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 is no mortal truly wise and restless at once; wisdom is the repose of minds. Lavater.

There is no new thing under the sun. Bible.

There is no object of desire the supreme vanity of which we do not recognise and confess when once we have embraced it. Renan.

There is no object so foul that intense light 35 will not make beautiful. And the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath like space and time, make all matter gay. Emerson.

There is no one the friend of another: there is no one the enemy of another: friends, as well as enemies, are created through our transactions. Hitopadesa.

There is no one who does not exaggerate. Emerson.

There is no ordinance obliging us to fight those who are stronger than ourselves. Such fighting, as it were, with an elephant, is the same as men's fighting against rocks. Hitopadesa.

There is no other ghost save the ghost of our own childhood, the ghost of our own innocence, the ghost of our own airy belief. Dickens.

There is no other revelation than the thoughts 40 of the wise. Schopenhauer.

There is no outward sign of courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation. Goethe.