N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.”
“Nothing is so beautiful as spring- When weeds in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush.”
Source: Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
“Nothing is so beautiful as spring- When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing; The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling. What is all this juice and all this joy? A strain of the earth's sweet being in the beginning In Eden garden.-Have, get, before it cloy.”
“Nothing is so beautiful like owning a house.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“nothing is so binding as pity.”
Source: The Peacock Sheds His Tail
“Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.”
“Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.”
“Nothing is so capable of diminishing self-love as the observation that we disapprove at one time what we approve at another.”
“Nothing is so capable of overturning a good intention as to show a distrust of it; to be suspected for an enemy, is often sufficient to make a person become one.”
“Nothing is so capable of overturning a good intention as to show distrust of it; to be suspected for an enemy is often sufficient to make a person become one.”
Source: The Letters of Madame De Sevigne to Her Daughter and Friends
“Nothing is so catching as example.”
“Nothing is so clear in history that is it happens for any one thing. It seems that a lot of things come together to make great changes.”
“Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.(attributed to)”
“Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons.”
“Nothing is so common as to see a political upheaval pass practically unnoticed merely because the names of the leaders and their parties remain the same.”
“Nothing is so common as unsuccessful men with talent. They lack only determination.”
“Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.”
“Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.”
“Nothing is so conducive to spiritual growth as this capacity for logical and accurate analysis of everything that happens to us. To look at it in such a way that we understand what need it fulfills, and in what kind of world.”
Source: Meditations
“Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason.”
“Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.”
“Nothing is so contagious as example.”
“Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.”
“Nothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like. We imitate good actions through emulation, and had ones through a malignity in our nature, which shame conceals, and example sets at liberty.”
“Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself.”
Source: 1769-1793
“Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.”
Source: A History of the Earth and Animated Nature: Illus. with 85 Copperplates
“Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.”
“Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the day, in proclamations, or in the newspapers.”
“Nothing is so convenient as a decisive argument ... which must at least silence the most arrogant bigotry and superstition, and free us from their impertinent solicitations. I flatter myself, that I have discovered an argument ... which, if just, will, with the wise and learned, be an everlasting check to all kinds of superstitious delusion, and consequently, will be useful as long as the world endures. For so long, I presume, will the accounts of miracles and prodigies be found in all history, sacred and profane.”
Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature
“Nothing is so costly as the pursuit of a cure for imaginary ills.”
“Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.
[Fr., Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami;
Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi.]”
“Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.”
“Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.”
Source: The Old Regime and the Revolution: The controversial bestselling guide to the origins of the French Revolution
“Nothing is so dangerous for our security as large groups of desperate people.”
“Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that there are no mysteries in nature, that our triumphs are complete and that there are no new worlds to conquer.”
“Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.”
Source: The life I really lived: a novel
“Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The truest compass of life is spiritual instinct.”
Source: The Master Christian
“Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.”
Source: Evelina: or, The history of a young lady's introduction to the world
“Nothing is so destructive of female charms as contact with fresh air.”
Source: Regency Buck
“Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.”
“Nothing is so difficult but that man will accomplish it.”
“Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence.”
“Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshnessof a lake. There is no character in women's faces before the age of thirty.”
Source: A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac
“Nothing is so disgusting to our sex as want of cleanliness and delicacy in yours.”
Source: 21 May 1781 to 1 March 1784
“Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.”
“Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.”
“Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all roles. Disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides her head and effaces herself; an advocate who has an answer for everything, who has always foreseen everything, and who assumes a thousand forms in order to be right. The most honorable of men is he who thinks best and acts best, but the most powerful is he who is best able to talk and write”
Source: Les ëuvres Choisies de George Sand. The Selected Works of George Sand
“Nothing is so effective in keeping one young and full of lust as a discriminating palate thoroughly satisfied at least once a day”
“Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done.”
“Nothing is so engaging as the little domestic cares into which you appear to be entering, and as to reading it is useful for onlyfilling up the chinks of more useful and healthy occupations.”
Source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 24 January to 31 March 1791