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

Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them. Mme. Necker.

Worte sind der Seele Bild—Words are the soul's magic. Goethe.

Worte sind gut, wenn Werke folgen—Words are good if works follow. Ger. Pr.

Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; / The rest is all but leather or prunello. Pope.

Worth many thousand is the first salute; / 20 Him that salutes thee, therefore, friendly greet. Goethe.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live. Socrates.

Would they could sell us experience, though at diamond prices, but then no one would use the article second-hand! Balzac.

Would we but pledge ourselves to truth as heartily as we do to a real or imaginary mistress, and think life too short only because it abridges our time of service, what a new world we should have! Lowell.

Would we but quit ourselves like men, and resolutely stand our ground, we should not fail of succours from above. Thomas à Kempis.

Would Wisdom for herself be wooed, / And 25 wake the foolish from his dream, / She must be glad as well as good, / And must not only be, but seem. Coventry Patmore.