Sunday, December 27, 2009

000 A Collection of 4000 proverbs and quotes in alphabetical order

Water never loses its way .
It has often been said that to make discoveries, one must be ignorant .
A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
A bad corn promise is better than a good lawsuit.
A Bad fortune may render a wise man helpless whilst good fortune may make a weakling strong. (China) .
A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
A bargain is a bargain.
A bargain is not regularly valid concerning the non-alienation of any property .
A bastard is the son of nobody .
A beaten soldier fears a reed .
A beggar can never be bankrupt.
A benefice is not granted but for the sake of duty .
A beneficial agreement which confirms one state, is to be interpreted favourably, according to the intention of the words ; but an odious agreement, which destroys one state, is to be understood strictly, according to the exact meaning of the words .
A beneficial law affords a remedy similar to the thing .
A big belly was never generous .
A bill found in the possession of a debtor, is presumed to be paid .
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. (Jefferson) .
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
A bird may be known by its song.
A black hen lays a white egg.
A blind leader of the blind.
A blind man would be glad to see.
A bloodsucker will always manage to live .
A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven. (Shaw) .
A bona fide possessor is bound only with respect to that which has come to him .
A broken friendship may be soldered, but will never be sound.
A brusque answer from a modest patient is a bad sign .
Absence - that common cure of love . (Byron) .
A burden of one-s own choice is not felt.
A burnt child dreads the fire.
A butcher who does not bathe is not patronized .
A calm man is silent just as calm water is still. (China) .
A case omitted and consigned to oblivion is left to the disposal of common law .
A case omitted is to be considered as omitted .
A cat in gloves catches no mice.
Accept only what is offered by sacred love . (Gitanjali) .
Accused persons are held more favourable than the accusers .
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn`t know . (Byron) .
A certain matter is necessary sometimes to be brought into court for trial .
A chance shot will kill the divil .
A cheap purchase is money lost .
A city that parleys is half gotten.
A civil denial is better than a rude grant.
A clean fast is better than a dirty breakfast.
A clean hand wants no washing.
A clear conscience laughs at false accusations.
A close mouth catches no flies.
A club of men and women was proposed in London a few years ago .
A cock is valiant on his own dunghill.
A college or incorporated body, cannot exist unless by royal authority .
A colonial Imperialist is one who raises colonial troops, equips a colonial squadron, claims a Federal Parliament sending its measures to the Throne instead of to the Colonial Office, and, being finally brought by this means into insoluble conflict with the insular British Imperialist, cuts the painter and breaks up the Empire. (Shaw) .
A common error makes law necessary .
A common opinion arises between prudent and discreet men, which has the appearance of truth, and opinion only arises between giddy and vulgar men, without the appearance of truth .
A conclusion is never drawn in a supposed case .
A conjunct person has an equal share in his own right .
A consciousness of the law depends upon the law .
A contract in an infamous cause, or subversive of good morals, is void The contract of au infant, or one under age, is invalid, if it tends to his loss .
A contract is to be understood, according to the intention of parties expressed in words .
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit. (Jefferson) .
Acquired notions of propriety are stronger than natural instincts. (Shaw) .
A cracked bell can never sound well.
A creaking door hangs long on its hinges.
A crime is not attoned for by an after action .
A crime vitiates all things proceeding from it .
A cripple will rarely bring shame upon himself .
Actions speak louder than words.
Activity is the only road to knowledge. (Shaw) .
A curst cow has short horns.
An ambiguous answer is so to be understood that the interest of the pleader may be safe .
A danger foreseen is half avoided.
A debtor is not presumed to grant a donation .
A decision is always received as truth, Jura debet esse omni exceptione major .
A decision is given against the unwilling .
A delegated power cannot be delegated .
A delinquent provoked by anger, ought to be punished more mildly .
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. (Jefferson) .
A description of a hitherto unknown species of disease is an event, a very great event, in pathology .
A detective policeman discovers a burglar from the marks made by his shoe, by a mental process identical with that by which Cuvier restored the extinct animals of Montmartre from fragments of their bones .
A dirty cook can give diarrhoea quicker than rhubarb .
A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory, for otherwise it would be foreseen .
A disease, however much its cause may be adverse to the human body, is nothing more than an effort of Nature, who strives with might and main to restore the health of the patient by the elimination of the morbific humor .
A disease often gets worse after having been a little better .
A dog that refuses to eat garbage will go hungry .
A donation is completed by the possession of the receiver .
A donation is confirmed by the death of the donor .
A donation is not presumed .
A donation of the principal is understood to be without prejudice of a third party .
A double will, or edict, is not admitted .
A drop in the bucket.
A drowning man will catch at a straw.
Adversity is a great schoolmaster.
Adversity is the first path to truth . (Byron) .
Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. (Jefferson) .
A dwarf if educated can be of service to the state ; but of what use is a giant if he is all height and nothing more . (China) .
A fact does not necessarily constitute a right .
A fact is nothing in itself .
A fair face may hide a foul heart.
A family that lives in harmony though poor is happy: to the unrighteous riches are of no avail. (China) .
A family that stores up wickedness will have an abundance of misfortune. (China) .
A family that treasures goodness will have an abundance of good fortune. (China) .
A fault confessed is half redressed.
A favour is not bestowed on one unwilling to receive it .
A favour is not granted, unless on account of service .
A ferocious tiger does not sleep on the public road. A dragon though now depressed will some day ascend to Heaven. (China) .
A fly in the ointment.
A fog cannot be dispelled with a fan .
A fool always rushes to the fore.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.
A fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise men cannot pull out.
A fool`s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. (Shaw) .
A fool-s tongue runs before his wit.
A foreigner has no lands, he has his own effects, his life and liberty .
A fortuitous case is not to be calculated upon, and nobody is bound to conjecture what may happen .
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have . (Lincoln) .
After a storm comes a calm.
After dinner comes the reckoning.
After dinner sit sleep a while, after supper walk a mile.
After rain comes fair weather.
After the wedding the bride shall leave her home and meet her lord alone in the solitude of night . (Gitanjali) .
After us the deluge.
A general clause does not refer to things mentioned .
A general clause of reservation does not comprehend those things which may not be of the same kind with those which have been specially expressed .
A general saying is to be interpreted in general; General words are to be so interpreted .
A gentleman of our days is one who has money enough to do what every fool would do if he could afford it: that is, consume without producing. (Shaw) .
A gentleman regards what is right; a cad, what will pay. (China) .
Ages pass, and still thou pourest, and still there is room to fill . (Gitanjali) .
A good and wise man is serious and without blame. (China) .
A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit. (Milton) .
A good judge ought to do nothing of his own pleasure, nor may he have in view the gratification of his private inclination, but let him pronounce according to law and justice .
A good judge should decide according to what is just and good .
A good judge should give a mandate for execution without delay .
A good judge should prefer equity to strict law .
A good judge should put an end to law suits .
A good judge should put an end to the causes of litigation .
A good lawyer is a bad neighbor .
A good name keeps its lustre in the dark.
A good wife makes a good husband.
A good wife will save her husband much trouble : a filial on will relieve his father`s mind from anxiety. (China) .
A grant made to another person granting, should have a wide interpretation .
A great discovery is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows us new paths .
A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.
A great fortune is a great slavery.
A great ship asks deep waters.
Agreements are confirmed by delivery .
Agreements made contrary to the civil law, are not considered valid .
Agues come on horseback, but go away on foot.
A guilty conscience needs no accuser.
A guilty person is absolved by an equal number of votes, for or against him .
A hard nut to crack.
A heavy purse makes a light heart.
A hedge between keeps friendship green.
Ah, I hug this pride in the secret of my heart . (Gitanjali) .
Ah, it calls me out into the dusk . (Gitanjali) .
Ah, love, why dost thou let me wait outside at the door all alone? In the busy moments of the noontide work I am with the crowd, but on this dark lonely day it is only for thee that I hope . (Gitanjali) .
Ah me, what is it I find? What token left of thy love? It is no flower, no spices, no vase of perfumed water . (Gitanjali) .
Ah, my closed eyes that would open their lids only to the light of his smile when he stands before me like a dream emerging from darkness of sleep . (Gitanjali) .
Ah, my sleep, precious sleep, which only waits for his touch to vanish . (Gitanjali) .
A honey tongue, a heart of gall.
A house divided against itself cannot stand . (Lincoln) .
Ah, thou hast made my heart captive in the endless meshes of thy music, my master! Life of my life, I shall ever try to keep my body pure, knowing that thy living touch is upon all my limbs . (Gitanjali) .
A hungry belly has no ears.
A hungry man is an angry man.
Air, light, the running water, and wild beasts, are the property of iume, but common to all .
A Jack of all trades is master of none.
A Joke never gains an enemy but often loses a friend.
A judge cannot be a witness in his own cause .
A judge cannot punish an injury done to himself .
A judge does not give more than the petitioner himself requires .
A judge ought always to have equity before his eyes .
A judge ought always to regard equity .
A judge ought to have two kinds of salts the salt of wisdom, that he may not be insipid; and the salt of conscience, that he may not be a devil .
A judicial act, not in the presence of a judge, is considered void ; but acts proceeding from persons in a judicial capacity ought to be ratified .
A knowledge of the sacred books is the beginning of sorrow .
Alas, why are my nights all thus lost? Ah, why do I ever miss his sight whose breath touches my sleep? Light, oh where is the light? Kindle it with the burning fire of desire! There is the lamp but never a flicker of a flame--is such thy fate, my heart? Ah, death were better by far for thee! Misery knocks at thy door, and her message is that thy lord is wakeful, and he calls thee to the love-tryst through the darkness of night . (Gitanjali) .
A lawyer never goes to law himself.
A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy.
A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. (Shaw) .
A letter has only half the value of a personal call .
A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.
A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. (Jefferson) .
A lie begets a lie.
A life run by rules is but a prolonged mode of disease .
A light purse is a heavy curse.
A light purse makes a heavy heart.
A limited monarchy is a device for combining the inertia of a wooden idol with the credibility of a flesh and blood one. (Shaw) .
A little body often harbours a great soul.
A little fire is quickly trodden out.
A little whelp, lawfully possessed, cannot be lost .
All actions are usually presumed to be done in a solemn manner .
All are good lasses, but whence come the bad wives? All are not friends that speak us fair.
All are not hunters that blow the horn.
All are not merry that dance lightly.
All are not saints that go to church.
All asses wag their ears.
All bread is not baked in one oven.
Allbutt`s teaching, already set forth at length in these pages, I took another line, namely that, in clinical medicine, we should never confuse the symbol (the name or fictive concept of the disease) with the real thing (the patient before us): In medieval times, so fastidious were logic and abstraction that practice became a vulgarity, and he was the greatest teacher who carried his pupils furthest from things .
All cats are grey in the dark in the night.
All consent takes away error .
All covet, all lose.
` All depends on chance and nothing on man. (China) .
All desires that distract me, day and night, are false and empty to the core . (Gitanjali) .
All doors open to courtesy.
All honour to you, heroic host of the interminable path! Mockery and reproach pricked me to rise, but found no response in me . (Gitanjali) .
All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother . (Lincoln) .
All is fish that comes to his net.
All is not lost that is in peril.
All is well that ends well.
All lay load on the willing horse.
All men can-t be first.
All men can-t be masters.
All men mean well. (Shaw) .
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind . (Lincoln) .
All natural philosophy is summed up in these terms: to know the laws governing phenomena .
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure . (Lincoln) .
All promises are either broken or kept.
All roads lead to Rome .
All scoundrelism is summed up in the phrase Que Messieurs les Assassins commencent! The man who has graduated from the flogging block at Eton to the bench from which he sentences the garotter to be flogged is the same social product as the garotter who has been kicked by his father and cuffed by his mother until he has grown strong enough to throttle and rob the rich citizen whose money he desires. (Shaw) .
All subjects are bound to defend the republic with their life and all their goods .
All sugar and honey.
All that glitters is not gold.
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother . (Lincoln) .
All that I am, that I have, that I hope and all my love have ever flowed towards thee in depth of secrecy . (Gitanjali) .
All that is harsh and dissonant in my life melts into one sweet harmony--and my adoration spreads wings like a glad bird on its flight across the sea . (Gitanjali) .
All the buyers and sellers are there . (Gitanjali) .
All the sweet vintage of all my autumn days and summer nights, all the earnings and gleanings of my busy life will I place before him at the close of my days when death will knock at my door . (Gitanjali) .
All the vast hygienic, social and moral problems of our restless, energetic labor-saving race are, in some degree, those of the future student of disease in America .
All things are difficult before they are easy.
` All things are not allowed to a master towards his servants .
All things are preordained: in vain do mortals flurry themselves in this fleeting life. (China) .
All things are presumed done by the laws .
All things are presumed in hatred of a defrauder .
All things are presumed in hatred of the spoiler .
All things are presumed lawfully done, until it be proved to the contrary .
All things are presumed to be done withhe usual solemnity .
All things pertaining to the wife, belong to the husband while marriage continues .
All things which are contracted by law, perish by a contrary law .
All things which belong to the wife, belong to her husband; the wife has no power herself, but the husband .
All things which require cognizance, cannot be explained by a memorial .
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. (Jefferson) .
All truths are not to be told.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. (Jefferson) .
All wantonness is forbidden by the laws .
All who joy would win must share it Happiness was born a Twin . (Byron) .
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
Almost all rivers and harbours are public .
Almost in all penal trials allowance is made for youth and imprudence .
Almost never killed a fly was never hanged.
A long disease doesn`t tell a lie; it kills at last .
A loss and concern succeeds in the room of a matter which cannot be performed .
A loyal servant of his country does not fear death ; he who fears death is not a loyal servant of his country. (China) .
A loyal servant of the state will not serve two rulers : a virtuous woman will not marry two husbands. (China) .
Although a disposition concerning future interest be useless, yet a preceding declaration may be made, which will become effectual by means of a new act .
Although any thing may not be evil of itself, however, if it be of bad example, it is not to be done .
Although a thing is not bad of itself, however, if it has a tendency to set a bad example, it is not to be done .
Although the law speaks in the general, it is, however, to be restricted that while the reason, or meaning ceaseth, itself likewise ceaseth; for since reason is the soul and strength of the law itself, the legislator does not seem to have perceived that which wants a reason, although the generality of words may at first sight induce us to believe otherwise .
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other . (Lincoln) .
Always give the patient hope, even when death seems at hand .
Always in bargains, and in other contracts, we follow that which has been dom , or if that does not appear which hath been done, the consequence will be that we should follow that which is usual in the country, in which it was performed : what therefore is necessary to be done, if the custom of the country does not appears ? either, because it has been various ; the sum is to be reduced, to that which is the least .
Always in doubtful cases, more favourable things are to be preferred .
Always laugh when you can It is cheap medicine . (Byron) .
Always maintain the ideals of a gentleman: there is sure to be a happy time in store for you. (China) .
Always remember to keep your thoughts under control and respectfully observe the law. (China) .
Always take hold of things by the smooth handle. (Jefferson) .
A lying will, is not a will .
A madman is punished only by his own madness .
A man can die but once.
A man can do no more than he can.
A mandatory cannot exceed the bounds prescribed to him .
A man enjoys what he uses, not what his servants use. (Shaw) .
A man highly gifted can discuss the present and past : an article highly valuable sells for a very high price. (China) .
A man is as old as his arteries .
A man is known by the company he keeps.
A man learns little from victory but much from defeat .
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress . (Byron) .
A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
A man once bad, is always presumed to be bad, in the same way .
A man possessed of the highest truth can tame dragons and tigers: a man of great virtue will be respected by demons and spirits. (China) .
A man remote from his native village is held cheap: goods remote from their native village become dear. (China) .
A man`s character depends upon whether he has good or bad friends .
A man who takes no thought about what is distant will find sorrow near at hand. (China) .
A man will die for riches just as a bird will die for food. (China) .
A masked gout is easier to penetrate than a mask of virtue .
A matter judged, is taken for truth .
A matter performed among some persons, ought not to hurt another .
A meeting in the sunlight is lucky and a burying in the rain .
A mere naked bargain is, where no cause exists, except agreement ; but where a cause exists, an obligation takes place, and is the foundation of an action .
America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people . (Byron) .
America will never be destroyed from the outside . (Lincoln) .
A minor may make his condition better, by no means worse .
A minor may make his condition better, by no means worse .
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? . (Lincoln) .
A miserly father makes a prodigal son.
A miss is as good as a mile.
A mistake with regard to the name does nothing, when we are certain of the person .
A mistress never is nor can be a friend While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends . (Byron) .
A mode and agreement overcome law .
A mode of not taking tithes is unavailing .
A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit. (Shaw) .
A modern gentleman is necessarily the enemy of his country. (Shaw) .
A modern poet has characterized the personality of art and the impersonality of science, as follows: Art is I: Science is We .
A moment`s flash of lightning drags down a deeper gloom on my sight, and my heart gropes for the path to where the music of the night calls me . (Gitanjali) .
Among the blind the one-eyed man is king.
A multitude of unskilful persons ruin the court .
An absolute or perfect opinion or sentence, needs no expounder, exposition, or explanation .
An abuse ought to be abolished .
An accessary does not lead, but follows his principal .
An accessary follows the nature of his principal .
An accessary follows the nature of the thing to which it relates .
An accuser after a reasonable time ought not to be heard, unless he accuse himself well, concerning his neglect or omissien .
/An act done involuntarily on my part, is not my act .
An action begun against a person who dies, may be transferred against his heirs .
An action does not arise from a bare agreement, Execution is the performance of the law according to judgment .
An action does not arise from a bare submission .
An action does not constitute a man guilty unless he has a bad intention .
An action is competent against any one, who hath destroyed, impaired, or carried away arms, which have been deposited in any place .
An action is not allowed to one who has sustained no loss .
An act of a judge which does not belong to his office, is not binding .
An act of a servant in those things in which he is commoqly employed with others, is considered the act of his master .
An act, or deed begun, the completion of which depends upon the will of the parties, may be revoked ; but if it depends upon the will of a third person, or upon a contingent circumstance, it cannot be recalled .
An act or deed of law does harm to nobody .
An affirmative statute does not derogate from the common law .
An affirmative will produces no effect without a negative .
An agreement extinguished in any of its parts, is extinguished in them all .
An agreement extinguished in part, is wholly extinguished .
, An agreement making void a free tenement, will have no weight by bare words without writing .
, An agreement shall avail no one, unless he shall have been a party, or privy to it .
An ambiguous agreement is to be interpreted against the seller .
An ambiguous answer is to be considered as against the person who gives it .
An ambiguous order is to be interpreted against the person uttering it .
, An annual diary is a part of the English law .
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
, An argument drawn from authority is very strong in law .
An argument for taking away a free tenure, ought not to be pleaded, except from the deed .
, An argument from a like case has weight in law .
, An argument from an impossibility has very great weight in law .
, An argument from an incongruous thing is not valid in law, because the law does not allow any thing incongruous .
, An argument from division is the strongest in the law .
, An argument from the greater to the less negatively, has no weight ; contrariwise .
An argument or proof is valid, from a rescript or letter of a prince or emperor, making answers to petitions, or other applications; or more laconically, the king`s answer, wherein he signifies his pleasure, amounts to a law, and is not to be disputed .
A narrowminded person is not a gentleman: a person of high character is a true man. (China) .
An assignee enjoys the privilege of his author .
An ass in a lion-s skin.
An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold.
An ass loaded with gold climbs to the top of the castle.
An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry. (Jefferson) .
And again when it shall be thy wish to end this play at night, I shall melt and vanish away in the dark, or it may be in a smile of the white morning, in a coolness of purity transparent . (Gitanjali) .
And because I love this life, I know I shall love death as well . (Gitanjali) .
And for this, thou who art the King of kings hast decked thyself in beauty to captivate my heart . (Gitanjali) .
And for this thy love loses itself in the love of thy lover, and there art thou seen in the perfect union of two . (Gitanjali) .
And give me the strength to surrender my strength to thy will with love . (Gitanjali) .
And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions, knowing it is thy power gives me strength to act . (Gitanjali) .
And let my return to myself be immediate return to him . (Gitanjali) .
And like a beggar I searched in the dawn only for a stray petal or two . (Gitanjali) .
And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment . (Gitanjali) .
And now I am eager to die into the deathless . (Gitanjali) .
And now with the burden of faded futile flowers I wait and linger . (Gitanjali) .
And that is why it may cover thy awful white light with its pathetic shadows . (Gitanjali) .
And there comes the evening over the lonely meadows deserted by herds, through trackless paths, carrying cool draughts of peace in her golden pitcher from the western ocean of rest . (Gitanjali) .
And thus it is that time goes by while I give it to every querulous man who claims it, and thine altar is empty of all offerings to the last . (Gitanjali) .
And today when by chance I light upon them and see thy signature, I find they have lain scattered in the dust mixed with the memory of joys and sorrows of my trivial days forgotten . (Gitanjali) .
And when my work shall be done in this world, O King of kings, alone and speechless shall I stand before thee face to face . (Gitanjali) .
And when old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders . (Gitanjali) .
And you sit there smiling . (Gitanjali) .
And you sit there smiling . (Gitanjali) .
A nearer relation excludes propinquity; and a relation a remote person ; and a remote person, one more remote .
An easy life is the death of valor .
A necessary good beyond the limits of necessity, is no good .
A neighbour is presumed to know the actions of his neighbour .
An empty hand is no lure for a hawk.
An empty sack cannot stand upright.
An empty vessel gives a greater sound than a full barrel.
An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes. (Jefferson) .
, An estimation of the past never increases from the fault last committed .
An evil chance seldom comes alone.
A new broom sweeps clean.
A new trial does not give a new law, but declares the ancient law ; because a trial is the dictate of law, and by trial the law is revealed of new, which for a long time was veiled .
An exception makes good the rule about the things that are not excepted .
An exception which strengthens the law, expounds the law .
Anger and haste hinder good counsel.
An heir cannot be bound by the punishment and transgression of the deceased .
An heir is the name of right son is the name of nature .
/An heir is the same person with his predecessor a part of that predecessor .
An honest man will always prosper : a crafty man will never succeed. (China) .
An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told.
An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.
An idle brain is the devil-s workshop.
An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.
An impediment being removed, an action emerges .
An impediment is not valid, which does not obtain effect from law .
An important phase of medicine is the ability to appraise the literature correctly .
An impossibility is shameful .
An incorporated body can consist of one person .
An incorporated body cannot be brought forward personally in a law suit ; nor outlawed ; nor forfeit their goods ; nor suffer attaint ; nor grant power of attorney ; nor be excommunicated .
An incorporated body has no heirs, nor executors, nor can it die .
An infamous person is repelled from the sacrament and oath of allegiance .
An inheritance comes in the way, in which guardianship goes, unless when female heirs intervene .
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes. (Jefferson) .
An injury done to ones-self, will not fall to the benefit of the doer .
An intelligent person must know how to help himself in disease, bearing in mind that health is the highest good of man (vi, 86, 87, 208-9) .
An intention legitimately known and agreeable to the laws, is to be regarded in an especial manner .
An interlocutory sentence can be recalled, but a definitive one cannot .
An inuendo does not make words, of themselves obnoxious, liable to an action, if they were not so otherwise .
An oak is not felled at one stroke.
An oath is indivisible, and is not to be admitted partly`true and partly false .
An oath made among others, ought neither to hurt nor to profit .
An obligation which has been sealed in due form, is extinguished if it fall into that situation from which it cannot arise .
A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool.
An official whose service is at an end is like a faded flower: a man whose power has gone will be insulted even by his own underlings. (China) .
An old dog barks not in vain.
An open door may tempt a saint.
An opinion against marriage, never passes into a matter decided .
An opinion given against a minor undefended, is void .
An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of learning.
An over-refined and captious interpretation is reprobated in law, Gustos corporis cuj usque infantis est is esto ad quern ha reditas nequeat pervenire .
An ox is taken by the horns, and a man by the tongue.
Anthropomorphism is the attempt to reduce philosophic dualism to unity and this analysis commonly follows the familiar pathway of unscience, that of analogy: Its postulates are God as a magnified man and the attribution of infinite dimensions to the human mind .
An uncertainty depending upon an uncertainty, is reprobated in law .
An unfortunate man would be drowned in a teacup.
An unjust condition ought not to be brought forward to one, by meani of another .
An unjust law is not law .
An unlawful thing ought not to be admitted under a lawful pretext .
An unnecessary clause, or disposition, is not supported by a remote inference, or an eso post facto cause .
Any donation obtains effect by the force of law .
Any grant is most forcibly to be interpreted against the donor .
Any marriage system which condemns a majority of the population to celibacy will be violently wrecked on the pretext that it outrages morality. (Shaw) .
Any one can renounce by the law introduced for himself .
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better . (Lincoln) .
Any port in a storm.
Any thing in law is dissolved, in the same way iu which it was bound .
Any thing is allowed by a bargain, which is not admitted without a bargain .
Any thing is granted in general, there is this exception in it if there be not any thing contrary to justice and religion .
Any title excuses from spoliation .
A penal action is not sustained against an heir, unless by chance the heir hath become richer by the loss of the party .
A penny saved is a penny gained.
A penny soul never came to twopence.
A personal action dies with the person .
A person alleging contradictory things ought not to be heard .
A person alleging his own disgrace is not to be heard .
A person may, without blame, repel force by force .
A person`s embarrassment proceeds from respect and fear of perjury .
A person who confesses on trial, is considered as judged ; and in some measure is condemned on his own admission .
A petticoat round the ankles serves equally well. (Shaw) .
A pirate is the common enemy of all men .
Appearances are deceitful.
Appetite comes with eating.
Application is the life of rule .
A prelate may make the condition of his church better, by no means worse .
A price comes in the place of the property .
A prison is ordained not for the sake of punishment, but for ward .
A prison ought to be assigned for keeping men, not for punishing them .
A private inconvenience, is better than a public evil .
A privilege falling unexpectedly upon an author, or inventor, is an addition to his successor .
A public cause does not admit of a substitute .
A question is made concerning the laws, not concerning persons .
A question is not admitted concerning the honesty and duty of a judge; but concerning his knowledge whether it may be an error of the law or of the fact .
A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
A report is common opinion, where there is not truth ; and opinion is twofold .
are so far ours, and are so understood to be, so long as they are inclined to return to us .
Arguments bring forward to the light of reason, unknown and obscure facts, and render them clear .
Aristotle is interesting as the standard-bearer of the Hippocratic tradition that from medical reasoning came the principles of scientific, method .
ARISTOTLE It is the business of a scientist to know the causes of health and disease, whence it follows that most scientists regard medicine as the goal of their studies, while physicians who practice in a scientific manner begin the study of medicine with natural science (,Esthetics, Introduction) .
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
A round peg in a square hole.
Art thou abroad on this stormy night on thy journey of love, my friend? The sky groans like one in despair . (Gitanjali) .
As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man . (Lincoln) .
As a rule, the outward appearance and characteristics of people are an effect of their native soil .
A scientific hypothesis is merely a scientific idea, preconceived or previsioned .
As drunk as a lord.
A sentence makes law, and the interpretation of the law obtains the force of the law .
A sentence makes law, and the matter is received for truth .
A sentence of transportation takes away those things alone which come to the treasury .
A shy cat makes a proud mouse.
A silent fool is counted wise.
A simple feud cannot depend on a simple feud .
As, indeed, no man can say who it was that first invented the use of clothes and houses against the inclemency of the weather, so also can no investigator point out the origin of medicine, mysterious as the source of the Nile .
As innocent as a babe unborn.
As is plain from the various collections of medical folk-lore, the actual wisdom of the people with reference to the healing art is apt to be poor stuff .
As it is, the political problem remains unsolved. (Shaw) .
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master . (Lincoln) .
As judges do not reply, so, from that the jurors do not answer a question of law .
Ask no questions and you will be told no lies.
Ask not what I have with me to take there . (Gitanjali) .
As like as an apple to an oyster.
As like as two peas.
As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others . (Byron) .
As long as vitalism and spiritualism are open questions so long will the gateway of science be open to mysticism .
A small leak will sink a great ship.
As my days pass in the crowded market of this world and my hands grow full with the daily profits, let me ever feel that I have gained nothing--let me not forget for a moment, let me carry the pangs of this sorrow in my dreams and in my wakeful hours . (Gitanjali) .
A soft answer turns away wrath.
As oft as by the equity of desire, natural reason, or doubt of law, may retard the matter, is to be regulated by just decrees .
As often as any one thing, or another, is introduced in law, there is a good opportunity that other things, which tend to the same advantage, be supplied, either by interpretation, or, at least, by jurisdiction .
As often as any thing is doubted, or is bad, we must have recourse to principles .
As often as there is no ambiguity in words, no explanation ought to be made against word .
As often as the same speech expresses two meanings, that chiefly may be received, which is most fit for carrying on the business .
As often a the interpretation of liberty is doubtful, we should answer according to liberty .
As old as the hills.
A sound mind in a sound body.
As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew . (Lincoln) .
As our case is new, we must think and act anew . (Lincoln) .
As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also. (Jefferson) .
A spender gets the property of the hoarder .
As plain as the nose on a man-s face.
As plain as two and two make four.
As prime ministers and generals do not spring from any pecial class, all young men should exert themselves. (China) .
Assassination on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination, because there it is invested with the approval of society. (Shaw) .
As snug as a bug in a rug .
As sure as eggs is eggs.
A State should try to limit law suits .
A statute is to be understood generally, when the words of the statute are special, but the purpose general .
As the call, so the echo.
As the current is slow when the water is deep so a man of distinction is slow to speak. (China) .
As the fool thinks, so the bell clinks.
As the greatest biologist of antiquity, he illustrates the remarkable aptitude which physicians have continually displayed in sciences other than the medical .
As the new grass grows, it; covers the ground, so if you are prosperous, what need have you to seek for old friends . (China) .
As the night keeps hidden in its gloom the petition for light, even thus in the depth of my unconsciousness rings the cry--`I want thee, only thee` . (Gitanjali) .
As the old cock crows, so does the young.
