wickedness, and run over all the names of penal woe. Virg.