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

Under sackcloth there is something else. 25 Sp. and Port. Pr.

Under the sky is no uglier spectacle than two men with clenched teeth and hell-fire eyes hacking one another's flesh, converting precious living bodies and priceless living souls into nameless masses of putrescence, useful only for turnip-manure. Carlyle.

Under the weight of his knowledge, a man cannot move so lightly as in the days of his simplicity. Ruskin.

Under white ashes there often lurk glowing embers. Dan. Pr.

Underground / Precedency's a jest; vassal and lord, / Grossly familiar, side by side consume. Blair.

Underneath this stone doth lie / As much 30 beauty as could die; / Which in life did harbour give / To more virtue than doth live. Jonson, on Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland.

Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it. Bible.

Understanding is the most important matter in everything. Hans Andersen.

Understanding is the wages of a lively faith, and faith is the reward of a humble ignorance. Quarles.

Undertake no more than you can perform. Pr.