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

Weisheit, du wirst Unsinn / Im Mund des Schwärmers—Wisdom, thou changest into folly in the mouth of the fanatic. Otto Ludwig.

Welch Glück geliebt zu werden: / Und lieben, 20 Götter, welch ein Glück!—What a happiness to be loved! and to love, ye gods, what bliss! Goethe.

Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. Emerson.

Welcome is the best cheer. Pr.

Welcome, Misfortune, if thou comest alone. Pr.

Well at ease are the sleepers for whom existence is a shallow dream. Carlyle.

Well for the drones of the social hive that there 25 are bees of an industrious turn, willing, for an infinitesimal share of the honey, to undertake the labour of its fabrication. Hood.

Well has Ennius said, "Kindnesses misplaced are nothing but a curse and disservice." Cic.

Well-married, a man is winged; ill-matched, he is shackled. Ward Beecher.

Well roared, lion. Mid. N.'s Dream, v. 1.