rich.= _Burton._
=A merry heart doeth good like a medicine; but
a broken spirit drieth the bones.= _Bible._
=A merveille=--To a wonder. _Fr._ 25
=Am Golde hängt doch Alles=--On gold, after all,
hangs everything. _Margaret in "Faust."_
=Amici, diem perdidi=--Friends, I have lost a day.
_Titus_ (at the close of a day on which he had done
good to no one).
=Amici probantur rebus adversis=--Friends are
proved by adversity. _Cic._
=Amici vitium ni feras, prodis tuum=--Unless you
bear with the faults of a friend, you betray your
own. _Pub. Syr._
=Amico d'ognuno, amico di nessuno=--Everybody's 30
friend is nobody's friend. _It. Pr._
=Amicorum esse communia omnia=--Friends'
goods are all common property. _Pr._
=Amicum ita habeas posse ut fieri hunc inimicum
scias=--Be on such terms with your friend
as if you knew he may one day become your
enemy. _Laber._
=Amicum perdere est damnorum maximum=--To
lose a friend is the greatest of losses. _Syr._
=Amicus animæ dimidium=--A friend the half of life.
=Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur=--A true 35
friend is seen when fortune wavers. _Ennius._
=Amicus curiæ=--A friend to the court, _i.e._, an uninterested
adviser in a case.
=Amicus est unus animus in duobus corporibus=--A
friend is one soul in two bodies. _Arist._
=Amicus humani generis=--A friend of the human
race.
=Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas=--Plato
is my friend, but truth is my divinity (_lit._ more
a friend).
=Amicus usque ad aras=--A friend to the very 40
altar, _i.e._, to the death.
=A mighty maze! but not without a plan.= _Pope._
=A millstone and a man's heart are kept constantly
revolving; where they have nothing
to grind, they grind and fray away their own
substance.= _Logan._
=A mirror is better than a whole gallery of
ancestral portraits.= _Menzel._
=A miser is as furious about a halfpenny as the
man of ambition about the conquest of a
kingdom.= _Adam Smith._
=A miss is as good as a mile.= _Pr._ 45
="Am I to be saved? or am I to be lost?" Certain
to be lost, so long as you put that question.=
_Carlyle._
=Amittit famam qui se indignis comparat=--He
loses repute who compares himself with unworthy
people. _Phædr._
=Amittit merito proprium, qui alienum appetit=--He
who covets what is another's, deservedly
loses what is his own. (Moral of the fable of the
dog and the shadow.) _Phædr._
=Am meisten Unkraut trägt der fettste Boden=--The
fattest soil brings forth the most weeds.
_Ger. Pr._
=A mob is a body voluntarily bereaving itself= 50
=of reason and traversing its work.= _Emerson._
=A modest confession of ignorance is the ripest
and last attainment of philosophy.= _R. D.
Hitchcock._
=A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's
experience.= _Holmes._
=A monarchy is apt to fall by tyranny; an
aristocracy, by ambition; a democracy, by
tumults.= _Quarles._
=Among nations the head has alway preceded
the heart by centuries.= _Jean Paul._
=Among the blind the one-eyed is a king.= _Pr._ 55
=Amor al cor gentil ratto s' apprende.=--Love is
quickly learned by a noble heart. _Dante._
=Amor a nullo amato amar perdona=--Love spares
no loved one from loving. _Dante._
=Amor bleibt ein Schalk, und wer ihm vertraut,
ist betrogen=--Cupid is ever a rogue,
and whoever trusts him is deceived. _Goethe._
=Amore è di sospetti fabro=--Love is a forger of
suspicions. _It. Pr._
=Amore sitis uniti=--Be ye united in love. 60
=Amor et melle et felle est fecundissimus=--Love
is most fruitful both of honey and gall. _Plaut._
=Amor et obœdientia=--Love and obedience. _M._
=Amor gignit amorem=--Love begets love.
=Amor omnibus idem=--Love is the same in all.
_Virg._
=Amor patriæ=--Love of one's country. 65
=Amor proximi=--Love for one's neighbour.
=Amor tutti eguaglia=--Love makes all equal. _It.
Pr._
=Amoto quæramus seria ludo=--Jesting aside, let
us give attention to serious business. _Hor._
=Amour avec loyaulté=--Love with loyalty. _M._
=Amour fait moult, argent fait tout=--Love can
do much, but money can do everything. _Fr. Pr._
=Amour propre=--Vanity; self-love. _Fr._
=A mouse never trusts its life to one hole only.= 5
_Plaut._
=Amphora cœpit / Institui: currente rota cur
urceus exit?=--A vase was begun; why from the
revolving wheel does it turn out a worthless
pitcher? _Hor._
=Ampliat ætatis spatium sibi vir bonus; hoc est /
Vivere bis vitâ posse priore frui=--The good
man extends the term of his life; it is to live twice,
to be able to enjoy one's former life. _Mar._
=Am Rhein, am Rhein, da wachsen uns're
Reben=--On the Rhine, on the Rhine, there
grow our vines! _Claudius._
=Am sausenden Webstuhl der Zeit=--On the noisy
loom of Time. _Goethe._
=Amt ohne Geld macht Diebe=--Office without 10
pay makes thieves. _Ger. Pr._
=A mucho hablar, mucho errar=--Talk much, err
much. _Sp. Pr._
=A multitude of sparks yields but a sorry light.=
_Amiel._
=Anacharsis among the Scythians=--A wise man
among unwise.
=An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality
in Utopia.= _Macaulay._
=An acre of performance is worth a whole world= 15
=of promise.= _Howell._
=Analysis is not the business of the poet. His
office is to portray, not to dissect.= _Macaulay._
=Analysis kills spontaneity, just as grain, once
it is ground into flour, no longer springs and
germinates.= _Amiel._
=An ambassador is an honest man sent to
lie abroad for the commonwealth.= _Sir H.
Wotten._
=An ambitious man is slave to everybody.= _Feijoó._
=A name is no despicable matter. Napoleon,= 20
=for the sake of a great name, broke in pieces
almost half a world.= _Goethe._
=An appeal to fear never finds an echo in
German hearts.= _Bismarck._
=An archer is known by his aim, not by his
arrows.= _Pr._
=An arc in the movement of a large intellect
does not differ sensibly from a straight line.=
_Holmes._
=An Argus at home, a mole abroad.= _Pr._
=An army, like a serpent, goes on its belly.= 25
_Frederick the Great_ (?).
=A narrow faith has much more energy than an
enlightened one.= _Amiel._
=An artist is a person who has submitted to
a law which it is painful to obey, that he
may bestow a delight which it is gracious
to bestow.= _Ruskin._
=An artist is only then truly praised by us when
we forget him in his work.= _Lessing._
=An artist must have his measuring tools, not
in the hand, but in the eye.= _Michael
Angelo._
=An artist should be fit for the best society, and= 30
=should keep out of it.= _Ruskin._
=An ass may bray a good while before he
shakes the stars down.= _George Eliot._
=A nation which labours, and takes care of the
fruits of labour, would be rich and happy,
though there were no gold in the universe.=
_Ruskin._
[Greek: Ananka d' oude theoi machontai]--The gods themselves
do not fight against necessity. _Gr. Pr._
=Anche il mar, che è si grande, si pacifica=--Even
the sea, great though it be, grows calm. _It. Pr._
=Anch' io sono pittore=--I too am a painter. _Correggio_ 35
_before a picture of Raphael's._
=Anche la rana morderebbe se avesse denti=--Even
the frog would bite if it had teeth. _It. Pr._
=Ancient art corporealises the spiritual; modern
spiritualises the corporeal.= _Börne._
=Ancient art is plastic; modern, pictorial.=
_Schlegel._
=And better had they ne'er been born / Who read
to doubt, or read to scorn.= _Scott._
=And can eternity belong to me, / Poor pensioner= 40
=on the bounties of an hour?= _Young._
=And earthly power doth then show likest
God's, / When mercy seasons justice.= _Mer.
of Ven._, iv. 1.
=And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side.=
_Goldsmith._
=And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.=
_Milton._
=And he is oft the wisest man / Who is not
wise at all.= _Wordsworth._
="And is this all?" cried Cæsar at his height,= 45
=disgusted.= _Young._
=An dives sit omnes quærunt, nemo an bonus=--Every
one inquires if he is rich; no one asks if
he is good.
=And Mammon wins his way where seraphs
might despair.= _Byron._
=And much it grieved my heart to think /
What man has made of man.= _Wordsworth._
=And, often times, excusing of a fault / Doth
make the fault worse by the excuse.= _King
John_, iv. 2.
=And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, /= 50
=And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot, /
And thereby hangs a tale.= _As You Like It_,
ii. 7.
