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 you resolve to do right, you will soon do wisely; but resolve only to do wisely, and you will never do right. Ruskin.

If you run after two hares, you will catch neither. Pr.

If you say nothing, nobody will repeat it. Pr.

If you seek warmth of affection from a similar motive to that from which cats and dogs and slothful persons hug the fire, you are on the downward road. Thoreau.

If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too. Pr. 15

If you sit down a mere philosopher, you will rise almost an atheist. Anon.

If you tell me all you see, you'll tell what will make you feel shame. Gael. Pr.

If you throw all your money into the sea, yet count it before you let it go. Old saying.

If you trust before you try, / You may repent before you die. Pr.

If you want a pretence to whip a dog, say 20 that he ate the frying-pan. Pr.