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 was for beauty that the world was made. Quoted by Emerson.

It was the nightingale, and not the lark / That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear. Rom. and Jul., iii. 5.

It was the wisdom of the ancients to regard 30 the most useful as the most illustrious. Sen.

It were better to be of no church than bitter for any. W. Penn.

It were easier to stop Euphrates at its source than one tear of a true and tender heart. Byron.

It were good for a man to have some anchorage deeper than the quicksands of this world; for these drift to and fro so as to baffle all conjecture. Carlyle.

It were no virtue to bear calamities if we did not feel them. Mme. Necker.

It will be all the same a hundred years hence. 35 Pr.

It will be an ill web to bleach. Pr.

It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood; / Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak. Macb., iii. 4.