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

I do not need philosophy at all. Goethe.

I do pity unlearned gentlemen on a rainy day. Falkland.

"I don't care," is a deadly snare. Pr.

I earn that I eat, get that I wear; owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness; glad of other men's good, content with my harm. As You Like It, iii. 2.

I esteem that wealth which is given to the worthy, and which is day by day enjoyed; the rest is a reserve for one knoweth not whom. Hitopadesa.

I fatti sono maschii, le parole femine—Deeds are masculine, words feminine. It. Pr.

I favoriti dei grandi oltre all' oro di regali, 5 e l'incenso delle lodi, tocca loro anche la mirra della maldicenza—The favourites of the great, besides the gold of gifts and the incense of flattery, must also partake of the myrrh of calumny. It. Pr.

I fear God, and, next to God, I chiefly fear him who fears Him not. Saadi.

I fear thy nature; / It is too full of the milk of human kindness / To catch the nearest way. Macb., i. 5.

I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience. Hen. VIII., iii. 2.