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

There are more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. Ham., iii. 1.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. Ham., i. 5.

There are more ways to the wood than one. Pr.

There are nae fules like auld fules. Sc. Pr. 25

There are natures that are great by what they attain, and others by what they disdain. H. Grimm.

There are no better masters than poverty and want. Dut. Pr.

There are no chagrins so venomous as the chagrins of the idle; no pangs so sickening as the satieties of pleasure. Ruskin.

There are no English lives worth reading except those of players, who by the nature of the case have bidden Respectability good-day. Carlyle.

There are no fixtures in Nature. The universe 30 is fluid and volatile. Emerson.

There are no grotesques in Nature. Sir Thomas Browne.