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

by Rev. James Wood

In working well, if travail you sustain, / Into 35 the wind shall lightly pass the pain, / But of the deed the glory shall remain. Nicholas Grimwald.

In works of labour or of skill, / I would be busy too, / For Satan finds some mischief still / For idle hands to do. Watts.

In writing readily, it does not follow that you write well; but in writing well, you must be able to write readily. Quinct.

In your own country your name, in other countries your appearance. Heb. Pr.

In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare. Pope, after Homer.

In youth it is too early, in old age it is too late 40 to marry. Diogenes.

In youth, one has tears without grief; in age, grief without tears. Jean Paul.

Inactivity cannot be led to good. Hannah More.

Inanis verborum torrens—An unmeaning torrent of words. Quinct.

Incedis per ignes / Suppositos cineri doloso—You are treading on fire overlaid by treacherous ashes. Hor.