Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources
Part 6
1828 words | Chapter 6
as been sincere song.= _Ruskin._
=All healthy things are sweet-tempered.= _Emerson._
=All his geese are swans.= _Pr._
=All history is an inarticulate Bible.= _Carlyle._
=All immortal writers speak out of their hearts.= 45
_Ruskin._
=All imposture weakens confidence and chills
benevolence.= _Johnson._
=All inmost things are melodious, naturally
utter themselves in song.= _Carlyle._
=All is but toys.= _Macb._, ii. 3.
=All is good that God sends us.= _Pr._
=All is influence except ourselves.= _Goethe._ 50
=All is not gold that glitters.= _Pr._
=All is not lost that's in peril.= _Pr._
=All live by seeming.= _Old Play._
=All living objects do by necessity form to
themselves a skin.= _Carlyle._
=Allmächtig ist doch das Gold; auch Mohren= 55
=kann's bleichen=--Gold is omnipotent; it can
make even the Moor white. _Schiller._
=All mankind love a lover.= _Emerson._
=All man's miseries go to prove his greatness.=
_Pascal._
=All martyrdoms looked mean when they were
suffered.= _Emerson._
=All measures of reformation are effective in
proportion to their timeliness.= _Ruskin._
=All men are bores except when we want them.= 60
_Holmes._
=All men are born sincere and die deceivers.=
_Vauvenargues._
=All men are fools, and with every effort they
differ only in the degree.= _Boileau._
=All men commend patience, though few be
willing to practise it.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=All men have their price.= _Anon._
=All men honour love, because it looks up, and= 65
=not down.= _Emerson._
=All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's
eye, will work wrong.= _Carlyle._
=All men live by truth, and stand in need of
expression.= _Emerson._
=All men may dare what has by man been done.=
_Young._
=All men that are ruined are ruined on the side
of their natural propensities.= _Burke._
=All men think all men mortal but themselves.= 70
_Young._
=All men would be masters of others, and no
man is lord of himself.= _Goethe._
=All men who know not where to look for truth,
save in the narrow well of self, will find their
own image at the bottom and mistake it for
what they are seeking.= _Lowell._
=All minds quote. Old and new make up the
warp and woof of every moment.= _Emerson._
=All mischief comes from our inability to be
alone.= _La Bruyère._
=All money is but a divisible title-deed.= _Ruskin._ 5
=All my possessions for a moment of time!=
_Queen Elizabeth's last words._
=All nature is but art unknown to thee. / All
chance, direction which thou canst not see. /
All discord, harmony not understood; / All
partial evil, universal good.= _Pope._
=All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's
natural superiority.= _Emerson._
=All objects are as windows through which the
philosophic eye looks into infinitude.= _Carlyle._
=All orators are dumb when beauty pleadeth.= 10
_Sh._
[Greek: all' ou Zeus andressi noêmata panta teleutâ]--Zeus,
however, does not give effect to all the
schemes of man. _Hom._
[Greek: Allos egô]--Alter ego. _Zeno's definition of a
friend._
=All our evils are imaginary, except pain of
body and remorse of conscience.= _Rousseau._
=All our most honest striving prospers only in
unconscious moments.= _Goethe._
=All passions exaggerate; and they are passions= 15
=only because they do exaggerate.=
_Chamfort._
=All pleasure must be bought at the price of
pain.= _John Foster._
=All power appears only in transition.= _Novalis._
=All power, even the most despotic, rests ultimately
on opinion.= _Hume._
=All power of fancy over reason is a degree of
insanity.= _Johnson._
=All promise outruns performance.= _Emerson._ 20
=All public disorder proceeds from want of
work.= _Courier._
=All speech, even the commonest, has something
of song in it.= _Carlyle._
=All strength lies within, not without.= _Jean Paul._
=All strong men love life.= _Heine._
=All strong souls are related.= _Schiller._ 25
=All's well that ends well.= _Pr._
=All talent, all intellect, is in the first place
moral.= _Carlyle._
=All that a man has he will give for right relations
with his mates.= _Emerson._
=All that glisters is not gold; / Gilded tombs do
worms infold.= _Mer. of Ven._, ii. 7.
=All that is best in the great poets of all countries= 30
=is not what is national in them, but
what is universal.= _Longfellow._
=All that is human must retrograde, if it do not
advance.= _Gibbon._
=All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature,
and appears to sleep until it is aroused and
summoned forth by contrast.= _Goethe._
=All that lives must die, / Passing through
nature to eternity.= _Ham._, i. 2.
=All that man does and brings to pass is the
vesture of a thought.= _Sartor Resartus._
=All that mankind has done, thought, gained,= 35
=or been, it is all lying in magic preservation
in the pages of books.= _Carlyle._
=All that tread the globe are but a handful to
the tribes that slumber in its bosom.= _Bryant._
=All the armed prophets have conquered, all
the unarmed have perished.= _Machiavelli._
=All the arts affecting culture= (_i.e._, =the fine arts=)
=have a certain common bond, and are connected
by a certain blood relationship with
each other.= _Cic._
=All the difference between the wise man and
the fool is, that the wise man keeps his
counsel, and the fool reveals it.= _Gael. Pr._
=All the diseases of mind, leading to fatalest= 40
=ruin, are due to the concentration of man
upon himself, whether his heavenly interests
or his worldly interests, matters not.= _Ruskin._
=All the faults of the man I can pardon in the
player; no fault of the player can I pardon
in the man.= _Goethe._
=All the good of which humanity is capable is
comprised in obedience.= _J. S. Mill._
=All the great ages have been ages of belief.=
_Emerson._
=All the keys don't hang at one man's girdle.= _Pr._
=All the makers of dictionaries, all the compilers= 45
=of opinions already printed, we may
term plagiarists, but honest plagiarists, who
arrogate not the merit of invention.= _Voltaire._
=All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten
this little hand.= _Macb._, v. 1.
