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 never will love art well till you love what she mirrors better. Ruskin.

You often understand the true connection of important events in your life not while they are going on, nor soon after they are past, but only a considerable time afterwards. Schopenhauer.

You ought to read books, as you take medicine, by advice, and not advertisement. Ruskin.

You rub the sore, when you should bring the 25 plaster. Tempest, ii. 1.

You said your say; / Mine answer was my deed. Tennyson.

You see when they row in a barge, they that do drudgery work, slash, and puff, and sweat; but he that governs sits quietly at the stern, and scarce is seen to stir. Selden.

You shall never take a woman without her answer, unless you take her without her tongue. As You Like It, iv. 1.

You shall not shirk the hobbling Times to catch a ride on the sure-footed Eternities. "The times (as Carlyle says) are bad; very well, you are there to make them better." John Burroughs.

You take my house, when you do take the 30 prop / That doth sustain my house; you take my life / When you do take the means whereby I live. Mer. of Ven., iv. 1.

You that choose not by the view, / Choose as fair, and choose as true. Mer. of Ven., iii. 2.