Chapter WINE to WISDOM of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

WINE to WISDOM

WINE.—Wine and Truth, is the saying.

Buckley.—Supra.

WINGS.—Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.

Psalm LV. Verse 6.

I would I could become your buzzing bee, and so enter into your cave, penetrating the ivy and the fern with which you are covered in.

Banks’s Theocritus.—Page 18, Idyll 3.

WINTER.—When great leaves fall then winter is at hand.

Shakespeare.—King Richard III. Act II. Scene 3. (Third Citizen.)

No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array,
But winter lingering chills the lap of May.

Goldsmith.—The Traveller, Line 171.

Then winter’s time-bleach’d locks did hoary show,
By hospitality with cloudless brow.

Burns.—Brigs of Ayr.

See, winter comes to rule the varied year,
Sullen and sad, with all his rising train,
Vapours, and clouds, and storms.

Thomson.—Winter, Line 1.

Behold, fond man!
See here thy pictured life; pass some few years,
Thy flowering spring, thy summer’s ardent strength,
Thy sober autumn, fading into age,
And pale concluding winter comes at last,
And shuts the scene.

Thomson.—Line 1028.

Will spring return,
And birds and lambs again be gay,
And blossoms clothe the hawthorn spray?
Yes, prattlers, yes.

Scott.—Introduction to Marmion.

WISDOM.—Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquillity and peace.

Yonge’s Cicero.—De Finibus, Book I. Div. 14; Proverbs, Chap. VIII. and IX.

WISDOM.—Wisdom is oft concealed in mean attire.

Cœcilius.—Yonge, supra.

Full oft we see
Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

Shakespeare.—All’s Well that Ends Well, Act I. Scene 1. (Helena, as Parolles enters.)

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.