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

Honour's the moral conscience of the great. D'Avenant.

Honteux comme un renard qu'une poule aurait pris—Sheepish as a fox that has been taken in by a fowl. La Font.

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. Bible. 5

Hope is a curtail dog in some affairs. Merry Wives, ii. 1.

Hope is a good anchor, but it needs something to grip. Pr.

Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that, / And manage it against despairing thoughts. Two Gent. of Ver., iii. 1.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance but an unsafe friend. He'll do on a pinch for your travelling companion, but he's not the man for your banker. Amer. Pr.

Hope is a waking man's dream. Pr. 10

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures, its excesses must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment. Johnson.

Hope is not the man for your banker, though he may do for your travelling companion. Haliburton.