As the storm still seeks its end in peace when it strikes against peace with all its might, even thus my rebellion strikes against thy love and still its cry is--`I want thee, only thee` . (Gitanjali) .
As the tree falls, so shall it lie.
As the tree, so the fruit.
As the water of the Great River flows onward and never returns, so a man when old can never renew his youth. (China) .
A stitch in time saves nine.
A storm in a teacup.
A strong presumption, is sometimes a full proof .
Astronomers limit themselves perforce to observation, as they cannot go to the skies to experiment on the planets .
A summons has come and I am ready for my journey . (Gitanjali) .
A sweet tongue is seldom without a sting to its root .
As welcome as flowers in May.
As welcome as water in one-s shoes.
As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb.
As you brew, so must you drink.
As you make your bed, so must you lie on it.
As you sow, so shall you reap.
A talkative bird will not build a nest .
A tattler is worse than a thief.
A teacher who retains convictions foreign to himself is all well enough for pupils who depend upon authority as the source of their knowledge, but not for such as require basic convictions of the utmost depth .
A tenant is bound to make good his faith and due services to his master, and the master in his turn, is to give to the tenant, protection and all his rights .
A testament has no force, till after the death of the testator .
At first, we feel and believe that absolute truth is ours by right, but study will soon dispel these illusions bit by bit .
A theory is merely a scientific idea controlled by experiment .
A thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf.
A thief passes for a gentleman when stealing has made him rich.
A thing appears to be granted which is granted without any compulsion of the law .
A thing decided between some, neither hurts nor does good to others .
A thing decided is received for truth .
A thing done among some persons, dos neither harm nor good to others .
A thing has a general signification, because it comprehends corporeal, as well as incorporeal circumstances, of whatever kind, nature and species it may be .
A thing is dissolved in` the same way, in which it is bound .
A thing said in a general sense, is to be understood in a general sense .
A thousand years may scare form a state An hour may lay it in ruins . (Byron) .
A threatened blow is seldom given.
At last, when I woke from my slumber and opened my eyes, I saw thee standing by me, flooding my sleep with thy smile . (Gitanjali) .
A tree is known by its fruit.
At the end of the day I hasten in fear lest thy gate to be shut; but I find that yet there is time . (Gitanjali) .
At the ends of the earth.
At the immortal touch of thy hands my little heart loses its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable . (Gitanjali) .
At the University every great treatise is postponed until its author attains impartial judgment and perfect knowledge. (Shaw) .
At this time of my parting, wish me good luck, my friends! The sky is flushed with the dawn and my path lies beautiful . (Gitanjali) .
A useful thing is not to be vitiated by a useless thing .
Autumn is bad for consumptives .
A vague and uncertain cause is not a reasonable cause .
A verdict in law is opposed to equity .
Avoid popularity if you would have peace . (Lincoln) .
A wager is a fool-s argument.
A watched pot never boils.
Away from the sight of thy face my heart knows no rest nor respite, and my work becomes an endless toil in a shoreless sea of toil . (Gitanjali) .
A wellordered government will be favoured by Heaven : an upright official will bring peace to the people. (China) .
A wife is under the power of her husband .
A wife`s leprosy does not pass over to her husband .
A wild goose never laid a tame egg .
A will ought to be true, sufficient, clear, simple, and agreeing with the brief, and consisting with preceding ones, and having regard to order .
A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government. (Jefferson) .
`A wise and good man is composed and happy: a fool is always worried and full of distress. (China) .
A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.
A wise man whilst in authority lays up happiness for his future : a mean man relies upon his power to oppress ethers. (China) .
A witness should be able to say from his heart, I am not informed, nor instructed, nor do I care which of -the parties be successful, provided justice be done .
A wolf in sheep-s clothing.
A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me . (Lincoln) .
A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands . (Byron) .
A wonder lasts but nine days.
A word is enough to the wise.
A word spoken is past recalling.
A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this . (Lincoln) .
Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune .
Bad grammar does not vitiate a writ .
Bad news has wings.
Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets . (Lincoln) .
Bargains are binding either from the ties of nature and blood, or from mutual adrantage, or from authority, and from presumption of law .
Bargains give a law to contract .
Barking does seldom bite.
Base people are driven away from the tribunal .
Be advised not to do evil for from time immemorial who has escaped the penalty of his guilt. (China) .
Be always mindful of your hardworking servants but have no thought of your goodfornothing sons. (China) .
Beautiful is thy wristlet, decked with starry gems; but thy sword, O lord of thunder, is wrought with uttermost beauty, terrible to behold or think of . (Gitanjali) .
Beauty is but skin-deep.
Beauty lies in lover-s eyes.
Before one can say Jack Robinson.
Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men .
Before you make a friend eat a bushel of salt with him.
Be genuine in all things and you will lay up a rich store of happiness. (China) .
Beggars cannot be choosers.
Behind it thy seat is woven in wondrous mysteries of curves, casting away all barren lines of straightness . (Gitanjali) .
Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins .
Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive .
Believe not all that you see nor half what you hear.
Benefactions made in the light of day will be repaid in unknown ways. (China) .
Be polite to all, but intimate with few. (Jefferson) .
Be slow to promise and quick to perform.
Best defence is offence.
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm . (Lincoln) .
Be swift to hear, slow to speak.
,be the dictate of truth .
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray . (Byron) .
Better a glorious death than a shameful life.
Better a lean peace than a fat victory.
Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us.
Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.
Better an open enemy than a false friend.
Better be alone than in bad company.
Better be born lucky than rich.
Better be envied than pitied.
Better be idle than working for nothing .
Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion.
Better be the mother of Henri Quatre and Nell Gwynne than of Robespierre and Queen Mary Tudor. (Shaw) .
Better deny at once than promise long.
Better die standing than live kneeling.
Better early than late.
Better give a shilling than lend a half-crown.
Better go to bed supperless than rise in debt.
Better keep yourself clean and bright: you are the window through which you must see the world. (Shaw) .
Better late than never.
Better lose a jest than a friend.
Better one-eyed than stone-blind.
Better the devil you know than the devil you donot.
Better the foot slip than the tongue.
Better to do well than to say well.
Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. (Milton) .
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt . (Lincoln) .
Better unborn than untaught.
Better untaught than ill-taught.
Between the cup and the lip a morsel may slip.
Between the devil and the deep blue sea.
Between the upper and nether millstone.
Between two evils it is not worth choosing.
Between two stools one goes falls to the ground.
Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon`s verge . (Byron) .
Betwixt and between.
Beware of a silent dog and still water.
Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance. (Shaw) .
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself. (Shaw) .
Beware of the man whose god is in the skies. (Shaw) .
Bid me farewell, my brothers! I bow to you all and take my departure . (Gitanjali) .
Big elephants often have small tusks .
Bind the sack before it be full.
Birds of a feather flock together.
Blame or punishment does not proceed from equity .
Blind men can judge no colours.
Blood is thicker than water.
Bloodletting should be done in the springtime .
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. (Jefferson) .
Bondage is miserable where the law i vague or uncertain .
Books constitute capital. (Jefferson) .
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren`t very new at all . (Lincoln) .
Borrowed garments never fit well.
Both may be, and one must be wrong . (Lincoln) .
Both were political failures. (Shaw) .
Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal .
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Bring out thy tattered piece of mat and spread it in the courtyard . (Gitanjali) .
Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.
Business before pleasure.
But call back, my lord, call back this pervading silent heat, still and keen and cruel, burning the heart with dire despair . (Gitanjali) .
But day passes by after day and thou art not seen . (Gitanjali) .
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. (Jefferson) .
But how great my surprise when at the day`s end I emptied my bag on the floor to find a least little gram of gold among the poor heap . (Gitanjali) .
But I find that thy will knows no end in me . (Gitanjali) .
But I have my untimely leave in the middle of the day, in the thick of work . (Gitanjali) .
` But I languidly lingered awhile lost in the midst of vague musings . (Gitanjali) .
But infinite is thy mansion, my lord, and seeking her I have to come to thy door . (Gitanjali) .
But in the darkness of night I find they break into my sacred shrine, strong and turbulent, and snatch with unholy greed the offerings from God`s altar . (Gitanjali) .
But I shall be wise this time and wait in the dark, spreading my mat on the floor; and whenever it is thy pleasure, my lord, come silently and take thy seat here . (Gitanjali) .
But it is never lost, my lord . (Gitanjali) .
But it is otherwise with thy love which is greater than theirs, and thou keepest me free . (Gitanjali) .
But more beautiful to me thy sword with its curve of lightning like the outspread wings of the divine bird of Vishnu, perfectly poised in the angry red light of the sunset . (Gitanjali) .
But once we have recognized that disease is naught else than the course of vital processes under altered conditions, the concept of healing expands to imply the maintenance or reestablishment of the normal condition of existence .
But there, where spreads the infinite sky for the soul to take her flight in, reigns the stainless white radiance . (Gitanjali) .
But the simple carol of this novice struck at your love . (Gitanjali) .
But this my sorrow is absolutely mine own, and when I bring it to thee as my offering thou rewardest me with thy grace . (Gitanjali) .
But time glides on and still no sound of the wheels of thy chariot . (Gitanjali) .
But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of . (Byron) .
But when one morning the horse is dead and your gold is all gone, your relations will be to you just the same as the man in the street. (China) .
But who is this that follows me in the silent dark? I move aside to avoid his presence but I escape him not . (Gitanjali) .
Buying and selling isTontracted as soon a the price is agreed upon .
` By all means they try to hold me secure who love me in this world . (Gitanjali) .
By a rule, therefore, a short relation of things is delivered and there is, as it were, a summary account of the cause, which at the sametime, when it is corrupted, loses its office .
By doing nothing we learn to do ill.
By hook or by crook.
, by long continued and peaceful possession .
By the bargains of private persons, nothing can be derogated from public law .
By the street of by-and-bye one arrives at the house of Never.
By weight, by number, and by measure .
by which is meant that it is better to know nothing than to cherish fixed ideas based on theories whose confirmation we constantly seek, while neglecting everything that fails to agree with them .
Calamity is man-s true touchstone.
Calling a tail a leg doesn`t make it a leg . (Lincoln) .
Camac`s collection: OSLER In all things relating to disease, credulity remains a permanent fact, uninfluenced bh civilization or education .
Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed . (Lincoln) .
Care killed the cat.
Catch the bear before you sell his skin.
Cattle lawfully possessed, cannot be lost .
Cause and origin are the subject matters of business .
Caution is better than a remedy .
Caution is the parent of safety.
Cease to reign if there be no power to judge .
Ceremonial and music are of first importance to man just as the tree has branches and leaves to complete its appearance. (China) .
Change of climate is endurable in chronic diseases .
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow . (Lincoln) .
Charity begins at home.
Charity is the most mischievous sort of pruriency. (Shaw) .
Chattel are considered as among the least things, in law .
Cheapest is the dearest.
Cheek brings success.
Chen Jen .
Children and fools must not play with edged tools.
Children are obliged to performance concerning a loss, but not in like manner concerning punishment .
Children are poor men-s riches.
Children have their play on the seashore of worlds . (Gitanjali) .
Choose an author as you choose a friend.
Christmas comes but once a year, but when it comes it brings good cheer.
Chu Hui Weng .
Ch`u Shih .
Circumstances alter cases.
Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material. (Shaw) .
Clandestine gifts are always suspicious .
Clandestine transactions are more severely punished than thos openly committed .
CLAUDE BERNARD Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science .
Claw me, and I will claw thee.
Cleanliness is next to godliness.
Clear the gutters while the weather is fine and dry as you must provide against the season of heavy rains. (China) .
Clinical medicine is made up of anomalies, while nosography is the description of phenomena that occur regularly .
Clouds heap upon clouds and it darkens . (Gitanjali) .
Come out of thy meditations and leave aside thy flowers and incense! What harm is there if thy clothes become tattered and stained? Meet him and stand by him in toil and in sweat of thy brow . (Gitanjali) .
Comie (Edinburgh) from the Regimen Sanitatis, illustrate the practical dietetic wisdom of the School of Salerno: Do you wish to be strong and healthy: then shed anxious cares, hold it vulgar to be angry (irasci credo profanum), be sparing of wine, sup in moderation, let it not seem useless to rise after a feast, avoid the noonday nap, retain no urine, be not costive .
Commerce by the law of nations ought to be common, and not to be converted into a monopoly, and the private gain of a few .
Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto. (Jefferson) .
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them . (Lincoln) .
Common sense in medical matters is rare and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education .
Company in distress makes trouble less.
Comparable with the aphorisms of Claude Bernard on the approaches to experimental medicine are those of Charcot on the bedside approach to disease .
Concussion of the brain is always accompanied by loss of speech ? . Wine is not good in delirium .
Confession is the first step to repentance.
Confession made in a trial is stronger than all proof .
Confirmation supplies all defects, although that which was done at the beginning hath not been valid .
Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung. (Milton) .
Conquest is not in our principles. (Jefferson) .
Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles .
Consciousness never contravenes the law .
Consent, and not cohabitation, constitutes matrimony; and the parties cannot consent before marriageable years .
Consent, and not coition, constitutes marriage .
Consent constitutes law .
Consent constitutes written law .
Consent is the joint will of many, to whom the thing at the same time belongs ; and in criminal cases the silence of a person present presumes consent : in civil cases, sometimes, that of the person absent, and even ignorant where his interest lies, does the same .
Consent takes away error .
Construction is according to equity .
Construction is according to the equality of reason .
Construction is referred to the cause .
Construction Is referred to the principles of a thing .
Consuctudo ncque injuria oriri nequc tolii potcst .
Consult only men of wisdom when seeking guidance in your affairs. (China) .
Contract does not arise from injury .
Contrast these, now, with the folk-wisdom of a more advanced and specialized civilization, that of Japan .
cook a hare before catching him.
Counsel is no command.
Courts grant relief where manifest injustice has been done .
Craft is inconsistent in general .
Craft is not justified by any round about way .
Credit is to be given to the latter decisions .
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law. (Shaw) .
Crimes are extinguished by death .
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. (Shaw) .
Cross the stream where it is shallowest.
Crows do not pick crow-s eyes.
cry with one eye and laugh with the other.
Curiosity killed a cat.
Curses like chickens come home to roost.
Custom, although it be of great authority, is, however, never prejudical to evident truth .
Custom and common practice overrules a law not written, if it be special, and interprets a written law, if the law be general .
Custom can neither arise nor be taken away by injury .
Custom guides those who are willing : law draws those who are willing .
Custom introduced against reason, ought rather to be called usurpation than Custom .
Custom is a second nature.
Custom is not prejudicial to truth .
Custom is observed for law .
Custom is the best interpreter of laws .
Custom is the best interpreter of the laws .
Custom is the best interpreter of the laws .
Custom is the good, reasonable, certain, and common practice of any place, contrary to which nothing is in the recollection of man .
Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
Custom or law cannot be against good morals .
Custom ought to be certain ; for if uncertain, it goes for nothing .
cut one-s throat with a feather.
Cut your coat according to your cloth.
Cuvier expressed the same thought by saying: `The observer listens to Nature; the experimenter questions and forces her to unveil herself .
Dabblers in science lean upon the opinion of the vulgar and so have things their own way, whilst closer observers are received with calumny and ill words .
Day after day, O lord of my life, shall I stand before thee face to face . (Gitanjali) .
Day by day thou art making me worthy of the simple, great gifts that thou gavest to me unasked--this sky and the light, this body and the life and the mind--saving me from perils of overmuch desire . (Gitanjali) .
Day by day thou art making me worthy of thy full acceptance by refusing me ever and anon, saving me from perils of weak, uncertain desire . (Gitanjali) .
Days and nights pass and ages bloom and fade like flowers . (Gitanjali) .
Days come and ages pass, and it is ever he who moves my heart in many a name, in many a guise, in many a rapture of joy and of sorrow . (Gitanjali) .
Death-dealing waves sing meaningless ballads to the children, even like a mother while rocking her baby`s cradle . (Gitanjali) .
Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity. (Milton) .
Death is the grand leveller.
Death pays all debts.
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep . (Byron) .
Death, thy servant, is at my door . (Gitanjali) .
Death when it comes will have no denial.
Debt follows the person .
Debt is the worst poverty.
Decadence can find agents only when it wears the mask of progress. (Shaw) .
Deceive, but don`t insult the rich and powerful .
Deceive him not . (Gitanjali) .
Decency is Indecency`s Conspiracy of Silence. (Shaw) .
Decisions are as it were jurisdictions .
Decisions are as it were jurisdictions, and are accepted as truth .
Deeds, not words.
Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself. (Milton) .
Defective law is better than uncertain law .
Deference to men of age and experience will bring support in time of need. (China) .
Deity of the ruined temple! The broken strings of _Vina_ sing no more your praise . (Gitanjali) .
Delay is preferable to error. (Jefferson) .
Delay is reprobated in law .
Delay or suspension for justice sake, is very acceptable ; but delay contrary to justice is very odious .
Delays are dangerous.
Delays in law are odious .
Deliverance is not for me in renunciation . (Gitanjali) .
Delivery makes a paper to speak .
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. (Shaw) .
Democratic republics can no more dispense with national idols than monarchies with public functionaries. (Shaw) .
Denial cannot be proved .
Denial destroys denial .
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. (Jefferson) .
Derivative power cannot be greater than primitive .
Derivative power is of the same jurisdiction as the primitive .
Descent takes away entrance .
Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies.
destroy my enemies when I make them my friends . (Lincoln) .
Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors . (Lincoln) .
Diarrheea is a river-fish complaint .
Diarrhoea in phthisis is bad .
Did we not believe Galen implicitly for 1500 years and Hippocrates more than 2000? Is there anything more doleful than the procession of four or five doctors into a patient`s room? Fully half of the quarrels of doctors are fomented by the tittle-tattle of patients .
Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow . (Lincoln) .
Dignity supposes office and charge, and is not devisible .
, Dignus mercede operarius .
Diligence is the mother of success good luck.
Discourage litigation . (Lincoln) .
Discretion is to diecsrn what is just by the law .
Discretion is to know what is just by the law .
Disease is from of old and nothing about it has changed .
Diseases are not even species, such as cats and toads, but abnormal, though not altogether irregular behavior of animals and plants .
Diseases are the interests of pleasures.
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices. (Shaw) .
, Dispensatio est vulnus, quod vulnerat jus commune .
, Dispensation is a wound that injures common right .
Dispensation relates to an evil prohibited, a provident relaxation compensated by common advantage .
Distance reveals the strength of a horse; time, the charac ter of a man. (China) .
, Districtio non potest esse nisi pro certis servitiis Distraining of goods cannot be, unless for certain services or servitudes .
Divide and rule.
Divine right needs no whip. (Shaw) .
Do as you would be done by.
Doctors have to update their instrumental aids .
Doctors use as many instruments as a mechanic .
Dog does not eat dog.
Dog eats dog.
Dogs that put up many hares kill none.
Doing is better than saying.
Domestic servants, by making spoiled children of their masters, are forced to intimidate them in order to be able to live with them. (Shaw) .
Dominion cannot be over a thing depending .
Dominion is said to have taken its rise from possession .
Do not build a grand house nor scheme to obtain rich fields. (China) .
Donot count your chickens before they are hatched.
Donot cross the bridges before you come to them.
Do not depend on your present good fortune but take precautions against the time when it may desert you. (China) .
Do not give vent to anger for it will make the young prematurely grey. (China) .
Do not give your children moral and religious instruction unless you are quite sure they will not take it too seriously. (Shaw) .
Donot have thy cloak to make when it begins to rain.
Do nothing which you fear may become known; study hard if you wish to command respect. (China) .
Do not indulge in discreditable, venturesome transactions and calamity and disaster will not overtake you. (China) .
Donot keep a dog and bark yourself.
Donot look a gift horse in the mouth.
Do not love your neighbor as yourself. (Shaw) .
Do not mistake your objection to defeat for an objection to fighting, your objection to being a slave for an objection to slavery, your objection to not being as rich as your neighbor for an objection to poverty. (Shaw) .
Donot put all your eggs in one basket.
Do not quarrel over trifles : and let not the setting sun go down on your wrath. (China) .
Do not say there are not before your eyes those on whom retribution can fall, for it will inevitably overtake your children and grandchildren. (China) .
Donot sell the bear-s skin before you have caught it.
Do not think too much of the dignity of your profession or what it is beneath you to do .
Donot trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. (Shaw) .
Donot whistle halloo until you are out of the wood.
Don`t interfere with anything in the Constitution . (Lincoln) .
Don`t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition . (Lincoln) .
Dot your i-s and cross your t-s.
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Draw not your bow till your arrow is fixed.
draw pull in one-s horns.
draw water in a sieve.
Drink little wine, but seek after much knowledge. (China) .
Drive the nail that will go.
drop a bucket into an empty well.
Drunken days have all their tomorrow.
Drunkenness both in flames, detects, and aggravates every crime .
Drunkenness reveals what soberness conceals.
Drunk with the joy of singing I forget myself and call thee friend who art my lord . (Gitanjali) .
Dumb dogs are dangerous.
Duty ought to be hurtful to none .
Each bird loves to hear himself sing.
Each glebe is subject to one person .
, Eadem mens uniuscuj usque praesumitur quae est juris, quaeque esse debeat, praesertim in dubiis .
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Easier said than done.
East or West ? home is best.
Easy come, easy go.
Eat at pleasure, drink with measure.
eat the calf in the cow-s belly.
Ecclesiastical laws are limited .
Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth .
Economy is the art of making the most of life. (Shaw) .
Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature, under which name I include not merely things and their forces, but men and their ways .
, Ejus est non nolle, qui potest velle .
Empty vessels make the greatest the most sound.
Enough is as good as a feast.
Envy shoots at others and wounds herself.
, Ephemeris annua pars legis Anglicana? .
Epistaxis in amenorrhea is good .
Equal has no power over equal .
Equality is fundamental in every department of social organization. (Shaw) .
Equity admits some exception of something from the law generally enacted .
Equity always subsists on the supposition of right .
Equity assists ignorance, but not in like manner carelessness .
Equity assists nobody to the injury of another .
Equity assists where there is room for the compensation of a loss .
Equity attends the law .
Equity considers the matter itself, less about the form and circumstances .
Equity determines nothing unless towards the parties .
Equity does not allow him who hath obtained a true right, to prosecute it to the utmost extremity .
Equity does not change the nature of a thing .
Equity does not confound jurisdiction .
Equity does not constitute law, but assists law .
Equity does not incline to introduce new and unusual things .
Equity does not permit any one at the same time to follow out, or prosecute the same thing in a twofold way .
Equity does not supply the deficiency of those things which are required by positive law .
Equity does not supply those things which may be in the hand or grasp of an applicant .
Equity favors children .
Equity favors creditors .
Equity favors the redemption of a thing given in pawn .
Equity favours or gives countenance to deliverance and seizen .
Equity favours wives .
Equity follows the law .
Equity furnishes a remedy to matters which have been appointed under the name of a punishment, agreeable to what is just and good .
Equity hates superfluous matter .
Equity in like causes requires like laws .
Equity is a part of the English law .
Equity is as it were, an equality .
Equity is never the hand maid to strife, where she can give a remedy .
Equity is not bound to assist unless when the occasion renders necessary .
Equity is not vague and uncertain, but has determinate or prescribed boundaries and limits .
Equity is the correction of the law generally enacted in the part where it is deficient .
Equity is the daughter of truth .
Equity is the sister of goodness .
Equity is the sister of justice .
Equity is the suitableness of circumstances, which equalizes all things, and which in similar matters, requires similar laws and judgments .
Equity never contravenes the law .
Equity rectifies mistakes .
Equity remedies chances or misfortunes .
Equity stretches the utmost point of law towards him who wishes to act according to the rigour of the law .
Equity supplies defects .
Equity wishes by all means to arrive at truth .
Equity wishes that the house which may be injurious to another should be in the predicament, equally favourable to that other, as that which it takes from him .
, Equity wishes the spoiled, the deceived, and the ruined, above all things to have restitution .
Equivocal words, and those placed in a doubtful sense, are understood in a more worthy and powerful sense .
err is human.
Erroneous orthography, or grammatical errors, do not vitiate a grant .
, Error placitandi aequitatem non tollit .
, Est bom jiidicis ampiiare jurisdictioneiu .
Even in the hands of the greatest physicians, the practice of medicine is never identified with scientific medicine, but is only an application of it .
Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner. (Shaw) .
Even reckoning makes long friends.
Even so, in death the same unknown will appear as ever known to me . (Gitanjali) .
Even the dog of a great man wears a proud look .
Even the lords of hell bow the knee to the fat purse .
Ever and again I open my door and look out on the darkness, my friend! I can see nothing before me . (Gitanjali) .
Ever in my life have I sought thee with my songs . (Gitanjali) .
Ever since the Crimean war, nurses have been getting into novels .
Every action is to be judged from the intention of the agent .
Every ass loves to hear himself bray.
Every barber knows that.
Every bean has its black.
Every bird likes its own nest.
Everybody likes a compliment . (Lincoln) .
Everybody-s business is nobody-s business.
Every bullet has its billet.
Every country has its customs.
Every dark cloud has a silver lining.
Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don`t know any other stipend annexed to it . (Byron) .
Every day is not Sunday.
Every definition in the civil law is dangerous, for there is a chance of its being overturned .
Every disgraceful contract is odious to the laws .
Every dog has his day.
Every dog is a lion at home.
Every dog is valiant at his own door.
Every experimental problem reduces itself to this: to foresee and direct the course of phenomena .
Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation. (Shaw) .
Every genuinely benevolent person loathes almsgiving and mendicity. (Shaw) .
Every innovation disturbs more by its novelty, than it does good by its utility .
Every Jack has his Jill.
Every law and every action is finished and circumscribed by the time of the injury .
Every man carries a parasite somewhere .
Every man has a fool in his sleeve.
Every man has his faults.
Every man has his hobby-horse.
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition . (Lincoln) .
Every man is the architect of his own fortunes.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel. (Shaw) .
Every man to his taste.
Every miller draws water to his own mill.
Every moment and every age, every day and every night he comes, comes, ever comes . (Gitanjali) .
Every mother thinks her own gosling a swan.
Every new constitution ought to impose a form on future times, not on past times .
Every new yard of West End creates a new acre of East End. (Shaw) .
Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old . (Lincoln) .
Every one is both presumed, and ought to know his own actions .
Every one is bound to support peace and public justice .
Every one is presumed good; and always in doubtful cases we must answer for the accused .
Every one is presumed to speak best in his own cause .
Every one is the ruler and empire of his own affairs .
Every one-s faults are not written in their foreheads.
Every result of a good and fair trial follows, from the good and fair premises, and words of the jurors .
Every testament is completed by the death of the testator .
Everything comes to him who waits.
Every thing is dissolved in the same way in which it was bound .
Everything is good in its season.
Every tub must stand on its own bottom.
Every uncondemned person is reckoned as innocent by the laws .
Every white has its black, and every sweet its sour.
Every why has a wherefore.
Evil communications corrupt good manners.
Evil is not presumed .
Examples do more harm than transgressions .
Excambion, or exchange, cannot be of things of a different quality; nor is it granted among three parties .
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. (Shaw) .
Excess in any thing is reprobated by common law .
Excess in words produces errors : excess in food injures tbe mind. (China) .
Excess of local self-assertion makes a colonist an Imperialist. (Shaw) .
Experience has made law by various acts .
Experience is the mother of wisdom.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools learn in no other.
Experience keeps no school, she teaches her pupils singly.
Expressum facit cessarc taciturn .
External actions point out secret intentions within .
Extremes meet.
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Facts are neither great nor small in themselves .
Facts are stubborn things.
Failing doctors, let these three be your doctors: a joyous disposition, rest, a vell-regulated diet .
Faint heart never won fair lady.
Fair without, foul false within.
Fair words break no bones.
Faith is the sister of justice .
False friends are worse than open enemies.
False grammar does not vitiate a writing .
Fame is the constant opinion of good men concerning any thing .
Fame is the thirst of youth . (Byron) .
Familiarity breeds contempt.
Familiarity with those who are young but wicked will ultimately bring trouble. (China) .
Far from eye, far from heart.
Farms ought not to be unalienable .
Fasting comes after feasting.
Fasting is most easily endured by old people, next by adults, next by the young people and least of all by children, particularly the most lively .
Fat persons are more exposed to sudden death than the slender .
Faults are thick where love is thin.
Favour is shewn to an heir .
Fear creates gods; boldness makes kings .
Fears are to be estimated as vain, which do not fall upon a firm man .
Feast today and fast tomorrow.
Feed a dysentery; starve a typhoid .
Feminae medicorum tubae is an old and true saying .
Fevered haste is bad and risky .
Fever itself is Nature`s instrument .
Few men live to be over seventy, and how much has happened and will happen of which septuagenarians know nothing. (China) .
Fiction yields to truth .
fiddle while Rome is burning.
fight with one-s own shadow.
Filthy water cannot be washed .
Finally, we come to a group of physicians who, like Huxley, have acquired the tolerant, ironic comprehension ofthemanoftheworld,whofrequentlyexpress theirviews of things with the point and pungency, the sting and tang of epigram .
find a mare-s nest.
Fine feathers make fine birds.
Fine words butter no parsnips.
First catch your hare.
First come, first served.
First deserve and then desire.
First think, then speak.
Fish and company stink in three days.
Fish begins to stink at the head.
fish in troubled waters.
fit like a glove.
Five? . (Lincoln) .
flog a dead horse.
Follow the river and you will get to the sea.
Folly is the direct pursuit of Happiness and Beauty. (Shaw) .
Folly loves the martyrdom of fame . (Byron) .
Fools and madmen speak the truth.
Fools are my theme, let satire be my song . (Byron) .
Fools grow without watering.
Fool-s haste is no speed.
Fools may sometimes speak to the purpose.
Fools never know when they are well.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
For any one can renounce by the law introduced for himself .
Forbearance is no acquittance.
Forbidden fruit is sweet.
forced kindness deserves no thanks.
For colic, get the bowels open .
For convenience of readers, the following arrangement of outstanding sentences from the total Hippocratic Canon has been allocated, in each case, to the bilingual of Littr6, the references to the French translation being across the page: The physician who is also a philosopher is godlike.
