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

Angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. George Eliot.

Anger is like / A full-hot horse; who, being allow'd his way, / Self-mettle tires him. Hen. VIII., i. 2.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul. Fuller. 10

Anger resteth in the bosom of fools. Bible.

Anger, when it is long in coming, is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Quarles.

Anglicè—In English.

Angling is somewhat like poetry; men are to be born so. Isaak Walton.

Anguis in herbâ—A snake in the grass. 15

An honest citizen who maintains himself industriously has everywhere as much freedom as he wants. Goethe.

An honest man's the noblest work of God. Pope.