=And still they gazed, and still the wonder
grew, / That one small head could carry all
he knew.= _Goldsmith._
=And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
finds tongues in trees, books in the running
brooks, sermons in stones, and good in
everything.= _As You Like It_, ii. 1.
=A needle's eye is wide enough for two friends;
the whole world is too narrow for two foes.=
_Pers. Pr._
[Greek: Anechou kai apechou]--Bear and forbear. _Epictetus._
=A nemico che fugge, fa un ponte d'oro=--Make 55
a bridge of gold for an enemy who is flying from
you. _It. Pr._
=An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles.= _Pr._
=An epigram often flashes light into regions
where reason shines but dimly.= _Whipple._
[Greek: Anêr ho pheugôn kai palin machêsetai]--The
man who runs away will fight again.
=An error is the more dangerous in proportion
to the degree of truth which it contains.=
_Amiel._
=An evening red and morning grey, is a sure
sign of a fair day.= _Pr._
=A new broom sweeps clean.= _Pr._
=A new life begins when a man once sees with
his own eyes all that before he has but partially
read or heard of.= _Goethe._
=A new principle is an inexhaustible source of
new views.= _Vauvenargues._
=An eye like Mars, to threaten or command.= 5
_Ham._, iii. 4.
=Anfang heiss, Mittel lau, Ende kalt=--The
beginning hot, the middle lukewarm, the end
cold. _Ger. Pr._
=Angels are bright still, though the brightest
fell.= _Macb._, iv. 3.
=Angels come to visit us, and we only know
them when they are gone.= _George Eliot._
=Anger is like / A full-hot horse; who, being
allow'd his way, / Self-mettle tires him.=
_Hen. VIII._, i. 2.
=Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.= _Fuller._ 10
=Anger resteth in the bosom of fools.= _Bible._
=Anger, when it is long in coming, is the stronger
when it comes, and the longer kept.= _Quarles._
=Anglicè=--In English.
=Angling is somewhat like poetry; men are to
be born so.= _Isaak Walton._
=Anguis in herbâ=--A snake in the grass. 15
=An honest citizen who maintains himself industriously
has everywhere as much freedom
as he wants.= _Goethe._
=An honest man's the noblest work of God.=
_Pope._
=An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told.=
_Rich. III._, iv. 4.
=An idle brain is the devil's workshop.= _Pr._
=An idler is a watch that wants both hands; /= 20
=As useless if it goes as if it stands.= _Cowper._
=An ill-willie (ill-natured) cow should have short
horns.= _Sc. Pr._
=An ill wind that blows nobody good.= _Pr._
=An ill workman quarrels with his tools.= _Pr._
=Animal implume bipes=--A two-legged animal
without feathers. _Plato's definition of man._
=Animals can enjoy, but only men can be cheerful.= 25
_Jean Paul._
=Anima mundi=--The soul of the world.
=Animo ægrotanti medicus est oratio=--Kind
words are as a physician to an afflicted spirit.
_Pr._
=Animo et fide=--By courage and faith. _M._
=Animo, non astutia=--By courage, not by craft. _M._
=Animum pictura pascit inani=--He feeds his soul 30
on the unreal picture. _Virg._
=Animum rege, qui nisi paret imperat=--Rule
your spirit well, for if it is not subject to you,
it will lord it over you. _Hor._
=Animus æquus optimum est ærumnæ condimentum=--A
patient mind is the best remedy
for trouble. _Plaut._
=Animus furandi=--The intention of stealing. _L._
=Animus homini, quicquid sibi imperat, obtinet=--The
mind of man can accomplish whatever it
resolves on.
=Animus hominis semper appetit agere aliquid=--The 35
mind of man is always longing to do
something. _Cic._
=Animus non deficit æquus=--Equanimity does
not fail us. _M._
=Animus quod perdidit optat / Atque in præterita
se totus imagine versat=--The mind
yearns after what is gone, and loses itself in
dreaming of the past. _Petron._
=An indifferent agreement is better than a good
verdict.= _Pr._
=An individual helps not; only he who unites
with many at the proper time.= _Goethe._
=An individual man is a fruit which it cost all= 40
=the foregoing ages to form and ripen.= _Emerson._
=An infant crying in the night, / An infant
crying for the light; / And with no language
but a cry.= _Tennyson._
=An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift
and inheritance of all truly great men.=
_Ruskin._
=An innocent man needs no eloquence; his
innocence is instead of it.= _Ben Jonson._
=An iron hand in a velvet glove.= _Charles V.,
said of a gentle compulsion._
=An irreverent knowledge is no knowledge;= 45
=it may be a development of the logical or
other handicraft faculty, but is no culture
of the soul of a man.= _Carlyle._
=An nescis longas regibus esse manus?=--Do you
not know that kings have long, _i.e._, far-grasping,
hands? _Ovid._
=An nescis, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur=
(_or_ =regatur orbis=)?--Do you not know with how
very little wisdom the world is governed? _Axel
Oxenstjerna to his son._
=An nichts Geliebtes muszt du dein Gemüt /
Also verpfänden, dass dich sein Verlust /
Untröstbar machte=--Never so set your heart
on what you love that its loss may render you
inconsolable. _Herder._
=Anno domini=--In the year of our Lord.
=Anno mundi=--In the year of the world. 50
=Annus mirabilis=--The year of wonders.
=A noble heart will frankly capitulate to reason.=
_Schiller._
=A noble man cannot be indebted for his culture
to a narrow circle. The world and his native
land must act on him.= _Goethe._
=An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but
they hold him.= _Pope._
=A nod for a wise man, and a rod for a fool.= 55
_Heb. Pr._
=An old bird is not to be caught with chaff.=
_Pr._
=An old knave is no babe.= _Pr._
=An old man in a house is a good sign in a
house.= _Heb. Pr._
=An old warrior is never in haste to strike the
blow.= _Metastasio._
=An open confession is good for the soul.= _Pr._ 60
=An open door may tempt a saint.= _Pr._
=Another such victory and we are done.= _Pyrrhus
after his second victory over the Romans._
=An ounce of a man's own wit is worth a pound
of other peoples'.= _Sterne._
=An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of
sadness to serve God with.= _Fuller._
=An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of= 65
=wit.= _Pr._
=An ounce o' mother-wit is worth a pound o'
clergy.= _Sc. Pr._
=An ounce of practice is worth a pound of
preaching.= _Pr._
=An quidquid stultius, quam quos singulos contemnas,
eos aliquid putare esse universos?=--Can
there be any greater folly than the respect
you pay to men collectively when you despise
them individually? _Cic._
[Greek: Anthrôpos ôn tout' isthi kai memnês' aei]--Being
a man, know and remember always that
thou art one. _Philemon Comicus._
[Greek: Anthrôpos physei zôon politikon]--Man is by
nature an animal meant for civic life. _Arist._
=Ante lucem=--Before daybreak.
=Ante meridiem=--Before noon. 5
=Ante omnia=--Before everything else.
=Antequam incipias, consulto; et ubi consulueris,
facto opus est=--Before you begin, consider
well; and when you have considered, act.
_Sall._
=Ante senectutem curavi, ut bene viverem; in
senectute, ut bene moriar=--Before old age, it
was my chief care to live well; in old age, it is
to die well. _Sen._
=Ante tubam tremor occupat artus=--We tremble
all over before the bugle sounds. _Virg._
=Ante victoriam ne canas triumphum=--Don't 10
celebrate your triumph before you have conquered.
=Anticipation forward points the view.= _Burns._
=Antiquâ homo virtute ac fide=--A man of antique
valour and fidelity. _M._
=Antiquitas sæculi juventus mundi=--The ancient
time of the world was the youth of the world.
_Bacon._
=An unimaginative person can neither be reverent
nor kind.= _Ruskin._
=Anxiety is the poison of human life.= _Blair._ 15
=Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's
features; any meanness or sensuality to imbrute
them.= _Thoreau._
=Any port in a storm.= _Sc. Pr._
=Any road will lead you to the end of the world.=
_Schiller._
=Anything for a quiet life.= _Pr._
="A pack of kinless loons;"= _said of Cromwell's_ 20
_judges by the Scotch_.
=Apage, Satana=--Begone, Satan!
=A patron is one who looks with unconcern on
a man struggling for life in the water, and
when he has reached the land encumbers
him with help.= _Johnson._
[Greek: Hapax legomenon]--A word that occurs only once
in an author or book.
=A peck of March dust is worth a king's ransom.=
_Pr._
=A pedant is a precocious old man.= _De Boufflers._ 25
=A penny hained (saved) is a penny gained.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Aperçu=--A sketch. _Fr._
=A perfect woman, nobly planned, / To warn,
to comfort, and command.= _Wordsworth._
=Aperit præcordia liber=--Wine opens the seals of
the heart. _Hor._
=A perte de vue=--Beyond the range of vision. _Fr._ 30
=Aperte mala cum est mulier, tum demum est
bona=--A woman when she is openly bad, is at
least honest.
