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 wisest of us must, for by far the most part, judge like the simplest; estimate importance by mere magnitude, and expect that which strongly affects our own generation, will strongly affect those that are to follow. Carlyle.

The wisest truly is, in these times, the greatest. Carlyle.

The wisest woman you talk with is ignorant of something that you know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance. Holmes.

The wish was father to the thought. 2 Hen. IV., iv. 4.

The wished-for comes too late. Pr. 30

The wishing-gate opens into nothing. Spurgeon.

The wit of language is so miserably inferior to the wit of ideas that it is deservedly driven out of good company. Sydney Smith.

The wit of one man, and the wisdom of many. Lord John Russell's definition of a proverb.

The wit one wants spoils what one has. Fr. Pr.

The woman and the soldier who do not defend 35 the first pass will never defend the last. Fielding.