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

Learn to say No! and it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin. Spurgeon.

Learn wisdom from the follies of others. Pr.

Learn you a bad habit, an' ye'll ca'd a custom. Sc. Pr.

Learn young, learn fair; / Learn auld, learn mair. Sc. Pr.

Learned fools are the greatest of all fools. 10 Ger. Pr.

Learned Theban. Lear, iii. 4.

Learned without sense and venerably dull. Churchill.

Learning by study must be won, / 'Twas ne'er entail'd from son to son. Gay.

Learning hath gained most by those books by which printers have lost. Fuller.

Learning hath its infancy, when it is almost 15 childish; then its youth, when luxurious and juvenile; then its strength of years, when solid; and lastly its old age, when dry and exhaust. Bacon.