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1. "Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians."

Chinese proverb

categories: Health and Alcohol -:- Nature and Animals -:- Time and Passing


2. "Necessity has the face of a dog."

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "In Evil Hour"

categories: Various


3. "Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily. "

François de La Rochefoucauld

categories: Life and Death


4. "Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them."

Rita Rudner

categories: Health and Alcohol -:- Normality and Madness


5. "Never apologize for showing feeling...When you do so, you apologize for truth."

Benjamin Disraeli

categories: Truth and Falsity


6. "Never argue with a stupid person. First they'll drag you down to their level, then they will beat you with experience."

Anon.

categories: Wisdom and Stupidity


7. "Never be afraid of the moments; thus sings the voice of the ever-lasting."

Rabindranath Tagore

categories: Time and Passing


8. "Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century."

Dame Edna Everage

categories: Wit and Humor


9. "Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic."

Anon.

categories: Bravery and Fear



10. "Never believe anything until it has been officially denied."

Claud Cockburn

categories: Truth and Falsity


11. "Never believe in mirrors or newspapers."

John Osborne, "The Hotel in Amsterdam"

categories: Truth and Falsity -:- Trust


12. "Never confuse movement with action."

Ernest Hemingway

categories: Various


13. "Never cut what you can untie."

Joseph Joubert

categories: Various


14. "Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it."

Albert Einstein

categories: Authority, Government -:- Sin and Conscience


15. "Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down."

Chinese proverb

categories: Work and Laziness


16. "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

Margaret Mead

categories: Various


17. "Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly."

Anon.

categories: Various


18. "Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."

Elbert Green Hubbard

categories: Friendship and Hostility


19. "Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake."

Elbert Green Hubbard

categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Marriage


20. "Never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there."

Mickey Friedman

categories: Manners and Ethics -:- Various



21. "Never go to a doctor who's office plants have died."

Lazarus Long

categories: Health and Alcohol -:- Trust


22. "Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight."

Phyllis Diller

categories: Normality and Madness -:- Various


23. "Never hate your enemies. It clouds your judgement."

Mario Puzo, "The Godfather"

categories: Friendship and Hostility -:- Intellect, Judgement


24. "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

Napoleon Bonaparte

categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Friendship and Hostility


25. "Never joke at funerals, or during business transactions."

Herman Melville, "Israel Potter"

categories: Wit and Humor


26. "Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!"

Matt Frewer

categories: Life and Death


27. "Never lend money. It causes amnesia."

Anon.

categories: Memory -:- Richness and Money


28. "Never let your mom comb your hair when she's mad at your dad!"

Leo Anthony Gallagher, (showing his bald head)

categories: Normality and Madness -:- Anger


29. "Never lose a chance of saying a kind word."

William Makepeace Thackeray

categories: Good and Evil -:- Manners and Ethics


30. "Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."

Mark Twain

categories: Work and Laziness


31. "Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience."

Victoria Holt

categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Sorrow and Nostalgia



32. "Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties."

Aesop, "The Fox and the Goat"

categories: Trust


33. "Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it."

David Herbert Lawrence, "The Spirit of Place"

categories: Art and Culture -:- Trust


34. "Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys."

Jewish proverb

categories: Joy and Sadness -:- Trust


35. "Never try to look into both eyes at the same time.... Switch your gaze from one eye to the other. That signals warmth and sincerity."

Dorothy Sarnoff

categories: Various -:- Trust


36. "Never try to make anyone like yourself. You know, and God knows, that one of you is enough."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

categories: Human


37. "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups."

Anon.

categories: Power and Weakness -:- Wisdom and Stupidity


38. "Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first."

Josh Billings

categories: Health and Alcohol -:- Work and Laziness


39. "Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do."

Robert A. Heinlein

categories: Science and Technology


40. "Never wrestle with a pig. You both get all dirty, and the pig likes it."

Anon.

categories: Various


41. "New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become."

Kurt Vonnegut, "Breakfast of Champions"

categories: Truth and Falsity -:- Knowledge, Ignorance


42. "New York will be a great place when they finish it."

local saying

categories: Various



43. "Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day."

Henry David Thoreau, "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

categories: Nature and Animals -:- Various


44. "Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil."

Jean-Paul Sartre

categories: Good and Evil


45. "Night's darkness is the bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn."

Rabindranath Tagore

categories: Nature and Animals


46. "Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time."

Eleanor Roosevelt

categories: Wisdom and Stupidity


47. "No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, "All Things Considered"

categories: Health and Alcohol


48. "No answer is also an answer."

German proverb

categories: Question and Problem


49. "No battle plan survives contact with the enemy."

Colin Powell

categories: Peace and War


50. "No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."

Oscar Wilde

categories: Art and Culture

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