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

Never yet, since the proud selfish race / Of men began to jar, did passion give, / Nor can it ever give, a right decision. Thomson.

Never yet / Was noble man but made ignoble talk. Tennyson.

New acquests are more burden than strength. Bacon.

New brooms sweep clean. Pr. 25

New, daring, and inspiring ideas are engendered only in a clear head over a glowing heart, as the richest wines grow over the volcanoes. F. Jacobs.

New laws, new frauds. Pr.

New lords, new laws. Pr.

New-made honour doth forget men's names; / 'Tis too respective and too sociable, / For your conversion. King John, i. 1.

New presbyter is but old priest writ large. 30 Milton.

New religion! We already, in our dim heads, know truths (of religion) by the thousand; and, yet in our dead hearts, we will not perform them by the ten, by the unit. Carlyle.