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 unpastured sea hungering for calm. 5 Shelley.

The unworn spirit is strong; life is so healthful that it even finds nourishment in death. Carlyle.

The upper classes and people of wealth suffer most from ennui. Schopenhauer.

The Upper Crust, i.e., the Upper Ten. Amer.

The Upper Ten, i.e., the aristocracy; the upper circles (contracted from Upper Ten Thousand). Amer.

The upper current of society presents no certain 10 criterion by which we can judge of the direction in which the under-current flows. Macaulay.

The upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it. Bible.

The ups and downs of the world concern the beggar no longer. Lamb.

The use of knowledge in our sex, besides the amusement of solitude, is to moderate the passions, and learn to be contented with a small expense, which are the certain effects of a studious life; and it may be preferable to that fame which men have engrossed to themselves, and will not suffer us to share. Lady Montagu.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. Johnson.