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

Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man. Bacon.

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. Bacon.

A thief knows a thief, as a wolf knows a wolf. Pr.

A thing is the bigger of being shared. Gael. Pr.

A thing is what it is, only in and by means of 35 its limit. Hegel.

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it. Ruskin.

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever; / Its loveliness increases; it will never / Pass into nothingness. Keats.

A thing you don't want is dear at any price. Pr.

A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have. Carlyle.

A third interprets motion, looks, and eyes, / 40 At every word a reputation dies. Pope.