The common sayings of the multitude are too true to be laughed at. – Welsh Proverb
Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. – Welsh Proverb
The common sayings of the multitude are too true to be laughed at. – Welsh Proverb
Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. – Welsh Proverb
A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible. – Welsh Proverb
The present volume is the result of a taste for collecting poetical quotations, which beset me in the days of my nonage, now more than half a century ago…. I read the poets diligently, and registered, in a portable form, whatever I thought apposite and striking. – Henry G. Bohn, A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets, 1881
Dr. Richard Bentley (1662-1742)… is said one day, on finding his son reading a novel, to have remarked—’Why read a book that you cannot quote?’— a saying which affords an amusing illustration of the nature and object of his literary studies. – Cyclopædia of English Literature edited by Robert Chambers, 1844