=I am a man / More sinned against than sinning.=
_King Lear_, iii. 2.
=I am afraid to think what I have done; / Look= 30
=on't again I dare not.= _Macb._, ii. 2.
=I am always afraid of a fool; one cannot be
sure that he is not a knave as well.= _Hazlitt._
=I am always as happy as I can be in meeting
a man in whose society feelings are developed
and thoughts defined.= _Goethe._
=I am always ill at ease when tumults arise
among the mob--people who have nothing
to lose.= _Goethe._
=I am amazed, methinks, and lose my way /
Among the thorns and dangers of the world.=
_King John_, iv. 3.
=I am as free as Nature first made man, / Ere= 35
=the base laws of servitude began, / When
wild in woods the noble savage ran.= _Dryden._
=I am black, but I am not the devil.= _Pr._
=I am bound to find you in reasons, but not in
brains.= _Johnson._
=I am but a gatherer and disposer of other
men's stuff.= _Sir Henry Wotton._
=I am constant as the northern star, / Of whose
true-fix'd and resting quality / There is no
fellow in the firmament.= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 1.
=I am convinced that the Bible always becomes= 40
=more beautiful the better it is understood,
that is, the better we see that every word
which we apprehend in general and apply in
particular had a proper, peculiar, and immediately
individual reference to certain
circumstances, certain time and space relations=,
_i.e._, =had a specially direct bearing on
the spiritual life of the time in which it was
written.= _Goethe._
=I am equally an enemy to a female dunce and
a female pedant.= _Goldsmith._
=I am fortune's fool.= _Rom. and Jul._, iii. 1.
=I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible,
and that its activity will continue
through eternity. It is like the sun, which,
to our eyes, seems to set in night; but it has
in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.=
_Goethe._
=I am monarch of all I survey, / My right there
is none to dispute; / From the centre all
round to the sea, / I am lord of the fowl and
the brute.= _Cowper._
=I am more afraid of my own heart than of the= 45
=Pope and all his cardinals. I have within
me the great pope, self.= _Luther._
=I am neither so weak as to fear men, so proud
as to despise them, or so unhappy as to hate
them.= _Marmontel._
=I am never merry when I hear sweet music.=
_Mer. of Ven._, v. 1.
=I am no herald to inquire of men's pedigrees;
it sufficeth me if I know their virtues.= _Sir
P. Sidney._
=I am no orator, as Brutus is; / But as you
know me all, a plain blunt man, / That loves
my friend.= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 2.
=I am not mad; I would to heaven I were! /= 50
=For then 'tis like I should forget myself.=
_King John_, iii. 4.
=I am not what I am.= _Twelfth Night_, iii. 1;
_Othello_, i. 1.
=I am nothing if not critical.= _Othello_, ii. 1.
="I am searching for a man."= _Diogenes, going
about Athens by day with a lit lantern._
=I am Sir Oracle, / And when I ope my lips, let
no dog bark.= _Mer. of Ven._, i. 1.
=I am sorry to see how small a piece of religion= 5
=will make a cloak.= _Sir W. Waller._
=I am very content with knowing, if only I
could know.= _Emerson._
=I am very fond of the company of ladies. I
like their beauty; I like their delicacy; I
like their vivacity; and I like their silence.=
_Johnson._
=I and time against any two.= _Philip of Spain._
=I augur better of a youth who is wandering on
a path of his own than of many who are
walking aright upon paths which are not
theirs.= _Goethe._
=I awoke one morning and found myself famous.= 10
_Byron._
=I believe in great men, but not in demigods.=
_Bovee._
=I believe more follies are committed out of
complaisance to the world than in following
our own inclinations.= _Lady Mary Montagu._
=I believe there are few persons who, if they
please to reflect on their past lives, will not
find that had they saved all those little sums
which they have spent unnecessarily they
might at present have been masters of a
competent fortune.= _Eustace Budgell._
=I beseech you, dear brethren, think it possible
that you may be wrong.= _Cromwell._
=I bide my time.= _M._ 15
=I can but trust that good shall fall / At last--far
off--at last, to all.= _Tennyson._
="I can call spirits from the vasty deep."
"Why, so can I, or so can any man; but
will they come when you do call for them?"=
1 _Hen. IV._, iii. 1.
=I can count a stocking-top while a man 's
getting 's tongue ready; an' when he out
wi' his speech at last, there's little broth
to be made on't.= _George Eliot._
=I can teach you to command the devil, / And
I can teach you to shame the devil, / By
telling truth.= 1 _Hen. IV._, ii. 1.
=I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe:= 20
=believe life; it teaches better than book and
orator.= _Goethe._
=I cannot call riches better than the baggage
of virtue.... It cannot be spared or left
behind, but it hindereth the march.= _Bacon._
=I cannot hide what I am; I must be sad when
I have cause, and smile at no man's jests;
eat when I have stomach, and wait for no
man's leisure; sleep when I am drowsy,
and tend on no man's business; laugh when
I am merry, and claw no man in his humour.=
_Much Ado_, i. 3.
=I cannot love thee as I ought, / For love
reflects the thing beloved; / My words are
only words, and move / Upon the topmost
froth of thought.= _Tennyson._
=I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered
virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that
never sallies out and seeks her adversary,
but slinks out of the race where that immortal
garland is to be run for, not without
dust and heat.= _Milton._
=I cannot think of any character below the= 25
=flatterer, except he that envies him.= _Steele._
=I can't work for nothing, and find thread.=
_Pr._
=I care not though the cloth of state should
be / Not of rich Arras, but mean tapestry.=
_George Herbert._
=I charge thee, fling away ambition; / By that
sin fell the angels.= _Hen. VIII._, iii. 2.
=I chatter, chatter, as I flow / To join the
brimming river, / For men may come and
men may go, / But I go on for ever.= _Tennyson._
=I contented myself with endeavouring to make= 30
=your home so easy that you might not be
in haste to leave it.= _Lady Montagu_ (_to her
daughter_).
=I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word /
Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young
blood, / Make thy two eyes, like stars, start
from their spheres, / Thy knotted and combined
locks to part, / And each particular
hair to stand on end, / Like quills upon the
fretful porcupine.= _Ham._, i. 4.
=I could have better spared a better man.=
1 _Hen. IV._, v. 4.
=I could not but smile at a woman who makes
her own misfortunes and then deplores the
miseries of her situation.= _Goldsmith._
=I count life just a stuff / To try the soul's
strength on.= _Browning._
=I cuori fanciulli non vestone a bruno=--A child's 35
heart wears no weeds. _B. Zendrini._
=I danari del comune sono come l'acqua benedetta,
ognun ne piglia=--Public money is like
holy water; everybody helps himself to it.
_It. Pr._
=I dare do all that may become a man; / Who
dares do more, is none.= _Macb._, i. 7.
=I dare to be honest, and I fear no labour.=
_Burns._
=I, demens! et sævas curre per Alpes, / Ut
pueris placeas, et declamatio fias=--Go, madman,
and run over the savage Alps to please
schoolboys, and become the subject of declamation.
_Juv., of Hannibal._
=I desire no future that will break the ties of= 40
=the past.= _George Eliot._
=I die by the help of too many physicians.=
_Alexander the Great._
=I do but sing because I must, / And pipe but
as the linnets sing.= _Tennyson._
=I do know of these / That therefore only are
reputed wise / For saying nothing.= _Mer. of
Ven._, i. 1.
=I do know, / When the blood burns, how prodigal
the soul / Lends the tongue vows.=
_Ham._, i. 3.
=I do not like "but yet," it does allay / The= 45
=good precedence; fie upon "but yet:" /
"But yet" is as a jailer to bring forth /
Some monstrous malefactor.= _Ant. and Cleop._,
ii. 5.
=I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.=
_Goldsmith._
=I do not love thee, Dr. Fell, / The reason why
I cannot tell; / But this alone I know full
well, / I do not love thee, Dr. Fell.=
=I do not need philosophy at all.= _Goethe._
=I do pity unlearned gentlemen on a rainy day.=
_Falkland._
="I don't care," is a deadly snare.= _Pr._
=I earn that I eat, get that I wear; owe no
man hate, envy no man's happiness; glad
of other men's good, content with my harm.=
_As You Like It_, iii. 2.
=I esteem that wealth which is given to the
worthy, and which is day by day enjoyed;
the rest is a reserve for one knoweth not
whom.= _Hitopadesa._
=I fatti sono maschii, le parole femine=--Deeds
are masculine, words feminine. _It. Pr._
=I favoriti dei grandi oltre all' oro di regali,= 5
=e l'incenso delle lodi, tocca loro anche la
mirra della maldicenza=--The favourites of the
great, besides the gold of gifts and the incense
of flattery, must also partake of the myrrh of
calumny. _It. Pr._
=I fear God, and, next to God, I chiefly fear
him who fears Him not.= _Saadi._
=I fear thy nature; / It is too full of the milk
of human kindness / To catch the nearest
way.= _Macb._, i. 5.
=I feel within me a peace above all earthly
dignities, a still and quiet conscience.= _Hen.
VIII._, iii. 2.
=I find nonsense singularly refreshing.= _Talleyrand._
=I for ever pass from hand to hand, / And each= 10
=possessor thinks me his own land. / All of
them think so, but they all are wrong; / To
none but Fortune only I belong.= _Anon., of
a field._
=I found Rome brick, I left it marble.= _Augustus
Cæsar._
=I gaed a waefu' gate yestreen, / A gate, I
fear, I'll dearly rue; / I got my death frae
twa sweet een, / Twa lovely een o' bonnie
blue.= _Burns._
="I go at last out of this world, where the heart
must either petrify or break."= _Chamfort, at
his last moments._
=I go through my appointed daily stage, and
I care not for the curs who bark at me along
the road.= _Frederick the Great._
=I gran dolori sono muti=--Great griefs are dumb. 15
_It. Pr._
=I grieve that grief can teach me nothing,
nor carry me one step into real nature.=
_Emerson._
=I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent I give
to such men as do not belong to me and to
whom I do not belong; (but) there is a class
of persons to whom, by all spiritual affinity,
I am bought and sold; for them I will go
to prison if need be.= _Emerson._
=I guadagni mediocri empiono la borsa=--Moderate
profits fill the purse. _It. Pr._
=I had as lief not be, as live to be / In awe of
such a thing as I myself.= _Jul. Cæs._, i. 2.
