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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Example |
| Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. Burke—Letter I. On a Regicide Peace. Vol. V. P. 331. | 1 |
| Illustrious Predecessor. Burke—Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents. (Edition 1775). | 2 |
| Why doth one man’s yawning make another yawn? Burton—Anatomy of Melancholy. Pt. I. Sec. II. Memb. 3. Subsect. 2. | 3 |
| This noble ensample to his sheepe he gaf,— That firste he wroughte and afterward he taughte. Chaucer—Canterbury Tales. Prologue. L. 496. | 4 |
| Quod exemplo fit, id etiam jure fieri putant. Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent. Cicero—Epistles. IV. 3. | 5 |
| Componitur orbis Regis ad exemplum; nec sic inflectere sensus Humanos edicta valent, quam vita regentis. The people are fashioned according to the example of their kings; and edicts are of less power than the life of the ruler. Claudianus—De Quarto Consulatu Honorii Augustii Panegyris. CCXCIX. | 6 |
| Illustrious predecessors. Fielding—Covent Garden Journal. Jan. 11, 1752. | 7 |
| Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. Goldsmith—Deserted Village. L. 170. | 8 |
| Since truth and constancy are vain, Since neither love, nor sense of pain, Nor force of reason, can persuade, Then let example be obey’d. Geo. Granville (Lord Lansdowne)—To Myra. | 9 |
| Content to follow when we lead the way. Homer—The Iliad. Bk. X. L. 141. Pope’s trans. | 10 |
| Avidos vicinum funus ut ægros Exanimat, mortisque metu sibi parcere cogit; Sic teneros animos aliena opprobria sæpe Absterrent vitiis. As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter tender minds from vice. Horace—Satires. I. 4. 126. | 11 |
| I do not give you to posterity as a pattern to imitate, but as an example to deter. Junius—Letter XII. To the Duke of Grafton. | 12 |
| Unde tibi frontem libertatemque parentis, Cum facias pejora senex? Whence do you derive the power and privilege of a parent, when you, though an old man, do worse things (than your child)? Juvenal—Satires. XIV. 56. | 13 |
| L’exemple est un dangereux leurre; Où la guêpe a passé, le moucheron demeure. Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast. La Fontaine—Fables. II. XVI. | 14 |
| Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time. Longfellow—A Psalm of Life. | 15 |
| He who should teach men to die, would at the same time teach them to live. Montaigne—Essays. Bk. I. Ch. XIX. | 16 |
| He was indeed the glass Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves. Henry IV. Pt. II. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 21. | 17 |
| Sheep follow sheep. Talmud. Ketuboth 62. | 18 |
| Inspicere tamquam in speculum in vitas omnium Jubeo atque ex aliis sumere exemplum sibi. We should look at the lives of all as at a mirror, and take from others an example for ourselves. Terence—Adelphi. III. 3. 62. | 19 |
| Felix quicumque dolore alterius disces posse cavere tuo. Happy thou that learnest from another’s griefs, not to subject thyself to the same. Tibullus—Carmina. III. 6. 43. | 20 |
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| I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men … in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor. Martin Van Buren—Inaugural Address. March 4, 1837. | 21 |
| Sequiturque patrem non passibus æquis. He follows his father with unequal steps. Vergil—Æneid. II. 724. | 22 |
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