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Napoleon
French conqueror

Curse that Count de Custárd! I must invent a dessert of my own!

Newton, Sir Isaac
scientist

I was resting beneath a tree when a fig fell on my head. And then I started wondering.....
-- how he invented the Fig Newton

Nixon, Richard Milhous
36th U.S. President

Liddy, while you're at it, break into a 7-Eleven and bring me back a burrito and Sprite Big Gulp.

Well, Sirica can expletive deleted himself. I'll do whatever the expletive deleted I want. I'm the expletive deleted President!
--verbatim transcript

I am not a corpse.
--tombstone inscription

Nobel, Alfred
chemist

Whaddya want? A medal?
--nasty remark to lab clerk

Nostradamus
15th century astrologer

In the 20th century in the year of our Lord, a tribe of ransackers will triumph over swarming birds of prey.
--predicting the winner of Super Bowl XV (Raiders 27, Eagles 10))