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 most assume who know the least. Gay.

They must hunger in winter that will not work in summer. Pr.

They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. Confucius.

They never taste who always drink; / They always talk who never think. Prior.

They only are wise who know that they know 20 nothing. Carlyle.

They only babble that practise not reflection. Sheridan.

They only should own who can administer. Emerson.

They only who build on ideas build for eternity. Emerson.

They pass best over the world who trip over it quickly; for it is but bog—if we stop, we sink. Queen Elizabeth.

They said that Love would die when Hope was 25 gone, / And Love mourn'd long, and sorrow'd after Hope; / At last she sought out Memory, and they trod / The same old paths where Love had walk'd with Hope, / And Memory fed the soul of Love with tears. Tennyson.