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

Art, not less eloquently than literature, teaches her children to venerate the single eye. Willmott.

Art not thou a man? Bible.

Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a 50 deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion. Goethe.

Art thou afraid of death, and dost thou wish to live for ever? Live in the whole that remains when thou hast long been gone (wenn du lange dahin bist). Schiller.

A rude âne rude ânier—A stubborn driver to a stubborn ass. Fr. Pr.

A rusty nail, placed near the faithful compass, / Will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy. Scott.

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages. Emerson.

A saint abroad, a devil at home. Pr. 55

A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn. Pope.

As all men have some access to primary truth, so all have some art or power of communication in the head, but only in the artist does it descend into the hand. Emerson.