I pity men who occupy themselves exclusively with the transitory in things and lose themselves in the study of what is perishable, since we are here for this very end that we may make the perishable imperishable, which we can do only after we have learned how to appreciate both. Goethe.

I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry: 'Tis all barren. Swift.

I pounce on what is mine wherever I find it. Marmontel.

I prize the soul that slumbers in a quiet eye. Eliza Cook.

I quote others only in order the better to 20 express myself. Montaigne.

I renounce the friend who eats what is mine with me, and what is his own by himself. Port. Pr.

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. Thoreau.

I say the acknowledgment of God in Christ, / Accepted by thy reason, solves for thee / All questions on the earth and out of it. Browning.

I scorn the affectation of seeming modesty to cover self-conceit. Burns.

I secundo omine—Go, and may all good go with 25 you. Hor.

I see my way as birds their trackless way. Browning.

I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world are of the one religion of well-doing and daring. Emerson.

I see thy vanity through the holes of thy coat. Plato, to the Cynic.

I seek divine simplicity in him who handles things divine. Cowper.

I seek not to wax great by others' waning. 30 2 Hen. VI., iv. 10.

"I shall go to-morrow," said the king. "You shall wait for me," quoth the wind. Gael. Pr.

I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart which shall not be put out. Esdras.

I shall perhaps tremble in my death-hour, but before shall I never. Lessing.

I should be glad were all the meadows on the earth left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of men's beginning to redeem themselves. Thoreau.

I stay here on my bond. Mer. of Ven., iv. 1. 35

I stout and you stout, who will carry the dirt out? Pr.

I take it to be a principal rule of life not to be too much addicted to any one thing. Ter.

I talk of chalk and you of cheese. Pr.

I think a lock and key a security at least equal to the bosom of any friend whatever. Burns.

I think it is as scandalous for a woman not 40 to know how to use a needle as for a man not to know how to use a sword. Lady Montagu.

I think nothing is to be hoped from you if this bit of mould under your feet is not sweeter to you than any other in this world. Thoreau.

I think sculpture and painting have an effect to teach us manners and abolish hurry. Emerson.

I think women have an instinct of dissimulation; they know by nature how to disguise their emotions far better than the most consummate male courtiers can do. Thackeray.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. T. Jefferson.

I very much fear that our little terraqueous 45 globe is the lunatic asylum of the universe. Voltaire.

I've had my say out, and I shall be th' easier for't all my life. George Eliot.

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. George Eliot.

I've wandered east, I've wandered west, / Through many a weary way; / But never, never can forget / The love of life's young day. Motherwell.

I waive the quantum o' th sin, / The hazard of concealing; / But oh! it hardens a' within, / And petrifies the feeling. Burns.

I want that glib and oily art, / To speak and purpose not; since what I well intend, / I'll do't before I speak. King Lear, i. 1.

I was not born for courts or great affairs; / I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers. Pope.

I was well, would be better, took physic and died. Epitaph.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. Rich. II., v. 5.

I watch the wheels of Nature's mazy plan, / 5 And learn the future by the past of man. Campbell.

I were but little happy if I could say how much. Much Ado, ii. 1.

I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver / Of my whole course of love. Othello, i. 3.

I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. W. Lloyd Garrison.

I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults. As You Like It, iii. 2.

I will divide my goods; / Call in the wretch 10 and slave: / None shall rule but the humble, / And none but toil shall have. Emerson.

I will get it from his purse or get it from his skin. Pr.

I will give thrice as much to any well-deserving friend; but in the way of bargain, mark me, I will cavil on the ninth part of a hair. 1 Hen. IV., iii. 1.

I will lay a stone at your door, i.e., never forgive you. Pr.

I will listen to any one's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself; I have plenty of my own. Goethe.

I will move the world. Archimedes. 15

I will speak daggers to her, but use none. Ham., iii. 2.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve / For daws to peck at. Othello, i. 1.

I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession. Johnson.

I would applaud thee to the very echo, that should applaud again. Macb., v. 3.

I would choose to have others for my acquaintance, 20 but Englishmen for my friends. Goldsmith.

I would condone many things in one-and-twenty now, that I dealt hardly with at middle age. God Himself, I think, is very willing to give one-and-twenty a second chance. J. M. Barrie.

I would desire for a friend the son who never resisted the tears of his mother. Lacretelle.

I would fain avoid men; we can give them no help, and they hinder us from helping ourselves. Goethe.

I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety. Hen. V., iii. 2.

I would have been glad to have lived under 25 my woodside, to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than undertaken such a government as this. Cromwell.

"I" (self-love) would have the world say "I," / And all things perish so if she endure. Sir Edwin Arnold.

I would it were bed-time, Hal, and all well. 1 Hen. IV., v. 1.

I would not enter on my list of friends ... the man / Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. Cowper.

I would not for much that I had been born richer. Jean Paul.

I would rather be found suffering than doing 30 what is unjust. Phocion.

I would rather be the author of one original thought than conqueror of a hundred battles. W. B. Clulow.

I would rather make my name than inherit it. Thackeray.

Ibi omnis / Effusus labor—By that (one negligence) all his labour was lost. Virg.

Ibidem—In the same place.

