John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Athenaeus. (fl. c. 200) (continued) |
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| Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach. 1 |
| The Deipnosophists. vii. 11. |
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| Dorion, ridiculing the description of a tempest in the “Nautilus” of Timotheus, said that he had seen a more formidable storm in a boiling saucepan. 2 |
| The Deipnosophists. viii. 19. |
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| On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine-cooler, and said that it was sixteen years old. “It is very small for its age,” said Gnathæna. |
| The Deipnosophists. xiii. 47. |
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| Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness. 3 |
| The Deipnosophists. xiv. 6. |
| Saint Augustine. (354–430) |
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| When I am here, I do not fast on Saturday; when at Rome, I do fast on Saturday. 4 |
| Epistle 36. To Casulanus. |
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| The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light,—although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. 5 |
| Works. Vol. iii. In Johannis Evangelum, c. tr. 5, Sect. 15. |
| Ali Ben Abi Taleb. |
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| Believe me, a thousand friends suffice thee not; In a single enemy thou hast more than enough. 6 |
| Note 1. See Johnson, Quotation 61. [back] |
| Note 2. Tempest in a teapot.—Proverb. [back] |
| Note 3. See Chapman, Quotation 21. [back] |
| Note 4. See Burton, Quotation 87. [back] |
| Note 5. See Bacon, Quotation 44. [back] |
| Note 6. Translated by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and wrongly called by him a translation from Omar Khayyám. Found in Dr. Hermann Tolowiez’s “Polyglotte der Orientalischen Poesie.” Translated by James Russell Lowell thus:— He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. [back] |