Icicle. Chastity is like an icicle; if it once melts, that's the last of it. {Proverb.} Icicle. Honesty is like an icicle; if it once melts, that is the last of it. {Amer. Proverb.} Icicle. Money is like an icicle, soon found at certain seasons, and soon melted under other circumstances. {Spurgeon.} Idea. A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism. {Victor Hugo.} Idea. Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, / To teach the young idea how to shoot. {Thomson.} Idea. Distance produces in idea the same effect as in real perspective. {Scott.} Idea. Every idea must have a visible unfolding. {Victor Hugo.} Idea. For man there is but one misfortune, when some idea lays hold of him which exerts no influence upon his active life, or still more, which withdraws him from it. {Goethe.} Idea. Genius is nothing more than the effort of the idea to assume a definite form. {Fichte.} Idea. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds.... This idea has inspired the genius of Goldsmith, Burns, Cowper, and, in a newer time, of Goethe, Wordsworth, and Carlyle. Their writing is blood-warm. {Emerson.}
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
