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

Inmost things are all melodious, naturally utter themselves in song. The meaning of song goes deep. Carlyle.

Innocence has a friend in heaven. Schiller. 35

Innocence is a flower which withers when touched, and blooms not again though watered with tears. Hooper.

Inopem me copia fecit—Plenty has made me poor; wealth makes wit waver. Ovid.

Inopi beneficium bis dat, qui dat celeriter—He confers a twofold benefit on a needy man who does so quickly. Pub. Syr.

Inops, potentem dum vult imitari, perit—An incapable man who attempts to imitate a capable is sure to come to grief. Phædr.

Inquinat egregios adjuncta superbia mores—The 40 best manners are stained by the addition of pride. Claud.

Inquisitiveness as seldom cures jealousy as drinking in a fever quenches the thirst. Wycherley.

Ins Innre der Natur / Dringt kein erschaffner Geist. / Glückselig, wem sie nur / Die äussre Schale weist—No created spirit penetrates into the inner secret of Nature. Happy he to whom she shows but the outer shell. Haller.

Insani sapiens nomen ferat, æquus iniqui, / Ultra quod satis est virtutem si petat ipsam—Let the wise man bear the name of fool, and the just of unjust, if he pursue Virtue herself beyond the proper bounds. Hor.