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

Barking dogs seldom bite. Pr. 55

Bas bleu—A blue-stocking. Fr.

Base envy withers at another's joy, / And hates that excellence it cannot reach. Thomson.

Base in kind, and born to be a slave. Cowper.

Base men, being in love, have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them. Othello, ii. 1.

Base souls have no faith in great men. Rousseau. 60

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. Arist.

Bashfulness is but the passage from one season of life to another. Bp. Hurd.

Basis virtutum constantia—Constancy is the basis of all the virtues. M.

Battering the gates of heaven with storms of prayer. Tennyson.