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 may come a day when there shall be no more curse; in the meantime you must be humble and honest enough to take your share of it. Ruskin.

There may often be less vanity in following the 10 new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them. Joubert.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good. Plato.

There must be a man behind a book. Emerson.

There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us. Gutzkow.

There must be work done by the arms, or none of us would live; and work done by the brains, or the life would not be worth having. And the same men cannot do both. Ruskin.

There must first be seducing men before 15 seduced women. Jean Paul.

There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave / To tell us this. Ham., i. 5.

There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul. Carlyle.

There never did and never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in a character which was a stranger to the exercise of resolute self-denial. Scott.