would be sure to come on?"= _Socrates to
his friends when, after a volley of upbraidings,
Xantippe threw a jugful of water at his
head._
=Didst thou but know the inly touch of love, /
Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with
snow, / As seek to quench the fire of love
with words.= _Two Gen. of Ver._, ii. 7.
=Did you ever hear of Captain Wattle? / He
was all for love and a little for the bottle.=
_C. Dibden._
=Die Aemter sind Gottes; die Amtleute Teufels=--Places 45
are God's; place-holders are the devil's.
_Ger. Pr._
=Die alleinige Quelle des Rechts ist das gemeinsame
Bewusstsein des ganzen Volks;
der allgemeine Geist=--The only fountain of
justice is the common consciousness of the
whole people; the spirit common to all of them.
_Lasalle._
=Die Alten sind die einzigen Alten, die nie alt
werden=--The ancients (_i.e._, the Greeks and
Romans) are the only ancients that never grow
old. _C. J. Weber._
=Die Anmut macht unwiderstehlich=--Grace
makes its possessor irresistible. _Goethe._
=Die ärgsten Studenten werden die frömmsten
Prediger=--The worst-behaved students turn out
the most pious preachers. _Ger. Pr._
=Die Armen müssen tanzen wie die Reichen= 50
=pfeifen=--The poor must dance as the rich pipe.
_Ger. Pr._
=Die Augen glauben sich selbst, die Ohren
andern Leuten=--The eyes believe themselves,
the ears other people. _Ger. Pr._
=Die Augen sind weiter als der Bauch=--The
eyes are larger than the belly. _Ger. Pr._
=Die besten Freunde stehen im Beutel=--Our best
friends are in our purse. _Ger. Pr._
=Die Bewunderung preist, die Liebe ist stumm=--Admiration
praises, love is dumb. _Börne._
=Die Blumen zu pflegen, / Das Unkraut zu= 55
=tilgen, / Ist Sache des Gärtners=--The gardener's
business is to root out the weeds and
tend the flowers. _Bodenstedt._
=Die Botschaft hör' ich wohl, allein mir fehlt
der Glaube=--I hear the message, but I lack the
faith. _Goethe._
=Die Damen geben sich und ihren Putz zum
besten / Und spielen ohne Gage mit=--The
ladies by their presence and finery contribute to
the treat and take part in the play without pay
from us. _The Theatre Manager in Goethe's
"Faust."_
=Die Dämmerung ist das freundliche Licht der
Liebenden=--The gloaming is the light that befriends
the wooer. _Seume._
=Die de wereld wel beziet, men zag nooit
schoonder niet=--Whoso considers the world
well must allow he has never seen a better.
_Dut. Pr._
=Die Dornen, die Disteln, sie stechen gar sehr,= 5
=doch stechen die Altjungfernzungen noch
mehr=--Thorns and thistles prick very sore, but
old maids' tongues sting much more. _C.
Geibel._
=Die een ander jaagt zit zelfs niet stil=--He who
chases another does not sit still himself. _Dut.
Pr._
=Die Ehe ist Himmel und Hölle=--Marriage is
heaven and hell. _Ger. Pr._
=Die eigentliche Religion bleibt ein Inneres, ja
Individuelles, denn sie hat ganz allein mit
dem Gewissen zu thun; dieses soll erregt,
soll beschwichtigt werden=--Religion, properly
so called, is ever an inward, nay, an individual
thing, for it has to do with nothing but the
conscience, which has now to be stirred up, now
to be soothed. _Goethe._
=Die Einsamkeit ist noth; doch sei nur nicht
gemein, / So kannst du überall in einer
Wüste sein=--Solitude is painful; only be not
vulgar, for then you may be in a desert everywhere.
