=A' are guid lasses, but where do a' the ill wives
come frae?= _Sc. Pr._
=A' are no freens that speak us fair.= _Sc. Pr._
=A aucun les biens viennent en dormant=--Good
things come to some while asleep. _Fr. Pr._
=Ab abusu ad usum non valet consequentia=--The
abuse of a thing is no argument against its
use. _L. Max._
=Ab actu ad posse valet illatio=--From what has 5
happened we may infer what may happen.
=A bad beginning has a bad, or makes a worse,
ending.= _Pr._
=A bad dog never sees the wolf.= _Pr._
=A bad thing is dear at any price.= _Pr._
=Ab alio expectes, alteri quod feceris=--As you
do to others, you may expect another to do to
you. _Laber._
=A barren sow was never good to pigs.= _Pr._ 10
=A bas=--Down! down with! _Fr._
=A beast that wants discourse of reason.= _Ham._,
i. 2.
=A beau is everything of a woman but the sex,
and nothing of a man beside it.= _Fielding._
=A beau jeu beau retour=--One good turn deserves
another. _Fr. Pr._
=A beautiful form is better than a beautiful= 15
=face, and a beautiful behaviour than a beautiful
form.= _Emerson._
=A beautiful object doth so much attract the
sight of all men, that it is in no man's power
not to be pleased with it.= _Clarendon._
=A beautiful woman is the "hell" of the soul,
the "purgatory" of the purse, and the
"paradise" of the eyes.= _Fontenelle._
=A beggarly account of empty boxes.= _Rom.
and Jul._, v. 1.
=A beggar's purse is always empty.= _Pr._
=A belief in the Bible, the fruit of deep meditation,= 20
=has served me as the guide of my moral
and literary life. I have found it a capital
safely invested, and richly productive of interest.=
_Goethe._
=Abends wird der Faule fleissig=--Towards evening
the lazy man begins to be busy. _Ger. Pr._
=A beneficent person is like a fountain watering
the earth and spreading fertility.= _Epicurus._
=Aberrare a scopo=--To miss the mark.
=Abeunt studia in mores=--Pursuits assiduously
prosecuted become habits.
=Ab extra=--From without. 25
=Abgründe liegen im Gemüthe, die tiefer als die
Hölle sind=--There are abysses in the mind that
are deeper than hell. _Platen._
=Ab honesto virum bonum nihil deterret=--Nothing
deters a good man from what honour
requires of him. _Sen._
=A big head and little wit.= _Pr._
=Ab igne ignem=--Fire from fire.
=Abiit, excessit, evasit, erupit=--He has left, gone 30
off, escaped, broken away. _Cic. of Catiline's
flight._
=Ability to discern that what is true is true,
and that what is false is false, is the characteristic
of intelligence.= _Swedenborg._
=Ab incunabilis=--From the cradle.
=Ab initio=--From the beginning.
=Ab inopia ad virtutem obsepta est via=--The
way from poverty to virtue is an obstructed one.
_Pr._
=Ab intra=--From within. 35
=Ab irato=--In a fit of passion.
=A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.=
_Pr._
=A bis et à blanc=--By fits and starts. _Fr._
=A bitter and perplex'd "What shall I do?" is
worse to man than worst necessity.= _Schiller._
=A black hen will lay a white egg.= _Pr._ 40
=A blind man should not judge of colours.= _Pr._
=A blockhead can find more faults than a wise
man can mend.= _Gael. Pr._
=A blue-stocking despises her duties as a
woman, and always begins by making herself
a man.= _Rousseau._
=Abnormis sapiens=--Wise without learning. _Hor._
=A bon chat bon rat=--A good rat to match a good 45
cat. Tit for tat. _Pr._
=A bon chien il ne vient jamais un bon os=--A
good bone never falls to a good dog. _Fr. Pr._
=A bon droit=--Justly; according to reason. _Fr._
=A bon marché=--Cheap. _Fr._
=A book may be as great a thing as a battle.=
_Disraeli._
=A book should be luminous, but not voluminous.= 50
_Bovee._
=Ab origine=--From the beginning.
=About Jesus we must believe no one but himself.=
_Amiel._
=Above all Greek, above all Roman fame.= _Pope._
=Above all things reverence thyself.= _Pythagoras._
=Above the cloud with its shadow is the star
with its light.= _Victor Hugo._
=Ab ovo=--From the beginning (_lit._ from the egg).
=Ab ovo usque ad mala=--From the beginning to 5
the end (_lit._ from the egg to the apples).
=A bras ouverts=--With open arms. _Fr._
=A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps
close to truth.= _Arist._
=A brave spirit struggling with adversity is a
spectacle for the gods.= _Sen._
=A breath can make them, as a breath has
made.= _Goldsmith._
=Abrégé=--Abridgment. _Fr._ 10
=Absence lessens weak, and intensifies violent,
passions, as wind extinguishes a taper and
lights up a fire.= _La Roche._
=Absence makes the heart grow fonder.= _Bayly._
=Absence of occupation is not rest; / A mind
quite vacant is a mind distress'd.= _Cowper._
=Absens hæres non erit=--The absent one will not
be the heir. _Pr._
=Absent in body, but present in spirit.= _St._ 15
_Paul._
=Absit invidia=--Envy apart.
=Absit omen=--May the omen augur no evil.
=Absolute fiends are as rare as angels, perhaps
rarer.= _J. S. Mill._
=Absolute freedom is inhuman.= _Rahel._
=Absolute individualism is an absurdity.= _Amiel._ 20
=Absolute nothing is the aggregate of all the
contradictions of the world.= _Jonathan Edwards._
=Absque argento omnia vana=--Without money
all is vain.
=Abstineto a fabis=--Having nothing to do with
elections (_lit._ Abstain from beans, the ballot at
Athens having been by beans).
=Absurdum est ut alios regat, qui seipsum
regere nescit=--It is absurd that he should
govern others, who knows not how to govern
himself. _L. Max._
=Abundat dulcibus vitiis=--He abounds in charming 25
faults of style. _Quint._
=Ab uno ad omnes=--From one to all. _M._
=Ab uno disce omnes=--From a single instance you
may infer the whole.
=Ab urbe condita= (A.U.C.)--From the building of
the city, _i.e._, of Rome.
=A bureaucracy always tends to become a
pedantocracy.= _J. S. Mill._
=A burnt child dreads the fire.= _Pr._ 30
=Abusus non tollit usum=--Abuse is no argument
against use. _Pr._
=Academical years ought by rights to give
occupation to the whole mind. It is this
time which, well or ill employed, affects a
man's whole after-life.= _Goethe._
=A cader va chi troppo in alto sale=--He who
climbs too high is near a fall. _It. Pr._
=A capite ad calcem=--From head to heel.
=A careless master makes a negligent servant.= 35
_Pr._
=A carper will cavil at anything.= _Pr._
=A carrion kite will never make a good hawk.=
_Pr._
="A cat may look at a king," but can it= _see_ =a
king when it looks at him?= _Ruskin._
=A causa perduta parole assai=--Plenty of words
when the cause is lost. _It. Pr._
=Accasca in un punto quel che non accasca in= 40
=cento anni=--That may happen in a moment which
may not occur again in a hundred years. _It. Pr._
=Accedas ad curiam=--You may go to the court.
A writ to remove a case to a higher court. _L.
Term._
=Accensa domo proximi, tua quoque periclitatur=--When
the house of your neighbour is on
fire, your own is in danger. _Pr._
=Accent is the soul of speech; it gives it feeling
and truth.= _Rousseau._
=Acceptissima semper / Munera sunt, auctor
quæ pretiosa facit=--Those presents are always
the most acceptable which owe their value to the
giver. _Ovid._
=Accident ever varies; substance can never= 45
=suffer change or decay.= _Wm. Blake._
=Accidents rule men, not men accidents.= _Herodotus._
=Accipe nunc, victus tenuis quid quantaque
secum afferat. In primis valeas bene=--Now
learn what and how great benefits a moderate
diet brings with it. Before all, you will enjoy
good health. _Hor._
=Accipere quam facere præstat injuriam=--It is
better to receive than to do an injury. _Cic._
=Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat=--The
mind attracted by what is false has no relish for
better things. _Hor._
=Accusare nemo se debet nisi coram Deo=--No 50
man is bound to accuse himself unless it be before
God. _L. Max._
=Accuse not Nature; she hath done her part; /
Do thou thine.= _Milton._
=Acer et vehemens bonus orator=--A good orator
is pointed and impassioned. _Cic._
=Acerrima proximorum odia=--The hatred of those
most closely connected with us is the bitterest.
