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

Notandi sunt tibi mores—The manners of men 30 are to be carefully observed. Hor.

Note how the falcon starts at every sight, / New from his hood, but what a quiet eye / Cometh of freedom. Sir Edwin Arnold.

Noth bricht Eisen--Necessity breaks iron. Ger. Pr.

Noth kennt kein Gebot—Necessity knows no law. Ger. Pr.

Noth lehrt beten—Necessity teaches to pray. Ger. Pr.

Nothing altogether passes away without result. 35 We are here to leave that behind us which will never die. Goethe.

Nothing amuses more harmlessly than computation, and nothing is oftener applicable to real business or speculative inquiries. A thousand stories which the ignorant tell and believe die away at once when the computist takes them in his grip. Johnson.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. Emerson.

Nothing at bottom is interesting to the majority of men but themselves. Schopenhauer.

Nothing becomes him ill that he would well. Love's L. Lost, ii. 1.