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   Girlsareso queer youneverknow whattheymean.They say no when they mean yes, and drive a man out of his wits just for the fun of it.

- Louisa May Alcott
  Little Women, pt.2, ch.35.

In Scotland, land of the omnipotent No.

- Alan Bold
  'A Memory of Death'.

Qu'est-ce qu'un homme re  volte  ? Un homme qui dit non. What is a rebel? A man who says no.

- Albert Camus
L'Homme re v olte  .

The everlasting No.

-Thomas Carlyle
^4  Sartor Resartus, bk.2, ch.7, title.

No sunno moon! No mornno noon No dawnno duskno proper time of day.

-Honorius of Autun
  'No'.

No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!

-Honorius of Autun
  'No'.

Silence has a sound, and the sound is 'no.'

- Harold Hongju Koh
  Testimony to the US Senate  Judiciary Committee on the presidential right to enter the Gulf War without congressional approval. Quoted by Senator  Joseph R Biden,  Jr in NPR broadcast,10  Jan.

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say No in any of them.

- Dorothy ne  e Rothschild Parker
Quoted in AlexanderWoollcott While Rome Burns (1934),'Our Mrs Parker'.

Why is it no one ever sent me yet One perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get One perfect rose.

- Dorothy ne  e Rothschild Parker
  Not So Deep as AWell,'One Perfect Rose'.

I know that I can save this country and that no one else can.

-William, 1st Earl of Chatham known as  the Elder Pitt
  In conversation with one of his private secretaries, Nov.

Oh, no, no, no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning.

- Stevie (Florence Margaret) Smith
  NotWaving but Drowning,'NotWaving but Drowning'.

What ifthat other single voicewe knowsowell responds by saying,'Wesay no, and we arethe State'? Well, wesay yesand we are the people.

- Kenyon Wright
  Calling for a Scottish Parliament. Speech at the inaugural meeting of the Scottish Constitutional Convention, 30 Mar.The 'single voice' is that of Prime Minister MargaretThatcher.

:Tu n'es que la re  ponse la plus courte qu'on puisse faire aux questions des hommes. : En sais-tu de meilleur? : Oui. Le mot rien est aussi court que le mot Dieu. :You are only the shortest possible answer to all the questions of men. : Do you know a better one? :Yes, theword no isjust asshort astheword God.

-Crayencour
ARIANEDIEUARIANEARIADNEGOD (BACCHUS)ARIADNE1963  Qui n'a pas son Minotaure?, pt.9.