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 physic, pomp; / Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel; / That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, / And show the heavens more just. Lear, iii. 4.

Take the Muses' servants by the hand; / ... And where ye justly can commend, commend them; / And aiblins when they winna stand the test, / Wink hard, and say the folks hae done their best. Burns.

Take the showers as they fall, / ... Enough 30 if at the end of all / A little garden blossom. Tennyson.

Take this rule, ... The best-bred child hath the best portion. Pr. Herbert.

Take thou the beam out of thine own eye; then shalt thou see clearly to take the mote out of thy brother's. Jesus.

Take thought for thy body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone; and if they are dim, the whole world is beclouded. Goethe.

Take time by the forelock. Thales.

Take time in time, ere time be tint (lost). Sc. Pr. 35

Take time in turning a corner. Pr.

Take up the torch and wave it wide, / The torch that lights Time's thickest gloom. Bonar.