_Angelus Silesius._
=Die Eintracht nur macht stark und gross, /= 10
=Die Zwietracht stürzet alles nieder=--Only
concord makes us strong and great; discord
overthrows everything. _Gellert._
=Die Erde wird durch Liebe frei; / Durch
Thaten wird sie gross=--Through love the earth
becomes free; through deeds, great. _Goethe._
=Die Erinnerung ist das einzige / Paradies,
aus dem wir nicht vertrieben werden kann=--Remembrance
is the only paradise from which
we cannot be driven. _Jean Paul._
=Die Fabel ist der Liebe Heimatwelt, / Gern
wohnt sie unter Feen, Talismanen, / Glaubt
gern an Götter, weil sie göttlich ist=--Fable
is love's native world, is fain to dwell among
fairies and talismans, and to believe in gods,
being herself divine. _Schiller._
=Die Frauen sind das einzige Gefäss, was uns
Neuern noch geblieben ist, um unsere Idealität
hineinzugiessen=--Woman is the only vessel
which still remains to us moderns into which we
can pour our ideals. _Goethe._
=Die Frauen tragen ihre Beweise im Herzen,= 15
=die Männer im Kopfe=--Women carry their
logic in their hearts; men, in their heads.
_Kotzebue._
=Die Freiheit der Vernunft ist unser wahres
Leben=--The freedom of reason is our true life.
_Tiedge._
=Die Freiheit kann nicht untergehn, / So lange
Schmiede Eisen hämmern=--The sun of freedom
cannot set so long as smiths hammer iron.
_E. M. Arndt._
=Die Freude kennst du nicht, wenn du nur
Freuden kennest; / Dir fehlt das ganze
Licht, wenn du's in Strahlen trennest=--Joy
knowest thou not if thou knowest only joys; the
whole light is wanting to thee if thou breakest
it up into rays. _Rückert._
=Die Freudigkeit ist die Mutter aller Tugenden=--Joyousness
is the mother of all virtues. _Goethe._
=Die Gegenwart ist eine mächtige Göttin; Lern'= 20
=ihren Einfluss kennen=--The present is a potent
divinity; learn to acquaint thyself with her power.
_Goethe._
=Die Geheimnisse der Lebenspfade darf und
kann man nicht offenbaren; es gibt Steine
des Anstosses, über die ein jeder Wanderer
stolpern muss. Der Poet aber deutet auf
die Stelle hin=--The secrets of the way of life
may not and cannot be laid open; there are
stones of offence along the path over which every
wayfarer must stumble. The poet, or inspired
teacher, however, points to the spot. _Goethe._
=Die Geisterwelt ist nicht verschlossen; / Dein
Sinn ist zu, dein Herz ist todt=--The spirit-world
is not shut; thy sense is shut, thy heart is
dead. _Goethe._
=Die Geschichte der Wissenschaften ist eine
grosse Fuge, in der die Stimmen der Völker
nach und nach zum Vorschein kommen=--The
history of the sciences is a great fugue, in
which the voices of the nations come one by one
into notice. _Goethe._
=Die Geschichte des Menschen ist sein Charakter=--The
history of a man is in his character.
_Goethe._
=Die Gesetze der Moral sind auch die der= 25
=Kunst=--The laws of morals are also those of
art. _Schumann._
=Die Glocken sind die Artillerie der Geistlichkeit=--Bells
are the artillery of the Church.
_Joseph II._
=Die goldne Zeit, wohin ist sie geflohen? / Nach
der sich jedes Herz vergebens sehnt=--The
golden age, whither has it fled? after which
every heart sighs in vain. _Goethe._
=Die Götter brauchen manchen guten Mann /
Zu ihrem Dienst auf dieser weiten Erde. /
Sie haben noch auf dich gezählt=--The upper
powers need many a good man for their service
on this wide earth. They still reckon upon thee.
_Goethe._
=Die Götter sprechen nur durch unser Herz zu
uns=--The gods speak to us only through our
heart. _Goethe._
=Die grosse Moral--das Interesse, sagte Mirabeau,= 30
=tötet in der Regel die kleine--das
Gewissen=--The great moral teacher, interest,
as Mirabeau said, ordinarily slays conscience,
the less. _C. J. Weber._
=Die grössten Menschen hängen immer mit
ihrem Jahrhundert durch eine Schwachheit
zusammen=--It is always through a weakness
that the greatest men are connected with their
generation. _Goethe._
=Die grössten Schwierigkeiten liegen da, wo
wir sie nicht suchen=--The greatest difficulties
lie there where we are not seeking for them.
