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's an ill wind that blaws naebody gude. Sc. Pr.

It's aye the cheapest lawyer's fee / To taste the barrel. Burns.

It's bad flesh that won't take salt; worse is 50 the body that won't take warning. Gael. Pr.

It's difficult to give sense to a fool. Gael. Pr.

It's dogged as does it. Pr.

It's good sheltering under an old hedge. Pr.

It's hard sailing when there is no wind. Pr.

It's hard to take the twist out of an oak that grew in the sapling. Gael.

It's hard to tell which is Old Harry when everybody's got boots on. George Eliot.

It's harder work getting to hell than to heaven. 5 Ger. Pr.