=I had better never see a book than be warped= 20
=by its attraction clean out of my own orbit
and made a satellite instead of a system.=
_Emerson._
=I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, /
Than such a Roman.= _Jul. Cæs._, iv. 3.
="I had rather be first here than second in
Rome."= _Cæsar, in an insignificant townlet._
=I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among
seven (planets), revolving round the sun,
than the first among five (moons) revolving
round Saturn.= _Goethe._
=I had rather believe all the fables in the
legends, the Talmud, and the Koran, than
that this universal frame is without a mind.=
_Bacon._
=I had rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition= 25
=than in air rarified to nothing by the
air-pump of unbelief.= _Jean Paul._
=I had rather have a fool to make me merry
than experience to make me sad.= _As You
Like It_, iv. 1.
=I had rather people laugh at me while they
instruct me than praise me without benefiting
me.= _Goethe._
=I hae a penny to spend, / There--thanks to
naebody; / I hae naething to lend--/ I'll
borrow frae naebody.= _Burns._
=I hate a style that slides along like an eel,
and never rises to what one can call an
inequality.= _Shenstone._
=I hate bungling as I do sin, but particularly= 30
=bungling in politics, which leads to the misery
and ruin of many thousands and millions of
people.= _Goethe._
=I hate ingratitude more in a man / Than lying,
vainness, babbling, drunkenness, / Or any
taint of vice whose strong corruption / Inhabits
our frail blood.= _Twelfth Night_, iii. 1.
=I have a kind of alacrity in sinking.= _Merry
Wives_, iii. 5.
=I have a very poor opinion of a man who
talks to men what women should not hear.=
_Richardson._
=I have all I have ever enjoyed.= _Bettine._
=I have always been a quarter of an hour= 35
=before my time, and it has made a man of
me.= _Nelson._
=I have always despised the whining yelp of
complaint, and the cowardly, feeble resolve.=
_Burns._
=I have always found that the road to a
woman's heart lies through her child.= _Judge
Haliburton._
=I have been reasoning all my life, and find
that all argument will vanish before one
touch of Nature.= _Colman._
=I have been tempted by opportunity, and
seconded by accident.= _Marmontel._
=I have been too much occupied with things= 40
=themselves to think either of their beginning
or their end.= _Goethe._
=I have bought / Golden opinions from all sorts
of people.= _Macb._, i. 7.
=I have ever held it as a maxim never to do
that through another which it was possible
for me to execute myself.= _Montesquieu._
=I have, God wot, a largë field to ear; / And
weakë the oxen in my plough.= _Chaucer._
=I have great hope of a wicked man, slender
hope of a mean one.= _Ward Beecher._
=I have known some men possessed of good= 45
=qualities which were very serviceable to
others, but useless to themselves; like a
sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform
the neighbours and passengers, but not the
owner within.= (?)
=I have learned in whatsoever state I am therewith
to be content.= _St. Paul._
=I have little knowledge which I find not some
way useful to my highest ends.= _Baxter._
=I have lost the ring, but I have my finger still.=
_It. and Sp. Pr._
=I have never been able to conquer this ferocious
wild beast= (impatience). _Calvin._
=I have never seen a greater monster or miracle
in the world than myself.= _Montaigne._
=I have no idea of the courage that braves
Heaven.= _Burns._
=I have no notion of a truly great man that
could not be all sorts of men.= _Carlyle._
=I have no other but a woman's reason; / I= 5
=think him so because I think him so.= _Two
Gent. of Ver._, i. 2.
=I have no spur / To prick the sides of my
intent.= _Macb._, i. 7.
=I have no words, / My voice is in my sword.=
_Macb._, v. 7.
=I have saved the bird in my bosom=, _i.e._, kept
my secret. _Pr._
=I have seen some nations, like overloaded
asses, / Kick off their burdens, meaning the
higher classes.= _Byron._
=I have seldom known any one who deserted= 10
=truth in trifles that could be trusted in
matters of importance.= _Paley._
=I have set my life upon a cast, / And I will
stand the hazard of the die.= _Rich. III._,
v. 4.
=I have that within which passeth show; / These
but the trappings and the suits of woe.= _Ham._,
i. 2.
=I have this great commission, / From that
supernal judge that stirs good thoughts /
In any breast of strong authority, / To look
into the blots and stains of right.= _King
John_, ii. 1.
=I have thought some of Nature's journeymen
had made men, and not made them well;
they imitated humanity so abominably.=
_Ham._, iii. 2.
=I hear, yet say not much, but think the more.= 15
3 _Hen. VI._, iv. 1.
=I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality,
that it is but a shadow's shadow.= _Ham._,
ii. 2.
=I hold every man a debtor to his profession.=
_Bacon._
=I hold it cowardice / To rest mistrustful where
a noble heart / Hath pawn'd an open hand
in sign of love.= 3 _Hen. VI._
=I hold it truth, with him who sings / To one
clear harp in divers tones, / That men may
rise on stepping-stones / Of their dead selves
to higher things.= _Tennyson._
=I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; /= 20
=A stage, where every man must play a part, /
And mine a sad one.= _Mer. of Ven._, i. 1.
=I hope I don't intrude.= _Paul Pry._
=I humbly trust I should not change my
opinions and practice, though it rained
garters and coronets as the reward of
apostasy.= _Havelock._
=I jouk= (duck aside) =beneath misfortune's blows /
As well's I may; / Sworn foe to sorrow, care,
or prose, / I rhyme away.= _Burns._
=I know but of one solid objection to absolute
monarchy; the difficulty of finding any man
adequate to the office.= _Fielding._
=I know enough to hold my tongue, but not= 25
=to speak.= _Pr._
=I know no evil death can show, which life /
Has not already shown to those who live /
Embodied longest.= _Byron._
=I know no evil so great as the abuse of the
understanding and yet there is no one vice
more common.= _Steele._
=I know no judgment of the future but by the
past.= _Patrick Henry._
=I know nothing sublime which is not some
modification of power.= _Burke._
=I know only one thing sweeter than making a= 30
=book, and that is to project one.= _Jean
Paul._
=I know that dancin' 's nonsense; but if you
stick at everything because its nonsense,
you wonna go far in this life.= _George Eliot._
="I know that it is in me, and out it shall
come."= _Sheridan to his friends over their
disappointment at the failure of his maiden
speech._
=I know that my Redeemer liveth.= _Job, in the
Bible._
=I know that nothing is mine but the thought
that flows tranquilly out of my soul, and
every gracious= (_günstige_) =moment which a
loving Providence= (_Geschick_) =permits me thoroughly=
(_von Grund aus_) =to enjoy.= _Goethe._
=I labour, and you get the pearl.= _Talmud._ 35
=I let every one follow his own bent, that I may
be free to follow mine.= _Goethe._
=I like a good hater.= _Johnson._
=I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to
enjoy company as to shun myself.= _Johnson._
=I live not in myself, but I become / Portion of
that around me; and to me / High mountains
are a feeling.= _Byron._
=I look upon an able statesman out of business= 40
=like a huge whale, that will endeavour to
overturn the ship unless he has an empty
cask to play with.= _Steele._
=I love a hand that meets mine own with a
grasp that causes some sensation.= _Mrs.
Osgood._
=I love everything that's old--old friends, old
tunes, old manners, old books, old wine.=
_Goldsmith._
=I love God and little children.= _Jean Paul._
=I love him not, nor fear him; there's my creed.=
_Hen. VIII._, ii. 2.
=I love my friends well, but myself better.= 45
_Pr._
=I love sometimes to doubt, as well as to know.=
_Dante._
=I love / The name of honour more than I fear
death.= _Jul. Cæs._, i. 2.
=I love to browse in a library.= _Johnson._
=I'll make assurance doubly sure, / And take a
bond of fate.= _Macb._, iv. 1.
=I made all my generals out of mud.= _Napoleon._ 50
=I make the most of my enjoyments; and as for
my troubles, I pack them in as little compass
as I can for myself, and never let them annoy
others.= _Southey._
=I might have my hand full of truth, and open
only my little finger.= _Fontenelle._
=I mourn not those who lose their vital breath; /
But those who, living, live in fear of death.=
_Lucillus._
=I must be cruel, only to be kind.= _Ham._, iii. 4.
="I must sleep now."= _Byron's last words._ 55
=I must work the work of Him that sent me
while it is day; the night cometh when no
man can work.= _Jesus._
=I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure,
nor less alone than when alone.= _Scipio
Africanus._
=I'm not denyin' the women are foolish; God
Almighty made 'em to match the men.=
_George Eliot._
=I'm not one of those who can see the cat i'
the dairy an' wonder what she's come after.=
_George Eliot._
=I'm sure sma' pleasure it can gie, / E'en to a
deil, / To skelp an' scaud= (scald) =puir dogs
like me, / An' hear us squeel.= _Burns._
=I never could believe that Providence had= 5
=sent a few men into the world ready booted
and spurred to ride, and millions ready
saddled and bridled to be ridden.= _Richard
Rumbold._
=I never could tread a single pleasure under
foot.= _Browning._
=I never heard tell of any clever man that came
of entirely stupid people.= _Carlyle._
=I never knew a man of letters ashamed of his
profession.= _Thackeray._
=I never knew any man grow poor by keeping
an orderly table.= _Lord Burleigh._
=I never knew any man in my life who could= 10
=not bear another's misfortunes perfectly as
a Christian.= _Pope._
=I never saw, heard, or read that the clergy
were beloved in any nation where Christianity
was the religion of the country.= _Swift._
=I never whisper'd a private affair / Within the
hearing of cat or mouse, / No, not to myself
in the closet alone, / But I heard it shouted
at once from the top of the house; / Everything
came to be known.= _Tennyson._
=I only look straight before me at each day as
it comes, and do what is nearest me, without
looking further afield.= _Goethe._
=I picciol cani trovano, ma i grandi hanno la
lepre=--The little dogs hunt out the hare, but
the big ones catch it. _It. Pr._
=I pick up favourite quotations and store them= 15
=in my mind as ready armour, offensive or
defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent
existence. Of these there is a very
favourite one from Thomson: "Attach thee
firmly to the virtuous deeds / And offices of
life; to life itself, / With all its vain and
transient joys, sit loose."= _Burns._
=I pity men who occupy themselves exclusively
with the transitory in things and lose themselves
in the study of what is perishable,
since we are here for this very end that
we may make the perishable imperishable,
which we can do only after we have learned
how to appreciate both.= _Goethe._
=I pity the man who can travel from Dan to
Beersheba, and cry: 'Tis all barren.= _Swift._
=I pounce on what is mine wherever I find it.=
_Marmontel._
=I prize the soul that slumbers in a quiet eye.=
_Eliza Cook._
=I quote others only in order the better to= 20
=express myself.= _Montaigne._
=I renounce the friend who eats what is mine
with me, and what is his own by himself.=
_Port. Pr._
=I say beware of all enterprises that require
new clothes, and not rather a new wearer
of clothes.= _Thoreau._
=I say the acknowledgment of God in Christ, /
Accepted by thy reason, solves for thee / All
questions on the earth and out of it.= _Browning._
=I scorn the affectation of seeming modesty to
cover self-conceit.= Burns.
