O.
Oath.
1. A true word needs no oath. Tlirk,
2. An oath and an egg are soon broken. Ger.
3. An unlawful oath is better broken than kept.
4. He keeps his oath as a dog does his fast. Ger.
5. It is a great sin to swear unto a sin,
But greater sin to keep a sinful oath. Skaks.
6. Oaths are but words and words but wind.
BtOier.
7. 'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth.
But the plain, single vow that is vowed true.
Shaks.
8. To keep that oath were more impiety
Than Jeptha's, when he sacrificed his daugh-
ter. Shaks.
Obedience.
I. Obedience and majesty never lodged in the
same inn. Massinger.
Obligation. — Observation. — Obstinacy.
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2. Obedience is more seen in little things than in
great.
3. Obedience is the mother of happiness.
4. Obey orders if it break owners.
5. The proof of obedience is found in small mat-
ters more than great.
6. They that are bound must obey.
7. When you obey your superior you instruct
your inferior.
Obligation.
1. By conferring an obligation you do not always
procure a friend but are certain of creating ene-
mies. Fielding,
2. Excess of obligations may lose a friend.
Obsenration.
1. Exhaustive observation is an element of every
great achievement. Spenser,
2. For he is but a bastard to the time
That doth not smack of observation. Shaks,
Obstinacy.
1. A headstrong man and a fool may wear the
same cap.
2. Obstinacy is the worst and most incurable of
all sins.
Occtilist.
I. Among wonderful things is a sore-eyed person
who is an occulist. Arabs of Egypt
Occupation*
I. A good occupation is better than a golden
girdle. Ger.
96
Odd Numbers.~Offknces. — Offxnding^
2. Constant occupation prevents temptation.
Ital.
3. No thoroughly occupied man was ever miser-
able.
4. The church, the sea, or the royal household for
those who would thrive.
5. Thrice happy they who have an occupation.
Byron,
Odd Numbers.
I. There is luck in odd numbers.
OfiPences.
I. Offences generally out- weigh merits with great
men.
Offending.
1. No one can justly offend us but ourselves.
St Chrysostom.
2. Who offends writes on sand, who is offended
on marble. ItaL
Offenders.
I. The offender never pardons. Ital.
Offers.
I. Extravagant offers are a kind of denial. Ital.
Office.
1. All offices are greasy ; ue,^ open to receive what
the Dutch call smear money. Dutch.
2. An ill man in office is a mischief to the
public.
3. An office that does not give the holder enough
to eat is not worth two beans. Don Quixote,
4. Cursed is he that doth his office craftily, cor-
ruptly or maliciously.
OFFSPKrMC. QT
5. Great office, great care.
6. He hath a great office, he must need thrive.
7. He that puts on a public gown must put off
the private person,
8. It is a pretty otEce where one works only
with his stomach. Ger.
9. It is thou must honor the place (or office) and
not the place thee,
10. Jack in office is a great man.
11. No office so humble but is better than noth-
ing, DuUh.
12. Nothing is more obnoxious than a low per-
son raised to a high position. Claudian.
13. Office tests the man. Latin.
14. Office without pay makes thieves. Ger.
15. The office (or place) teaches (shows) the
man. Ger., Latin.
t6. Th^ that buy an office must sell something.
17. To grow proud in office is the nature of man.
Tiberius.
18. To kiss a man's wife or wipe his knife is but
a thankless office.
19. Who fills an office must learn to bear re-
proach and blame. Gtr.
10. Who obtains an oSice surreptitiously like a
fox will administer it like a wolf, Ger.
I. The offspring of them that ate very old or
very young lasteth not.
3. Unworthy offspring brag most of their de-
scent. J>an.
g8 Olive.— Once.— One.
OUve.
1. Call me not olive until you see me gathered.
2. No man who has planted an olive has ever
tasted its fruit.
Once.
1. Once is never. (Ein mal kdn mal^ Ger.
2, Once upon a time no time. {Same day^ no
day.) Ger.
One.
1. One foolish act may undo a man and a
timely one make his fortune. GaeUc.
2. One foot is better than two crutches.
3. One foot is better than two stilts. J^.
4. One grain of pepper is worth a cart-load of
hail.
5. One grain of sharp pepper is .better dian a
basket full of gourds.
6. One grape will not make a bunch though it
be a great one. ^ea.
7. One link broken, the whole chain is broken.
Ger.
8. One log does not bum long by itself. Ger.
9. One pirate gets nothing of another but his
cask.
10. One ploughs, another sows,
Who will reap no one knows. Dan.