Ibis, redibis non morieris in bello—Thou shalt 35 go, thou shalt return, thou shalt not die in battle; or, Thou shalt go, thou shalt not return, thou shalt die in battle. An ambiguous oracle, due to the uncertain application of the adverb "non."

Ibit eo quo vis, qui zonam perdidit—He who has lost his purse (lit. girdle) will go wherever you wish. Hor.

Iceland is the finest country on which the sun shines. Iceland Pr.

Ich bin des trocknen Tons nun satt, / Muss wieder recht den Teufel spielen—I am now weary of this prosing style, and must again play the devil properly. Goethe, "Mephisto."

Ich bin ein Mensch gewesen, / Und das heisst ein Kämpfer sein—I have been a man, and that is to be a fighter. Goethe.

Ich bin es müde, über Sklaven zu herrschen—I 40 am tired of ruling over slaves. Frederick the Great.

Ich bin zu alt, um nur zu spielen; / Zu jung, um ohne Wunsch zu sein—I am too old for mere play; too young to be without a wish. Goethe, "Faust."

Ich denke so: / Was nicht zusammen kann / Bestehen, ist am besten sich zu lösen—In my regard 'twere best throw that into the pot which can no longer hold itself together. Schiller.

Ich dien—I serve. Ger. M.

Ich finde nicht die Spur, / Von einem Geist, und alles ist Dressur—I find no trace of spirit here; it is all mere training. Goethe, "Faust."

Ich fühl' ein ganzes Heer in meiner Brust—I 45 feel a whole host on my bosom. Körner.

Ich fühle Mut, mich in die Welt zu wagen / Der Erde Weh, der Erde Glück zu tragen—I feel courage enough to cast myself into the world, to bear earth's woe and weal. Goethe.

Ich glaube, dass alles was das Genie, als Genie thut, unbewusst geschieht—Everything that genius, as genius, does, is in my regard done unconsciously. Goethe.

"Ich glaube an einen Gott." Das ist ein schönes löbliches Wort; aber Gott anerkennen, wo und wie er sich offenbare, das ist eigentlich die Seligkeit auf Erden—"I believe in a God." That is a fine praiseworthy saying; but to acknowledge God, where and as He reveals Himself, that is properly our blessedness on this earth. Goethe.

Ich habe es öfters rühmen hören, / Ein Komödiant könnte einen Pfarrer lehren—I have often heard say that a player might teach a parson. Goethe, "Faust."

Ich habe genossen das irdische Glück; / Ich habe gelebt und geliebet—I have experienced earthly happiness; I have lived and I have loved. Schiller.

Ich habe gethan, was ich nicht lassen konnte—I have done what I could not get done. Schiller.

Ich habe hier bloss ein Amt und keine Meinung—I hold here an office merely, and no opinion. Schiller.

Ich habe nichts als Worte, und es ziemt / Dem edlen Mann, der Frauen Wort zu achten—I have nothing but words, and it becomes the noble man to respect a woman's word. Goethe.

Ich heisse der reichste Mann in der getauften 5 Welt: Die Sonne geht in meinem Staat nicht unter—I pass for the richest man in the baptized world; the sun never sets in my dominions. Philip II. of Spain's boast.

Ich möcht mich gleich dem Teufel übergeben, / Wenn ich nur selbst kein Teufel wär—I would give myself up at once to the devil if only I were not a devil myself. Goethe, Mephistopheles in "Faust."

Ich muss, das ist die Schrank', in welcher mich die Welt, / Von einer, die Natur von andrer Seite hält—I must—that is the barrier within which the world confines me on the one hand and Nature on the other. Rückert.

Ich schweige zu vielem still; denn ich mag die Menschen nicht irre machen, und bin wohl zufrieden, wenn sie sich freuen, da wo ich mich ärgere—I keep silent to a great extent, for I don't choose to lead others into error, and am well content if they are happy in matters about which I vex myself. Goethe.

Ich setze die Souveränität fest wie einen eisernen Felsen—I plant the royal power firm as a rock of iron. Frederick William I. of Prussia.

Ich singe, wie der Vogel singt, / Der in den 10 Zweigen wohnet / Das Lied, das aus der Kehle dringt, / Ist Lohn, der reichlich lohnet—I sing but as the bird sings which dwells among the branches; the lay which warbles from the throat is a reward that richly recompences. Goethe.

Ich stehe in Gottes Hand, und ruh' in Gottes Schooss / Vor ihm fühl' ich mich klein, in ihm fühl' ich mich gross—I stand in God's hand and rest in God's bosom; before Him I feel little, in Him I feel great. Rückert.

Ich thue recht und scheue keinen Feind—I do the right and fear no foe. Schiller.

Ici l'honneur m'oblige, et j'y veux satisfaire—Here honour binds me, and I am minded to satisfy her. Corneille.

Id arbitror / Adprime in vitâ esse utile, ne quid nimis—This I consider to be a valuable principle in life, not to do anything in excess. Ter.

Id cinerem, aut manes credis curare sepultos?—Do 15 you think that ashes and buried spirits of the departed care for such things? Virg.

Id commune malum; semel insanivimus omnes—It is a common calamity; we have all been mad once. Mantuanus.