Forewarned is forearmed.
For extreme diseases, extreme remedies .
Forget any kindness you have done but remember any favour you have received. (China) .
Forgiveness is not folly, for subsequently it will prove advantageous. (China) .
For grave diseases, the most exact treatment is the most effective . / One must know to what diseases the natural disposition of the body inclines .
For he acts not from personal views or any thing unreasonable, but heals the patient and expects to be paid for it .
/ For him who has to cope with the hostile forces of reality, indifference and romance disappear; what he really knows and can do is put to severe tests; he must see everything in the hard, clear light of factual experience and can no longer lull himself in agreeable illusions .
For hysterical maidens, I prescribe marriage, for they are cured by pregnancy .
For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour . (Byron) .
For one character surpass him who can read, write and calculate. (China) .
For the love of the game.
Fortune favours the brave the bold.
Fortune is easily found, but hard to be kept.
For what can war, but endless war, still breed? Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. (Milton) .
foul morn may turn to a fair day.
Four eyes see more better than two.
Four . (Lincoln) .
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal . (Lincoln) .
fox is not taken twice in the same snare.
Fraud and craft ought to be a protection to none .
Fraud binds does not dissolve perjury .
Fraud is most odious to the laws .
Fraud is odious, and not to be presumed .
Fraud is prejudicial to equity .
Freedom is all I want, but to hope for it I feel ashamed . (Gitanjali) .
friend in need is a friend indeed.
friend is never known till needed.
Friends are thieves of time.
friend-s frown is better than a foe-s smile.
friend to all is a friend to none.
From a humble home may be produced noble sons and from a poor cottage may spring the highest dignitaries. (China) .
From bad to worse.
From customary treatment no injury happens ; or habit is not an injury .
From dawn till dusk I sit here before my door, and I know that of a sudden the happy moment will arrive when I shall see . (Gitanjali) .
From Hippocrates to Hunter, the treatment of disease was one long traffic in hypotheses .
From now I leave off all petty decorations . (Gitanjali) .
From now there shall be no fear left for me in this world, and thou shalt be victorious in all my strife . (Gitanjali) .
` From of old death has been the lot of all men : but without the confidence of the people in their rulers, there can be no government. (China) .
From pillar to post.
From the basic error that specific remedies were created for particular diseases came the notion that the whole course of a disease, or even its separate stages, could be annihilated by a single remedy .
From the blue sky an eye shall gaze upon me and summon me in silence . (Gitanjali) .
From the impossibility of a thing to its nonentity, the argument or proof follows of necessity, negatively, though not affirmatively .
From the length of time, all things are presumed to be done by usagePunishment is increased from the frequency of a transgression .
From there it comes to kiss baby`s eyes . (Gitanjali) .
From the traveller, whose sack of provisions is empty before the voyage is ended, whose garment is torn and dustladen, whose strength is exhausted, remove shame and poverty, and renew his life like a flower under the cover of thy kindly night . (Gitanjali) .
From the words of the poet men take what meanings please them; yet their last meaning points to thee . (Gitanjali) .
Full many an hour have I spent in the strife of the good and the evil, but now it is the pleasure of my playmate of the empty days to draw my heart on to him; and I know not why is this sudden call to what useless inconsequence! On the day when death will knock at thy door what wilt thou offer to him? Oh, I will set before my guest the full vessel of my life--I will never let him go with empty hands . (Gitanjali) .
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Gambling promises the poor what Property performs for the rich: that is why the bishops dare not denounce it fundamentally. (Shaw) .
Garrulity and errors of speech are the result of drink. (China) .
General favour does not exempt treason and homicide from punishment .
General things are not derogatory to special .
General things are to be preferred to single things .
General things precede special, in a briefer writing .
General things precede, special things follow .
General words are restricted to the ability of the thing or person .
Gentility without ability is worse than plain beggary.
Get a name to rise early, and you may lie all day.
get out of bed on the wrong side.
Gifts from enemies are dangerous.
Give a fool rope enough, and he will hang himself.
give a lark to catch a kite.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
Give him a chance . (Lincoln) .
Give him an inch and hewill take an ell.
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe . (Lincoln) .
Give me the strength lightly to bear my joys and sorrows . (Gitanjali) .
Give me the strength never to disown the poor or bend my knees before insolent might . (Gitanjali) .
Give me the strength to make my love fruitful in service . (Gitanjali) .
Give me the strength to raise my mind high above daily trifles . (Gitanjali) .
Give never the wolf the wether to keep.
Give no ear to the gossip of fools. (China) .
Gluttony kills more men than the sword.
God is not as severe as He is said to be .
God must love the common man, he made so many of them . (Lincoln) .
go for wool and come home shorn.
Gold in the world is abundant but greyhaired old friends are few. (China) .
Good and evil will be rewarded and punished at last : it is only a question of sooner or later. (China) .
good anvil does not fear the hammer.
good beginning is half the battle.
good beginning makes a good ending.
Good clothes open all doors.
Good counsel does no harm.
good deed is never lost.
good dog deserves a good bone.
good example is the best sermon.
good face is a letter of recommendation.
good fortune becomes lawless nature (aloges physis), but to the gentleman, really good things are good, really honorable things honorable .
Good health is above wealth.
Good is the result of a person defending from an entire cause : evil results from one defending from any defect .
good Jack makes a good Jill.
Good laws take their origin from bad practices .
good marksman may miss.
Good masters make good servants.
good name is better than riches.
good name is sooner lost than won.
Goods are worth as much, as they can be sold for .
Good wine will dissipate hunger .
Good words and no deeds.
Good words without deeds are rushes and reeds.
Gossiping and lying go hand in hand.
go through fire and water through thick and thin.
Go to bed with the lamb and rise with the lark.
Gout in young men comes only from sexual dissipation .
Gout is not incurable .
Gout, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple .
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth . (Lincoln) .
Government presents only one problem: the discovery of a trustworthy anthropometric method. (Shaw) .
Grasp all, lose all.
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. (Milton) .
Great barkers are no biters.
Great boast, small roast.
Great cry and little wool.
Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals and philosophers lhave all died of gout .
Great men refuse titles because they are jealous of them. (Shaw) .
Greatness is only one of the sensations of littleness. (Shaw) .
Greatness is the secular name for Divinity: both mean simply what lies beyond us. (Shaw) .
Great spenders are bad lenders.
Great talkers are great liars.
Great talkers are little doers.
Great wealth is attended by strong words : great power, by oppression. (China) .
Great wealth is not valuable ; but peace and happiness are worth much money. (China) .
Greedy folk have long arms.
Habit cures habit.
Half a loaf is better than no bread.
Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark .
Handsome is that handsome does.
Han Shi .
Happiness and Beauty are by-products. (Shaw) .
Happiness takes no account of time.
Happy is he that is happy in his children.
Hardening of the liver in jaundice is bad .
Hard words break no bones.
Hares may pull dead lions by the beard.
Harm watch, harm catch.
Has not science the noble privilege of carrying on its controversies without personal quarrels? Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones .
Has not the word come to you that the flower is reigning in splendour among thorns? Wake, oh awaken! let not the time pass in vain! At the end of the stony path, in the country of virgin solitude, my friend is sitting all alone . (Gitanjali) .
Haste makes waste.
Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
Hate not at the first harm.
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
have a finger in the pie.
have rats in the attic.
Have you not heard his silent steps? He comes, comes, ever comes . (Gitanjali) .
Hawks will not pick hawks` eyes.
He acts against the law, who does that which the law prohibits ; but he acts fraudulently, who, observing the words of the law, eludes its meaning .
He acts prudently who obeys the precept of the laws .
Head cook and bottle-washer.
Health is not valued till sickness comes.
He asks with guile, who asks what he ought to return .
Heaven never tolerates wickedness and cunning. (China) .
Heaven will not permit one man to kill another; but Heaven has no difficulty in killing whomever it pleases. (China) .
He begins to die that quits his desires.
He came and sat by my side but I woke not . (Gitanjali) .
He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue.
He carries fire in one hand and water in the other.
He causes an injury, who does not oppose it, when he can .
He commits barratry who barters justice for money .
He confesses the crime who avoids the trial .
He confirms the use who takes away the abuse .
He dances well to whom fortune pipes.
He deservedly loses the benefit of the law, who intends to subvert the law itself .
He does not give, who gives contrary to law .
He does not seem to have obtained right, who by exception is removed from making his request .
He encourages a fault, who passes over a transgression .
He gives nothing who has nothing .
He gives to God, who gives to the poor .
He gives twice who gives in a trice.
He goes long barefoot that waits for dead man-s shoes.
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help . (Lincoln) .
He has crossed the unknown sea and brought thy call to my home . (Gitanjali) .
He implores the assistance of the law in vain, who endeavours to subvert the laws themselves .
Heirs are not liable to actions which are`penal from injury .
He is a child who on account of defect of age, cannot speak for himself .
He is a fool that forgets himself.
He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs.
He is chargeable with no crime who does not hinder when he has no power to hinder .
He is considered as a possessor, who no longer possesses by fraud .
He is considered as a possessor, who no longer possesses t by fraud or injury .
He is free from fault who knows, but cannot hinder .
He is happy that thinks himself so.
He is lifeless that is faultless.
He is my own little self, my lord, he knows no shame; but I am ashamed to come to thy door in his company . (Gitanjali) .
He is not a king, when his will cannot dominate .
He is not compelled to make an election, who is not in a capacity to do it, immediately on the death of the testator .
He is not deceived, who knows that he is himself deceired .
He is not fit to command others that cannot command himself.
He is not laughed at that laughs at himself first.
He is not poor that has little, but he that desires much.
He is not taken who follows public right .
He is scant of news that speaks ill of his mother .
He is the father whom the marriage demonstrates to be so .
He is the lawful Jieir whom the marriage demonstrates to be so .
He is to be considered a wicked and cruel person who does not favour liberty .
He is with them in sun and in shower, and his garment is covered with dust . (Gitanjali) .
He it is, the innermost one, who awakens my being with his deep hidden touches . (Gitanjali) .
He it is who puts his enchantment upon these eyes and joyfully plays on the chords of my heart in varied cadence of pleasure and pain . (Gitanjali) .
He it is who weaves the web of this _maya_ in evanescent hues of gold and silver, blue and green, and lets peep out through the folds his feet, at whose touch I forget myself . (Gitanjali) .
He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
He knows best what good is that has endured evil.
He knows how many beans make five.
He knows much who knows how to hold his tongue.
He laughs best who laughs last.
He lives long that lives well.
Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. (Shaw) .
He makes the dust rise from the earth with his swagger; he adds his loud voice to every word that I utter . (Gitanjali) .
He must have known how to acquire conviction where no predecessor has been before him, he must have worked on the confines of human knowledge and have conquered for it new territory .
He must needs swim that is held up by the chin.
Henceforth I deal in whispers . (Gitanjali) .
Hence University education. (Shaw) .
He offends, who occasions suipicion of an offence .
He orders who can, and ought to forbid, and does not do it .
He orders who does not forbid, when he ought and can do it .
Here I give back the keys of my door--and I give up all claims to my house . (Gitanjali) .
Here, in spite of rather hazy semeiology and prognosis, we have, at length, something approaching the tendency of the Hippocratic aphorisms; but to compare the two is to realize that Greek medicine is the true starting point of modern medical science .
Here is thy footstool and there rest thy feet where live the poorest, and lowliest, and lost . (Gitanjali) .
Here we have already advanced several stages in sophistication; we are no longer concerned with the bare essentials of existence but are dealing with a highly organized and very old civilization .
He seems to assent, who does not prohibit, what he can prohibit .
He seems to consent, who does not prohibit, what he can hinder .
He seems to consent, who is silent concerning his own advantage .
He seems to do, who does not oppose what he can oppose .
He seems to have the property itself, who hath an action to recover it .
He should have a long spoon that sups with the devil.
He should have the risk, who has the advantage .
He smells best that smells of nothing.
He that comes first to the hill may sit where he will.
He that commits a fault thinks everyone speaks of it.
He that does you an i!i turn will never forgive you.
He that fears every bush must never go a-birding.
He that fears you present wiil hate you absent.
He that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing.
He that goes barefoot must not plant thorns.
He that has a full purse never wanted a friend.
He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.
He that has an ill name is half hanged.
He that has He head needs no hat.
He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon. (Milton) .
He that has no children knows not what love is.
He that has no money needs no purse.
He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.
He that is full of himself is very empty.
He that is ill to himself will be good to nobody.
He that is warm thinks all so.
He that knows nothing doubts nothing.
He that lies down with dogs must rise up with fleas.
He that lives with cripples learns to limp.
He that mischief hatches, mischief catches.
He that never climbed never fell.
He that once deceives is ever suspected.
He that promises too much means nothing.
He that respects not is not respected.
He that seeks trouble never misses.
He that serves everybody is paid by nobody.
He that serves God for money will serve the devil for better wages.
He that spares the bad injures the good.
He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. (Milton) .
He that talks much errs much.
He that talks much lies much.
He that will eat the kernel must crack the nut.
He that will not when he may, when he will he shall have nay.
He that will steal an egg will steal an ox.
He that will thrive, must rise at five.
He that would eat the fruit must climb the tree.
He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens.
He threatens the innocent, who spares the guilty .
He to whom the jurisdiction belongs, will be the principal accessory of the same jurisdiction .
He upon whom fortune does not smile is sure to complain that the world is hard. (China) .
He who abjures the kingdom, loses the kingdom ; but not the king his native country, but not the father of his country .
He who admits posterior things in order, affirms preceding things .
He who assists good men in poverty, gives to the laws ; he who assist! the wicked and inactive, fosters a multitude of bad people, and is the disgrace of the laws .
He who believes in education, criminal law, and sport, needs only property to make him a perfect modern gentleman. (Shaw) .
He who blocks up an access, destroys convenience .
He who can discriminate between the possible and the impossible is the wisest physician .
He who can, does. (Shaw) .
He who cannot classify diseases as to genera and species will be deceived as to therapeutic indications .
He who cannot, teaches. (Shaw) .
He who complains most is not the most hurt .
He who conforms to the will of Heaven will survive, but he who opposes it will perish. (China) .
He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either. (Shaw) .
He who contracts with another, either is not, or ought not to be ignorant of his condition; but this cannot be imputed to his heir, sine* he contracts not of his own accord with the legatees .
He who courts danger, shall perish in it .
He who departs from his cause, falleth from his cause .
He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it. (Shaw) .
He who destroys the middle, destroys the end .
He who determines any thing while one party is unheard, though he may determine what is just, will not savour of the just man .
He who distinguishes well, teaches well .
He who does any thing with the intention of transgressing, seems to have transgressed from the beginning .
He who does good is rewarded with good : he who does evil is rewarded with evil. (China) .
He who does not deny, confesses .
He who does not disapprove, approves .
He who does not freely declare the truth, is a betrayer of the truth .
He who does not prohibit one to interfere for himself, is always believed to order him ; but if any one shall confirm what hath been done, he is bound by the action of his mandate .
He who does not speak the truth freely, is the betrayer of truth .
He who does not wish to be understood, ought to be neglected .
He who encroaches on another`s land or swindles people out of money will not for many years enjoy glory, honour and riches. (China) .
He who enjoys his own right, does injury to none .
He who feels the advantage, ought also to feel the burden .
He who gives money he has not earned is generous with other people`s labor. (Shaw) .
He who gives to the sluggish, defrauds the industrious .
He who has a right to the soil, has a right even to the sky .
He who has not the power of alienating, has the necessity of retaining Qui non improbat, approbat .
He who has once renounced his action, cannot resume it any more .
He who has the right of acquitting, has the right of binding .
He who has the right of conferring a donation, has also the right of selling and granting .
He who has the right to give, has the right to dispose .
He who hath a right derived from another, will not obtain it by any other law than he from whom it is derived .
He who hath not cannot give .
He who hesitates is lost.
He who humhles himself to others must have some favour to seek. (China) .
He who ignorantly hath hurt, knowingly amends .
He who interrogates well, teaches well .
He who is born a fool is never cured.
He who is first in time, is preferable in law .
He who is in the womb, is reckoned as already born, as often as the question is concerning his advantage .
He who is silent, seems to agree .
He who is too dilatory, loses his cause .
He who likes borrowing dislikes paying.
He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing.
He who makes the first bad move always loses the game .
He whom I enclose with my name is weeping in this dungeon . (Gitanjali) .
He who molds the public sentiment . (Lincoln) .
He who pays rather slowly, pays rather less .
He who pleased everybody died before he was born.
He who provokes to trial without wicked fraud, does not seem to cause delay .
He who receives any thing by a part of a will, shall stand by the whole will .
He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. (Milton) .
He who says all, excludes nothing .
He who says more than he sees and hears, sins against nature, since he has two eyes, two ears and only one mouth .
He who says what he likes, shall hear what he doesnot like.
He who shall cease to possess by craft, instead of a possessors crafty for the possessor .
He who shall have determined any thing, the one party being unheard, though he may speak justice, hath not done what is just .
He who slays a king and he who dies for him are alike idolaters. (Shaw) .
He who spares the guilty, threatens the innocent .
He who sticks to the letter, sticks merely to the bark .
He who takes away the middle, will demolish the end .
He who talks evil of others is himself an evildoer. (China) .
He who transacts through the agency of another, seems to act by himself .
He who willingly, and often, and concerning a small matter, binds himself by an oath, is nearest to perjury .
He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet.
He who would eat the nut must first crack the shell.
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
He will go back with his errand done, leaving a dark shadow on my morning; and in my desolate home only my forlorn self will remain as my last offering to thee . (Gitanjali) .
He will never set the Thames on fire.
He will not succeed where they failed. (Shaw) .
He works best who knows his trade.
Hiccough disappears upon sneezing .
Hidden in the heart of things thou art nourishing seeds into sprouts, buds into blossoms, and ripening flowers into fruitfulness . (Gitanjali) .
Hills look green that are far away .
His money burns a hole in his pocket.
hit the nail on the head.
Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible . (Lincoln) .
Home is the girl`s prison and the woman`s workhouse. (Shaw) .
Honesty does not permit the same thing to be exacted twice .
Honesty does not suffer the same thing to be exacted twice; and in satisfaction it is not granted that more be done than hath been once done .
Honesty is the best policy.
Honey and wine were made exquisitely for men, if taken at the proper time and in just measure .
Honey is not for the ass-s mouth.
Honey is sweet, but the bee stings.
Honour and profit lie not in one sack.
Honours change manners.
Honour your father and mother at home ; of what avail is it to burn incense afar . (China) .
Hope is a good breakfast, but a bad supper.
Hope is the poor man-s bread.
How could I utter for shame that I keep for my dowry this poverty . (Gitanjali) .
However good lamb may be, it cannot be made to suit every palate. (China) .
How I had feared that the path was long and wearisome, and the struggle to reach thee was hard! You came down from your throne and stood at my cottage door . (Gitanjali) .
How is it that, one fine morning, Duchenne discovered a disease which probably existed in the time of Hippocrates? Why do we have to go over the same set of symptoms twenty times before we understand them? Why does the first statement of a new fact always leave us cold? Because our minds have to take in something which deranges our original set of ideas, but we are all like that in this miserable world .
How many events have passed and gone and aie now but an empty dream. (China) .
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? . (Lincoln) .
hrubs and plants flourish year after year though unknown to fame : so do not believe that a man of character will remain poor all his life. (China) .
Human happiness turns upon practical prudence and virtue .
Humanism is neither atheistic nor pantheistic, since it has but one formula for things unknowable, namely: I do not know .
Human prosperity will not endure for ever just as flowers will not bloom for aye. (China) .
Hunger breaks stone walls.
Hunger finds no fault with cookery.
Hunger is the best sauce.
Hungry bellies have no ears.
Hunting curiously for words is unworthy of a judge .
Husband and wife are judged in law to be one person .
HUXLEY The man of science has learned to believe in justification; not by faith, but by verification .
Hypocrisy is not the parent`s first duty. (Shaw) .
I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science can be acquired from medicine alone .
I am a firm believer in the people . (Lincoln) .
I am almost prepared to recommend this method to the clinical observer .
I am ashamed to wear it, frail as I am, and it hurts me when I press it to my bosom . (Gitanjali) .
I am certain that priceless wealth is in thee, and that thou art my best friend, but I have not the heart to sweep away the tinsel that fills my room The shroud that covers me is a shroud of dust and death; I hate it, yet hug it in love . (Gitanjali) .
I am ever busy building this wall all around; and as this wall goes up into the sky day by day I lose sight of my true being in its dark shadow . (Gitanjali) .
I am here to sing thee songs . (Gitanjali) .
I am like a remnant of a cloud of autumn uselessly roaming in the sky, O my sun ever-glorious! Thy touch has not yet melted my vapour, making me one with thy light, and thus I count months and years separated from thee . (Gitanjali) .
I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have . (Lincoln) .
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true . (Lincoln) .
I am only waiting for love to give myself up at last into his hands . (Gitanjali) .
I am uneasy at heart when I have to leave my accustomed shelter; I forget that there abides the old in the new, and that there also thou abidest . (Gitanjali) .
I asked nothing from thee; I uttered not my name to thine ear . (Gitanjali) .
I ask for a moment`s indulgence to sit by thy side . (Gitanjali) .
I bitterly wept and wished that I had had the heart to give thee my all . (Gitanjali) .
I came out alone on my way to my tryst . (Gitanjali) .
I came out on the chariot of the first gleam of light, and pursued my voyage through the wildernesses of worlds leaving my track on many a star and planet . (Gitanjali) .
I can find no place to hide it . (Gitanjali) .
I can make more generals, but horses cost money . (Lincoln) .
I can remember when older physicians refused to recognize socially a man who devoted himself to the eye alone .
I care not much for a man`s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it . (Lincoln) .
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end . (Lincoln) .
I dive down into the depth of the ocean of forms, hoping to gain the perfect pearl of the formless . (Gitanjali) .
Idle folks lack no excuses.
Idleness is the mother of all evil.
Idleness rusts the mind.
I do not fancy a middle-sex .
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday . (Lincoln) .
I don`t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be . (Lincoln) .
I don`t like that man . (Lincoln) .
I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end . (Lincoln) .
I dressed him: God healed him .
If a child is constantly sick, it is due to overfeeding .
If a convalescent eats heartily, yet does not take on flesh, it is a bad sign .
If a great man could make us understand him, we should hang him. (Shaw) .
If a horse could wait as long for its shoes and would pay for them in advance, our blacksmiths would all be college dons. (Shaw) .
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? Most of the faults and mistakes of the ancient philosophers are traceable to the fact that they knew no language but their own, and were often led into confusing the symbol with the thought which it embodied .
If a man is poor and humble, even his own wife and children will despise him .
If an ass donkey bray at you, donot bray at him.
If an authors books die with him, it shows them to be parasites, which survived only through him, with no independent life of their own .
If any thing be owing to an entire body, it is not due to individuals, nor do individuals owe what is owed by an entire body .
If a suggestion be not true, letters patent are void .
If a woman, enobled by matrimony, marries an ignoble person, she ceases to be noble .
If both your luck and your heart are bad, poverty and misery will attend you till old age. (China) .
If both your luck and your heart are good, riches and honours will be yours till old age. (China) .
If dissimilar, the relation is likewise dissimilar .
I fear lest in the morning he suddenly come to my door when I have fallen asleep wearied out . (Gitanjali) .
I fear lest the day end before I am aware, and the time of offering go by . (Gitanjali) .
I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life . (Gitanjali) .
I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight . (Gitanjali) .
I felt that the luck of my life had come at last . (Gitanjali) .
If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis . (Lincoln) .
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience! Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound. (Shaw) .
If I call not thee in my prayers, if I keep not thee in my heart, thy love for me still waits for my love . (Gitanjali) .
If ifs and ans were pots and pans.
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I`d spend six hours sharpening my ax . (Lincoln) .
If I had to define life in a word, it would be: Life is creation .
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business . (Lincoln) .
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? . (Lincoln) .
If made at the right time, it will penetrate even the least prepared minds .
If more witnesses cannot be found, two are sufficient .
If my aunt had been a man, she would have been my uncle.
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem . (Lincoln) .
I forgot for what I had travelled, and I surrendered my mind without struggle to the maze of shadows and songs . (Gitanjali) .
If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians .
If sons are filial, it is not necessary for the father to come to the front. (China) .
If superstition were curable, the remedy for it would long since have been found; were it mortal, it would long since have been buried .
If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
If the clinician, as observer, wishes to see things as they really are, he must make a tabula rasa of his mind and proceed without any preconceived notions whatever .
If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. (Shaw) .
If there is any food over in the kitchen, there are hungry men on the road who will be glad to eat it. (China) .
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it . (Lincoln) .
If there were consciousness in Nature, she (Nature) would feel indifferent about what she is viz mere evolution .
If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun.
If the sky falls, we shall catch larks.
If the sounds of his steps does not wake me, do not try to rouse me, I pray . (Gitanjali) .
If the transcriber hath erred in transcribing the words of a contract, it is proper that it should have no bad effect, so that both the accused person, and his security, may not be bound .
If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the God of rascals. (Shaw) .
If things were to be done twice all would be wise.
If this be thy wish and if this be thy play, then take this fleeting emptiness of mine, paint it with colours, gild it with gold, float it on the wanton wind and spread it in varied wonders . (Gitanjali) .
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee . (Lincoln) .
If thou showest me not thy face, if thou leavest me wholly aside, I know not how I am to pass these long, rainy hours . (Gitanjali) .
If thou speakest not I will fill my heart with thy silence and endure it . (Gitanjali) .
If two points repugnant are found in a testament, the last is established .
If wealth and honour are obtained by craftiness and cun ning, then the simple in this world will have to live on air. (China) .
If we canot as we would, we must do as we can.
If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it . (Lincoln) .
If we could learn from mere experience, the stones of London would be wiser than its wisest men. (Shaw) .
If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves . (Lincoln) .
If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.
If you agree to carry the calf, theywill make you carry the cow.
If you are benevolent, you cannot be rich ; if you are rich, you cannot be benevolent. (China) .
If you are on good terms with yourself it is an impertinence: if on bad, an injury. (Shaw) .
If you are poor, no one will inquire about you though you may be living in a thronged market : if you are rich, your distant relations will come to you though you may be living on a remote mountain. (China) .
If you beat children for pleasure, avow your object frankly, and play the game according to the rules, as a foxhunter does; and you will do comparatively little harm. (Shaw) .
If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself. (Shaw) .
If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? . (Lincoln) .
If you can get but a footing, why not play the man. (China) .
If you can make an honest livelihood, why suppress your better nature and be a wicked man . (China) .
If you cannot bite, never show your teeth.
If you cannot have the best, make the best of what you have.
If you dance you must pay the fiddler.
If you do good to others, evil will not come to you. (China) .
If you do not good to others, all your prayers to Buddha will be in vain. (China) .
If you get from a man an ox, return to him a horse. (China) .
If you go buzzing about between right and wrong, vibrating and fluctuating, you come out nowhere .
If you have always been perfectly straightforward and free from crookedness, why should you ask whether God will forgive you or not . (China) .
If you have money spend it: when you are dead it will be useless. (China) .
If you have money your words will be readily understood ; hut if you have none, they will not receive even a hearing. (China) .
If you injure your neighbor, better not do it by halves. (Shaw) .
If you laugh before breakfast youwill cry before supper.
If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will . (Lincoln) .
If you meet a bosom friend, a thousand cups of wine seem too few. (China) .
If you pass the same tree twice, you may be sure you are lost .
If your luck is good but your heart is bad, your life will be cut short prematurely in the middle of your career. (China) .
If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
If your wife is worthy, you need have no anxiety about your family not being rich. (China) .
If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too.
If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. (Shaw) .
If you throw mud enough, some of it will stick.
If you try to please all you will please none.
If you utter words that are `wide of the mark, half a entence is more than enough. (China) .
If you want a thing well done, do it yourself.
I gave myself up for lost in the depth of a glad humiliation--in the shadow of a dim delight . (Gitanjali) .
Ignorance does not excuse the law .
Ignorance of ones own right is not prejudicial to that right .
Ignorance of the law does not excuse .
Ignorance of the law excuses no body, for all are presumed to know those things on which all agree .
I had gone a-begging from door to door in the village path, when thy golden chariot appeared in the distance like a gorgeous dream and I wondered who was this King of all kings! My hopes rose high and methought my evil days were at an end, and I stood waiting for alms to be given unasked and for wealth scattered on all sides in the dust . (Gitanjali) .
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice . (Lincoln) .
`I have brought my light,` she said, `to join the carnival of lamps . (Gitanjali) .
`I have come,` she said at last, `to dedicate my lamp to the sky . (Gitanjali) .
I have come to the brink of eternity from which nothing can vanish--no hope, no happiness, no vision of a face seen through tears . (Gitanjali) .
`I have come to the river,` she said, `to float my lamp on the stream when the daylight wanes in the west . (Gitanjali) .
I have got my leave . (Gitanjali) .
I have had my invitation to this world`s festival, and thus my life has been blessed . (Gitanjali) .
I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me . (Lincoln) .
I have never seen people over fifty recover from renal disease .
I have no sleep tonight . (Gitanjali) .
I have not seen his face, nor have I listened to his voice; only I have heard his gentle footsteps from the road before my house . (Gitanjali) .
I have roamed from country to country keeping her in the core of my heart, and around her have risen and fallen the growth and decay of my life . (Gitanjali) .
I have seen many families that were poor become rich and many families that were rich become poor. (China) .
I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument . (Gitanjali) .
I have tasted of the hidden honey of this lotus that expands on the ocean of light, and thus am I blessed--let this be my parting word . (Gitanjali) .
I heard not thy steps as thou camest . (Gitanjali) .
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country`s cause . (Lincoln) .
I justify a place in pathology for the leucocytes .
I keep gazing on the far-away gloom of the sky, and my heart wanders wailing with the restless wind . (Gitanjali) .
I knew nor shyness nor fear, my life was boisterous . (Gitanjali) .
I knew not then that it was so near, that it was mine, and that this perfect sweetness had blossomed in the depth of my own heart . (Gitanjali) .
