[Greek: Gelôs akairos en brotois deinon kakon]—Ill-timed 35 laughter in men is a grievous evil.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

For indeed, friend, it is only yesterday or the day before, since the strippings and exposures of the youths in the gymnasiums, that this boy-love crept in, and gently insinuated itself and got a footing, and at last in a little time got fully-fledged in the wrestling-schools, and has now got fairly unbearable, and insults and tramples on conjugal love, that love that gives immortality to our mortal race, when our nature has been extinguished by death, kindling it again by new births.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

If every ship in the world was submarined and every baby drowned, Kitty wouldn't turn a hair.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Fälschung fraudulent falsification betrügerische Umgehung der Vorschriften fraudulent evasion betrügerischer Bankrott fraudulent bankruptcy Betrugsabsicht intent to defraud Betrugshandlung defraudation Betrugsversuch attempt to defraud Bettler haben keine Wahl beggars have no choice Beurteilung estimation Beurteilung der Kreditfähigkeit credit rating Beurteilungsbogen rating sheet Beurteilungsskala rating scale Bevölkerung population Bevölkerung
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Shipwrecked, remote from human land, environed by dangers known or only conjectured, two solitary beings on a tiny island, thrown haphazard from the depths of the China Sea, this young couple, after passing unscathed through perils unknown even to the writers of melodrama, lifted up their voices in the sheer exuberance of good spirits and abounding vitality.
— from The Wings of the Morning by Louis Tracy

Many legends which Max Muller explains as myths of the victory of day over night are explained by Dr. Kuhn as storm-myths; and the disagreement between two such powerful champions would be a standing reproach to what is rather prematurely called the SCIENCE of comparative mythology, were it not easy to show that the difference is merely apparent and non-essential.
— from Myths and Myth-Makers Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology by John Fiske

Little may be added to the knowledge of the fishes themselves, for I suppose most of the species have been described either by De Kay, Kirtland, or Storer; but a careful study of their special geographical distribution may furnish results as important to zoology as the knowledge of the species themselves.
— from Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence by Louis Agassiz

How now, thou errant bird, dost know thy master, or take him for a mud wall?
— from The Armourer's Prentices by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

This claim, of which I am thoroughly sceptical, is endorsed by Dr. Knapp, [4] who, however, could find no trace of the family earlier than [Pg 5] 1678, the old parish registers having been destroyed.
— from George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters of Borrow and His Friends by Clement King Shorter

So far the conclusions drawn from the laws respecting the leysing do not vary much from the views expounded by Dr. Konrad von Maurer in his ‘Die Freigelassenen nach altnorwegischem Rechte,’ and confirmed by so great an authority they can hardly have wandered very far from the truth.
— from Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law Being an Essay Supplemental to (1) 'The English Village Community', (2) 'The Tribal System in Wales' by Frederic Seebohm