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

While a man gets he never can lose. Sp. Pr.

While conscience is our friend, all is peace; but if once offended, farewell the tranquil mind. Mary Wortley Montagu.

While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others. Lew Wallace.

While digestion lasts, life cannot, in philosophical language, be said to be extinct. Carlyle.

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert 15 only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. Johnson.

While manufacture is the work of hands only, art is the work of the whole spirit of man; and as that spirit is, so is the deed of it. Ruskin.

While men sleep, / Sad-hearted mothers heave, that wakeful lie, / To muse upon some darling child / Roaming in youth's uncertain wild. Keble.

While mistakes are increasing, like population, at the rate of twelve hundred a-day, the benefit of seizing one and throttling it would be perfectly inconsiderable. Carlyle.

While others tippled, Sam from drinking shrunk, / Which made the rest think Sam alone was drunk. Lucian.

While the serpent sheds its old skin, the new 20 is already formed beneath. Carlyle.