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Thirst, for who in the time of innocence would have drunk without being athirst? Nay, sir, it was drinking; for privatio praesupponit habitum. — Francois Rabelais

Nay the honour of the woman is not made even to depend on her will. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Nay then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables. — William Shakespeare

When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the "nay" in your own mind, nor do you with hold the "aye. — Kahlil Gibran

Robinson Kreutznaer; but, by the usual corruption of words in England, we are now called - nay we call ourselves and write our name - Crusoe; and — Daniel Defoe

Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. "More weight," he says. And died. — Arthur Miller

Nay, indeed, if you had your eyes, you might fail of the knowing me: it is a wise father that knows his own child. — William Shakespeare

Nay, Socrates," said Glaucon, "the measure of listening to such discussions is the whole of life for reasonable men". The Republic, 450c. — Plato

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason. — Edward Coke

Are you decent?" a woman's voice called, pushing the door cautiously ajar.
"Nay, but we're clothed," Cian purred. — Karen Marie Moning

Children (nay, and men too) do most by example. — John Locke

Between yea and nay, how much difference is there? — Laozi

He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay. — Miguel De Cervantes

You are mine, always, if ye will it or no, if ye want me or nay. Mine, and I willna let ye go — Diana Gabaldon

Smart'n'Civ'lize ain't nothin' to do with the color o' the skin, nay. — David Mitchell

A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating. — Martin Luther

And should men name me dead, I beg ye, say Nay, he but wearied here, and went away. — Kenneth Rand

What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I wish, grave governor, 'twere in my power
To favour you; but 'tis my father's cause,
Wherein I may not, nay, I dare not dally. — Christopher Marlowe

He that will not whan he may,Whan he would, he shall haue nay. — John Heywood

Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies; Nay, who but infants question in such wise, twas one of my most intimate enemies. — Dante Gabriel Rossetti

There are times, Kruppe murmurs, when celibacy born of sad deprivation becomes a boon, nay, a source of great relief. — Steven Erikson

Nay, Nay! Try thou not.
But do thou or do thou not,
For there is no try. — Ian Doescher

If I lived through this day, nay this adventure, I would have one heck of a story to tell when I returned home. If I ever went home again. — Rae Z. Ryans

Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning. — Jane Austen

Do I need to go for a stroll? (Sin)
Nay. I'm merely trying to kill your brother. (Maggie) — Kinley MacGregor

Satan with all his wits and wiles, shall never vanquish a soul armed with true grace; nay, he that hath this armour of God on shall vanquish him. Look — William Gurnall

Prove the nay-sayers wrong ... Leave being average to others ... You could be the one who changes the way the world spins — Frank Giampaolo

You will not be content, I know, to remain in the dark. Nay, the end, the very end, may give you a gleam of peace. — Bram Stoker

Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. — Jane Austen

The rest of the planets have their dress and furniture, nay and their inhabitants too, as well as this Earth of ours. — Christiaan Huygens

Want to read my mind to see what I'm thinking about?" "Nay. Tell me," he urged as he nuzzled her neck. "You, our future, and our love. — Donna Grant

Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil ... — Hippocrates

Nay, this village isn't yer sanctuary from the cruel world. It's God Almighty. He's the only one who can protect ye. — Jennifer Hudson Taylor

Right words, sometimes they escape me; curses nay so much. Of them I am kin. — Luke Taylor

Ix-nay!" I hissed at him. "Ix-nay!" I didn't know why I resorted to Pig Latin right then. It just seemed like the thing to do. — T.J. Klune

No guile?
Nay, but so strangely
He moves among us. Not this
Man but Barabbas! Release to us
Barabbas! — Adelaide Crapsey

Nay then, but let me give to Him not what I value least, but what I prize and delight in most. — Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

Nay, father.
Some of us have been killing giants today and aren't in the mood to have a tea party.
- Thor, God of Thunder — Matt Fraction

Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Nay," Isaac said. — Ann H. Gabhart

I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew. — John Calvin

Will ye, ay or nay? — James Joyce

Nay," he agreed. "I am bigger. Stronger. Better. — Karen Marie Moning

I have women who offer to sleep with me all the time. But not men. They're all talk and nay action - as we'd say in Scotland. — Shirley Manson

