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

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. Burke.

Examples of rare intelligence, yet more rarely cultivated, are not lights kindled for a moment; they live on here in their good deeds, and in their venerated memories. Gladstone.

Examples would indeed be excellent things, 10 were not people so modest that none will set them, and so vain that none will follow them. Hare.

Ex animo—From the soul; heartily.

Ex aperto—Openly.

Ex auribus cognoscitur asinus—An ass is known by his ears. Pr.

Ex cathedra—From the chair; with authority.

Excellence is never granted to man but as the 15 reward of labour. Sir Jos. Reynolds.

Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul, / But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, / Chaos is come again. Othello, iii. 3.

Excelsior—Still higher.