_Goethe._
=Die het in het vuur verloren heeft, moet het
in de asch zoeken=--What is lost in the fire must
be searched for in the ashes. _Dut. Pr._
=Die Hindus der Wüste geloben keine Fische
zu essen=--The Hindus of the desert take a vow
to eat no fish. _Goethe._
=Die höchste Naturschönheit ist das gottgleiche
Wesen: der Mensch=--The most
beautiful object in Nature is the godlike creature:
man. _Oken._
=Die höchste Weisheit ist, nicht weise stets zu
sein=--It is the highest wisdom not to be always
wise. _M. Opitz._
=Die Hölle selbst hat ihre Rechte?=--Has Hell
itself its rights? _Goethe._
=Die Ideale sind zerronnen, / Die einst das
trunkne Herz geschwellt=--The ideals are all
melted into air which once swelled the intoxicated
heart. _Schiller._
=Die Idee ist ewig und einzig.... Alles was= 5
=wir gewahr werden und wovon wir reden
können, sind nur Manifestationen der Idee=--The
idea is one and eternal.... Everything
we perceive, and of which we can speak, is only
a manifestation of the idea. _Goethe._
=Die Irrthümer des Menschen machen ihn
eigentlich liebenswürdig=--It is properly man's
mistakes, or errors, that make him lovable. _Goethe._
=Diejenige Regierung ist die beste, die sich
überflüssig macht=--That government is best
which makes itself unnecessary. _W. v. Humboldt._
=Die Kinder sind mein liebster Zeitvertreib=--My
dearest pastime is with children. _Chamisso._
=Die Kirche hat einen guten Magen, hat ganze
Länder aufgefressen, und doch noch nie
sich übergessen=--The Church has a good
stomach, has swallowed up whole countries, and
yet has not overeaten herself. _Goethe, in "Faust."_
=Die Kirche ist's, die heilige, die hohe, / Die zu= 10
=dem Himmel uns die Leiter baut=--The Church,
the holy, the high, it is that rears for us the ladder
to heaven. _Schiller._
=Die Kleinen reden gar so gern von dem was
die Grossen thun=--Small people are so fond of
talking of what great people do. _Ger. Pr._
=Die Klugheit sich zur Führerin zu wählen /
Das ist es, was den Weisen macht=--It is the
choice of prudence for his guide that makes the
wise man. _Schiller._
=Die Kraft ist schwach, allein die Lust ist gross=--The
strength is weak, but the desire is great.
_Goethe._
=Die kranke Seele muss sich selber helfen=--The
sick soul must work its own cure (_lit._ help
itself). _Gutskow._
=Die Krankheit des Gemütes löset sich / In= 15
=Klagen und Vertrauen am leichtesten auf=--Mental
sickness finds relief most readily in complaints
and confidences. _Goethe._
=Die Kunst darf nie ein Kunststück werden=--Art
should never degenerate into artifice. _Ger._
=Die Kunst geht nach Brod=--Art goes a-begging.
_Ger. Pr._
=Die Kunst ist eine Vermittlerin des Unaussprechlichen=--Art
is a mediatrix of the unspeakable.
_Goethe._
=Die Leidenschaften sind Mängel oder Tugenden,
nur gesteigerte=--The passions are vices or
virtues, only exaggerated. _Goethe._
=Die Leidenschaft flieht, / Die Liebe muss bleiben;= 20
=/ Die Blume verblüht, / Die Frucht muss
treiben=--Passion takes flight, love must abide;
the flower fades, the fruit must ripen. _Schiller._
=Die letzte Wahl steht auch dem Schwächsten
offen; / Ein Sprung von dieser Brücke macht
mich frei=--The last choice of all is open even to
the weakest; a leap from this bridge sets me free.
_Schiller._
=Die Liebe hat kein Mass der Zeit; sie keimt /
Und blüht und reift in einer schönen Stunde=--Love
follows no measure of time; it buds and
blossoms and ripens in one happy hour. _Körner._
=Die Liebe ist der Liebe Preis=--Love is the price
of love. _Schiller._
=Die Liebe macht zum Goldpalast die Hütte=--Love
converts the cottage into a palace of gold.