=Aperto vivere voto=--To live with every wish
avowed. _Pers._
=A pet lamb makes a cross ram.= _Pr._
=Aphorisms are portable wisdom.= _W. R. Alger._
=Apio opus est=--There is need of parsley, _i.e._, 35
to strew on the grave, meaning that one is
dying.
=A pity that the eagle should be mew'd, / While
kites and buzzards prey at liberty.= _Rich.
III._, i. 1.
=A place for everything, and everything in its
place.= _Pr._
=A plague of sighing and grief; it blows a man
up like a bladder.= 1 _Hen. IV._, i. 4.
=A plant often removed cannot thrive.= _Pr._
=A pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.= 40
_Bacon._
[Greek: Aplêstos pithos]--A cask that cannot be filled
(being pierced at the bottom with holes.) _Pr._
=A plomb=--Perpendicularly; firmly. _Fr._
=A poem is the very image of life expressed in
its eternal truth.= _Schelling._
=A poet is a nightingale, who sits in the darkness
and sings to cheer its own solitude with
sweet sounds.= _Shelley._
=A poet must be before his age, to be even with= 45
=posterity.= _Lowell._
=A poet must sing for his own people.= _Stedman._
=A poet on canvas is exactly the same species
of creature as a poet in song.= _Ruskin._
=A poison which acts not at once is not therefore
a less dangerous poison.= _Lessing._
=A position of eminence makes a great man
greater and a little man less.= _La Bruyère._
=Apothegms are, in history, the same as the= 50
=pearls in the sand or the gold in the mine.=
_Erasmus._
[Greek: 'Ap' echthrôn polla manthanousin hoi sophoi]--Wise
men learn many things from their enemies.
_Aristoph._
=A point=--To a point exactly. _Fr._
=Apollo himself confessed it was ecstasy to be
a man among men.= _Schiller._
=A posse ad esse=--From possibility to actuality.
=A posteriori=--From the effect to the cause; by 55
induction.
=Apothecaries would not sugar their pills unless
they were bitter.= _Pr._
=A pound of care won't pay an ounce of debt.=
_Pr._
=Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto=--A few
are seen swimming here and there in the vast
abyss. _Virg._
=Appetitus rationi pareat=--Let reason govern
desire. _Cic._
=Applause is the spur of noble minds, the aim= 60
=and end of weak ones.= _Colton._
=Après la mort le médecin=--After death the
doctor. _Fr. Pr._
=Après la pluie, le beau temps=--After the rain,
fair weather. _Fr. Pr._
=Après nous le déluge=--After us the deluge!
_Mme. de Pompadour._
=A primrose by a river's brim / A yellow primrose
was to him, / And it was nothing more.=
_Wordsworth._
=A prince can mak' a belted knight, / A marquis,= 65
=duke, and a' that; / But an honest
man's aboon his might, / Gude faith, he
maunna fa' that.= _Burns._
=A priori=--From the cause to the effect; by deduction.
=A progress of society on the one hand, a
decline of souls on the other.= _Amiel._
=A promise is a debt.= _Gael. Pr._
=A propensity to hope and joy is real riches;
one to fear and sorrow, real poverty.= _Hume._
=A prophet is not without honour, save in his= 5
=own country, and in his own house.= _Jesus._
=A propos=--To the point; seasonably; in due time.
_Fr._
=A propos de bottes=--By-the-bye. _Fr._
=A proverb is good sense brought to a point.=
_John Morley._
=A proverb is much matter decocted into few
words.= _Fuller._
=Apt alliteration's artful aid.= _Churchill._ 10
=Apt to revolt, and willing to rebel, / And never
are contented when they're well.= _Defoe._
=A puñadas entran las buenas hadas=--Good
luck pushes its way (_lit._ gets on) by elbowing.
_Sp. Pr._
=A purpose you impart is no longer your own.=
_Goethe._
=A quatre épingles=--With four pins, _i.e._, done up
like a dandy. _Fr._
=Aquel pierde venta que no tiene que venda=--He 15
who has nothing to sell loses his market.
_Sp. Pr._
=A quien tiene buena muger, ningun mal le
puede venir, que no sea de sufrir=--To him
who has a good wife no evil can come which he
cannot bear. _Sp. Pr._
=Aquilæ senectus=--The old age of the eagle. _Ter._
=Aquila non capit muscas=--An eagle does not
catch flies. _M._
=A qui veut rien n'est impossible=--Nothing is
impossible to one with a will. _Fr. Pr._
=A raconter ses maux, souvent on les soulage=--Our 20
misfortunes are often lightened by relating
them. _Corneille._
=A ragged colt may make a good horse.= _Pr._
=Aranearum telas texere=--To weave spiders' webs,
_i.e._, a tissue of sophistry.
=Arbeit ist des Blutes Balsam: / Arbeit ist der
Tugend Quell=--Labour is balm to the blood:
labour is the source of virtue. _Herder._
=Arbiter bibendi=--The master of the feast (_lit._ the
judge of the drinking).
=Arbiter elegantiarum=--The arbitrator of elegances; 25
the master of the ceremonies.
=Arbiter formæ=--Judge of beauty.
=Arbitrary power is most easily established on
the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.=
_Washington._
=Arbore dejecta qui vult ligna colligit=--When
the tree is thrown down, any one that likes may
gather the wood. _Pr._
=Arbores serit diligens agricola, quarum aspiciet
baccam ipse nunquam=--The industrious
husbandman plants trees, not one berry of which
he will ever see. _Cic._
="Arcades ambo,"= _id est_, blackguards both. 30
_Byron._
=Arcana imperii=--State, or government, secrets.
[Greek: Archê andra deixei]--Office will prove the man.
=Architecture is petrified music.= _Schelling, De
Staël, Goethe._
=Architecture is the work of nations.= _Ruskin._
[Greek: Archôn oudeis hamartanei tote hotan archôn ê]--No 35
ruler can sin so long as he is a ruler.
=Ardeat ipsa licet, tormentis gaudet amantis=--Though
she is aflame herself, she delights in the
torments of her lover. _Juv._
=Ardentia verba=--Glowing words.
=Arde verde por seco, y pagan justos por pecadores=--Green
burns for dry, and just men smart
(_lit._ pay) for transgressors. _Sp. Pr._
=Ardua molimur: sed nulla nisi ardua virtus=--I
attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth
that is not of difficult achievement. _Ovid._
=A really great talent finds its happiness in= 40
=execution.= _Goethe._
=A reasoning mule will neither lead nor drive.=
_Mallett._
=A rebours=--Reversed. _Fr._
=A reconciled friend is a double enemy.= _Pr._
=A reculons=--Backwards. _Fr._
=A re decedunt=--They wander from the point. 45
=A refusal is less than nothing.= _Platen._
=Arena sine calce=--Sand without cement, _i.e._,
speech unconnected. _Suet._
=Arenæ mandas semina=--You are sowing grain
in the sand. _Pr._
=A republic is properly a polity in which the
state, with its all, is at every man's service;
and every man, with his all, is at the state's
service.= _Ruskin._
=Ares, no ares, renta me pagues=--Plough or not 50
plough, you must pay rent all the same. _Sp.
Pr._
=A rez de chaussée=--Even with the ground.
_Fr._
=Argent comptant=--Ready money. _Fr._
=Argent comptant porte medicine=--Ready money
works great cures. _Fr. Pr._
=Argentum accepi, dote imperium vendidi=--I
have received money, and sold my authority for
her dowry. _Plaut._
=Argilla quidvis imitaberis uda=--You may model 55
any form you please out of damp clay. _Hor._
=Argument, as usually managed, is the worst
sort of conversation; as it is generally in
books the worst sort of reading.= _Swift._
=Argument is like an arrow from a cross-bow,
which has great force though shot by a child.=
_Bacon._
=Argumentum ad crumenam=--An appeal to self-interest.
=Argumentum ad hominem=--An argument in refutation
drawn from an opponent's own principles
(_lit._ an argument to the man).
=Argumentum ad ignorantiam=--An argument 60
founded on the ignorance of an adversary.
=Argumentum ad invidiam=--An argument which
appeals to low passions.
=Argumentum ad judicium=--An appeal to common
sense.
=Argumentum ad misericordiam=--An appeal to
the mercy of your adversary.
=Argumentum ad populum=--An appeal to popular
prejudice.
=Argumentum ad verecundiam=--An appeal to 65
respect for some authority.
=Argumentum baculinum=--Club argument, _i.e._,
by physical force.
=Argus at home, a mole abroad.= _It. Pr._
=Argus-eyes=--Eyes ever wakeful and watchful.
