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Vladimir Nabokov (9)
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
425 sayings about art
Nagarjuna (2)
Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
58 wisdom & wit about anger
Ogden Nash (14)
Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
249 sayings about aging
George Jean Nathan (12)
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
58 thoughts about anger
Daniel Nathans (2)
And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.
33 sayings about medical
Anna Neagle (2)
The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.
142 quotes about failure
Jawaharlal Nehru (11)
The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
44 more thoughts about attitudes
Howard Nemerov (9)
I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.
140 quotes about being funny
Simon Newcomb (2)
My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.
38 sayings regarding fatherhood
Huey Newton (6)
My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
323 thoughts about death
Reinhold Niebuhr (15)
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love.
233 more quotes regarding being alone
Friedrich Nietzsche (103)
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
233 wisdom & wit relating to being alone
Earl Nightingale (6)
Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
44 wisdom & wit regarding attitudes
Florence Nightingale (4)
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
323 views regarding death
Anais Nin (21)
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
249 wisdom & wit regarding aging
Kwame Nkrumah (2)
Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.
199 other thoughts about freedom
Alfred Nobel (2)
Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.
249 quotes about aging
Frank Norris (2)
Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
218 other wisdom & wit relating to beauty
Henri Nouwen (2)
In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.
402 wisdom & wit about God