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

Say nay, and take it. Pr.

Say no ill of the year till it be past. Pr.

Say not always what you know, but always know what you say. Claudius.

Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me; I will render to the man according to his work. Bible.

Say not, / This with that lace will do well; / 20 But, This with my discretion will be brave. George Herbert.

Say not to-morrow; the tongue's slightest slip / Nemesis watches, ere it pass the lip. Antiphilus.

Say not, We will suffer, for that ye must; say rather, We will act, for that ye must not (i.e., we are compelled to do the one, but not the other). Jean Paul.

Say nothing, and none can criticise thee. Spurgeon.

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you wilt be taken at your word. Joseph Roux.

Say, O wise man, how thou hast come by such 25 knowledge? Because I never was ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others. Herder.