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My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

-- Vladimir Nabokov

We are drowning in information, but starved for knowledge.

-- John Naisbilt

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

-- Napoleon Bonaparte

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

-- Napoleon Bonaparte

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

-- Napoleon Bonaparte

A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.

-- Ogden Nash

The trouble with a kitten is
THAT
Eventually it becomes a
CAT.

-- Ogden Nash

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

-- Ogden Nash

I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.

-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

-- George Jean Nathan

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

-- George Jean Nathan

We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.

-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

-- Russell M. Nelson, LDS Church News, April 1992 General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

-- Nanette Newman, British actress

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

-- Isaac Newton, Brewster's Memoirs of Newton. Vol. ii. Chap. xxvii.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

Woman was God's second mistake.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, First Part: On Reading and Writing

I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.

-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President

I would have made a good Pope.

-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President

Solutions are not the answer.

-- Richard Nixon

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

-- Andre Norton

We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.

-- Caroline Norton

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

-- Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude