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 one is a preacher under the gallows. Dut. Pr.

Every one is as God made him, and often a great deal worse. Cervantes.

Every one is his own worst enemy. Schefer.

Every one is judge of what a man seems, no 20 one of what a man is. Schiller.

Every one is poorer in proportion as he has more wants, and counts not what he has, but wishes only what he has not. Manlius.

Every one is well or ill at ease according as he finds himself. Montaigne.

Every one knows best where his shoe pinches him. Pr.

Every one knows better than he practises, and recognises a better law than he obeys. Froude.

Every one knows good counsel except him who 25 needs it. Ger. Pr.

Every one of us believes in his heart, or would like to have others believe, that he is something which he is not. Thackeray.