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

Keep to your subject close in all you say; / Nor for a sounding sentence ever stray. Dryden.

Keep well while you are well. Pr.

Keep what you want, cast what you can, and 40 expect nothing back once lost or once given. Ruskin.

Keep you in the rear of your affection, / Out of the shot and danger of desire. Ham., i. 3.

Keep your ain fish guts for your ain seamaws, i.e., what you don't need yourselves for your own friends. Sc. Pr.

Keep your breath to cool your own crowdie (cold stirabout), i.e., till you can use it to some purpose. Sc. Pr.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage; half-shut afterwards. Amer. Pr.

Keep your gab steeket (mouth shut) when ye 45 kenna (know not) your company. Sc. Pr.

Keep your hurry in your fist. Irish Pr.

Keep your idea while you can; let it still circulate in your blood, and there fructify; inarticulately inciting you to good activities; giving to your whole spiritual life a ruddier health. And when the time comes for speaking it you will speak it all the more concisely and the more expressively; and if such a time should never come, have you not already acted it and uttered it as no words can? Carlyle.