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

They are not kings who sit on thrones, but 50 they who know how to govern. Emerson.

They are not sages who do not declare men's duty. Hitopadesa.

They are slaves who dare not be / In the right with two or three. Lowell.

They asked Lucman the fabulist, "From whom did you learn manners?" He answered, "From the unmannerly." Saadi.

They can conquer who believe they can. Virgil.

They do most by books who could do much without them; and he that chiefly owes himself unto himself is the substantial man. Sir T. Browne.

They ever do pretend / To have received a wrong who wrong intend. Daniel.

They fool me to the top of my bent. Ham., iii. 2.

They found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Milton.

They grew in beauty side by side, / They fill'd 5 one home with glee; / Their graves are sever'd far and wide, / By mount, and stream, and sea. Mrs. Hemans.