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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10 subjects in this part of Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations.

Unbelief

Unbelief: The fearful Unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

Unity

Unity: For how can tyrants safely govern home, Unless abroad they purchase great alliance?

Unkindness

Unkindness: Then none was for a party; Then all were for the state; Then the great man helped the poor, great : And the poor man loved the…

Ubiquity

Ubiquity: Nusquam est, qui ubique est. He who is everywhere is nowhere.

Uncertainty

Uncertainty: Quis scit, an adjiciant hodiernæ crastina summæ Tempora di superi? Who knows whether the gods will add to-morrow to the…

Uniformity

Uniformity: Veritatem dies aperit. Time discovers truth.

Unhappiness

Unhappiness: Graviora quæ patiantur videntur jam hominibus quam quæ metuant. Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they…

Ugliness

Ugliness: L'or donne aux plus laids certain charme pour plaire, Et que sans lui le reste est une triste affaire. Gold gives to the ugliest…

Understanding

Understanding: Il n'est pas nécessaire de tenir les choses pour en raisonner. It is not necessary to retain facts that we may reason…

United States

United States: 688 HALE, EDWARD EVERETT, author, UNITED STATES, 1822-L. HALE, Captain NATHAN, patriot, UNITED STATES, 1755-1776 NAMES…

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