Id demum est homini turpe, quod meruit pati—That only brings disgrace on a man which he has deserved to suffer. Phæd.

Id est—That is.

Id facere laus est quod decet, non quod licet—The man is deserving of praise who does what it becomes him to do, not what he is free to do. Sen.

Id genus omne—All persons of that description. 20

Id maxime quemque decet, quod est cujusque maxime suum—That best becomes a man which is most peculiarly his own. Cic.

Id mutavit, quoniam me immutatum videt—He has changed his mind because he sees me unchanged. Ter.

Id nobis maxime nocet, quod non ad rationis lumen sed ad similitudinem aliorum vivimus—This is especially ruinous to us, that we shape our lives not by the light of reason, but after the fashion of others. Sen.

Ideals are the world's masters. J. G. Holland.

Ideals can never be completely embodied in 25 practice; and yet ideals exist, and if they be not approximated to at all, the whole matter goes to wreck. Carlyle.

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams. Emerson.

Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labour. La Roche.

Idem—The same.

Idem quod—The same as.

Idem velle et idem nolle ea demum firma 30 amicitia est—To have the same likes and the same dislikes is the sole basis of lasting friendship. Sall.

Idle folks lack no excuses. Pr.

Idle people have the least leisure. Pr.

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. Ben. Franklin.

Idleness in the midst of unattempted tasks is always proud. P. Brooks.

Idleness is an appendix to nobility. Burton. 35

Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name. Jean Paul.

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds and the holiday of fools. Pr.

Idleness is the badge of gentry, the bane of body and mind, the nurse of naughtiness, the step-mother of discipline, the chief author of mischief, one of the seven deadly sins, the cushion on which the devil chiefly reposes, and a great cause not only of melancholy, but of many other diseases. Burton.

Idleness is the greatest prodigality in the world. Pr.

Idleness is the root of all evil. Pr. 40

Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man. Anselm.

Idleness rusts the mind. Pr.

Idolatry is simply the substitution of an "Eidolon," phantasm, or imagination of good for that which is real and enduring, from the highest Living Good which gives life, to the lowest material good which ministers to it. Ruskin.

Idoneus homo—A fit man.

If a barrel-organ in a slum can but drown 45 a curse, let no Christian silence it. Prof. Drummond.

If a beard were all, the goat would be winner. Dan. Pr.

If a book come from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts. Carlyle.

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. Ruskin.

If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends. Colton.

If a dog has a man to back him, he will kill a baboon. Wit and Wisdom from West Africa.

If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him. Pr. 5

If a God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent one. Voltaire.

If a great thing can be done at all, it can be done easily; but it is in that kind of ease with which a tree blossoms after long years of gathered strength. Ruskin.

If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. Jesus.

If a man be born in a stable, that does not make him a horse. Pr.

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place 10 where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere. Ward Beecher.

If a man could bequeath his virtues by will, and settle his sense and learning upon his heirs as certainly as he can his lands, a noble descent would then indeed be a valuable privilege. Anon.

If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me. Pr.

If a man do not erect in this age his tomb ere he dies, he will live no longer in monument than the bell rings and the widow weeps. Much Ado, v. 2.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it from him. Ben. Franklin.

If a man fear or reverence God, he must hate 15 covetousness; and if he fear or reverence covetousness, he must hate God. Ruskin.

If a man hath too mean an opinion of himself, it will render him unserviceable both to God and man. John Selden.

If a man have freedom enough to live healthily and work at his craft, he has enough; and so much all can easily obtain. Goethe.

If a man have not a friend, he may quit the stage. Bacon.

If a man is not virtuous, he becomes vicious. Bovee.

If a man knows the right way, he need not 20 trouble himself about wrong paths. Lessing.

If a man makes himself a worm, he must not complain when trodden on. Kant.

If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is he keeps his own at the same time. Swift.

If a man once fall, all will tread on him. Pr.

If a man read little, he had need of much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. Bacon.

If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, 25 happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him. Buddha.

If a man wishes to become rich, he must appear rich. Goldsmith.

If a man with the material of enjoyment around him and virtually within his reach walks God's earth wilfully and obstinately with a gloomy spirit, ... making misery his worship, we feel assured he is contravening his Maker's design in endowing him with life. W. R. Greg.

If a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. Emerson.

If a man wound you with injuries, meet him with patience; hasty words rankle the wound, soft language dresses it, forgiveness cures it, and oblivion takes away the scar. J. Beaumont.

If a man write a book, let him set down only 30 what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own. Goethe.

If a man s gaun doun the brae, ilka ane gi'es him a jundie (push). Sc. Pr.

If a noble soul is rendered tenfold beautifuller by victory and prosperity, an ignoble one is rendered tenfold and a hundredfold uglier, pitifuller. Carlyle.

If a people will not believe, it must obey. Tocqueville.

If a pig could give his mind to anything, he wouldn't be a pig. Dickens.

If a word be worth one shekel, silence is worth 35 two. Rabbi Ben Azai.

If ae sheep loup (jump) the dike, a the lave (rest) will follow. Sc. Pr.

If aged and life-weary men have called to their neighbours: "Think of dying!" we younger and life-loving men may well keep encouraging and reminding one another with the cheerful words: "Think of wandering!" Goethe.

