Familiar Quotations | Page 2

John Bartlett
shall be my people, and thy God my God.
Samuel xiii. 14.
A man after his own heart.
Samuel i. 20.
Tell it not in Gath; publish it not in the streets of Ashkelon
Samuel i. 23.
Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their
death they were not divided.
Samuel i. 25.
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle!

Samuel i. 26.
Very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful,
passing the love of women.
Samuel xii. 7.
And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man.
Kings ix, 7.
A proverb and a by-word among all people,
Kings xviii. 21.
How long halt ye between two opinions?
Kings xviii. 44.
Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand.
Kings xix. 12.
A still, small voice.
Kings xx. 11.
Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth
it off.
Kings iv. 40.
There is death in the pot.
Job i. 21.
The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of
the Lord.

Job iii. 17.
There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest.
Job v. 7.
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Job xvi. 2.
Miserable comforters are ye all.
Job xix. 25.
I know that my Redeemer liveth.
Job xxviii. 18.
The price of wisdom is above-rubies.
Job xxix. 15.
I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
Job xxxi. 35.
That mine adversary had written a book.
Job xxxviii. 11.
Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; and here shall thy proud
waves be stayed.
Psalm xvi. 6.
The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places.
Psalm xviii. 10.
Yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.

Psalm xxiii. 2.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures he leadeth me beside the
still waters.
Psalm xxiii. 4.
Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Psalm xxxvii. 25.
I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous
forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
Psalm xxxvii. 35.
Spreading himself like a green bay tree.
Psalm xxxvii. 37.
Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright.
Psalm xxxix. 3.
While I was musing the fire burned.
Psalm xlv. 1.
My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
Psalm lv. 6.
Oh, that I had wings like a dove!
Psalm lxxii. 9.
His enemies shall lick the dust.
Psalm lxxxv. 10.

Mercy and truth are met together: righteousness and peace have kissed
each other.

Psalm xc. 9.
We spend our years as a tale that is told.
Psalm cvii. 27.
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their
wit's end.
Psalm cxxvii. 2.
He giveth his beloved sleep.
Psalm cxxxiii. 1.
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together
in unity!
Psalm cxxxvii. 5.
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
Psalm cxxxvii. 2.
We hanged our harps on the willows.
Psalm cxxxix. 14.
For I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Proverbs iii. 17.
Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
Proverbs xi. 14.

In the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Proverbs xiii. 12.
Hope deferred maksth the heart sick.
Proverbs xiv. 9.
Fools make a mock at sin.
Proverbs xiv. 10.
The heart knoweth his own bitterness.
Proverbs xiv. 34.
Righteousness exalteth a nation.
Proverbs xv. 1.
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
Proverbs xv. 17.
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred
therewith.
Proverbs xvi. 18.
Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs xvi. 31.
The hoary head is a crown of glory.
Proverbs xviii. 14.
A wounded spirit who can bear?
Proverbs xxii. 6.

Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not
depart from it.
Proverbs xxiii. 5.
For riches certainly make themselves wings.
Proverbs xxiv. 33.
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep.
Proverbs xxv. 22.
For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.
Proverbs xxvi. 13.
There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.
Proverbs xxvii. 1.
Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may
bring forth.
Proverbs xxviii. 1.
The wicked flee when no man pursueth.
Ecclesiastes i. 9.
There is no new thing under the sun.
Ecclesiastes i. 14.
All is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes v. 12.
The sleep of a
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