_Tac._
=Acerrimus ex omnibus nostris sensibus est
sensus videndi=--The keenest of all our senses
is the sense of sight. _Cic._
=A certain degree of soul is indispensable to= 55
=save us the expense of salt.= _Ben Jonson._
=A certain tendency to insanity has always
attended the opening of the religious sense
in men, as if they had been "blasted with
excess of light."= _Emerson._
=A chacun selon sa capacité, à chaque capacité
selon ses œuvres=--Every one according
to his talent, and every talent according to its
works. _Fr. Pr._
=A chacun son fardeau pèse=--Every one thinks
his own burden heavy. _Fr. Pr._
=A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.=
_Byron._
=A chaque fou plaît sa marotte=--Every fool is 60
pleased with his own hobby. _Fr. Pr._
=A character is a completely-fashioned will.=
_Novalis._
=Ach! aus dem Glück entwickelt sich Schmerz=--Alas!
that from happiness there so often springs
pain. _Goethe._
=A cheerful life is what the Muses love; / A
soaring spirit is their prime delight.= _Wordsworth._
=Acheruntis pabulum=--Food for Acheron. _Plaut._
=Ach! es geschehen keine Wunder mehr=--Alas!
there are no more any miracles. _Schiller._
=A child is a Cupid become visible.= _Novalis._
=A child may have too much of its mother's
blessing.= _Pr._
=A chill air surrounds those who are down in= 5
=the world.= _George Eliot._
=A chip of the old block.=
=A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman.=
_Hare._
=Ach! unsre Thaten selbst, so gut als unsre
Leiden / Sie hemmen unsers Lebens Gang=--We
are hampered, alas! in our course of life
quite as much by what we do as by what we
suffer. _Goethe._
=Ach! vielleicht indem wir hoffen / Hat uns
Unheil getroffen=--Ah! perhaps while we are
hoping, mischief has already overtaken us.
_Schiller._
=Ach wie glücklich sind die Todten!=--Ah! how 10
happy the dead are! _Schiller._
=Ach! zu des Geistes Flügeln, wird so leicht
kein körperlicher Flügel sich gesellen=--Alas!
no fleshly pinion will so easily keep pace with
the wings of the spirit. _Goethe._
=A circulating library in a town is an ever-green
tree of diabolical knowledge.= _Sheridan._
=A circumnavigator of the globe is less influenced
by all the nations he has seen than
by his nurse.= _Jean Paul._
=A clear conscience is a sure card.= _Pr._
=A cock aye craws crousest (boldest) on his ain= 15
=midden-head.= _Sc. Pr._
=A cœur ouvert=--With open heart; with candour.
_Fr._
=A cœur vaillant rien d'impossible=--To a valiant
heart nothing is impossible. _Fr. Pr._
=A cold hand, a warm heart.= _Pr._
=A combination, and a form, indeed / Where
every god did seem to set his seal / To
give the world assurance of a man.= _Ham._,
iii. 4.
=A' complain o' want o' siller; nane o' want o'= 20
=sense.= _Sc. Pr._
=A compte=--In part payment (_lit._ on account).
_Fr._
=A confesseurs, médecins, avocats, la vérité ne
cèle de ton cas=--Do not conceal the truth from
confessors, doctors, and lawyers. _Fr. Pr._
=A conscience without God is a tribunal without
a judge.= _Lamartine._
=A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious
man in chance.= _Disraeli._
=A constant fidelity in small things is a great= 25
=and heroic virtue.= _Bonaventura._
=A constant friend is a thing hard and rare to
find.= _Plutarch._
=A contre cœur=--Against the grain. _Fr._
=A corps perdu=--With might and main. _Fr._
=A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.=
_Ham._, i. 2.
=A courage to endure and to obey.= _Tennyson._ 30
=A couvert=--Under cover. _Fr._
=Acqua lontana non spegne fuoco vicino=--Water
afar won't quench a fire at hand. _It. Pr._
=A crafty knave needs no broker.= _Pr. quoted
in Hen. VI._
=A craw's nae whiter for being washed.= _Sc. Pr._
=A creation of importance can be produced only= 35
=when its author isolates himself; it is ever
a child of solitude.= _Goethe._
=Acribus initiis, incurioso fine=--Full of ardour at
the beginning, careless at the end. _Tac._
=A critic should be a pair of snuffers. He is
often an extinguisher, and not seldom a
thief.= _Hare._
=A crowd is not company.= _Bacon._
=A crown / Golden in show, is but a wreath of
thorns.= _Milton._
=A crown is no cure for the headache.= _Pr._ 40
=A cruce salus=--Salvation from the cross. _M._
=A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand
oils the wheels as they run.= _Ouida._
=A crust of bread and liberty.= _Pope._
=Acta exteriora indicant interiora secreta=--Outward
acts betray the secret intention. _L. Max._
=Act always so that the immediate motive of= 45
=thy will may become a universal rule for all
intelligent beings.= _Kant._
=Acti labores jucundi=--The remembrance of past
labours is pleasant.
=Action can be understood and again represented
by the spirit alone.= _Goethe._
=Action is but coarsened thought.= _Amiel._
=Action is the right outlet of emotion.= _Ward
Beecher._
=Actions speak louder than words.= _Pr._ 50
=Actis ævum implet, non segnibus annis=--His
lifetime is full of deeds, not of indolent years.
_Ovid._
=Activity is the presence, and character the
record, of function.= _Greenough._
=Actum est de republicâ=--It is all over with the
republic.
=Actum ne agas=--What has been done don't do
over again. _Cic._
=Actus Dei nemini facit injuriam=--The act of 55
God does wrong to no man. _L. Max._
=Actus legis nulli facit injuriam=--The act of the
law does wrong to no man. _L. Max._
=Actus me invito factus, non est meus actus=--An
act I do against my will is not my act. _L.
Max._
=Actus non facit reum, nisi mens sit rea=--The
act does not make a man guilty, unless the mind
be guilty. _L. Max._
=Act well your part; there all the honour lies.=
_Pope._
=A cuspide corona=--From the spear a crown, _i.e._, 60
honour for military exploits. _M._
=A custom / More honoured in the breach than
the observance.= _Ham._, i. 4.
=Adam muss eine Eve haben, die er zeiht was
er gethan=--Adam must have an Eve, to blame
for what he has done. _Ger. Pr._
=Ad amussim=--Made exactly by rule.
=A danger foreseen is half avoided.= _Pr._
=Adaptiveness is the peculiarity of human= 65
=nature.= _Emerson._
=Ad aperturam=--Wherever a book may be opened.
=Ad arbitrium=--At pleasure.
=Ad astra per ardua=--To the stars by steep paths.
_M._
=A Daniel come to judgment.= _Mer. of Ven._, iv. 1.
=Ad avizandum=--Into consideration. _Scots Law._ 70
=A day may sink or save a realm.= _Tennyson._
=A day of grace= (_Gunst_) =is as a day in harvest;
one must be diligent as soon as it is ripe.=
_Goethe._
=A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's
self.= _Dickens._
=Ad calamitatem quilibet rumor valet=--When a
disaster happens, every report confirming it obtains
ready credence.
=Ad captandum vulgus=--To catch the rabble.
=Addere legi justitiam decus=--It is to one's honour 5
to combine justice with law. _M._
=A death-bed repentance seldom reaches to
restitution.= _Junius._
=A deep meaning resides in old customs.=
_Schiller._
=A democracy is a state in which the government
rests directly with the majority of the
citizens.= _Ruskin._
=A Deo et rege=--From God and the king. _M._
=Adeo in teneris consuescere multum est=--So 10
much depends on habit in the tender years of
youth. _Virg._
=Ad eundem=--To the same degree. Said of a
graduate passing from one university to another.
=Ad extremum=--At last.
=Ad finem=--To the end.
=Ad Græcas kalendas=--At the Greek calends, _i.e._,
never.
=Ad gustum=--To one's taste. 15
=Adhibenda est in jocando moderatio=--Moderation
should be used in joking. _Cic._
=Ad hoc=--For this purpose.
=Ad hominem=--Personal (_lit._ to the man).
