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Nae man can baith sup an' blaw thegither.Name not a rope in his house that hanged himself.Names and natures do often agree.Nature does nothing in vain.Nature draws more than ten oxen.Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue.Nature passes nurture.Nature requires five,
Custom taketh seven,
Idleness takes nine.
And Wickedness eleven.Nature teaches us to love our friends, but religion our enemies.Naught venture, naught have.Naughty boys sometimes make good men.Near is my kirkle, but nearer is my smock.Near is my shirt, but nearer is my skin.Nearest the heart, nearest the mouth.Nearest the King, nearest the widdie.Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant.Necessity requires no decision.Neck or nothing.Need teaches things unlawful.Needles and pins, pins and needles,
When a man's married his trouble begins.Needs must when the devil drives.Neglect will sooner kill an injury than revenge.Neither beg of him who has been a beggar, nor serve him who has been a servant.Neither fish nor flesh nor good red herring.Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.Never a barrel the better herring.Never argue with a man who buys ink by the barrel.Never ask pardon before you are accused.Never burn your fingers to snuff another man's candle.Never cast a clout till May be out.Never cast dirt into that fountain of which thou hast sometime drunk.Never catch at a falling knife or a falling friend.Never choose your women or linen by candlelight.Never cross a bridge till you come to it.Never draw your dirk when a dunt will do.Never fight an enemy whilst it is possible to cheat him.Never give a sucker an even break.Never grieve over spilt milk.Never is a long day.Never is a long time.Never judge a book by its cover.Never judge from appearances.Never let any mechanical device know that you are in a hurry.Never let the sun go down on your anger.Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.Never marry for money, but marry where money is.Never mention rope in the house of a man who has been hanged.Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.Never send a boy to do a man's job.Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than you are.Never sigh, but send.Never speak ill of the dead.Never tell tales out of school.Never too old to learn.Never venture out of your depth till you can swim.Never was cat or dog drowned, that could but see the shore.New dishes beget new appetites.New things are most looked at.Night brings counsel.Nine tailors make a man.Nip sin in the bud.Nip the briar in the bud.No better than she should be.No butter will stick to his bread.No case: abuse the plaintiff's attorney.No choice amongst stinking fish.No cross, no crown.No cure, no pay.No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.No day passeth without some grief.No dish pleases all palates alike.No fence against a flail.No fine clothes can hide the clown.No fishing like fishing in the sea.No folly to being in love.No fool like an old fool.No friend like the penny.No gains without pains.No garden without its weeds.No good thing is failure and no evil thing success.No house without a mouse.No joy with annoy.No joy without alloy.No lock will hold against the power of gold.No longer pipe, no longer dance.No man can be happy without a friend, or be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.No man can both sup and blow at once.No man can call again yesterday.No man can like all, or be liked by all.No man can play the fool so well as the wise man.No man can think well of himself who does not think well of others.No man cries stinking fish.No man has a worse friend than he brings with him from home.No man hath a worse friend than he brings from home.No man is a match for a woman till he is married.No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas.No man is born wise.No man is faultless.No man is his craft's master the first day.No man is impatient with his creditors.No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.No man sees his shadow who faces the sun.No man will another in the oven seek, except that himself have been there before.No matter how hard you throw a dead fish in the water, it still won't swim.No means, no market.No moon, no man.No more teachers, no more books, no more teacher's dirty looks.No names, no pack-drill.No one ever kicks a dead dog.No one knows what a day may bring forth.No one knows what the dinner was after the plates have been washed.No one knows what will happen to him before sunset.No one with a good catch of fish goes home by the back alley.No pain, no gain.No pride like that of an enriched beggar.No receiver, no thief.No remedy but patience.No rogue like the godly rogue.No safe wading in an unknown water.No song, no supper.No sunshine but hath some shadow.No sweet without sweat.No taxation without representation.No tree so small but it can cast a shade.No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.No use in flogging a dead horse.No villain like the conscientious villain.No viper so little but hath its venom.No weather is ill if the wind be still.No wisdom to silence.No. 1 is the first house in the row.Nobility is nothing but ancient riches, and money is the world's idol.Nobility is nothing but ancient riches, and money is the world's idol.Nobody's perfect.Noiseless is the approach of the avenging deities.None ever took a stone out of the temple but the dust did fly in his eyes.Not from Cupid's quiver.Not to be fit to hold a candle to him.Not to be sneezed at.Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.Nothing is more easily blotted out than a good turn.Nothing is so full of victory as patience.Nothing like leather.Nothing must be done hastily but killing of fleas.Nothing should be done in haste but gripping a flea.Nothing so bad as not to be good for something.Nothing so bad but it might have been worse.Nothing so bold as a blind man.Nothing so bold as a blind mare.Nothing so crouse as a new washen louse.Nothing stake, nothing draw.Nothing venture, nothing gain.Nothing worse than a familiar enemy.Nought is never in danger.Novelty always appears handsome.Now I have got a ewe and a lamb,
Every one cries, "Welcome, Peter." |
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