N Quotes
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“Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. He will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time. An architect of ability should be able to tell a client what he wants. Most of the time a client never knows what he wants.”
Source: Conversations with Mies Van Der Rohe
“Never talk to them when they’re human, or they’ll trick you. You’ll get confused and sympathetic. That was what his mom always said. She was probably right. Last time he talked to a werewolf, he ended up dating her.”
Source: Long Night Moon
“Never talk to waiters like that," Kit said.
"Can I help it," he said, "if I only went one year to finishing school?"
"It isn't manners," she said like a sensible schoolteacher quietly disciplining a small boy, "it just isn't smart."
I thought of the time I first told him not to say ain't. He took this the same way, a little peeved but making mental notes. I noticed he was never too much of an egotist to take criticism when he knew it would help. It was part of his genius for self-propulsion. I was beginning to see what Kit had for Sammy. Of course she stood for something never within his reach before. But it was more than that. Sammy seemed to know that his career was entering a new cycle where polish paid off. You could almost see him filing off the rough edges against the sharp blade of her mind.”
Source: What Makes Sammy Run?
“Never talk yourself out of knowing you're in love or into thinking that you are.”
Source: Three Junes
“Never talking to strangers. Saying nasty things about the neighbors.”
“Never teach your child to be cunning or you may be certain you will be one of the very first victims of his shrewdness.”
“Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left.”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“Never tell 'em how many lettermen you've got coming back. Tell 'em how many you lost.”
“Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.”
“Never tell a child that something it's too hard”
“Never tell a computer to forget it.”
“Never tell a crazy person he’s crazy.”
“Never tell a duck thief where you've hidden your duck.”
“Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it”
Source: This Gun for Hire
“Never tell a lie-except for practice.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Never tell a lie. Anyone who can tell you the slightest of lies is also capable of any evil.”
“Never tell a loved one of an infidelity: you would be badly rewarded for your troubles. Although one dislikes being deceived, one likes even less to be undeceived.”
“Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.”
“Never tell a story because it is true: tell it because it is a good story.”
“Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.”
“Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.”
Source: The Secret Adversary: Easyread Comfort Edition
“Never tell an unnecessary lie; the truth has great authority. The cleverest murders have been caught, not because they told the one essential lie, but because they continued to lie about unimportant detail when the truth could have done them no harm.”
“Never tell anyone about all the shit you can do, or they will expect you to do it for free.”
Source: The Wig, the Bitch & the Meltdown
“Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you to death.”
“Never tell anyone to be careful, never ask what that noise was, and for the love of God, never, ever say that you'll be right back." —Evelyn Baker”
“Never tell anyone to go to hell unless you can make 'em go.”
“Never tell anyone what you are going to do till you've done it.”
“Never tell me the odds!”
“Never tell me the sky is the limit when the zoning code clearly imposes a stricter limit.”
“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”
“Never tell tales about a woman. No matter how far away she is, shell always hear you.”
“Never tell the box-office man that you can't hear well or he will sell you a seat where you can't see either.”
“Never tell the oppressed they should be grateful for less oppression rather than liberation.”
“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Never tell your dreams to a person who has no vision.”
“Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.”
“Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.”
“Never tell your wife she's bad in bed. She'll go out and get a second opinion.”
“Never tell yourself ... I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too.”
“Never tell. Not if you love your wife...In fact, if your old lady walks in on you deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around her neck 'Lay On Top Of Me Or I'll Die.' " I didn't know what I was goin' to do.”
“Never tempt fate. It plays for keeps.”
“Never test another man by your own weakness.”
“Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.”
“Never test the depth of river with both the feet.”
“Never test the intelligence of a foolish man.”
“Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert -and then make it brief.”
“Never the grave gives back what it has won!”
“Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen.”
Source: The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom
“Never the spirit was born,
the spirit shall cease to be never.
Changeless the spirit remains,
Birthless and deathless forever.”
“Never the spirit was born; the spirit shall cease to be never; Never was time it was not; End and Beginning are dreams! Birth-less and deathless and changeless remaineth the spirit forever. Death hath not touched it all, dead though the house of it seems!”
Source: The Song Celestial or Bhagavad-Gita: Discourse Between Arjuna, Prince of India, and the Supreme Being Under the Form of Krishna: One of the Great Religious Classics of All Time - Synthesis of the Brahmanical concept of Dharma, theistic bhakti, the yogic ideals of moksha, and Raja Yoga & Samkhya philosophy