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 find nonsense singularly refreshing. Talleyrand.

I for ever pass from hand to hand, / And each 10 possessor thinks me his own land. / All of them think so, but they all are wrong; / To none but Fortune only I belong. Anon., of a field.

I found Rome brick, I left it marble. Augustus Cæsar.

I gaed a waefu' gate yestreen, / A gate, I fear, I'll dearly rue; / I got my death frae twa sweet een, / Twa lovely een o' bonnie blue. Burns.

"I go at last out of this world, where the heart must either petrify or break." Chamfort, at his last moments.

I go through my appointed daily stage, and I care not for the curs who bark at me along the road. Frederick the Great.

I gran dolori sono muti—Great griefs are dumb. 15 It. Pr.

I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature. Emerson.

I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong; (but) there is a class of persons to whom, by all spiritual affinity, I am bought and sold; for them I will go to prison if need be. Emerson.

I guadagni mediocri empiono la borsa—Moderate profits fill the purse. It. Pr.