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

Order is heaven's first law. Pope.

Order is power. Amiel.

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things. Southey.

Order is truth, each thing standing on the basis that belongs to it. Carlyle.

Order, thou eye of action. Aaron Hill. 20

Ordinary people think merely of spending time; a man with any brains, of using it. Schopenhauer.

Ore e sempre—Now and always. It.

Ore tenus—Merely from the mouth; oral.

Organic laws can only be serviceable to, and, in general, will only be written by, a public of honourable citizens, loyal to their state and faithful to each other. Ruskin.

[Greek: orgê philountôn oligon ischyei chronon]—The 25 anger of lovers does not last long. Menander.