James Wood, comp. 1899. Dictionary of Quotations

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Proverbs are the abridgments of wisdom.

—Quotation 49

Joseph
Joubert

Dictionary of Quotations

From Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources

Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

Selected and Compiled by the Rev. James Wood

These 28,732 selections feature non-English language sources including proverbs by a master Encyclopedist.

CONTENTS

Bibliographic Record Preface

LONDON, NEW YORK: FREDERICK WARNE & Co., 1899
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2012


Primary Author Index
Addison	to	Zimmermann

Featured Entries
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Alphabetical Index
A’ are guid	to	Adversa virtute
Adversity is	to	A life that
A light heart	to	A man must carry
A man must seek	to	An unimaginative person
Anxiety is the poison	to	A soul without reflection
A spark neglected	to	Avarice has ruined
Avarus	to	Best men are moulded
Be strong	to	Brain is always
Brave men	to	Cattivo è quel
Cattle go	to	Chi ha tempo
Childhood	to	Compos mentis
Compound for sins	to	Credulity
Creep before	to	Das Wunder
Data fata	to	De profundis
De propaganda	to	Die Kunst
Die Leidenschaften	to	Doctrine is nothing
Does Homer	to	Each mind
Each must stand	to	El corazon
El dar es honor	to	Equity judges
Equivocation	to	Eventus stultorum
Even weak men	to	Every tear
Everything a man	to	Eyes will not see
Ez for war	to	Fate steals
Fatetur facinus	to	Flagrante delicto
Flames rise	to	Forbearance
Forbid a fool	to	Fronti nulla fides
Frost and fraud	to	Genug ist über
Genuine morality	to	God helps those
God Himself	to	Gott ist überall
Gottlob!	to	Greatness
Greediness bursts	to	Hast du im Thal
Haste and rashness	to	He that cannot
He that ceases	to	He who does a good deed
He who does evil	to	Helluo librorum
Help others	to	Honi soit qui mal
Honnêtes gens	to	Hysteron proteron
I am a man	to	I would rather
Ibi omnis	to	If they do
If they bear	to	Il n’est sauce
Il ne fait	to	In bocca chiusa
In books	to	In seipso totus
In self-trust	to	Inmost things
Innocence	to	It is an equal
It is an honour	to	It is not the fraud
It is not	to	Ivory does not
J’ai bonne	to	Judges ought
Judgment	to	Kings wish
Kiss	to	La critique
La décence	to	Laudant quod non
Laudari a viro	to	Learn young
Learned fools	to	Let John Bull
Let justice	to	Lies that are half true
Life abounds	to	Literature, when noble
Litteræ non	to	Love is vanity
Love knows	to	Make haste slowly
Make hay	to	Man perfected
Man proposes	to	Married in haste
Marry above	to	Men look
Men love	to	Miscellaneous reading
Mischief	to	Mountains never
Mourning	to	Nations
Natur und Kunst	to	Nemesis is lame
Nemo allegans	to	Nil debet
Nil desperandum	to	No man lives
No man loves	to	Non deficit
Non destare	to	Nothing extenuate
Nothing for nothing	to	Nur Helios
Nur immer zu!	to	Of the eyes
Of the soul	to	On parle peu
On perd tout	to	Only they who
Only those books	to	Out at sea
Out of debt	to	Pedibus timor
Peevishness covers	to	Plausus tunc
Play not for gain	to	Poverty wants
Power and permanence	to	Proverbs were
Provide things	to	Qui proficit
Qui quæ	to	Reason is a bee
Reason is a historian	to	Respect yourself
Respectable mediocrity	to	Sadness and gladness
Sae rantingly	to	Secrets travel
Sects of men	to	Short swallow-flights
Should auld	to	Smiles from reason
Smooth runs	to	Sorrows remembered
Sors tua mortalis	to	Sub rosa
Sub silentio	to	Tale tuum
Talent alone	to	That which each man
That which God	to	The chariest maid
The charitable give	to	The errors
The essence	to	The good word
The goods	to	The ideal of friendship
The idle	to	The man who works
The man who	to	The pains of power
The painful	to	The rough seas
The rude man	to	The things
The thinker	to	The wise in heart
The wise man	to	There are times
There are truths	to	There is no solitude
There is no spirit	to	They, sweet soul
They that are above	to	Though thousands hate
Though we lose	to	To acquire certainty
To act is easy	to	To popular religion
To pour oil	to	True eloquence
True fame	to	Ultimus Romanorum
Ultra posse	to	Utinam tam facile
Utopia	to	Virtue is the queen
Virtue itself offends	to	Waste not time
Watch and pray	to	We may daily
We may despise	to	Well, you may fear
Wem nicht zu	to	What is this day’s
What is this life	to	When at one
When bad men	to	Where peace
Where people	to	Whom God teaches not
Whom Heaven	to	Without a God
Without a rich heart	to	Yield not to temptation
Yield to God	to	Zwischen uns sei

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