John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Lucretius. (c. 99 B.C.–c. 55 B.C.) |
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| Continual dropping wears away a stone. 1 |
| De Rerum Natura. i. 313. |
| 8577 |
| What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others. 2 |
| De Rerum Natura. iv. 637. |
| 8578 |
| In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers. 3 |
| De Rerum Natura. iv. 1133. |
| Horace. (65 B.C.–8 B.C.) |
| 8579 |
| Brave men were living before Agamemnon. 4 |
| Odes. iv. 9, 25. |
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| In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war. 5 |
| Satires. ii. 2. (111.) |
| 8581 |
| You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared-for hide,… a hog from Epicurus’s herd. 6 |
| Satires. ii. 4, 15. |
| 8582 |
| What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could effect. 7 |
| Epistles. i. 12, 19. |
| 8583 |
| If you wish me to weep, you yourself must feel grief. 8 |
| Ars Poetica. 102. |
| 8584 |
| The mountains will be in labour; an absurd mouse will be born. 9 |
| Ars Poetica. 139. |
| 8585 |
| Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods. 10 |
| Ars Poetica. 359. |
| Note 1. See Lyly, Quotation 8. [back] |
| Note 2. See Beaumont and Fletcher, Quotation 27. [back] |
| Note 3. See Byron, Quotation 23. [back] |
| Note 4. See Byron, Quotation 128. [back] |
| Note 5. See Washington, Quotation 2. [back] |
| Note 6. See Mason, Quotation 1. [back] |
| Note 7. See Burke, Quotation 24. [back] |
| Note 8. See Churchill, Quotation 2. [back] |
| Note 9. A mountain was in labour, sending forth dreadful groans, and there was in the region the highest expectation. After all, it brought forth a mouse.—Phædrus: Fables, iv. 22, 1. The old proverb was now made good: “The mountain had brought forth a mouse.”—Plutarch: Life of Agesilaus II. [back] |
| Note 10. See Pope, Quotation 97. [back] |