=Adhuc sub judice lis est=--The affair is not yet
decided.
=Adhuc tua messis in herba est=--Your crop is 20
still in grass. _Ovid._
=A die=--From that day.
=Adieu la voiture, adieu la boutique=--Adieu to
the carriage, adieu to the shop, _i.e._, to the business.
_Fr. Pr._
=Adieu, paniers! vendanges sont faites=--Farewell,
baskets! vintage is over. _Fr._
=Ad infinitum=--To infinity.
=Ad interim=--Meanwhile. 25
=Ad internecionem=--To extermination.
=A Dio spiacente ed a' nemici sui=--Hateful to
God and the enemies of God. _Dante._
=A Dios rogando y con el mazo dando=--Praying
to God and smiting with the hammer. _Sp. Pr._
=A discrétion=--Without any restriction (_lit._ at
discretion). _Fr._
=Ad libitum=--At pleasure. 30
=Ad majorem Dei gloriam=--To the greater glory
of God (_M. of the Jesuits_).
=Ad mala quisque animum referat sua=--Let each
recall his own woes. _Ovid._
=Admiration praises; love is dumb.= _Börne._
=Ad modum=--In the manner.
=Ad nauseam=--To disgust; sickening. 35
=Ad ogni santo la sua torcia=--To every saint his
own torch, _i.e._, his place of honour. _It. Pr._
=Ad ogni nocello suo nido è bello=--Every bird
thinks its own nest beautiful. _It. Pr._
=Ad ognuno par più grave la croce sua=--Every
one thinks his own cross the hardest to bear.
_It. Pr._
=A dog's life=--hunger and ease.
=A dog winna yowl if you fell him wi' a bane.= 40
_Sc. Pr._
=Adolescentem verecundum esse decet=--A
young man ought to be modest. _Plaut._
=Ad omnem libidinem projectus homo=--A man
addicted to every lust.
=Adó sacan y non pon, presto llegan al hondon=--By
ever taking out and never putting in, one
soon reaches the bottom. _Sp. Pr._
=Ad patres=--Dead; to death (_lit._ to the fathers).
=A downright contradiction is equally mysterious= 45
=to wise men as to fools.= _Goethe._
=Ad perditam securim manubrium adjicere=--To
throw the helve after the hatchet, _i.e._, to give up
in despair.
=Ad perniciem solet agi sinceritas=--Honesty is
often goaded to ruin. _Phædr._
=Ad pœnitendum properat, cito qui judicat=--He
who decides in haste repents in haste. _Pub. Syr._
=Ad populum phaleras, ego te intus et in cute
novi=--To the vulgar herd with your trappings;
for me, I know you both inside and out. _Pers._
=Ad quæstionem legis respondent judices, ad= 50
=quæstionem facti respondent juratores=--It
is the judge's business to answer to the question
of law, the jury's to answer to the question of
fact. _L._
=Ad quod damnum=--To what damage. _L._
=Ad referendum=--For further consideration.
=Ad rem=--To the point (_lit._ to the thing).
=A droit=--To the right. _Fr._
=A drop of honey catches more flies than a= 55
=hogshead of vinegar.= _Pr._
=A drop of water has all the properties of water,
but it cannot exhibit a storm.= _Emerson._
=A drowning man will catch at a straw.= _Pr._
=Adscriptus glebæ=--Attached to the soil.
=Adsit regula, peccatis quæ pœnas irroget
æquas=--Have a rule apportioning to each offence
its appropriate penalty. _Hor._
=Adstrictus necessitate=--Bound by necessity. _Cic._ 60
=Ad summum=--To the highest point.
=Ad tristem partem strenua est suspicio=--One
is quick to suspect where one has suffered harm
before. _Pub. Syr._
=Ad unguem=--To a nicety (_lit._ to the nail).
=Ad unum omnes=--All to a (_lit._ one) man.
=A dur âne dur aiguillon=--A hard goad for a stubborn 65
ass. _Fr. Pr._
=Ad utrumque paratus=--Prepared for either case.
=Ad valorem=--According to the value.
=Advantage is a better soldier than rashness.=
_Hen. V._, iii. 6.
=Adversa virtute repello=--I repel adversity by
valour. _M._
=Adversity is a great schoolmistress, as many= 70
=a poor fellow knows that has whimpered over
his lesson before her awful chair.= _Thackeray._
=Adversity's sweet milk--philosophy.= _Rom. and
Jul._, iii. 3.
=Adversus solem ne loquitor=--Speak not against
the sun, _i.e._, don't argue against what is sun-clear.
_Pr._
=Ad vitam aut culpam=--Till some misconduct be
proved (_lit._ for life or fault).
=Ad vivum=--To the life.
=A dwarf sees farther than the giant when he= 75
=has the giant's shoulders to mount on.= _Coleridge._
=Ægis fortissima virtus=--Virtue is the strongest
shield. _M._
=Ægrescit medendo=--The remedy is worse than
the disease (_lit._ the disorder increases with the
remedy).
=Ægri somnia vana=--The delusive dreams of a
sick man. _Hor._
=Ægroto, dum anima est, spes est=--While a sick
man has life, there is hope. _Pr._
=Ae half o' the world doesna ken how the ither= 5
=half lives.= _Sc. Pr._
=Ae man may tak' a horse to the water, but
twenty winna gar (make) him drink.= _Sc. Pr._
=Ae man's meat is anither man's poison.= _Sc. Pr._
=Æmulatio æmulationem parit=--Emulation begets
emulation. _Pr._
=Æmulus atque imitator studiorum ac laborum=--A
rival and imitator of his studies and labours.
_Cic._
=Aendern und bessern sind zwei=--To change, and 10
to change for the better, are two different things.
_Ger. Pr._
=Æquabiliter et diligenter=--By equity and diligence.
_M._
=Æquâ lege necessitas / Sortitur insignes et
imos=--Necessity apportions impartially to high
and low alike. _Hor._
=Æquam memento rebus in arduis / Servare
mentem, non secus in bonis / Ab insolenti
temperatam / Lætitiâ=--Be sure to preserve an
unruffled mind in adversity, as well as one restrained
from immoderate joy in prosperity. _Hor._
=Æquam servare mentem=--To preserve an even
temper. _M._
=Æquanimiter=--With equanimity. _M._ 15
=Æqua tellus / Pauperi recluditur / Regumque
pueris=--The impartial earth opens alike for the
child of the pauper and of the king. _Hor._
=Æquo animo=--With an even or equable mind. _M._
=Æquum est / Peccatis veniam poscentem reddere
rursus=--It is fair that he who begs to be
forgiven should in turn forgive. _Hor._
=Ære perennius=--More enduring than brass. _Hor._
=Ærugo animi, rubigo ingenii=--Rust, _viz._, idleness, 20
of mind is the blight of genius, _i.e._, natural
capability of every kind.
=Æs debitorem leve, gravius inimicum facit=--A
slight debt makes a man your debtor; a heavier
one, your enemy. _Laber._
=Ætatem non tegunt tempora=--Our temples do
not conceal our age.
=Æternum inter se discordant=--They are eternally
at variance with each other. _Ter._
=Ævo rarissima nostro simplicitas=--Simplicity
a very rare thing now-a-days. _Ovid._
=A fact is a great thing: a sentence printed,= 25
=if not by God, then at least by the Devil.=
_Carlyle._
=A fact in our lives is valuable, not so far as it
is true, but as it is significant.= _Goethe._
=A facto ad jus non datur consequentia=--Inference
from the fact to the law is not legitimate.
_L. Max._
="A fair day's wages for a fair day's work," is
as just a demand as governed men ever
made of governing; yet in what corner of
this planet was that ever realised?= _Carlyle._
=A fair face may hide a foul heart.= _Pr._
=A faithful friend is a true image of the Deity.= 30
_Napoleon._
=A fault confessed is half redressed.= _Pr._
=A favour does not consist in the service done,
but in the spirit of the man who confers it.=
_Sen._
=A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.=
_Garrick._
=A fellow who speculates is like an animal on a
barren heath, driven round and round by an
evil spirit, while there extends on all sides
of him a beautiful green meadow-pasture.=
_Goethe._
="A few strong instincts and a few plain rules"= 35
=suffice us.= _Emerson, from Wordsworth._
=Affaire d'amour=--A love affair. _Fr._
=Affaire d'honneur=--An affair of honour; a duel.