I know not from what distant time thou art ever coming nearer to meet me . (Gitanjali) .
I know not how thou singest, my master! I ever listen in silent amazement . (Gitanjali) .
` I know not how to answer them . (Gitanjali) .
I know not if I shall come back home . (Gitanjali) .
I know not only why today my life is all astir, and a feeling of tremulous joy is passing through my heart . (Gitanjali) .
I know not what this is that stirs in me--I know not its meaning . (Gitanjali) .
I know not whom I shall chance to meet . (Gitanjali) .
I know that only as a singer I come before thy presence . (Gitanjali) .
I know that the day will come when my sight of this earth shall be lost, and life will take its leave in silence, drawing the last curtain over my eyes . (Gitanjali) .
I know thee as my father and bow before thy feet--I do not grasp thy hand as my friend`s . (Gitanjali) .
I know thee as my God and stand apart--I do not know thee as my own and come closer . (Gitanjali) .
I know thou takest pleasure in my singing . (Gitanjali) .
I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him . (Lincoln) .
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives . (Lincoln) .
I live in the hope of meeting with him; but this meeting is not yet . (Gitanjali) .
Ill-gotten gains never prosper.
Ill-gotten, ill-spent.
I`m a slow walker, but I never walk back . (Lincoln) .
I may not find a place in thy garland, but honour it with a touch of pain from thy hand and pluck it . (Gitanjali) .
IMPERIALISM Excess of insularity makes a Briton an Imperialist. (Shaw) .
Impersonality is neither conclusive nor binding .
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible . (Lincoln) .
Impossibilities when they are spoken openly, do not constitute calumny .
Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death. (Shaw) .
I must get to know him better . (Lincoln) .
I must launch out my boat . (Gitanjali) .
I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong . (Lincoln) .
I mysilf am nearest to myself .
Inability excuses law .
In a case of extreme necessity, all things are common .
In actual life, pious churchgoers may show up as deceitful tricksters and theorizing physicians as blind empirics .
In a dangerous illness, call in three doctors .
In all cases aid is given to minors, In all obligations in which a day is not fixed, it is due on the present day .
, In all causes, that is taken for a fact, in which by means of another there may be a hinderance to prevent its being done .
In all things indeed, chiefly however in law, equity is to be regarded .
In alternatives, the power of election belongs to the debtor .
In ambiguous cases, the presumption is always in favour of the king .
In an equal cause a possessor ought to be reckoned preferable .
In an equal delict the state of the defender is better .
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness. (Shaw) .
In a similar case there ought to be a similar remedy .
In a slave state, the slaves rule: in Mayfair, the tradesman rules. (Shaw) .
In a state, the laws of war are by all means to be observed .
In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god: everybody worships him and nobody does his will. (Shaw) .
In athletes, extreme stoutness is dangerous .
In a trial, none are believed but those`who are sworn .
In capital cases, general malice, with a fact of an equal degree of guilt, is sufficient .
In capital cases, the punishment of an evident intention is less, than an attempt by a direct act ; and the punishment of the attempt is less, than that of the deed perpetrated, that there may be room for repentance : but in treason, it is determined otherwise, for terror .
In capital cases, the what, in what manner, and when, where, and by whom done, with the particular circumstances, ought to be explained .
Incidents may not be separated .
In civil cases, one is bound to perform the nearest and direct things; but in criminal cases, even consequent things .
In civil cases, the situation of a servant excuses, but not so in criminal cases .
In civil cases, the will shall be considered for the deed .
In contracting a sale, a doubtful bargain is to be interpreted against the seller .
In contracting business, the cause of madmen is to be considered one thing, and the cause of those who can speak another, in so far as they understand the transaction of a matter ; for a madman can contract no business ; a pupil can do all things with the authority of his guardian .
In contracts, an interpretation must be made favourable ; in testaments more favourable; in restitutions most favourable of all .
In co-partnerships, it is necessary that each party be true .
In criminal cases, the will must not be considered as the deed .
, In criminalibus probationes debent esse luce clariores .
In dealing with a nervous patient, you should regard the malady before you merely as an episode .
Indeed, what had I done for thee to keep me in remembrance? But the memory that I could give water to thee to allay thy thirst will cling to my heart and enfold it in sweetness . (Gitanjali) .
In desperate hope I go and search for her in all the corners of my room; I find her not . (Gitanjali) .
In dissolution of partnerships, it is sufficient that one party be true .
Individuals, as well as nations, who wish to rise to the height of manhood must learn to look reality in the face, if it is to be bent to the purpose of the mind .
In doubtful cases, it is better to answer for endowments .
In doubtful cases, the more worthy is to be taken .
, In doubtful cases there is always a presumption in behalf of the king .
, In doubtful cases, there is no presumption for a will .
, In dubiis non prassumitur pro testamento .
In eo quod plus sit, semper inest et minus .
In equality of right, the condition of the person in possession, is the better .
I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day . (Lincoln) .
In every beginning think of the end.
In evident things he errs who alleges the authorities of the laws, because self-evident truths are not to be proved .
, In favorem vitae, libertatis et innocentiae, omnia praesumuntur .
In favourable cases, we rather attend to what does good, than to what does hurt .
, In favour of life, liberty, and innocence, all things are presumed .
In fear that it may be frayed, or stained with dust he keeps himself from the world, and is afraid even to move . (Gitanjali) .
In for a penny, in for a pound.
In forming friendship care should be exercised at the first meeting. (China) .
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God . (Lincoln) .
In heaven an angel is nobody in particular. (Shaw) .
Inheritance is not granted from half-blood .
Inheritance is nothing else than the succession to the whole right which the deceasedmay have had .
Inheritance is the succession to the universal right which the deceased had .
Inheritance, one kind is substantial, and another unsubstantial the substantial is what can be touched and seen the unsubstantial, what cannot be touched nor seen .
Inheritances ought to descend in a direct line; but do not ascend .
In his conduct towards others he behaves with earnestness and with judgment and good sense. (China) .
In his efforts to escape from ugliness and unhappiness the rich man intensifies both. (Shaw) .
In his later utterances, he is more the sceptical man of the world, experienced in practical politics and of extraordinary versatility .
, In jure non remota causa, sed proxima spectator .
Injury is not anticipated .
Injury is not done to a willing person .
Injury is taken away by dissimulation .
In law, all things are always judged to stand in their present state .
In many a morning and eve thy footsteps have been heard and thy messenger has come within my heart and called me in secret . (Gitanjali) .
In medicine, even the most stoical intelligences have not been able to confine themselves to simple statement of fact; there is always the tendency to bring facts into relation with some theory or other .
In me is thy own defeat of self . (Gitanjali) .
In moments of progress the noble succeed, because things are going their way: in moments of decadence the base succeed for the same reason: hence the world is never without the exhilaration of contemporary success. (Shaw) .
In morality there are three things regarding which men hould be specially exhorted. (China) .
In my childhood I demurred to the description of a certain young lady as the pretty Miss So and So. (Shaw) .
In my heart is the endless play of thy delight . (Gitanjali) .
In my life thy will is ever taking shape . (Gitanjali) .
In nature, those who cry out with pain and those who prescribe remedies therefor are different persons: in politics, they are one and the same .
Innocence alone is free .
Innovation is not presumed .
, In novo casu novum remedium apponendum est In an extraordinary case, an extraordinary remedy must be applied .
In obscure cases we always follow that which is least .
, In obscure cases, what is probable is wont to be looked to j or what for the most part is used to be done .
, In obscuris, inspici solere quod verisimile esset, aut quod plerumque fieri solet .
, In omnibus causis pro facto accipitur id, in quo per alium morae sit, quo minus fiat .
In one salutation to thee, my God, let all my senses spread out and touch this world at thy feet . (Gitanjali) .
In pathology, as in physiology, the true worth of an investigator consists in pursuing not onlv what he seeks in an experiment, but also what he did not seek .
In penal causes we ought to interpret more mercifully .
In pleasure and in pain I stand not by the side of men, and thus stand by thee . (Gitanjali) .
In public acts of a college or any incorporated body, the will of many to whom the matter belongs joined together, is the consent .
In satisfaction, it is not allowed, that more should be done than what has once been done .
In science, law is not a rule imposed from without, but an expression of an intrinsic process .
In science, the thing is to modify and change one`s ideas as science advances .
Insensibility to great pain shows that the mind is affected .
In settling new matters, the utility of doing so ought to be evident, so that we may depart from that law which long seemed just .
In sorrow after sorrow it is his steps that press upon my heart, and it is the golden touch of his feet that makes my joy to shine . (Gitanjali) .
Intellectual virtues are two: practical deliberation (prudence, common sense) and scientific speculation (wisdom) .
Intermarriage of blood relatives affects the offspring .
Interpretations are to be favourably given of the simplicity of the laity, that the affair may rather prosper than perish .
Interpretations are to be made favourably, that the thing may succeed rather than perish ; and what is repugnant and superfluous may be avoided .
, In testamentis plenius voluntates testantium interpretantur In testaments the intention of the testators are most fully interpreted .
In testaments a silent reason ought not to be considered .
In that shoreless ocean, at thy silently listening smile my songs would swell in melodies, free as waves, free from all bondage of words . (Gitanjali) .
, In that where there is more, there is less also included .
In that which either he who seeks, or he from whom it is sought, for the sake of gain, the cause of the applicant is harder .
In the AMagna Moralia .
In the arts and literature, personality is everything, for these are spontaneous creations of the mind and have nothing to do with the statement of natural phenomena, in which the mind should not create anything .
In the case of France, a civilization not so old but which has aged more rapidly, it is significant that nearly all the current proverbs of consequence are actually the work of famous men of letters .
In the cities, medicine is the only calling in which errors are penalized by disgrace alone, and that does not hurt those who are familiar with it .
In the country of the blind one-eyed man is a king.
In the days of prosperity think of the days of adversity : do not wait for adversity to come and then sigh for the days of prosperity. (China) .
In the early morning thou wouldst call me from my sleep like my own comrade and lead me running from glade to glade . (Gitanjali) .
In the end, it`s not the years in your life that count . (Lincoln) .
In the end things will mend.
In the Eudemian Ethics, good fortune is irrational and continuous (divine impulse) or discontinuous (deliberate action); gentility is the control of desire by reason for the sake of honor .
In the evening one may praise the day.
In the eventide, when fires and shadows mingle with the gloom of dust, he wearily comes back to the ruined temple with hunger in his heart . (Gitanjali) .
In the family of him whose heart is good, a son who will ucceed will be born: it is unnecessary for him whose luck is good to depend on his ancestral lands. (China) .
` In the fragrant days of sunny April through the forest path he comes, comes, ever comes . (Gitanjali) .
In the greatest power there isthe least liberty .
In the last analysis, we see only what we are ready to see, what we have been taught to see .
In the lonely lane there is no passer-by, the wind is up, the ripples are rampant in the river . (Gitanjali) .
In the meanwhile I smile and I sing all alone . (Gitanjali) .
In the meanwhile the air is filling with the perfume of promise . (Gitanjali) .
In the middle of the month the brightness of the moon diminishes; in middle age the ferment of youth is over and harmony prevails. (China) .
In the monastery on the hill the monk does not rise till the un is high: fame and riches are after all not equal to quiet repose. (China) .
In the moonless gloom of midnight I ask her, `Maiden, what is your quest, holding the lamp near your heart? My house is all dark and lonesome--lend me your light . (Gitanjali) .
In the more atrocious transactions, the inclination is punished, though the effect does not follow .
In the morning I woke up and found my garden full with wonders of flowers . (Gitanjali) .
In the multitude of council there is safety .
In the Nichomachean Ethics, the reasoning is as follows: Human good is happiness .
In the night of weariness let me give myself up to sleep without struggle, resting my trust upon thee . (Gitanjali) .
In the presence of the greater, the power of the lesser ceases .
In the rainy gloom of July nights on the thundering chariot of clouds he comes, comes, ever comes . (Gitanjali) .
In the same trend were Weir Mitchell and Jacobi, both men of large mental mould and professional ideals of the highest order .
In the same way in which any thing is constituted, iu the same way it is dissolved destroyed .
In the service of your prince, if you keep constantly pointing out bis errors, it will lead you to disgrace ; if you act in the same way to your friends, it will estrange them. (China) .
In these, which may be taken as fairly representative of the medical wisdom of China over many centuries, the popular adages are, curiously enough, of practical (clinical) import; the literary are concerned mainly with prognosis and medical philosophy .
In the shade of evening my eyes are drowsy with sleep . (Gitanjali) .
In the silence of gathering night I asked her, `Maiden, your lights are all lit--then where do you go with your lamp? My house is all dark and lonesome--lend me your light . (Gitanjali) .
In the whole of law, species takes from genus, and that is considered a chief point, which has a reference to species .
In things which are favourable for life, although they be hurtful to property, sometimes there may be an extension of the statute .
In this genre, Osler excelled, apart fromn his larger uitterances on medicine, familiar to all in Dr .
In this hall of thine I have a corner seat . (Gitanjali) .
In this laborious world of thine, tumultuous with toil and with struggle, among hurrying crowds shall I stand before thee face to face . (Gitanjali) .
In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play and here have I caught sight of him that is formless . (Gitanjali) .
In those thing* which are conceded to all by common right, the custom of any country or place is to be alleged .
In thy world I have no work to do; my useless life can only break out in tunes without a purpose . (Gitanjali) .
Into the audience hall by the fathomless abyss where swells up the music of toneless strings I shall take this harp of my life . (Gitanjali) .
In typhoid, treat the beginning; in consumption, don`t treat the end .
In whatever manner any inheritance may be entered upon, yet it is continued till the time of death .
In whatever way any thing is constituted, in the same way it is dissolved .
In words, not the words themselves, but matter and reason are to be sought .
In your desolate dwelling comes the vagrant spring breeze . (Gitanjali) .
In youth we have our troubles before us; in age, we leave our pleasures behind .
I only ask for last kind words from you . (Gitanjali) .
ios A man may be old in years but still young in heart : a man may be in low water without his ambition being lowered. (China) .
I ought not to be in a better condition than my author, from whom the right passes to me .
I put my tales of you into lasting songs . (Gitanjali) .
I remember my mother`s prayers and they have always followed me . (Lincoln) .
Irish proverbs charm the readers .
Irish proverbs tend to be gentle .
Iron hand fist in a velvet glove.
I say, `Ah, who knows what they mean!` They smile and go away in utter scorn . (Gitanjali) .
I say, `Indeed, I cannot tell . (Gitanjali) .
I shall ever try to drive all evils away from my heart and keep my love in flower, knowing that thou hast thy seat in the inmost shrine of my heart . (Gitanjali) .
I shall ever try to keep all untruths out from my thoughts, knowing that thou art that truth which has kindled the light of reason in my mind . (Gitanjali) .
I shall put on my wedding garland . (Gitanjali) .
I shall tune it to the notes of forever, and when it has sobbed out its last utterance, lay down my silent harp at the feet of the silent . (Gitanjali) .
I shrink to give up my life, and thus do not plunge into the great waters of life . (Gitanjali) .
I sit and muse in wonder, what gift is this of thine . (Gitanjali) .
Is it beyond thee to be glad with the gladness of this rhythm? to be tossed and lost and broken in the whirl of this fearful joy? All things rush on, they stop not, they look not behind, no power can hold them back, they rush on . (Gitanjali) .
I sit like a beggar maid, drawing my skirt over my face, and when they ask me, what it is I want, I drop my eyes and answer them not . (Gitanjali) .
Is it only thou who wouldst stand in the shadow silent and behind them all? And only I who would wait and weep and wear out my heart in vain longing? Early in the day it was whispered that we should sail in a boat, only thou and I, and never a soul in the world would know of this our pilgrimage to no country and to no end . (Gitanjali) .
I sit on the grass and gaze upon the sky and dream of the sudden splendour of thy coming--all the lights ablaze, golden pennons flying over thy car, and they at the roadside standing agape, when they see thee come down from thy seat to raise me from the dust, and set at thy side this ragged beggar girl a-tremble with shame and pride, like a creeper in a summer breeze . (Gitanjali) .
I stand not where thou comest down and ownest thyself as mine, there to clasp thee to my heart and take thee as my comrade . (Gitanjali) .
I stand under the golden canopy of thine evening sky and I lift my eager eyes to thy face . (Gitanjali) .
I stand upon my own rights and for that very reason concede rights to others .
` I started up from my day-dreams and poured water from my jar on thy joined palms . (Gitanjali) .
I start on my journey with empty hands and expectant heart . (Gitanjali) .
Is the time not come yet? Are there works still to do? Lo, the evening has come down upon the shore and in the fading light the seabirds come flying to their nests . (Gitanjali) .
` I stood alone among tall grasses and watched the timid flame of her lamp uselessly drifting in the tide . (Gitanjali) .
` I stood and watched her light uselessly burning in the void . (Gitanjali) .
` I stood and watched her little lamp uselessly lost among lights . (Gitanjali) .
I stood speechless with shame when my name thou didst ask . (Gitanjali) .
I surely know my pride will go to the wall, my life will burst its bonds in exceeding pain, and my empty heart will sob out in music like a hollow reed, and the stone will melt in tears . (Gitanjali) .
I surely know the hundred petals of a lotus will not remain closed for ever and the secret recess of its honey will be bared . (Gitanjali) .
I take pride in this great wall, and I plaster it with dust and sand lest a least hole should be left in this name; and for all the care I take I lose sight of my true being . (Gitanjali) .
It appears to he a necessity of the human mind .
It avails only by the idea attaching to it or by the proof which It furnishes .
It becomes a judge to decide according to things alleged and proved .
It behoves no one to be wiser than the laws .
It belongs to the law to define what justice may be, and in what injustice consists .
It belongs to the law to define what the law is, and in what in justice consists .
It brings the tidings of flowers--the flowers that for your worship are offered no more . (Gitanjali) .
It concerns the state not to rescind matters that have been judged .
It concerns the state that decisions be duly executed .
It concerns the state, that every one make good use of his own property .
It concerns the state that injuries do not remain unpunished .
It concerns the state that it may be well with the good, ill with the wicked, and that every one may have his own .
It concerns the state that prisons be secure .
It concerns the state, that there be an end to law suits .
, It does not belong to him to refuse who can be willing .
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues . (Lincoln) .
`I thought I could outdo everybody in the world in wealth and power, and I amassed in my own treasure-house the money due to my king . (Gitanjali) .
I thought I should ask of thee--but I dared not--the rose wreath thou hadst on thy neck . (Gitanjali) .
I thought my invincible power would hold the world captive leaving me in a freedom undisturbed . (Gitanjali) .
I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power,--that the path before me was closed, that provisions were exhausted and the time come to take shelter in a silent obscurity . (Gitanjali) .
, It -i .
It is a blessed exposure when the thing is redeemed from destruction .
It is absurd to affirm, that we must not give credit to a judgeAn excess of cautionary does no harm .
It is according to nature that the advantages of any thing follow him, whom its disadvantages will follow .
It is a cursed exposition which corrupts the text .
It is a decision to favour those things which make for religion, although words be wanting .
It is a fault to meddle with that which one has no business .
It is a good horse that never stumbles.
It is a greater crime to kill ones-self, than to kill another .
It is a long lane that has no turning.
It is a moral disorder of young nurses and, I may add, of young doctors .
It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest.
It is an ill wind that blows nobody good.
It Is a part of established law, that bargains have no force which are made against laws, and constituted authorities are against good manners .
It is a perpetual law, that there is no human and positive law perpetual ; and the clause which excludes disannulling, is not valid from the beginning .
It is a poor mouse that has only one hole.
It is a shameful thing for a man to be ignorant of that in which he is daily engaged .
It is as if the time were come to wind up my work, and I feel in the air a faint smell of thy sweet presence . (Gitanjali) .
It is a silly fish, that is caught twice with the same bait.
It is a very vicious animal; if attacked, it will defend itself .
It is a wretched circumstance, when the law is vague and uncertain .
It is better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains .
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent person perish .
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one`s mouth and remove all doubt . (Lincoln) .
It is better to repair to the source, than to follow streamlets .
It is certain that an heir hath the same power and privilege which belonged to the deceased .
It is convenient to take a long jump to a group of medical men who, about the middle of the 19th century, stated, in clear and unmistakable terms, the ideas which were to be the point of departure of scientific medicine, namely, Virchow, Helmholtz, Claude Bernard and Huxley .
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. (Shaw) .
It is dangerous to introduce strange and unusual things .
It is easier to recruit for monasteries and convents than to induce an Arab woman to uncover her mouth in public, or a British officer to walk through Bond Street in a golfing cap on an afternoon in May. (Shaw) .
It is easier to rule a kingdom than to regulate a family .
It is easy to ascend a hill and catch a tiger; but it is difficult to ask a favour. (China) .
It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions, but hard to get one single remedy .
It is easy to swim if another hoids up your chin head.
It is enough to make a cat laugh.
It is forbidden that any one should do in his cwn concern what might hurt another .
It is good fishing in troubled waters.
It is hard to depart from the meaning of words by means of conjecture .
It is inconsistent with our government. (Jefferson) .
It is infamous to lay snares for the innocent, by means of the form of law .
It is just by the law of nature, that no one become more rich by the detriment and injury of another .
It is lawful for every one to repair his own house, provided he does it not against the will of another over whom he has no right .
It is lawful for women and children to discharge offices by proxy or substitute .
It is less to have an action than the property .
It is more grievous to hurt an alternate, than a temporary authority, Habendum in charta vel auget vel restringit, sed non novum inducit .
It is more safe to be deceived than to deceive .
It is natural that any thing be dissolved in the same way in which it is bound .
It is necessary for a judge to consider that nothing be determined either more severely or more easily, than the cause demands, for neither the glory of severity , or clemency is to be affected .
It is never in my power to escape unconquered . (Gitanjali) .
It is never too late to learn.
It is not an imaginary sale when the price is paid .
It is not consonant to law, that any accessory be convicted before any one hath been found guilty of the fact .
It is not necessary to replace a guillotined criminal: it is necessary to replace a guillotined social system. (Shaw) .
It is`not strange, that what have once advantageously been constituted endure, although the case may exist, from which they could not have taken a beginning .
It is not the disease, which for the most part kills, but the neglecting of the cure .
It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. (Jefferson) .
It is not without reason that Aristotle has observed that melancholy men are men of highest genius .
It is no use crying over spilt milk.
It is of little avail to know what ought to be done, if you do not know how it may be done .
It is of no consequence in the law itself, who may not have an action or may be weakened by an exception .
It is one thing to possess, and another thing to be in possession .
, It is one thing to sell, and another thing to agree to the persons selling .
It is only after long courses of error in theological and scholastic discussions that he finally acknowledges the sterility of his efforts along these pathways .
It is prohibited that anyone should do in his own concern, what may be hurtful to another person .
, It is proper that laws be greater than any exception .
It is so light and so fleeting, tender and tearful and dark, that is why thou lovest it, O thou spotless and serene . (Gitanjali) .
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. (Shaw) .
It is the duty of a judge to accomplish his work from day to day .
It is the duty of parents to maintain their children, even bastards .
It is the first step that costs.
It is the greatest charity to do justice to each, and at all times, when it is necessary, supports religion .
It is the mind which is really alive and sees things, yet it hardly sees anything without preliminary instruction .
It is the most distant course that comes nearest to thyself, and that training is the most intricate which leads to the utter simplicity of a tune . (Gitanjali) .
It is the pang of separation that spreads throughout the world and gives birth to shapes innumerable in the infinite sky . (Gitanjali) .
It is the part of liberty, that every one be master of quitting and of retaining his own right .
It is the prerogative of the king to pardon a transgression .
It is the property of a good judge to enlarge his jurisdiction .
It is the property of a good judge to enlarge or extend justice .
It is the property of a judge to administer justice, not to give it .
It is the property of a wise judge to think that so much is permitted to him, as has been committed and intrusted to him .
It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow . (Gitanjali) .
It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers . (Gitanjali) .
It is the same thing to speak nothing, and to speak insufficiently .
It is the same to do and not to prohibit when you can ; and he who does not prohibit when he can prohibit, is in fault .
It is this overspreading pain that deepens into loves and desires, into sufferings and joy in human homes; and this it is that ever melts and flows in songs through my poet`s heart . (Gitanjali) .
It is this sorrow of separation that gazes in silence all nights from star to star and becomes lyric among rustling leaves in rainy darkness of July . (Gitanjali) .
It is thou who drawest the veil of night upon the tired eyes of the day to renew its sight in a fresher gladness of awakening . (Gitanjali) .
It is thy messenger who stands at my door . (Gitanjali) .
It is thy mighty sword, flashing as a flame, heavy as a bolt of thunder . (Gitanjali) .
It is time that I go to the stream to fill my pitcher . (Gitanjali) .
It is to our faults that we owe our virtues .
It is uncivil to judge of any part, unless the whole of a sentence be attended to .
It is unholy--take not thy gifts through its unclean hands . (Gitanjali) .
It is unjust that any one be a judge of his own affair .
It is unjust to allow some to merchandize, and to prohibit others .
It is well to know that, in the practice of medicine, a nosographer is not always a clinician .
It is we who change, as we learn to recognize what was formerly imperceptible .
It is worse to act in a trial unjustly, than by force .
It learns not, neither can it forget .
It never rains but it pours.
I touch by the edge of the far-spreading wing of my song thy feet which I could never aspire to reach . (Gitanjali) .
It quivers like the one last response of life in ecstasy of pain at the final stroke of death; it shines like the pure flame of being burning up earthly sense with one fierce flash . (Gitanjali) .
It-s as broad as it-s long.
It`s better to be lucky than wise .
It seeks regions hitherto unexplored . (Lincoln) .
It-s no use pumping a dry well.
It-s one thing to flourish and another to fight.
It`s the life in your years . (Lincoln) .
It takes all sorts to make a world.
It was in an unhappy moment called `The Middlesex Club .
It was made of advanced women and of men .
It was my part at this feast to play upon my instrument, and I have done all I could . (Gitanjali) .
It was my songs that taught me all the lessons I ever learnt; they showed me secret paths, they brought before my sight many a star on the horizon of my heart . (Gitanjali) .
It was reserved for the ablest physicians of all time to perceive that identical remedies are good only for identical phases of different diseases and that for different phases of the same disease, different remedies are necessary .
It was they who led me from door to door, and with them have I felt about me, searching and touching my world . (Gitanjali) .
It will cease to be medicine and will be absorbed into that general simplified body of knowledge which is identifiable with power .
Iu a doubtful affair denial rather than affirmation is to be understood, In an obscure case it is better to favour repetition than adventitious gain .
Iu customs, not continuance of time, but solidity of reason, is to be considered .
I wait here weary hours spreading my offerings for thee, while passers-by come and take my flowers, one by one, and my basket is nearly empty . (Gitanjali) .
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward . (Lincoln) .
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow . (Lincoln) .
I was alone by the well where the shadow of the tree fell aslant, and the women had gone home with their brown earthen pitchers full to the brim . (Gitanjali) .
I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again . (Lincoln) .
I was not aware of the moment when I first crossed the threshold of this life . (Gitanjali) .
I was singing all alone in a corner, and the melody caught your ear . (Gitanjali) .
I was tired and sleeping on my idle bed and imagined all work had ceased . (Gitanjali) .
I will deck thee with trophies, garlands of my defeat . (Gitanjali) .
I will keep still and wait like the night with starry vigil and its head bent low with patience . (Gitanjali) .
I will prepare and some day my chance will come . (Lincoln) .
I will worship him placing at his feet the treasure of my heart . (Gitanjali) .
I wish not to be called from my sleep by the clamorous choir of birds, by the riot of wind at the festival of morning light . (Gitanjali) .
I wonder where lies thy path! By what dim shore of the ink-black river, by what far edge of the frowning forest, through what mazy depth of gloom art thou threading thy course to come to me, my friend? If the day is done, if birds sing no more, if the wind has flagged tired, then draw the veil of darkness thick upon me, even as thou hast wrapt the earth with the coverlet of sleep and tenderly closed the petals of the drooping lotus at dusk . (Gitanjali) .
I would speak, but speech breaks not into song, and I cry out baffled . (Gitanjali) .
Jackdaw in peacock-s feathers.
J. (China) .
Jest with an ass and he will flap you in the face with his tail.
John D .
John Milton Beauty is nature`s brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship. (Milton) .
Judge not of men and things at first sight.
Judges are by no means favourable to things raised recently and subtilely against the common law .
Judges are not bound to express the cause of their opinions .
Jurors are judges of the fact .
J us accrescendi inter mercatores locum non habet .
Just as high land becomes arid and useless owing to the water running off it so he who is too high and mighty can accomplish nothing. (China) .
Just as the grass dreads severe frost and the frost dreads the sun, so does one wicked man dread the oppression of others more wicked than himself. (China) .
Just as there is no place to which the wild goose cannot wing its flight so there are no lengths to which a man who is attracted by gain and fame will not go. (China) .
Just as the twig is bent, the tree is inclined.
Justice is prior to liberty .
Justice is the constant and perpetual desire of giving every man his own .
Justice knows neither father nor mother; justice regards truth alone .
Justice ought to be free, because nothing is more unfair than venal justice ; full, because justice ought not to be lame ; and quick, because delay is a kind of denial .
Justice truly preventing, is better than severely punishing .
Keep a thing seven years and you will find a use for it.
Keeping steps with that restless, rapid music, seasons come dancing and pass away--colours, tunes, and perfumes pour in endless cascades in the abounding joy that scatters and gives up and dies every moment . (Gitanjali) .
Keep your mouth shut and your ears open.
Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.
kick against the pricks.
kill two birds with one stone.
Kindle the lamp of love with thy life . (Gitanjali) .
Kind words make one feel warm even in midwinter. (China) .
King cannot violate law .
Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination. (Shaw) .
Knavery and flattery are blood relations . (Lincoln) .
know everything is to know nothing.
know on which side one-s bread is buttered.
know what-s what.
Labored sleep in any disease is a bad sign .
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital . (Lincoln) .
Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration . (Lincoln) .
Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen. (Shaw) .
Land is transferred with burdens .