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 opportunity. — Alcaeus

I desire it much, nay I will take no refusal. — Bram Stoker

Nay, he needs a woman, not a girl. And Laoghaire will be a girl when she's fifty. — Diana Gabaldon

Cyn? Short for Cynric? (Callie)
Nay. S-I-N. As in conceived, born in, and am currently living happily in. (Sin) — Kinley MacGregor

She waits for me, my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs; I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise. — Mary Mapes Dodge

Nay, a heart of love is treasure, and the best the world contains. — Florence Morse Kingsley

Prescient woman called Meronym visited my dwellin' for a spell, an' nothin'd be the same, not in my life, not in the Valleys, nay, not never. — David Mitchell

Bonaparte's wish is Peace, nay that he is afraid of war to the last degree. — Charles James Fox

We have seen that our vigour, our strength, nay, our national life is in our religion. — Swami Vivekananda

What, with my tongue in your tail? nay, come again,
Good Kate; I am a gentleman. — William Shakespeare

Nay, Sir, those who write in them, write well, in order to be paid well. — Samuel Johnson

Nay if even in the house of Hades the dead forget their dead, yet will I even there be mindful of my dear comrade. — Homer

Never let them see you sweat. Never take a "no" from someone who isn't qualified to tell you "yes." Never let the nay-sayers get you down. — Mary Kennedy

Nay, droop not, fellows; innocence should be bold. — Philip Massinger

Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty. — Marcus Aurelius

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons. — Rudy Rucker

Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world? — Thomas Carlyle

Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim, nay, blind, thou art in preventing them. — Philip Sidney

Nay, the guest who has escaped from the roof, will think twice before he comes back in by the door. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy. — William Shakespeare

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable. — Horace Mann

I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my soul's delight. — Nikki Grimes

Unlike humanity, my mind isn't so frail as to simply climb under gravity and submit to God. — Lionel Suggs

Nay; It's nought but an' owd fossil cheese, that somebody's roll't away — Randolph Caldecott

Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves
As strong as thunder is in Jove's. — Abraham Cowley

We may not like it, but we need human friends, because we have human enemies whether we will or nay. — Robin McKinley

Sheftu," she whispered, "it's all over."
"Nay, little one. It's just beginning. Many things are beginning. — Eloise Jarvis McGraw

Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth. — Susanna Moodie

Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed. — Abu Bakr

The contemporary rejection of natural right leads to nihilism - nay, it is identical with nihilism, — Leo Strauss

If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam. — George Bernard Shaw

You take my heart with you, my loving captor."
"Nay, Madelyne. I am your captive in body and soul. — Julie Garwood

Nay, it ain't got fleas, and 'tis a girl. — Cecilia Dart-Thornton

Anger is not inappropriate in and of itself. But there — W. Robert Nay

When the evil deed, after it has become known, brings sorrow to the fool, then it destroys his bright lot, nay, it cleaves his head. — Max Muller

No, let the monarch's bags and others holdThe flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold. — John Wolcot

Ho' law an' Civ'lize ain't always the same, nay, see Kona got Kona law but they ain't got one flea o' Civ'lize. — David Mitchell

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

So many things
nay every real thing
is good if only it will be humble and ordinate. — C.S. Lewis

There's nay shame to ha' fallen in battle, mo caraidh," he said softly. "The greatest of warriors may be overcome. — Diana Gabaldon

Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope. — Henry David Thoreau

There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes. — Henry David Thoreau

Nay, you'll be ashamed of me everyday of your life," he answered; "and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it. — Emily Bronte

As an astronomer in the true sense of the term, Sir John Herschel stood before all his contemporaries. Nay, he stood almost alone. — Richard A. Proctor

I have definitely gone through my ups and downs and faced my adversity and my nay-sayers, but managed to do all right. It is a pretty classic tale. — Steve Nash

I am gone, though I am here. There is no love in you. Nay, I pray you let me go. — William Shakespeare

I've lived in books more than I've lived nay where else. — Neil Gaiman

Nay, we must think men are not gods,
Nor of them look for such observancy
As fits the bridal. — William Shakespeare

Nay, what is even worse, he may become a poet, which they say is an incurable and infectious disease." "This — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Every situation
nay, every moment
is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal. — Arthur Keith

Nay, had I pow'r, I should
Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell,
Uproar the universal peace, confound
All unity on earth. — William Shakespeare