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

We may have once been slugs, and may one day be angels, but we are men now; and we must, as men, do our work honourably and thoroughly. Ruskin.

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age. Colton.

We may, like the ships, by tempests be toss'd / 15 On perilous deeps, but cannot be lost. Newton.

We may not be able to parry evil thoughts, but we may surely guard against their taking root in us and bringing forth evil deeds. Luther.

We may outrun / By violent swiftness that which we run at, / And lose by overrunning. Hen. VIII., i. 1.

We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did;" and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. Izaak Walton.

We may seek God by our intellect (Verstand), but we can find him only with the heart. Cötvös.

We may take Fancy for a companion, but must 20 follow Reason as our guide. Johnson.

We mount to heaven mostly on the ruins of our cherished schemes, finding our failures were successes. A. B. Alcott.

We move too much in platoons; we march by sections; we do not live in our vital individuality enough; we are slaves to fashion, in mind and in heart, if not to our passions and appetites. Chapin.