Languor is upon your heart and the slumber is still on your eyes . (Gitanjali) .
Last, but not least.
Latter things derogate from the former .
Law assumes a husband and wife as one person .
Law carried to extremes, is the height of injustice .
Law does not admit of a proof against that which it presumes .
Law dreads informers .
Lawful and prescribed custom overcomes law .
Law is the act of what is good and just .
Law-makers-law breakers .
Law must be certain .
Law regards equity .
Law rejoices in equity, seeks what is perfect ; it is the standard of rectitude .
Laws are annulled in the same way they were enacted .
Laws assist the deceived, not the deceiving .
Laws assist waking, but not sleeping persons .
Laws catch flies, but let hornets go free.
Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition .
Laws should decide punishments .
Law suits arise out of law suits .
lay by for a rainy day.
Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something .
Learn to creep before you leap.
Learn to say before you sing.
Learn wisdom by the follies of others.
Lease and feud are inconsistent in the same person with the same right .
Least said, soonest mended.
Leaves without figs.
Leave this chanting and singing and telling of beads! Whom dost thou worship in this lonely dark corner of a temple with doors all shut? Open thine eyes and see thy God is not before thee! He is there where the tiller is tilling the hard ground and where the pathmaker is breaking stones . (Gitanjali) .
Legal consciousness is founded upon the law .
Legal similitude is the similar relation of cases, so different between themselves, what is valid in one of the similar cases, will be valid in the other .
Legitimate acts or deeds, do not admit of being modified, bounded, or stinted .
Lend money to a city, never to a man .
Lest I forget them they never venture to leave me alone . (Gitanjali) .
Let all my songs gather together their diverse strains into a single current and flow to a sea of silence in one salutation to thee . (Gitanjali) .
Let all the strains of joy mingle in my last song--the joy that makes the earth flow over in the riotous excess of the grass, the joy that sets the twin brothers, life and death, dancing over the wide world, the joy that sweeps in with the tempest, shaking and waking all life with laughter, the joy that sits still with its tears on the open red lotus of pain, and the joy that throws everything it has upon the dust, and knows not a word . (Gitanjali) .
Let all things be done honourably, and in order .
Let a seducer, or violator, answer for it, who could not have been ignorant that he hath carried off a minor, or orphan .
Let a superior answer .
Let bygones be bygones.
Let children assist their parents, who are unable to support themselves .
Let companions make to themselves what law they please, provided they do not abuse any thing of the public law .
Let every man praise the bridge he goes over.
Let every man`s house be his castle .
Let exercise come before meals .
Let faithfulness and sympathy guide your heart, and incerity and honesty your mind. (China) .
Let him appear before my sight as the first of all lights and all forms . (Gitanjali) .
Let him be the guardian of the body of any infant, to whom the inheritance cannot come .
Let him who accuses another, not be accused, at least in the same way .
Let him who accuses, be of unblemished character, and not criminal .
Let justice be done, if the sky should fall .
Let me but truly possess the things that I ever spurned and overlooked . (Gitanjali) .
Let me for once feel that lost sweet touch in the allness of the universe . (Gitanjali) .
Let me not force my flagging spirit into a poor preparation for thy worship . (Gitanjali) .
Let me sleep undisturbed even if my lord comes of a sudden to my door . (Gitanjali) .
Let no one apply to the court of chancery without obtaining redress .
Let no one ask the property of a thing to himself, while the owner is unwilling .
Let no one be relieved, or derive assistance from his own proper fraud .
Let no one lose his own property, unless by his own deed, transgression, or neglect .
Let not a man of guile take an oath : for man cannot escape the consequence of his acts. (China) .
Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live. (Milton) .
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built . (Lincoln) .
Let not the hours pass by in the dark . (Gitanjali) .
Let not the seller appoint a person to bid .
Let not the young laugh at the grey hairs of the old. (China) .
Let one perish, lest all should perish .
Let only that little be left of me whereby I may name thee my all . (Gitanjali) .
Let only that little be left of me whereby I may never hide thee . (Gitanjali) .
Let only that little be left of my will whereby I may feel thee on every side, and come to thee in everything, and offer to thee my love every moment . (Gitanjali) .
Let only that little of my fetters be left whereby I am bound with thy will, and thy purpose is carried out in my life--and that is the fetter of thy love . (Gitanjali) .
Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it . (Lincoln) .
Let sleeping dogs lie.
Let the cloud of grace bend low from above like the tearful look of the mother on the day of the father`s wrath . (Gitanjali) .
Let the infliction of punishment increase as transgression multiplies .
Let the law be certain, the punishment certain, and adequate to the crime, and previously determined by the laws .
Let then the flowers come out in my garden, though it is not their time; and let the midday bees strike up their lazy hum . (Gitanjali) .
Let the purchaser beware let the seller beware .
Let the purchaser take care ; who ought not to be ignorant what right of another he purchases .
Let the safety of the people be the supreme law .
Let well enough alone.
Let what is done in fraud, be inefficient towards others ; it is valid against the defrauder .
Let wicked reports be silenced .
Liars need good memories.
Liberty cannot be compensated by any price .
Liberty is an inestimable thing .
Liberty is more favourable than all things .
Liberty is the natural power of a man to do what he pleases, unless what he may be prohibited to do, concerning violence, or encroaching upon another`s right .
Liberty means responsibility. (Shaw) .
lie occasions a loss, who gives orders to cause it ; but no blame belongs to him who is under the necessity of obeying .
Lies have short legs.
Life is but a span.
Life is not a bed of roses.
Life is not all cakes and ale beer and skittles.
Life is short, art is long, occasion fugitive, experience fallacious and judgment difficult .
Life levels all men: death reveals the eminent. (Shaw) .
Light diet is indicated at the height of an acute disease .
Light, my light, the world-filling light, the eye-kissing light, heart-sweetening light! Ah, the light dances, my darling, at the centre of my life; the light strikes, my darling, the chords of my love; the sky opens, the wind runs wild, laughter passes over the earth . (Gitanjali) .
Light, oh where is the light! Kindle it with the burning fire of desire! It thunders and the wind rushes screaming through the void . (Gitanjali) .
Like a cat on hot bricks.
Like a flock of homesick cranes flying night and day back to their mountain nests let all my life take its voyage to its eternal home in one salutation to thee . (Gitanjali) .
Like a needle in a haystack.
Like a rain-cloud of July hung low with its burden of unshed showers let all my mind bend down at thy door in one salutation to thee . (Gitanjali) .
Like begets like.
Like cures like.
Like draws to like.
Like father, like son.
Like master, like man.
Like mother, like daughter.
Like parents, like children.
Like priest, like people.
Like teacher, like pupil.
, Likewise those under age ought to abstain from all civil offices .
Lilies and jasmines surge up on the crest of the waves of light . (Gitanjali) .
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Liquid diet is a better restorative than the solid .
LITERARY APHORISMS A good doctor is equal to a good premier .
Little chips light great fires.
Little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Little pigeons can carry great messages.
Little pitchers have long ears.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape.
Little things amuse little minds.
Liu Kung Cho .
Live and learn.
Live and let live.
live from hand to mouth.
Live not to eat, but eat to live.
lock the stable-door after the horse is stolen.
Long absent, soon forgotten.
Long time and long usage, which exceeds the memory, is sufficient for law .
Look before you leap.
Look before you leap, but having leapt never look back.
Lookers-on see more than players.
look for a needle in a haystack.
Lord God, Heaven helps those them who help themselves.
Lord of my heart, no more shall there be for me waiting and weeping in corners, no more coyness and sweetness of demeanour . (Gitanjali) .
Loss of teeth and marriage spoil a woman`s beauty .
Lost time is never found again.
Love cannot be forced.
Love in a cottage.
Love is blind, as well as hatred.
Love me, love my dog.
Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end. (Milton) .
love somebody something as the devil loves holy water.
Love will creep where it may not go.
Loyal ties are severed and relations estranged through money. (China) .
Lu Chi .
Magendie, we are told, advised the laboratory experimenter to proceed aimlessly .
make a mountain out of a molehill.
make both ends meet.
Make friends of those who are virtuous: have no inter- course with friends who have no sense of duty. (China) .
Make haste slowly.
Make hay while the sun shines.
Make or mar.
makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make . (Lincoln) .
Make such use of your own property, that you do not hurt another man`s .
make the cup run over.
make to turn the air blue.
Make your cross your crutch; but when you see another man do it, beware of him. (Shaw) .
Malice supplies what is wanting in age .
Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown .
Man has no intention of harming the tiger ; but the tiger is bent on injuring man. (China) .
Manifest things do not require proof .
Man is liable to error; or, to err is inherent to human nature .
Man is naturally metaphysical and arrogant, and is capable of believing that the ideal creations of his mind, which express his feelings, are identical with reality; whence it follows that the experimental method is not naturally a primary appanage of man .
Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites. (Shaw) .
Man proposes but God disposes.
Man sees the gain, not the danger, just as the fish sees the bait and not the hook. (China) .
Many acquaintances will lead to much gossip. (China) .
Many a festival day comes to you in silence, deity of the ruined temple . (Gitanjali) .
Many a fine dish has nothing on it.
Many a good cow has a bad calf.
Many a good father has but a bad son.
Many a little makes a mickle.
Many a man knocked at my door and asked for her and turned away in despair . (Gitanjali) .
Many a night of worship goes away with lamp unlit . (Gitanjali) .
Many a procession passes by with noise and shouts and glamour of glory . (Gitanjali) .
Many a song have I sung in many a mood of mind, but all their notes have always proclaimed, `He comes, comes, ever comes . (Gitanjali) .
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
Many hands make light work.
Many know many things ; nobody knows all things .
Many men, many minds.
Many new images are built by masters of cunning art and carried to the holy stream of oblivion when their time is come . (Gitanjali) .
Many punishments are no less disgraceful to a prince, than many funerals to a physician .
`Many`sthethingcanbemadeforthepenny` saidtheauld Scots wife when she saw the poor black boy .
Many things belong not to human laws, but to the divine cognizance .
Many things pass with the generality which do not pass by themselves .
Many words hurt more than swords.
Many words will not fill a bushel.
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory . (Lincoln) .
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. (Shaw) .
Marriage is the only legal contract which abrogates as between the parties all the laws that safeguard the particular relation to which it refers. (Shaw) .
Marriage, or any other form of promiscuous amoristic monogamy, is fatal to large States because it puts its ban on the deliberate breeding of man as a political animal. (Shaw) .
Marriages are made in heaven.
` Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children .
Marriages ought to be free .
Masters and servants are both tyrannical; but the masters are the more dependent of the two. (Shaw) .
Masters are many in your hall, and songs are sung there at all hours . (Gitanjali) .
measure another man-s foot by one-s own last.
Measure for measure.
measure other people-s corn by one-s own bushel.
Measure thrice and cut once.
MEDICAL PROVERBS Our ideas are only intellectual instruments which help us to penetrate phenomena .
Medical training, and the kind of reasoning which the physician employs in practice, will also fit the mind for work in the most abstruse branches of science .
Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases .
Medicine likewise, because it deals with things, has always been for our serener circles a Cinderella, blooming maid as happily as she has grown nevertheless .
Medicine loses none of its worth in shedding the cothurnus and mixing with the people, for whom it acquires new powers .
Medicine originated througn sheer necessity, for the sick did not, and do not, profit by the same regime as the healthy .
Medicines are nothing in themselves, if not properly used, but the very hands of the gods, if employed with reason and prudence .
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. (Shaw) .
Men can intoxicate themselves with ideas as effectually as with alcohol or bang, and produce by dint of intense thinking, mental conditions hardly distinguishable from monomania .
Mend or end end or mend.
Men going home glance at me and smile and fill me with shame . (Gitanjali) .
Men hasten to the King`s market . (Gitanjali) .
Men may meet but mountains never.
Mens sana in corpore sano is a foolish saying. (Shaw) .
Men worry over the great number of diseases; doctors worry over the small number of remedies .
Messengers, with tidings from unknown skies, greet me and speed along the road . (Gitanjali) .
Might goes before right.
Mine is not the red-brown dress of the traveller, and though there are dangers on the way I have no fear in mind . (Gitanjali) .
Mirth spreads from leaf to leaf, my darling, and gladness without measure . (Gitanjali) .
Mischief arises from talking too much ; annoyance, from unnecessary interference. (China) .
Misfortunes never come alone singly.
Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
Moderation in wickedness is a foolish thing .
Moderation is never applauded for its own sake. (Shaw) .
Money begets money.
Money has no smell.
Money is a good servant but a bad master.
Money is just medium and measure of things interchanged .
Money often unmakes the men who make it.
Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain.
Monopoly is said to take place, when one buys wholly any kind of merchandise, fixing the price at his own pleasure, Mora reprobatur in lege .
More haste, less speed.
More is allowed to no one against another, than what is granted by the laws .
More than the hand is the tongue the organ which can do most good and evil .
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be . (Lincoln) .
Most physicians are like athletes who aspire to victory in the Olympic games without doing anything to deserve it; for they praise Hippocrates as first in the art of healing but make no attempt to resemble him .
Most Scythians become impotent, do women`s work, live and converse like women .
Mother, I shall weave a chain of pearls for thy neck with my tears of sorrow . (Gitanjali) .
Mother, it is no gain, thy bondage of finery, if it keep one shut off from the healthful dust of the earth, if it rob one of the right of entrance to the great fair of common human life . (Gitanjali) .
Mo Tzu .
Moveables follow the person .
Much ado about nothing.
Much will have more.
Muck and money go together.
Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. (Shaw) .
Murder may be pardonable, but inhumanity cannot be forgiven. (China) .
Murder will out.
Mutiny Acts are needed only by officers who command without authority. (Shaw) .
Mutual bargains bind both parties, or neither .
My aunt rebuked me by saying Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty. (Shaw) .
My basket was empty and the flower remained unheeded . (Gitanjali) .
My companions laughed at me in scorn; they held their heads high and hurried on; they never looked back nor rested; they vanished in the distant blue haze . (Gitanjali) .
My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted . (Gitanjali) .
My desires are many and my cry is pitiful, but ever didst thou save me by hard refusals; and this strong mercy has been wrought into my life through and through . (Gitanjali) .
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth . (Lincoln) .
My eyes have seen and my ears have heard . (Gitanjali) .
My eyes strayed far and wide before I shut them and said `Here art thou!` The question and the cry `Oh, where?` melt into tears of a thousand streams and deluge the world with the flood of the assurance `I am!` The song that I came to sing remains unsung to this day . (Gitanjali) .
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure . (Lincoln) .
My heart can never find its way to where thou keepest company with the companionless among the poorest, the lowliest, and the lost . (Gitanjali) .
My heart is glad within, and the breath of the passing breeze is sweet . (Gitanjali) .
My heart longs to join in thy song, but vainly struggles for a voice . (Gitanjali) .
My house is my castle.
My house is small and what once has gone from it can never be regained . (Gitanjali) .
My intention gives a name to my work .
My poet`s vanity dies in shame before thy sight . (Gitanjali) .
My song has put off her adornments . (Gitanjali) .
My whole body and my limbs have thrilled with his touch who is beyond touch; and if the end comes here, let it come--let this be my parting word . (Gitanjali) .
My world will light its hundred different lamps with thy flame and place them before the altar of thy temple . (Gitanjali) .
Name not a rope in his house that was hanged.
` Narrow ideas are the distinguishing mark of a poor man just as long hair is that of a lean horse. (China) .
Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease .
Natural law is that which hath the same power among all men .
Natural reason allows one to defend himself against danger .
Nature desires what is perfect ; so does the law .
Nature does not kill and does not heal .
Nature, in the production of disease, is uniform and consistent, so much so, that for the same disease in different persons, the symptoms are for the most part the same; and the selfsame phenomena that you would observe in the sickness of a Socrates, you would observe in the sickness of a simpleton .
Nature makes no vacuum, nor does the law make any thing superfluous .
Nature needs no instruction .
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man`s character, give him power . (Lincoln) .
Necessity brings in a privilege which is taken away by law .
Necessity excuses or extenuates a transgression in capital cases, which does not operate the same in civil cases .
Necessity hath no law .
Necessity is not bound down under law ; because what in other cases is not lawful, necessity makes lawful .
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Necessity knows no law.
Necessity makes a thing lawful, which otherwise is unlawful .
Necessity will overcome the law, baffles the restraints of law .
Neck or nothing.
Need makes the old wife trot.
Needs must when the devil drives.
Neighbors` tastes may not be the same. (Shaw) .
Neither fish nor flesh.
Neither here nor there.
Neither laws nor acts of parliament can be so written that they may comprehend all cases which at any one time shall have happened ; but it is sufficient that those be contained in them, which for the most part happen .
Neither reservation, nor protestation, makes law, but maintains it .
Neither rhyme nor reason.
Neither the control of human passions nor the observance of eternal principles should be regarded as irnpossiblities. (China) .
Neurotics and psychotics see, hear and smell things which do not exist .
Never cackle till your egg is laid.
Never cast dirt into that fountain of which you have sometime drunk.
Never do things by halves.
Never fry a fish till it-s caught.
Never have the working principles of laboratory medicine been stated with such convincing precision as in these luminous sentences .
Never offer to teach fish to swim.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do can be done today.
Never quit certainty for hope.
Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good. (Shaw) .
Never stir up litigation . (Lincoln) .
Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown. (Shaw) .
Never too much of a good thing.
Never try to prove what nobody doubts.
Never work when hungry .
Never write what you dare not sign.
New brooms sweep clean.
New lords, new laws.
Next to being right in this world, the best of all things is to be clearly and definitely wrong, because you will come out somewhere .
Nightingales will not sing in a cage.
Nihil tarn convcniens est naturali aequitati quam volm* .
Nine out of every ten men have piles .
No age or condition is without its heroes. (Shaw) .
Nobody appears to defraud those who know and consent .
No body can be a witness in his own cause .
Nobody can be both tenant and master .
Nobody can certify against a record through the country .
Nobody can change for himself the cause of his possession .
Nobody can change his design to the prejudice of another .
Nobody:can change his plan to the injury of another .
Nobody can come against his own deed .
Nobody can confirm before the right fall to him .
Nobody can do by another what he cannot do by himself .
Nobody can give a mandate to a bishop, except the king .
Nobody can make his condition better from his own crime .
Nobody can make void a will, unless by giving what is better .
Nobody can rightly understand any part, before he hath perused the whole again and again The condition of the defender is more favourable .
Nobody can rightly understand any part before he peruses the whole again and again .
Nobody can send into another`s field .
Nobody can transfer more privilege to another, than he should have .
Nobody can transfer more right to another than he has himself .
Nobody can transfer to another the power of the eword given to himself, or of any other coercion to himself .
Nobody has a forest but the king .
Nobody is above the laws .
No body is a judge in his own cause .
Nobody is a pirate, who hath told down the price .
Nobody is bound, therefore, because he is about to receive from another what he hath performed .
Nobody is bound to accuse himself .
Nobody is bound to arm his adversary against himself .
Nobody is bound to furnish arms against himself .
Nobody is bound to know an act or deed foreign to himself .
Nobody is bound to swear to his own disgrace .
Nobody is compelled, when unwilling, to defend his property .
Nobody is deceived under the protection of the law .
Nobody is forced to sell his own property even for a just price .
Nobody is presumed to give a donation .
Nobody is prohibited to use many defences .
Nobody is punched for another person`s transgression .
Nobody is punished twice for the same transgressionNobody shall come twice into danger for the same crime .
Nobody is the heir of the person living .
Nobody is to be enriched by the loss of another .
Nobody occasions a loss but he who did that which he had not a right to do .
Nobody ought to accuse himself unless before God .
Nobody ought to be a judge in his own cause .
Nobody ought to be condemned unheard, or without being summoned, if he be not contumacious .
Nobody ought to be punished twicefor one fault ; and God does not act twice against himNobody ought to be twice harassed, if it be certain to the court, that it is for one and the same cause .
Nobody ought to derive advantage from his injurious behaviour .
Nobody ought to lose his own property, without his own deed for deficiency .
Nobody, therefore, is prohibited to approach the sea shore .
No, calling a tail a leg don`t make it a leg . (Lincoln) .
No capital punishment, no punishment which may destroy either a man or his property can be, unless determined by the law beforehand .
No delay is ever long about the death of a man .
No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism. (Shaw) .
No example is the same to all .
No fit person may refuse a public ofice imposed upon himself .
No flying from fate.
No foxhunter is such a cad as to pretend that he hunts the fox to teach it not to steal chickens, or that he suffers more acutely than the fox at the death. (Shaw) .
No garden without its weeds.
No good doctor should enter the house of a crooked official .
No great loss without some small gain.
No herb will cure love.
No impossible or dishonourable things are to be presumed; but true, honourable, and possible things .
No injustice is to be presumed in law .
No, I will never shut the doors of my senses . (Gitanjali) .
No joy without alloy.
No living man all things can.
No longer pipe, no longer dance.
No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot. (Shaw) .
No man dares say so much of what he thinks as to appear to himself an extremist. (Shaw) .
No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another. (Shaw) .
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar . (Lincoln) .
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other`s consent . (Lincoln) .
No man is wise at all times.
No man loves his fetters, be they made of gold.
No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free. (Milton) .
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens . (Lincoln) .
No monkey makes fun of another .
No more doll`s decorations for me! Beautiful is thy wristlet, decked with stars and cunningly wrought in myriad-coloured jewels . (Gitanjali) .
No more noisy, loud words from me--such is my master`s will . (Gitanjali) .
No more sailing from harbour to harbour with this my weather- beaten boat . (Gitanjali) .
None but the brave deserve the fair.
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence. (Milton) .
None is called an accessory after felony, but he who knowi that he committed the principal felony .
None so blind as those who wonot see.
None so deaf as those that wonot hear.
No news is good news.
No nobleman can either act as a juryman, or hold a menial office, on account of his dignity .
No, no, man was made for immortality . (Lincoln) .
No one can be punished in any other way, than according to what his condemnation is .
No one can derive advantage from his own proper injury .
No one can do any thing but what he can do by law .
No one hesitates by means of paying to see him who is defended .
No one ought to be a judge in his own cause .
No one ought to be enriched at the expense of another .
No one seems to act with guile, who uses his own right .
No one seems to obtain that which it is necessary for him to restore unto another .
No one serving God should entangle himself with secular affairs, Nobody leaves more advantage to his heir than he himself had .
No one who can condemn, is unable to acquit .
No one who is not a clergyman shall have a clerical benefice twice .
No pains, no gains.
No prudent person punishes that past offences may be recalled, but that future ones may be prevented .
No remedy is applicable to all cases .
North Manchurian Plague Prev .
No sane man will parade with a stolen goat .
No similar thing is the same .
No slave can free another .
No song, no supper.
No specific virtue or vice in a man implies the existence of any other specific virtue or vice in him, however closely the imagination may associate them. (Shaw) .
No sweet without some sweat.
Not all married women are wives .
Not cohabitation, but consent, constitutes marriage .
Nothing can be unconditional: consequently nothing can be free. (Shaw) .
Nothing comes out of the sack but what was in it.
, Nothing holds the state more strongly together than honesty .
Nothing is eo peculiar to empire, as to live by the laws .
Nothing is ever lost in nature, nor does anything originate which did not exist before .
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Nothing is more agreeake than that a matter be dissolved by the same means by which it was constituted .
Nothing is more foolish than cunning .
Nothing is more intolerable in law, than that the same thing be iud*ed by a different rule .
Nothing is perfect while something remains to be done .
Nothing is so agreeable to natural equity, as to reckon valid the will of a master to transfer his property to another .
Nothing is so natural as to dissolve any thing in that way in which it was bound .
Nothing is so natural as to dissolve any thing in the way in which it was bound together .
Nothing is so peculiar to empire and liberty, as to live by the laws .
Nothing is so unjust as to stretch equity too far .
Nothing is useful or honourable, which la contrary to the laws .
Nothing must be done hastily but killing of fleas.
Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right. (Milton) .
Nothing so bad, as not to be good for something.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Nothing unjust is to be presumed in law .
Nothing venture, nothing have.
Nothing which is against reason is lawful .
Nothing which is convenient is allowed .
Nothing will be left for me, nothing whatever, and utter death shall I receive at thy feet . (Gitanjali) .
No time occurs to the king ; the king never dies .
No time occurs to the king ; the king never fails .
Not only he who sculks, but likewise he who when present refuses to defend himself, or does not wish to undertake an action, seems not to defend .
Not to be, and not to appear is the same .
No virtue, no knowledge, can preserve its place and dignity, without moderation .
Now, I ask, has the time come at last when I may go in and see thy face and offer thee my silent salutation? I am only waiting for love to give myself up at last into his hands . (Gitanjali) .
No wisdom like silence.
Now it is time to sit quite, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of live in this silent and overflowing leisure . (Gitanjali) .
Now the day has dawned and the lamp that lit my dark corner is out . (Gitanjali) .
Now, when the playtime is over, what is this sudden sight that is come upon me? The world with eyes bent upon thy feet stands in awe with all its silent stars . (Gitanjali) .
Nulla res vehementius rempublicam continet quam fides .
Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm.
Obama`s speeches do not have a poetic outlook .
Obedience is the essence of the law .
Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty. (Shaw) .
Observe head wounds from a distance and without touching them .
Observe these well and you will live long .
Obstinate are the trammels, but my heart aches when I try to break them . (Gitanjali) .
Odious and dishonourable things are not to be presumed in law; and in facts which relate to good and evil, it is more to be presumed concerning good, than concerning evil .
Official investigators, similarly afflicted, seem to be perfectly normal .
O Fool, try to carry thyself upon thy own shoulders! O beggar, to come beg at thy own door! Leave all thy burdens on his hands who can bear all, and never look behind in regret . (Gitanjali) .
Of simultaneous pain in two places, the lesser is obliterated by the greater .
Of two evils choose the least.
Oh, dip my emptied life into that ocean, plunge it into the deepest fullness . (Gitanjali) .
Oh friends, leave the way open to him-- forbid him not . (Gitanjali) .
Oh, grant me my prayer that I may never lose the bliss of the touch of the one in the play of many . (Gitanjali) .
Oh, how, indeed, could I tell them that for thee I wait, and that thou hast promised to come . (Gitanjali) .
Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my house--do not pass by like a dream . (Gitanjali) .
Old birds are not caught with chaff.
Old friends and old wine are best.
Old persons have fewer diseases than the young but chronic diseases never leave them .
O master poet, I have sat down at thy feet . (Gitanjali) .
On account of admissions made at public trials, the punishment of confiscation of goods does not otherwise pass, than if a contested auic and condemnation followed ; excepting in the case of high treason .
, On a trial, not the /emote cause, but the nearest is regarded .
Once bitten, twice shy.
Once is no rule custom.
One absurd thing being granted, others follow .
One bad general is better than two good ones .
One beats the bush, and another catches the bird.
One being deficient, he cannot be an heir .
One cannot with impunity obey one executing justice, beyond his province; the same happens if one presumes to administer justice beyond his own jurisdiction .
One chick keeps a hen busy.
One day is a complete term, in law .
One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine.
One duty commonly is the excuse for the non performance of another .
One eye witness is more valid, than ten ear witnesses .
One eye witness is worth more than ten ear witnesses .
One final glance from thine eyes and my life will be ever thine own . (Gitanjali) .
One fire drives out another.
One good turn deserves another.
One horse does not carry two saddles; a loyal statesman will not serve two masters. (China) .
One is an heir either by right of property, or byjright of representation .
One law for the rich, and another for the poor.
One lie makes many.
One link broken, the whole chain is broken.
One man, no man.
One man-s meat is another man-s poison.
`One of the most delightful sayings of antiquity is the remark of Heraclitus about his predecessors, that they had much knowledge but no sense .
One ought not to be judge in his own cause, because he cannot be a judge and a party .
One person can scarcely supply the place of two .
One plaintive little strain mingled with the great music of the world, and with a flower for a prize you came down and stopped at my cottage door . (Gitanjali) .
One reluctantly feels the need to change the nurse, which sad necessity I have known to interfere with some promising love affairs .
One scabby sheep will mar a whole flock.
One should be diligent and studious, and not ashamed to ask for information from others inferior to himself. (China) .
One swallow does not make a summer.
One today is worth two tomorrow.
Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute of reed for thee to fill with music . (Gitanjali) .
Only my voice took up the tunes, and my heart danced in their cadence . (Gitanjali) .
Only now and again a sadness fell upon me, and I started up from my dream and felt a sweet trace of a strange fragrance in the south wind . (Gitanjali) .
Only some said, `It is the messenger!` We laughed and said `No, it must be the wind!` There came a sound in the dead of the night . (Gitanjali) .
Only some said it was the sound of wheels . (Gitanjali) .
Only some said the king was to come . (Gitanjali) .
Only the deity of the ruined temple remains unworshipped in deathless neglect . (Gitanjali) .
Only the poor give alms to the poor .
On many an idle day have I grieved over lost time . (Gitanjali) .
On Shank-s mare.
On the day when the lotus bloomed, alas, my mind was straying, and I knew it not . (Gitanjali) .
On the seashore of endless worlds children meet . (Gitanjali) .
On the seashore of endless worlds children meet . (Gitanjali) .
On the seashore of endless worlds is the great meeting of children . (Gitanjali) .
On the seashore of endless worlds the children meet with shouts and dances . (Gitanjali) .
On the slope of the desolate river among tall grasses I asked her, `Maiden, where do you go shading your lamp with your mantle? My house is all dark and lonesome--lend me your light!` she raised her dark eyes for a moment and looked at my face through the dusk . (Gitanjali) .
On those days I never cared to know the meaning of songs thou sangest to me . (Gitanjali) .
Open not your door when the devil knocks.
Opinions differ.
Opportunity makes the thief.
Ornaments would mar our union; they would come between thee and me; their jingling would drown thy whispers . (Gitanjali) .
Orthodoxy is the Bourbon of the world of thought .
O thou beautiful, there in the nest is thy love that encloses the soul with colours and sounds and odours . (Gitanjali) .
O thou lord of all heavens, where would be thy love if I were not? Thou hast taken me as thy partner of all this wealth . (Gitanjali) .