=I secundo omine=--Go, and may all good go with 25
you. _Hor._
=I see my way as birds their trackless way.=
_Browning._
=I see that sensible men and conscientious men
all over the world are of the one religion of
well-doing and daring.= _Emerson._
=I see thy vanity through the holes of thy coat.=
_Plato, to the Cynic._
=I seek divine simplicity in him who handles
things divine.= _Cowper._
=I seek not to wax great by others' waning.= 30
2 _Hen. VI._, iv. 10.
="I shall go to-morrow," said the king. "You
shall wait for me," quoth the wind.= _Gael.
Pr._
=I shall light a candle of understanding in thine
heart which shall not be put out.= _Esdras._
=I shall perhaps tremble in my death-hour, but
before shall I never.= _Lessing._
=I should be glad were all the meadows on the
earth left in a wild state, if that were the
consequence of men's beginning to redeem
themselves.= _Thoreau._
=I stay here on my bond.= _Mer. of Ven._, iv. 1. 35
=I stout and you stout, who will carry the dirt
out?= _Pr._
=I take it to be a principal rule of life not to
be too much addicted to any one thing.= _Ter._
=I talk of chalk and you of cheese.= _Pr._
=I think a lock and key a security at least
equal to the bosom of any friend whatever.=
_Burns._
=I think it is as scandalous for a woman not= 40
=to know how to use a needle as for a man
not to know how to use a sword.= _Lady
Montagu._
=I think nothing is to be hoped from you if this
bit of mould under your feet is not sweeter
to you than any other in this world.= _Thoreau._
=I think sculpture and painting have an effect
to teach us manners and abolish hurry.=
_Emerson._
=I think women have an instinct of dissimulation;
they know by nature how to disguise
their emotions far better than the most consummate
male courtiers can do.= _Thackeray._
=I tremble for my country when I reflect that
God is just.= _T. Jefferson._
=I very much fear that our little terraqueous= 45
=globe is the lunatic asylum of the universe.=
_Voltaire._
=I've had my say out, and I shall be th' easier
for't all my life.= _George Eliot._
=I've never any pity for conceited people, because
I think they carry their comfort about
with them.= _George Eliot._
=I've wandered east, I've wandered west, /
Through many a weary way; / But never,
never can forget / The love of life's young
day.= _Motherwell._
=I waive the quantum o' th sin, / The hazard
of concealing; / But oh! it hardens a' within, /
And petrifies the feeling.= _Burns._
=I want that glib and oily art, / To speak and
purpose not; since what I well intend, / I'll
do't before I speak.= _King Lear_, i. 1.
=I was not born for courts or great affairs; /
I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers.=
_Pope._
=I was well, would be better, took physic and
died.= _Epitaph._
=I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.=
_Rich. II._, v. 5.
=I watch the wheels of Nature's mazy plan, /= 5
=And learn the future by the past of man.=
_Campbell._
=I were but little happy if I could say how much.=
_Much Ado_, ii. 1.
=I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver / Of my
whole course of love.= _Othello_, i. 3.
=I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising
as justice.= _W. Lloyd Garrison._
=I will chide no breather in the world but myself,
against whom I know most faults.= _As
You Like It_, iii. 2.
=I will divide my goods; / Call in the wretch= 10
=and slave: / None shall rule but the humble, /
And none but toil shall have.= _Emerson._
=I will get it from his purse or get it from his
skin.= _Pr._
=I will give thrice as much to any well-deserving
friend; but in the way of bargain, mark me,
I will cavil on the ninth part of a hair.= 1 _Hen.
IV._, iii. 1.
=I will lay a stone at your door=, _i.e._, never forgive
you. _Pr._
=I will listen to any one's convictions, but pray
keep your doubts to yourself; I have plenty
of my own.= _Goethe._
=I will move the world.= _Archimedes._ 15
=I will speak daggers to her, but use none.=
_Ham._, iii. 2.
=I will wear my heart upon my sleeve / For
daws to peck at.= _Othello_, i. 1.
=I wish there were some cure, like the lover's
leap, for all heads of which some single idea
has obtained an unreasonable and irregular
possession.= _Johnson._
=I would applaud thee to the very echo, that
should applaud again.= _Macb._, v. 3.
=I would choose to have others for my acquaintance,= 20
=but Englishmen for my friends.= _Goldsmith._
=I would condone many things in one-and-twenty
now, that I dealt hardly with at
middle age. God Himself, I think, is very
willing to give one-and-twenty a second
chance.= _J. M. Barrie._
=I would desire for a friend the son who never
resisted the tears of his mother.= _Lacretelle._
=I would fain avoid men; we can give them no
help, and they hinder us from helping ourselves.=
_Goethe._
=I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and
safety.= _Hen. V._, iii. 2.
=I would have been glad to have lived under= 25
=my woodside, to have kept a flock of sheep,
rather than undertaken such a government
as this.= _Cromwell._
="I"= (self-love) =would have the world say "I," /
And all things perish so if she endure.= _Sir
Edwin Arnold._
=I would it were bed-time, Hal, and all well.=
1 _Hen. IV._, v. 1.
=I would not enter on my list of friends ... the
man / Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.=
_Cowper._
=I would not for much that I had been born
richer.= _Jean Paul._
=I would rather be found suffering than doing= 30
=what is unjust.= _Phocion._
=I would rather be the author of one original
thought than conqueror of a hundred battles.=
_W. B. Clulow._
=I would rather make my name than inherit it.=
_Thackeray._
=Ibi omnis / Effusus labor=--By that (one negligence)
all his labour was lost. _Virg._
=Ibidem=--In the same place.
=Ibis, redibis non morieris in bello=--Thou shalt 35
go, thou shalt return, thou shalt not die in battle;
or, Thou shalt go, thou shalt not return, thou shalt
die in battle. _An ambiguous oracle, due to the
uncertain application of the adverb "non."_
=Ibit eo quo vis, qui zonam perdidit=--He who
has lost his purse (_lit._ girdle) will go wherever
you wish. _Hor._
=Iceland is the finest country on which the sun
shines.= _Iceland Pr._
=Ich bin des trocknen Tons nun satt, / Muss
wieder recht den Teufel spielen=--I am now
weary of this prosing style, and must again play
the devil properly. _Goethe, "Mephisto."_
=Ich bin ein Mensch gewesen, / Und das heisst
ein Kämpfer sein=--I have been a man, and that
is to be a fighter. _Goethe._
=Ich bin es müde, über Sklaven zu herrschen=--I 40
am tired of ruling over slaves. _Frederick the
Great._
=Ich bin zu alt, um nur zu spielen; / Zu jung,
um ohne Wunsch zu sein=--I am too old for
mere play; too young to be without a wish.
_Goethe, "Faust."_
=Ich denke so: / Was nicht zusammen kann /
Bestehen, ist am besten sich zu lösen=--In
my regard 'twere best throw that into the
pot which can no longer hold itself together.
_Schiller._
=Ich dien=--I serve. _Ger. M._
=Ich finde nicht die Spur, / Von einem Geist,
und alles ist Dressur=--I find no trace of
spirit here; it is all mere training. _Goethe,
"Faust."_
=Ich fühl' ein ganzes Heer in meiner Brust=--I 45
feel a whole host on my bosom. _Körner._
=Ich fühle Mut, mich in die Welt zu wagen /
Der Erde Weh, der Erde Glück zu tragen=--I
feel courage enough to cast myself into the
world, to bear earth's woe and weal. _Goethe._
=Ich glaube, dass alles was das Genie, als Genie
thut, unbewusst geschieht=--Everything that
genius, as genius, does, is in my regard done
unconsciously. _Goethe._
="Ich glaube an einen Gott." Das ist ein schönes
löbliches Wort; aber Gott anerkennen, wo
und wie er sich offenbare, das ist eigentlich
die Seligkeit auf Erden=--"I believe in a
God." That is a fine praiseworthy saying; but
to acknowledge God, where and as He reveals
Himself, that is properly our blessedness on this
earth. _Goethe._
=Ich habe es öfters rühmen hören, / Ein Komödiant
könnte einen Pfarrer lehren=--I have
often heard say that a player might teach a
parson. _Goethe, "Faust."_
=Ich habe genossen das irdische Glück; / Ich
habe gelebt und geliebet=--I have experienced
earthly happiness; I have lived and I have
loved. _Schiller._
=Ich habe gethan, was ich nicht lassen konnte=--I
have done what I could not get done.
_Schiller._
=Ich habe hier bloss ein Amt und keine Meinung=--I
hold here an office merely, and no opinion.
_Schiller._
=Ich habe nichts als Worte, und es ziemt / Dem
edlen Mann, der Frauen Wort zu achten=--I
have nothing but words, and it becomes
the noble man to respect a woman's word.
_Goethe._
=Ich heisse der reichste Mann in der getauften= 5
=Welt: Die Sonne geht in meinem Staat
nicht unter=--I pass for the richest man in the
baptized world; the sun never sets in my dominions.
