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Symbols: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

With crosses, relics, crucifixes, Beads, pictures, rosaries, and pixes; The tools of working out salvation By mere mechanic operation.— BUTLER — Hudibras. Pt. III. Canto I. L. 1,495.

Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.— CICERO — De Divinations. I. 118.

Science sees signs; Poetry the thing signified. J. C. AND A. W. HARE-Guesses at Truth. It [Catholicism] supplies a multitude of external forms in which the spiritual may be clothed and manifested.— NATH. HAWTHORNE — The Marble Faun. Vol. II. Ch. XIII.

All things are symbols: the external shows Of Nature have their image in the mind, As flowers and fruits and falling of the leaves.— LONGFELLOW — The Harvest Moon.

If he be not in love with some woman, there is no believing old signs: a' brushes his hat o' mornings; what should that bode?— Shakespeare — Much Ado About Nothing. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 40.

Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendant rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon 't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen these signs; They are black vesper's pageants.— Shakespeare — Antony and Cleopatra. Act IV. St. 14. L. 2.

Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees.— WORDSWORTH — To the Daisy.