Nisi Quotes

#1. It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it. -Difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas

Pliny The Younger

#2. In omnibus requiem quaesivi, sed non inveni, nisi in hoexkens ende boexkens"
"I have sought everywhere for peace, but I have found it not save in a little nook and in a little book.

Thomas A Kempis

#3. Death when to death a death by death hath given
Then shall be op't the long shut gates of heaven.
[Mors, mortis morti mortem nisi morte dedisset (dedisses).]

Thomas Heywood

#4. Nil magnum nisi bonum. No greatness without goodness.

Yann Martel

#5. Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.
[Lat., Cujusvis hominis est errare; nullius, nisi insipientis, in errore perseverae. Posteriores enim cogitationes (ut aiunt) sapientiores solent esse.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#6. Concerning the dead nothing but good shall be spoken.
[Lat., De mortuis nil nisi bonum.]

Plutarch

#7. Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace.
[Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#8. Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention.
[Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]

Horace

#9. Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).

William Hazlitt

#10. The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.
[Lat., Nunquam aedepol temere tinniit tintinnabulum;
Nisi quis illud tractat aut movet, mutum est, tacet.]

Plautus

#11. Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest.
[Lat., Stulte, quid est somnus, gelidae nisi mortis imago?
Longa quiescendi tempora fata dabunt.]

Ovid

#12. Et quid amabo nisi quod aenigma est? ("What shall I love if not the enigma?")

Giorgio De Chirico

#13. An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home.
[Lat., Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#14. A Latin phrase says: De mortuis nil nisi bonum, Speak no ill of the dead. But it is better to say this way: Speak the truth of the living and speak the truth of the dead!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#15. Horas non numero nisi serenas,' 'I count - no - hours but - unclouded ones,

Eleanor H. Porter

#16. I've been singing this song now for twenty five minutes. I could sing it for another twenty five minutes. I'm not proud ... or tired.

Arlo Guthrie

#17. We can bring into being, the things we dream. So much of what we are is, limited or expanded by, what we think.

Jaeda DeWalt

#18. When you sit that way, you look kind of like a beach ball with a head," he continued. "Your haircut is really, really bad, I'm probably going to lose my job for helping you this way, and I'm dying to fuck you."
He glanced at her. "That honest enough for you?

Suzanne Brockmann

#19. Some of my favorite places I have been in my life exist only in dreams.

Nisi Shawl

#20. Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes

Sidney Howard

#21. There's more than one way to share pleasure."
She was quiet for a long moment. "How many ways?"
He rolled onto his side to face her, skimming a single finger from her breastbone to her belly. Here's an idea. I'll demonstrate them, and you keep count.

Tessa Dare

#22. You funny thing! So selfish, so practical. Never mind. I will not ask you to kill me, for you would surely find it an annoying task.

Nisi Shawl

#23. I always try to keep in mind that while the characters in a farce may find themselves in outrageous dilemmas, and may behave in a way that the audience finds amusing, the characters themselves don't have the consolation of knowing they're in a comedy.

Rupert Holmes