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A cat may look like a king. - title of a Pamphlet [Cats] A little house well fill'd, a little land well till'd, and a little wife well will'd, are great riches. - written in a copy of the "Grete Herbal" [Wealth] A lofty cane, a sword with silver hilt, A ring, two watches, and a snuff box gilt. - Recipe "To Make a Modern Fop" [Foppery] A mind full of knowledge is a mind that never fails. - [Knowledge] A niche in the temple of Fame. - origin is owed to establishment of Pantheon (1791) as a receptacle for distinguished men [Fame] A Persian philosopher, being asked by what method he had acquired much knowledge, answered, "By not being prevented by shame from asking questions where I was ignorant." - [Knowledge] A stick and a string with a fly at one end and a fool at the other. - [Fishing] Amende to-day and slack not, Deythe cometh and warneth not, Tyme passeth and speketh not. - on sun dial belonging to Sir George Cornewall at Moccas Hall near Hereford [Sun Dial Mottoes] An Austrian army awfully arrayed. - poet arranged with "apt alliteration's artful aid", first appeared in "The Trifler", May 7, 1817, printed at Winchester, England, found in "Bentley's Miscellany", March, 1838 [Soldiers] As the long hours do pass away, So doth the life of man decay. - an inscription on a sundial in the garden of the Royal hotel at Sevenoaks, Kent, England [Sun Dial Mottoes] Asylum of the oppressed of every nation. - phrase used in the Democratic platform of 1856, referring to the U.S. [America] "Be bold!" first gate; "Be bold, be bold, and evermore be bold," second gate; "Be not too bold!" third gate. - inscription on the Gates of Busyrane [Courage] Begone about your business. - on a sun dial once in The Temple, London [Sun Dial Mottoes] Dead on the field of honour. - [Honor] Despotism tempered by assassination, that is our Magna Carta. [Fr., Le despotisme tempere par l'assassinat, c'est notre magna charta.] - said by a Russian noble to Count Munster on the assassination of Paul I, emperor of Russia [Government] Dollar Diplomacy. - term applied to Secretary Knox's activities in securing opportunities for the investment of American capital abroad, particularly in Latin America and China [Money] Doubt not but God who sits on high, Thy secret prayers can hear; When a dead wall thus cunningly Conveys soft whispers to the ear. - verse inscribed in the Whispering Gallery of Gloucester Cathedral [Prayer] Doubtless there are men of great parts that are guilty of downright bashfulness, that by a strange hesitation and reluctance to speak murder the finest and most elegant thoughts and render the most lively conceptions flat and heavy. - in "The Tatler", no. 252 [Speech] Either this or upon this. (Either bring this back or be brought back upon it.) - said to be a Spartan mother's words to her son on giving him his shield [War] Either Zeus came to earth to shew his form to thee, Phidias, or thou to heaven hast gone the god to see. - in "Greek Anthology" [Gods] Era of good feeling. - title of an article in the Boston "Centinel" [Feeling] Food for the soul. [Lat., Nutrimentum spiritus.] - inscription on the Berlin Royal Library [Libraries] Fourth, eleventh, ninth, and sixth, Thirty days to each affix; Every other thirty-one, Except the second month alone. - common in Chester County, Pennsylvania, among the Friends [Months] Give God thy heart, thy service, and thy gold; The day wears on, and time is waxing old. - on a sun dial in the Cloister-garden of Gloucester Cathedral [Sun Dial Mottoes] God curse Moawiyah. If I had served God so well as I have served him, he would never have damned me to all eternity. - found in Ockley's "History of the Saracens", An. Hegira 54, A.D. 673 [Service] Displaying page 1 of 10 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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