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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Quotes by David Everett

2 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

Eloquence. You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage; And if I chance to fall below Demosthenes or Cicero, Don't view me with a critic's eye, But pass my imperfections by. Large streams from little fountains flow, Tall oaks from little acorns grow.— filed under Oratory
Take Time by the forelock. THALES (of Miletus). Tall oaks from little acorns grow. S.— filed under Proverbs
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