_Fr._
=Affaire du cœur=--An affair of the heart. _Fr._
=Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.=
_Guicciardini._
=Affection lights a brighter flame / Than ever= 40
=blazed by art.= _Cowper._
=Affirmatim=--In the affirmative.
=Afflavit Deus et dissipantur=--God sent forth his
breath, and they are scattered. _Inscription on
medal struck to commemorate the destruction of
the Spanish Armada._
=Afflictions are blessings in disguise.= _Pr._
=A fiery soul, which, working out its way /
Fretted the pigmy body to decay.= _Dryden._
=A fin=--To the end. 45
=A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of
a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of
a fool.= _J. Roux._
=A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.=
_Victor Hugo._
=A flute lay side by side with Frederick the
Great's baton of command.= _Jean Paul._
=A fly is as untamable as a hyena.= _Emerson._
=A fog cannot be dispelled with a fan.= _Japan. Pr._ 50
=A fond=--Thoroughly (_lit._ to the bottom).
=A fonte puro pura defluit aqua=--From a pure
spring pure water flows. _Pr._
=A fortiori=--With stronger reason.
=A fool always accuses other people; a partially
wise man, himself; a wholly wise man,
neither himself nor others.= _Herder._
=A fool always finds a greater fool to admire= 55
=him.= _Boileau._
=A fool and his money are soon parted.= _Pr._
=A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the
fool.= _Bulwer._
=A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a
knave, and always more incorrigible.= _Colton._
=A fool is wise in his own conceit.= _Pr._
=A fool knows more in his own house than a= 60
=wise man in another's.= _Pr._
=A fool may give a wise man counsel.= _Pr._
=A fool may make money, but it takes a wise
man to spend it.= _Pr._
=A fool may sometimes have talent, but he
never has judgment.= _La Roche._
=A fool may speer= (ask) =mair questions than a
wise man can answer.= _Sc. Pr._
=A fool resents good counsel, but a wise man= 65
=lays it to heart.= _Confucius._
=A fool's bolt is soon shot.= _Hen. V._, iii. 7.
=A fool's bolt may sometimes hit the mark.= _Pr._
=A fool when he is silent is counted wise.= _Pr._
=A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment
and scandal, like a hack-horse setting
out to gallop.= _Chamfort._
=A fop is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool,
and his own foe.= _Lavater._
=A force de mal aller tout ira bien=--By dint of
going wrong all will go right. _Fr. Pr._
=A force de peindre le diable sur les murs, il
finit par apparaître en personne=--If you keep
painting the devil on the walls, he will by and
by appear to you in person. _Fr. Pr._
=A friend in court makes the process short.= _Pr._ 5
=A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.=
_Emerson._
=A friend is never known till needed.= _Pr._
=A friend loveth at all times.= _Bible._
=A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece
of Nature.= _Emerson._
=A friend's eye is a good looking-glass.= _Gael. Pr._ 10
=A friendship will be young at the end of a
century, a passion old at the end of three
months.= _Nigu._
=A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody.=
_Pr._
=A fronte præcipitium, a tergo lupus=--A precipice
before, a wolf behind. _Pr._
=After dinner rest awhile; after supper walk
a mile.= _Pr._
=After life's fitful fever he sleeps well.= _Macb._, 15
iii. 2.
=After meat mustard=, _i.e._, too late.
=After the spirit of discernment, the next rarest
things in the world are diamonds and pearls.=
_La Bruyère._
=After-wit is everybody's wit.= _Pr._
=A full cup is hard to carry.= _Pr._
=A ganging fit (foot) is aye getting.= _Sc. Pr._ 20
=A gauche=--To the left. _Fr._
=Age does not make us childish, as people say;
it only finds us still true children.= _Goethe._
=Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.= _G. W.
Curtis._
=Age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter
without a sun.= _Colton._
=A genius is one who is endowed with an excess= 25
=of nervous energy and sensibility.= _Schopenhauer._
=Agent de change=--A stockbroker. _Fr._
=A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene.=
_Emerson._
=A gentleman's first characteristic is fineness
of nature.= _Ruskin._
=A gentleman that will speak more in a minute
than he will stand to in a month.= _Rom. and
Jul._, ii. 4.
=Age quod agis=--Attend to (_lit._ do) what you are 30
doing.
=Agere considerate pluris est quam cogitare
prudenter=--It is of more consequence to act
considerately than to think sagely. _Cic._
=Agiotage=--Stockbroking. _Fr._
=A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair
praise.= _Love's L. Lost_, iv. 1.
=Agnosco veteris vestigia flammæ=--I own I feel
traces of an old passion. _Virg._
=A God all mercy is a God unjust.= _Young._ 35
=A God speaks softly in our breast; softly, yet
distinctly, shows us what to hold by and
what to shun.= _Goethe._
=A gold key opens every door.= _Pr._
=A good bargain is a pick-purse.= _Pr._
=A good beginning makes a good ending.= _Pr._
=A good book is the precious life-blood of a= 40
=master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up
on purpose to a life beyond life.= _Milton._
=A good friend is my nearest relation.= _Pr._
=A good horse should be seldom spurred.= _Pr._
=A good inclination is only the first rude
draught of virtue, but the finishing strokes
are from the will.= _South._
=A good king is a public servant.= _Ben Jonson._
=A good laugh is sunshine in a house.= _Thackeray._ 45
=A good law is one that holds, whether you
recognise it or not; a bad law is one that
cannot, however much you ordain it.= _Ruskin._
=A good man in his dark striving is, I should
say, conscious of the right way.= _Goethe._
=A good man shall be satisfied from himself.=
_Bible._
=A good marksman may miss.= _Pr._
=A good name is sooner lost than won.= _Pr._ 50
=A good presence is a letter of recommendation.=
_Pr._
=A good reader is nearly as rare as a good
writer.= _Willmott._
=A good rider on a good horse is as much
above himself and others as the world can
make him.= _Lord Herbert of Cherbury._
=A good road and a wise traveller are two
different things.= _Pr._
=A good solid bit of work lasts.= _George Eliot._ 55
=A good surgeon must have an eagle's eye, a
lion's heart, and a lady's hand.= _Pr._
=A good thought is a great boon.= _Bovee._
=A good wife and health are a man's best
wealth.= _Pr._
=A gorge déployée=--With full throat. _Fr._
=A government for protecting business and= 60
=bread only is but a carcase, and soon falls
by its own corruption to decay.= _A. B.
Alcott._
=A government may not waver; once it has
chosen its course, it must, without looking
to right or left, thenceforth go forward.=
_Bismarck._
=A grands frais=--At great expense. _Fr._
=A grave and a majestic exterior is the palace
of the soul.= _Chinese Pr._
=A great anguish may do the work of years,
and we may come out from that baptism of
fire with a soul full of new awe and new
pity.= _George Eliot._
=A great deal may and must be done which we= 65
=dare not acknowledge in words.= _Goethe._
=A great genius takes shape by contact with
another great genius, but less by assimilation
than by friction.= _Heine._
=A great licentiousness treads on the heels of
a reformation.= _Emerson._
=A great man is he who can call together the
most select company when it pleases him.=
_Landor._
=A great man is one who affects the mind of
his generation.= _Disraeli._
=A great man living for high ends is the= 70
=divinest thing that can be seen on earth.=
_G. S. Hillard._
=A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw
on his invention when his memory serves
him with a word as good.= _Emerson._
=A great master always appropriates what is
good in his predecessors, and it is this which
makes him great.= _Goethe._
=A great observer, and he looks / Quite through
the deeds of men.= _Jul. Cæs._, i. 2.
