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.

HomeBy Author › S. Owen

Quotes by S. Owen

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

All things I thought I knew; but now confess The more I know I know, I know the less.— filed under Knowledge
I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, For when at worst, they say, things always mend.— filed under Fortune
This day was yesterday to-morrow nam'd: To-morrow shall be yesterday proclaimed: To-morrow not yet come, not far away, What shall to-morrow then be call'd? To-day.— filed under Time
← OvidEdward Lord Oxford →