11. One poison is cured by another.
12. One sad losel soils a man for aye. Byron.
13. One stroke falls not an oak.
14. Only one can be emperor. Ger.
One's Own.— Opinion. — Opportunity.
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One's Own.
1. One's own hearth is worth gold. Dutch.
2. One's own straw is better than an enemy's
wool. Ger,
3. One's own thistle field is dearer to him than
liis neighbor's garden of roses. Ger,
4. The smoke of our own country is brighter
than fire abroad. Latin.
5. 'Tis written " What's not your own that let
alone."
6. To every one his own is not too much. Ger.
7. You may call that your own which no one can
take from you. Dan.
8. Your cracked jug seems better to me than
my sound one. Sp.
Opinion.
1. All worldly happiness consists in opinion.
2. A man's own opinion is never wrong. Ital.
3. He that seeks a' opinions comes ill speed.
4. Opinion is the great pillar that upholds the
commonwealth.
5. Popular opinion is deceitful.
6. The man is a fool who when asked for his
candid opinion gives it Punch.
Opportunity.
1. A man must make his opportunity as oft as
find it Bacon.
2. An occasion lost cannot be redeemed.
3. An opportunity which presents itself must
not be lost. Turk.
100 Opprkssion.—O&ator, Oratory.
4. Catch the opportunity. Latin.
5. Don't let escape the opportuni^ of the
present ; it will not return. Turk,
6. Know your opportunity.
Pittacus^ one of the seven wisemen.
7. Let not slip the golden opportunity.
8. Occasion's (opportunity's) bald behind.
Massmger.
9. Opportunity is the cream of time.
10. Opportunity makes desire. Dutch.
11. Opportunities are more powerful than con-
querors and prophets. Bea.
12. Opportunities do not wait. M. Greek,
13. Opportunities neglected are lost
14. The first occasion offered, quickly take.
Lest thou repine at what thou did'st forsake.
Dutck.
15. The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.
Syrus.
16. To take opportunity by the forelock.
Oppression.
1. Oppression causeth rebellion.
2. Oppression will make a wise man mad.
Orator, Oratory.
1. A good orator must be Cicero and Roscius
in one man.
2. An orator is a virtuous man skilled in the art
of speaking well. Cato.
3. An orator without judgment is a horse with-
out a bridle. Theopkrastus,
Order.— Orthodoxy.— Orphan.— Oven.— Over, jqi
4. He is a good orator who convinces himself.
5. He's a pretty fellow of an orator that makes
panegyric of himself.
6. Oratory is the wings upon which we must rise
to the great offices of state. Plutarch.
7. Their weakness made them get up into
clamor as lame men get on horseback.
Cicero^ speaking of bawling orators.
Order.
1. Order is Heaven's first law. Pope.
2. Set thine house in order. Bible.
3. The old order changeth, yielding place to new.
Tennyson.
Orthodoxy.
I. Orthodoxy is my doxy, heterodoxy is another
man's doxy. Bishop Warburtan.
Orphan.
I. O teach the orphan boy to read,
Or the orphan girl to sew.
Oven.
1. An old oven is easier to heat than a new one.
Fr.
2. No gaping against an oven.
Over.
I. What is over can't be begun. Dickens.
Owl.
1. The owl does not praise the light nor the wolf
the day. Z)an.
2. The owl is not accounted the wiser for living
retiredly.
3. The owl thinks her children the fairest. Dan.
Ox.
I02
1. A long ozy a short horse.
2. An old ox makes a straight furrow.
Fr., Ital, Sp., Par.
3. An old ox will find a shelter for himself.
4. An ox when he is loose licks himself at
pleasure.
5. Even he gets on who is drawn by oxen. Dan.
6. He has hay upon his horn. {J%e ancients
thus marked mischievous oxen^
7. He takes the bull by the horns ; i^^ grapples
boldly with the difficulty.
8. He who greases his cart-wheels helps his
oxen. Sp.
9. He who has lost his oxen b always hearing
bells. Sp.
10. If an ox won't drink you cannot make him
bend his neck. Chinese.
11. If the ox fall, whet your knife.
12. Is the crow aware of the pain it occasions in
picking the sore of an ox ?
13. It is easy to frighten a bull from the window.
Ital.
14. It is not the best oxen that do the best day's
work.
15. No need to seek shelter for an old ox. Sp.
16. Old oxen have stiff horns. Dan.
17. Old oxen tread hard. Ger.
18. Ox, keep to your grass.
19. The black ox never trod on his feet ; /.^., he
never knew sorroiit or adversity.
