Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
He can ill run that canna gang (walk). Sc. Pr.
He cannot lay eggs, but he can cackle. Dut. Pr.
He cannot see the wood for the trees. Ger. Pr.
He cast off his friends, as a huntsman his 15 pack, / For he knew, when he pleased, he could whistle them back. Goldsmith.
He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney-corner. Sir P. Sidney.
He conquers grief who can take a firm resolution. Goethe.
He could distinguish and divide / A hair 'twixt south and south-west side. Butler.
He cries out before he is hurt. It. Pr.
He dances well to whom fortune pipes. Pr. 20
He doesna aye flee when he claps his wings. Sc. Pr.
He does not deserve wine who drinks it as water. Bodenstedt.
He does nothing who endeavours to do more than is allowed to humanity. Johnson.
He doeth much that doeth a thing well. Thomas à Kempis.
He doeth well that serveth the common 25 good rather than his own will. Thomas à Kempis.
He doth bestride the narrow world / Like a Colossus; and we petty men / Walk under his huge legs, and peep about / To find ourselves dishonourable graves. Jul. Cæs., i. 2.
He doubts nothing who knows nothing. Port. Pr.
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. Love's L. Lost, v. 1.
He draws nothing well who thirsts not to draw everything. Ruskin.
He either fears his fate too much, / Or his 30 deserts are small, / Who dares not put it to the touch / To win or lose it all. Marquis of Montrose.
He frieth in his own grease. Pr.
He gave his honours to the world again, / His blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace. Hen. VIII., iv. 2.
He giveth His beloved sleep. Bible.
He goeth back that continueth not. St. Augustine.
He goeth better that creepeth in his way 35 than he that runneth out of his way. St. Augustine.
He had a face like a benediction. Cervantes.
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement seasons. Swift.
He had never kindly heart / Nor ever cared to better his own kind, / Who first wrote satire with no pity in it. Tennyson.
He has a bee in his bonnet, i.e., is hare-brained. Sc. Pr.
He has a head, and so has a pin. Port. 40 Pr.
He has a killing tongue and a quiet sword, by the means whereof 'a breaks words and keeps whole weapons. Hen. V., iii. 2.
He has faut (need) o' a wife wha marries mam's pet. Sc. Pr.
He has hard work who has nothing to do. Pr.
He has no religion who has no humanity. Arab. Pr.
He has not learned the lesson of life who 45 does not every day surmount a fear. Emerson.
He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. Ben. Franklin.
He has seen a wolf. Pr. of one who suddenly curbs his tongue.
He has verily touched our hearts as with a live coal from the altar who in any way brings home to our heart the noble doings, feelings, darings, and endurances of a brother man. Carlyle.
He has wit at will that, when angry, can sit him still. Sc. Pr.
He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his 50 tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks. Much Ado, iii. 2.
He hath a tear for pity, and a hand / Open as day for melting charity. 2 Hen. IV., iv. 4.
He hath ill repented whose sins are repeated. St. Augustine.
He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book. Love's L. Lost, iv. 2.
He honours God that imitates Him. Sir T. Browne.
He in whom there is much to be developed will 55 be later than others in acquiring true perceptions of himself and the world. Goethe.
He is a fool who empties his purse, or store, to fill another's. Sp. Pr.
He is a fool who thinks by force or skill / To turn the current of a woman's will. S. Tuke.
He is a great and a good man from whom the needy, or those who come for protection, go not away with disappointed hopes and discontented countenances. Hitopadesa.
He is a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labour and difficulty: he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light and in large relations, while they must make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error. Emerson.
He is a happy man that hath a true friend at his need, but he is more truly happy that hath no need of his friend. Arthur Warwick.
He is a hard man who is only just, and he a sad man who is only wise. Voltaire.
He is a little chimney, and heated hot in a moment! Longfellow.
He is a little man; let him go and work with 5 the women! Longfellow.
He is a madman (Rasender) who does not embrace and hold fast the good fortune which a god (ein Gott) has given into his hand. Schiller.
He is a man who doth not suffer his members and faculties to cause him uneasiness. Hitopadesa.
He is a minister who doth not behave with insolence and pride. Hitopadesa.
He is a poor smith who cannot bear smoke. Pr.
He is a strong man who can hold down his 10 opinion. Emerson.
He is a true sage who learns from all the world. Eastern Pr.
He is a very valiant trencherman; he hath an excellent stomach. Much Ado, i. 1.
He is a wise child that knows his own father. Pr.
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. Epictetus.
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