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

Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom. J. Sterling.

Every man's life lies within the present. Marcus 40 Antoninus.

Every man's man has a man, and that gar'd the Tarve (a Douglas Castle) fa'. Sc. Pr.

Every man's own reason is his best Œdipus. Sir Thomas Browne.

Every man's powers have relation to some kind of work, and wherever he finds that kind of work which he can do best, he finds that by which he can best build up or make his manhood. J. G. Holland.

Every man's reason is every man's oracle. Bolingbroke.

Every moment, as it passes, is of infinite 45 value, for it is the representative of a whole eternity. Goethe.

Every moment instructs, and every object, for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it convulsed us as pain; it slid into us as pleasure. Emerson.

Every morsel to a satisfied hunger is only a new labour to a tired digestion. South.

Every mortal longs for his parade-place; would still wish, at banquets, to be master of some seat or other wherein to overtop this or that plucked goose of the neighbourhood. Carlyle.