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

All beginnings are easy; it is the ulterior 15 steps that are of most difficult ascent and most rarely taken. Goethe.

All cats are grey in the dark. Pr.

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise; it is in order to show how much he can spare. Johnson.

All cruelty springs from weakness. Sen.

All death in nature is birth. Fichte.

All deep joy has something of awful in it. 20 Carlyle.

All delights are vain; but that most vain / Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain. Love's L. Lost, i. 1.

All destruction, by violent revolution or howsoever it be, is but new creation on a wider scale. Carlyle.

All disputation makes the mind deaf, and when people are deaf I am dumb. Joubert.

[Greek: All' estin, entha chê dikê blabên pherei]—Sometimes justice does harm. Sophocles.