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21 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.
and Westminster Review, 1838. A Traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedæmonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True,” said he, "but every goose can."— filed under Ability
Begone, old Care, and I prithee begone from me; For i' faith, old Care, thee and I shall never agree. PLAYFORD'S Musical Companion. Catch 13. Eat not thy heart; which forbids to afflict our souls, and waste them with vexatious cares.— filed under Care
What, did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus dines with Lucullus?— filed under Eating
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.— filed under Eternity
An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.— filed under Foot
Said Scopas of Thessaly, "But we rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things."— filed under Happiness
Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.— filed under Knavery
Why does pouring Oil on the Sea make it Clear and Calm? Is it for that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force, nor cause any waves?— filed under Occupations-Navigation
*** And holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me."— filed under Occupations-Shoemaking
When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "Action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action."— filed under Oratory
A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress.— filed under Proverbs
He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush. gg.— filed under Proverbs
Dialogue III. and every man a brick.— filed under Proverbs
When the candles are out all women are fair.— filed under Alexander Severus
Remember what Simonides said, -that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.— filed under Silence
T. the Preservation of Health. Said Periander, "Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage." S.— filed under Silence
Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as in packs.— filed under Speech
Cæsar's wife should be above suspicion.— filed under Suspicion
Fire-Worshippers. He [Cæsar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor.— filed under Treason
Nothing is impossible to industry. PERIANDER of Corinth. Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.— filed under Work
Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.— filed under Worth