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

Intuta quæ indecora—What is unbecoming is unsafe. Tac.

Inveni portum, Spes et Fortuna valete, / Sat 10 me lusistis, ludite nunc alios—I have reached the port; hope and fortune, farewell; you have made sport enough of me; make sport of others now. Lines at the end of Le Sage's "Gil Blas."

Invent first, and then embellish. Johnson.

Invention breeds invention. Emerson.

Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age. Swift.

Inventions have all been invented over and over fifty times. Man is the arch-machine, of which all these shifts drawn from himself are toy models. Emerson.

Invia virtuti nulla est via—No way is impassable 15 to virtue. Ovid.

Invidia gloriæ comes—Envy is the attendant on glory. Ovid.

"Invidia," jealousy of your neighbour's good, has been, since dust was first made flesh, the curse of man; and "charitas," the desire to do your neighbour grace, the one source of all human glory, power and material blessing. Ruskin.

Invidia Siculi non invenere tyranni / Tormentum majus—Sicilian tyrants invented nothing that is a greater torment than envy. Juv.