If all be well within, ... the impertinent censures of busy, envious men will make no very deep impression. Thomas à Kempis.

If all dogs on this earth should bark, / It will not matter if you do not hark. Saying.

If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast 40 into a public stock in order to be equally distributed among the species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they have already to that which would fall to them by such a division. Socrates.

If all the world were falcons, what of that? / The wonder of the eagle were the less, / But he not less the eagle. Tennyson.

If all the year were playing holidays, / To sport would be as tedious as to work. 1 Hen. IV., i. 2.

If all were rich, gold would be penniless. Bailey.

If an ass goes a-travelling, he'll not come home a horse. Pr.

If an ass kicks me, shall I strike him again? 45 Socrates.

If an ass looks in, you cannot expect an apostle to look out. Lichtenberg.

If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing him. Burke.

If any false step be made in the more momentous concerns of life, the whole scheme of ambitious designs is broken. Addison.

If any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth. St. Peter.

If any man will come after me, let him deny 50 himself, and take up his cross and follow me. Jesus.

If any one tells you that a man has changed his character, don't believe it. Mahomet.

If any speak ill of thee, fly home to thy own conscience and examine thy heart. If thou art guilty, it is a fair correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction. George Herbert.

If any would not work, neither should he eat. St. Paul.

If blushing makes ugly people so beautiful, ought it not to make the beautiful still more beautiful? Lessing.

If coals do not burn, they blacken. Pr.

If cheerfulness knocks for admission, we should 5 open our hearts wide to receive it, for it never comes inopportunely. Schopenhauer.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. Goethe.

If cut (in the costume) betoken intellect and talent, so does the colour betoken temper and heart. Carlyle.

If destructive criticism is injurious in anything, it is in matters of religion, for here everything depends upon faith, to which we cannot return when we have once lost it. Goethe.

If each one does his duty as an individual, and if each one works rightly in his own vocation, it will be well with the whole. Goethe.

If ever a fool's advice is good, a prudent man 10 must carry it out. Lessing.

If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. Welsh Pr.

If everybody knew what one says of the other, there would not be four friends left in the world. Pascal.

If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it. Epictetus.

If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it. Martial.

If folly were a pain, there would be crying in 15 every house. Sp. Pr.

If fortune favour you, be not elated; if she frown, do not despond. Ausonius.

If fortune give thee less than she has done, / Then make less fire, and walk more in the sun. Sir R. Baker.

If fortune would make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she would have him esteemed, she gives him success. Joubert.

If frequent failure convince you of that mediocrity of nature which is incompatible with great actions, submit wisely and cheerfully to your lot. Sydney Smith.

If friendship is to rob me of my eyes, if it is 20 to darken the day, I will have none of it. Thoreau.

If fun is good, truth is still better, and love most of all. Thackeray.

If happiness ha'e not her seat / And centre in the breast, / We may be wise, or rich, or great, / But never can be blest. Burns.

If heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms. Cowley.

If Hercules and Lichas play at dice / Which is the better man, the greater throw / May turn by fortune from the weaker hand; / So is Alcides beaten by his page. Mer. of Ven., ii. 1.

If honour calls, where'er she points the 25 way, / The sons of honour follow and obey. Churchill.

If I am anything, which I much doubt, I made myself so merely by labour. Sir Isaac Newton.

If I am master and you are master, who shall drive the asses? Arab. Pr.

If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning. Longfellow.

If I am right, Thy grace impart / Still in the right to stay; / If I am wrong, O teach my heart to find the better way. Pope.

If I ascend up into heaven, Thou art there; if 30 I make my bed in hell, behold Thou art there; if I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there shall Thy hand lead me, and Thy right hand shall hold me. Bible.

If I be dear to some one else, / Then I should be to myself more dear. Tennyson.

If I call bad bad, what do I gain? But if I call good bad, I do a great deal of mischief. Goethe.

If I can catch him once upon the hip, / I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. Mer. of Ven., i. 3.

If I choose to take jest in earnest, no one shall put me to shame for doing so; and if I choose to carry on (treiben) earnest in jest, I shall be always myself (immer derselbe bleiben). Goethe.

If I do lose thee (life), I do lose a thing / That 35 none but fools would keep; a breath thou art, / Servile to all the skyey influences, / That do this habitation, where thou keep'st / Hourly inflict. Meas. for Meas., iii. 1.

If I for my opinion bleed, / Opinion shall be surgeon to my hurt. 1 Hen. VI., ii. 4.

If I had read as much as other men, I would have been as ignorant as they are. Hobbes.

If I had wit enough to get out of this wood, I have said enough to serve mine own turn. Mid. Night's Dream, iii. 1.

If I knew the way of the Lord, truly I would be only too glad to walk in it; if I were led into the temple of truth (in der Wahrheit Haus), I would not, with the help of God (bei Gott), go out of it again. Goethe.

If I lose mine honour, I lose myself. Ant. and 40 Cleop., iii. 4.

If I love thee, what is that to thee? Goethe.

If I'm designed yon lordling's slave, / By Nature's law designed, / Why was an independent wish / E'er planted in my mind? Burns.

If I must die, / I will encounter darkness as a bride / And hug it in my arms. Meas. for Meas., iii. 1.