Oath.
1. A true word needs no oath. Tlirk,
2. An oath and an egg are soon broken. Ger.
3. An unlawful oath is better broken than kept.
4. He keeps his oath as a dog does his fast. Ger.
5. It is a great sin to swear unto a sin,
But greater sin to keep a sinful oath. Skaks.
6. Oaths are but words and words but wind.
BtOier.
7. 'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth.
But the plain, single vow that is vowed true.
Shaks.
8. To keep that oath were more impiety
Than Jeptha's, when he sacrificed his daugh-
ter. Shaks.
Obedience.
I. Obedience and majesty never lodged in the
same inn. Massinger.
Obligation. — Observation. — Obstinacy.
95
2. Obedience is more seen in little things than in
great.
3. Obedience is the mother of happiness.
4. Obey orders if it break owners.
5. The proof of obedience is found in small mat-
ters more than great.
6. They that are bound must obey.
7. When you obey your superior you instruct
your inferior.
Obligation.
1. By conferring an obligation you do not always
procure a friend but are certain of creating ene-
mies. Fielding,
2. Excess of obligations may lose a friend.
Obsenration.
1. Exhaustive observation is an element of every
great achievement. Spenser,
2. For he is but a bastard to the time
That doth not smack of observation. Shaks,
Obstinacy.
1. A headstrong man and a fool may wear the
same cap.
2. Obstinacy is the worst and most incurable of
all sins.
Occtilist.
I. Among wonderful things is a sore-eyed person
who is an occulist. Arabs of Egypt
Occupation*
I. A good occupation is better than a golden
girdle. Ger.
96
Odd Numbers.~Offknces. — Offxnding^
2. Constant occupation prevents temptation.
Ital.
3. No thoroughly occupied man was ever miser-
able.
4. The church, the sea, or the royal household for
those who would thrive.
5. Thrice happy they who have an occupation.
Byron,
Odd Numbers.
I. There is luck in odd numbers.
OfiPences.
I. Offences generally out- weigh merits with great
men.
Offending.
1. No one can justly offend us but ourselves.
St Chrysostom.
2. Who offends writes on sand, who is offended
on marble. ItaL
Offenders.
I. The offender never pardons. Ital.
Offers.
I. Extravagant offers are a kind of denial. Ital.
Office.
1. All offices are greasy ; ue,^ open to receive what
the Dutch call smear money. Dutch.
2. An ill man in office is a mischief to the
public.
3. An office that does not give the holder enough
to eat is not worth two beans. Don Quixote,
4. Cursed is he that doth his office craftily, cor-
ruptly or maliciously.
OFFSPKrMC. QT
5. Great office, great care.
6. He hath a great office, he must need thrive.
7. He that puts on a public gown must put off
the private person,
8. It is a pretty otEce where one works only
with his stomach. Ger.
9. It is thou must honor the place (or office) and
not the place thee,
10. Jack in office is a great man.
11. No office so humble but is better than noth-
ing, DuUh.
12. Nothing is more obnoxious than a low per-
son raised to a high position. Claudian.
13. Office tests the man. Latin.
14. Office without pay makes thieves. Ger.
15. The office (or place) teaches (shows) the
man. Ger., Latin.
t6. Th^ that buy an office must sell something.
17. To grow proud in office is the nature of man.
Tiberius.
18. To kiss a man's wife or wipe his knife is but
a thankless office.
19. Who fills an office must learn to bear re-
proach and blame. Gtr.
10. Who obtains an oSice surreptitiously like a
fox will administer it like a wolf, Ger.
I. The offspring of them that ate very old or
very young lasteth not.
3. Unworthy offspring brag most of their de-
scent. J>an.
g8 Olive.— Once.— One.
OUve.
1. Call me not olive until you see me gathered.
2. No man who has planted an olive has ever
tasted its fruit.
Once.
1. Once is never. (Ein mal kdn mal^ Ger.
2, Once upon a time no time. {Same day^ no
day.) Ger.
One.
1. One foolish act may undo a man and a
timely one make his fortune. GaeUc.
2. One foot is better than two crutches.
3. One foot is better than two stilts. J^.
4. One grain of pepper is worth a cart-load of
hail.
5. One grain of sharp pepper is .better dian a
basket full of gourds.
6. One grape will not make a bunch though it
be a great one. ^ea.
7. One link broken, the whole chain is broken.
Ger.
8. One log does not bum long by itself. Ger.
9. One pirate gets nothing of another but his
cask.
10. One ploughs, another sows,
Who will reap no one knows. Dan.
