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

Ondt bliver aldrig godt för halv værre kommer—Bad is never good till worse befall. Dan. Pr.

One abides not long on the summit of fortune. Pr.

One, although not possessed of a mine of gold, may find the offspring of his own nature, that noble ardour, which hath for its object the accomplishment of the whole assemblage of virtues. Hitopadesa.

One always has time enough if one will apply 35 it well. Goethe.

One and God make a majority. Fred. Douglas.

One anecdote is worth a volume of biography. Channing.

One barking dog sets all the street a-barking. Pr.

One beats the bush, and another catches the bird. Pr.

One Bible I know, of whose plenary inspiration 40 doubt is not so much as possible; nay, with my own eyes I saw the God's hand writing it; whereof all other Bibles are but leaves, say, in picture-writing, to assist the weaker faculty. Carlyle.

One born on the glebe comes by habit to belong to it; the two grow together, and the fairest ties are spun from the union. Goethe.