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 brain may devise laws for the blood; but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree. Mer. of Ven., i. 2.

The brain-women never interest us like the heart-women; white roses please less than red. Holmes.

The brave man thinks of himself last of all. 10 Schiller.

The bravest are the tenderest, / The loving are the daring. Bayard Taylor.

The breach of custom / Is breach of all. Cymbeline, iv. 2.

The breeding of a man makes him courageous by instinct, true by instinct, loving by instinct, as a dog is; and therefore, felicitously above, or below (whichever you like to call it), all questions of philosophy and divinity. Ruskin.

The British nation—and I include in it the Scottish nation—has produced a finer set of men than you will find it possible to get anywhere else in this world. Carlyle.

The bud may have a bitter taste, / But sweet 15 will be the flower. Cowper.

The buke o' May-bees is very braid. Sc. Pr.

The burden one likes is cheerfully borne. Pr.