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

[Greek: Aplêstos pithos]—A cask that cannot be filled (being pierced at the bottom with holes.) Pr.

A plomb—Perpendicularly; firmly. Fr.

A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth. Schelling.

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in the darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. Shelley.

A poet must be before his age, to be even with 45 posterity. Lowell.

A poet must sing for his own people. Stedman.

A poet on canvas is exactly the same species of creature as a poet in song. Ruskin.

A poison which acts not at once is not therefore a less dangerous poison. Lessing.

A position of eminence makes a great man greater and a little man less. La Bruyère.

Apothegms are, in history, the same as the 50 pearls in the sand or the gold in the mine. Erasmus.