O thou the last fulfilment of life, Death, my death, come and whisper to me! Day after day I have kept watch for thee; for thee have I borne the joys and pangs of life . (Gitanjali) .
Our day`s works had been done . (Gitanjali) .
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere . (Lincoln) .
/ Our emperor wrote back to his subjects that in the ambiguities, which proceed from the laws, the custom, or the authority of cases constantly decided in the same manner, should obtain the force of laws .
Our law condemns no one in his absence .
Our machines are not truly labor-saving .
Out of sight, out of mind.
Out of ten persons, eleven have the itch .
Out of the frying-pan into the fire.
Overeating brings on illness, as shown by the treatment .
Over my thoughts and actions, my slumbers and dreams, she reigned yet dwelled alone and apart . (Gitanjali) .
Packed like herrings.
Pardon cannot come before the transgression .
Pardon privately given by an offended person, does not satisfy the law .
Paternal things belong to a father, maternal things to the mother .
` Pathology includes real experiments which are spontaneous, and not produced by physicians .
Patience is a plaster for all sores.
pay one back in one-s own coin.
Peace is made by the edge of the sword .
Peace is the life of the state, liberty the boul .
Pearl fishers dive for pearls, merchants sail in their ships, while children gather pebbles and scatter them again . (Gitanjali) .
Penny-wise and pound-foolish.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be . (Lincoln) .
People blame me and call me heedless; I doubt not they are right in their blame . (Gitanjali) .
Persons cannot consent to marriage before marriageable years .
Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can . (Lincoln) .
Petitions, questions, and positions, ought to be simple .
Physical sturdiness may be perpetuated in families, but, apart from other factors, it actually takes a definite amount of substance and many foot-pounds of potential energy to create physical good looks; and we should marvel at the generation of the beauties of old time could we but see the strange saurians and pterodactyls who begat them .
Physicians are many in title but few in reality .
Physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor and no small part of social problems come under their jurisdiction .
Physicians can only be called such when the ultimate aim of their labors is the healing of disease .
Physicians see many `diseases` which have no more real existence than an image in a mirror .
Pien Chiao .
Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty . (Lincoln) .
Pleasure has a sting in its tail.
Pleasure lies in activity (motion) and is a physical state turning upon activity of the soul .
Plenty is no plague.
plough the sand.
Pluck this little flower and take it, delay not! I fear lest it droop and drop into the dust . (Gitanjali) .
Poison should be tried out on a frog .
Policies ought to be adapted to the laws, not laws to the policies .
Politeness costs little nothing, but yields much.
Political Economy and Social Economy are amusing intellectual games; but Vital Economy is the Philosopher Stone. (Shaw) .
Politicians, acting from personal likes and dislikes, mistrust doctors as likely to compass their deaths MEDICAL PROVERBS in the service of enemies and so they prefer healing out of books .
Polyandry has not been tried under these conditions. (Shaw) .
Polygamy, when tried under modern democratic conditions, as by the Mormons, is wrecked by the revolt of the mass of inferior men who are condemned to celibacy by it; for the maternal instinct leads a woman to prefer a tenth share in a first rate man to the exclusive possession of a third rate one. (Shaw) .
Possession is valid against all, except him who has the right of possession .
Posterior laws abrogate former laws, if contrary .
pour water into a sieve.
Poverty is no sin.
Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.
Poverty, obedience, and celibacy are the canonical vices. (Shaw) .
Power is inimical to the law? .
Power ought to follow justice, not to go before it .
Power ought to follow justice, not to precede it .
Practise what you preach.
Praise is not pudding.
Preceding agreements are to be strictly interpreted ; but not so concerning subsequent ones .
Preceding agreements must be rigorously exacted according to the rule of the law ; it is otherwise concerning subsequent agreements, where equity is allowed to make up for the loss incurred by the failure .
Prerogative is the good and ancient right of the king, for the honour and protection of the kingdom, according to the good and ancient liberties of the people, and the usages and customs of the English laws .
Prescription does not run against one unable to act .
Prescription is a title from use and time, deriving substance from the authority of the law .
Prescription is a title, which follows the person from use and time, deriving substance from the authority of the` law .
Prescription is never founded in falsehood .
Prescription is not granted against the goods of felons, unless by record .
Presumption shall stand until the contrary is proved .
Pride can never approach to where thou walkest in the clothes of the humble among the poorest, and lowliest, and lost . (Gitanjali) .
Pride goes before a fall.
Principles prove, are not proved .
`Prisoner, tell me, who was it that bound you?` `It was my master,` said the prisoner . (Gitanjali) .
` `Prisoner, tell me, who was it that wrought this unbreakable chain?` `It was I,` said the prisoner, `who forged this chain very carefully . (Gitanjali) .
Private bargains cannot derogate from public right .
Privilege is not valid against the state .
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Prognosis is uncertain in acute diseases .
Promise is debt.
Promise little, but do much.
Proofs ought to be evident, perspicuous, and easily understood .
Property ought to be valued at the will of the owner .
Property, said Proudhon, is theft. (Shaw) .
Prosperity makes friends, and adversity tries them.
Protection draws along with it subjection, and subjection protection .
Public necessity is greater than private necessity .
Public opinion in this country is everything . (Lincoln) .
Public rights are to be preferred to private .
Public rights ought not to be decided promiscuously, according to private rights .
Public sentiment is everything . (Lincoln) .
pull the chestnuts out of the fire for somebody.
pull the devil by the tail.
Punishment must be adequate to the crime .
Punishment must be certain .
Punishment ought not to precede a crime .
Punishments are rather to be mitigated, than made more severeNeither punishment nor remedy, takes away from the increase which was before .
Pus will not flow from a boil you do not have .
put a spoke in somebody-s wheel.
Put not your hand between the bark and the tree.
put off till Doomsday.
Put off your imagination as you take off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory; but put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave the laboratory .
Put of thy holy mantle and even like him come down on the dusty soil! Deliverance? Where is this deliverance to be found? Our master himself has joyfully taken upon him the bonds of creation; he is bound with us all for ever . (Gitanjali) .
put set the cart before the horse.
Put the meat away and you`ll get rid of the flies .
Quarrels and litigation of every kind are useless. (China) .
Rain at seven, fine at eleven.
Rain waters are naturally the best, but they need to be boiled and purified from foulness .
Rare is its lowliest seat, rare is its meanest of lives . (Gitanjali) .
Rather marry a leprous wife than eat chicken reared by a leper .
Rather suffer extremities, than do infamous things .
Rather treat ten men than one woman .
Rats desert a sinking ship.
Reason and authority, are the two brightest lights of the world .
Reason is the soul of the law, the meaning of the law being charged, the law also is changed .
Records are the vestiges of antiquity and truth .
Recourse is never had to an extraordinary case, but when an ordinary one fails .
Reference is the supposition of the law, and made to one case .
Remember that even in childbeating there is the sportsman`s way and the cad`s way. (Shaw) .
Repentance is good, but innocence is better.
Reproof is beneficial to the reprover and the reproved: slander is injurious to the slanderer and the slandered. (China) .
Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar . (Lincoln) .
Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you.
Retribution is bound to come sooner or later; misfortune and happiness unerringly come to those who deserve them. (China) .
Riches and Art are spurious receipts for the production of Happiness and Beauty. (Shaw) .
Riding on a white horse `with red trappings bright and new, you will have relationship thrust upon you by those who are not related to you. (China) .
Rivers and harbours are public .
rob one-s belly to cover one-s back.
roll in money.
Roll my log and I will roll yours.
Rome was not built in a day.
,:ror which is not resisted, s approved .
run with the hare and hunt with the hounds.
Salt water and absence wash away love.
, Sapiens omnia agit cum consilio .
save one-s bacon.
Saying and doing are two things.
Science begets knowledge, opinion ignorance .
Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed .
Science in and for itself is nothing, and only becomes something through its promoters, the people .
Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride .
Science is, I believe, nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit .
Science repulses the indefinite .
Score twice before you cut once.
Scornful dogs will eat dirty puddings.
Scratch my back and Iwill scratch yours.
Self-denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality. (Shaw) .
Self done is soon done.
Self done is well done.
Self-evident truths are not to be proved .
Self is a bad counsellor.
Self-praise is no recommendation.
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. (Shaw) .
send carry owls to Athens .
Send thy angry storm, dark with death, if it is thy wish, and with lashes of lightning startle the sky from end to end . (Gitanjali) .
Sentimentality is the error of supposing that quarter can be given or taken in moral conflicts. (Shaw) .
Set a beggar on horseback and hewill ride to the devil.
Set a thief to catch a thief.
set the wolf to keep the sheep.
Shallow streams make most din.
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She has no pride of dress and decoration . (Gitanjali) .
` She raised her dark eyes on my face and stood for a moment doubtful . (Gitanjali) .
` She stopped for a minute and thought and gazed at my face in the dark . (Gitanjali) .
She who ever had remained in the depth of my being, in the twilight of gleams and of glimpses; she who never opened her veils in the morning light, will be my last gift to thee, my God, folded in my final song . (Gitanjali) .
Shi Chi .
Shih Pai .
Short debts accounts make long friends.
Should medicine ever fulfill its great ends, it must enter into the larger political and social life of our time; it must indicate the barriers which obstruct the normal completion of the life-cycle and remove them .
Should this ever come to pass, medicine, whatever it may then be, will become the common good of all .
Silence gives consent.
Silence is might .
Simplicity is a friend to the laws, and too much subtility is reprobated in law .
Simplicity is a friend to the laws, violence and fraud are most odious: too much subtility is suspected .
Simply to enumerate all the symptoms of hysteria would take a long day, so many are they .
Since Adam was a boy.
Single things which do no good, assist when combined .
Sink or swim! Six of one and half a dozen of the other.
Sins against nature are most heinous .
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God`s side, for God is always right . (Lincoln) .
Sleep following upon delirium is a good sign .
Slow and steady wins the race.
Slow but sure.
Small rain lays great dust.
Soft fire makes sweet malt.
So many countries, so many customs.
So many men, so many minds.
Some agreements are odious, but chiefly those against matrimony and commerce .
Some day I shall be President . (Lincoln) .
Some edicts admit of delay, others are peremptory .
Some important biological findings of recent vintage are clearly stated and we begin to sense the force of Renan`s dictum: La science est roturidre .
Some physicians fear and avoid counterproof; as soon as they make observations confirming their ideas, they refuse to look for contradictory facts, for fear of seeing their hypothesis vanish .
Some said, `Lo, there is the king`s flag!` We stood up on our feet and cried `There is no time for delay!` The king has come--but where are lights, where are wreaths? Where is the throne to seat him? Oh, shame! Oh utter shame! Where is the hall, the decorations? Someone has said, `Vain is this cry! Greet him with empty hands, lead him into thy rooms all bare!` Open the doors, let the conch-shells be sounded! in the depth of the night has come the king of our dark, dreary house . (Gitanjali) .
Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything . (Lincoln) .
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark .
Soon learnt, soon forgotten.
Soon ripe, soon rotten.
So use your own property, that you may not hurt another`s .
Spasm supervening upon a wound is dangerous .
Speak talk of the devil and he will appear is sure to appear.
Special things are always included in general things .
Special things are derogatory to general .
Speeches are always to be taken according to the subject matter, and the condition of persons .
Speech is silver but silence is gold.
Speech is the index of the mind .
Spinal deformity often coexists with cough and tubercle of the lungs .
Spoliation of all things ought to be restored .
Spontaneity of thought and freedom of will, as characteristics of our species, are illusions of human pride; for even savages know that, from birth on, there is naught but unconscious reflexes and instincts .
Spontaneous lassitude indicates disease .
Standers-by see more than gamesters.
Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong . (Lincoln) .
Statutes are so to be interpreted, that they may not hurt the innocent .
stick to somebody like a leech.
Still waters run deep.
Stolen pleasures are sweetest.
strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.
Stretch your arm no further than your sleeve will reach.
Stretch your legs according to the coverlet.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Strong presumption is valid in law .
Stuff today and starve tomorrow.
Subsequent marriage takes away the preceding sin .
Subsequent marriage takes away the preceding transgression .
Success is never blamed.
Such an interpretation is always to be made, that an absurdily and inconvenience may be avoided, and that judgment may not be illusroy .
Such an interpretation ought to be made, as that a thing may either rather prosper than perish .
Such carpenters, such chips.
Such combatants are patriots in the same sense as two dogs fighting for a bone are lovers of animals. (Shaw) .
Such, however, they bear with equanimity, satisfied with the approval of a wise minority .
Such keen perceptions of actuality could only originate, as we have said, through some superior intelligence within the tribe .
Sudden exertion is harmful to the sedentary .
Superfluous things oppose, defective things destroy .
Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! . (Lincoln) .
Su Wen .
Sweep before your own door.
Sydenham invented neurasthenia .
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves . (Lincoln) .
Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.
Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get. (Shaw) .
take counsel of one-s pillow.
take the bull by the horns.
Take us as you find us.
Tarred with the same brush.
Tastes differ.
teach the dog to bark.
tell tales out of school.
Tell that to the marines.
Tempest roams in the pathless sky, ships get wrecked in the trackless water, death is abroad and children play . (Gitanjali) .
Testaments, on account of the want of counsel, are to be interpreted according to the mind of the testator, although the usual words are wanting .
Testaments ought to have the broadest interpretation .
Testimonies are to be weighed, not to be numbered .
,than in a person .
That cock wonot fight.
That fear induces weakness and sickness is better demonstrated in a devastating epidemic than by moral philosophy .
That fear may have come to all, punishment to a few .
That interpretation is to be received which is not defective .
That is certain which can be rendered certain .
That is complete which consists of all its parts ; and nothing is perfect while any thing remains to be done .
That is dangerous which is not countenanced by the examples of good men .
That is expected in vain of which no effect follows .
That I should make much of myself and turn it on all sides, thus casting coloured shadows on thy radiance--such is thy _maya_ . (Gitanjali) .
That is the best country which has the fewest diseases, laws and crimes .
That is why he makes so many of them . (Lincoln) .
That is why it is so late and why I have been guilty of such omissions . (Gitanjali) .
That is why most men dread it. (Shaw) .
That I want thee, only thee--let my heart repeat without end . (Gitanjali) .
` That killed it .
That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties . (Lincoln) .
That ought not to be alleged, which, when tried is irrelevant,The deceiving of one person does not afford an action to another, An alternative petition is not to be heard .
That ought not to be allowed to the pursuer, which is not permitted to the defender .
That-s a horse of another colour.
That`s my religion . (Lincoln) .
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well . (Lincoln) .
That-s where the shoe pinches! The beggar may sing before the thief before a footpad.
That thing is proved in vain, which, when proved, is not relevant .
That vague sweetness made my heart ache with longing and it seemed to me that is was the eager breath of the summer seeking for its completion . (Gitanjali) .
That which is just and good is the law of laws .
That which is more remote does not draw to itself that which is more closely joined; but the contrary in every case .
That which is not lawful in another case, necessity makes lawful ; and necessity induces a privilege which is taken away by the law .
That which is ours cannot be transferred to another without our own deed .
That which one least anticipates soonest comes to pass.
The able doctor acts before sickness comes .
The ablest physicians attach most importance to an exact knowledge of the human frame .
The accidental function of marriage is the gratification of the amoristic sentiment of mankind. (Shaw) .
The accomplice of a crime is not to be heard .
The accused is acquitted by an equal number of votes, for, or against him The disclosing of a matter draws a remedy to itself .
The act or visitation of God does injury to nobody .
The Admirality Court has no jurisdiction over those matters which are determined by common law .
The adviser is worse than the agent .
The affirmative implies the existence of the negative .
The African disease is called yaws .
The agent attends the court where the business is carried on .
The agreement of a private person, does not derogate from public law Private advantage yields to public .
The agreement of persons cannot derogate from public right .
The agreement of two or more in the same will, constitutes an agreement .
The air is still and silent about you . (Gitanjali) .
The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread .
The appointment of an action for a certain day, is said to take place, when any thing in an uncertain case happens, which may have a tendency to be or not to be .
, The appointment of an action on a certain day, relating to stolen goods, as it implies the production of these stolen goods, binds the heir of the thief also .
The appointment of an action preceding, ought to take place before any effect can follow .
The artificial sterilization of marriage makes it possible for marriage to fulfill its accidental function whilst neglecting its essential one. (Shaw) .
The art of government is the organization of idolatry. (Shaw) .
The art of medicine is to be properly learned only from its practice and exercise .
The assassin Czolgosz made President McKinley a hero by assassinating him. (Shaw) .
The assertion that `all men are created equal` was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use . (Lincoln) .
The authorities of philosophers, physicians, and poets, are to be regarded and held in law .
The back of a chicken does not mind mosquitoes .
The ballot is stronger than the bullet . (Lincoln) .
The bells in the evening proclaim not your time of worship . (Gitanjali) .
The benefit of the clergy is open to all, when capital punishment is inflicted by the statute, unless it be taken away expressly .
The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. (Shaw) .
The best fish smell when they are three days old.
The best fish swim near the bottom.
The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good.
The best method of interpreting, is so to interpret the laws, that laws agree with laws .
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time . (Lincoln) .
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend . (Lincoln) .
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly . (Lincoln) .
The betraying of the law, is not Jess than to wish to destroy the king .
The blossom has not opened; only the wind is sighing by . (Gitanjali) .
The breathing (of Philiscus) was rare and large, like that of a person recollecting himself .
The burden of proving lies upon the prosecutor .
The burden of proving rests upon the person affirming, not upon him denying .
The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. (Shaw) .
The busiest man finds the most leisure.
The butterflies spread their sails on the sea of light . (Gitanjali) .
The camel going to seek horns lost his ears.
The cap fits.
The care of the republic is not to be delegated to an improper person .
The case is bad when that is attempted to be done with money, which ought to be effected by virtue .
, the case of the famous donkey `who died of other people`s troubles .
The cask savours of the first fill.
The cat shuts its eyes when stealing cream.
The cat would eat fish and would not wet her paws.
The cause ceasing, the effect ceases .
The chain is no stronger than its weakest link.
The chancery court favours the entire reduction of contracts .
The chariot stopped where I stood . (Gitanjali) .
The child cries out when from the right breast the mother takes it away, in the very next moment to find in the left one its consolation . (Gitanjali) .
The child of a leopard will be a leopard .
The child who is decked with prince`s robes and who has jewelled chains round his neck loses all pleasure in his play; his dress hampers him at every step . (Gitanjali) .
The Chinese tame fowls by clipping their wings, and women by deforming their feet. (Shaw) .
The Christian religion is part of the common law of England .
The church cannot pay tithes to the church .
The church is always under the protection of the king .
The cicada is aware of the autumn wind before it blows; but he who is assassinated in secret does not know his assassin. (China) .
The clergy cannot be placed in a secular office .
The cobbler should stick to his last.
The cobbler-s wife is the worst shod.
The commands of the law, when literally impossible in any case, ought to be performed as near as possible according to the intention of the law .
The common law of England hath so modified and circumscribed the prerogative of the king, that he cannot take away, or hurt the inheritance of any one .
The common law which has arisen by the consent of all, that God exists, has great weight in the laws of England .
The companion of my companion is not my companion .
The condition of a possessor is preferable .
The condition of the patient is only an accident in the history of the disease, just as each of us is only an accident in the history of humanity .
The condition of the possessor is better .
The condition of the possessor is better, and that of the defender rather than the pursuer .
The condition of the possessor is better where neither hath a right .
The condition of those who have contested a suit, is not wont to be worse, than if they had not, but for the most part better .
The confirmation of a possession defective in law, is a ratification by means of those whose right it is .
The conjunction `and` commonly serves to indicate that the writer`s mind still functions even when no signs of the phenomenon are noticeable .
The conjunction of male and female is according to the law of nature .
The consent of subjects is the root and top of empire .
The construction of law, does no injury .
The construction of law does not occasion injury .
The countenance is the index of the mind .
The Court is the servant`s hall of the sovereign. (Shaw) .
The court of chancery is not subject, unless to the parliament .
The court of the king, and the court house of the people of England, or the Parliament, are not according to written, but according to common law .
The cowardly, the insubordinate, and the envious share your objections. (Shaw) .
The craft of an author does not hurt his successor .
The crafty man is employed in universals .
The crane said to his children: out with yout A coward will never accomplish great things .
The creditor who allows property to be sold, gives up the pledge .
The creeper lives by winding itself around the tree : when the tree falls, the creeper dies. (China) .
The crime of pilfering is base .
The Critique of Pure Reason is a continual sermon against the use of the category of thought beyond the limits of actual experience .
The custom of all England is the common law of all England .
The custom of a manor, and of a place, is to be observed .
The custom of any place is the law of that place ; different in species to common law, but not contrary in kind .
The custom of manors rules the will of the master .
The custom of the English people, and the common law is free .
The custom of the kingdom of England, is the law of England .
The darkest hour is that before the dawn.
The darkest place is under the candlestick.
The darkness shudders with lightning . (Gitanjali) .
The daughter of an active old woman makes a bad housekeeper .
The daughters of the poor are their revenge upon the rich .
The day is no more, the shadow is upon the earth . (Gitanjali) .
The days are long passed when my sport was to be tossed on waves . (Gitanjali) .
The decision of twelve good and unexceptionable men, is thought by the common law of England, to .
The decline of individualized beauty was noted several decades ago and the advent of the period of universal prettiness can be verified on the streets of any city to-day .
The delights of sight and hearing and touch will bear thy delight . (Gitanjali) .
The design and narration ought to be certain, and the foundation certain, and the matter certain, which is brought into court to be tried .
, The designation of one is the exclusion of another ; and what is expressed makes what is tacit to cease .
The destiny of nations depends upon what they eat .
The devil is not so black as he is painted.
The devil knows many things because he is old.
The devil lurks behind the cross.
The devil rebuking sin.
The diagnosis is the best trump in the scheme of treatment .
The difference between the shallowest routineer and the deepest thinker appears, to the latter, trifling; to the former, infinite. (Shaw) .
The disposal of the law is stronger and later than that of a man .
The distinction between Crime and Justice is no greater. (Shaw) .
The divine punishment of perjury is destruction ; the human punishment is disgrace .
The doctor controls life and death .
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present . (Lincoln) .
The dogs bark, but the caravan goes on.
The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science .
The duke inquires contemptuously whether his gamekeeper is the equal of the Astronomer Royal; but he insists that they shall both be hanged equally if they murder him. (Shaw) .
The Dutch have taken Holland ! The early bird catches the worm.
The earth shook, the walls rocked, and it troubled us in our sleep . (Gitanjali) .
The ecclesiastical court has no right over thoe things which are matter of common law .
The effect follows the cause .
The end crowns the work.
The end justifies the means.
The equity of the Court of Chancery, as if it were the daughter of conscience, is subject to the rules of Court .
, The error in writing does not take away equity .
The essence of his teaching was, in fact, the doctrine of the spontaneous approach and the danger of preconceived ideas .
The essential function of marriage is the continuance of the race, as stated in the Book of Common Prayer. (Shaw) .
The estimation of a past transgression never increases from an afterdeed .
The evening air is eager with the sad music of the water . (Gitanjali) .
The evening star will come out when my voyage is done and the plaintive notes of the twilight melodies be struck up from the King`s gateway . (Gitanjali) .
The evident ambiguity of words is excluded by no verification .
The evil machinations of the heart are known to God before they are revealed. (China) .
The evils we bring on ourselves are hardest to bear.
The exception proves the rule.
The exposition of contemporaries is the best, and the strongest in law .
The expression of one is the exclusion of another .
The expression of those things which are tacitly implied, is unnecessary, From whatever calling any one derives profit, he ought to discharge the duty of that calling .
The extreme points of the law are not the laws .
The face is the index of the mind.
The faculty of furnishing proofs, is not to be circumscribed .
The falling out of lovers is the renewing of love.
The fatal reservation of the gentleman is that he sacrifices everything to his honor except his gentility. (Shaw) .
The fat is in the fire.
The favour of a prince ought to be permanent .
The fear which the law acknowledges in the excuse of a crime is such as can fall upon a steady man .
The first act of a trial, is the approbatory act of the judge .
The first blow is half the battle.
The first, showing just what it means for a human being to lose his health, was cleverly versified by the English poet Gay, and is, in effect, the very raison d`etre of medicine .
The first thrill of joy to my awakened soul let it come from his glance . (Gitanjali) .
The flowers have been woven and the garland is ready for the bridegroom . (Gitanjali) .
The flower sweetens the air with its perfume; yet its last service is to offer itself to thee . (Gitanjali) .
The flowers will blossom again; but youth is not perennial. (China) .
The flunkeyism propagated by the throne is the price we pay for its political convenience. (Shaw) .
` The folk-saws of England, Scotland and Germany get down to bed rock again .
The fortune of a family made by oppression will naturally not be long enjoyed. (China) .
The fox never found a better messenger than himself .
The furthest way about is the nearest way home.
The game is not worth the candle.
The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort of Nature, thrown down from her proper state and defending herself in vain .
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. (Shaw) .
` The golden string of their harp snapped, their song stopped, and they cried in dismay--`Yes, that lost star was the best, she was the glory of all heavens!` From that day the search is unceasing for her, and the cry goes on from one to the other that in her the world has lost its one joy! Only in the deepest silence of night the stars smile and whisper among themselves--`Vain is this seeking! unbroken perfection is over all!` If it is not my portion to meet thee in this life then let me ever feel that I have missed thy sight--let me not forget for a moment, let me carry the pangs of this sorrow in my dreams and in my wakeful hours . (Gitanjali) .
The good and bad fortune of men is as sudden and fitful as the changes of the weather. (China) .
The good hate to sin, from a love of virtue .
The goodness of every highest person is a common refuge to all .
The greater draws the less to itself .
The greatest charity is to do justice to each, and all, at all times .
The great pageant of thee and me has overspread the sky . (Gitanjali) .
The great physicians of the 18th Century were more remnarkable for sustained elegance of diction and conventional views of things than for aphoristic wisdom .
The great point is to bring them the real facts . (Lincoln) .
The Greek was an individualizing and an emancipating spirit, the medieval collective and enthralling-a genius of assemblies and associations of men .
The green hills ever remain as witnesses of the past and present: the green water cannot wash away the right and wrong. (China) .
The habit of confirming and rescinding laws, is very dangerous .
The handling of another man`s property with an intention of stealing it, is theft .
The harvest follows the seed time .
The head of a fool never whitens .
The head of a guinea fowl carries no burden .
The heart of man is like iron ; the force of the law is like a furnace that melts it. (China) .
The heart of the mean, cunning cad is bad. (China) .
The heart that once truly loves never forgets.
The heaven`s river has drowned its banks and the flood of joy is abroad . (Gitanjali) .
The heir is not bound in England to pay the debts of his predecessor, unless he hath been obliged to this by his predecessor, except only what is due to the king .
The heir of my heir is my heir .
The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail.
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person . (Lincoln) .
The highest duty of medicine is to get the patient well; of several effective remedies, choose the least sensational .
The highest happiness lies in divine wisdom .
The highest mountain does not reject grains of sand : every mickle makes a rnuckle. (China) .
The holy stream of thy music breaks through all stony obstacles and rushes on . (Gitanjali) .
The honest and upright gentleman puts his trust in God. (China) .
The horizon is fiercely naked--not the thinnest cover of a soft cloud, not the vaguest hint of a distant cool shower . (Gitanjali) .
The horizon is of brass and iron, with never a lift into the blue for the human spirit .
The horse showed its faithfulness by lowering its bridle into a well to thus enable its master to save himself : the dog showed its kindness by wetting the grass to prevent fire from reaching the spot where its master lay. (China) .
The human soul develops up to death .
The hut of a bachelor is never free from evil odors .
The imagination cannot conceive a viler criminal than he who should build another London like the present one, nor a greater benefactor than he who should destroy it. (Shaw) .
The incidence of phthisis is commonly between the ages of 18 and 35 .
The incidents of a thing follow it, as a matter of course .
The inclination has had no effect, unless the effect follow .
The inclination is punished although the effect may not follow .
The inclusion of one, is the exclusion of the other .
The individualized physician is, in the truest sense, a man of the world .
The infinite sky is motionless overhead and the restless water is boisterous . (Gitanjali) .
, The intention of every one is presumed to be the same as that of the law, and as it ought to be, especially in dubious cases .
The interpretation of fraud in the civil law is not always desired from the event merely, but likewise from the intention .
The investigator should have a robust faith and yet not believe .
The joining together of words, shows their acceptation in the same sense .
The judge is condemned, when the guilty is acquitted .
The judges, and not the jurors, determine the question of law .
The jury, and not the judges, determine the question of fact .
The kindness of a prince ought to be permanent .
The king can do nothing, unless what he can do by the law .
The king cannot do a favour to the injury of another .
The king cannot fall in law .
The king can order nothing, unless by parliament lawfully constituted .
The king confers honours, virtue preserves them, transgressions take them away .
The king gives nothing, unless by record .
The king himself ought not to be under man, but under God and the law ; because the law makes the king, therefore let the king give lawfully what the law hath given to him, viz -, dominion and authority ; for it is not the will of the king that rules, but the law .
The king is a living law .
The king is a mixed character .
The king is never below age .
The king is not forced to do justice .
The king is nothing else than the acting law .
The king is not rich, when his subjects are poor .
The king is presumed to have all the law, in the recess of his heart .
The king is presumed to have all the laws in the recess of his heart .
The king is the father of his country .
The king is the father of his country .
The king is to be reckoned the lord of all the lands in the kingdom ; and all hold of him, yet so as that every one has his own .
The king may do no evil or injustice .
The king may not burden a subject with taxes .
The king may not expel from the kingdom, a subject against his will .
The king neither pays losses, nor receives them in the law .
The languid hours pass by on the shore--Alas for me! The spring has done its flowering and taken leave . (Gitanjali) .
The last decisions are stronger in law .
The last drop makes the cup run over.
The last straw breaks the camel-s back.
The last will of a testator is to be fulfilled, according to its true intention .
The last will of a testator, is to be fulfilled according to its true intention .
The last will of the testator is to be followed, according to his true intention .
The latent ambiguity of words is removed by the establishment of the fact .