=A great reputation is a great noise; the more
there is made, the farther off it is heard.=
_Napoleon._
=A great revolution is never the fault of the= 5
=people, but of the government.= _Goethe._
=A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.=
_Goethe._
=A great spirit errs as well as a little one,
the former because it knows no bounds, the
latter because it confounds its own horizon
with that of the universe.= _Goethe._
=A great thing can only be done by a great
man, and he does it without effort.= _Ruskin._
=A great thing is a great book, but greater than
all is the talk of a great man.= _Disraeli._
=A great writer does not reveal himself here= 10
=and there, but everywhere.= _Lowell._
=Agree, for the law is costly.= _Pr._
=A green winter makes a fat churchyard.= _Pr._
=A grey eye is a sly eye; a brown one indicates
a roguish humour; a blue eye expresses
fidelity; while the sparkling of a
dark eye is, like the ways of Providence,
always a riddle.= _Bodenstedt._
=A growing youth has a wolf in his belly.= _Pr._
=Agues come on horseback and go away on= 15
=foot.= _Pr._
=A guilty conscience needs no accuser.= _Pr._
=A hair of the dog that bit him.= _Pr._
=A haute voix=--Loudly; audibly. _Fr._
=A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a
hand to execute.= _Gibbon._
=A hedge between, keeps friendship green.= _Pr._ 20
=Ah! il n'y a plus d'enfants=--Ah! there are no
children now-a-days! _Mol._
=Ah me! for aught that ever I could read ... /
The course of true love never did run smooth.=
_Mid. N.'s Dream_, i. 1.
=Ah me! how sweet this world is to the dying!=
_Schiller._
=A hook's well lost to catch a salmon.= _Pr._
=A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse.= 25
_Rich. III._, v. 4.
=Ah! pour être dévot, je n'en suis pas moins
homme=--Though I am a religious man, I am
not therefore the less a man. _Mol._
=Ah! quam dulce est meminisse=--Ah! how sweet
it is to remember! _M._
=Ah! that deceit should steal such gentle
shapes / And with a virtuous visor hide
deep vice.= _Rich. III._, ii. 2.
=A hundred years cannot repair a moment's
loss of honour.= _Pr._
=A hungry belly has no ears.= _Pr._ 30
=Ah! vitam perdidi operose nihil agendo=--I have
lost my life, alas! in laboriously doing nothing.
_Grotius._
=Aide-toi, et le ciel t'aidera=--Help yourself and
Heaven will help you. _Fr._
[Greek: Ai symphorai poiousi makrologous]--Misfortunes
make men talk loquaciously. _Appian._
[Greek: Aidôs olôlen]--Modesty has died out. _Theognis._
=Ainsi que son esprit, tout peuple a son langage=--Every 35
nation has its own language as
well as its own temperament. _Voltaire._
=Air de fête=--Looking festive. _Fr._
=Air distingué=--Distinguished looking. _Fr._
=Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.=
_Lavater._
=Aisé à dire est difficile à faire=--Easy to say is
hard to do. _Fr. Pr._
=A jest loses its point when he who makes it= 40
=is the first to laugh.= _Schiller._
=A jest's prosperity lies in the ear / Of him that
hears it, never in the tongue / Of him that
makes it.= _Love's L. Lost_, v. 2.
=A Jove principium=--Beginning with Jove.
=A judge who cannot punish, associates himself
in the end with the criminal.= _Goethe._
=A judicious= (verständiger) =man is of much value
for himself, of little for the whole.= _Goethe._
=A king of shreds and patches.= _Ham._, iii. 4. 45
=A king's son is no nobler than his company.=
_Gael. Pr._
=A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.=
_Ham._, iv. 2.
=A l'abandon=--At random; little cared for. _Fr._
=A la belle étoile=--In the open air. _Fr._
=A la bonne heure=--Well-timed; very well. _Fr._ 50
=A l'abri=--Under shelter. _Fr._
=A la chandelle la chèvre semble demoiselle=--By
candlelight a goat looks like a young lady.
_Fr. Pr._
=A la dérobée=--By stealth. _Fr._
=A la fin saura-t-on qui a mangé le lard=--We
shall know in the end who ate the bacon. _Fr. Pr._
=A la française=--In the French fashion. _Fr._ 55
=A la lettre=--Literally. _Fr._
=A la mode=--According to the fashion. _Fr._
=A l'amour satisfait tout son charme est ôté=--When
love is satisfied all the charm of it is gone.
_Corneille._
=A la portée de tout le monde=--Within reach of
every one. _Fr._
=A la presse vont les fous=--Fools go in crowds. 60
_Fr. Pr._
=Alas! the devil's sooner raised than laid.=
_Sheridan._
=A last judgment is necessary, because fools
flourish.= _Wm. Blake._
=A last judgment is not for making bad men
better, but for hindering them from oppressing
the good.= _Wm. Blake._
=A latere=--From the side of (sc. the Pope).
=A lazy man is necessarily a bad man; an= 65
=idle, is necessarily a demoralised population.=
_Draper._
=Albæ gallinæ filius=--The son of a white hen.
=Album calculum addere=--To give a white stone,
_i.e._, to vote for, by putting a white stone into an
urn, a black one indicating rejection.
=Al corral con ello=--Out of the window with it.
_Sp._
=Alea belli=--The hazard of war.
=Alea jacta est=--The die is cast. 70
=Alea judiciorum=--The hazard or uncertainty of
law.
=A leaden sword in an ivory scabbard.= _Pr._
=A learned man is a tank; a wise man is a
spring.= _W. R. Alger._
=Al enemigo, si vuelve la espalda, la puente
de plata=--Make a bridge of silver for the flying
enemy. _Sp. Pr._
=Alere flammam=--To feed the flame.
=Ales volat propriis=--A bird flies to its own.
=Al fin se canta la Gloria=--Not till the end is the 5
Gloria chanted. _Sp. Pr._
=Al fresco=--In the open air. _It._
=Aliam excute quercum=--Go, shake some other
oak (of its fruit). _Pr._
=Alia res sceptrum, alia plectrum=--Ruling men
is one thing, fiddling to them another. _Pr._
=A liar is always lavish of oaths.= _Corneille._
=A liar should have a good memory.= _Pr._ 10
=Alias=--Otherwise.
=Alia tentanda via est=--We must try another
way.
=Alibi=--Elsewhere.
=A lie is like a snowball; the farther you roll
it, the bigger it becomes.= _Luther._
=A lie has no legs, but scandal has wings.= 15
_Pr._
=A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest
of lies.= _Tennyson._
=Aliena negotia centum / Per caput, et circa
saliunt latus=--A hundred affairs of other people
leap through my head and at my side. _Hor._
=Aliena negotia curo / Excussus propriis=--I
attend to other people's affairs, baffled with my
own. _Hor._
=Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent=--That
which belongs to others pleases us most; that
which belongs to us pleases others more. _Pub.
Syr._
=Aliena opprobria sæpe / Absterrent vitiis=--We 20
are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of
others. _Hor._
=Aliena optimum frui insania=--It is best to profit
by the madness of other people. _Pr._
=Aliena vitia in oculis habemus; a tergo nostra
sunt=--We keep the faults of others before our
eyes; our own behind our backs. _Sen._
=Alieni appetens, sui profusus=--Covetous of other
men's property, prodigal of his own. _Sall._
=Alieni temporis flores=--Flowers of other days.
=Alieno in loco haud stabile regnum est=--Sovereignty 25
over a foreign land is insecure. _Sen._
=Alieno more vivendum est mihi=--I must live
according to another's humour. _Ter._
=Alienos agros irrigas tuis sitientibus=--You
water the fields of others, while your own are
parched. _Pr._
=A lie should be trampled on and extinguished
wherever found.= _Carlyle._
=A lie which is all a lie may be met and fought
with outright / But a lie which is part a truth
is a harder matter to fight.= _Tennyson._
=A life that is worth writing at all is worth= 30
=writing minutely.= _Longfellow._
=A light heart lives long.= _Pr._
=Alii sementem faciunt, alii metentem=--Some do
the sowing, others the reaping.
=Aliis lætus, sapiens sibi=--Cheerful for others,
wise for himself. _Pr._
=A l'impossible nul n'est tenu=--No one can be
held bound to do what is impossible. _Fr. Pr._
=A l'improviste=--Unawares. _Fr._ 35
=Aliorum medicus, ipse ulceribus scates=--A
physician to others, while you yourself are full
of ulcers.
=Alio sub sole=--Under another sky (_lit._ sun).
=Aliquando bonus dormitat Homerus=--Sometimes
even the good Homer nods. _Hor._
=Aliquis non debet esse judex in propria causa=--No
one may sit as judge in his own case. _L._
=Alis volat propriis=--He flies with his own wings. 40
_M._
=A little body often harbours a great soul.=
_Pr._
=A little fire is quickly trodden out; / Which
being suffered, rivers cannot quench.= 3 _Hen.
VI._, iv. 8.
=A little is better than none.= _Pr._
=A little learning is a dangerous thing / Drink
deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.= _Pope._
=A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.= 45
_Pr._
=A little more than kin, and less than kind.=
_Ham._, i. 2.
