Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
[Greek: Allos egô]—Alter ego. Zeno's definition of a friend.
All our evils are imaginary, except pain of body and remorse of conscience. Rousseau.
All our most honest striving prospers only in unconscious moments. Goethe.
All passions exaggerate; and they are passions 15 only because they do exaggerate. Chamfort.
All pleasure must be bought at the price of pain. John Foster.
All power appears only in transition. Novalis.
All power, even the most despotic, rests ultimately on opinion. Hume.
All power of fancy over reason is a degree of insanity. Johnson.
All promise outruns performance. Emerson. 20
All public disorder proceeds from want of work. Courier.
All speech, even the commonest, has something of song in it. Carlyle.
All strength lies within, not without. Jean Paul.
All strong men love life. Heine.
All strong souls are related. Schiller. 25
All's well that ends well. Pr.
All talent, all intellect, is in the first place moral. Carlyle.
All that a man has he will give for right relations with his mates. Emerson.
All that glisters is not gold; / Gilded tombs do worms infold. Mer. of Ven., ii. 7.
All that is best in the great poets of all countries 30 is not what is national in them, but what is universal. Longfellow.
All that is human must retrograde, if it do not advance. Gibbon.
All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast. Goethe.
All that lives must die, / Passing through nature to eternity. Ham., i. 2.
All that man does and brings to pass is the vesture of a thought. Sartor Resartus.
All that mankind has done, thought, gained, 35 or been, it is all lying in magic preservation in the pages of books. Carlyle.
All that tread the globe are but a handful to the tribes that slumber in its bosom. Bryant.
All the armed prophets have conquered, all the unarmed have perished. Machiavelli.
All the arts affecting culture (i.e., the fine arts) have a certain common bond, and are connected by a certain blood relationship with each other. Cic.
All the difference between the wise man and the fool is, that the wise man keeps his counsel, and the fool reveals it. Gael. Pr.
All the diseases of mind, leading to fatalest 40 ruin, are due to the concentration of man upon himself, whether his heavenly interests or his worldly interests, matters not. Ruskin.
All the faults of the man I can pardon in the player; no fault of the player can I pardon in the man. Goethe.
All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience. J. S. Mill.
All the great ages have been ages of belief. Emerson.
All the keys don't hang at one man's girdle. Pr.
All the makers of dictionaries, all the compilers 45 of opinions already printed, we may term plagiarists, but honest plagiarists, who arrogate not the merit of invention. Voltaire.
All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Macb., v. 1.
All the pursuits of men are the pursuits of women also, and in all of them a woman is only a weaker man. Plato.
All the thinking in the world does not bring us to thought; we must be right by nature, so that good thoughts may come. Goethe.
All the wit in the world is not in one head. Pr.
All the wit in the world is thrown away upon 50 the man who has none. Bruyère.
All the world's a stage / And all the men and women merely players. As You Like It, ii. 7.
All things are double, one against another. Good is set against evil, and life against death. Ecclus.
All things are for the sake of the good, and it is the cause of everything beautiful. Plato.
All things are in perpetual flux and fleeting. Pr.
All things are symbolical, and what we call 55 results are beginnings. Plato.
All things happen by necessity; in Nature there is neither good nor bad. Spinoza.
All things that are / Are with more spirit chased than enjoyed. Mer. of Ven., ii. 6.
All things that love the sun are out of doors. Wordsworth.
All this (in the daily press) does not concern one in the least; one is neither the wiser nor the better for knowing what the day brings forth. Goethe.
All true men are soldiers in the same army, 60 to do battle against the same enemy—the empire of darkness and wrong. Carlyle.
All truth is not to be told at all times. Pr.
All virtue is most rewarded, and all wickedness most punished, in itself. Bacon.
All went as merry as a marriage-bell. Byron.
All, were it only a withered leaf, works together with all. Carlyle.
All will be as God wills. Gael. Pr.
All wise men are of the same religion, and 5 keep it to themselves. Lord Shaftesbury.
All women are good, viz., for something or nothing. Pr.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Pr.
Allzugrosse Zartheit der Gefühle ist ein wahres Unglück—It is a real misfortune to have too great delicacy of feeling. C. J. Weber.
Allzustraff gespannt, zerspringt der Bogen—If the bow is overstrained, it breaks. Schiller.
Allzuviel ist nicht genug—Too much is not 10 enough. Ger. Pr.
Alma mater—A benign mother; applied to one's university, also to the "all-nourishing" earth.
Al molino, ed alla sposa / Sempre manca qualche cosa—A mill and a woman are always in want of something. It. Pr.
Almost all our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. Schopenhauer.
Almsgiving