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

Rivers are roads which travel, and which carry us whither we wish to go. Pascal.

Rivers cannot fill the sea, that, drinking, thirsteth still. Christina Rossetti.

Rivers flow with sweet waters; but, having joined the ocean, they become undrinkable. Hitopadesa.

Rivers need a spring. Pr. 40

Roads are many; authentic finger-posts are few. Carlyle.

Roast meat at three fires; as soon as you've basted one, another's burnin'. George Eliot.

Rob not the poor, because he is poor. Bible.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul. Pr.

Robespierre à pied et à cheval—Robespierre 45 on foot and on horseback, i.e., Robespierre and Napoleon. Mme. de Staël.

Rock of ages, cleft for me, / Let me hide myself in thee. Toplady.