_Hölty._
=Die Lieb' umfasst des Weibes volles Leben, /= 25
=Sie ist ihr Kerker und ihr Himmelreich=--Love
embraces woman's whole life; it is her
prison and her kingdom of heaven. _Chamisso._
=Die Lust ist mächtiger als alle Furcht der
Strafe=--Pleasure is more powerful than all fear
of the penalty. _Goethe._
=Die Lust zu reden kommt zu rechter Stunde, /
Und wahrhaft fliesst das Wort aus Herz
und Munde=--The inclination to speak comes at
the right hour, and the word flows true from
heart and lip. _Goethe._
=Die Manifestationen der Idee als des Schönen,
ist eben so flüchtig, als die Manifestationen
des Erhabenen, des Geistreichen, des Lustigen,
des Lächerlichen. Dies ist die Ursache,
warum so schwer darüber zu reden ist=--The
manifestation of the idea as the beautiful is just
as fleeting as the manifestation of the sublime,
the witty, the gay, and the ludicrous. This is
the reason why it is so difficult to speak of it.
_Goethe._
=Die Meisterhaft gilt oft für Egoismus=--Mastery
passes often for egoism. _Goethe._
=Die Menge macht den Künstler irr' und scheu=--The 30
multitude is a distraction and scare to the
artist. _Goethe._
=Die Menschen fürchtet nur, wer sie nicht
kennt, / Und wer sie meidet, wird sie bald
verkennen=--Only he shrinks from men who does
not know them, and he who shuns them will
soon misknow them. _Goethe._
=Die Menschen kennen einander nicht leicht,
selbst mit dem besten Willen und Vorsatz;
nun tritt noch der böse Wille hinzu, der Alles
entstellt=--Men do not easily know one another,
even with the best will and intention; presently
ill-will comes forward, which disfigures all.
_Goethe._
=Die Menschen sind im ganzen Leben blind=--Men
are blind all through life. _Goethe._
=Die Menschheit geben uns Vater und Mutter,
die Menschlichkeit aber gibt uns nur die
Erziehung=--Human nature we owe to father
and mother, but humanity to education alone.
_Weber._
=Die Milde ziemt dem Weibe, / Dem Manne= 35
=ziemt die Rache!=--Mercy becomes the woman;
avengement, the man. _Bodenstedt._
=Die Mode ist weiblichen Geschlechts, hat
folglich ihre Launen=--Mode is of the female sex,
and has consequently their whims. _C. J. Weber._
=Die monarchische Regierungsform ist die dem
Menschen natürliche=--Monarchy is the form
of government that is natural to mankind.
_Schopenhauer._
=Die Moral steckt in kurzen Sprüchen besser,
als in langen Reden und Predigten=--A moral
lesson is better expressed in short sayings than
in long discourse. _Immermann._
=Diem perdidi!=--I have lost a day! _Titus, on
finding that he had done no worthy action
during the day._
=Die Mütter geben uns von Geiste Wärme, und
die Väter Licht=--Our mothers give to our spirit
heat, our fathers light. _Jean Paul._
=Die Natur ist ein unendlich geteilter Gott=--Nature
is an infinitely divided God. _Schiller._
=Die Natur weiss allein, was sie will=--Nature
alone knows what she aims at. _Goethe._
=Die of a rose in aromatic pain.= _Pope._
=Die Phantasie ward auserkoren / Zu öffnen= 5
=uns die reiche Wunderwelt=--Fantasy was
appointed to open to us the rich realm of wonders.
_Tiedge._
=Die Rachegötter schaffen im Stillen=--The gods
of vengeance act in silence. _Schiller._
=Dies adimit ægritudinem=--Time cures our griefs.
_L. Pr._
=Die Schönheit ist das höchste Princip und der
höchste Zweck der Kunst=--Beauty is the
highest principle and the highest aim of art.
_Goethe._
=Die Schönheit ist vergänglich, die ihr doch /
Allein zu ehren scheint. Was übrig bleibt, /
Das reizt nicht mehr, und was nicht reizt,
ist tot=--Beauty is transitory, which yet you
seem alone to worship. What is left no longer
attracts, and what does not attract is dead.
