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 want learning, you must work for it. J. G. Holland.

If you want to gain a reputation for eccentricity and to be universally dreaded, blurt out the plain truth on all occasions. Anon.

If you want to know a man, make a solitary journey with him. Pr.

If you want work done, go to the man who is already fully occupied. Pr.

If you were as eager to discover good as evil, 25 and had the same delight in spreading the report of it; if good examples were made public as the bad ones always are, do you not think that the good would weigh down the balance? But gratitude speaks so low, and indignation so loudly, that you cannot hear but the last. Marmontel.

If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question. Goethe.

If you wish to astonish the whole world, tell the simple truth. Rahel.

If you would be a smith, begin with blowing the fire. Pr.

If you would be pungent, be brief, for it is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed the deeper they burn. Saxe.

If you would be well served, you must serve 30 yourself. Pr.