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

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy. Chapin.

Otez un vilain du gibet, il vous y mettra—Save a thief from the gallows, and he will cut your throat. Fr. Pr.

Othello's occupation's gone! Othello, iii. 3.

Other exercises develop single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalises all the muscles at once. Jean Paul.

Other heights in other lives, God willing. 40 Browning.

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Emerson.

Other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours. Jesus.

Others apart sat on a hill retired, / In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high / Of Providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate, / Fix'd fate, free-will, fore-knowledge absolute; / And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost. Milton.

Others, more aspiring than achieving, / Achieve all in suggestion, ... / More helpful by their infinite reaching forth / Than all completed thinking. Dr. Walter Smith.

Otia si tollas, periere Cupidinis arcus—Remove 45 the temptations of idleness, and Cupid's bow is useless. Ovid.