_Philip II. of Spain's boast._
=Ich möcht mich gleich dem Teufel übergeben, /
Wenn ich nur selbst kein Teufel wär=--I
would give myself up at once to the devil if only
I were not a devil myself. _Goethe, Mephistopheles
in "Faust."_
=Ich muss, das ist die Schrank', in welcher
mich die Welt, / Von einer, die Natur von
andrer Seite hält=--I must--that is the barrier
within which the world confines me on the one
hand and Nature on the other. _Rückert._
=Ich schweige zu vielem still; denn ich mag die
Menschen nicht irre machen, und bin wohl
zufrieden, wenn sie sich freuen, da wo ich
mich ärgere=--I keep silent to a great extent, for
I don't choose to lead others into error, and am
well content if they are happy in matters about
which I vex myself. _Goethe._
=Ich setze die Souveränität fest wie einen
eisernen Felsen=--I plant the royal power firm
as a rock of iron. _Frederick William I. of
Prussia._
=Ich singe, wie der Vogel singt, / Der in den= 10
=Zweigen wohnet / Das Lied, das aus der
Kehle dringt, / Ist Lohn, der reichlich lohnet=--I
sing but as the bird sings which dwells
among the branches; the lay which warbles
from the throat is a reward that richly recompences.
_Goethe._
=Ich stehe in Gottes Hand, und ruh' in Gottes
Schooss / Vor ihm fühl' ich mich klein, in ihm
fühl' ich mich gross=--I stand in God's hand
and rest in God's bosom; before Him I feel
little, in Him I feel great. _Rückert._
=Ich thue recht und scheue keinen Feind=--I
do the right and fear no foe. _Schiller._
=Ici l'honneur m'oblige, et j'y veux satisfaire=--Here
honour binds me, and I am minded to
satisfy her. _Corneille._
=Id arbitror / Adprime in vitâ esse utile, ne
quid nimis=--This I consider to be a valuable
principle in life, not to do anything in excess.
_Ter._
=Id cinerem, aut manes credis curare sepultos?=--Do 15
you think that ashes and buried spirits of
the departed care for such things? _Virg._
=Id commune malum; semel insanivimus omnes=--It
is a common calamity; we have all been
mad once. _Mantuanus._
=Id demum est homini turpe, quod meruit pati=--That
only brings disgrace on a man which he
has deserved to suffer. _Phæd._
=Id est=--That is.
=Id facere laus est quod decet, non quod licet=--The
man is deserving of praise who does what it
becomes him to do, not what he is free to do.
_Sen._
=Id genus omne=--All persons of that description. 20
=Id maxime quemque decet, quod est cujusque
maxime suum=--That best becomes a man which
is most peculiarly his own. _Cic._
=Id mutavit, quoniam me immutatum videt=--He
has changed his mind because he sees me unchanged.
_Ter._
=Id nobis maxime nocet, quod non ad rationis
lumen sed ad similitudinem aliorum vivimus=--This
is especially ruinous to us, that we shape
our lives not by the light of reason, but after
the fashion of others. _Sen._
=Ideals are the world's masters.= _J. G. Holland._
=Ideals can never be completely embodied in= 25
=practice; and yet ideals exist, and if they be
not approximated to at all, the whole matter
goes to wreck.= _Carlyle._
=Ideas must work through the brains and arms
of good and brave men, or they are no better
than dreams.= _Emerson._
=Ideas often flash across our minds more complete
than we could make them after much
labour.= _La Roche._
=Idem=--The same.
=Idem quod=--The same as.
=Idem velle et idem nolle ea demum firma= 30
=amicitia est=--To have the same likes and the
same dislikes is the sole basis of lasting friendship.
_Sall._
=Idle folks lack no excuses.= _Pr._
=Idle people have the least leisure.= _Pr._
=Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand
than kings and parliaments.= _Ben. Franklin._
=Idleness in the midst of unattempted tasks is
always proud.= _P. Brooks._
=Idleness is an appendix to nobility.= _Burton._ 35
=Idleness is many gathered miseries in one
name.= _Jean Paul._
=Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds and
the holiday of fools.= _Pr._
=Idleness is the badge of gentry, the bane of
body and mind, the nurse of naughtiness,
the step-mother of discipline, the chief author
of mischief, one of the seven deadly sins, the
cushion on which the devil chiefly reposes,
and a great cause not only of melancholy,
but of many other diseases.= _Burton._
=Idleness is the greatest prodigality in the
world.= _Pr._
=Idleness is the root of all evil.= _Pr._ 40
=Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.=
_Anselm._
=Idleness rusts the mind.= _Pr._
=Idolatry is simply the substitution of an
"Eidolon," phantasm, or imagination of
good for that which is real and enduring,
from the highest Living Good which gives
life, to the lowest material good which
ministers to it.= _Ruskin._
=Idoneus homo=--A fit man.
=If a barrel-organ in a slum can but drown= 45
=a curse, let no Christian silence it.= _Prof.
Drummond._
=If a beard were all, the goat would be winner.=
_Dan. Pr._
=If a book come from the heart, it will contrive
to reach other hearts.= _Carlyle._
=If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.=
_Ruskin._
=If a cause be good, the most violent attack of
its enemies will not injure it so much as an
injudicious defence of it by its friends.= _Colton._
=If a dog has a man to back him, he will kill a
baboon.= _Wit and Wisdom from West Africa._
=If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.= _Pr._ 5
=If a God did not exist, it would be necessary to
invent one.= _Voltaire._
=If a great thing can be done at all, it can be
done easily; but it is in that kind of ease
with which a tree blossoms after long years
of gathered strength.= _Ruskin._
=If a house be divided against itself, that house
cannot stand.= _Jesus._
=If a man be born in a stable, that does not
make him a horse.= _Pr._
=If a man cannot be a Christian in the place= 10
=where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.=
_Ward Beecher._
=If a man could bequeath his virtues by will,
and settle his sense and learning upon his
heirs as certainly as he can his lands, a
noble descent would then indeed be a valuable
privilege.= _Anon._
=If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if
he deceives me twice, shame on me.= _Pr._
=If a man do not erect in this age his tomb ere
he dies, he will live no longer in monument
than the bell rings and the widow weeps.=
_Much Ado_, v. 2.
=If a man empties his purse into his head, no
man can take it from him.= _Ben. Franklin._
=If a man fear or reverence God, he must hate= 15
=covetousness; and if he fear or reverence
covetousness, he must hate God.= _Ruskin._
=If a man hath too mean an opinion of himself,
it will render him unserviceable both to God
and man.= _John Selden._
=If a man have freedom enough to live healthily
and work at his craft, he has enough; and
so much all can easily obtain.= _Goethe._
=If a man have not a friend, he may quit the
stage.= _Bacon._
=If a man is not virtuous, he becomes vicious.=
_Bovee._
=If a man knows the right way, he need not= 20
=trouble himself about wrong paths.= _Lessing._
=If a man makes himself a worm, he must not
complain when trodden on.= _Kant._
=If a man makes me keep my distance, the
comfort is he keeps his own at the same
time.= _Swift._
=If a man once fall, all will tread on him.= _Pr._
=If a man read little, he had need of much cunning
to seem to know that he doth not.= _Bacon._
=If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,= 25
=happiness follows him like a shadow that
never leaves him.= _Buddha._
=If a man wishes to become rich, he must appear
rich.= _Goldsmith._
=If a man with the material of enjoyment around
him and virtually within his reach walks
God's earth wilfully and obstinately with a
gloomy spirit, ... making misery his worship,
we feel assured he is contravening his
Maker's design in endowing him with life.=
_W. R. Greg._
=If a man would be alone, let him look at the
stars.= _Emerson._
=If a man wound you with injuries, meet him
with patience; hasty words rankle the
wound, soft language dresses it, forgiveness
cures it, and oblivion takes away the scar.=
_J. Beaumont._
=If a man write a book, let him set down only= 30
=what he knows. I have guesses enough of
my own.= _Goethe._
=If a man s gaun doun the brae, ilka ane gi'es
him a jundie= (push). _Sc. Pr._
=If a noble soul is rendered tenfold beautifuller
by victory and prosperity, an ignoble one
is rendered tenfold and a hundredfold uglier,
pitifuller.= _Carlyle._
=If a people will not believe, it must obey.=
_Tocqueville._
=If a pig could give his mind to anything, he
wouldn't be a pig.= _Dickens._
=If a word be worth one shekel, silence is worth= 35
=two.= _Rabbi Ben Azai._
=If ae sheep loup= (jump) =the dike, a the lave=
(rest) =will follow.= _Sc. Pr._
=If aged and life-weary men have called to
their neighbours: "Think of dying!" we
younger and life-loving men may well keep
encouraging and reminding one another
with the cheerful words: "Think of wandering!"=
_Goethe._
=If all be well within, ... the impertinent censures
of busy, envious men will make no very
deep impression.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=If all dogs on this earth should bark, /
It will not matter if you do not hark.=
_Saying._
=If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast= 40
=into a public stock in order to be equally
distributed among the species, those who
now think themselves the most unhappy
would prefer the share they have already
to that which would fall to them by such
a division.= _Socrates._
=If all the world were falcons, what of that? /
The wonder of the eagle were the less, / But
he not less the eagle.= _Tennyson._
=If all the year were playing holidays, / To sport
would be as tedious as to work.= 1 _Hen. IV._,
i. 2.
