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 loss brings another. Pr. 50

One man is born to money, and another to the purse. Dan. Pr.

One man makes a chair, and another man sits in it. Pr.

One man may lead a horse to the water, but twenty cannot make him drink. Pr.

One man may steal a horse more safely than another may look at him over a hedge. Pr.

One man receives crucifixion as the reward of 55 his villainy; another a regal crown. Juv.

One man that has a higher wisdom in him is not stronger than ten men, or than ten thousand, but than all men that have it not. Carlyle.

One man's eyes are spectacles to another to read his heart with. Johnson.

One man's justice is another man's injustice; one man's beauty, another's ugliness; one man's wisdom, another's folly; as one beholds the same objects from a higher point. Emerson.

One man's meat is another man's poison. Pr.