_Goethe._
=Die Schönheit ruhrt, doch nur die Anmuth= 10
=sieget, / Und Unschuld nur behält den Preis=--Beauty
moves us, though only grace conquers
us, and innocence alone retains the prize.
_Seume._
=Die Schulden sind der nächste Erbe=--Debts
fall to the next heir. _Ger. Pr._
=Die Schwierigkeiten wachsen, je näher man
dem Ziele kommt=--Difficulties increase the
nearer we approach the goal. _Goethe._
=Dies datus=--A day given for appearing in court.
_L._
=Dies faustus=--A lucky day.
=Dies infaustus=--An unlucky day. 15
=Die Sinne trügen nicht, aber das Urteil trügt=--The
senses do not deceive, but the judgment
does. _Goethe._
=Dies iræ, dies illa, / Sæclum solvet in favilla /
Teste David cum Sibylla=--The day of wrath,
that day shall dissolve the world in ashes, as
David and the Sibyl say.
=Dies non=--A day when there is no court.
=Die Sorgen zu bannen, / (Das Unkraut des
Geistes), den Kummer zu scheuchen, / Die
Schmerzen zu lindern, / Ist Sache des Sängers=--To
banish cares (the wild crop of the
spirit), to chase away sorrow, to soothe pain, is
the business of the singer. _Bodenstedt._
=Die Sorg' um Künft'ges niemals frommt; Man= 20
=fühlt kein Uebel, bis es kommt. / Und wenn
man's fühlt, so hilft kein Rat; / Weisheit ist
immer zu früh und zu spat=--Concern for the
future boots not; we feel no evil till it comes.
And when we feel it, no counsel avails; wisdom
is always too early and too late. _Rückert._
=Dies religiosi=--Religious days; holidays.
=Die süssesten Trauben hängen am höchsten=--The
sweetest grapes hang highest. _Ger. Pr._
=Diet cures more than doctors.= _Pr._
=Die te veel onderneemt slaagt zelden=--He who
undertakes too much seldom succeeds. _Dut.
Pr._
=Die That allein beweist der Liebe Kraft=--The 25
act alone shows the power of love. _Goethe._
=Die Thätigkeit ist was den Menschen glücklich
macht; / Die, erst das Gute schaffend,
bald ein Uebel selbst / Durch göttlich wirkende
Gewalt in Gutes kehrt=--It is activity
which renders man happy, which, by simply producing
what is good, soon by a divinely working
power converts an evil itself into a good.
_Goethe._
=Die Todten reiten schnell!=--The dead ride fast!
_Bürger._
=Die treue Brust des braven Manns allein ist
ein sturmfester Dach in diesen Zeiten=--The
loyal heart of the good man is in these
times the only storm-proof place of shelter.
_Schiller._
=Die Tugend des Menschen, der nach dem
Geboten der Vernunft lebt, zeigt sich gleich
gross in Vermeidung, wie in Ueberwindung
der Gefahren=--The virtue of the man who lives
according to the commands of reason manifests
itself quite as much in avoiding as in overcoming
danger. _Spinoza._
=Die Tugend grosser Seelen ist Gerechtigkeit=--The 30
virtue of great souls is justice. _Platen._
=Die Tugend ist das höchste Gut, / Das Laster
Weh dem Menschen thut=--Virtue is man's
highest good, vice works him nought but woe.
_Goethe._
=Die Tugend ist nicht ein Wissen, sondern ein
Wollen=--Virtue is not a knowing, but a willing.
_Zachariae._
=Die Tugend ohne Lohn ist doppelt schön=--Virtue
unrewarded is doubly beautiful. _Seume._
=Dieu aide à trois sortes de personnes, aux
fous, aux enfants, et aux ivrognes=--God protects
three sorts of people, fools, children, and
drunkards. _Fr. Pr._
=Dieu avec nous=--God with us. _M._ 35
=Dieu ayde=--God help me. _M._
=Dieu défend le droit=--God defends the right.
