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

[Greek: opse theôn aleousi myloi, aleousi de lepta]—The 35 mills of the gods grind slow, but they grind small.

Opiferque per orbem dicor—I am known over the world as the helper. M.

Opinion is a medium between knowledge and ignorance. Plato.

Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant. Pascal.

Opinion is the main thing which does good or harm in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us. Marcus Antoninus.

Opinion is the mistress of fools. Pr. 40

Opinion rules the world. Carlyle.

Opinions concerning acts are not history; acts themselves alone are history. Wm. Blake.

Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones. Colton.

Opinionum enim commenta delet dies, naturæ judicia confirmat—Time effaces the fabrications of opinion, but confirms the judgments of Nature. Cic.