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 tree is no sooner down than every one runs for his hatchet. Pr.

The tree of knowledge is grafted upon the tree of life; and that fruit which brought the fear of death into the world, budding on an immortal stock, becomes the fruit of the promise of immortality. Sir H. Davy.

The tree of knowledge is not that of life. 25 Byron.

The tree of liberty only grows when watered by the blood of tyrants. Bertrand Barère.

The tree of silence bears the fruit of peace. Arab. Pr.

The tree which yieldeth both fruit and shade is highly to be esteemed: but if Providence, perchance, may have denied it fruit, by whom is its shade refused? Hitopadesa.

The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, / For want of fighting was grown rusty, / And ate into itself, for lack / Of somebody to hew and hack. Butler.

The trident of Neptune is the sceptre of the 30 planet. Lemierre.

The triumphs of delusion are but for a day. Macaulay.

The trivial round, the common task, / Will furnish all we ought to ask. / Room to deny ourselves, a road / To bring us daily nearer God. Keble.