_M._
=Dieu donne le froid selon le drap=--God gives
the cold according to the cloth. _Fr. Pr._
=Dieu et mon droit=--God and my right. _M._
=Dieu fit du repentir la vertu des mortels=--God 40
has made repentance the virtue of mortals. _Voltaire._
=Dieu garde la lune des loups=--God guards the
moon from the wolves. _Fr. Pr._
=Dieu mésure le froid à la brebis tondue=--God
measures the cold to the shorn lamb. _Fr.
Pr._
=Die unbegreiflich hohen Werke / Sind herrlich
wie am ersten Tag=--The incomprehensibly
high works are as glorious as on the first day.
_Goethe._
=Dieu nous garde d'un homme qui n'a qu'une
affaire=--God keep us from a man who knows
only one subject. _Fr. Pr._
=Die Unschuld hat im Himmel einen Freund=--Innocence 45
has a friend in heaven. _Schiller._
=Die Unsterblichkeit ist nicht jedermann's
Sache=--Immortality is not every man's business
or concern. _Goethe._
=Dieu pour la tranchée, qui contre?=--If God is
our defence, who is against us? _M._
=Dieu seul devine les sots=--God only understands
fools. _Fr. Pr._
=Die veel dienstboden heeft, die heeft veel
dieven=--He who has many servants has many
thieves. _Dut. Pr._
=Die vernünftige Welt ist als ein grosses
unsterbliches Individuum zu betrachten, das
unaufhaltsam das Nothwendige bewirkt und
dadurch sich sogar über das Zufällige zum
Herrn macht=--The rational world is to be
regarded as a great immortal individuality, that
is ever working out for us the necessary (_i.e._, an
order which all must submit to), and thereby
makes itself lord and master of everything contingent
(or accidental). _Goethe._
=Die Vernunft ist auf das Werdende, der
Verstand auf das Gewordene angewiesen;
jene bekümmert sich nicht: wozu? dieser
fragt nicht: woher?=--Reason is directed to
what is a-doing or proceeding, understanding to
what is done or past; the former is not concerned
about the "whereto," the latter inquires
not about the "whence." _Goethe._
=Die Wacht am Rhein=--"The watch on the
Rhine." _A German national song._
=Die Wahrheit richtet sich nicht nach uns,
sondern wir müssen uns nach ihr richten=--The
truth adjusts itself not to us, but we must
adjust ourselves to it. _Claudius._
=Die Wahrheit schwindet von der Erde / Auch= 5
=mit der Treu' ist es vorbei, / Die Hunde
wedeln noch und stinken / Wie sonst, doch
sind sie nicht mehr treu=--Truth is vanishing
from the earth, and of fidelity is the day gone by.
The dogs still wag the tail and smell the same as
ever, but they are no longer faithful. _Heine._
=Die Wahrheit zu sagen ist nützlich dem, der
höret, schädlich dem der spricht=--Telling the
truth does good to him who hears, harm to him
who speaks. _Ger. Pr._
=Die wankelmüt'ge Menge, / Die jeder Wind
herumtreibt! Wehe dem, / Der auf dies
Rohr sich lehnet=--The fickle mob, how they
are driven round by every wind that blows!
Woe to him who leans on this reed! _Schiller._
=Die Weiber lieben die Stärke ohne sie nachzuahmen;
die Männer die Zartheit, ohne
sie zu erwiedern=--Women admire strength without
affecting it; men delicacy without returning
it. _Jean Paul._
=Die Weiber meiden nichts so sehr als das
Wörtchen Ja; wenigstens sagen sie es erst
nach dem Nein=--Women are shy of nothing so
much as the little word "Yes;" at least they say
it only after they have said "No." _Jean Paul._
=Die Weisen wägen ihre Worte mit der Goldwage=--The 10
wise weigh their words in the balance
of the goldsmith. _Ecclus._
=Die Weiseste merken höchstens nur wie das
Schicksal sie leitet, und sind es zufrieden=--The
wisest know at highest only how destiny is
leading them, and are therewith content. _Forster._
=Die Welt der Freiheit trägt der Mensch in
seinem Innern. / Und Tugend ist der Freiheit
Götterkind=--Man bears the world of freedom
in his heart, and virtue is freedom's divine
child. _Tiedge._
=Die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltgericht=--The
history of the world is the judgment of the world.
