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

One futile person, that maketh it his glory to 20 tell, will do more hurt than many that know it their duty to conceal. Bacon.

One gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves. Auerbach.

One God, one law, one element, / And one far-off divine event, / To which the whole creation moves. Tennyson.

One good deed dying tongueless / Slaughters a thousand, waiting upon that. Winter's Tale, i. 2.

One good head is better than a hundred strong hands. Pr.

One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters. 25 Pr.

One good turn deserves another. Pr.

One good way I know of to find happiness is not by boring a hole to fit the plug. Billings.

One grain fills not a sack, but helps his fellows. Pr.

One hair of a woman draws more than a team of horses.