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 question of education is for the modern world a question of life or death, a question on which depends the future. Renan.

The question of questions (for men and nations) is—not how far they are from heaven, but whether they are going to it. (So in art) it is not the wisdom or the barbarism that you have to estimate, not the skill or the rudeness, but the tendency. Ruskin.

The question of the purpose of things is completely 30 unscientific. Goethe.

The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. Bible.

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. Scott.

The rainbow in the morning / Is the shepherd's warning; / The rainbow at night / Is the shepherd's delight. Pr.

The rank is but the guinea's stamp, / The man's the gowd for a' that. Burns.

The ransom of a man's life are his riches. 35 Bible.

The ray of light passes invisible through space, and only when it falls on an object is it seen. Emerson.

The readiness is all. Ham., v. 2.