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

Lèse-majesté—High-treason. Fr.

Leser, wie gefall' ich dir? / Leser, wie gefällst du mir?—Reader, how please I thee? Reader, how pleasest thou me? M.

Less in rising into lofty abstractions lies the difficulty, than in seeing well and lovingly the complexities of what is at hand. Carlyle.

Less of your courtesy and more of your purse. Pr.

Less of your honey and more of your honesty. 5 Pr.

Lessons hard to learn are sweet to know. Pr.

Lessons of wisdom have never such power over us as when they are wrought into the heart through the groundwork of a story which engages the passions. Sterne.

Lessons of wisdom open to our view / In all life's varied scenes of gay or gloomy hue. De Bosch.

Let a good pot have a good lid. Pr.

Let a hoard always be made, but not too 10 great a hoard. Hitopadesa.