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

Ingenuas didicisse fideliter artes / Emollit mores, nec sinit esse feros—A faithful study of the liberal arts refines the manners and corrects their harshness. Ovid.

Ingrata patria, ne ossa quidem habebis—Ungrateful 15 country, thou shalt not have even my bones. Scipio.

Ingratis servire nefas—To serve the ungrateful is an offence to the gods.

Ingratitude and compassion never cohabit in the same breast. South.

Ingratitude drieth up wells, / And time bridges fells. Wodroephe.

Ingratitude is a crime so shameful, that the man was never yet found who would acknowledge himself guilty of it. (?)

Ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend, / More 20 hideous, when thou show'st thee in a child, / Than the sea-monster. King Lear, i. 4.

Ingratus est qui remotis testibus agit gratiam—He is an ungrateful man who is unwilling to acknowledge his obligation before others. Sen.

Ingratus unus miseris omnibus nocet—One ungrateful man does an injury to all needy people. Pub. Syr.

Inimicus et invidus vicinorum oculus—An enemy and an envious man is an eye over his neighbour. Pr.