=A little neglect may breed great mischief.=
_Franklin._
=A little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to
atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth
men's minds about to religion.= _Bacon._
=A little spark maks muckle wark.= _Sc. Pr._
=Alitur vitium vivitque tegendo=--Evil is nourished 50
and grows by concealment. _Virg._
=Aliud est celare, aliud tacere=--To conceal is one
thing, to say nothing is another. _L. Max._
=Aliud et idem=--Another and the same.
=Aliud legunt pueri, aliud viri, aliud senes=--Boys
read books one way, men another, old
men another. _Ter._
=A living dog is better than a dead lion.= _Pr._
=Alle anderen Dinge müssen; der Mensch ist= 55
=das Wesen, welches will=--All other things
must; man is the only creature who wills.
_Schiller._
=Alle Frachten lichten, sagte der Schiffer, da
warf er seine Frau über Bord=--All freights
lighten, said the skipper, as he threw his wife
into the sea. _Ger. Pr._
=Allegans contraria non est audiendus=--No one
is to be heard whose evidence is contradictory.
_L. Max._
=Allen gehört, was du denkest; dein eigen
ist nur, was du fühlest=--What you think
belongs to all; only what you feel is your own.
_Schiller._
=Aller Anfang ist heiter; die Schwelle ist der
Platz der Erwartung=--Every beginning is
cheerful; the threshold is the place of expectation.
_Goethe._
=Aller Anfang ist schwer, sprach der Dieb, und= 60
=stahl zuerst einen Amboss=--Every beginning
is difficult, said the thief, when he began by
stealing an anvil. _Ger. Pr._
=Alle Schuld rächt sich auf Erden=--Every offence
is avenged on earth. _Goethe._
=Alles Gescheidte ist schon gedacht worden;
man muss nur versuchen, es noch einmal
zu denken=--Everything wise has already been
thought; one can only try and think it once
more. _Goethe._
=Alles Vergängliche ist nur ein Gleichniss=--Everything
transitory is only an allegory.
_Goethe._
=Alles wanket, wo der Glaube fehlt=--All is
unsteady (_lit._ wavers) where faith fails. _Ger.
Pr._
=Alles wäre gut, wär kein Aber dabei=--Everything
would be right if it were not for the "Buts."
_Ger. Pr._
=Alles, was ist, ist vernünftig=--Everything which
is, is agreeable to reason. _Hegel._
=Alles zu retten, muss alles gewagt werden=--To
save all, we must risk all. _Schiller._
=All advantages are attended with disadvantages.= 5
_Hume._
=All are but parts of one stupendous whole /
Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.=
_Pope._
=All argument will vanish before one touch of
Nature.= _Colman._
=All are not hunters that blow the horn.= _Pr._
=All are not saints that go to church.= _Pr._
=All are not soldiers that go to the wars.= 10
_Pr._
=All are not thieves that dogs bark at.= _Pr._
=All art is great, and good, and true, only so
far as it is distinctively the work of manhood
in its entire and highest sense.= _Ruskin._
=All balloons give up their gas in the pressure
of things, and collapse in a sufficiently
wretched manner erelong.= _Carlyle._
=All battle is misunderstanding.= _Goethe._
=All beginnings are easy; it is the ulterior= 15
=steps that are of most difficult ascent and
most rarely taken.= _Goethe._
=All cats are grey in the dark.= _Pr._
=All censure of a man's self is oblique praise;
it is in order to show how much he can
spare.= _Johnson._
=All cruelty springs from weakness.= _Sen._
=All death in nature is birth.= _Fichte._
=All deep joy has something of awful in it.= 20
_Carlyle._
=All delights are vain; but that most vain /
Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit
pain.= _Love's L. Lost_, i. 1.
=All destruction, by violent revolution or howsoever
it be, is but new creation on a wider
scale.= _Carlyle._
=All disputation makes the mind deaf, and
when people are deaf I am dumb.= _Joubert._
[Greek: All' estin, entha chê dikê blabên pherei]--Sometimes
justice does harm. _Sophocles._
=All evil is as a nightmare; the instant you= 25
=begin to= _stir_ =under it, the evil is gone.= _Carlyle._
=All evils, when extreme, are the same.= _Corneille._
=All faults are properly shortcomings.= _Goethe._
=All faiths are to their own believers just / For
none believe because they will, but must.=
_Dryden._
=All feet tread not in one shoe.= _Pr._
=All flesh consorteth according to its kind, and= 30
=a man will cleave to his like.= _Ecclus._
=All forms of government are good, so far as
the wise and kind in them govern the unwise
and unkind.= _Ruskin._
=All good colour is in some degree pensive,
and the purest and most thoughtful minds
are those which love colour the most.=
_Ruskin._
=All good government must begin at home.=
_H. R. Haweis._
=All good has an end but the goodness of God.=
_Gael. Pr._
=All good things / Are ours, nor soul helps= 35
=flesh more now / Than flesh helps soul.=
_Browning._
=All good things go in threes.= _Ger. and Fr.
Pr._
=All governments are to some extent a treaty
with the Devil.= _Jacobi._
=All great art is the expression of man's delight
in God's work, not in his own.= _Ruskin._
=All great discoveries are made by men whose
feelings run ahead of their thinkings.= _C. H.
Parkhurst._
=All great peoples are conservative.= _Carlyle._ 40
=All great song has been sincere song.= _Ruskin._
=All healthy things are sweet-tempered.= _Emerson._
=All his geese are swans.= _Pr._
=All history is an inarticulate Bible.= _Carlyle._
=All immortal writers speak out of their hearts.= 45
_Ruskin._
=All imposture weakens confidence and chills
benevolence.= _Johnson._
=All inmost things are melodious, naturally
utter themselves in song.= _Carlyle._
=All is but toys.= _Macb._, ii. 3.
=All is good that God sends us.= _Pr._
=All is influence except ourselves.= _Goethe._ 50
=All is not gold that glitters.= _Pr._
=All is not lost that's in peril.= _Pr._
=All live by seeming.= _Old Play._
=All living objects do by necessity form to
themselves a skin.= _Carlyle._
=Allmächtig ist doch das Gold; auch Mohren= 55
=kann's bleichen=--Gold is omnipotent; it can
make even the Moor white. _Schiller._
=All mankind love a lover.= _Emerson._
=All man's miseries go to prove his greatness.=
_Pascal._
=All martyrdoms looked mean when they were
suffered.= _Emerson._
=All measures of reformation are effective in
proportion to their timeliness.= _Ruskin._
=All men are bores except when we want them.= 60
_Holmes._
=All men are born sincere and die deceivers.=
_Vauvenargues._
=All men are fools, and with every effort they
differ only in the degree.= _Boileau._
=All men commend patience, though few be
willing to practise it.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=All men have their price.= _Anon._
=All men honour love, because it looks up, and= 65
=not down.= _Emerson._
=All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's
eye, will work wrong.= _Carlyle._
=All men live by truth, and stand in need of
expression.= _Emerson._
=All men may dare what has by man been done.=
_Young._
=All men that are ruined are ruined on the side
of their natural propensities.= _Burke._
=All men think all men mortal but themselves.= 70
_Young._
=All men would be masters of others, and no
man is lord of himself.= _Goethe._
=All men who know not where to look for truth,
save in the narrow well of self, will find their
own image at the bottom and mistake it for
what they are seeking.= _Lowell._
=All minds quote. Old and new make up the
warp and woof of every moment.= _Emerson._
=All mischief comes from our inability to be
alone.= _La Bruyère._
=All money is but a divisible title-deed.= _Ruskin._ 5
=All my possessions for a moment of time!=
_Queen Elizabeth's last words._
=All nature is but art unknown to thee. / All
chance, direction which thou canst not see. /
All discord, harmony not understood; / All
partial evil, universal good.= _Pope._
=All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's
natural superiority.= _Emerson._
=All objects are as windows through which the
philosophic eye looks into infinitude.= _Carlyle._
=All orators are dumb when beauty pleadeth.= 10
_Sh._
[Greek: all' ou Zeus andressi noêmata panta teleutâ]--Zeus,
however, does not give effect to all the
schemes of man. _Hom._
[Greek: Allos egô]--Alter ego. _Zeno's definition of a
friend._
=All our evils are imaginary, except pain of
body and remorse of conscience.= _Rousseau._
=All our most honest striving prospers only in
unconscious moments.= _Goethe._
=All passions exaggerate; and they are passions= 15
=only because they do exaggerate.=
_Chamfort._
=All pleasure must be bought at the price of
pain.= _John Foster._
=All power appears only in transition.= _Novalis._
=All power, even the most despotic, rests ultimately
on opinion.= _Hume._
=All power of fancy over reason is a degree of
insanity.= _Johnson._
=All promise outruns performance.= _Emerson._ 20
=All public disorder proceeds from want of
work.= _Courier._
=All speech, even the commonest, has something
of song in it.= _Carlyle._
=All strength lies within, not without.= _Jean Paul._
=All strong men love life.= _Heine._
=All strong souls are related.= _Schiller._ 25
=All's well that ends well.= _Pr._
=All talent, all intellect, is in the first place
moral.= _Carlyle._
=All that a man has he will give for right relations
with his mates.= _Emerson._
=All that glisters is not gold; / Gilded tombs do
worms infold.= _Mer. of Ven._, ii. 7.
