The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Every quotation a nineteenth-century speaker or writer might want, grouped under its subject, with the author, the date and the source given as exactly as Hoyt could manage.

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38 subjects in this part of Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations.

Oaths

Oaths: He that imposes an Oath makes it, Not he that for Convenience takes it.

Obedience

Obedience: The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in obedience.

Oblivion

Oblivion: Oblivion is not to be hired.

Obscurity

Obscurity: It is not in the storm nor in the strife We feel benumb'd, and wish to be no more, But in the after-silence on the shore, When…

Observation

Observation: Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion.

Occupations-Acting

Occupations-Acting: Who teach the mind its proper face to scan, And hold the faithful mirror up to man.

Occupations-Agriculture

Occupations-Agriculture: Ye rigid Ploughmen! bear in mind Your labor is for future hours. Advance! spare not! nor look behind! Plough deep…

Occupations-Alchemy

Occupations-Alchemy: Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best: Good husbandry baggeth Up gold in his chest.

Occupations-Authorship

Occupations-Authorship: Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

Occupations-Cabinet-Making

Occupations-Cabinet-Making: Joint-stools were then created; on three legs Upborne they stood. Three legs upholding firm A massy slab, in…

Occupations-Culinary

Occupations-Culinary: Hire me twenty cunning cooks.

Occupations-Hatters

Occupations-Hatters: My curse upon thy venom'd stang, That shoots my tortured gums alang; And through my lugs gies monie a twang, Wi'…

October

October: October's child is born for woe, And life's vicissitudes must know; But lay an Opal on her breast, And hope will lull those woes…

Occupations-Jeweler

Occupations-Jeweler: It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and…

Occupations-Journalism

Occupations-Journalism: Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading. For evil news rides post, while good news baits.

Occupations-Law

Occupations-Law: Here shall the Press the People's right maintain, Unawed by influence and unbribed by gain; Here Patriot Truth her…

Occupations-Medicine

Occupations-Medicine: A pill that at the present moment is daily bread to thousands.

Ovid

Ovid: Banished the doctor, and expell'd the friend.

Occupations-Mercantile

Occupations-Mercantile: In every age and clime we see, Two of a trade can ne'er agree.

Occupations-Military

Occupations-Military: To things of sale a seller's praise belongs.

Occupations-Navigation

Occupations-Navigation: You may relish him more in the soldier than in the scholar.

Occupations-Painting

Occupations-Painting: Lely on animated canvas stole The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul.

Occupations-Post

Occupations-Post: A piece of simple goodness-a letter gushing from the heart; a beautiful unstudied vindication of the worth and untiring…

Occupations-Preaching

Occupations-Preaching: The proud he tam'd, the penitent he cheer'd: Nor to rebuke the rich offender fear'd. His preaching much, but more…

Occupations-Printing

Occupations-Printing: Letter III. I'll print it, And shame the fools.

Occupations-Shoemaking

Occupations-Shoemaking: In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoön how it might be made different?…

Occupations-Tailoring

Occupations-Tailoring: Tailoring. Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast.

Occupations-Teaching

Occupations-Teaching: Delightful task! to rear the tender Thought, To teach the young Idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh Instruction o'er…

Occupations-Tobacconists

Occupations-Tobacconists: Tobacco, an outlandish weed, Doth in the land strange wonders breed; It taints the breath, the blood it dries, It…

Occupations-Tonsorial

Occupations-Tonsorial: Hoary whiskers and a forky beard.

Occupations-Undertakers

Occupations-Undertakers: When my water-proof umbrella proved a sieve, sieve, sieve, When my shiny new umbrella proved a sieve.

Ocean

Ocean: Ye waves That o'er th' interminable ocean wreathe Your crisped smiles.

Opinion

Opinion: Ye who dwell at home, Ye do not know the terrors of the main.

Opportunity

Opportunity: There is an hour in each man's life appointed To make his happiness, if then he seize it.

Oratory

Oratory: O opportunity, thy guilt is great! 'Tis thou that executest the traitor's treason; Thou set'st the wolf where he the lamb may get…

Oracle

Oracle: The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving.

Order

Order: Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear, Or, like a fairy, trip upon the green. Venus and Adonis. L. 145. Fear not, my lord, I'll…

Orrery, Roger Boyle, Earl Of

Orrery, Roger Boyle, Earl Of: statesman, soldier, and dramatist.. IRELAND, 1621-1679 OSGOOD, FRANCES S., poet, UNITED STATES, 1811-1850…

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