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

Nullus commodum capere potest de injuria sua 35 propria—No one can take advantage of wrong committed by himself. L.

Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat—There is no sorrow which length of time will not diminish and soothe. Cic.

Nullus est liber tam malus, ut non aliqua parte prosit—There is no book so bad that it may not be useful in some way or other. Pliny.

Numbers err in this: / Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss. Pope.

Numerical inquiries will give you entertainment in solitude by the practice, and reputation in public by the effect. Johnson.

Nunc animis opus, Ænea, nunc pectore firmo—Now, 40 Æneas, you have need of courage, now a resolute heart. Virg.

Nunc aut nunquam—Now or never. M.

Nunc dimittis—Now let me depart in peace. See Luke i. 29.

Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero, / Pulsanda tellus!—Now let us drink; now let us beat the ground with merry foot. Hor.

Nunc patimur longæ pacis mala; sævior armis / Luxuria incubuit, victumque ulciscitur orbem—Now we suffer the evils of long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world. Juv.