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 worst of madmen is a saint run mad. Pope.

The worst of many is that their goodness is distributed rather than concentrated. They are like a sheet of water instead of being like a running stream, which can be used to turn a wheel. Spurgeon.

The worst superstition is to consider our own the most tolerable. Lessing.

The worst wheel in the waggon creaks the loudest. Ger. Pr.

The worst wild beast is called "Tyrant," and 35 the "Flatterer" the worst tame one. Lessing.

The worth of a state, in the long-run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. J. S. Mill.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish. Pr.

The wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. St. James.

The wretched have no friends. Dryden.

The wretchedness which fate has rendered 40 voiceless and tuneless is not the least wretched, but the most. Carlyle.