Quotes 4441 till 4460 of 8429.
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Not to know vice at all, and keep true state,
Is virtue, and not fate:
Next to that virtue is to know vice well,
And her black spite expel.The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio Epode, lines 1-4. -
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
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Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity. It is a lonely and private substitute for conversation.
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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
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Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material.
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Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.
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Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
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Nothing can be love or hated unless it is first known.
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Nothing can be made of nothing; he who has laid up no material can produce no combination.
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Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
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Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.
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Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!
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Nothing can be more obvious than all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.
Headlong hall (1816) -
Nothing can be repaired or advanced but only accepted.
Love in a Blue Time (2016) 172 -
Nothing can come out of the artist that is not in the man.
A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949) -
Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
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