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

Philosophy, rightly defined, is simply the love of wisdom. Cic.

Philosophy teaches us to do willingly and 10 from conviction what others do under compulsion. Arist.

Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt; when thoroughly explored, it dispels it. Bacon.

Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition. Bulwer Lytton.

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. Keats.

[Greek: phobou to gêras, ou gar erchetai monon]—Fear old age, for it does not come alone. Gr. Pr.

Phœnices primi, famæ si creditur, ausi / Mansuram 15 rudibus vocem signare figuris—The Phœnicians, if rumour may be trusted, were the first who dared to write down the fleeting word in rude letters. Lucan.

Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance. Addison.

Physic is of little use to a temperate person, for a man's own observation on what he finds does him good or what hurts him, is the best physic to preserve health. Bacon.

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a man brave in another. Colton.