=A righteous man regardeth the life of his
beast, but the tender mercies of the wicked
are cruel.= _Bible._
[Greek: Ariston metron]--A mean or middle course is
best. _Cleobulus._
[Greek: Ariston men hydôr]--Water is best. _Pindar._
=Aristocracy has three successive ages--of
superiorities, of privileges, and of vanities;
having passed out of the first, it degenerates
in the second, and dies away in the third.=
_Chateaubriand._
=Arma amens capio; nec sat rationis in armis=--I 5
madly take to arms; but have not wit enough
to use them to any purpose. _Virg._
=Arma cerealia=--The arms of Ceres, _i.e._, implements
connected with the preparation of corn and
bread.
=Arm am Beutel, krank am Herzen=--Poor in
purse, sick at heart. _Goethe._
=Arma pacis fulcra=--Arms are the props of
peace. _M._
=Arma tenenti omnia dat, qui justa negat=--He
who refuses what is just, gives up everything to
an enemy in arms. _Luc._
=Arma, viri, ferte arma; vocat lux ultima victos, /= 10
=Nunquam omnes hodie moriemur inulti=--Arms,
ye men, bring me arms! their last day
summons the vanquished. We shall never all die
unavenged this day. _Virg._
=Armé de foi hardi=--Bold from being armed with
faith. _M._
=Armes blanches=--Side arms. _Fr._
=Arm in Arm mit dir, / So fordr' ich mein Jahrhundert
in die Schranken=--Arm in arm with
thee, I defy the century to gainsay me. _Schiller._
=Arms and the man I sing.= _Virg._
=Armuth des Geistes Gott erfreut, / Armuth,= 15
=und nicht Armseligkeit=--It is poverty of spirit
that God delights in--poverty, and not beggarliness.
_Claudius._
=Armuth ist der sechste Sinn=--Poverty is the
sixth sense. _Ger. Pr._
=Armuth ist die grösste Plage, / Reichtum ist
das höchste Gut=--Poverty is the greatest
calamity, riches the highest good. _Goethe._
=Armuth ist listig, sie fängt auch einen Fuchs=--Poverty
is crafty; it outwits (_lit._ catches) even
a fox. _Ger. Pr._
=Armuth und Hunger haben viel gelehrte
Jünger=--Poverty and hunger have many learned
disciples. _Ger. Pr._
=A rogue is a roundabout fool.= _Coleridge._ 20
=A rolling stone gathers no moss.= _Pr._
=A Rome comment à Rome=--At Rome do as
Rome does. _Fr. Pr._
=A royal heart is often hid under a tattered
coat.= _Dan. Pr._
=Arrectis auribus adsto=--I wait with listening
ears. _Virg._
=Arrière pensée=--A mental reservation. _Fr._ 25
=Arrogance is the obstruction of wisdom.= _Bion._
=Ars artium omnium conservatrix=--The art preservative
of all others, _viz._, printing.
=Ars est celare artem=--It is the perfection of art
to conceal art. _Ovid._
=Ars est sine arte, cujus principium est mentiri,
medium laborare, et finis mendicare=--It is an
art without art, which has its beginning in falsehood,
its middle in toil, and its end in poverty. _Applied
originally to the pursuits of the Alchemists._
=Ars longa, vita brevis=--Art is long, life is short. 30
=Ars varia vulpis, ast una echino maxima=--The
fox has many tricks; the hedgehog only one, and
that greatest of all. _Pr._
=Art does not represent things falsely, but
truly as they appear to mankind.= _Ruskin._
=Arte magistra=--By the aid of art. _Virg._
=Art is a jealous mistress.= _Emerson._
=Art is long and time is fleeting, / And our= 35
=hearts, though stout and brave, / Still, like
muffled drums, are beating / Funeral marches
to the grave.= _Longfellow._
=Art is noble, but the sanctuary of the human
soul is nobler still.= _W. Winter._
=Art is not the bread indeed, but it is the wine
of life.= _Jean Paul._
=Art is simply a bringing into relief of the
obscure thought of Nature.= _Amiel._
=Art is the mediatrix of the unspeakable.= _Goethe._
=Art is the path of the creator to his work.= 40
_Emerson._
=Art is the work of man under the guidance and
inspiration of a mightier power.= _Hare._
=Artists are of three classes: those who perceive
and pursue the good, and leave the
evil; those who perceive and pursue the
good and evil together, the whole thing as it
verily is; and those who perceive and pursue
the evil, and leave the good.= _Ruskin._
=Artium magister=--Master of arts.
=Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.= _Dryden._
=Art may make a suit of clothes, but Nature= 45
=must produce a man.= _Hume._
=Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of
every breath of folly.= _Hazlitt._
=Art must not be a superficial talent, but must
begin further back in man.= _Emerson._
=Art, not less eloquently than literature, teaches
her children to venerate the single eye.= _Willmott._
=Art not thou a man?= _Bible._
=Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a= 50
=deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this
account it unites so readily with religion.=
_Goethe._
=Art thou afraid of death, and dost thou wish to
live for ever? Live in the whole that remains
when thou hast long been gone= (wenn
du lange dahin bist). _Schiller._
=A rude âne rude ânier=--A stubborn driver to a
stubborn ass. _Fr. Pr._
=A rusty nail, placed near the faithful compass, /
Will sway it from the truth, and wreck the
argosy.= _Scott._
=A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.=
_Emerson._
=A saint abroad, a devil at home.= _Pr._ 55
=A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.= _Pope._
=As all men have some access to primary truth,
so all have some art or power of communication
in the head, but only in the artist does
it descend into the hand.= _Emerson._
=As a man makes his bed, so must he lie.= _Gael.
Pr._
=As a priest, or interpreter of the holy, is the
noblest and highest of all men; so is a sham
priest the falsest and basest.= _Carlyle._
=A satirical poet is the check of the layman on= 60
=bad priests.= _Dryden._
=As a tree falls, so shall it lie.= _Pr._
[Greek: asbestos gelôs]--Unquenchable, or Homeric,
laughter. _Hom._
=A scalded cat dreads cauld water.= _Sc. Pr._
=As dear to me as are the ruddy drops / That
visit my sad heart.= _Jul. Cæs._, ii. 1.
=A second Daniel.= _Mer. of Ven._, iv. 1.
=A secret is in my custody if I keep it; but if= 5
=I blab it, it is I that am prisoner.= _Arab Pr._
=A self-denial no less austere than the saint's
is demanded of the scholar.= _Emerson._
=As ever in my great taskmaster's eye.= _Milton._
=As every great evil, so every excessive power
wears itself out at last.= _Herder._
=As falls the dew on quenchless sands, / Blood
only serves to wash ambition's hands.= _Byron._
=As for discontentments, they are in the politic= 10
=body like humours in the natural, which are
apt to gather a preternatural heat and inflame.=
_Bacon._
=As formerly we suffered from wickedness, so
now we suffer from the laws.= _Tac._
=As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little
now and then, to be sure. But there's no
love lost between us.= _Goldsmith._
=As for talkers and futile persons, they are
commonly vain and credulous withal.= _Bacon._
=As from the wing no scar the sky retains, /
The parted wave no furrow from the keel;
So dies in human hearts the thought of
death.= _Young._
=As good be out of the world as out of the= 15
=fashion.= _Pr._
=As good almost kill a man as kill a good book;
who kills a man kills a reasonable creature,
God's image; but he who destroys a good
book kills reason itself.= _Milton._
=As guid fish i' the sea as e'er came oot o't.= _Sc. Pr._
=As guid may haud (hold) the stirrup as he
that loups on.= _Sc. Pr._
=A's guid that God sends.= _Sc. Pr._
=As he alone is a good father who at table serves= 20
=his children first, so is he alone a good citizen
who, before all other outlays, discharges what
he owes to the state.= _Goethe._
=As he who has health is young, so he who
owes nothing is rich.= _Pr._
=A short cut is often a wrong cut.= _Dan. Pr._
=A sicht (sight) o' you is guid for sair een.= _Sc. Pr._
=A sick man's sacrifice is but a lame oblation.=
_Sir Thomas Browne._
=As idle as a painted ship / Upon a painted= 25
=ocean.= _Coleridge._
=A sight to dream of, not to tell.= _Coleridge._
=A silent man's words are not brought into
court.= _Dan. Pr._
=A sillerless (moneyless) man gangs fast through
the market.= _Sc. Pr._
=A silver key can open an iron lock.= _Pr._
=A simple child, / That lightly draws its breath, /= 30
=And feels its life in every limb, / What should
it know of death?= _Wordsworth._
=A simple maiden in her flower, / Is worth a
hundred coats of arms.= _Tennyson._
=A simple, manly character need never make
an apology.= _Emerson._
=As in a theatre, the eyes of men, / After a
well-graced actor leaves the stage, / Are
idly bent on him that enters next, / Thinking
his prattle to be tedious.= _Rich. II._, v. 2.