_Schiller._
=Die Welt ist dumm die Welt ist blind, / Wird
täglich abgeschmackter=--The world is stupid,
the world is blind, becomes daily more absurd.
_Heine._
=Die Welt ist ein Gefängniss=--The world is a 15
prison. _Goethe._
=Die Welt ist voller Widerspruch=--The world
is full of contradiction. _Goethe._
=Die Welt ist vollkommen überall, / Wo der
Mensch nicht hinkommt mit seiner Qual=--The
world is all perfect except where man comes
with his burden of woe. _Schiller._
=Die Worte sind gut, sie sind aber nicht das
Beste. Das Beste wird nicht deutlich durch
Worte=--Words are good, but are not the best.
The best is not to be understood by words. _Goethe._
=Die Zeiten der Vergangenheit / Sind uns ein
Buch mit sieben Siegeln; / Was Ihr den
Geist der Zeiten heisst / Das ist im Grund'
der Herrn eigner Geist, / In dem die Zeiten
sich bespiegeln=--The times that are past are a
book with seven seals. What ye call the spirit
of the times is at bottom but the spirit of the
gentry in which the times are mirrored. _Goethe,
in "Faust."_
=Die Zeit ist schlecht, doch giebt's noch grosse= 20
=Seelen!=--The times are bad, yet there are still
great souls. _Körner._
=Die Zukunft decket Schmerzen und Glücke=--The
future hides in it gladness and sorrow.
_Goethe._
=Different good, by art or nature given, / To
different nations, makes their blessings even.=
_Goldsmith._
=Different minds / Incline to different objects;
one pursues / The vast alone, the wonderful,
the wild; / Another sighs for harmony and
grace, / And gentlest beauty.= _Akenside._
=Different times different manners.= _It. Pr._
=Difficile est crimen non prodere vultu=--It is 25
difficult not to betray guilt by the countenance.
_Ovid._
=Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem=--It
is difficult to relinquish at once a long-cherished
passion. _Catull._
=Difficile est plurimum virtutem revereri, qui
semper secunda fortuna sit usus=--It is difficult
for one who has enjoyed uninterrupted
good fortune to have a due reverence for virtue.
_Cic._
=Difficile est proprie communia dicere=--It is
difficult to handle a common theme with originality.
_Hor._
=Difficile est satiram non scribere=--It is difficult
not to indulge in (_lit._ to write) satire. _Juv._
=Difficile est tristi fingere mente jocum=--It is 30
difficult to feign mirth when one is in a gloomy
mood. _Tibulle._
=Difficilem oportet aurem habere ad crimina=--One
should be slow in listening to criminal
accusations. _Pub. Syr._
=Difficilia quæ pulchra=--The really good is of difficult
attainment. _L. Pr._
=Difficilis, facilis, jucundus, acerbus es idem; /
Nec tecum possum vivere, nec sine te=--Cross
but easy-minded, pleasant and sour together; I
can neither live with thee nor yet without thee.
_Mart._
=Difficilis in otio quies=--Tranquillity is difficult if
one has nothing to do.
=Difficilius est sarcire concordiam quam rumpere=--It 35
is more difficult to restore harmony
than sow dissension.
=Difficult to sweep the intricate foul chimneys
of law.= _Carlyle._
=Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.=
_Channing._
=Difficulties are things that show what men
are.= _Epictetus._
=Difficulties may surround our path, but if the
difficulties be not in ourselves, they may
generally be overcome.= _Jowett._
=Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour does
the body.= _Sen._
=Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death, are
the allurements that act on the heart of
man. Kindle the inner genial life of him,
you have a flame that burns up all lower
considerations.= _Carlyle._
=Diffugiunt, cadis / Cum fæce siccatis, amici, /
Ferre jugum pariter dolosi=--When the wine-casks
are drained to the lees, our friends soon
disperse, too faithless to bear as well the yoke of
misfortune. _Hor._
=Diffused knowledge immortalises itself.= _Sir J._ 5
_Macintosh._
=Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they
continue long together.= _Ovid._
=Dignity consists not in possessing honours,
but in deserving them.= _Arist._
=Dignity is often a veil between us and the real
truth of things.= _Whipple._
=Dignity of position adds to dignity of character,
as well as dignity of carriage.= _Bovee._
=Dignum laude virum Musa vetat mori=--The 10
Muse takes care that the man who is worthy
of honour does not die. _Hor._
=Digressions in a book are like foreign troops
in a state, which argue the nation to want a
heart and hands of its own; and often either
subdue the natives, or drive them into the
most unfruitful corners.= _Swift._
=Digressions incontestably are the sunshine;
they are the life, the soul of reading.= _Sterne._
=Dii laboribus omnia vendunt=--The gods sell all
things to hard labour. _Pr._
=Dii majores et minores=--Gods of a higher and
lower degree.
