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't "have" your pudding unless you can "eat" it. Ruskin.

You can't order remembrance out of a man's 45 mind. Thackeray.

You can't see the wood for the trees. Pr.

You can't tell a nut till you crack it. Pr.

You complain of the difficulty of finding work for your men; the real difficulty rather is to find men for your work. Ruskin.

You do not believe, you only believe that you believe. Coleridge.

You do not educate a man by telling him what he knew not, but by making him what he was not, and what he will remain for ever. Ruskin.

You don't value your peas for their roots or your carrots for their flowers. Now that's the way you should choose women. George Eliot.

You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant; / But yet you draw not iron, for my heart / Is true as steel; leave you your power to draw, / And I shall have no power to follow you. Mid. N.'s Dream, ii. 2.

You feel yourself an exile in the East; but in the West too it is exile; I know not where under the sun it is not exile. Carlyle to a young friend.