NOSE NOVELTY
NOSE
Jolly nose! there are fools who say drink hurts
the sight,
Such dullards know nothing about it;
’Tis better with wine to extinguish the light
Than live always in darkness without it.
Paraphrase of Olivier Basselin's Vaux-de-vire. Quoted by Atnsworth in Jack Sheppard. Vol.1. P. 213.
As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.
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| work = Anatomy of Melancholy.
| place = Pt. III. Sec. III. Memb. 4. Subsec. I.
Give me a man with a good allowance of nose,
. . . when I want any good head-work done I
choose a man—provided his education has been
suitable—with a long nose.
Napoleon. Related in Notes on Noses. P. 43.
(Ed. 1847)
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Rabelais—Works. The Author's Prologue to
the Fifth Book.
NOTHINGNESS
Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also
nothing passes away into non-existence.
Marcus Aurelius—Meditations. IV. 4.
Why and Wherefore set out one day,
To hunt for a wild Negation.
They agreed to meet at a cool retreat
On the Point of Interrogation.
Oliver Herford—Metaphysics.
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Nothing to do but work,
Nothing to eat but food,
Nothing to wear but clothes,
To keep one from going nude.
Ben King—The Pessimist.
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Nil actum credens, dum quid superesset
agendum.
Believing nothing done whilst there remained anything else to be done.
Lucanus—Pharsalia. Bk. II. 657.
Nil igitur fieri de nilo posse putandum es
Semine quando opus est rebus.
We cannot conceive of matter being formed
of nothing, since things require a seed to start
from.
Lucretius—De Berum Natura. Bk. I. L. 206.
Haud igitur redit ad Nihilum res ulla, sed omnes
Discidio redeunt in corpora materiai.
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved
into their elements.
Lucretius—De Rerum Natura. Bk. I. 250.
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Nothing's new, and nothing's true, and
nothing matters.
Attributed to Lady Morgan.
Gigni
De nihilo nihil, in nihilum nil posse reverti.
Nothing can be born of nothing, nothing
can be resolved into nothing.
Persius.—Satires. I, 111. 83.
Gratis anhelans, multa agendo nihil agens.
Sibi molesta, et aliis odiosissima.
Out of breath to no purpose, in doing much
doing nothing. A race (of busybodies) hurtful
to itself and most hateful to all others.
Piledrus—Fables. Bk. II. 5. 3.
It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have
done nothing, but one should not abuse it.
RrvAROL—Preface to Petit Almanach de nos
Grands Hommes.
Nothing, thou elder brother e'en to shade.
Rochester—Poem on Nothing.
Operose nihil agunt.
They laboriously do nothing.
Seneca—De Brev. Vitoe. Bk. I. 13.
Where every something, being blent together
Turns to a wild of nothing.
Merchant of Venice. Act III. Sc. 2.
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| text = A life of nothing's nothing worth,
From that first nothing ere his birth,
To that last nothing under earth.
| author = Tennyson
| work = Two Voices.
NOVELTY
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There is nothing new except what is forgotten.
Mademoiselle Bertin (Milliner to Marie
Antoinette.)
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| author = Cervantes
| work = Don Quixote.
| place = Pt. II. Ch. LVIII.
Thos. Middleton—The Family of Love.
Act IV. Sc. 3.
There is no new thing under the sun.
Ecclesiastes. I. 9.
Is there anything whereof it may be said, See,
this is new? It hath been already of old time,
which was before us.
Ecclesiastes. I. 10.
Wie machen wir's, dass alles frisch und neu
Und mit Bedeutung auch gefallig sei?
How shall we plan, that all be fresh and new—
Important matter yet attractive too?
Goethe—Faust. Vorspiel auf dem Theater.
L. 15.
Dulcique animos novitate tenebo.
And I will capture your minds with sweet
novelty.
Ovid—Metamorphoses. Bk. IV. 284.
Est natura hominum novitatis avida.
Human nature is fond of novelty.
Pliny the Elder—Historia Naturalu. XII
5. 3.