=All the pursuits of men are the pursuits of
women also, and in all of them a woman
is only a weaker man.= _Plato._
=All the thinking in the world does not bring
us to thought; we must be right by nature,
so that good thoughts may come.= _Goethe._
=All the wit in the world is not in one head.= _Pr._
=All the wit in the world is thrown away upon= 50
=the man who has none.= _Bruyère._
=All the world's a stage / And all the men and
women merely players.= _As You Like It_,
ii. 7.
=All things are double, one against another.
Good is set against evil, and life against
death.= _Ecclus._
=All things are for the sake of the good, and it
is the cause of everything beautiful.= _Plato._
=All things are in perpetual flux and fleeting.=
_Pr._
=All things are symbolical, and what we call= 55
=results are beginnings.= _Plato._
=All things happen by necessity; in Nature
there is neither good nor bad.= _Spinoza._
=All things that are / Are with more spirit
chased than enjoyed.= _Mer. of Ven._, ii. 6.
=All things that love the sun are out of doors.=
_Wordsworth._
=All this (in the daily press) does not concern
one in the least; one is neither the wiser
nor the better for knowing what the day
brings forth.= _Goethe._
=All true men are soldiers in the same army,= 60
=to do battle against the same enemy--the
empire of darkness and wrong.= _Carlyle._
=All truth is not to be told at all times.= _Pr._
=All virtue is most rewarded, and all wickedness
most punished, in itself.= _Bacon._
=All went as merry as a marriage-bell.= _Byron._
=All, were it only a withered leaf, works together
with all.= _Carlyle._
=All will be as God wills.= _Gael. Pr._
=All wise men are of the same religion, and= 5
=keep it to themselves.= _Lord Shaftesbury._
=All women are good=, _viz._, =for something or
nothing.= _Pr._
=All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.=
_Pr._
=Allzugrosse Zartheit der Gefühle ist ein
wahres Unglück=--It is a real misfortune to
have too great delicacy of feeling. _C. J.
Weber._
=Allzustraff gespannt, zerspringt der Bogen=--If
the bow is overstrained, it breaks. _Schiller._
=Allzuviel ist nicht genug=--Too much is not 10
enough. _Ger. Pr._
=Alma mater=--A benign mother; applied to one's
university, also to the "all-nourishing" earth.
=Al molino, ed alla sposa / Sempre manca
qualche cosa=--A mill and a woman are always
in want of something. _It. Pr._
=Almost all our sorrows spring out of our relations
with other people.= _Schopenhauer._
=Almsgiving never made any man poor.= _Pr._
=A loan should come laughing home.= _Pr._ 15
=A l'œuvre on connaît l'artisan=--By the work
one knows the workman. _La Font._
=A loisir=--At leisure. _Fr._
=Alomban és szerelemben nincs lehetetlenséej=--In
dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
_J. Arany._
=Along the cool sequester'd vale of life / They
kept the noiseless tenor of their way.= _Gray._
=A los bobos se les aperece la Madre de Dios=--The 20
mother of God appears to fools. _Sp. Pr._
=A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind.= _Love's
L. Lost_, iv. 3.
=Alte fert aquila=--The eagle bears me on high. _M._
=Altera manu fert lapidem, altera panem ostentat=--He
carries a stone in one hand, and
shows bread in the other. _Pr._
=Altera manu scabunt, altera feriunt=--They
tickle with one hand and smite with the other.
_Pr._
=Alter ego=--Another or second self. 25
=Alter idem=--Another exactly the same.
=Alter ipse amicus=--A friend is a second self. _Pr._
=Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest=--Let no
man be slave of another who can be his own
master. _M. of Paracelsus._
=Alter remus aquas, alter mihi radat arenas=--Let
me skim the water with one oar, and with
the other touch the sands, _i.e._, so as not to go
out of my depth.
=Alterum tantum=--As much more. 30
=Although men are accused of not knowing
their weakness, yet perhaps as few know
their strength.= _Swift._
=Although the last, not least.= _King Lear_, i. 1.
=Altissima quæque flumina minimo sono labuntur=--The
deepest rivers flow with the least noise.
_Curt._
=Alt ist das Wort, doch bleibet hoch und wahr
der Sinn=--Old is the Word, yet does the meaning
abide as high and true as ever. _Faust._
=Altro diletto che' mparar, non provo=--Learning 35
is my sole delight. _Petrarch._
=Always filling, never full.= _Cowper._
=Always have two strings to your bow.= _Pr._
=Always strive for the whole; and if thou canst
not become a whole thyself, connect thyself
with a whole as a ministering member.=
_Schiller._
=Always there is a black spot in our sunshine,
the shadow of ourselves.= _Carlyle._
=Always to distrust is an error, as well as always= 40
=to trust.= _Goethe._
=Always win fools first; they talk much, and
what they have once uttered they will stick
to.= _Helps._
=Amabilis insania=--A fine frenzy. _Hor._
=A machine is not a man or a work of art; it
is destructive of humanity and art.= _Wm.
Blake._
=A madness most discree
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