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

What is bought is cheaper than a gift. Pr.

What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh. Pr.

What is called the spirit of the times is at bottom but the spirit of the gentlemen in which the times are mirrored. Goethe.

What is cheapest to you now is likely to be 50 dearest in the end. Ruskin.

What is chiefly needed in the England of the present day is to show the quantity of pleasure that may be obtained by a consistent, well-administered competence, modest, confessed, and laborious. Ruskin.

What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing particular objects; a mere notice of the necessity for exertion; a bugbear to children and fools; only a mere stimulus to men. Samuel Warren.

What is distance to the indefatigable? Hitopadesa.

What is done by night appears by day. Pr.

What is done for those who have not their 5 passions in subjection, is like washing the elephant (i.e., washing the blackamoor white). Hitopadesa.

What is done in a hurry is never done well. Pr.