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 signifies your gear? / A mind that's scrimpit never wants some care. Allan Ramsay.

What should a wise man do if he is given a 35 blow? What Cato did when some one struck him on the mouth;—not fire up or revenge the insult, or even return the blow, but simply ignore it. Sen.

What skills it if a bag of stones or gold / About thy neck do drown thee? Raise thy head; / Take stars for money; stars not to be told / By any art, yet to be purchased. George Herbert.

What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! 2 Hen. VI., iii. 2.

What the eye does not admire, / The heart does not desire. Pr.

What the eye don't see, the heart don't grieve. Pr.

What the fool does in the end, the wise man 40 does at the beginning. It. Pr.

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose. Ward Beecher.

What the heart or the imagination dictates always flows readily; but where there is no subject to warm or interest these, constraint appears. Blair.

What the light of your mind pronounces incredible, that, in God's name, leave uncredited. Carlyle.