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

Impatience waiteth on true sorrow. 3 Hen. VI., iii. 3.

Impavidum ruinæ ferient—The wreck of things will strike him unmoved. Hor.

Impera parendo—Command by obeying. M.

Imperat aut servit collecta pecunia cuique—Money 30 amassed is either our slave or our tyrant. Hor.

Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal body, that is, of a state of progress and change. Ruskin.

Imperfection means perfection hid, / Reserved in part to grace the after-time. Browning.

Imperfections cling to a man, which, if he wait till he have brushed off entirely, he will spin for ever on his axis, advancing nowhither. Carlyle.

Imperia dura tolle, quid virtus erit?—Remove severe restraint, and what will become of virtue? Sen.

Imperious Cæsar, dead and turn'd to clay, / 35 Might stop a hole to keep the wind away. Ham., v. 1.

Imperium et libertas—Empire and liberty. Cic.