=If all were rich, gold would be penniless.=
_Bailey._
=If an ass goes a-travelling, he'll not come
home a horse.= _Pr._
=If an ass kicks me, shall I strike him again?= 45
_Socrates._
=If an ass looks in, you cannot expect an apostle
to look out.= _Lichtenberg._
=If an idiot were to tell you the same story
every day for a year, you would end by
believing him.= _Burke._
=If any false step be made in the more momentous
concerns of life, the whole scheme of
ambitious designs is broken.= _Addison._
=If any man minister, let him do it as of the
ability which God giveth.= _St. Peter._
=If any man will come after me, let him deny= 50
=himself, and take up his cross and follow
me.= _Jesus._
=If any one tells you that a man has changed
his character, don't believe it.= _Mahomet._
=If any speak ill of thee, fly home to thy own
conscience and examine thy heart. If thou
art guilty, it is a fair correction; if not
guilty, it is a fair instruction.= _George Herbert._
=If any would not work, neither should he eat.=
_St. Paul._
=If blushing makes ugly people so beautiful,
ought it not to make the beautiful still more
beautiful?= _Lessing._
=If coals do not burn, they blacken.= _Pr._
=If cheerfulness knocks for admission, we should= 5
=open our hearts wide to receive it, for it
never comes inopportunely.= _Schopenhauer._
=If children grew up according to early indications,
we should have nothing but geniuses.=
_Goethe._
=If cut= (in the costume) =betoken intellect and
talent, so does the colour betoken temper
and heart.= _Carlyle._
=If destructive criticism is injurious in anything,
it is in matters of religion, for here everything
depends upon faith, to which we
cannot return when we have once lost it.=
_Goethe._
=If each one does his duty as an individual,
and if each one works rightly in his own
vocation, it will be well with the whole.=
_Goethe._
=If ever a fool's advice is good, a prudent man= 10
=must carry it out.= _Lessing._
=If every fool wore a crown, we should all be
kings.= _Welsh Pr._
=If everybody knew what one says of the other,
there would not be four friends left in the
world.= _Pascal._
=If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct
thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it.= _Epictetus._
=If fame is only to come after death, I am in no
hurry for it.= _Martial._
=If folly were a pain, there would be crying in= 15
=every house.= _Sp. Pr._
=If fortune favour you, be not elated; if she
frown, do not despond.= _Ausonius._
=If fortune give thee less than she has done, /
Then make less fire, and walk more in the
sun.= _Sir R. Baker._
=If fortune would make a man estimable, she
gives him virtues; if she would have him
esteemed, she gives him success.= _Joubert._
=If frequent failure convince you of that mediocrity
of nature which is incompatible with
great actions, submit wisely and cheerfully
to your lot.= _Sydney Smith._
=If friendship is to rob me of my eyes, if it is= 20
=to darken the day, I will have none of it.=
_Thoreau._
=If fun is good, truth is still better, and love
most of all.= _Thackeray._
=If happiness ha'e not her seat / And centre in
the breast, / We may be wise, or rich, or
great, / But never can be blest.= _Burns._
=If heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in
a field arable would be the most noble and
ancient arms.= _Cowley._
=If Hercules and Lichas play at dice / Which
is the better man, the greater throw / May
turn by fortune from the weaker hand; / So
is Alcides beaten by his page.= _Mer. of
Ven._, ii. 1.
=If honour calls, where'er she points the= 25
=way, / The sons of honour follow and obey.=
_Churchill._
=If I am anything, which I much doubt, I made
myself so merely by labour.= _Sir Isaac Newton._
=If I am master and you are master, who shall
drive the asses?= _Arab. Pr._
=If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not
worth the winning.= _Longfellow._
=If I am right, Thy grace impart / Still in the
right to stay; / If I am wrong, O teach my
heart to find the better way.= _Pope._
=If I ascend up into heaven, Thou art there; if= 30
=I make my bed in hell, behold Thou art
there; if I take the wings of the morning,
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
even there shall Thy hand lead me, and Thy
right hand shall hold me.= _Bible._
=If I be dear to some one else, / Then I should
be to myself more dear.= _Tennyson._
=If I call bad bad, what do I gain? But if I call
good bad, I do a great deal of mischief.= _Goethe._
=If I can catch him once upon the hip, / I will
feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.= _Mer.
of Ven._, i. 3.
=If I choose to take jest in earnest, no one
shall put me to shame for doing so; and if I
choose to carry on= (_treiben_) =earnest in jest, I
shall be always myself= (_immer derselbe bleiben_).
_Goethe._
=If I do lose thee= (life), =I do lose a thing / That= 35
=none but fools would keep; a breath thou
art, / Servile to all the skyey influences, /
That do this habitation, where thou keep'st /
Hourly inflict.= _Meas. for Meas._, iii. 1.
=If I for my opinion bleed, / Opinion shall be
surgeon to my hurt.= 1 _Hen. VI._, ii. 4.
=If I had read as much as other men, I would
have been as ignorant as they are.= _Hobbes._
=If I had wit enough to get out of this wood,
I have said enough to serve mine own turn.=
_Mid. Night's Dream_, iii. 1.
=If I knew the way of the Lord, truly I would
be only too glad to walk in it; if I were led
into the temple of truth= (_in der Wahrheit
Haus_), =I would not, with the help of God=
(_bei Gott_), =go out of it again.= _Goethe._
=If I lose mine honour, I lose myself.= _Ant. and_ 40
_Cleop._, iii. 4.
=If I love thee, what is that to thee?= _Goethe._
=If I'm designed yon lordling's slave, / By
Nature's law designed, / Why was an independent
wish / E'er planted in my mind?=
_Burns._
=If I must die, / I will encounter darkness as a
bride / And hug it in my arms.= _Meas. for
Meas._, iii. 1.
=If I seek an interest of my own detached from
that of others, I seek an interest which is
chimerical, and can never have existence.=
_James Harris._
=If I should say nothing, I should say much= 45
=(much being included in my love); though
my love be such, that if I should say much,
I should yet say nothing, it being, as Cowley
says, equally impossible either to conceal or
to express it.= _Pope._
=If I wish for a horse-hair for my compass-sight,
I must go to the stable; but the hair-bird,
with her sharp eyes, goes to the road.=
_Thoreau._
=If ill thoughts at any time enter into the mind
of a good man, he doth not roll them under
his tongue as a sweet morsel.= _Matthew
Henry._
=If in the course of our life we see that done by
others for which we ourselves at one time
felt a vocation, and which we were, with
much else, compelled to relinquish, then the
noble feeling comes in, that only humanity
altogether is the true man, and that the individual
can only rejoice and be happy when
he has the heart= (_Muth_) =to feel himself in the
whole.= _Goethe._
=If in youth the universe is majestically unveiling,
and everywhere heaven revealing itself
on earth, nowhere to the young man
does this heaven on earth so immediately
reveal itself as in the young maiden.= _Carlyle._
="If" is the only peacemaker--much virtue in
"if."= _As You Like It_, v. 4.
=If it be a bliss to enjoy the good, it is still= 5
=greater happiness to discern the better;
for in art the best only is good enough.=
_Goethe._
=If it be asked, What is the improper expectation
which it is dangerous to indulge, experience
will quickly answer that it is such
expectation as is dictated not by reason
but by desire--an expectation that requires
the common course of things to be changed,
and the general rules of action to be broken.=
_Johnson._
=If it be aught toward the general good, / Set
honour in one eye, and death i' the other, /
And I will look on both indifferently; / For,
let the gods so speed me, as I love / The
name of honour more than I fear death.=
_Jul. Cæs._, i. 2.
=If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live
peaceably with all men.= _St. Paul._
=If it is a happiness to be nobly descended, it is
not less to have so much merit that nobody
inquires whether we are so or not.= _La
Bruyère._
=If it is disgraceful to be beaten, it is only a= 10
=shade less disgraceful to have so much as
fought.= _Carlyle._
=If it rains--well! If it shines--well!= _Pr._
=If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere
well / It were done quickly ... that but
this blow / Might be the be all and the end
all here.= _Macb._, i. 7.
=If it were not for hope, the heart would break.=
_Pr._
=If it were not for respect to human opinions,
I would not open my window to see the Bay
of Naples for the first time, whilst I would
go five hundred leagues to talk with a man
of genius whom I had not seen.= _Mme. de
Staël._
=If Jack were better, Jill would not be so bad.= 15
_Pr._
=If ladies be but young and fair, / They have
the gift to know it.= _As You Like It_, ii. 7.
=If life, like the olive, is a bitter fruit, then grasp
both with the press and they will yield the
sweetest oil.= _Jean Paul._
=If man had a higher idea of himself and his
destiny, he would neither call his business
amusement nor amuse himself instead of
transacting business.= _Goethe._
=If man is not kin to God by his spirit, he is
a base and ignoble creature.= _Bacon._
=If men duly felt the greatness of God, they= 20
=would be dumb, and for very veneration
unwilling to name Him.= _Goethe._
=If money be not thy servant, it will be thy
master. The covetous man cannot so properly
be made to possess wealth as that it
may be said to possess him.= _Bacon._
=If money go before, all ways do lie open.=
_Merry Wives_, ii. 2.
=If music be the food of love, play on; / Give
me excess of it, that, surfeiting, / The appetite
may sicken, and so die.= _Twelfth Night_,
i. 1.
=If my person be crooked, my verses shall be
straight.= _Pope._
=If Nature is one and a living indivisible= 25
=whole, much more is mankind, the image
that reflects and creates Nature, without
which Nature were not.= _Carlyle._
=If new-got gold is said to burn the pockets
till it be cast forth into circulation, much
more may new truth.= _Carlyle._
=If, of all words of tongue and pen, / The saddest
are, "It might have been," / More sad are
these we daily see: "It is, but hadn't ought
to be."= _Bret Harte._
=If once you find a woman gluttonous, expect
from her very little virtue; her mind is enslaved
to the lowest and grossest temptation.=
_Johnson._
=If one advances confidently in the direction of
his dreams, and endeavours to live the life
which he has imagined, he will meet with
a success unexpected in common hours.=
_Thoreau._
=If one age believes too much, it is but a natural= 30
=reaction that another age should believe
too little.= _Buckle._
=If one door shuts, another will open.= _Pr._
=If one sees one's fellow-creature following
damnable error, by continuing in which the
devil is sure to get him at last, are you to
let him go towards such consummation, or
are you not rather to use all means to save
him?= _Carlyle._
=If one were to think constantly of death, the
business of life would stand still.= _Johnson._
=If our era is an era of unbelief, why murmur
at it? Is there not a better coming--nay,
come?= _Carlyle. See Matt._ v. 4.
=If people did not flatter one another, there= 35
=would be little society.= _Vauvenargues._
=If people take no care for the future, they will
soon have sorrow for the present.= _Chinese
Pr._
=If people were constant, it would surprise me.