=All that is best in the great poets of all countries= 30
=is not what is national in them, but
what is universal.= _Longfellow._
=All that is human must retrograde, if it do not
advance.= _Gibbon._
=All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature,
and appears to sleep until it is aroused and
summoned forth by contrast.= _Goethe._
=All that lives must die, / Passing through
nature to eternity.= _Ham._, i. 2.
=All that man does and brings to pass is the
vesture of a thought.= _Sartor Resartus._
=All that mankind has done, thought, gained,= 35
=or been, it is all lying in magic preservation
in the pages of books.= _Carlyle._
=All that tread the globe are but a handful to
the tribes that slumber in its bosom.= _Bryant._
=All the armed prophets have conquered, all
the unarmed have perished.= _Machiavelli._
=All the arts affecting culture= (_i.e._, =the fine arts=)
=have a certain common bond, and are connected
by a certain blood relationship with
each other.= _Cic._
=All the difference between the wise man and
the fool is, that the wise man keeps his
counsel, and the fool reveals it.= _Gael. Pr._
=All the diseases of mind, leading to fatalest= 40
=ruin, are due to the concentration of man
upon himself, whether his heavenly interests
or his worldly interests, matters not.= _Ruskin._
=All the faults of the man I can pardon in the
player; no fault of the player can I pardon
in the man.= _Goethe._
=All the good of which humanity is capable is
comprised in obedience.= _J. S. Mill._
=All the great ages have been ages of belief.=
_Emerson._
=All the keys don't hang at one man's girdle.= _Pr._
=All the makers of dictionaries, all the compilers= 45
=of opinions already printed, we may
term plagiarists, but honest plagiarists, who
arrogate not the merit of invention.= _Voltaire._
=All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten
this little hand.= _Macb._, v. 1.
=All the pursuits of men are the pursuits of
women also, and in all of them a woman
is only a weaker man.= _Plato._
=All the thinking in the world does not bring
us to thought; we must be right by nature,
so that good thoughts may come.= _Goethe._
=All the wit in the world is not in one head.= _Pr._
=All the wit in the world is thrown away upon= 50
=the man who has none.= _Bruyère._
=All the world's a stage / And all the men and
women merely players.= _As You Like It_,
ii. 7.
=All things are double, one against another.
Good is set against evil, and life against
death.= _Ecclus._
=All things are for the sake of the good, and it
is the cause of everything beautiful.= _Plato._
=All things are in perpetual flux and fleeting.=
_Pr._
=All things are symbolical, and what we call= 55
=results are beginnings.= _Plato._
=All things happen by necessity; in Nature
there is neither good nor bad.= _Spinoza._
=All things that are / Are with more spirit
chased than enjoyed.= _Mer. of Ven._, ii. 6.
=All things that love the sun are out of doors.=
_Wordsworth._
=All this (in the daily press) does not concern
one in the least; one is neither the wiser
nor the better for knowing what the day
brings forth.= _Goethe._
=All true men are soldiers in the same army,= 60
=to do battle against the same enemy--the
empire of darkness and wrong.= _Carlyle._
=All truth is not to be told at all times.= _Pr._
=All virtue is most rewarded, and all wickedness
most punished, in itself.= _Bacon._
=All went as merry as a marriage-bell.= _Byron._
=All, were it only a withered leaf, works together
with all.= _Carlyle._
=All will be as God wills.= _Gael. Pr._
=All wise men are of the same religion, and= 5
=keep it to themselves.= _Lord Shaftesbury._
=All women are good=, _viz._, =for something or
nothing.= _Pr._
=All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.=
_Pr._
=Allzugrosse Zartheit der Gefühle ist ein
wahres Unglück=--It is a real misfortune to
have too great delicacy of feeling. _C. J.
Weber._
=Allzustraff gespannt, zerspringt der Bogen=--If
the bow is overstrained, it breaks. _Schiller._
=Allzuviel ist nicht genug=--Too much is not 10
enough. _Ger. Pr._
=Alma mater=--A benign mother; applied to one's
university, also to the "all-nourishing" earth.
=Al molino, ed alla sposa / Sempre manca
qualche cosa=--A mill and a woman are always
in want of something. _It. Pr._
=Almost all our sorrows spring out of our relations
with other people.= _Schopenhauer._
=Almsgiving never made any man poor.= _Pr._
=A loan should come laughing home.= _Pr._ 15
=A l'œuvre on connaît l'artisan=--By the work
one knows the workman. _La Font._
=A loisir=--At leisure. _Fr._
=Alomban és szerelemben nincs lehetetlenséej=--In
dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
_J. Arany._
=Along the cool sequester'd vale of life / They
kept the noiseless tenor of their way.= _Gray._
=A los bobos se les aperece la Madre de Dios=--The 20
mother of God appears to fools. _Sp. Pr._
=A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind.= _Love's
L. Lost_, iv. 3.
=Alte fert aquila=--The eagle bears me on high. _M._
=Altera manu fert lapidem, altera panem ostentat=--He
carries a stone in one hand, and
shows bread in the other. _Pr._
=Altera manu scabunt, altera feriunt=--They
tickle with one hand and smite with the other.
_Pr._
=Alter ego=--Another or second self. 25
=Alter idem=--Another exactly the same.
=Alter ipse amicus=--A friend is a second self. _Pr._
=Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest=--Let no
man be slave of another who can be his own
master. _M. of Paracelsus._
=Alter remus aquas, alter mihi radat arenas=--Let
me skim the water with one oar, and with
the other touch the sands, _i.e._, so as not to go
out of my depth.
=Alterum tantum=--As much more. 30
=Although men are accused of not knowing
their weakness, yet perhaps as few know
their strength.= _Swift._
=Although the last, not least.= _King Lear_, i. 1.
=Altissima quæque flumina minimo sono labuntur=--The
deepest rivers flow with the least noise.
_Curt._
=Alt ist das Wort, doch bleibet hoch und wahr
der Sinn=--Old is the Word, yet does the meaning
abide as high and true as ever. _Faust._
=Altro diletto che' mparar, non provo=--Learning 35
is my sole delight. _Petrarch._
=Always filling, never full.= _Cowper._
=Always have two strings to your bow.= _Pr._
=Always strive for the whole; and if thou canst
not become a whole thyself, connect thyself
with a whole as a ministering member.=
_Schiller._
=Always there is a black spot in our sunshine,
the shadow of ourselves.= _Carlyle._
=Always to distrust is an error, as well as always= 40
=to trust.= _Goethe._
=Always win fools first; they talk much, and
what they have once uttered they will stick
to.= _Helps._
=Amabilis insania=--A fine frenzy. _Hor._
=A machine is not a man or a work of art; it
is destructive of humanity and art.= _Wm.
Blake._
=A madness most discreet, / A choking gall
and a preserving sweet=, _i.e._, =Love is.= _Rom.
and Jul._, i. 1.
