“ Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies? Nay, who but infants question in such wise, 'twas one of my most intimate enemies. ”
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
- 1.6K
“ I have definitely gone through my ups and downs and faced my adversity and my nay-sayers, but managed to do all right. It is a pretty classic tale. ”
- Steve Nash- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day, like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.- Copy
- 1.1K
“ We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots. ”
- Thomas Sewell- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil. ”
- Hippocrates- Copy
- 577
“ We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act. ”
- Charles Darwin- Copy
- 2K
“ For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 3.9K
“ The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us — of becoming happy — is not attainable: yet we may not — nay, cannot — give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other. ”
- Sigmund Freud- Copy
- 3.7K
“ The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier that exists between the different classes of men. Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth. ”
- Susanna Moodie- Copy
- 3.1K
“ The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the character of seers. The Elgin Marbles and a decision of John Marshall are valued for the same reason. What we feel in them is a painstaking submission to facts beyond the author's control, and to ideas imposed upon him by his vision… ”
- John Jay Chapman- Copy
- 2K
“ You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And least of all can you condemn an artist pursuing, however humbly and imperfectly, a creative aim. In that interior world where his thought and his emotions go seeking for the experience of imagined adventures, there are no policemen, no law, no pressure of circumstance or dread of opinion to keep him within bounds… ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
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“ Nay why should your sex wish for such a disparity in those whom they one day intend for companions and associates. Pardon me, sir, if I cannot help sometimes suspecting that this neglect arises in some measure from an ungenerous jealousy of rivals near the throne. ”
- Abigail Adams- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor — all men know something of poverty. Not that men are wicked — who is good? Not that men are ignorant — what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men. ”
- W.E.B. Du Bois- Copy
- 1K
“ Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but speaks and kindles some thought of love! Then, Jack, her cheeks! her cheeks, Jack! so deeply blushing at the insinuations of her tell-tale eyes! ”
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan- Copy
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“ Yet with all the attraction that it has, our youth cannot long remain without feeling the narrowness of simply a classification of the world. Life is not a thing of knowing only - nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotion. ”
- Learned Hand- Copy
- 1K
“ Passover has a message for the conscience and the heart of all mankind. For what does it commemorate? It commemorates the deliverance of a people from degrading slavery, from most foul and cruel tyranny. And so, it is Israel's - nay, God's protest against unrighteousness, whether individual or national. ”
- Morris Joseph- Copy
- 673
“ Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice. Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less… ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Nay, tempt me not to love again: There was a time when love was sweet; Dear Nea! had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet! But oh! this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one! Would I endure such pangs again. ”
- Sir Thomas More- Copy
- 1.4K
“ When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing? ”
- Epictetus- Copy
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“ RASH, adj. Insensible to the value of our advice. "Now lay your bet with mine, nor let These gamblers take your cash." "Nay, this child makes no bet." "Great snakes! How can you be so rash?" Bootle P. Gish. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 3K
“ Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us… a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird… a social being… capable of actual affection… nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion… ”
- Berke Breathed- Copy
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“ To conclude, all other living creatures live orderly and well, after their own kind: we see them flock and gather together, and ready to make head and stand against all others of a contrary kind: the lions as fell and savage as they be, fight not with one another: serpents sting not serpents, nor bite one another with their venomous teeth: nay the very monsters and huge fishes of the sea, war not amongst themselves in their own kind: but believe me, man at man's hand receiveth most harm and mischief. ”
- Pliny the Elder- Copy
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“ The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts. ”
- Rene Descartes- Copy
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“ The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him. ”
- Cicero- Copy
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“ Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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