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

It is not by shirking difficulties that we can remove them or escape them. M. R. Greg.

It is not enough that a poet possess inspiration; his inspiration must be that of a cultured spirit. Schiller.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit. It. Pr.

It is not enough to know how to steal; one must know also how to conceal. It. Pr.

It is not enough to know, one must also apply; 40 it is not enough to will to do, one must also do. Goethe.

It is not enough to speak, but to speak true. Mid. Night's Dream, v. 1.

It is not enough to take steps which may some day lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise. Goethe.

It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat. Colton.

It is not everybody one would set to choose a horse or a pig; how much less a member of Parliament? Ruskin.

It is not everybody who can bend the bow of 45 Ulysses, and most men only do themselves a mischief by trying to bend it. John Morley.