The latent ambiguity of words is supplied by their verification ; for the ambiguity which arises from the fact, is taken away by its being verified .
The Latin name for money is derived from another Latin term signifying cattle ; for all the riches of the ancients consisted of animals .
The law allows certain things for the avoiding of a greater evil, which, however, it by no means approves .
The law always intends what is agreeable to reason .
The law compells nobody to the performance of vain and useless things .
The law designs rather punishment than an inconvenience .
The law does not admit fractions and divisions of questions .
The law does not admit of the fractional part of a day .
The law does not compel to perform what is impossible .
The law does nothing in vain .
The law does not prohibit many things which however it silently condemns .
The law does not regard mere intentions, but overt acts .
The law does not require that to be verified which appears evident to the court .
The law feigns where equity stops short .
The law is a just sanction, ordering things honest, and prohibiting the contrary .
The law is approved the more when it is found to be in the right, by reason .
The law is not to be violated by the king .
The law is safest for the poor .
The law is the chief reason which orders what is useful and necessary, and prohibits the contrary .
The law is the father and guardian of orphans, the insane, and the poor .
The law is the soul of the king, and the king is the soul of the law .
The law looks forward, but does not look backward .
The law makes the king .
The law never allows any thing against truth .
The law obliges nobody to shew what he is presumed not to know .
The law of England cannot undergo a change, without the interference of Parliament .
The law of England does not suffer an absurdity .
The law pays little regard to words rashly uttered .
The law regards the order of nature .
The law reprobates delay .
The laws allow to take arms against the armed .
The laws approve all things agreeable to God, useful to men, honourable to the state, just and advantageous to private persons, and impose them upon every one according to his faculties All transgressions openly committed are less .
The laws are adapted to those things which most frequently happen .
The laws are established not for individuals, but fof the general good .
The laws are silent amidst arms .
The laws are to be more favourably explained that their will or intention may be preserved .
The laws assist waking, but not sleeping people .
The laws do not regard a crime by itself, nor as a private loss, but as a public evil .
The law serves waking, not sleeping people .
The laws of England in every case give countenance to liberty .
The laws of nature are immutable .
The laws of the lawgiver are impotent beside the laws of human nature, as to his disillusion many a lawgiver has discovered .
The law speaks the same language to all .
The laws sometime sleep, never die .
The law wishes inheritance to be free to those who are not strictly bound in all time coming .
The law works wrong to none does injustice to none .
The least corporeal punishment is greater, than any pecuniary punishment .
The least corporeal punishment, is greater than any pecuniary punishment .
The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon, the least confused thinker its Socrates, the least commonplace poet its Shakespear. (Shaw) .
The leaves rustled overhead; the cuckoo sang from the unseen dark, and perfume of _babla_ flowers came from the bend of the road . (Gitanjali) .
The leopard cannot change its spots.
The lethargic have slow pulse .
The life breath of thy music runs from sky to sky . (Gitanjali) .
The light is shattered into gold on every cloud, my darling, and it scatters gems in profusion . (Gitanjali) .
The light of thy music illumines the world . (Gitanjali) .
The livelong day has passed in spreading his seat on the floor; but the lamp has not been lit and I cannot ask him into my house . (Gitanjali) .
The living voice has an influence over human action altogether independent of the intellectual worth of what it utters .
The longest day has an end.
The looks of a dog betray his pedigree .
The Lord prefers common-looking people . (Lincoln) .
, The Lord`s day is not a day for court business .
The love of economy is the root of all virtue. (Shaw) .
The love of fairplay is a spectator`s virtue, not a principal`s. (Shaw) .
The magnetic needle of professional rectitude should point in the direction of pity and humanity .
The man who knows how to make and retain friends always maintains his respect for them, however long the acquaintance may be. (China) .
The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her. (Shaw) .
The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. (Shaw) .
The market day is over and work is all done for the busy . (Gitanjali) .
The master may without blame defend the cause or person of his servant, even where it is not lawful for another .
The Master of Arts, by proving that no man has any natural rights, compels himself to take his own for granted. (Shaw) .
The matter in question is of greater weight than the induction which can be taken from similar ones .
The matter is as yet undetermined .
The meaning or interpretation of writs is to be favourably taken, that the matter may rather succeed than perish .
The medical interest of folk-proverbs is, thus, not so much in pathological, as in physiological and psychological observations, the things an observant physician notes by the way in his practice .
The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. (Milton) .
, The mind of man is the soul of his writing .
The minimum of national celibacy (ascertained by dividing the number of males in the community by the number of females, and taking the quotient as the number of wives or husbands permitted to each person) is secured in England (where the quotient is ) by the institution of monogamy. (Shaw) .
The minor is not bound to defend himself with respect to an inheritance The minor is not bound to answer during his minority, unless in the case of a dowry on account of favour .
The modern gentleman, without the hardihood of the one or the culture of the other, has the appetite of both put together. (Shaw) .
The modern sentimental term for the national minimum of celibacy is Purity. (Shaw) .
The moon does not heed the barking of dogs.
The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes. (Shaw) .
The more favourable opinion in general or doubtful words is to be preferred .
The more frequent the evil, the worse it is .
The more haste, the less speed.
The more mildly a ran commands, the better is he obeyed .
The more the merrier.
The more wicked and cunning a man is the poorer he will become. (China) .
The morning bird twitters and asks, `Woman, what hast thou got?` No, it is no flower, nor spices, nor vase of perfumed water--it is thy dreadful sword . (Gitanjali) .
The morning hour is late, the bird sings in weary notes, _neem_ leaves rustle overhead and I sit and think and think . (Gitanjali) .
The morning light has flooded my eyes--this is thy message to my heart . (Gitanjali) .
The morning sea of silence broke into ripples of bird songs; and the flowers were all merry by the roadside; and the wealth of gold was scattered through the rift of the clouds while we busily went on our way and paid no heed . (Gitanjali) .
The morning sun never lasts a day.
The morning time is past, and the noon . (Gitanjali) .
The morning will surely come, the darkness will vanish, and thy voice pour down in golden streams breaking through the sky . (Gitanjali) .
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor. (Shaw) .
The most exalted officials must yield implicit obedience to the law. (China) .
The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure. (Shaw) .
The most popular method of distributing wealth is the method of the roulette table. (Shaw) .
The most revolutionary invention of the XIX century was the artificial sterilization of marriage. (Shaw) .
The mountain has brought forth a mouse.
The mountains in rain and mist amidst snow are easy to look at but difficult to reproduce. (China) .
The name of a disease is not, as it is continually regarded, a thing .
The names of the prime movers of science disappear gradually in a general fusion and the more a science advances, the more impersonal and detached from the past it becomes .
The nature of actions is strictly to be observed .
The nearer the bone, the sweeter the flesh.
The necessity of proving, lies on him who raises the action .
The night darkened . (Gitanjali) .
The night is black as a black stone . (Gitanjali) .
The night is dark and my heart is fearful--yet I will take up the lamp, open my gates and bow to him my welcome . (Gitanjali) .
The night is nearly spent waiting for him in vain . (Gitanjali) .
Then of a sudden thou didst hold out thy right hand and say `What hast thou to give to me?` Ah, what a kingly jest was it to open thy palm to a beggar to beg! I was confused and stood undecided, and then from my wallet I slowly took out the least little grain of corn and gave it to thee . (Gitanjali) .
The North American Indian was a type of the sportsman warrior gentleman. (Shaw) .
The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone. (Shaw) .
Then take away your hands and silently put up with your defeat, my heart, and think it your good fortune to sit perfectly still where you are placed . (Gitanjali) .
Then thy words will take wing in songs from every one of my birds` nests, and thy melodies will break forth in flowers in all my forest groves . (Gitanjali) .
Then will Bacon`s prediction be accomplished fact: What seemed causal in theory will become established rule in practice .
Then will the Baconian `knowledge is power` become reality .
The oaths of the poor are to be kept .
The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion . (Lincoln) .
The offices of servants admit of a substitute, but not in like manner do most judicatory offices .
The offspring follows the mother .
The offspring of a lawful marriage does not more certainly know its mother than its father .
The order of things is confounded, if jurisdiction is not preserved to every one .
The ox at the plough has no fodder left while the rat in the barn has more than enough grain to eat. (China) .
, The particularizing of one is the exclusion of another .
The past maintains its value through these creations of art and letters .
The payment of the price is held as a purchase .
The people are, in fact, the main supporters of quackery, and modern quackery, as Sudhoff affirms, is but a theft from the most ancient phases of folk-medicine .
The people of England have been accustomed to be subject to nobody, nor ought they ; but to God and the laws .
The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions . (Lincoln) .
The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them . (Lincoln) .
The perfect servant, when his master makes humane advances to him, feels that his existence is threatened, and hastens to change his place. (Shaw) .
The Periclean Athenian was a type of the intellectually and artistically cultivated gentleman. (Shaw) .
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next . (Lincoln) .
The phrase `science for its own sake` smacks of that inhuman viewpoint in which man regards his soul as the ultimate reality, as his essential existence, manifesting itself as a spirit striving to obtain a corporeal existence .
The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge of his own condition while suffering .
The physician is the servant of the art and the patient must combat the disease along with the physician .
The physician whose mistakes are negligible wins my unqualified praise .
The pitcher goes often to the well but is broken at last.
The plant of immortality may lie hidden among weeds : a basin of the finest gold may be buried in the mud. (China) .
The pleading of a cause among our countrymen, implies an obligation to act fairly, like good men, and without au intention to defraud any one .
The poignant song is echoed through all the sky in many-coloured tears and smiles, alarms and hopes; waves rise up and sink again, dreams break and form . (Gitanjali) .
The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols. (Shaw) .
The possession of a brother of a simple feu, makes his sister to be hia heiress .
The possession of the tenant of a fund, is to be reckoned the possession of a reversionary .
The pot calls the kettle black.
The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man. (Shaw) .
The presence of the body, takes away mistake of name ; and the truth of the name removes the error of demonstration .
The principal ought always to be discussed, before recourse be had to his cautioners .
The principals and accessories should suffer the same punishment The dice and the brothel are infamous things .
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just . (Lincoln) .
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
The proprieties of words are to be observed .
The public law cannot be changed, by the agreements of private persons .
The quaint couplets of Ambroise Pare illustrate the knack of terse, practical counsel which usually characterizes the surgeon: PARE Better a tried remedy than a new fangled one .
The quality which ought to be inherent, is easily presumed .
The quest for righteousness is Oriental; the quest for knowledge Occidental .
The rain has held back for days and days, my God, in my arid heart . (Gitanjali) .
There are lees to every wine.
There are more ways to the wood than one.
There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones. (Shaw) .
There are three sentences of the Alexandrian Herophilus which have made their fortune .
There are times when I languidly linger and times when I awaken and hurry in search of my goal; but cruelly thou hidest thyself from before me . (Gitanjali) .
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. (Shaw) .
The reason of a law discontinuing, the law itself discontinues .
There at the fording in the little boat the unknown man plays upon his lute . (Gitanjali) .
The receiver is as bad as the thief.
There comes the morning with the golden basket in her right hand bearing the wreath of beauty, silently to crown the earth . (Gitanjali) .
Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. (Shaw) .
The reformer for whom the world is not good enough finds himself shoulder to shoulder with him that is not good enough for the world. (Shaw) .
There has never been a time when it was not .
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, `Truth is the daughter of Time . (Lincoln) .
There is a place for everything, and everything in its place.
There is a presumption in favour of legitimation .
There is, in any well executed description of disease a remarkable power of transmission .
There is more security in property, than in a person .
There is more security in the thing .
There is more than one way to kill a cat.
There is no confirmation where the preceding gift is invalid .
There is no day nor night, nor form nor colour, and never, never a word . (Gitanjali) .
There is no fire without smoke.
There is no loss without a remedy .
There is none to count thy minutes . (Gitanjali) .
There is no obligation not to give fraudulent counsel ; but if fraud and cunning intervene, an action is competent concerning the craft .
There is no obligation to things impossible ; none is obliged to do impossibilities .
There is no place like home.
There is no rose without a thorn.
There is no rule without an exception.
There is no smoke without fire.
There is no supposition of right where the truth is evidentFiliation cannot be proved .
There is nothing so agreeable to natural equity, than that every thing be dissolved by that tie by which it was bound .
` There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one . (Lincoln) .
There is the same estimation concerning things not apparent and things not existing .
The relation of master and servant is advantageous only to masters who do not scruple to abuse their authority, and to servants who do not scruple to abuse their trust. (Shaw) .
The relation of superior to inferior excludes good manners. (Shaw) .
There may be loss without injustice .
The remedy is worse than the disease.
The remedy of the law lies open to all within the kingdom whoaskit .
There ought to be either some special emergent loss, or at least some grievance which can hurt, and may appear in all probability likely to hurt .
The repose of the sun-embroidered green gloom slowly spread over my heart . (Gitanjali) .
, The rescript of the prince, is not valid against the law .
There should be no dressing for wounds except alcohol, for in wounds, the dry state approximates to the healthy and the moist to the unhealthy .
There-s many a slip between == between the cup and the lip.
There-s no use crying over spilt milk.
The rest are merely replicas of the common stock of folk-wisdom of other nations: MEDICAL PROVERBS 9&3 The absent are always in the wrong .
The results are before us. (Shaw) .
There was none in the world who ever saw her face to face, and she remained in her loneliness waiting for thy recognition . (Gitanjali) .
There will still be business enough . (Lincoln) .
, The right of accrcscing has no place among merchants .
The right of accrescing is preferable to burdens .
The right of blood, which is considered in legitimate succession, is sought for at the very time of birth .
The rights of blood can be dissolved by no civil right .
The rights of superiority are not transferred by bare deliveries and enjoyments .
The rights of superiority are transferred without title and delivery by long possession, viz .
The right to live is abused whenever it is not constantly challenged. (Shaw) .
The river has its everyday work to do and hastens through fields and hamlets; yet its incessant stream winds towards the washing of thy feet . (Gitanjali) .
The rotten apple injures its neighbours.
The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. (Shaw) .
The rule is that which briefly relates the matter, not that law may be taken from a rule, but that which is of the law may be made a rule .
The safety of the people is the highest law .
The sage does not treat those who are ill, but those who are well .
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures . (Gitanjali) .
The same thing is always referred to the nearest antecedentIgnorance of a fact or deed excuses .
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood. (Shaw) .
The scalded dog fears cold water.
The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen .
The sea plays with children, and pale gleams the smile of the sea beach . (Gitanjali) .
The sea surges up with laughter and pale gleams the smile of the sea beach . (Gitanjali) .
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people . (Lincoln) .
The secret gushes out from my heart . (Gitanjali) .
The seekin` for one thing will find another .
These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only . (Lincoln) .
These my lamps are blown out at every little puff of wind, and trying to light them I forget all else again and again . (Gitanjali) .
The sense of words is to be taken from the cause of pleading, and words are always to be taken according to the subject matter .
The sense of words is twofold, mild and rough, and words are alway* to be taken in the milder sense .
The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing . (Lincoln) .
The shepherd boy drowsed and dreamed in the shadow of the banyan tree, and I laid myself down by the water and stretched my tired limbs on the grass . (Gitanjali) .
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep`s for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty . (Lincoln) .
The Siamese twins were carried over 50,000 miles.
The sky is overcast with clouds and the rain is ceaseless . (Gitanjali) .
The sleep that flits on baby`s eyes--does anybody know from where it comes? Yes, there is a rumour that it has its dwelling there, in the fairy village among shadows of the forest dimly lit with glow-worms, there hang two timid buds of enchantment . (Gitanjali) .
The slipperiness of the tongue is not easily to be drawn into punishment ; or a lapsus lingua slips of the tongue, cannot be punished .
The smile that flickers on baby`s lips when he sleeps--does anybody know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumour that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning--the smile that flickers on baby`s lips when he sleeps . (Gitanjali) .
The solemnities of the law are to be observed .
The soul is rational and irrational Moral virtue is rational when irrational desires are subjected to reason .
The sound body is a product of the sound mind. (Shaw) .
The speech of my heart will be carried on in murmurings of a song . (Gitanjali) .
The stars have wrought their anklets of light to deck thy feet, but mine will hang upon thy breast . (Gitanjali) .
The stars make no noise .
The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller. (Milton) .
The substance is prior, and more worthy than what is eventual .
The substance of a thing is almost destroyed, ifs form being changed .
The success of a discovery depends upon the time of its appearance .
The sun rose to the mid sky and doves cooed in the shade . (Gitanjali) .
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby. (Milton) .
The suppression of a fact, takes away equity .
The supreme power can dissolve itself; it cannot bind itself .
The sweet, soft freshness that blooms on baby`s limbs--does anybody know where it was hidden so long? Yes, when the mother was a young girl it lay pervading her heart in tender and silent mystery of love--the sweet, soft freshness that has bloomed on baby`s limbs . (Gitanjali) .
The tailor makes the man.
The task of science is not to attack the objects of belief but to stake out the limits of the knowable and to center consciousness within them .
The thieves had their revenge when Marx convicted the bourgeoisie of theft. (Shaw) .
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who`ll get me a book I ain`t read . (Lincoln) .
The things which derogate from common law, are strictly interpreted .
The thunder roars in the sky . (Gitanjali) .
The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed . (Lincoln) .
The time has not come true, the words have not been rightly set; only there is the agony of wishing in my heart . (Gitanjali) .
The time that my journey takes is long and the way of it long . (Gitanjali) .
The tongue of idle persons is never idle.
The touchstone of true science is power of performance, for it is a truism that what can, also will, and thus attains to real existence .
The traveller has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end . (Gitanjali) .
The true diagnostic of modern gentility is parasitism. (Shaw) .
The true rate of advance in medicine is not to be tested by the work of single men, but by the practical capacity of the mass .
The truer test of national medical progress is what the country doctor is .
The truly scientific spirit should make us modest and kindly .
The truth of a demonstration, takes away the mistake of a name .
The tyranny that forbids you to make the road with pick and shovel is worse than that which prevents you from lolling along it in a carriage and pair. (Shaw) .
The uncompromising agnosticism of the youthful Virchow was maintained with breezy, jocund vigor by Huxley, the ablest English prose-writer of his time .
The unconscious self is the real genius. (Shaw) .
The unfortunate are easily wounded .
The union of male and female is according to the law of nature .
The union of three witnesses always ought to happen, when the jurors can have better information .
The United States of America made Czolgosz a hero by the same process. (Shaw) .
The unlucky doctor treats the beginning of an illness; the fortunate doctor the end .
The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child`s character. (Shaw) .
The voice came `Wake up! delay not!` We pressed our hands on our hearts and shuddered with fear . (Gitanjali) .
The voice of one man is the voice of no one.
The waves have become clamorous, and upon the bank in the shady lane the yellow leaves flutter and fall . (Gitanjali) .
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him . (Lincoln) .
The way the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
The wicked hate to sin, from a fear of punishmentLet a judge be free from hatred and love .
, The wife, as she is under the power of her husband, is not liable in the lesser cases of accusation ; it is otherwise in the greater cases, such as treason and homicide .
The will is regarded in transgressions, not the issue .
The will of a madman, or of him who is interdicted from the administration of his goods, is nothing .
The will of the testator has a broad and favourable interpretation .
The will of the testator is cancellable, even to the last term of his life .
The will shall be considered as the deed .
The wills of superiors ought to conclude fitly .
The wind cannot be caught in a net.
The wisdom of the law is not to be valued by a pecuniary consideration .
The woodlands have hushed their songs, and doors are all shut at every house . (Gitanjali) .
The words mark the time of payment of current money .
The words of a chaiter are taken more strongly against a person expressing them .
The words of the law, not in a vulgar sense, but in the sense of the law, do not require a lax and precarious interpretation, but one certain and positive by the laws .
The work shows the workman.
The works that I have in hand I will finish afterwards . (Gitanjali) .
The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental .
The wrath of a man does not fulfil the justice of God .
The writing of that woman who is under the power of her husband has no legal weightis void in law .
The writs of superiors ought to be directly expressed, and to suppose nothing by way of induction or inference .
The written deed of no one can derogate from the laws .
The XIX century was the Age of Faith in Fine Art. (Shaw) .
They are hand and glove.
They are perjured who observing the words of an oath, deceive the ears of those who hear them .
` They blame me and they go away in scorn . (Gitanjali) .
They build their houses with sand and they play with empty shells . (Gitanjali) .
They called me and shouted, `Come with us, the morning is wearing on to noon . (Gitanjali) .
They come and ask me, `Tell me all your meanings . (Gitanjali) .
They come and ask me, `Who is he?` I know not how to answer them . (Gitanjali) .
They come with their laws and their codes to bind me fast; but I evade them ever, for I am only waiting for love to give myself up at last into his hands . (Gitanjali) .
They crossed many meadows and hills, and passed through strange, far-away countries . (Gitanjali) .
They die by the hands of other men. (Shaw) .
They do not seem to consent, who commit a mistake .
They do not seem to lose their property to whom it did not belong .
The years roll on imperceptibly and all things quickly pass away. (China) .
They guided me all the day long to the mysteries of the country of pleasure and pain, and, at last, to what palace gate have the brought me in the evening at the end of my journey? I boasted among men that I had known you . (Gitanjali) .
They have clung to me all my life . (Lincoln) .
They know not how to swim, they know not how to cast nets . (Gitanjali) .
They must hunger in winter that will not work in summer.
The young light of morning comes through the window and spreads itself upon thy bed . (Gitanjali) .
` They said, `We shall help you in the worship of your God and humbly accept only our own share in his grace`; and then they took their seat in a corner and they sat quiet and meek . (Gitanjali) .
they seek not for hidden treasures, they know not how to cast nets . (Gitanjali) .
They see your pictures in all works of mine . (Gitanjali) .
They should be beware of drinking, abandon licentiousness, and refrain from gambling. (China) .
They who serve at the altar, should live by the altar .
They who succeed in the room of another, have just cause of ignorance ; whether that which is sought for be due, the sureties, no less than the heirs, can allege just ignorance .
Thine eyes were sad when they fell on me; thy voice was tired as thou spokest low--`Ah, I am a thirsty traveller . (Gitanjali) .
Things are brought down to brass tacks .
Things expressed hurt ; those not expressed do net hurt .
Things inherent to a person, cannot be separated from a person .
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle . (Lincoln) .
Things past cannot be recalled.
Things sacred should be imparted to sacred persons only; and it is not lawful to impart them to the profane until they have been initiated into the mysteries of the science .
Things that I longed for in vain and things that I got--let them pass . (Gitanjali) .
Think thrice before you act and so avoid future re pentance. (China) .
Think today and speak tomorrow.
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it . (Lincoln) .
This expresses my idea of democracy . (Lincoln) .
This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life . (Gitanjali) .
This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world . (Lincoln) .
This is my delight, thus to wait and watch at the wayside where shadow chases light and the rain comes in the wake of the summer . (Gitanjali) .
This is my prayer to thee, my lord--strike, strike at the root of penury in my heart . (Gitanjali) .
This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject. (Shaw) .
This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new . (Gitanjali) .
This screen that thou hast raised is painted with innumerable figures with the brush of the night and the day . (Gitanjali) .
This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have . (Lincoln) .
This thy self-separation has taken body in me . (Gitanjali) .
This will save discontent and regret when you become old. (China) .
Those fears are to be considered as vain, which do not fallupon a steady man .
Those points are by no means to be changed, which admit of a clear interpretation .
Those things are by no means to be changed, which have always had a certain interpretation .
Those things which are done at once, or certainly, seem to be inherent .
Those things which are of no avail when single, are profitable when joined .
Those things which cannot possibly be given, or which have no existence in the nature of things, are considered as things not ineluded .
Those things which seldom happen are not rashly to be computed in transacting business .
Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph. (Shaw) .
Those who came to call me in vain have gone back in anger . (Gitanjali) .
Those who consent, and those who act, shall be subjected to the same punishment .
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves . (Lincoln) .
Those who have property must sometimes have monetary transactions: when you have to make repayment of a loan, remember that you have been a borrower. (China) .
Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes. (Shaw) .
Those whom we called brutes had their revenge when Darwin shewed us that they are our cousins. (Shaw) .
Those who swoon frequently, and without apparent cause, are liable to die suddenly .
Those who understand evil pardon it: those who resent it destroy it. (Shaw) .
Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better. (Shaw) .
Those who work hard escape many kinds of infirmities .
Thou art the Brother amongst my brothers, but I heed them not, I divide not my earnings with them, thus sharing my all with thee . (Gitanjali) .
Thou art the sky and thou art the nest as well . (Gitanjali) .
Thou art the solitary wayfarer in this deserted street . (Gitanjali) .
Thou didst not turn in contempt from my childish play among dust, and the steps that I heard in my playroom are the same that are echoing from star to star . (Gitanjali) .
Thou ever pourest for me the fresh draught of thy wine of various colours and fragrance, filling this earthen vessel to the brim . (Gitanjali) .
Though ancestors may be remote sacrifices should be offered to them in a spirit of sincerity. (China) .
Though its colour be not deep and its smell be faint, use this flower in thy service and pluck it while there is time . (Gitanjali) .
Though man is powerless to requite the favours of Heaven, Heaven is always heedful of the needs of man. (China) .
Though the life of man does not last for one hundred years, be has the worries of a thousand. (China) .
Though your sons and grandsons may be stupid, they hould be educated. (China) .
Thou givest thyself to me in love and then feelest thine own entire sweetness in me . (Gitanjali) .
Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger . (Gitanjali) .
Thou hast given me seats in homes not my own . (Gitanjali) .
Thou hast given me thy sword for adornment . (Gitanjali) .
Thou hast left death for my companion and I shall crown him with my life . (Gitanjali) .
Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure . (Gitanjali) .
Thou hast made me known to friends whom I knew not . (Gitanjali) .
Thou hast taken every moment of my life in thine own hands . (Gitanjali) .
Thou knowest how to wait . (Gitanjali) .
Thou settest a barrier in thine own being and then callest thy severed self in myriad notes . (Gitanjali) .
Three things follow the infamous defamer, increase of avoiding, decrease of purse, loss of conscience .
Through birth and death, in this world or in others, wherever thou leadest me it is thou, the same, the one companion of my endless life who ever linkest my heart with bonds of joy to the unfamiliar . (Gitanjali) .
Thus, in a case of chorea, it is only necessary td inquire how long it has existed .
Thus it is that thou hast come down to me . (Gitanjali) .
Thus I waited for the morning, when thou didst depart, to find a few fragments on the bed . (Gitanjali) .
Thus night and day I worked at the chain with huge fires and cruel hard strokes . (Gitanjali) .
Thy centuries follow each other perfecting a small wild flower . (Gitanjali) .
Thy desire at once puts out the light from the lamp it touches with its breath . (Gitanjali) .
Thy face is bent from above, thy eyes look down on my eyes, and my heart has touched thy feet . (Gitanjali) .
Thy gifts to us mortals fulfil all our needs and yet run back to thee undiminished . (Gitanjali) .
Thy glance fell on me and thou camest down with a smile . (Gitanjali) .
Thy infinite gifts come to me only on these very small hands of mine . (Gitanjali) .
Thy sun and stars can never keep thee hidden from me for aye . (Gitanjali) .
Thy sunbeam comes upon this earth of mine with arms outstretched and stands at my door the livelong day to carry back to thy feet clouds made of my tears and sighs and songs . (Gitanjali) .
Thy sword is with me to cut asunder my bonds, and there shall be no fear left for me in the world . (Gitanjali) .
Thy worship does not impoverish the world . (Gitanjali) .
Time and tide wait for no man.
Time cures all things.
Time is endless in thy hands, my lord . (Gitanjali) .
Time is money.
Time is the great healer.
Times are to be distinguished .
Times are to be distinguished ; there is a time to act, and another to finish .
Time works wonders.
Timidity shows want of power, temerity want of art .
Title and acquittal ought to proceed from the more worthy person .
Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior. (Shaw) .
To add fuel oil to the fire flames.
To address a head without knowledge is like the barking of a dog in a green valley .
To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad. (Shaw) .
To angle with a silver hook.
To avoid sickness, eat less; to prolong life, worry less .
To beat about the bush.
To beat the air.
To be born with a silver spoon in one-s mouth.
To become a good doctor requires breaking the arm three times .
To become a real man, you cannot live at ease; if you live at ease, you cannot become a real man. (China) .
To bed is best for foot, leg or thigh trouble .
To be head over ears in debt.
To be held by the things to which you may not have consented, is not law, but servitude .
To be in one-s birthday suit.
To benefit others is to benefit yourself. (China) .
To be poor without murmuring is difficult : to he rich without being proud is easy. (China) .
To be up to the ears in love.
To be wise behind the hand.
To bring grist to somebody-s mill.
To build a fire under oneself.
To build on ones own property is not allowed, when it may be hurtful to another .
To buy a pig in a poke.
To call a dog do not carry a stick .
To call a spade a spade.
To call off the dogs.
To carry coals to Newcastle.
To cast pearls before swine.
To cast prudence to the winds.
To come away none the wiser.
To come off cheap.
To come off with a whole skin.
To come off with flying colours.
To come out dry.
To conceal fraud is fraud .
To confirm is to strengthen, or make strong, that which before was weak .
To cure oneself by the book is bad and an experienced physician far preferable .
Today the morning has closed its eyes, heedless of the insistent calls of the loud east wind, and a thick veil has been drawn over the ever-wakeful blue sky . (Gitanjali) .
Today the summer has come at my window with its sighs and murmurs; and the bees are plying their minstrelsy at the court of the flowering grove . (Gitanjali) .
To do justice is royal power .
To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy / The art of medicine consists in three things, the disease, the patient and the physician .
To do otherwise is to lose sight of the patient and to distort our conception of the disease .
To flee into an ideal world is a false resource of transient success; it only facilitates the play of the adversary, and w-hen knowledge only reflects itself, it becomes unsubstantial and empty, or resolv`es itself into illusions and verbiage .
To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary . (Lincoln) .
To injure ambassadors is against the law of nations .
To interpret and make the laws agree with laws, is the best way of interpreting them .