=A single grateful thought turned heavenwards
is the most perfect prayer.= _Lessing._
=A single moment may transform everything.= 35
_Wieland._
=A single word is often a concentrated poem,
a little grain of pure gold, capable of being
beaten out into a broad extent of gold-leaf.=
_Trench._
=Asinum sub fræno currere docere=--To teach
an ass to obey the rein, _i.e._, to labour in vain.
_Pr._
=Asinus ad lyram=--An ass at the lyre, _i.e._, one
unsusceptible of music.
=Asinus asino, et sus sui pulcher=--An ass is
beautiful to an ass, and a pig to a pig. _Pr._
=Asinus in tegulis=--An ass on the house-tiles. 40
=Asinus inter simias=--An ass among apes, _i.e._, a
fool among people who make a fool of him. _Pr._
=Asinus in unguento=--An ass among perfumes,
_i.e._, things he cannot appreciate.
=As is the garden, such is the gardener.= _Heb.
Pr._
=As is the man, so is his God.= _Rückert, Goethe._
=A sip is the most that mortals are permitted= 45
=from any goblet of delight.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye
shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to
you.= _Jesus._
=Ask for the old paths, where is the good way,
and walk therein.= _Bible._
=Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.=
_Goldsmith._
=Ask why God made the gem so small, / And
why so huge the granite? / Because God
meant mankind should set / The higher value
on it.= _Burns._
=As long as any man exists, there is some need= 50
=of him.= _Emerson._
=As long lives a merry heart as a sad.= _Pr._
=As love without esteem is capricious and volatile,
esteem without love is languid and cold.=
_Swift._
=A slow fire makes sweet malt.= _Pr._
=A small man, if he stands too near a great,
may see single portions well, and, if he will
survey the whole, must stand too far off,
where his eyes do not reach the details.=
_Goethe._
=A small sorrow distracts us, a great one makes= 55
=us collected.= _Jean Paul._
=A small unkindness is a great offence.= _Hannah
More._
=As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, /
Receives the lurking principle of death; /
The young disease, that must subdue at
length, / Grows with his growth, and strengthens
with his strength.= _Pope._
=As many suffer from too much as too little.=
_Bovee._
=A smart coat is a good letter of introduction.=
_Dut. Pr._
=As merry as the day is long.= _Much Ado_, ii. 1. 60
=A smile abroad is oft a scowl at home.= _Tennyson._
=A smile re-cures the wounding of a frown.=
_Shakespeare._
=As much love, so much mind, or heart.= _Lat. Pr._
=As much virtue as there is, so much appears;
as much goodness as there is, so much reverence
it commands.= _Emerson._
=A snapper up of unconsidered trifles.= _Winter's
Tale_, iv. 2.
=A society of people will cursorily represent a
certain culture, though there is not a gentleman
or a lady in the group.= _Emerson._
=A soldier, / Seeking the bubble reputation /
Even in the cannon's mouth.= _As You Like
It_, ii. 7.
=A solis ortu usque ad occasum=--From where
the sun rises to where it sets.
=A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.= 5
_Henry Giles._
=A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering
happier things.= _Tennyson._
=A sorrow shared is but half a trouble, / But a
joy that's shared is a joy made double.= _Pr._
=A' sottili cascano le brache=--The cloak sometimes
falls off a cunning man. _It. Pr._
=A soul without reflection, like a pile / Without
inhabitant, to ruin runs.= _Young._
=A spark neglected makes a mighty fire.= _Herrick._ 10
=A species is a succession of individuals which
perpetuates itself.= _Cuvier._
=Asperæ facetiæ ubi multum ex vero traxere,
acrem sui memoriam relinquunt=--Satire, when
it comes near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind
it. _Tac._
=Asperius nihil est humili, cum surgit in altum=--Nothing
is more offensive than a low-bred man
in a high station. _Claud._
=Aspettare e non venire, / Stare in letto e non
dormire, / Ben servire e non gradire, / Son
tre cose da morire=--To wait for what never
comes, to lie abed and not sleep, to serve and not
be advanced, are three things to die of. _It. Pr._
=A spirit may be known from only a single= 15
=thought.= _Swedenborg._
=As poor as Job.= _Merry Wives_, v. 5.
=A spot is most seen on the finest cloth.= _Pr._
=As proud go behind as before.= _Pr._
=A spur in the head is worth two in the heels.=
_Pr._
=As reason is a rebel unto faith, so is passion= 20
=unto reason.= _Sir T. Browne._
=Assai acqua passa per il molino, che il molinaio
non se n'accorge=--A good deal of water passes
by the mill which the miller takes no note of.
_It. Pr._
=Assai basta, e troppo guasta=--Enough is enough,
and too much spoils. _It. Pr._
=Assai ben balla, à chi fortuna suona=--He dances
well to whom fortune pipes. _It. Pr._
=Assai è ricco à chi non manca=--He is rich
enough who has no wants. _It. Pr._
=Assai guadagna chi vano sperar perde=--He 25
gains a great deal who loses a vain hope. _It.
Pr._
=Assai sa, chi non sa, se tacer sa=--He who knows
not, knows a good deal if he knows how to hold
his tongue. _It. Pr._
=Assez a qui se contente=--He has enough who is
content. _Fr. Pr._
=Assez dort qui rien ne fait=--He sleeps enough
who does nothing. _Fr. Pr._
=Assez gagne qui malheur perd=--He gains
enough who gets rid of a sorrow. _Fr. Pr._
=Assez sait qui sait vivre et se taire=--He knows 30
enough who knows how to live and how to keep
his own counsel. _Fr. Pr._
=Assez tôt si assez bien=--Soon enough if well
enough. _Fr. Pr._
=Assez y a, si trop n'y a=--There is enough where
there is not too much. _Fr. Pr._
=Associate with the good, and you will be
esteemed one of them.= _Sp. Pr._
=As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, /
Swells from the vale, and midway leaves
the storm, / Though round its breast the
rolling clouds are spread, / Eternal sunshine
settles on its head.= _Goldsmith._
=As soon as a man is born he begins to die.= 35
_Ger. Pr._
=As soon as beauty is sought, not from religion
and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the
seeker.= _Emerson._
=As soon as the soul sees any object, it stops
before that object.= _Emerson._
=Assume a virtue, if you have it not.= _Ham._,
iii. 4.
=Assumpsit=--An action on a verbal promise. _L._
=Assurance is two-thirds of success.= _Gael. Pr._ 40
=A state is never greater than when all its
superfluous hands are employed in the service
of the public.= _Hume._
=A state of violence cannot be perpetual, or
disaster and ruin would be universal.= _Bp.
Burnet._
=A statesman requires rather a large converse
with men, and much intercourse in life, than
deep study of books.= _Burke._
=A stern discipline pervades all Nature, which
is a little cruel that it may be very kind.=
_Spenser._
=As the births of living creatures at first are= 45
=ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are
the births of time.= _Bacon._
=As the first order of wisdom is to know thyself,
so the first order of charity is to be sufficient
for thyself.= _Ruskin._
=As the fool thinks, the bell clinks.= _Pr._
=As the good man saith, so say we: / As the
good woman saith, so it must be.= _Pr._
=As the husband is, the wife is: / Thou art
mated with a clown, / And the grossness of
his nature / Will have weight to drag thee
down.= _Tennyson._
=As the man is, so is his strength.= _Bible._ 50
=As the old cock crows, the young one learns.=
_Pr._
=As there is no worldly gain without some loss,
so there is no worldly loss without some gain.=
_Quarles._
=As the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, /
So honour peereth in the meanest habit.=
_Tam. of Shrew_, iv. 3.
=As the youth lives in the future, so the man
lives with the past; no one knows rightly
how to live in the present.= _Grillparzer._
=As thy days, so shall thy strength be.= _Bible._ 55
=A still, small voice.= _Bible._
=A stitch in time saves nine.= _Pr._
=As to the value of conversions, God alone can
judge.= _Goethe._
=Astra castra, numen lumen=--The stars my camp,
the deity my light. _M._
=Astræa redux=--Return of the goddess of justice. 60
=A straight line is the shortest in morals as
well as in geometry.= _Rahel._
=A strange fish.= _Tempest_, ii. 2.
=Astra regunt homines, sed regit astra Deus=--The
stars govern men, but God governs the stars.
=A strenuous soul hates cheap success.= _Emerson._
=A strong memory is generally joined to a weak
judgment.= _Montaigne._
=A strong soil that has produced weeds may
be made to produce wheat with far less
difficulty than it would cost to make it produce
nothing.= _Colton._
=Astronomy has revealed the great truth that= 5
=the whole universe is bound together by one
all-pervading influence.= _Leitch._
=A' Stuarts are no sib (related) to the king=
(the family name of the Scotch kings being
Stuart). _Sc. Pr._
=Astutior coccyge=--More crafty than the cuckoo
(who deposits her eggs in another bird's nest). _Pr._
=A subject's faults a subject may proclaim, / A
monarch's errors are forbidden game.= _Cowper._
=A substitute shines brightly as a king, until a
king be by.= _Mer. of Ven._, v. 1.
