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

Now an incredible deal is demanded, and every avenue is barred. Goethe.

Now farewell light, thou sunshine bright, / 30 And all beneath the sky! / May coward shame distain his name, / The wretch that dares not die. Burns, in "Macpherson's Lament."

Now, good digestion wait on appetite, / And health on both. Macb., iii. 4.

Now is now, and Yule's in winter. Sc. Pr.

"Now" is the watchword of the wise. Pr.

Now! it is gone. Our brief hours travel post, / Each with its thought or deed, its Why or How; / But know, each parting hour gives up a ghost / To dwell within thee—an eternal Now! Coleridge.

Now join your hands, and with your hands 35 your hearts, / That no dissension hinder government. 3 Hen. VI., iv. 6.

Now morn her rosy steps in th' eastern clime, / Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl. Milton.

Now our fates from unmomentous things / May rise like rivers out of little springs. Campbell.

Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, / Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune, and harsh; / That unmatch'd form and feature of blown youth / Blasted with ecstacy: O, woe is me, / To have seen what I have seen, see what I see. Ham., iii. 2.