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

If friendship is to rob me of my eyes, if it is 20 to darken the day, I will have none of it. Thoreau.

If fun is good, truth is still better, and love most of all. Thackeray.

If happiness ha'e not her seat / And centre in the breast, / We may be wise, or rich, or great, / But never can be blest. Burns.

If heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms. Cowley.

If Hercules and Lichas play at dice / Which is the better man, the greater throw / May turn by fortune from the weaker hand; / So is Alcides beaten by his page. Mer. of Ven., ii. 1.

If honour calls, where'er she points the 25 way, / The sons of honour follow and obey. Churchill.

If I am anything, which I much doubt, I made myself so merely by labour. Sir Isaac Newton.

If I am master and you are master, who shall drive the asses? Arab. Pr.

If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning. Longfellow.

If I am right, Thy grace impart / Still in the right to stay; / If I am wrong, O teach my heart to find the better way. Pope.