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

You can never be wise unless you love reading. Johnson.

You can never by persistency make wrong 25 right. Johnson.

You can speak well, if your tongue deliver the message of your heart. John Ford.

You canna expect to be baith grand and comfortable. J. M. Barrie.

You cannot abolish slavery by Act of Parliament, but can only abolish the name of it, which is very little. Carlyle.

You cannot climb a ladder by pushing others down. Pr.

You cannot fathom your mind. There is a well 30 of thought there which has no bottom; the more you draw from it, the more clear and fruitful it will be. G. A. Sala.

You cannot get anything out of Nature or from God by gambling;—only out of your neighbour. Ruskin.

You cannot have the ware and the money both at once; and he who always hankers for the ware without having heart to give the money for it, is no better off than he who repents him of the purchase when the ware is in his hands. Goethe.

You cannot have your work well done if the work be not of a right kind. Carlyle.