For see, is not everything in the world subject
to change? Why then should our affections
continue?= _Goethe._
=If people would whistle more and argue less,
the world would be much happier and probably
just as wise.= _Book of Wisdom._
=If poverty is the mother of crimes, want of
sense is the father of them.= _La Bruyère._
=If poverty makes a man groan, he yawns in= 40
=opulence.= _Rivarol._
=If reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I
would give no man a reason upon compulsion.=
1 _Hen. IV._, ii. 4.
=If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites;
they are the greatest dupes he has.= _Colton._
=If she be not fit for me, / What care I for whom
she be?= _G. Wither._
=If solid happiness we prize, / Within our breast
this jewel lies, / And they are fools who
roam. / The world has nothing to bestow; /
From our own selves our joys must flow, /
And that dear hut, our home.= _N. Cotton._
=If sorrow falls, / Take comfort still in deeming
there may be / A way to peace on earth by
woes of ours.= _Sir Edwin Arnold._
=If speculation tends to a terrific unity, in= 5
=which all things are absorbed, action tends
directly backwards to diversity.= _Emerson._
=If that God give, the deil daurna reave= (bereave).
_Sc. Pr._
=If that thy fame with every toy be posed, /
'Tis a thin web which poisonous fancies
make; / But the great soldier's honour was
composed / Of thicker stuff, which would
endure a shake.= _George Herbert._
=If the Almighty waited six thousand years
for a man to see what He has made, I may
well wait two hundred for others to see what
I have seen.= _Kepler. See Isa._ xxviii. 16 (_last
clause_).
=If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it
spoken, we moderns are building houses for
them.= _A. B. Alcott._
=If the beard were all, the goat might preach.= 10
_Dan. Pr._
=If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into
the ditch.= _Heb. Pr._
=If the cap fit, wear it.= _Pr._
=If the chaff-cutter had the making of us, we
should all be straw, I reckon.= _George Eliot._
=If the counsel be good, no matter who gave
it.= _Pr._
=If the deil were dead, folk would do little for= 15
=God's sake.= _Sc. Pr._
=If the devil takes a less hateful shape to us
than to our fathers, he is as busy with us
as he was with them.= _Lowell._
=If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; if he kills,
the earth hides it.= _Sc. Pr._
=If the East loves infinity, the West delights in
boundaries.= _Emerson._
=If the eye were not of a sunny nature= (_sonnenhaft_),
=how could it see the sun? If God's own
power did not exist within us, how could the
godlike delight us?= _Goethe._
=If the farmer cannot live who drives the plough,= 20
=how can he live who drives a fast-trotting
mare?= _Pr._
=If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, /
The mist is dispelled when a woman appears.=
_Gay._
=If the hungry lion= (invited to a feast of chickenweed)
=is to feast at all, it cannot be on the
chickenweed, but only on the chickens.= _Carlyle._
=If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at
the walls. It is when he is gone, and the
house is filled with grooms and gazers, that
we turn from the people to find relief in the
majestic men that are suggested by the
pictures and the architecture.= _Emerson._
="If the Lord tarry, yet wait for Him," for He
"will surely come" and heal thee.= _Thomas
à Kempis._
=If the mountain will not come to Mahomet,= 25
=Mahomet will go to the mountain.= _Mahomet._
=If the nose of Cleopatra had been a little
shorter, it would have changed the history
of the world.= _Pascal._
=If the paternal cottage still shuts us in, its
roof still screens us; and with a father we
have as yet a prophet, priest, and king, and
an obedience that makes us free.= _Carlyle._
=If the pills were pleasant, they would not be
gilded.= _Pr._
=If the poet have nothing to interpret and
reveal, it is better that he remain silent.=
_C. Fitzhugh._
=If the poor man cannot always get meat, the= 30
=rich man cannot always digest it.= _Henry
Giles._
=If the profession you have chosen has some
unexpected inconveniences, console yourself
by reflecting that no profession is without
them.= _Johnson._
=If the single man plant himself indomitably
on his instincts, and there abide, the huge
world will come round to him.= _Emerson._
=If the sun shines on me, what matters the
moon?= _Pr._
=If the sky fall, we shall catch larks.= _Pr._
=If the time don't suit you, suit yourself to the= 35
=time.= _Turk. Pr._
=If the tongue had not been formed for articulation,
man would still be a beast in the forest.=
_Emerson._
=If the true did not possess an objective value,
human curiosity would have died out centuries
ago.= _Renan._
=If the weather don't happen to be good for
my work to-day, it's good for some other
man's, and will come round to me to-morrow.=
_Dickens._
=If the world were put into one scale and my
mother into the other, the world would kick
the beam.= _Lord Langdale._
=If the young knew, if the old could, there's= 40
=nothing but would be done.= _Pr._
=If there be / A devil in man, there is an angel
too.= _Tennyson._
=If there be light, then there is darkness; if
cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid;
if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest;
if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.=
_Pythagoras._
=If there be no enemy, no fight; if no fight, no
victory; if no victory, no crown.= _Savanar._
=If there be not a religious element in the relations
of men, such relations are miserable
and doomed to ruin.= _Carlyle._
=If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy= 45
=the sun.= _Pr._
=If there were no falsehood in the world, there
would be no doubt; if no doubt, no inquiry;
and if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge,
no genius.= _Landor._
=If there were no fools, there would be no
knaves.= _Pr._
=If there were only one religion in the world,
it would be haughtily and licentiously despotic.=
_Frederick the Great._
=If there's a hole in a' your coats, / I rede ye
tent it: / A chiel's amang you takin' notes, /
And faith he'll prent it.= _Burns, of Capt. Grose._
=If they do these things in the green tree, what
shall be done in the dry?= _Jesus._
=If they hear not Moses and the Prophets,
neither will they be persuaded though one
rose from the dead.= _Jesus._
=If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if
a servant, sometimes deaf.= _Fuller._
=If them art rich, thou art poor; / For, like an
ass whose back with ingots bows, / Thou
bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, /
And death unloads thee.= _Meas. for Meas._,
iii. 1.
=If thou art wise, thou knowest thine own= 5
=ignorance; and thou art ignorant, if thou
knowest not thyself.= _Luther._
=If thou be a severe, sour-complexioned man,
then here I disallow thee to be a competent
judge.= _Isaac Walton._
=If thou be master-gunner, spend not all / That
thou canst speak at once, but husband it.=
_George Herbert._
=If thou bear the cross cheerfully, it will bear
thee.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=If thou canst let others alone in their matters,
they likewise will not hinder thee in thine.=
_Thomas à Kempis._
=If thou cast away one cross, without doubt= 10
=thou shalt find another, and that perhaps
more heavy.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=If thou deniest to a laborious man and a deserving,
thou killest a bee; if thou givest to
other than such, thou preservest a drone.=
_Quarles._
=If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted?=
_Bible._
=If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy
strength is small.= _Bible._
=If thou hast fear of those who command
thee, spare those who obey thee.= _Rabbi
Ben Azai._
=If thou hast run with the footmen, and they= 15
=have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend
with horses? and if in the land of peace,
wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee,
then how wilt thou do in the swelling of
Jordan?= _Bible._
=If thou love learning, thou shalt be learned.=
_Isocrates._
=If thou seest the oppression of the poor, ... marvel
not at the matter; for He that is
higher than the highest regardeth; and
there be higher than they.= _Bible._
=If thou sustain injustice, console thyself; the
true unhappiness is in doing it.= _Democrates._
=If thou wouldst profit by thy reading, read
humbly, simply, honestly, and not desiring
to win a character for learning.= _Thomas
à Kempis._
=If thou wouldst reap in love, / First sow in= 20
=holy fear; / So life a winter's morn may
prove / To a bright endless year.= _Keble._
=If thy estate be good, match near home and
at leisure; if weak, far off and quickly.=
_Lord Burleigh._
=If thy son can make ten pound his measure, /
Then all thou addest may be called his treasure.=
_George Herbert._
=If to do were as easy as to know what were
good to do, chapels had been churches and
poor men's cottages princes' palaces.= _Mer.
of Ven._, i. 2.
=If truth be with thy friend, be with them both.=
_George Herbert._
=If vain our toil, we ought to blame the culture,= 25
=not the soil.= _Pope._
=If virtue keep court within, honour will attend
without.= _Pr._
=If we are not famous for goodness, we are
practically infamous.= _Spurgeon._
=If we are rich with the riches which we neither
give nor enjoy, we are rich with the riches
which are buried in the caverns of the earth.=
_Hitopadesa._
=If we are told a man is religious, we still ask
what are his morals; but if we hear he has
honest morals, we seldom think of the other
question, whether he be religious.= _Shaftesbury._
=If we are wise, we may thank ourselves; if we= 30
=are great, we must thank fortune.= _Bulwer
Lytton._
=If we bear what we must bear with murmuring
and grudging, we do but gall our
shoulders with the yoke, and render that
a heavy unprofitable load which might be
fruitful and glorious.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=If we ... / Cannot defend our own doors from
the dog, / Let us be worried, and our nation
lose / The name of hardiness and policy.=
_Hen. V._, i. 2.
