And I say once more, if your ladyship does not like to give me the island because I'm a fool, like a wise man I will take care to give myself no trouble about it; I have heard say that 'behind the cross there's the devil,' and that 'all that glitters is not gold,' and that from among the oxen, and the ploughs, and the yokes, Wamba the husbandman was taken to be made King of Spain, and from among brocades, and pleasures, and riches, Roderick was taken to be devoured by adders, if the verses of the old ballads don't lie."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

sy quality Ireidd-dra, n. sappiness Ireiddiad, n. a becoming juicy or fresh Ireiddio, v. to become juicy Ireiddlyd, a. of a juicy quality Iriad, n. a growing fresh Irlas, a. of a fresh verdancy Irlasu, v. to become verdant Irlesni, n. a fresh verdancy Iro, v. to anoint, to grease Irwedd, n. green appearance Irwellt, n. fresh or green grass Irwr, n. an anointer Is, n. the state of going down: a. low; under; interior: prep. below, under Isaâd, n. a rendering low Isaf, a. lowest Isafiad, n. an inferior Isathro, n. an under master Isâu, v. to lower, to abase Isder, n. lowness; meanness Isel, a. low, base; humble Iselâad, n. a making low Iselaidd, a. low or humble Iselâu, v. to make low Iselder, n. lowness; humility Iseldrem, n. a low look Iselfryd, a. humble-minded Iselfrydedd, n. humility Iselgreg, a. softly rumbling Iselgyngian, v. to make a low noise Iseliad, n. a lowering Iselni, n. lowness, abjectness Iselradd, n. a low degree Iselraith, n. a petty jury Iselreithiwr, n. a petty juryman Iselu, v. to abase, to depress Isg, n. that is on the surface Isgal, n. froth, scum Isgell, n. broth, soup, pottage Isgwympiedydd, n. sublapsarian Islaw, prep.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

Of whom he told me this story: That once the Duke of Albemarle in his drink taking notice as of a wonder that Nan Hide should ever come to be Duchesse of York, “Nay,” says Troutbecke, “ne’er wonder at that; for if you will give me another bottle of wine, I will tell you as great, if not greater, a miracle.”
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

His daughters, he felt, while they retained the name of Bertram, must be giving it new grace, and in quitting it, he trusted, would extend its respectable alliances; and the character of Edmund, his strong good sense and uprightness of mind, bid most fairly for utility, honour, and happiness to himself and all his connexions.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Trousseau remarked on the fact that women are not exhausted by repeated acts of coitus within a short period, notwithstanding that the nervous excitement in their case is as great, if not greater, and he considered that this showed that the loss of semen is a cause of exhaustion in men.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women by Havelock Ellis

The very grass is not green at night.
— from Madam How and Lady Why; Or, First Lessons in Earth Lore for Children by Charles Kingsley

If thou be mortal, if thou change or cease, If thine hand fail, or thine eyes turn from Greece, Thy firstborn, and the firstfruits of thy fame, God is no God, and man is moulded out of shame.
— from Songs Before Sunrise by Algernon Charles Swinburne

Globalization is no guarantee against a third one.
— from Terrorists and Freedom Fighters by Samuel Vaknin

Now and then, as in 1745, the sailor element rose in arms, demanding who was master; but as a rule it suffered the gang, if not gladly, at least with exemplary patience.
— from The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore by J. R. (John Robert) Hutchinson

Religion is nothing if not a revelation, and an unknowable God is no God at all.
— from History of Modern Philosophy by Alfred William Benn

This Transandine railroad, one of the few which does not belong to the Chilean government, is narrow gauge, and its construction involved difficulties unusual even in the case of mountain lines, not only because the 252 grades were very steep, but also because the valleys leading up to the central ridge were, especially that on the Chilean side, extremely narrow.
— from South America: Observations and Impressions New edition corrected and revised by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

‘All that glittereth is not gold,’ and all gold does not glitter, specially when folk’s eyes be shut.
— from The Gold that Glitters The Mistakes of Jenny Lavender by Emily Sarah Holt

Some of the learned seem to have drawn this inference as to them all, and to have placed him in the class of original witnesses; but this opinion, though maintained on strong and plausible grounds, is not generally adopted.
— from An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists, by the Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice With an Account of the Trial of Jesus by Simon Greenleaf

"Why, as far as clothes go, I never got along with so few in my life."
— from Peggy Raymond's Way; Or, Blossom Time at Friendly Terrace by Harriet L. (Harriet Lummis) Smith