If I seek an interest of my own detached from that of others, I seek an interest which is chimerical, and can never have existence. James Harris.

If I should say nothing, I should say much 45 (much being included in my love); though my love be such, that if I should say much, I should yet say nothing, it being, as Cowley says, equally impossible either to conceal or to express it. Pope.

If I wish for a horse-hair for my compass-sight, I must go to the stable; but the hair-bird, with her sharp eyes, goes to the road. Thoreau.

If ill thoughts at any time enter into the mind of a good man, he doth not roll them under his tongue as a sweet morsel. Matthew Henry.

If in the course of our life we see that done by others for which we ourselves at one time felt a vocation, and which we were, with much else, compelled to relinquish, then the noble feeling comes in, that only humanity altogether is the true man, and that the individual can only rejoice and be happy when he has the heart (Muth) to feel himself in the whole. Goethe.

If in youth the universe is majestically unveiling, and everywhere heaven revealing itself on earth, nowhere to the young man does this heaven on earth so immediately reveal itself as in the young maiden. Carlyle.

"If" is the only peacemaker—much virtue in "if." As You Like It, v. 4.

If it be a bliss to enjoy the good, it is still 5 greater happiness to discern the better; for in art the best only is good enough. Goethe.

If it be asked, What is the improper expectation which it is dangerous to indulge, experience will quickly answer that it is such expectation as is dictated not by reason but by desire—an expectation that requires the common course of things to be changed, and the general rules of action to be broken. Johnson.

If it be aught toward the general good, / Set honour in one eye, and death i' the other, / And I will look on both indifferently; / For, let the gods so speed me, as I love / The name of honour more than I fear death. Jul. Cæs., i. 2.

If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men. St. Paul.

If it is a happiness to be nobly descended, it is not less to have so much merit that nobody inquires whether we are so or not. La Bruyère.

If it is disgraceful to be beaten, it is only a 10 shade less disgraceful to have so much as fought. Carlyle.

If it rains—well! If it shines—well! Pr.

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well / It were done quickly ... that but this blow / Might be the be all and the end all here. Macb., i. 7.

If it were not for hope, the heart would break. Pr.

If it were not for respect to human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for the first time, whilst I would go five hundred leagues to talk with a man of genius whom I had not seen. Mme. de Staël.

If Jack were better, Jill would not be so bad. 15 Pr.

If ladies be but young and fair, / They have the gift to know it. As You Like It, ii. 7.

If life, like the olive, is a bitter fruit, then grasp both with the press and they will yield the sweetest oil. Jean Paul.

If man had a higher idea of himself and his destiny, he would neither call his business amusement nor amuse himself instead of transacting business. Goethe.

If man is not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature. Bacon.

If men duly felt the greatness of God, they 20 would be dumb, and for very veneration unwilling to name Him. Goethe.

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be made to possess wealth as that it may be said to possess him. Bacon.

If money go before, all ways do lie open. Merry Wives, ii. 2.

If music be the food of love, play on; / Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, / The appetite may sicken, and so die. Twelfth Night, i. 1.

If my person be crooked, my verses shall be straight. Pope.

If Nature is one and a living indivisible 25 whole, much more is mankind, the image that reflects and creates Nature, without which Nature were not. Carlyle.

If new-got gold is said to burn the pockets till it be cast forth into circulation, much more may new truth. Carlyle.

If, of all words of tongue and pen, / The saddest are, "It might have been," / More sad are these we daily see: "It is, but hadn't ought to be." Bret Harte.

If once you find a woman gluttonous, expect from her very little virtue; her mind is enslaved to the lowest and grossest temptation. Johnson.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Thoreau.

If one age believes too much, it is but a natural 30 reaction that another age should believe too little. Buckle.

If one door shuts, another will open. Pr.

If one sees one's fellow-creature following damnable error, by continuing in which the devil is sure to get him at last, are you to let him go towards such consummation, or are you not rather to use all means to save him? Carlyle.

If one were to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still. Johnson.

If our era is an era of unbelief, why murmur at it? Is there not a better coming—nay, come? Carlyle. See Matt. v. 4.

If people did not flatter one another, there 35 would be little society. Vauvenargues.

If people take no care for the future, they will soon have sorrow for the present. Chinese Pr.

If people were constant, it would surprise me. For see, is not everything in the world subject to change? Why then should our affections continue? Goethe.

If people would whistle more and argue less, the world would be much happier and probably just as wise. Book of Wisdom.

If poverty is the mother of crimes, want of sense is the father of them. La Bruyère.

If poverty makes a man groan, he yawns in 40 opulence. Rivarol.

If reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion. 1 Hen. IV., ii. 4.

If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has. Colton.

If she be not fit for me, / What care I for whom she be? G. Wither.

If solid happiness we prize, / Within our breast this jewel lies, / And they are fools who roam. / The world has nothing to bestow; / From our own selves our joys must flow, / And that dear hut, our home. N. Cotton.

If sorrow falls, / Take comfort still in deeming there may be / A way to peace on earth by woes of ours. Sir Edwin Arnold.

If speculation tends to a terrific unity, in 5 which all things are absorbed, action tends directly backwards to diversity. Emerson.

If that God give, the deil daurna reave (bereave). Sc. Pr.