=A sudden thought strikes me, / Let us swear= 10
=an eternal friendship.= _Canning._
=A sunbeam passes through pollution unpolluted.=
_Eusebius._
=A surfeit of sweetest things.= _Mid. N.'s Dream_,
ii. 3.
=As water spilt upon the ground, which cannot
be gathered up again.= _Bible._
=As we advance in life, we learn the limits of
our abilities.= _Froude._
=As we are born to work, so others are born to= 15
=watch over us while working.= _Goldsmith._
=As weel be oot o' the world as oot o' the fashion.=
_Sc. Pr._
=As wholesome meat corrupteth to little worms,
so good forms and orders corrupt into a number
of petty observances.= _Bacon._
=As yet a child, not yet a fool to fame, / I lisp'd
in numbers, for the numbers came.= _Pope._
=As you do to others, expect others to do to
you.= _Pr._
=As you make your bed you must lie on it.= _Pr._ 20
=As you sow you shall reap.= _Pr._
=A tale never loses in the telling.= _Pr._
=A talisman that shall turn base metal into
precious, Nature acknowledges not; but
a talisman to turn base souls into noble,
Nature has given us; and that is a "philosopher's
stone," but it is a stone which the
builders refuse.= _Ruskin._
=A tâtons=--Groping. _Fr._
=A tattler is worse than a thief.= _Pr._ 25
=A (man of) teachable mind will hang about a
wise man's neck.= _Bp. Patrick._
=At every trifle scorn to take offence; / That
always shows great pride or little sense.=
_Pope._
=At first one omits writing for a little while;
and then one stays a little while to consider
of excuses; and at last it grows desperate,
and one does not write at all.= _Swift._
[Greek: Athanatous men prôta theous, nomô hôs diakeitai
Tima]--Reverence, first of all, the immortal gods,
as prescribed by law. _Pythagoras._
=At the gates of the forest the surprised man= 30
=of the world is forced to leave his city estimates
of great and small, wise and foolish.=
_Emerson._
=Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart
of man.= _Bacon._
=Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy,
to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all
which may be guides to an outward moral
virtue, though religion were not; but superstition
dismounts all these, and erecteth an
absolute monarchy in the minds of men.=
_Bacon._
=A thief knows a thief, as a wolf knows a wolf.=
_Pr._
=A thing is the bigger of being shared.= _Gael. Pr._
=A thing is what it is, only in and by means of= 35
=its limit.= _Hegel._
=A thing is worth what it= _can_ =do for you, not
what you choose to pay for it.= _Ruskin._
=A thing of beauty is a joy for ever; / Its loveliness
increases; it will never / Pass into
nothingness.= _Keats._
=A thing you don't want is dear at any price.= _Pr._
=A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince
of Darkness can have.= _Carlyle._
=A third interprets motion, looks, and eyes, /= 40
=At every word a reputation dies.= _Pope._
=A thorn is a changed bud.= _T. Lynch._
=A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers
what others have thought proper to
forget, but he also forgets what others think
proper to remember.= _Colton._
=A thousand years scarce serve to form a state;
/ An hour may lay it in the dust.= _Byron._
=A thread will tie an honest man better than a
rope will do a rogue.= _Sc. Pr._
=A threatened blow is seldom given.= _Pr._ 45
=A threefold cord is not quickly broken.= _Bible._
=A thrill passes through all men at the reception
of a new truth, or at the performance
of a great action, which comes out of the
heart of nature.... By the necessity of our
constitution, a certain enthusiasm attends
the individual's consciousness of that Divine
presence.= _Emerson._
=At ingenium ingens / Inculto latet hoc sub
corpore=--Yet under this rude exterior lies concealed
a mighty genius. _Hor._
=At no age should a woman be allowed to
govern herself as she pleases.= _H. Mann._
=A tocherless dame sits lang at hame.= _Sc. Pr._ 50
=A toom (empty) pantry maks a thriftless guid-wife.=
_Sc. Pr._
=A tort et à travers=--Without consideration; at
random. _Fr._
=A toute force=--With all one's force. _Fr._
=A toute seigneur tout honneur=--Let every one
have his due honour. _Fr. Pr._
=At pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier hic= 55
=est=--Yet it is a fine thing to be pointed at with
the finger and have it said, This is he! _Persius._
=Atque in rege tamen pater est=--And yet in the
king there is the father. _Ovid._
=Atqui vultus erat multa et præclara minantis=--And
yet you had the look of one that promised
(_lit._ threatened) many fine things. _Hor._
=A trade of barbarians.= _Napoleon on war._
=A tragic farce.= _Lille._
=A travelled man has leave to lie.= _Pr._ 60
=A traveller of taste at once perceives that the
wise are polite all the world over, but that
fools are only polite at home.= _Goldsmith._
=A tree is known by its fruit.= _Pr._
=Atria regum hominibus plena sunt, amicis
vacua=--The courts of kings are full of men,
empty of friends. _Sen._
=Atrocitatis mansuetudo est remedium=--Gentleness
is the antidote for cruelty. _Phædr._
=A true-bred merchant is the best gentleman
in the nation.= _Defoe._
=A true genius may be known by this sign, that
the dunces are all in confederacy against
him.= _Swift._
=A true man hates no one.= _Napoleon._ 5
=A truly great genius will be the first to prescribe
limits for its own exertions.= _Brougham._
=A truth / Looks freshest in the fashion of the
day.= _Tennyson._
=A truth to an age that has rejected and
trampled on it, is not a word of peace, but a
sword.= _Henry George._
=At spes non fracta=--Yet hope is not broken. _M._
=Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen= 10
=despotism; as he that struggles tightens
those cords he does not succeed in breaking.=
_Colton._
=Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt; /
Nothing's so hard, but search will find it
out.= _Herrick._
=Attendez à la nuit pour dire que le jour a été
beau=--Wait till night before saying that the
day has been fine. _Fr. Pr._
=Attention makes the genius; all learning,
fancy, and science depend on it.= _Willmott._
=At the sight of a= _man_ =we too say to ourselves,
Let us be= _men_. _Amiel._
=At thirty, man suspects himself a fool, / Knows= 15
=it at forty, and reforms his plan. / At fifty,
chides his infamous delay. / Pushes his prudent
purpose to resolve. / Resolves--and re-resolves;
then dies the same.= _Young._
=At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at
thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.=
_Grattan._
=A tu hijo, buen nombre y oficio=--To your son
a good name and a trade. _Sp. Pr._
=A tutti non si adatta una sola scarpa=--One
shoe does not fit every foot. _It. Pr._
=At vindictum bonum vita jucundius ipsa.
Nempe hoc indocti=--But revenge is a blessing
sweeter than life itself; so rude men feel. _Juv._
=At whose sight all the stars / Hide their diminished= 20
=heads.= _Milton._
=Au bon droit=--By good right. _Fr._
=Au bout de son Latin=--At his wit's end (_lit._ at
the end of his Latin). _Fr._
=Au bout du compte=--After the close of the account;
after all. _Fr._
=Auch aus entwölkter Höhe / Kann der zündende
Donner schlagen; / Darum in deinen fröhlichen
Tagen / Fürchte des Unglücks tückische
Nähe=--Even out of a cloudless heaven
the flaming thunderbolt may strike; therefore in
thy days of joy have a fear of the spiteful neighbourhood
of misfortune. _Schiller._
=Auch Bücher haben ihr Erlebtes, das ihnen= 25
=nicht entzogen werden kann=--Even books
have their lifetime, of which no one can deprive
them. _Goethe._
=Auch das Schöne muss sterben=--Even what is
beautiful must die. _Schiller._
=Auch der Löwe muss sich vor der Mücke
wehren=--Even the lion has to defend itself
against flies. _Ger. Pr._
=Auch die Gerechtigkeit trägt eine Binde, /
Und schliesst die Augen jedem Blendwerk
zu=--Even Justice wears a bandage, and shuts
her eyes on everything deceptive. _Goethe._
=Auch die Kultur, die alle Welt beleckt, / Hat auf
den Teufel sich erstreckt=--Culture, which has
licked all the world into shape, has reached even
the devil. _Goethe._
=Auch die Kunst ist Himmelsgabe, / Borgt sie= 30
=gleich von ird'scher Glut=--Art is a gift of
Heaven, yet does it borrow its fire from earthly
passion. _Schiller._
=Auch ein Haar hat seinen Schatten=--Even a
hair casts its shadow. _Ger. Pr._
=Auch für die rauhe Brust giebt's Augenblicke /
Wo dunkle Mächte Melodien wecken=--Even
the rude breast has moments in which dark
powers awaken melodies. _Körner._
=Auch ich war ein Jüngling mit lockigem
Haar, / An Mut und an Hoffnungen reich=--I
too was once a youth with curly locks, rich in
courage and in hopes. _Lortzing._
=Auch ich war in Arkadien geboren, / Und ward
daraus entführt vom neidischen Glücke. / Ist
hier der Rückweg? fragt' ich jede Brücke, /
Der Eingang hier? fragt' ich an allen Thoren=--I
too was born in Arcadia, and was lured away
by envious Fortune. "Is this the way back?"
