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

Indecision and delay are the parents of failure. Canning.

Independence, in all kinds, is rebellion; if unjust 10 rebellion, why parade it and everywhere prescribe it. Carlyle.

Independence, in all kinds, is rebellion. Were your superiors worthy to govern, and you worthy to obey, reverence for them were even your only possible freedom. Carlyle.

Independence, like honour, is a rocky island without a beach. Napoleon.

Independence you had better cease to talk of, for you are dependent not only on every act of people whom you never heard of, who are living round you, but on every past act of what has been dust for a thousand years. Ruskin.

Index expurgatorius—An expurgatory index.

Indica tigris agit rabida cum tigride pacem / 15 Perpetuam: sævis inter se convenit ursis. / Ast homini ferrum letale incude nefanda / Produxisse parum est—The Indian tigers live in perpetual peace with each rabid tigress; savage bears agree among themselves, but man without remorse beats out the deadly sword on the accursed anvil. Juv.

Indictum sit—Be it unsaid.

Indigestion is the devil—nay, 'tis the devil and all. It besets a man in every one of his senses. Burns.

Indigna digna habenda sunt hæres quæ facit—Things unbecoming are to be held becoming if the master does them. Plaut.