DICTIONARY
OF
QUOTATIONS

DICTIONARY

OF

QUOTATIONS

From Ancient and Modern, English and
Foreign Sources


INCLUDING

PHRASES, MOTTOES, MAXIMS, PROVERBS, DEFINITIONS, APHORISMS,
AND SAYINGS OF WISE MEN, IN THEIR BEARING ON LIFE,
LITERATURE, SPECULATION, SCIENCE, ART,
RELIGION, AND MORALS

ESPECIALLY IN THE MODERN ASPECTS OF THEM


SELECTED AND COMPILED BY THE
R E V.   J A M E S   W O O D
EDITOR OF "NUTTALL'S STANDARD DICTIONARY"


"Aphorisms are portable wisdom."—W. R. Alger
"A proverb is much matter decocted into few words."—Fuller