| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| | | Plutarch. (A.D. 46?–A.D. c. 120) (continued) |
| | | as spoken, but that after some time they thawed and became audible; so that the words spoken in winter were articulated next summer. 1 |
| Of Man’s Progress in Virtue. |
| 8903 | | As those persons who despair of ever being rich make little account of small expenses, thinking that little added to a little will never make any great sum. |
| Of Man’s Progress in Virtue. |
| 8904 | | What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man’s plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel. |
| Of Fortune. |
| 8905 | | No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. |
| Of Fortune. |
| 8906 | | Alexander was wont to say, “Were I not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.” |
| Of the Fortune or Virtue of Alexander the Great. |
| 8907 | | When the candles are out all women are fair. 2 |
| Conjugal Precepts. |
| 8908 | | Like watermen, who look astern while they row the boat ahead. 3 |
| Whether ’t was rightfully said, Live Concealed. |
| 8909 | | Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. 4 |
| Of Banishment. |
| 8910 | | Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land. |
| Symposiacs. Book viii. Question viii. |
| 8911 | | Athenodorus says hydrophobia, or water-dread, was first discovered in the time of Asclepiades. |
| Symposiacs. Book viii. Question ix. |
| | Note 1.
In the “Adventures of Baron Munchausen” (Rudolphe Erich Raspe), stories gathered from various sources, is found the story of sound being frozen for a time in a post-horn, which when thawed gave a variety of tunes. A somewhat similar account is found in Rabelais, book iv. chaps. lv. lvi., referring to Antiphanes. [back] | Note 2.
See Heywood, Quotation 32. [back] | Note 3.
See Burton, Quotation 9. [back] | Note 4.
See Garrison, Quotation 3. [back] |
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