Noscenda est mensura sui spectandaque rebus / In summis minimisque—A man should know his own measure, and have regard to it in the smallest matters as well as the greatest. Juv.
Noscitur a sociis—A man is known by the company he keeps; a word, by the context.
Nosse omnia hæc salus est adolescentulis—It is salutary for young men to know all these things. Ter.
Nosse volunt omnes, mercedem solvere nemo—All wish to know, but no one to pay the fee. Juv.
Nostra nos sine comparatione delectant; nunquam 10 erit felix quem torquebit felicior—What we have pleases us if we do not compare it with what others have; he never will be happy to whom a happier is a torture. Sen.
Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, / As his corse to the rampart we hurried: / Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot, / O'er the grave where our hero we buried. Rev. C. Wolfe.
Not a flower, not a flower sweet, / On my black coffin let there be strewn; / Not a friend, not a friend greet / My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown; / A thousand, thousand sighs to save, / Lay me (what you will) O where / Sad lover ne'er find my grave, / To weep there. (?)
Not a man, for being simply man, / Hath any honour, but honour for those honours / That are without him, as place, riches, favour, / Prizes of accident, as oft as merit. Troil. and Cress., iii. 3.
Not a man of iron, but of live oak. Garfield.
Not a Red Indian, hunting by Lake Winnipeg, 15 can quarrel with his squaw, but the whole world must smart for it. Will not the price of beaver rise? Carlyle.