=A mad world, my masters.= _Middleton._ 45
=A main armée=--By force of arms. _Fr._
=Ama l'amico tuo con il diffetto suo=--Love your
friend with all his faults. _It. Pr._
=A man at sixteen will prove a child at sixty.=
_Pr._
=A man belongs to his age and race, even when
he acts against them.= _Renan._
=A man, be the heavens praised, is sufficient= 50
=for himself; yet were ten men, united in
love, capable of being and doing what ten
thousand singly would fail in.= _Carlyle._
=A man can be so changed by love as to be
unrecognisable as the same person.= _Ter._
=A man= _can_ =do no more than he can.= _Pr._
=A man can keep another's secret better than
his own; a woman, her own better than
another's.= _La Bruyère._
=A man canna wive and thrive the same year.=
_Sc. Pr._
=A man can never be too much on his guard= 55
=when he writes to the public, and never too
easy towards those with whom he converses.=
_D'Alembert._
=A man can receive nothing except it be given
him from heaven.= _John Baptist._
=A man cannot be in the seventeenth century
and the nineteenth at one and the same
moment.= _Carlyle's experience while editing
Cromwell's Letters._
=A man cannot spin and reel at the same time.=
_Pr._
=A man cannot whistle and drink at the same
time.= _Pr._
=A man dishonoured is worse than dead.= _Cervantes._ 60
=A man does not represent a fraction, but a
whole number; he is complete in himself.=
_Schopenhauer._
=A man hears only what he understands.=
_Goethe._
=A man he was to all the country dear, / And
passing rich with forty pounds a year.= _Goldsmith._
=A man in a farm and his thoughts away, is
better out of it than in it.= _Gael. Pr._
=A man in debt is so far a slave.= _Emerson._ 65
=A man in the right, with God on his side, is in
the majority, though he be alone.= _Amer. Pr._
=A man is a fool or his own physician at forty.=
_Pr._
=A man is a golden impossibility.= _Emerson._
=A man is always nearest to his good when at
home, and farthest from it when away.= _J. G.
Holland._
=A man is king in his own house.= _Gael. Pr._ 5
=A man is never happy till his vague striving
has itself marked out its proper limitation.=
_Goethe._
=A man is not born the second time, any more
than the first, without travail.= _Carlyle._
=A man is not as God, / But then most godlike
being most a man.= _Tennyson._
=A man is not strong who takes convulsion fits,
though six men cannot hold him; only he
that can walk under the heaviest weight
without staggering.= _Carlyle._
=A man is only a relative and a representative= 10
=nature.= _Emerson._
=A man is the façade of a temple wherein all
wisdom and all good abide.= _Emerson._
=A man is the prisoner of his power.= _Emerson._
=A man lives by believing something; not by
debating and arguing about many things.=
_Carlyle._
=A man may be proud of his house, and not ride
on the rigging (ridge) of it.= _Sc. Pr._
=A man may do what he likes with his own.= _Pr._ 15
=A man may smile, and smile, and be a villain.=
_Ham._, i. 5.
=A man may spit in his nieve and do little.= _Sc. Pr._
=A man may survive distress, but not disgrace.=
_Gael. Pr._
=A man / More sinn'd against than sinning.=
_King Lear_, iii. 2.
=A man must ask his wife's leave to thrive.= _Pr._ 20
=A man must become wise at his own expense.=
_Montaigne._
=A man must be healthy before he can be holy.=
_Mme. Swetchine._
=A man must be well off who is irritated by
trifles, for in misfortune trifles are not felt.=
_Schopenhauer._
=A man must carry knowledge with him if he
would bring home knowledge.= _Johnson._
=A man must seek his happiness and inward= 25
=peace from objects which cannot be taken
away from him.= _W. von Humboldt._
=A man must take himself for better, for worse,
as his portion.= _Emerson._
=A man must thank his defects, and stand in
some terror of his talents.= _Emerson._
=A man must verify or expel his doubts, and
convert them into certainty of Yes= _or_ =No.=
_Carlyle._
=A man must wait for the right moment.=
_Schopenhauer._
=A man never feels the want of what it never= 30
=occurs to him to ask for.= _Schopenhauer._
=A man never rises so high as when he knows
not whither he is going.= _Oliver Cromwell._
=A man of intellect without energy added to it
is a failure.= _Chamfort._
=A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with
one eye, and that eye in the back of his
head.= _Coleridge._
=A man of pleasure is a man of pains.= _Young._
=A man often pays dear for a small frugality.= 35
_Emerson._
=A man of the world must seem to be what he
wishes to be.= _La Bruyère._
=A man of wit would often be much embarrassed
without the company of fools.= _La Roche._
=A man only understands what is akin to some
things already in his mind.= _Amiel._
=A man places himself on a level with him
whom he praises.= _Goethe._
=A man protesting against error is on the way= 40
=towards uniting himself with all men that
believe in truth.= _Carlyle._
=A man so various, that he seem'd to be, / Not
one, but all mankind's epitome.= _Dryden._
=A man that is young in years may be old in
hours, if he have lost no time.= _Bacon._
=A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.=
_Johnson._
=A man who cannot gird himself into harness
will take no weight along these highways.=
_Carlyle._
=A man who claps his Pegasus into a harness,= 45
=and urges on his muse with the whip, will
have to pay to Nature the penalty of this
trespass.= _Schopenhauer._
=A man who does not know rigour cannot pity
either.= _Carlyle._
=A man who feels that his religion is a slavery
has not began to comprehend the real nature
of it.= _J. G. Holland._
=A man who has nothing to do is the devil's
playfellow.= _J. G. Holland._
=A man who is ignorant of foreign languages
is ignorant of his own.= _Goethe._
=A man who reads much becomes arrogant and= 50
=pedantic; one who sees much becomes wise,
sociable, and helpful.= _Lichtenberg._
=A man will love or hate solitude--that is,
his own society--according as he is himself
worthy or worthless.= _Schopenhauer._
=A man will not be observed in doing that which
he can do best.= _Emerson._
=A man with half a volition goes backwards
and forwards, and makes no way on the
smoothest road.= _Carlyle._
=A man with knowledge but without energy, is
a house furnished but not inhabited; a man
with energy but no knowledge, a house dwelt
in but unfurnished.= _John Sterling._
=A man's a man for a' that.= _Burns._ 55
=A man's aye crousest in his ain cause.= _Sc. Pr._
=A man's best fortune or his worst is his wife.= _Pr._
=A man's best things are nearest him, / Lie
close about his feet.= _Monckton Milnes._
=A man's fate is his own temper.= _Disraeli._
=A man's friends belong no more to him than= 60
=he to them.= _Schopenhauer._
=A man's gift makes room for him.= _Pr._
=A man's happiness consists infinitely more in
admiration of the faculties of others than in
confidence in his own.= _Ruskin._
=A man's house is his castle.= _Pr._
=A man's power is hooped in by a necessity,
which, by many experiments, he touches on
every side until he learns its arc.= _Emerson._
=A man's task is always light if his heart is= 65
=light.= _Lew Wallace._
=A man's virtue is to be measured not by his
extraordinary efforts, but his everyday conduct.=
_Pascal._
=A man's walking is a succession of falls.= _Pr._
=A man's wife is his blessing or his bane.= _Gael.
Pr._
=Amantes, amentes=--In love, in delirium. _Ter._
=Amantium iræ amoris redintegratio est=--The 5
quarrels of lovers bring about a renewal of love.
_Ter._
=A man who cannot mind his own business is
not to be trusted with the king's.= _Saville._
=A ma puissance=--To my power. _M._
=Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur=--To be in
love and act wisely is scarcely in the power of
a god. _Faber._
[Greek: Hamartôlai ... en anthrôpoisin hepontai
thnêtois]--Proneness to sin cleaves fast to mortal
men. _Theognis._
=Ambigendi locus=--Reason for questioning or 10
doubt.
=Ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces=--To scatter
ambiguous reports among the people. _Virg._
=Ambition is not a vice of little people.= _Montaigne._
=Ambition is the germ from which all growth
in nobleness proceeds.= _T. D. English._
=Ambos oder Hammer=--One must be either anvil
or hammer. _Ger. Pr._
=Ame damnée=--Mere tool, underling. _Fr._ 15
=Ame de boue=--Base, mean soul. _Fr._
=Amende honorable=--Satisfactory apology; reparation.
_Fr._
=A mensâ et thoro=--From bed and board; divorced.
=A menteur, menteur à demi=--To a liar, a liar
and a half, _i.e._, one be a match for him. _Fr._
=Amentium, haud amantium=--Of lunatics, not 20
lovers.
=A merchant shall hardly keep himself from
doing wrong.= _Ecclus._
=A merciful man is merciful to his beast.= _Bible._