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" (self-love) would have the world say "I," / And all things perish so if she endure. Sir Edwin Arnold.

I would it were bed-time, Hal, and all well. 1 Hen. IV., v. 1.

I would not enter on my list of friends ... the man / Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. Cowper.

I would not for much that I had been born richer. Jean Paul.

I would rather be found suffering than doing 30 what is unjust. Phocion.

I would rather be the author of one original thought than conqueror of a hundred battles. W. B. Clulow.

I would rather make my name than inherit it. Thackeray.

Ibi omnis / Effusus labor—By that (one negligence) all his labour was lost. Virg.

Ibidem—In the same place.

Ibis, redibis non morieris in bello—Thou shalt 35 go, thou shalt return, thou shalt not die in battle; or, Thou shalt go, thou shalt not return, thou shalt die in battle. An ambiguous oracle, due to the uncertain application of the adverb "non."