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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Consistency |
| Of right and wrong he taught Truths as refin’d as ever Athens heard; And (strange to tell) he practis’d what he preach’d. John Armstrong—Art of Preserving Health. Bk. IV. L. 302. | 1 |
| Tush! Tush! my lassie, such thoughts resigne, Comparisons are cruele: Fine pictures suit in frames as fine, Consistencies a jewell. For thee and me coarse cloathes are best, Rude folks in homelye raiment drest, Wife Joan and goodman Robin. Jolly Robyn-Roughhead. (Fake ballad. Appeared in American Newspaper, 1867.) | 2 |
| Nemo doctus unquam mutationem consilii inconstantiam dixit esse. No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy. Cicero—Ep. ad Atticum. Bk. XVI. 8. | 3 |
| A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. Emerson—Essays. Self-Reliance. | 4 |
| With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. * * * Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. Emerson—Essays. Self-Reliance. | 5 |
| Gineral C. is a dreffle smart man: He’s been on all sides that give places or pelf; But consistency still wuz a part of his plan; He’s been true to one party, and that is, himself;— So John P. Robinson, he Sez he shall vote for Gineral C. Lowell—The Biglow Papers. Series I. No. 3. | 6 |
| Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent. Horatio Smith—Tin Trumpet. Vol. I. P. 273. | 7 |
| Cantilenam eandem canis. You are harping on the same string. Terence—Phormio. III. 2. 10. | 8 |
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