If that thy fame with every toy be posed, / 'Tis a thin web which poisonous fancies make; / But the great soldier's honour was composed / Of thicker stuff, which would endure a shake. George Herbert.

If the Almighty waited six thousand years for a man to see what He has made, I may well wait two hundred for others to see what I have seen. Kepler. See Isa. xxviii. 16 (last clause).

If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken, we moderns are building houses for them. A. B. Alcott.

If the beard were all, the goat might preach. 10 Dan. Pr.

If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. Heb. Pr.

If the cap fit, wear it. Pr.

If the chaff-cutter had the making of us, we should all be straw, I reckon. George Eliot.

If the counsel be good, no matter who gave it. Pr.

If the deil were dead, folk would do little for 15 God's sake. Sc. Pr.

If the devil takes a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as he was with them. Lowell.

If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; if he kills, the earth hides it. Sc. Pr.

If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries. Emerson.

If the eye were not of a sunny nature (sonnenhaft), how could it see the sun? If God's own power did not exist within us, how could the godlike delight us? Goethe.

If the farmer cannot live who drives the plough, 20 how can he live who drives a fast-trotting mare? Pr.

If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, / The mist is dispelled when a woman appears. Gay.

If the hungry lion (invited to a feast of chickenweed) is to feast at all, it cannot be on the chickenweed, but only on the chickens. Carlyle.

If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture. Emerson.

"If the Lord tarry, yet wait for Him," for He "will surely come" and heal thee. Thomas à Kempis.

If the mountain will not come to Mahomet, 25 Mahomet will go to the mountain. Mahomet.

If the nose of Cleopatra had been a little shorter, it would have changed the history of the world. Pascal.

If the paternal cottage still shuts us in, its roof still screens us; and with a father we have as yet a prophet, priest, and king, and an obedience that makes us free. Carlyle.

If the pills were pleasant, they would not be gilded. Pr.

If the poet have nothing to interpret and reveal, it is better that he remain silent. C. Fitzhugh.

If the poor man cannot always get meat, the 30 rich man cannot always digest it. Henry Giles.

If the profession you have chosen has some unexpected inconveniences, console yourself by reflecting that no profession is without them. Johnson.

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. Emerson.

If the sun shines on me, what matters the moon? Pr.

If the sky fall, we shall catch larks. Pr.

If the time don't suit you, suit yourself to the 35 time. Turk. Pr.

If the tongue had not been formed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest. Emerson.

If the true did not possess an objective value, human curiosity would have died out centuries ago. Renan.

If the weather don't happen to be good for my work to-day, it's good for some other man's, and will come round to me to-morrow. Dickens.

If the world were put into one scale and my mother into the other, the world would kick the beam. Lord Langdale.

If the young knew, if the old could, there's 40 nothing but would be done. Pr.

If there be / A devil in man, there is an angel too. Tennyson.

If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death. Pythagoras.

If there be no enemy, no fight; if no fight, no victory; if no victory, no crown. Savanar.

If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin. Carlyle.

If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy 45 the sun. Pr.

If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt; if no doubt, no inquiry; and if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius. Landor.

If there were no fools, there would be no knaves. Pr.

If there were only one religion in the world, it would be haughtily and licentiously despotic. Frederick the Great.

If there's a hole in a' your coats, / I rede ye tent it: / A chiel's amang you takin' notes, / And faith he'll prent it. Burns, of Capt. Grose.

If they do these things in the green tree, what shall be done in the dry? Jesus.

If they hear not Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead. Jesus.

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. Fuller.

If them art rich, thou art poor; / For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, / Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, / And death unloads thee. Meas. for Meas., iii. 1.

If thou art wise, thou knowest thine own 5 ignorance; and thou art ignorant, if thou knowest not thyself. Luther.

If thou be a severe, sour-complexioned man, then here I disallow thee to be a competent judge. Isaac Walton.

If thou be master-gunner, spend not all / That thou canst speak at once, but husband it. George Herbert.

If thou bear the cross cheerfully, it will bear thee. Thomas à Kempis.

If thou canst let others alone in their matters, they likewise will not hinder thee in thine. Thomas à Kempis.

If thou cast away one cross, without doubt 10 thou shalt find another, and that perhaps more heavy. Thomas à Kempis.

If thou deniest to a laborious man and a deserving, thou killest a bee; if thou givest to other than such, thou preservest a drone. Quarles.

If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? Bible.

If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. Bible.

If thou hast fear of those who command thee, spare those who obey thee. Rabbi Ben Azai.

If thou hast run with the footmen, and they 15 have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan? Bible.

If thou love learning, thou shalt be learned. Isocrates.

If thou seest the oppression of the poor, ... marvel not at the matter; for He that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they. Bible.

If thou sustain injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it. Democrates.

If thou wouldst profit by thy reading, read humbly, simply, honestly, and not desiring to win a character for learning. Thomas à Kempis.

If thou wouldst reap in love, / First sow in 20 holy fear; / So life a winter's morn may prove / To a bright endless year. Keble.

If thy estate be good, match near home and at leisure; if weak, far off and quickly. Lord Burleigh.

If thy son can make ten pound his measure, / Then all thou addest may be called his treasure. George Herbert.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. Mer. of Ven., i. 2.

