John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Pliny the Elder. (A.D. c. 23–A.D. 79) (continued) |
| to his advice, began to criticise the leg; upon which Apelles, full of indignation, popped his head out and reminded him that a shoemaker should give no opinion beyond the shoes, 1 —a piece of advice which has equally passed into a proverbial saying. |
| Natural History. Book xxxv. Sect. 84. |
| Quintilian. (A.D. c. 35–A.D. c. 95) |
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| We give to necessity the praise of virtue. 2 |
| Institutiones Oratoriæ. i. 8, 14. |
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| A liar should have a good memory. 3 |
| Institutiones Oratoriæ. iv. 2, 91. |
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| Vain hopes are often like the dreams of those who wake. 4 |
| Institutiones Oratoriæ. vi. 2, 30. |
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| Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish. 5 |
| Institutiones Oratoriæ. x. 7, 21. |
| Juvenal. (fl. 1st to 2d cent. A.D.) |
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| No man ever became extremely wicked all at once. 6 |
| Satire ii. 83. |
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| Grammarian, orator, geometrician; painter, gymnastic teacher, physician; fortune-teller, rope-dancer, conjuror,—he knew everything. 7 |
| Satire iii. 76. |
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| Nobility is the one only virtue. 8 |
| Satire viii. 20. |
| Note 1. Ne supra crepidam sutor judicaret (Let not a shoemaker judge above his shoe). [back] |
| Note 2. See Chaucer, Quotation 22. [back] |
| Note 3. See Sidney, Quotation 2. [back] |
| Note 4. See Prior, Quotation 17. [back] |
| Note 5. See Pope, Quotation 200. [back] |
| Note 6. See Beaumont and Fletcher, Quotation 6. [back] |
| Note 7. See Dryden, Quotation 15. [back] |
| Note 8. See Percy, Quotation 14. [back] |