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

Take a hair of the same dog that bit you, and it will heal the wound. Pr.

Take a stick to a Highland laddie, and it's no him you hurt, but his ancestors. J. M. Barrie.

Take all that is given, whether wealth, / Or 10 love, or language; nothing comes amiss; / A good digestion turneth all to health. George Herbert.

Take any subject of sorrowful regret, and see with how much pleasure it is associated. Dickens.

Take away desire from the heart, and you take away the air from the earth. Bulwer Lytton.

Take care of the pence; the pounds will take care of themselves. Pr.

Take care to be an economist in prosperity; there is no fear of your not being one in adversity. Zimmermann.

Take each man's censure, but reserve thy 15 judgment. Ham., i. 3.

Take everything easy (leicht); leave off dreaming and brooding (Grübeln), and you will be ever well guarded from a thousand evils. Uhland.

Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her, for she is thy life. Bible.