asked I at every bridge-way; "This the entrance?"
asked I at every portal. _Rückert._
=Auch in der That ist Raum für Ueberlegung=--Even 35
in the moment of action there is room for
consideration. _Goethe._
=Auch was Geschriebenes forderst du, Pedant? /
Hast du noch keinen Mann, nicht Mannes-Wort
gekannt?=--Dost thou, O pedant, require
something written too? Hast thou never yet
known a man, not word of man? _Faust._
=Au courant=--Perfectly acquainted with. _Fr._
=Auctor pretiosa facit=--The giver makes the gift
valuable. _M._
=Aucto splendore resurgo=--I rise again with
access of splendour. _M._
=Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit à la gloire=--No 40
path of flowers conducts to glory. _La
Font._
=Audacia pro muro habetur=--Daring is regarded
as a wall. _Sallust._
=Audacter calumniare, semper aliquid hæret=--Calumniate
boldly, always some of it sticks.
_Bacon._
=Audacter et sincere=--Boldly and heartily. _M._
=Audax ad omnia fœmina, quæ vel amat vel
odit=--A woman, when she either loves or hates,
will dare anything. _Pr._
=Audax omnia perpeti / Gens humana ruit per= 45
=vetitum et nefas=--Daring to face all hardships,
the human race dashes through every human
and divine restraint. _Hor._
=Aude aliquid brevibus Gyaris et carcere dignum, /
Si vis esse aliquis=--Dare to do something
worthy of transportation and imprisonment,
if you wish to be somebody. _Juv._
=Audendo magnus tegitur timor=--Great fear is
concealed under daring. _Lucan._
=Audentes Fortuna juvat=--Fortune favours the
brave. _Virg._
=Au dernier les os=--For the last the bones. _Fr.
Pr._
=Aude sapere=--Dare to be wise. 50
=Au désespoir=--In despair. _Fr._
=Audi alteram partem=--Hear the other party;
hear both sides. _L. Max._
=Audiatur et altera pars=--Let the other side also
have a hearing. _Sen._
=Audio sed taceo=--I hear, but say nothing. _M._
=Audita querela=--The complaint having been investigated.
_L._
=Auditque vocatus Apollo=--And Apollo hears 5
when invoked. _Virg._
=Audi, vide, tace, si vis vivere in pace=--Use your
ears and eyes, but hold your tongue, if you would
live in peace.
=Au fait=--Expert; skilful. _Fr._
=Auf dem Grund des Glaubenmeeres / Liegt die
Perle der Erkenntniss; Heil dem Taucher,
der sie findet=--At the bottom of the faith-sea
lies the pearl of knowledge; happy the diver
that finds it. _Bodenstedt._
=Auf den Bergen ist Freiheit=--On the mountains
is freedom. _Schiller._
=Auf die warnenden Symptome sieht kein= 10
=Mensch, auf die Schmeichelnden und Versprechenden
allein ist die Aufmerksamkeit
gerichtet=--To the warning word no man has
respect, only to the flattering and promising is
his attention directed. _Goethe._
=Auf Dinge, die nicht mehr zu ändern sind, /
Muss auch kein Blick zurück mehr fallen!
Was / Gethan ist, ist gethan und bleiht's=--On
things which are no more to be changed a backward
glance must be no longer cast! What is
done is done, and so remains. _Schiller._
=Auf ebnem Boden straucheln ist ein Scherz, /
Ein Fehltritt stürzt vom Gipfel dich herab=--To
stumble on a level surface is matter of jest;
by a false step on a height you are hurled to the
ground. _Goethe._
=Auferimur cultu: gemmis auroque teguntur /
Omnia; pars minima est ipsa puella sui=--Dress
deceives us: jewels and gold hide everything:
the girl herself is the least part of herself.
_Ovid._
=Aufgeschoben ist nicht aufgehoben=--Postponed
is not abandoned. _Ger. Pr._
=Aufklärung=--Illuminism. _Ger._ 15
=Au fond=--To the bottom. _Fr._
=Aufrichtig zu sein kann ich versprechen; unparteiisch
zu sein aber nicht=--I can promise
to be candid, but not to be impartial.
_Goethe._
=Auf Teufel reimt der Zweifel nur; / Da bin ich
recht am Platze=--Only Zweifel (doubt) rhymes
to Teufel (devil); here am I quite at home. _The
Sceptic in "Faust."_
=Auf Wind und Meer gebautes Glück ist
schwankend=--The fortune is insecure that is
at the mercy of wind and wave. _Gutzkow._
=Augiæ cloacas purgare=--To cleanse the Augean 20
stables, _i.e._, achieve an arduous and disagreeable
work. _Sen._
=Augusto felicior, Trajano melior=--A more fortunate
man than Augustus, and a more excellent
than Trajan. _Eutrop._
=Aujourd'hui marié, demain marri=--To-day married,
to-morrow marred. _Fr. Pr._
=Aula regis=--The court of the king.
=Auld folk are twice bairns.= _Sc. Pr._
=Auld Nature swears the lovely dears, / Her= 25
=noblest work she classes, O; / Her 'prentice
han' she tried on man, / An' then she made
the lasses, O.= _Burns._
=Au nouveau tout est beau=--Everything is fine
that is new. _Fr. Pr._
=Au pis aller=--At the worst. _Fr._
=Au plaisir fort de Dieu=--By the all-powerful will
of God. _M._
=Aura popularis=--Popular favour (_lit._ breeze).
=Aurea mediocritas=--The golden mean. 30
=Aurea nunc vere sunt sæcula; plurimus auro /
Venit honos: auro conciliatur amor=--The age
we live in is the true age of gold; by gold men
attain to the highest honour, and win even love
itself. _Ovid._
=Aureo piscari hamo=--To fish with a golden hook.
=Au reste=--For the rest. _Fr._
=Au revoir=--Farewell till we meet again. _Fr._
=Auri sacra fames=--The accursed lust of gold. 35
_Virg._
=Auro loquente nihil pollet quævis ratio=--When
gold speaks, no reason the least avails. _Pr._
=Aurora musis amica=--Aurora is friendly to the
Muses. _Pr._
=Aus dem Gebet erwächst des Geistes Sieg=--It
is from prayer that the spirit's victory springs.
_Schillerbuch._
=Aus dem Kleinsten setzt / Sich Grosses zusammen
zuletzt, / Und keins darf fehlen von
allen, / Wenn nicht das Ganze soll fallen=--Out
of the smallest a great is at length composed,
and none of all can fail, unless the whole
is fated to break up. _Rückert._
=Aus dem Leben heraus sind der Wege drei= 40
=dir geöffnet, / Zum Ideale führt einer, der
andre zum Tod=--Two ways are open for thee
out of life; one conducts to the ideal, the other
to death. _Schiller._
=Aus der Jugendzeit, aus der Jugendzeit /
Klingt ein Lied mir immerdar, / O wie liegt
so weit, O wie liegt so weit, / Was mein
einst war=--Out of youth-time, out of youth-time
sounds a lay of mine ever; O how so far off lies,
how so far off lies, what once was mine! _Rückert._
=Aus der schlechtesten Hand kann Wahrheit
noch mächtig wirken; / Bei dem Schönen
allein macht das Gefäss den Gehalt=--Truth
may work mightily though in the hand of the
sorriest instrument; in the case of the beautiful
alone the casket constitutes the jewel (_lit._ the
vessel makes the content). _Schiller._
=Aus derselben Ackerkrume / Wächst das Unkraut
wie die Blume / Und das Unkraut
macht sich breit=--Out of the same garden-mould
grows the weed as the flower, and the weed
flaunts itself abroad. _Bodenstedt._
=A useful trade is a mine of gold.= _Pr._
=A useless life is an early death.= _Goethe._ 45
=Aus grauser Tiefe tritt das Höhe kühn hervor; /
Aus harter Hülle kämpft die Tugend sich
hervor; / Der Schmerz ist die Geburt der
höhern Naturen=--Out of a horrible depth the
height steps boldly forth; out of a hard shell
virtue fights its way to the light; pain is the
birth (medium) of the higher natures. _Tiedge._
=Aus jedem Punkt im Kreis zur Mitte geht ein
Steg. / Vom fernsten Irrtum selbst zu Gott
zurück ein Weg=--There is a way from every
point in a circle to the centre; from the farthest
error there is a way back to God Himself.
