Nay Quotes

235 Nay quotes by 168 unique authors

There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than going out of… — Seneca the Younger
According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time: otherwise it would cease to… — Gottfried Leibniz
Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no man is bound… — Thomas Carlyle
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause . . . . With equal, nay with greater reason, bodies of men,… — James Madison
Though love and hatred are as opposites as fire and water, yet do they sometimes subsist in the breast together towards the same person; nay… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Such pretensions to nicety in experiments of this nature, are truly laughable! They will be telling us some day of the WEIGHT of the MOON,… — Unknown Author
Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes… — Marquis de Sade
But, as sculpture and painting are gifts of God, what I insist on is, that both shall be used purely and lawfully, that gifts which… — John Calvin
I must say...that more unmanly, brutal treatment of a little pony it was never my painful lot to witness; and by giving way to such… — Anna Sewell
Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. — Alexander Pope
It serves no purpose to man if there is no room for repentance, and he who is tormented can never grow better...let this punishment be… — Thomas Burnet
How anyone can believe in eternal punishment, or in any soul which God has made being "lost" and also believes in the love, nay, even… — Unknown Author
We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable. — Michel de Montaigne
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… — Joseph Conrad
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,… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Those who had alleged that a million civilians were dying from sanctions were willing, nay eager, to keep those same murderous sanctions if it meant… — Christopher Hitchens
Liminality may perhaps be regarded as the Nay to all positive structural assertions, but as in some sense the source of them all, and, more… — Unknown Author
You sign an agreement; you make a contract, you live up to it. You never get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate. You… — Don King
Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their… — Alcaeus
It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so. — Henry Fielding

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