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

Nor sequent centuries could hit / Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit. Landor.

Nor sink those stars in empty night; / They 55 hide themselves in heaven's own light. Montgomery.

Noris quam elegans formarum spectator fiem—You shall see how nice a judge of beauty I am. Ter.

Nos duo turba sumus—We two are a multitude (lit. a crowd). Deucalion to Pyrrha after the deluge, in Ovid.

Nos hæc novimus esse nihil—We know that these things are nothing—mere trifles. Mart.

Nos nostraque Deo—Both we and ours are God's. M.

Nos numerus sumus et fruges consumere nati—We are a mere number (but ciphers), and born to consume the fruits of the earth. Hor.

Nos patriæ fines et dulcia linquimus arva—We leave the confines of our native country and our delightful plains. Virg.

Nos te, / Nos facimus, Fortuna, deam—It is we, O Fortune, we that make thee a goddess. Juv.

Nosce tempus—Know your time; make hay 5 while the sun shines. Pr.