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 furiously wicked have but a short career. Bad for them, but good for the universe. Spurgeon.

The future comes on slowly, the present flies like an arrow, the past stands for ever still. Schiller.

The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother. Napoleon.

The future epic of the world rests not with those near dead, but with those that are alive, and those that are coming into life. Carlyle.

The future hides in it / Gladness and sorrow; / 40 We press still thoro'; / Nought that abides in it / Daunting us—onward; / But solemn before us, / Veiled the dark portal, / Goal of all mortal. / Stars silent rest o'er us—/ Graves under us, silent. Goethe.

The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth. Sir Walter Raleigh.

The game is not worth the candle. Corn.

The gardener's business is to tend the flowers and root out the weeds. Bodenstedt.

The general and perpetual voice of men is as the sentence of God himself. Hooker.

The general tendency of things throughout 45 the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. J. S. Mill.