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

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for and constantly quarrel with, as if any, observes Jean Paul, but our own could be expected to content us. Carlyle.

Originality is simply a fresh pair of eyes. T. W. Higginson.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. J. S. Mill.

Originality provokes originality. Goethe.

Ornament is but the guilèd shore / To a most 30 dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf / Veiling an Indian beauty; in a word, / The seeming truth which cunning times put on / To entrap the wisest. Mer. of Ven., iii. 2.

Ornaments were invented by modesty. Joubert.

Oro è che oro vale—What is worth gold is gold. It. Pr.

Orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy another man's doxy. Warburton.

Orthodoxy is the Bourbon of the world of thought; it learns not, neither can it forget. Huxley.

Os, orare, vale, communio, mensa negatur—Speech, 35 prayer, greeting, intercourse, and food are forbidden. The sentence of excommunication.