11. One poison is cured by another.
12. One sad losel soils a man for aye. Byron.
13. One stroke falls not an oak.
14. Only one can be emperor. Ger.
One's Own.— Opinion. — Opportunity.
99
One's Own.
1. One's own hearth is worth gold. Dutch.
2. One's own straw is better than an enemy's
wool. Ger,
3. One's own thistle field is dearer to him than
liis neighbor's garden of roses. Ger,
4. The smoke of our own country is brighter
than fire abroad. Latin.
5. 'Tis written " What's not your own that let
alone."
6. To every one his own is not too much. Ger.
7. You may call that your own which no one can
take from you. Dan.
8. Your cracked jug seems better to me than
my sound one. Sp.
Opinion.
1. All worldly happiness consists in opinion.
2. A man's own opinion is never wrong. Ital.
3. He that seeks a' opinions comes ill speed.
4. Opinion is the great pillar that upholds the
commonwealth.
5. Popular opinion is deceitful.
6. The man is a fool who when asked for his
candid opinion gives it Punch.
Opportunity.
1. A man must make his opportunity as oft as
find it Bacon.
2. An occasion lost cannot be redeemed.
3. An opportunity which presents itself must
not be lost. Turk.
100 Opprkssion.—O&ator, Oratory.
4. Catch the opportunity. Latin.
5. Don't let escape the opportuni^ of the
present ; it will not return. Turk,
6. Know your opportunity.
Pittacus^ one of the seven wisemen.
7. Let not slip the golden opportunity.
8. Occasion's (opportunity's) bald behind.
Massmger.
9. Opportunity is the cream of time.
10. Opportunity makes desire. Dutch.
11. Opportunities are more powerful than con-
querors and prophets. Bea.
12. Opportunities do not wait. M. Greek,
13. Opportunities neglected are lost
14. The first occasion offered, quickly take.
Lest thou repine at what thou did'st forsake.
Dutck.
15. The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.
Syrus.
16. To take opportunity by the forelock.
Oppression.
1. Oppression causeth rebellion.
2. Oppression will make a wise man mad.
Orator, Oratory.
1. A good orator must be Cicero and Roscius
in one man.
2. An orator is a virtuous man skilled in the art
of speaking well. Cato.
3. An orator without judgment is a horse with-
out a bridle. Theopkrastus,
Order.— Orthodoxy.— Orphan.— Oven.— Over, jqi
4. He is a good orator who convinces himself.
5. He's a pretty fellow of an orator that makes
panegyric of himself.
6. Oratory is the wings upon which we must rise
to the great offices of state. Plutarch.
7. Their weakness made them get up into
clamor as lame men get on horseback.
Cicero^ speaking of bawling orators.
Order.
1. Order is Heaven's first law. Pope.
2. Set thine house in order. Bible.
3. The old order changeth, yielding place to new.
Tennyson.
Orthodoxy.
I. Orthodoxy is my doxy, heterodoxy is another
man's doxy. Bishop Warburtan.
Orphan.
I. O teach the orphan boy to read,
Or the orphan girl to sew.
Oven.
1. An old oven is easier to heat than a new one.
Fr.
2. No gaping against an oven.
Over.
I. What is over can't be begun. Dickens.
Owl.
1. The owl does not praise the light nor the wolf
the day. Z)an.
2. The owl is not accounted the wiser for living
retiredly.
3. The owl thinks her children the fairest. Dan.
Ox.
I02
1. A long ozy a short horse.
2. An old ox makes a straight furrow.
Fr., Ital, Sp., Par.
3. An old ox will find a shelter for himself.
4. An ox when he is loose licks himself at
pleasure.
5. Even he gets on who is drawn by oxen. Dan.
6. He has hay upon his horn. {J%e ancients
thus marked mischievous oxen^
7. He takes the bull by the horns ; i^^ grapples
boldly with the difficulty.
8. He who greases his cart-wheels helps his
oxen. Sp.
9. He who has lost his oxen b always hearing
bells. Sp.
10. If an ox won't drink you cannot make him
bend his neck. Chinese.
11. If the ox fall, whet your knife.
12. Is the crow aware of the pain it occasions in
picking the sore of an ox ?
13. It is easy to frighten a bull from the window.
Ital.
14. It is not the best oxen that do the best day's
work.
15. No need to seek shelter for an old ox. Sp.
16. Old oxen have stiff horns. Dan.
17. Old oxen tread hard. Ger.
18. Ox, keep to your grass.
19. The black ox never trod on his feet ; /.^., he
never knew sorroiit or adversity.
