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

Shapes that come not at an earthly call / Will not depart when mortal voices bid. Wordsworth.

Sharpness cuts slight things best; solid, nothing 35 cuts through but weight and strength; the same in the use of intellectuals. Sir W. Temple.

She bears a duke's revenues on her back. 2 Hen. VI., i. 3.

She (Wisdom) is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her. Bible.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband. Hitopadesa.

She is a woman, therefore may be wooed; she is a woman, therefore may be won. Tit. Andron., ii. 1.

She is a woman who can command herself. Hitopadesa.

She is not worthy to be loved that hath not 5 some feeling of her own worthiness. Sir P. Sidney.

She lived unknown, and few could know / When Lucy ceased to be; / But she is in her grave, and oh / The difference to me! Wordsworth.

She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Bible.