Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
is a wise man who knoweth that his words 15 should be suited to the occasion, his love to the worthiness of the object, and his anger according to his strength. Hitopadesa.
He is a wise man who knows what is wise. Xenophon.
He is a worthy person who is much respected by good men. Hitopadesa.
He is all there when the bell rings. Pr.
He is an eloquent man who can speak of low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper. Cic.
He is an unfortunate and on the way to ruin 20 who will not do what he can, but is ambitious to do what he cannot. Goethe.
He is below himself who is not above an injury. Quarles.
He is best served who has no need to put the hands of others at the end of his arms. Rousseau.
He is but a bastard to the time / That doth not smack of observation. King John, i. 1.
He is but the counterfeit of a man who hath not the life of a man. Shakespeare.
He is gentil that doth gentil dedes. Chaucer. 25
He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others. Emerson.
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his own home. Goethe.
He is happy who is forsaken by his passions. Hitopadesa.
He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances. Hare.
He is just as truly running counter to God's 30 will by being intentionally wretched as by intentionally doing wrong. W. R. Greg.
He is kind who guardeth another from misfortune. Hitopadesa.
He is lifeless that is faultless. Pr.
He is my friend that grinds at my mill. Pr.
He is my friend that helps me, and not he that pities me. Pr.
He is nearest to God who has the fewest wants. 35 Dan. Pr.
He is neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring. Pr.
He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty. Johnson.
He is noble who feels and acts nobly. Heine.
He is not a bad driver who knows how to turn. Dan. Pr.
He is not a true man of science who does not 40 bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behaviour as well as application. Thoreau.
He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed. Socrates.
He is not the best carpenter who makes the most chips. Pr.
He is not yet born who can please everybody. Dan. Pr.
He is oft the wisest man / Who is not wise at all. Wordsworth.
He is richest that has fewest wants. Pr. 45
He is the best dressed gentleman whose dress no one observes. Trollope.
He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue. Victor Hugo.
He is the free man whom the truth makes free, / And all are slaves besides. Cowper.
He is the greatest artist who has embodied in the sum of his works the greatest number of the greatest ideas. Ruskin.
He is the greatest conqueror who has conquered 50 himself. Pr.
He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. Ward Beecher.
He is the half part of a blessèd man, / Left to be finishèd by such as she; / And she a fair divided excellence, / Whose fulness of perfection lies in him. King John, ii. 2.
He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor; and how to give access to the masterpieces of art and nature is the problem of civilisation. Emerson.
He is the rich man who can avail himself of all men's faculties. Emerson.
He is the world's master who despises it, its 55 slave who prizes it. It. Pr.
He is truly great who is great in charity. Thomas à Kempis.
He is ungrateful who denies a benefit; he is ungrateful who hides it; he is ungrateful who does not return it; he, most of all, who has forgotten it. Sen.
He is well paid that is well satisfied. Mer. of Ven., iv. 1.
He is wise that is wise to himself. Euripides.
He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of daily virtuous living; he who trains us to see old truth under academic formularies may be wise or not, as it chances, but we love to see wisdom in unpretending forms, to recognise her royal features under a week-day vesture. Carlyle.
He is wit's pedlar, and retails his wares / At wakes and wassails, meetings, markets, fairs; / And we that sell by gross, the Lord doth know, / Have not the grace to grace it with such show. Love's L. Lost, v. 2.
He is wrong who thinks that authority based 5 on force is more weighty and more lasting than that which rests on kindness. Ter.
He jests at scars that never felt a wound. Rom. and Jul., ii. 2.
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the Lord. Bible.
He kens muckle wha kens when to speak, but far mair wha kens when to haud (hold) his tongue. Sc. Pr.
He knew what's what, and that's as high / As metaphysic wit can fly. Butler.
He knocks boldly at the door who brings good 10 news. Pr.
He knows best what good is that has endured evil. Pr.
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows. Fuller.
He knows much who knows how to hold his tongue. Pr.
He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent, still less how to act with vigour and decision. Lavater.
He knows not what love is that has no children. 15 Pr.
He knows the water the best who has waded through it. Pr.
He knows very little of mankind who expects, by facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party-man. Lavater.
He left a name at which the world grew pale, / To point a moral or adorn a