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

And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair. Byron.

And much it grieved my heart to think / What man has made of man. Wordsworth.

And, often times, excusing of a fault / Doth make the fault worse by the excuse. King John, iv. 2.

And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, / 50 And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot, / And thereby hangs a tale. As You Like It, ii. 7.

And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, / That one small head could carry all he knew. Goldsmith.

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. As You Like It, ii. 1.

A needle's eye is wide enough for two friends; the whole world is too narrow for two foes. Pers. Pr.

[Greek: Anechou kai apechou]—Bear and forbear. Epictetus.

A nemico che fugge, fa un ponte d'oro—Make 55 a bridge of gold for an enemy who is flying from you. It. Pr.

An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles. Pr.