If truth be with thy friend, be with them both. George Herbert.

If vain our toil, we ought to blame the culture, 25 not the soil. Pope.

If virtue keep court within, honour will attend without. Pr.

If we are not famous for goodness, we are practically infamous. Spurgeon.

If we are rich with the riches which we neither give nor enjoy, we are rich with the riches which are buried in the caverns of the earth. Hitopadesa.

If we are told a man is religious, we still ask what are his morals; but if we hear he has honest morals, we seldom think of the other question, whether he be religious. Shaftesbury.

If we are wise, we may thank ourselves; if we 30 are great, we must thank fortune. Bulwer Lytton.

If we bear what we must bear with murmuring and grudging, we do but gall our shoulders with the yoke, and render that a heavy unprofitable load which might be fruitful and glorious. Thomas à Kempis.

If we ... / Cannot defend our own doors from the dog, / Let us be worried, and our nation lose / The name of hardiness and policy. Hen. V., i. 2.

If we cannot help committing errors, we must build none. Goethe.

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve happiness. Fichte.

If we cast off one burden, we are immediately 35 pursued and oppressed by another. Thomas à Kempis.

If we clear the metaphysical element out of modern literature, we shall find its bulk amazingly diminished, and the claims of the remaining writers, or of those whom we have thinned by this abstraction of their straw-stuffing, much more easily adjusted. Ruskin.

If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification. Time takes away as much as it gives. Mme. de Sévigné.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. Longfellow.

If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it? Goldsmith.

If we do not now reckon a great man literally 40 divine, it is that our notions of the divine are ever rising higher; not altogether that our reverence for the divine, as manifested in our like, is getting lower. Carlyle.

If we do well here, we shall do well there. J. Edwin.

If we engage into a large acquaintance and various familiarities, we set open our gates to the invaders of most of our time. Cowley.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. Pascal.

If we fail to conquer smaller difficulties, what will become of us when assaulted by greater? Themas à Kempis.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is. Addison.

If we live truly, we shall see truly. Emerson.

If we love those we lose, can we altogether lose those we love? Thackeray.

If we reflect on the number of men we have seen and know, and consider how little we have been to them and they to us, what must our feelings be? (wie wird uns da zu Muthe). We meet with the man of genius (Geistreich) without conversing with him, with the scholar without learning from him, with the traveller without gaining information from him, the amiable man without making ourselves agreeable to him. And this, alas! happens not merely with passing acquaintances; society and families conduct themselves similarly towards their dearest members, cities towards their worthiest citizens, peoples towards their most excellent princes, and nations towards their most eminent men. Goethe.

If we saw all the things that really surround 5 us, we should be imprisoned and unable to move. Emerson.

If we should all bring our misfortunes into one place, most of us would be glad to take our own home again rather than take a proportion out of the common stock. Solon.

If we shut Nature out at the door, she will come in at the window. Sir R. L'Estrange.

If we sit down sullen and inactive, in expectation that God should do all, we shall find ourselves miserably deceived. Rogers.

If we will disbelieve everything because we cannot certainly know all things, we shall do much as wisely as he who would not use his legs, but sit still and perish because he had no wings. Locke.

If we wish to do good to men, we must pity 10 and not despise them. Amiel.

If we would amend the world, we should mend ourselves and teach our children what they should be. Wm. Penn.

If we would endeavour like brave men to stand in the battle, surely we should feel the assistance from Heaven. Thomas à Kempis.

If we would have a genuine torment, let us wish for too much time. Goethe.

If we would put ourselves in the place of other people, the jealousy and dislike which we often feel towards them would depart, and if we put others in our place, our pride and self-conceit would very much decrease. Goethe.

If what happens does not make us richer, we 15 must bid it welcome if it make us wiser. Johnson.

If "wise memory" is ever to prevail, there is need of much "wise oblivion" first. Carlyle.

If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels. Thoreau.

If women were humbler, men would be honester. Vanbrugh.

If wrong our hearts, our heads are right in vain. Young.

If ye believe a' ye hear, ye may eat a' ye see. 20 Sc. Pr.

If ye gi'e a woman a' her will, / Guid faith, she'll soon o'ergang ye. Burns.

If you agree to carry the calf, they'll make you carry the cow. Pr.

If you anticipate your inheritance, you can at last inherit nothing. Johnson.

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle. Johnson.

If you cannot bite, never show your teeth. 25 Pr.

If you cannot drive the engine, you can clear the road. Pr.

If you cannot have the best, make the best of what you have. Pr.

If you cannot make a man think as you do, make him do as you think. Amer. Pr.

If you can't get a loaf, don't throw away a cake. Pr.

If you can't heal the wound, don't tear it open. 30 Dan. Pr.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. So you will have calm days, drowsy nights, and all the good business you have now, and none of the bad. Ruskin.

If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully. Pr.

If you criticise a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and instead of the poet, are censuring your own caricature of him. Emerson.

If you desire faith, then you've faith enough. Browning.

If you desire to enjoy my light, you must supply 35 oil to my lamp. Pr.

If you dinna see the bottom, don't wade (i.e., don't venture, if you can't see your way). Sc. Pr.

