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

The apparel oft proclaims the man. Ham., i. 3.

The apprehension and representation of what is individual is the very life of art. Goethe.

The apprehension of the good / Gives but the greater feeling to the worse. Rich. II., i. 3.

The arch-enemy is the arch-stupid. Carlyle.

The archer who overshoots the mark misses, 15 as well as he that falls short of it. Pr.

The argument all bare is of more worth / Than when it hath my added praise beside. Shakespeare.

The army is a good book to open to study human life. Alfred de Vigny.

The army is a school in which the niggardly become generous and the generous prodigal. Cervantes.

The arrows of sarcasm are barbed with contempt.... It is the sneer in the satire or the ridicule that galls or wounds. W. Gladden.

The art of exalting lowliness and giving greatness 20 to little things is one of the noblest functions of genius. Palgrave.