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 purgat peccata qui negat—He who denies 30 his sins does not atone for them. Pr.

Non quam diu, sed quam bene vixeris refert—Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing. Sen.

Non qui soletur, non qui labentia tarde / Tempora narrando fallat, amicus adest—There is no friend near to console me, none to beguile the weary hours with his talk. Ovid.

Non ragioniam di lor; ma guarda, e passa—Talk not of them; one look, and then pass on. Dante.

Non revertar inultus—I will not return unavenged. M.

Non satis est pulchra esse poëmata; dulcia 35 sunto, / Et quocumque volent animum auditoris agunto—It is not enough that poems be beautiful; they must also be affecting, and move at will the hearer's soul. Hor.

Non scholæ, sed vitæ discimus—We learn not at school, but in life. Sen.

Non scribit, cujus carmina nemo legit—That man does not write whose verses no man reads. Mart.

Non semper erit æstas—It will not always be summer. Hesiod.

Non semper erunt Saturnalia—The carnival will not last for ever.