If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not. Bacon.

If you do anything for the sake of the world, it will take good care that you shall not do it a second time. Goethe.

If you do not err, you do not attain to understanding. Goethe.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you 40 had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else. Carlyle.

If you don't do better to-day, you'll do worse to-morrow. Pr.

If you don't touch the rope, you won't ring the bell. Pr.

If you eat, eat a portion; do not eat all. Wit and Wisdom from West Africa.

If you have a good seat, keep it. Pr.

If you have a special weakness, do not expose 45 it by attempting to do things which will bring it out. Spurgeon.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. Thoreau.

If you have lived one day, you have seen all. Montaigne.

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. Jul. Cæs., iii. 2.

If you have time, don't wait for time. Ben. Franklin.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone. Ben. Franklin.

If you lie upon roses when young, you will lie upon thorns when old. Pr.

If you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols. Bacon.

If you live among men, the heart must either break or turn to brass. Chamfort.

If you make a law against dancing-masters 5 imitating the fine gentleman, you should with as much reason enact, that no fine gentleman shall imitate the dancing-master. Goldsmith.

If you pity rogues, you are no great friend of honest men. Pr.

If you pull one pig by the tail, all the rest will squeak. Dut. Pr.

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own. Pr.

If you raise one ghost, you will have the churchyard in motion. Pr.

If you read the Bible with a predetermination to 10 pick out every text you approve of, on these terms you will find it entirely intelligible and wholly delightful; but if you read it with a real purpose of trying to understand it, and obey, and so read it all through steadily, you will find it, out and out, the crabbedest and most difficult book you ever tried. Ruskin.

If you resolve to do right, you will soon do wisely; but resolve only to do wisely, and you will never do right. Ruskin.

If you run after two hares, you will catch neither. Pr.

If you say nothing, nobody will repeat it. Pr.

If you seek warmth of affection from a similar motive to that from which cats and dogs and slothful persons hug the fire, you are on the downward road. Thoreau.

If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too. Pr. 15

If you sit down a mere philosopher, you will rise almost an atheist. Anon.

If you tell me all you see, you'll tell what will make you feel shame. Gael. Pr.

If you throw all your money into the sea, yet count it before you let it go. Old saying.

If you trust before you try, / You may repent before you die. Pr.

If you want a pretence to whip a dog, say 20 that he ate the frying-pan. Pr.

If you want learning, you must work for it. J. G. Holland.

If you want to gain a reputation for eccentricity and to be universally dreaded, blurt out the plain truth on all occasions. Anon.

If you want to know a man, make a solitary journey with him. Pr.

If you want work done, go to the man who is already fully occupied. Pr.

If you were as eager to discover good as evil, 25 and had the same delight in spreading the report of it; if good examples were made public as the bad ones always are, do you not think that the good would weigh down the balance? But gratitude speaks so low, and indignation so loudly, that you cannot hear but the last. Marmontel.

If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question. Goethe.

If you wish to astonish the whole world, tell the simple truth. Rahel.

If you would be a smith, begin with blowing the fire. Pr.

If you would be pungent, be brief, for it is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed the deeper they burn. Saxe.

If you would be well served, you must serve 30 yourself. Pr.

If you would cease to dislike a man, try to get nearer his heart. J. M. Barrie.

If you would create something, you must be something. Goethe.

If you would ensure a peaceful old age, be careful of the acts of each day of your youth; for with youth the deeds thereof are not to be left behind. Isaac Disraeli.

If you would eschew pain, eschew pleasure. The Cynics.

If you would have a faithful servant and one 35 you like, serve yourself. Ben. Franklin.

If you would have it well done, you must do it yourself; you must not leave it to others. Pr.

If you would know and not be known, live in a city. Colton.

If you would learn to write, it is the street you must learn it in. Emerson.

If you would love mankind, you should not expect too much from them. Helvetius.

If you would make Fortune your friend; when 40 people say money is to be got here and money is to be got there, take no notice; mind your own business; stay where you are; and secure all you can get, without stirring. Goldsmith.

If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused. Anon.

If you would slip into a round hole, you must make a ball of yourself. George Eliot.

If you would succeed, you must not be too good. It. Pr.

If you would understand an author, you must understand his age. Goethe.

If you would work any man, know his nature 45 and fashions, and so lead him. Bacon.

If your mind and its affections be pure, and sincere, and moderate, nothing shall have the power to enslave you. Thomas à Kempis.

If your wife is short, stoop to her. Pr.

Ignavis semper feriæ sunt—To the indolent every day is a holiday. Pr.

Ignavissimus quisque, et, ut res docuit, in periculo non ausurus, nimio verbis et lingua ferox—Every recreant, who, as experience has proved, will fly in the hour of danger, is the most boastful in his words and language afterwards. Tacit.

Ignavum fucos pecus a præsepibus arcent—They 50 (the bees) drive from their hives the drones, a lazy pack. Virg.

Ignem gladio scrutare modo—Only stir the fire with a sword! Hor.

Ignem ne gladio fodito—Do not stir the fire with a sword. Pr.

Ignis aurum probat, miseria fortes viros—Fire tests gold; adversity strong men. Sen.

Ignis fatuus—A deceiving light; a "Will-o'-the-wisp."