Aaron. If Moses is not with Aaron, then Aaron makes himcalves. - Wenn Moses nicht bei Aaron ist, so macht AaronKälber {Frederick the Great.} Aaron. In the hands of genius the driest stick becomes an Aaron's rod, and buds and blossoms out in poetry. {H. N. Hudson.} Aaron. Never since Aaron's rod went out of practice, or even before it, was there such a wonder-working tool as a pen; greater than all recorded miracles have been performed by pens. {Carlyle.} Abasement. Enoughno foreign foe could quell / Thy soul, till from itself it fell; / Yes, self-abasement paved the way / To villain bonds and despot sway. {Byron.} Abbot. 'What must we suffer for the Church of God's sake!' exclaimed the Abbot when the roast fowl burnt his fingers. - O was müssen wir der Kirche Gottes halber leiden, rief der Abt, als ihm das gebratene Huhn die Finger versengte {German. Proverb.} Abbot. As the abbot sings, the sacristan answers. - Como canta el abad, así responde el monacillo {Spanish. Proverb.} Abiding. (You may) dig the deep foundations of a long-abiding {Dr. W. C. Smith.} Abiding. Humour, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its objects in a genial and abiding light. {Whipple.} Abiding. Life I leave, as I would leave an inn, rather than a home; nature having given it us more as a sort of hostelry to stop at, than as an abiding dwelling-place. {Cato in Cicero.} Abiding. The abiding city and post at which we can live and die is still ahead of us, it would appear. {Carlyle.}
Based on the Dictionary of Quotations From Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources by Rev.James Woods, published originally in 1893 by Frederick Warne & Co
