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57 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.
You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand to.— filed under Ability
No todas hermosuras enamoran, que algunas alegran la vista, y no rinden la voluntad. All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.— filed under Beauty
The Hero as a Man of Letters. "There is no book so bad," said the bachelor, "but something good may be found in it."— filed under Books
Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.— filed under Change
Every one is the son of his own works.— filed under Character
I can look sharp as well as another, and let me alone to keep the cobwebs out of my eyes.— filed under Character
Thou art a cat, and rat, and a coward to boot.— filed under Character
Cada uno es come Dios le hijo, y aun peor muchas vezes. Every one is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.— filed under Childhood
Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken ?— filed under Vii
I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.— filed under Contempt
I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.— filed under Content
Sc: 1. I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.— filed under Drinking
Carpenter. From "Alice in The Looking-Glass." The proof of the pudding is in the eating.— filed under Eating
Como el hacer mal viene de natural cosecha, fácilmente se aprende el hacerle. Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.— filed under Experience
Lady S-. He had a face like a benediction.— filed under Face
El miedo tiene muchos ojos. Fear has many eyes.— filed under Folly
But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.— filed under Marie Antoinette
May 28, 1836. And the first thing I would do in my government, I would have nobody to control me, I would be absolute; and who but I: now, he that is absolute, can do what he likes; he that can do what he likes, can take his pleasure; he that can take his pleasure, can be content; and he that can be content, has no more to desire; so the matter's over.— filed under Government
Heaven's help is better than early rising.— filed under Help
A honest man's word is as good as his bond.— filed under Honesty
Honesty is the best policy.— filed under Honesty
I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine: Every man for himself and God for us all.— filed under Independence
Bien predica quien bien vive. He who lives well is the best preacher.— filed under Life
I have eaten his bread-I love him well, and there is no love lost between us.— filed under Love
La pluma es lengua del alma. The pen is the tongue of the mind.— filed under Mind
I will take my corporal oath on it.— filed under November
X. For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.— filed under Occupations-Military
Scene in Argyleshire. Patience and shuffle the cards.— filed under Patience
Democritus to the Reader. They had best not stir the rice, though it sticks to the pot.— filed under Policy
All that glisters is not gold.— filed under Proverbs
Can one desire too much of a good thing?— filed under Proverbs
Delay always heeds danger.— filed under Proverbs
Here is the devil-and-all to pay.— filed under Proverbs
gg. Huzzaed out of my seven senses. hh. Spectator. No. 616. 'Nov. 5, 1774. I am almost frightened out of my seven senses. ii.— filed under Proverbs
I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.— filed under Proverbs
I have other fish to fry.— filed under Proverbs
Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.— filed under Proverbs
C. Taming of the Shrew. Induction. Sc. 1. L. 5. Let the world slip. Taming of the Shrew. Induction. Sc. 2. L. 146. Let the worst come to the worst.— filed under Proverbs
Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves. gg.— filed under Proverbs
Declamation. Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.— filed under Proverbs
Thank you for nothing.— filed under Proverbs
The more thou stir it the worse it will be.— filed under Proverbs
This peck of troubles. ee.— filed under Proverbs
A beggarly people, A church and no steeple. Attributed to MALONE by SWIFT. See Prior's Life. 1860. 381. Of St. Ann's Church, Dublin. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.— filed under Prosperity
More knave than fool. C.— filed under Libanius
My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.— filed under Libanius
Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.— filed under Libanius
GOLDSMITH-The Good-Natured Man. Act II. Smell a rat.— filed under Iii
Spare your breath to cool your porridge.— filed under Iii
Spick and span new. Ch. III.— filed under Iii
La muger que se determina á ser honrada, entre un ejército de soldados lo puede ser. The woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself so even amidst an army of soldiers.— filed under Iii
Within a stone's throw of it.— filed under Solon
You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.— filed under Providence
Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! it covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap; and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even. There is only one thing, which somebody once put into my head, that I dislike in sleep; it is, that it resembles death; there is very little difference between a man in his first sleep, and a man in his last sleep.— filed under Sleep
No ay memoria à quien el tiempo no acabe, ni dolor que nuerte no le consuma. There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not put an end to.— filed under Trust
LAURENCE STERNE-Tristram Shandy. Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted. S.— filed under Wit
Le fruit du travail est le plus doux des plaisirs. The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. g. 200. Quanto mas que cada uno es hijo de sus obras. The rather since every man is the son of his own works.— filed under Work