=If we cannot help committing errors, we must
build none.= _Goethe._
=If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us
at least live so as to deserve happiness.=
_Fichte._
=If we cast off one burden, we are immediately= 35
=pursued and oppressed by another.= _Thomas
à Kempis._
=If we clear the metaphysical element out of
modern literature, we shall find its bulk
amazingly diminished, and the claims of
the remaining writers, or of those whom
we have thinned by this abstraction of their
straw-stuffing, much more easily adjusted.=
_Ruskin._
=If we could have a little patience, we should
escape much mortification. Time takes away
as much as it gives.= _Mme. de Sévigné._
=If we could read the secret history of our
enemies, we should find in each man's life
sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all
hostility.= _Longfellow._
=If we do not find happiness in the present
moment, in what shall we find it?= _Goldsmith._
=If we do not now reckon a great man literally= 40
=divine, it is that our notions of the divine are
ever rising higher; not altogether that our
reverence for the divine, as manifested in our
like, is getting lower.= _Carlyle._
=If we do well here, we shall do well there.=
_J. Edwin._
=If we engage into a large acquaintance
and various familiarities, we set open our
gates to the invaders of most of our time.=
_Cowley._
=If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them
always occupied with the past and the future.=
_Pascal._
=If we fail to conquer smaller difficulties, what
will become of us when assaulted by greater?=
_Themas à Kempis._
=If we hope for what we are not likely to
possess, we act and think in vain, and make
life a greater dream and shadow than it
really is.= _Addison._
=If we live truly, we shall see truly.= _Emerson._
=If we love those we lose, can we altogether
lose those we love?= _Thackeray._
=If we reflect on the number of men we have
seen and know, and consider how little we
have been to them and they to us, what
must our feelings be?= (_wie wird uns da zu
Muthe_). =We meet with the man of genius=
(_Geistreich_) =without conversing with him,
with the scholar without learning from him,
with the traveller without gaining information
from him, the amiable man without
making ourselves agreeable to him. And
this, alas! happens not merely with passing
acquaintances; society and families conduct
themselves similarly towards their dearest
members, cities towards their worthiest
citizens, peoples towards their most excellent
princes, and nations towards their
most eminent men.= _Goethe._
=If we saw all the things that really surround= 5
=us, we should be imprisoned and unable to
move.= _Emerson._
=If we should all bring our misfortunes into one
place, most of us would be glad to take our
own home again rather than take a proportion
out of the common stock.= _Solon._
=If we shut Nature out at the door, she will
come in at the window.= _Sir R. L'Estrange._
=If we sit down sullen and inactive, in expectation
that God should do all, we shall find
ourselves miserably deceived.= _Rogers._
=If we will disbelieve everything because we
cannot certainly know all things, we shall
do much as wisely as he who would not use
his legs, but sit still and perish because he
had no wings.= _Locke._
=If we wish to do good to men, we must pity= 10
=and not despise them.= _Amiel._
=If we would amend the world, we should mend
ourselves and teach our children what they
should be.= _Wm. Penn._
=If we would endeavour like brave men to
stand in the battle, surely we should feel
the assistance from Heaven.= _Thomas à
Kempis._
=If we would have a genuine torment, let us
wish for too much time.= _Goethe._
=If we would put ourselves in the place of other
people, the jealousy and dislike which we
often feel towards them would depart, and
if we put others in our place, our pride
and self-conceit would very much decrease.=
_Goethe._
=If what happens does not make us richer, we= 15
=must bid it welcome if it make us wiser.=
_Johnson._
=If "wise memory" is ever to prevail, there is
need of much "wise oblivion" first.= _Carlyle._
=If within the sophisticated man there is not an
unsophisticated one, then he is but one of
the devil's angels.= _Thoreau._
=If women were humbler, men would be
honester.= _Vanbrugh._
=If wrong our hearts, our heads are right in
vain.= _Young._
=If ye believe a' ye hear, ye may eat a' ye see.= 20
_Sc. Pr._
=If ye gi'e a woman a' her will, / Guid faith,
she'll soon o'ergang ye.= _Burns._
=If you agree to carry the calf, they'll make
you carry the cow.= _Pr._
=If you anticipate your inheritance, you can at
last inherit nothing.= _Johnson._
=If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are
solitary, be not idle.= _Johnson._
=If you cannot bite, never show your teeth.= 25
_Pr._
=If you cannot drive the engine, you can clear
the road.= _Pr._
=If you cannot have the best, make the best of
what you have.= _Pr._
=If you cannot make a man think as you do,
make him do as you think.= _Amer. Pr._
=If you can't get a loaf, don't throw away a
cake.= _Pr._
=If you can't heal the wound, don't tear it open.= 30
_Dan. Pr._
=If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If
you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. So
you will have calm days, drowsy nights, and
all the good business you have now, and
none of the bad.= _Ruskin._
=If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.=
_Pr._
=If you criticise a fine genius, the odds are that
you are out of your reckoning, and instead
of the poet, are censuring your own caricature
of him.= _Emerson._
=If you desire faith, then you've faith enough.=
_Browning._
=If you desire to enjoy my light, you must supply= 35
=oil to my lamp.= _Pr._
=If you dinna see the bottom, don't wade= (_i.e._,
don't venture, if you can't see your way). _Sc. Pr._
=If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge
of that you are thought to know, you shall
be thought, another time, to know that you
know not.= _Bacon._
=If you do anything for the sake of the world,
it will take good care that you shall not do
it a second time.= _Goethe._
=If you do not err, you do not attain to understanding.=
_Goethe._
=If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you= 40
=had better get him to talk about it; for the
more men talk, the more likely they are to
do nothing else.= _Carlyle._
=If you don't do better to-day, you'll do worse
to-morrow.= _Pr._
=If you don't touch the rope, you won't ring the
bell.= _Pr._
=If you eat, eat a portion; do not eat all.= _Wit
and Wisdom from West Africa._
=If you have a good seat, keep it.= _Pr._
=If you have a special weakness, do not expose= 45
=it by attempting to do things which will
bring it out.= _Spurgeon._
=If you have built castles in the air, your work
need not be lost; that is where they should
be. Now put the foundations under them.=
_Thoreau._
=If you have lived one day, you have seen all.=
_Montaigne._
=If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.=
_Jul. Cæs._, iii. 2.
=If you have time, don't wait for time.= _Ben.
Franklin._
=If you know how to spend less than you get,
you have the philosopher's stone.= _Ben.
Franklin._
=If you lie upon roses when young, you will lie
upon thorns when old.= _Pr._
=If you listen to David's harp, you shall hear
as many hearse-like airs as carols.= _Bacon._
=If you live among men, the heart must either
break or turn to brass.= _Chamfort._
=If you make a law against dancing-masters= 5
=imitating the fine gentleman, you should
with as much reason enact, that no fine
gentleman shall imitate the dancing-master.=
_Goldsmith._
=If you pity rogues, you are no great friend of
honest men.= _Pr._
=If you pull one pig by the tail, all the rest will
squeak.= _Dut. Pr._
=If you put a chain around the neck of a slave,
the other end fastens itself around your
own.= _Pr._
=If you raise one ghost, you will have the
churchyard in motion.= _Pr._
=If you read the Bible with a predetermination to= 10
=pick out every text you approve of, on these
terms you will find it entirely intelligible and
wholly delightful; but if you read it with a
real purpose of trying to understand it, and
obey, and so read it all through steadily,
you will find it, out and out, the crabbedest
and most difficult book you ever tried.=
_Ruskin._
=If you resolve to do right, you will soon do
wisely; but resolve only to do wisely, and
you will never do right.= _Ruskin._
=If you run after two hares, you will catch
neither.= _Pr._
=If you say nothing, nobody will repeat it.=
_Pr._
=If you seek warmth of affection from a similar
motive to that from which cats and dogs and
slothful persons hug the fire, you are on the
downward road.= _Thoreau._
=If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too.= _Pr._ 15
=If you sit down a mere philosopher, you will
rise almost an atheist.= _Anon._
=If you tell me all you see, you'll tell what will
make you feel shame.= _Gael. Pr._
=If you throw all your money into the sea, yet
count it before you let it go.= _Old saying._
=If you trust before you try, / You may repent
before you die.= _Pr._
=If you want a pretence to whip a dog, say= 20
=that he ate the frying-pan.= _Pr._
=If you want learning, you must work for it.=
_J. G. Holland._
=If you want to gain a reputation for eccentricity
and to be universally dreaded, blurt
out the plain truth on all occasions.= _Anon._
=If you want to know a man, make a solitary
journey with him.= _Pr._
=If you want work done, go to the man who is
already fully occupied.= _Pr._
=If you were as eager to discover good as evil,= 25
=and had the same delight in spreading the
report of it; if good examples were made
public as the bad ones always are, do you
not think that the good would weigh down
the balance? But gratitude speaks so low,
and indignation so loudly, that you cannot
hear but the last.= _Marmontel._
=If you wish a wise answer, you must put a
rational question.= _Goethe._
=If you wish to astonish the whole world, tell
the simple truth.= _Rahel._
=If you would be a smith, begin with blowing
the fire.= _Pr._
=If you would be pungent, be brief, for it is
with words as with sunbeams, the more
they are condensed the deeper they burn.=
_Saxe._
=If you would be well served, you must serve= 30
=yourself.= _Pr._
=If you would cease to dislike a man, try to get
nearer his heart.= _J. M. Barrie._
=If you would create something, you must be
something.= _Goethe._
=If you would ensure a peaceful old age, be
careful of the acts of each day of your youth;
for with youth the deeds thereof are not to
be left behind.= _Isaac Disraeli._
=If you would eschew pain, eschew pleasure.=
_The Cynics._
=If you would have a faithful servant and one= 35
=you like, serve yourself.= _Ben. Franklin._
=If you would have it well done, you must do it
yourself; you must not leave it to others.=
_Pr._
=If you would know and not be known, live in a
city.= _Colton._
=If you would learn to write, it is the street
you must learn it in.= _Emerson._
=If you would love mankind, you should not
expect too much from them.= _Helvetius._
=If you would make Fortune your friend; when= 40
=people say money is to be got here and
money is to be got there, take no notice;
mind your own business; stay where you
are; and secure all you can get, without
stirring.= _Goldsmith._
=If you would rule the world quietly, you must
keep it amused.= _Anon._
=If you would slip into a round hole, you must
make a ball of yourself.= _George Eliot._
=If you would succeed, you must not be too
good.= _It. Pr._
=If you would understand an author, you must
understand his age.= _Goethe._
=If you would work any man, know his nature= 45
=and fashions, and so lead him.= _Bacon._
=If your mind and its affections be pure, and
sincere, and moderate, nothing shall have
the power to enslave you.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=If your wife is short, stoop to her.= _Pr._
=Ignavis semper feriæ sunt=--To the indolent
every day is a holiday. _Pr._
=Ignavissimus quisque, et, ut res docuit, in
periculo non ausurus, nimio verbis et lingua
ferox=--Every recreant, who, as experience has
proved, will fly in the hour of danger, is the
most boastful in his words and language afterwards.