_Rückert._
=Aus Mässigkeit entspringt ein reines Glück=--Out
of moderation a pure happiness springs.
_Goethe._
=Auspicium melioris ævi=--The pledge of happier
times. _M._
=Aussitôt dit, aussitôt fait=--No sooner said than
done. _Fr._
=Aus ungelegten Eiern werden spät junge
Hühner=--Chickens are long in coming out of
unlaid eggs. _Ger. Pr._
=Ausus est vana contemnere=--He dared to scorn
vain fears.
=Aut amat, aut odit mulier; nil est tertium=--A 5
woman either loves or hates; there is no alternative.
_Pub. Syr._
=Autant chemine un homme en un jour qu'un
limaçon en cent ans=--A man travels as far in a
day as a snail in a hundred years. _Fr. Pr._
=Autant dépend chiche que large, et à la fin
plus davantage=--Niggard spends as much as
generous, and in the end a good deal more.
_Fr. Pr._
=Autant en emporte le vent=--All idle talk (_lit._
so much the wind carries away). _Fr. Pr._
=Autant pèche celui qui tient le sac que celui
qui met dedans=--He is as guilty who holds the
bag as he who puts in. _Fr. Pr._
=Autant vaut l'homme comme il s'estime=--A 10
man is rated by others as he rates himself. _Fr.
Pr._
=Aut bibat, aut abeat=--Either drink or go.
=Aut Cæsar aut nihil=--Either Cæsar or nobody.
_M. of Cæsar Borgia._
=Authority, not majority.= _Stahl._
=Authors alone, with more than savage rage, /
Unnatural war with brother authors wage.=
_Churchill._
=Authors are martyrs, witnesses to the truth,= 15
=or else nothing.= _Carlyle._
=Authors may be divided into falling stars,
planets, and fixed stars: the first have a
momentary effect; the second, a much
longer duration; and the third are unchangeable,
possess their own light, and
shine for all time.= _Schopenhauer._
=Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit=--The man
is either mad, or he is making verses. _Hor._
=Aut non tentaris, aut perfice=--Either don't
attempt it, or go through with it. _Ovid._
=Auto-da-fé=--An act of faith; a name applied to
certain proceedings of the Inquisition connected
with the burning of heretics.
[Greek: Autos epha]--He himself said it; _ipse dixit_. 20
=Aut prodesse volunt aut delectare poetæ=--Poets
wish either to profit or to please. _Hor._
=Autrefois acquis=--Acquitted before. _Fr._
=Aut regem aut fatuum nasci oportere=--A
man ought to be born either a king or a fool.
_Pr. in Sen._
=Autre temps, autres mœurs=--Other times, other
fashions. _Fr. Pr._
=Aut vincere aut mori=--Either to conquer or die. 25
=Aut virtus nomen inane est, / Aut decus et
pretium recte petit experiens vir=--Either
virtue is an empty name, or the man of enterprise
justly aims at honour and reward. _Hor._
=Aux armes=--To arms. _Fr._
=Aux grands maux les grands remèdes=--Desperate
maladies require desperate remedies. _Fr. Pr._
=Auxilium ab alto=--Help from above. _M._
=Auxilium meum a Domino=--My help cometh 30
from the Lord. _M._
=Avant propos=--Prefatory matter. _Fr._
=Avaler des couleuvres=--To put up with abuse
(_lit._ swallow snakes). _Fr._
=A valiant and brave soldier seeks rather to
preserve one citizen than to destroy a thousand
enemies.= _Scipio._
=Avancez=--Advance. _Fr._
=Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality.= 35
_Colton._
=Avarus, nisi cum moritur, nil recte facit=--A
miser does nothing right except when he dies.
_Pr._
=Avec un Si on mettrait Paris dans une bouteille=--With
an "if" one might put Paris in a
bottle. _Fr. Pr._
=A verbis ad verbera=--From words to blows.
=A verse may find him who a sermon flies, /
And turn delight into a sacrifice.= _George
Herbert._
=A very excellent piece of villany.= _Tit. Andron._, 40
ii. 3.
=A very good woman may make but a paltry
man.= _Pope._
=A veste logorata poco fede vien prestata=--A
shabby coat finds small credit. _It. Pr._
=A vinculo matrimonii=--From the bond or tie of
marriage.
=A virtuous name is the sole precious good for
which queens and peasants' wives must contest
together.= _Schiller._
=Avise la fin=--Consider the end. _Fr._ 45
=Avito viret honore=--He flourishes with inherited
honours. _M._
=Avoid the evil, and it will avoid thee.= _Gael.
Pr._
=A volonté=--At will. _Fr._
=A votre santé=--To your health. _Fr._
=A wee bush is better than nae bield (shelter).= 50
_Sc. Pr._
=A weel-bred dog gaes oot when he sees them
preparing to kick him oot.= _Sc. Pr._
=A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.=
_Montaigne._
=A well-cultivated mind is, so to say, made up
of all the minds of the centuries preceding.=
_Fontenelle._
=A well-governed appetite is a great part of
liberty.= _Sen._
=A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent= 55
=one.= _Carlyle._
=A wicked fellow is the most pious when he
takes to it. He'll beat you all in piety.=
_Johnson._
=A wilful man must have his way.= _Pr._
=A willing mind makes a light foot.= _Pr._
=A wise man gets learning frae them that hae
nane.= _Sc. Pr._
=A wise man is never less alone than when= 60
=alone.= _Pr._
=A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge
increaseth strength.= _Bible._
=A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed,
nor attempts to govern others.= _La
Bruyère._
=A wise man should have money in his head,
but not in his heart.= _Swift._
=A wise man will make more opportunities than
he finds.= _Bacon._
=A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, /
Is more than armies to the public weal.=
_Pope._
=A wise scepticism is the first attribute of a
good critic.= _Lowell._
=A wise writer does not reveal himself here
and there, but everywhere.= _Lowell._
=A witless heed (head) mak's weary feet.= _Sc. Pr._
=A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.= 5
_Pope._
=A wolf in sheep's clothing.= _Pr._
=A woman conceals what she does not know.=
_Pr._
=A woman has two smiles that an angel might
envy: the smile that accepts the lover before
the words are uttered, and the smile that
lights on the first-born baby, and assures it
of a mother's love.= _Haliburton._
=A woman in love is a very poor judge of character.=
_J. G. Holland._
=A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, /= 10
=Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty.=
_Tam. of Sh._, v. 2.
=A woman's friendship borders more closely on
love than a man's.= _Coleridge._
=A woman's head is always influenced by her
heart; but a man's heart is always influenced
by his head.= _Lady Blessington._
=A woman sometimes scorns what best contents
her.= _Two Gent. of Ver._, iii. 1.
=A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.=
_W. Irving._
=A word and a stone let go cannot be recalled.= 15
_Pr._
=A word from a friend is doubly enjoyable in
dark days.= _Goethe._
=A word once vulgarised can never be rehabilitated.=
_Lowell._
=A word sooner wounds than heals.= _Goethe._
=A word spoken in season, at the right moment,
is the mother of ages.= _Carlyle._
=A word spoken in due season, how good is it?= 20
_Bible._
=A work of real merit finds favour at last.= _A.
B. Alcott._
=A world all sincere, a believing world; the like
has been; the like will again be--cannot help
being.= _Carlyle._
=A world in the hand is worth two in the bush.=
_Emerson._
=A world this in which much is to be done, and
little to be known.= _Goethe._
=A worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make= 25
=the best declaimer against sin.= _Lamb._
=A worthless man will always remain worthless,
and a little mind will not, by daily
intercourse with great minds, become an
inch greater.= _Goethe._
=A wounded spirit who can bear?= _Bible._
=A wound never heals so well that the scar
cannot be seen.= _Dan. Pr._
=A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.= _Dut. Pr._
=A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, / We= 30
=bid be quiet when we hear it cry; / But were
we burdened with like weight of pain, / As
much, or more, we should ourselves complain.=
_Com. of Errors_, ii. 1.
=Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; /
To lie in cold obstruction and to rot.= _Meas.
for Meas._, iii. 1.
=Aye free, aff-han' your story tell, when wi' a
bosom crony; / But still keep something to
yoursel' / Ye scarcely tell to ony.= _Burns._
=Aye in a hurry, and aye ahint.= _Sc. Pr._
=Ay, every inch a king.= _King Lear_, iv. 6.
=Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, /= 35
=Could ever hear by tale or history, / The
course of true love never did run smooth.=
_Mid. N.'s Dream_, i. 1.
=Aymez loyauté=--Love loyalty. _M._
=A young man idle, an old man needy.= _It. Pr._
=Ay, sir, to be honest as this world goes, is to
be one man picked out of two thousand.=
_Ham._, ii. 2.