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

Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace. Temple.

Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, / That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks. Love's L. Lost, i. 1.

Study is the bane of boyhood, the element of youth, the indulgence of manhood, and the restorative of age. Landor.

Study of the Bible will keep any man from 20 being vulgar in style. Coleridge.

Study the best and highest things that are, / But of thyself an humble thought retain. Sir J. Davis.

Study the past if you would divine the future. Confucius.

Study thyself; what rank or what degree / The wise Creator hath ordained for thee. Dryden.

Study to be quiet; contain yourself within your own business, and let the prying, censorious, the vain and the intriguing world follow their own devices. Thomas à Kempis.

Study to be what you wish to seem. John Bate. 25

Stulta maritali jam porrigit ora capistro—He is now stretching out his foolish head to the matrimonial halter. Juv.