To judge and answer is uncivil, if the whole law is not attended to, any one claim of it being merely proposed .
To know, is properly to comprehend a matter, by reason, or by its cause .
To know the laws, is not to understand their words, but their force and power .
To learn how to treat disease, one must learn how to recognize it .
To lose one`s health renders science null, art inglorious, strength effortless, wealth useless and eloquence powerless .
Tomorrow come never.
To none shall we sell, to none shall we deny, or put off justice, or rectitude .
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
Too much is never spoken when never enough is spoken .
Too much knowledge makes the head bald.
Too much of a good thing is good for nothing.
Too much subtility is reprobated in the law .
Too much water drowned the miller .
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
To receive any thing, that you may do justice, is not so much to receive, as to extort .
To receive a reward that has not been merited should make one uneasy when eating or sleeping. (China) .
To render is nothing else than to restore what is received ; or to render is, as it were, to give back ; and it is called render from returning because it goes back .
Tortures are odious to the laws .
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men . (Lincoln) .
To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men . (Lincoln) .
To take one leg of a fly is equivalent to a strong purge .
To tell stories is the sign of a commonplace mind .
To the mind that is not clouded all things will be clear. (China) .
To throw a stone in one-s own garden.
To throw dust in somebody-s eyes.
To throw straws against the wind.
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To treat somebody with a dose of his own medicine.
To use a steam-hammer to crack nuts.
To wash one-s dirty linen in public.
To wear one-s heart upon one-s sleeve.
To weep over an onion.
Towering genius disdains a beaten path . (Lincoln) .
To whom jurisdiction has been given, those things `also seem to be granted, without which jurisdiction could not be explained, He to whom more is allowed than is proper, wishes more than is allowed .
To whom more is allowed, that which is less ought not to be allowed .
To whom what is greater is allowed, what is lest ought also to be allowed .
To work with the left hand.
Treat the man who is sick and not a Greek name .
Trial must take place, where the jury may obtain better information .
True blue will never stain.
True coral needs no painter-s brush.
True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain .
True science teaches us to doubt and to abstain from ignorance .
Truth comes out of the mouths of babes and sucklings.
Truth dreads nothing, unless to be hidden .
Truth is stranger than fiction.
Truth is the mother of justice .
Truth lies at the bottom of a well.
Truth spoken by any one, is from God .
Truth which is by no means defended, is oppressed ; and he who does not disapprove, approves it .
Tso Chuan .
Tso Chuan .
Tung-Su Pai .
Turpe est viro, id in quo quotidie versatur ignorare .
Two blacks do not make a white.
Two cannot entirely posess one thing .
Two eyes see more than one, Let punishment come to a few, fear to all .
Two heads are better than one.
Two is company, but three is none.
Two negative wills produce no effect .
Two persons cannot entirely be master of the same thing .
Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one. (Shaw) .
Uncertainties are accounted nullities .
Uncustomary clauses always induce suspicion .
Under a strong general there are no feeble soldiers .
Under thy great sky in solitude and silence, with humble heart shall I stand before thee face to face . (Gitanjali) .
United effort is better than to divide and nullify by personal disputes .
Unkind words make one feel cold even in midsummer. (China) .
Unskilfulness is reckoned a fault .
Use and wont insure the best manual training .
Use is the best interpreter of things .
Use strengthens, disuse enervates .
Usual custom from a certain reasonable cause, excludes common laws .
Utlagatus non potest placitare- an outlawed person cannot make a will .
,: u:y of a good judge to extend his jurisdiction .
Vain is this struggle . (Gitanjali) .
Velvet paws hide sharp claws.
Very important for the conduct of a life devoted to science are the views of Aristotle in his three treatises on ethics .
Vice is waste of life. (Shaw) .
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. (Shaw) .
Virtue is its own reward.
VJV/ The poverty of a family is a test of the filial piety of a son just as the disorder of a country reveals the loyalty of a public servant. (China) .
Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation. (Shaw) .
Wait for the cat to jump.
Wake, oh awaken! What if the sky pants and trembles with the heat of the midday sun--what if the burning sand spreads its mantle of thirst-- Is there no joy in the deep of your heart? At every footfall of yours, will not the harp of the road break out in sweet music of pain? Thus it is that thy joy in me is so full . (Gitanjali) .
Walls have ears.
Wang Chi Min, of Hangkow, has latterly published an interesting series of 300 Chinese medical sayings and proverbs, I some emanating from popular wisdom, others allocated to authors or medical texts .
Wash your dirty linen at home.
Waste not, want not.
We admit that when the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible we crucified it. (Shaw) .
Weakness is more opposed to virtue than vice itself is .
Wealth and fame come from thee and it is for thee to give or to withhold them . (Gitanjali) .
Wealth is nothing without health.
Wealth wrongly acquired easily disappears. (China) .
We are led to think of diseases as isolated disturbances in a healthy body, not as the phases of certain periods of bodily development .
We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good. (Shaw) .
We are too poor to be late . (Gitanjali) .
We are unwilling that the laws of England should be changed, which hitherto have been in common use and approved .
We arrive at the legitimate meaning by reasonings .
We can learn it only by experiment .
We cannot blame bacteriology for the sins of some laboratories .
We cannot extract satisfaction of debts from minors .
We depart from the enactments of the law, rather than that injuries and transgressions should remain unpunished .
We doctors have always been a simple trusting folk .
We eliminate and ignore everything that is not a part of our prejudices .
We find, in ruling classes, and in social circles which put on aristocratical fashions, that ideas, and especially scientific ideas, are held in sincere aversion and in simulated contempt .
We have emerged from the realm of supernatural causes, the Mumbo Jumbo bogies of the tribesmen, into the world of reality .
We have in our minds an intuition or feeling as to the laws of Nature, but we do not know the form .
We have not crushed the power of monarchy and the Junker in order to elevate a sleek bourgeoisie on the shield .
We have no time to lose, and having no time we must scramble for a chances . (Gitanjali) .
We know not what is good until we have lost it.
We laughed and said `No, it cannot be!` It seemed there were knocks at the door and we said it was nothing but the wind . (Gitanjali) .
Well begun is half done.
We may not be true friends if miseries of our best friends do not make us more miseable .
We must abide by presumption, until the contrary is proved .
We must act more mildly with a person confessing .
We must begin with the more noble, or more important matters or in other words, we must attend to things of the greatest conieuence .
We must bring relief to present danger, lest any injury may arise .
We must first pose our problem from the actual data of clinical findings and then attempt to give a physiological explanation .
We must have recourse to an extraordinary thing, when an ordinary one does not avail us .
We must judge by the law, and not by examples .
We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them .
We must not depart from the letter of the law .
We must not depart rashly from common observance .
We must not dispute against a person denying first principles .
We must not grant to individuals, what can be publicly done by a magistrate, lest there should be an occasion of making a greater tumult .
We must not subordinate pathology to physiology but the other way around .
We must proceed from similar things to similar, in the same way .
We must resist principles .
We must take care that nothing be carried to excess ; we must take double care that nothing be deficient .
We never have recourse to an extraordinary instance, when an ordinary one is valid .
We never know the value of water till the well is dry.
We ought to believe every one in his own profession .
We ought to prove in general, that in whatever case a condition is imposed upon the will of a master or his agent ,in bonafide trials, this is to be considered according to the judgment of a good man .
We put out the lamps and lay down to sleep . (Gitanjali) .
We quickened our pace more and more as the time sped by . (Gitanjali) .
We really know very little and are all fallible in facing the immense difficulties presented by investigation of natural phenomena .
We said in a drowsy murmur, `No, it must be the rumbling of clouds!` The night was still dark when the drum sounded . (Gitanjali) .
We sang no glad songs nor played; we went not to the village for barter; we spoke not a word nor smiled; we lingered not on the way . (Gitanjali) .
We shall see what we shall see.
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it . (Lincoln) .
We should drop them when they have served their turn, even as one scraps a bistoury grown rusty from long usage .
We sleepily thought it was the distant thunder . (Gitanjali) .
We soon believe what we desire.
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution . (Lincoln) .
We thought that the last guest had arrived for the night and the doors in the village were all shut . (Gitanjali) .
We usually give the name of discovery to recognition of a new fact, but the idea connected with the fact is, in my opinion, what really constitutes the discovery .
We were neighbours for long, but I received more than I could give . (Gitanjali) .
What a cursed sleep it was, O miserable me! He came when the night was still; he had his harp in his hands, and my dreams became resonant with its melodies . (Gitanjali) .
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. (Shaw) .
What any one grants to one, he appears to grant ; and that without which the thing-itself could not be .
What at first is faulty, cannot, in process of time, become valid .
What at the beginning is faulty, cannot become valid afterwards in the process of time .
What at the beginning is not valid, cannot become valid in process of time .
What at the beginning is not valid, will not become valid in the process of time .
What a wealth of physiological observation is implied, for instance, in the English proverb, `Coarse mothers have comely children,` or the German, `Sch6ne Leute sterben leicht` (Beauty is easy to kill) or `UTkraut vergeht nicht` (Weeds never die) .
What belongs to none, becomes the property of the king .
What belongs to none, becomes the property of the occupier .
What can be immediately liquidated, is held as already liquidated .
What can be rendered certain is certain .
What cannot be divided into parts, are performed in the lump by individuals .
What canot be cured, must be endured.
What conscience wishes, where the law is deficient, equity prescribes .
What divine drink wouldst thou have, my God, from this overflowing cup of my life? My poet, is it thy delight to see thy creation through my eyes and to stand at the portals of my ears silently to listen to thine own eternal harmony? Thy world is weaving words in my mind and thy joy is adding music to them . (Gitanjali) .
What drugs do not heal, surgery heals; what the knife does not heal the cautery heals; what the cautery does not heal is incurable .
What emptiness do you gaze upon! Do you not feel a thrill passing through the air with the notes of the far-away song floating from the other shore? In the deep shadows of the rainy July, with secret steps, thou walkest, silent as night, eluding all watchers . (Gitanjali) .
Whatever any one hath done for the protection of his own person, he seems to have done that according to law .
Whatever is bad in itself, the laws forbid that to all .
Whatever is done against good morals, is forbidden by common law .
Whatever is done to excess, is prohibited by law .
Whatever is paid, is paid according to the manner of the payer, and is received according to the manner of the receiver .
Whatever is subjected to the authority of a judge, is not subjected to innovation .
Whatever practical people may say, this world is, after all, absolutely governed by ideas, and very often by the wildest and most hypothetital ideas .
Whatever you are, be a good one . (Lincoln) .
What had hitherto remained in the womb of nothingness has begun to live .
What hath once been approved of, in elections, cannot any longer displease .
What I have done since then is pretty well known . (Lincoln) .
What, indeed, natural reason hath constituted among all men, is observed among all in the same degree, which is always just and good .
What is a doubtful interpretation of liberty, ought to be answered acccording to liberty .
What is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh.
What is civil law, the same is not of course that of nations : but what is the law of nations, the same ought to be civil law .
What is clear to the court, does not need the aid of witnesses .
What is dark and incomprehensible attracts some minds more than what is clear and understandable .
What is destitute of remedy, in fact, is valid, if it be not faulty .
What is done against law, is reckoned as undone .
What is done by night appears by day.
What is done cannot be undone.
What is evidently certain, ought not to be verified .
, What is expressed makes what is silent to cease .
What is forbidden to be done directly, is forbidden alo indiiectly .
What is got over the devil-s back is spent under his belly.
What is lost is lost.
What is necessary, is lawful .
What is not allowed by the laws is profitable to none .
What is once mine, cannot be more mine .
What is proved by record, ought not to be denied .
What is quickly learned is soon forgotten .
What is received against the meaning of the law, must not be drawn into consequences .
What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
What is the matter with the poor is Poverty: what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. (Shaw) .
What is to be regarded in writing, either increases or restricts ; but it does not induce any thing new .
What is unbounded, is reprobated in law .
What is unsuitable, or against reason, is not permitted in law .
What is valid for the sake of demonstrating a thing, sufficiently demonstrated, is done in vain .
What is worth doing at alt is worth doing well.
What is yours by law, cannot be more yours .
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself . (Lincoln) .
What labours under no internal fault, but yields to an opposing obstacle, the obstacle being removed, it emerges of it self .
What must be, must be.
What necessity compels to do, it defends .
What otherwise is good and just, if it be sought by force or fraud, is rendered wicked and unjust .
What ought to be done, is easily presamed .
What ought to be done, is easily presumed .
What ought to have been done, is reckoned as done .
What proceeds from necessity, is never introduced,unless it is introduced from necessity .
What shall have been done, bad in itself, will be valid by no kind of positive law .
What should not be done, is not valid, when done .
Whatsoever the law wishes to be done, it wishes not to be done .
Whatsoever things are found within the meaning of the law, are judged to be within, the reach of the law .
What the heart thinks the tongue speaks.
What the king orders against law, shall be considered as not commanded .
What there is to do will be instantly done . (Gitanjali) .
What things are done among others, ought to hurt nobody, but may do good .
What things are done contrary to custom and ancient usage, neither please nor seem to be proper .
What things are inserted for the sake of removing ambiguity, do not hurt common law .
What things are inserted in contracts for the purpose of taking away ambiguity, do not hurt common law .
What things are introduced against the rule of right, ought not to be drawn into consequence .
What things are prohibited in the nature of things, are confirmed by no law .
What things are so written in a testament that they cannot be understood, are just as if they had not been written .
What things are temporal with regard to action, are perpetual for receiving .
What things derogate from common law, are not to be drawn into example .
What things have been spoken to one purpose ought not to be improperly applied to another .
What things would not avail single, are profitable when joined .
What was the power that made me open out into this vast mystery like a bud in the forest at midnight! When in the morning I looked upon the light I felt in a moment that I was no stranger in this world, that the inscrutable without name and form had taken me in its arms in the form of my own mother . (Gitanjali) .
What we do willingly is easy.
What we look for in the clinics is almost always exceptional; what we study in nosography is the rule .
What would he say now? The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery. (Shaw) .
What you doubt, do not do .
When a charter contains a general`clause, and afterwards descends to special expressions, which are agreeable to the general clause, the charter is to be interpreted according to the special words .
When a disease reaches the heart, no medicine can cure .
When a disease relapses, there is no cure .
When a flower blooms, `how long does its blossom last. (China) .
When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of Orthodoxy, True and False and demonstrates that the True is his heresy. (Shaw) .
When a man begins to reason, he ceases to feel .
` When a man exercises his powers of observation he can distinguish between right and wrong just as when he sees a face he can tell whether its owner is good or bad. (China) .
When a man practises honesty for ten years, spirits and demons dare not approach him. (China) .
When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman. (Shaw) .
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. (Shaw) .
When angry, count a hundred.
When an ordinary remedy ceases, then we have recourse to an extraordinary .
When any thing is granted to any one, likewise that is granted by which he comes to it .
When any thing is prohibited directly, it is prohibited likewise indirectly .
When any thing is prohibited, that also is prohibited by which we come to that .
When at last the work was done and the links were complete and unbreakable, I found that it held me in its grip . (Gitanjali) .
When at Rome, do as the Romans do.
When children stand quiet, they have done some harm.
When common and written law disagree, we must stand by the common law .
When desire blinds the mind with delusion and dust, O thou holy one, thou wakeful, come with thy light and thy thunder . (Gitanjali) .
When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them. (Shaw) .
Whenever any one has been liable to different laws for the same cause, is presumed to have come under that law which is the most efficient, and the best .
Whenever a succession is conferred upon any one, by a double right, the new right being set aside, the old right, formerly conferred, will remain in force .
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally . (Lincoln) .
Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it . (Lincoln) .
When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner.
When fortune departs, gold loses its glitter; but when it arrives, even iron dazzles. (China) .
When gangrene is pronounced, nothing will help but the knife .
When grace is lost from life, come with a burst of song . (Gitanjali) .
When guns speak it is too late to argue.
When his luck is good, a man can control the devil: when his luck has gone, the devil can control him. (China) .
When honoured, think of disgrace : when secure, think of danger. (China) .
When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say . (Lincoln) .
When I bring sweet things to your greedy hands I know why there is honey in the cup of the flowers and why fruits are secretly filled with sweet juice--when I bring sweet things to your greedy hands . (Gitanjali) .
When I bring to you coloured toys, my child, I understand why there is such a play of colours on clouds, on water, and why flowers are painted in tints--when I give coloured toys to you, my child . (Gitanjali) .
When I do bad, I feel bad . (Lincoln) .
When I do good, I feel good . (Lincoln) .
When I give up the helm I know that the time has come for thee to take it . (Gitanjali) .
When I go from hence let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable . (Gitanjali) .
When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees . (Lincoln) .
When I kiss your face to make you smile, my darling, I surely understand what pleasure streams from the sky in morning light, and what delight that is that is which the summer breeze brings to my body--when I kiss you to make you smile . (Gitanjali) .
When in the morning air the golden harp is tuned, honour me, commanding my presence . (Gitanjali) .
When I sing to make you dance I truly now why there is music in leaves, and why waves send their chorus of voices to the heart of the listening earth--when I sing to make you dance . (Gitanjali) .
When I sit by the roadside, tired and panting, when I spread my bed low in the dust, let me ever feel that the long journey is still before me--let me not forget a moment, let me carry the pangs of this sorrow in my dreams and in my wakeful hours . (Gitanjali) .
When I think of this end of my moments, the barrier of the moments breaks and I see by the light of death thy world with its careless treasures . (Gitanjali) .
When it is said that great thoughts come from the heart, it means that they come from the feelings, for our feelings, which have their physiological origin in the nerve-centers, act upon the heart like peripheral sensations .
When I try to bow to thee, my obeisance cannot reach down to the depth where thy feet rest among the poorest, and lowliest, and lost . (Gitanjali) .
When it was day they came into my house and said, `We shall only take the smallest room here . (Gitanjali) .
When I walk with two men, at least one of them can teach me something. (China) .
When life was seen to ooze away in wounded people, the blood was naturally mistaken for the soul of man .
When more is done than ought to be done, that too seems to be done, which should have been done .
When my beggarly heart sits crouched, shut up in a corner, break open the door, my king, and come with the ceremony of a king . (Gitanjali) .
When my play was with thee I never questioned who thou wert . (Gitanjali) .
When my rooms have been decked out and the flutes sound and the laughter there is loud, let me ever feel that I have not invited thee to my house--let me not forget for a moment, let me carry the pangs of this sorrow in my dreams and in my wakeful hours . (Gitanjali) .
When old ladies believe in the efficacy of hot chamomile tea, no matter whether they mean Roman or vulgar flowers, in fever and in belly-ache, you hope that not many of that class of old ladies are left .
When one knows thee, then alien there is none, then no door is shut . (Gitanjali) .
When pigs fly.
When principal things are granted, concomitants follow .
When Queen Anne was alive.
When respect due to magistrates is taken away, the state falls .
When sleep overcame me I lay upon the bed that was for my lord, and on waking up I found I was a prisoner in my own treasure-house . (Gitanjali) .
When the accuser cannot prove his charge, the accused is acquitted .
When the cat is away, the mice will play.
When the creation was new and all the stars shone in their first splendour, the gods held their assembly in the sky and sang `Oh, the picture of perfection! the joy unalloyed!` But one cried of a sudden--`It seems that somewhere there is a break in the chain of light and one of the stars has been lost . (Gitanjali) .
When the devil is blind.
When the fox preaches, take care of your geese.
When the heart is hard and parched up, come upon me with a shower of mercy . (Gitanjali) .
When the heir apparent goes to school, he ranks as an ordinary person. (China) .
When the hour strikes for thy silent worship at the dark temple of midnight, command me, my master, to stand before thee to sing . (Gitanjali) .
When the law grants any thing to any one, all incidental things are tacitly granted .
When the law grants anything to any one, it seems to grant that without which the thing itself cannot exist .
When the law is special, but the reason general, the law is to be generally understood .
When the law-suit is pending, let there be no innovation .
When the main cause is not consistent, for the most part, not even the things which follow have a place .
When the pinch comes, you remember the old shoe.
When the process is interrupted by adversity at a critical age, as in the case of Charles II, the subject becomes sane and never completely recovers his kingliness. (Shaw) .
When the question is concerning the gain of two persons, the cause of the one in possession, is the better .
When there i a dispute concerning fraud, we are to consider in general, not what the actor may have, but what he could not have had by his opponent .
When the warriors came out first from their master`s hall, where had they hid their power? Where were their armour and their arms? They looked poor and helpless, and the arrows were showered upon them on the day they came out from their master`s hall . (Gitanjali) .
When the warriors marched back again to their master`s hall where did they hide their power? They had dropped the sword and dropped the bow and the arrow; peace was on their foreheads, and they had left the fruits of their life behind them on the day they marched back again to their master`s hall . (Gitanjali) .
When the wind blows, even the waves that were calm are crested with foam. (China) .
When the wooden idol does not answer the peasant`s prayer, he beats it: when the flesh and blood idol does not satisfy the civilized man, he cuts its head off. (Shaw) .
When the words of a statute are special, but the reason general, the statute is to, be understood generally .
When thou commandest me to sing it seems that my heart would break with pride; and I look to thy face, and tears come to my eyes . (Gitanjali) .
When thou took`st thy leave I stood silent . (Gitanjali) .
When three know it, alt know it.
When tumultuous work raises its din on all sides shutting me out from beyond, come to me, my lord of silence, with thy peace and rest . (Gitanjali) .
When two rights concur in the same person, it is the same as if it were in different persons .
When two testaments are found contradictory to one another, the last is valid ; so it is when two clauses are found contradictory to one another in the same deed .
, & When under low eaves, how can one presume not to hend one`s head . (China) .
When we begin to base our opinions upon medical fact, on inspiration or on more or less vague intuitions about things, we are outside of science and are exemplars of that fanciful method fraught with greatest dangers, in that the health and life of the patient turn upon the whims of an inspired ignoramus .
When we have exact knowledge of the conditions of existence of individuals and of peoples, then only will it be possible for the laws of medicine and philosophy to gain the credence of general laws of humanity .
When we learn to sing that Britons never will be masters we shall make an end of slavery. (Shaw) .
When wine is in wit is out.
When witnesses give their depositions in equal number, we must believe the more worthy .
When words are not joined, it is sufficient that one or other alternate be complied with .
When you are on the edge of a precipice, it is too late to draw rein and pull up your horse : when the boat is in the middle of the stream, it is too late to mend a leak. (China) .
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it`s best to let him run . (Lincoln) .
When you have taken away the power of revoking, the will is renewed .
When your clothes are tattered, your friends will be few. (China) .
When youth is wakeful and old age drowsy, death is nigh .
When you treat a disease, first treat the mind .
Where a grant is given, or a prohibition made to an accused person of any nation, by a positive law, the laws of England regard the law of that nation in the trial where the action rose .
Where any one could have come to the same thing by a different right, he is presumed to have come to it by that right which may be stronger and better .
Where any one transgresses, there shall he be punished .
Where a remedy is in the secular court, the jurisdiction of that matter is granted to the secular courts, only unless the law of the church be preserved in the words themselves .
Where a substitute can be substituted, no one is to be compelled to substitute; but if he wishes to substitute, let him find a fit person .
Where common law and equity are engaged in the same thing, equityacts in another way, but does not mean differently .
Where common law and written law agree, we must stand by the common law .
Where damages are given, the loser ought to be condemned to pay the expense of the gainer .
Where dost thou stand behind them all, my lover, hiding thyself in the shadows? They push thee and pass thee by on the dusty road, taking thee for naught . (Gitanjali) .
Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination. (Shaw) .
Where fault is, there punishment ought to be .
Where ihere is no law, there is no transgression, touching the world .
Where the day hath ceased, though the night hath not yet come .
Where the law compels any one to shew cause, it is necessary that there be a just and lawful cause .
Where the law compels any one to show cause, it is necessary that there be just and lawful cause .
Where the law forbids any thing, and hath not determined a punishment, the punishment is in the discretion of the judge .
Where the law is special, and the reason of it general, it is to be taken in general .
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of truth; Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection; Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-- Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake . (Gitanjali) .
Where the physician can do no good, let him do no harm .
Where the reason is the same, the law is the same .
Where the reason is the same, the right is the same .
Where there is no annual renewal, there tithes ought not to be paid .
Where there is no authority to command, there is no obligation to obey .
Where there is no fact, there is no strong argument .
Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science. (Shaw) .
Where there is no religion hypocrisy becomes good taste. (Shaw) .
Where there is no ventilation fresh air is declared unwholesome. (Shaw) .
Where there-s a will, there-s a way.
Where two meanings occur, we must abide by the milder .
Where two repugnant things meet in a charter, let the first be est* .
Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there also is love for humanity .
Wherever there is injury, there a loss follows .
Wherever you reside select your neighbours : associate only with good friends. (China) .
Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem . (Lincoln) .
Which disease is endemic to the American colonies ? .
While a law-suit is depending, no innovation ought to take place .
While I can understand the patient falling in love with the nurse, I do not as easily comprehend the nurse falling in love with the sick patient .
While the grass grows the horse starves.
While there is life, all things are practicable ; but once death supervenes, all is over. (China) .
While there is life there is hope.
While wickedness increases, punishment ought also to increase .
Whilst we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells. (Shaw) .
Who breaks, pays.
Who does not like human proverbs? .
Whoever desires to give his hearers a perfect conviction of the truth of his principles must, first of all, know from his own experience how conviction is acquired and how not .
Whoever has done any thing by order of the judge, does not seem to have acted by guile, because it is necessary to obey .
Whoever has ordinary jurisdiction, is the ordinary of that place .
Who has never tasted bitter, knows not what is sweet.
Who has once been wicked, is always presumed to be wicked in the same way .
Who is free from trouble and care . (China) .
Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl.
Who knows when the chains will be off, and the boat, like the last glimmer of sunset, vanish into the night? The day was when I did not keep myself in readiness for thee; and entering my heart unbidden even as one of the common crowd, unknown to me, my king, thou didst press the signet of eternity upon many a fleeting moment of my life . (Gitanjali) .
Whosoever cannot suffer in the purse, let him suffer in the body .
Whosoever demands justice, let him practice justice .
Whosoever has no money, let him satisfy, in his person ; that no transgression should pass with impunity .
Whosoever negligently ruins another man`s property, or takes it away by force, or evil fraud, let him lose his own .
Whosoever offends when intoxicated, let him give satisfaction when sober .
Whosoever seeks the benefit of the law extraordinarily, let him lift up pure hands .
Whosoever wanders out of his cause by uttering calumny, let him be punished* Qui facit per alium, facit per se- He who acts by means of another, acts by himself .
Why worry? To be divorced does not mean to die .
Wicked deeds done in secret are as visible as a flash of lightning to the eyes of God. (China) .
Wide reading increases knowledge of disease; some clinics give experience in diagnosis; repeated tests make properties of drugs better known .
Wife and husband are one in law .
Wild animals, if they have become tame, and go and return, fly back and fore, and habitually, as stags and swans, etc .
Wise after the event.
, Wished .
Withered leaves danced and whirled in the hot air of noon . (Gitanjali) .
With folded hands, O lord of all worlds, shall I stand before thee face to face . (Gitanjali) .
With fond delight thou wrappest about thy starry breast that mantle of misty cloud, turning it into numberless shapes and folds and colouring it with hues everchanging . (Gitanjali) .
With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation`s wounds . (Lincoln) .
Without it, nothing can succeed . (Lincoln) .
Without it, nothing can succeed . (Lincoln) .
With public sentiment, nothing can fail . (Lincoln) .
With public sentiment, nothing can fail . (Lincoln) .
With respect to natural law, all men are equal .
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die . (Lincoln) .
With the storm has come of a sudden our king of the fearful night . (Gitanjali) .
With the tune of thee and me all the air is vibrant, and all ages pass with the hiding and seeking of thee and me . (Gitanjali) .
With time and patience the leaf of the mulberry becomes satin.
With withered leaves they weave their boats and smilingly float them on the vast deep . (Gitanjali) .
Women are removed from all civil and public offices .
Women are stronger than men; they never die of wisdom .
Words are always to be understood in the milder sense .
Words are to be received with effect, that they may have`their effect .
Words are to be so understood, that the matter may rather prosper than perish .
Words are to be understood according to the subject matter .
Words are understood more strongly against the person uttering them .
Words do not excuse homicide .
Words have wooed yet failed to win her; persuasion has stretched to her its eager arms in vain . (Gitanjali) .
Words ought not to be received for a falsehood which are competent to truth .
Words pay no debts.
Words related, have that effect, that they seem to exist in reality .
Words uttered in secret among men are as audible as the roar of thunder to Heaven. (China) .
Work is necessary to health .
Wounded conceit never forgives .
Written obligations are taken away by writs ; and the obligation of a mere consent is dissolved by a contrary consent .
Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love . (Gitanjali) .
Yes, I know, this is nothing but thy love, O beloved of my heart-- this golden light that dances upon the leaves, these idle clouds sailing across the sky, this passing breeze leaving its coolness upon my forehead . (Gitanjali) .
Yet not more numerous than varied, proteiform and chameleonlike .
Yet shall I bear in my heart this honour of the burden of pain, this gift of thine . (Gitanjali) .
Yet stars will watch at night, and morning rise as before, and hours heave like sea waves casting up pleasures and pains . (Gitanjali) .
You came down and stood at my cottage door . (Gitanjali) .
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time . (Lincoln) .
You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it. (Shaw) .
You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man`s initiative and independence . (Lincoln) .
You cannot eat your cake and have it.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today . (Lincoln) .
You cannot flay the same ox twice.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves . (Lincoln) .
You cannot judge a tree by it bark.
You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.
You cannot wash charcoal white.
You can remove the trouble, if you know the cause .
You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink.
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was . (Lincoln) . Do good without inquiring what will be the future result. (China) .
You made your bed, now lie in it.
Your affection fixes a character upon your service .
Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it. (Shaw) .
Your word can never be as good as your bond, because your memory can never be as trustworthy as your honor. (Shaw) .
Your worshipper of old wanders ever longing for favour still refused . (Gitanjali) .
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing. (Shaw) .
Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse.
Ztjuuy does not change the nature of a thing .

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