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

Hold their farthing candle to the sun. Young, of critics.

Hold thou the good; define it well. Tennyson.

Hold up thy head; the taper lifted high / 25 Will brook the wind when lower tapers die. Quarles.

Holy fields, / Over whose acres walked those blessed feet / Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd, / For our advantage, on the bitter cross. 1 Hen. IV., i. 1.

Holy men at their death have good inspirations. Mer. of Ven., i. 2.

Hombre de barba—A man of intelligence. Sp.

Hombre pobre todo es trazas—A poor man is all schemes. Sp. Pr.

Home, in one form or another, is the great 30 object of life. J. G. Holland.

Home is heaven for beginners. C. H. Parkhurst.

Home is home, be it never so homely. Pr.