_Tacit._
=Ignavum fucos pecus a præsepibus arcent=--They 50
(the bees) drive from their hives the drones,
a lazy pack. _Virg._
=Ignem gladio scrutare modo=--Only stir the fire
with a sword! _Hor._
=Ignem ne gladio fodito=--Do not stir the fire with
a sword. _Pr._
=Ignis aurum probat, miseria fortes viros=--Fire
tests gold; adversity strong men. _Sen._
=Ignis fatuus=--A deceiving light; a "Will-o'-the-wisp."
=Ignis sacer=--"St. Anthony's fire." _Pliny._
=Ignobile vulgus=--The base-born multitude.
=Ignoramus=--An ignorant person (_lit._ we are
ignorant).
=Ignorance is a heavy burden.= _Gael. Pr._ 5
=Ignorance is a prolonged infancy, only deprived
of its charm.= _De Boufflers._
=Ignorance is bold, and knowledge reserved.=
_Thucydides._
=Ignorance is the curse of God, knowledge the
wing wherewith we fly to heaven.= 2 _Hen.
VI._, iv. 7.
=Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.=
_Froude._
=Ignorance is the mother of devotion.= _Jeremy_ 10
_Taylor._
=Ignorance is the mother of impudence.= _Pr._
=Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night
without moon or star.= _Confucius._
=Ignorance is the primary source of all misery
and vice.= _Cousin._
=Ignorance is preferable to error.= _Jefferson._
=Ignorance never settles a question.= _Disraeli._ 15
=Ignorance shuts its eyes and believes it is
right.= _Punch._
=Ignorant of guilt, I fear not shame.= _Dryden._
=Ignorantia facti excusat=--Ignorance of the fact
excuses. _L._
=Ignorantia legis excusat neminem=--Ignorance
of the law excuses nobody. _L._
=Ignoratio elenchi=--Ignoring of the point at 20
issue.
=Ignoratione rerum bonarum et malarum,
maxime hominum vita vexatur=--Through
ignorance of the distinction between good and
bad, the life of men is greatly harassed. _Cic._
=Ignorent populi, si non in morte probaris, /
An scires adversa pati=--The world would not
know, if you did not prove by your death, that
you knew how to bear up against adverse circumstances.
_Lucan, of Pompey._
=Ignoscas aliis multa, nil tibi=--You should pardon
many things in others, nothing in yourself.
_Auson._
=Ignoti nulla cupido=--There is no desire for what
is unknown. _Pr._
=Ignotis errare locis, ignota videre / Flumina= 25
=gaudebat, studio minuente laborem=--He delighted
to wander over unknown regions, to visit
unknown rivers, the interest lessening the fatigue.
_Ovid._
=Ignotum argenti pondus et auri=--An untold
mass of silver and gold. _Virg._
=Ignotum per ignotius=--The unknown by the
still more unknown.
=Ihr Kinder, lernet jetzt genug, / Ihr lernt
nichts mehr in alten Zeiten=--Ye children,
learn enough _now_, nothing more will you be
able to learn ere long. _Pfeffel._
=Ihr sagt es sei nichts als Glück / Zu siegen
ohne die Tacktick / Doch besser ohne Tacktick
siegen / Als mit derselben unterliegen=--You
say it is nothing but luck to gain a victory
without tactics, yet it is better to conquer
without them, than therewith to be beaten.
_Tyrolese Pr._
=Ihr sucht die Menschen zu benennen, /= 30
=und glaubt am Namen sie zu kennen; / Wer
tiefer sieht, gesteht sich frei, / Es ist das
Anonymes dabei=--Ye seek to name men, and
think that ye know them by name; he who sees
deeper will freely confess there is something in
them which there is no name for. _Goethe._
=Il a inventé l'histoire=--He has invented history.
_Mme. du Deffand, of Voltaire._
=Il a la mer à boire=--He has the sea to drink up,
_i.e._, has undertaken an impossible task. _Fr.
Pr._
=Il a la tête près du bonnet=--He is of a passionate
temper (_lit._ has his head near his cap). _Fr. Pr._
=Il a le diable au corps=--The deuce (_lit._ the
devil) is in him. _Fr. Pr._
=Il a le verbe haut=--He assumes a high tone; he 35
has a loud voice. _Fr. Pr._
=Il a le vin mauvais=--He is quarrelsome over his
wine. _Fr. Pr._
=Il a les yeux à fleur de tête=--He has prominent
eyes. _Fr. Pr._
=Il a mangé son pain blanc le premier=--He has
eaten the best first. _Fr. Pr._
=Il a plus que personne l'esprit que tout le
monde a=--He has more than any other the
mind which every one has. _Montesquieu._
=Il a travaillé pour le roi de Prusse=--He has 40
worked for the King of Prussia, _i.e._, laboured
in vain. _Fr. Pr._
=Il a vu le loup=--He has seen the world. _Fr. Pr._
=Il aboye à tout le monde=--He barks at everybody.
_Fr. Pr._
=Il arrive comme Mars en Carème=--He arrives
opportunely (_lit._ like March in Lent). _Fr. Pr._
=Il attend, que les alouettes lui tombent toutes
rôties=--He expects larks to rain down all ready
roasted. _Hans Sachs._
=Il buon mercato vuota la borsa=--Great bargains 45
empty the purse. _It. Pr._
=Il buono è buono, ma il meglio vince=--Good is
good, but better surpasses it. _It. Pr._
=Il can battuto dal bastone ha paura dell'
ombra=--The dog that has been beaten with a
stick is afraid of its shadow. _It. Pr._
=Il castigo puo differirsi ma non si toglie=--Punishment
may be tardy, but it is sure to overtake
the guilty. _It. Pr._
=Il conduit bien sa barque=--He manages his
affairs well. _Fr. Pr._
=Il connaît l'univers et ne se connaît pas=--He 50
knows everything and does not know himself.
_La Font._
=Il coûte peu à amasser beaucoup de richesse,
et beaucoup à en amasser peu=--It costs little
trouble to amass a great deal of wealth, but
great labour to amass a little. _Fr. Pr._
=Il diavolo tenta tutti, ma l'ozioso tenta il
diavolo=--The devil tempts all, but the idle man
tempts the devil. _It. Pr._
=Il donne des entrailles à tous les mots=--He
gives pathos to all his words. _Joubert, of
Rousseau._
=Il en est d'un homme qui aime, comme d'un
moineau, pris à la glu; plus il se débat, plus
il s'embarrasse=--It is with a man in love, as
with a sparrow caught in bird-lime; the more he
struggles, the more he is entangled. _Fr. Pr._
=Il en fait ses choux gras=--He feathers his nest 55
with it. _Fr. Pr._
=Il est aisé d'ajouter aux inventions des autres=--It
is easy to add to the inventions of others.
_Fr. Pr._
=Il est aisé d'aller à pied, quand on tient son
cheval par la bride=--It is easy to go afoot when
one leads one's horse by the bridle. _Fr. Pr._
=Il est aux anges=--He is supremely happy (_lit._
with the angels).
=Il est avis à vieille vache qu'elle ne fût oncques
veau=--The old cow persuades herself that she
never was a calf. _Fr. Pr._
=Il est bien aisé à ceux qui se portent bien de= 5
=donner des avis aux malades=--It is very easy
for those who are well to give advice to the sick.
_Fr. Pr._
=Il est bien difficile de garder un trésor dont
tous les hommes ont la clef=--It is very difficult
to guard a treasure of which all men have the
key. _Fr. Pr._
=Il est bien fou qui s'oublie=--He is a great fool
who forgets himself. _Fr. Pr._
=Il est bon d'être ferme par tempérament et
flexible par réflexion=--It is good to be firm by
temperament and pliable by reflexion. _Vauvenargues._
=Il est bon d'être habile, mais non pas de le
paraître=--It is good to be clever, but not to
show it. _Fr. Pr._
=Il est comme l'oiseau sur la branche=--He is 10
unsettled or wavering (_lit._ like a bird on a
branch). _Fr. Pr._
=Il est peu de distance de la roche Tarpéienne
au Capitole=--It is but a short way from the
Tarpeian rock to the Capitol. _Mirabeau._
=Il est plus aisé d'être sage pour les autres que
pour soi-même=--It is easier to be wise for others
than for ourselves. _La Roche._
=Il est plus honteux de se défier de ses amis que
d'en être trompé=--It is more disgraceful to suspect
our friends than to be deceived by them.
_La Roche._
=Il est souvent plus court et plus utile de cadrer
aux autres que de faire que les autres
s'adjustent à nous=--It is often more easy and
more convenient to conform to others than to
make others conform to us. _La Bruyère._
=Il est temps d'être sage quand on a la barbe au= 15
=menton=--It is time to be wise when you have a
beard on your chin. _Fr. Pr._
=Il est tout prêché qui n'a cure de bien faire=--He
is past preaching to who does not care to do
well. _Fr. Pr._
=Il est trop difficile de penser noblement, quand
on ne pense que pour vivre=--It is too difficult
to think nobly when one thinks only to get
a livelihood. _Rousseau._
=Il faisoit de necessité vertu=--He made a virtue
of necessity. _Rabelais._
=Il fallait un calculateur, ce fut un danseur qui
l'obtint=--A financier was wanted, a dancing-master
got the post. _Beaumarchais._
=Il faut attendre le boiteux=--We must wait for 20
the lame. _Fr. Pr._
=Il faut avaler bien de la fumée aux lampes
avant que de devenir bon orateur=--A man
must swallow a great deal of lamp-smoke before
he can be a good orator. _Fr. Pr._
=Il faut avoir pitié des morts=--One must have
pity on the dead. _Victor Hugo._
=Il faut avoir une âme=--It is indispensable that
we should have a soul. _Tolstoi._
=Il faut de plus grandes vertus pour soutenir
la bonne fortune que la mauvaise=--It requires
greater moral strength to bear good fortune than
bad. _La Roche._
=Il faut en affrontant l'orage / Penser, vivre et= 25
=mourir en roi=--I must in face of the storm think,
live, and die as a king. _Frederick the Great._
=Il faut hurler avec les loups=--You must howl
if you are among wolves. _Fr. Pr._
=Il faut laver son linge sale en famille=--One's
filthy linen should be washed at home. _Fr.
Pr._