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James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.

Hebrew Proverb

A nod for a wise man, and a rod for a fool.

An old man in a house is a good sign in a house.

As is the garden, such is the gardener.

God is more delighted in adverbs than in nouns—i.e., not in what is done so much as how it is done.

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

In your own country your name, in other countries your appearance.

Let not one enemy be few, nor a thousand friends many, in thy sight.

One soweth and another reapeth.

Physician, heal thyself.

When the tale of bricks is doubled, then comes Moses.