=Dii majorum gentium=--The twelve gods of the 15
highest order.
=Dii penates=--Household gods.
=Di irati laneos pedes habent=--The gods when
angry have their feet covered with wool. _Pr._
=Dii rexque secundent=--May God and the king
favour us. _M._
=Diis aliter visum=--The gods have decreed otherwise.
_Virg._
=Diis proximus ille est / Quem ratio, non ira= 20
=movet=--He is nearest to the gods whom reason,
not passion, impels. _Claud._
=Dilationes in lege sunt odiosæ=--Delays in the
law are odious. _L._
=Dilettantism, hypothesis, speculation, a kind
of amateur-search for truth, toying and
coquetting with truth; this is the sorest sin,
the root of all imaginable sins.= _Carlyle._
=Dilexi justiciam et odi iniquitatem, propterea
morior in exilio=--I have loved justice and hated
injustice, therefore die I an exile. _Gregory VII.
on his death-bed._
=Diligence increases the fruits of labour.= _Hesiod._
=Diligence is the mother of good fortune.= _Cervantes._ 25
=Diligentia, qua una virtute omnes virtutes reliquæ
continentur=--Diligence, the one virtue that
embraces in it all the rest. _Cic._
=Diligent, that includes all virtues in it a student
can have.= _Carlyle, to the Students of
Edinburgh University._
=Diligent working makes an expert workman.=
_Dan. Pr._
=Diligitur nemo, nisi cui fortuna secunda est=--Only
he is loved who is the favourite of fortune.
_Ovid._
=Dimidium facti, qui cœpit, habet=--He who has 30
begun has half done. _Hor._
=Ding (knock) down the nests, and the rooks
will flee awa.= _Sc. Pr., used to justify the demolition
of the religious houses at the Reformation._
=Dinna curse him, sir; I have heard a good man
say that a curse was like a stone flung up to
the heavens, and maist like to return on his
head that sent it.= _Scott._
=Dinna gut your fish till you get them.= _Sc. Pr._
=Dinna lift me before I fa'.= _Sc. Pr._
=Dinna scald your ain mou' wi ither folk's kail= 35
=(broth).= _Sc. Pr._
=Di nos quasi pilas homines habent=--The gods
treat us mortals like so many balls to play with.
_Plaut._
=Diogenes has well said that the only way to
preserve one's liberty was being always
ready to die without pain.= _Goethe._
=Dios es el que sana, y el médico lleva la plata=--Though
God cures the patient, the doctor
pockets the fee. _Sp. Pr._
=Dios me dé contienda con quien me entienda=--God
grant me to argue with such as understand
me. _Sp. Pr._
=Di picciol uomo spesso grand' ombra=--A little 40
man often casts a long shadow. _It. Pr._
=Dira necessitas=--Cruel necessity. _Hor._
=Dirigo=--I direct. _M._
=Dirt is not dirt, but only something in the
wrong place.= _Palmerston._
=Diruit, ædificat, mutat quadrata rotundis=--He
pulls down, he builds up, he changes square into
round. _Hor._
=Dir war das Unglück eine strenge Schule=--Misfortune 45
was for thee a hard school. _Schiller._
=Disappointment is often the salt of life.= _Theodore
Parker._
=Disasters, do the best we can, / Will reach
both great and small; / And he is oft the
wisest man / Who is not wise at all.= _Wordsworth._
=Disce aut discede=--Learn or leave.
=Disce pati=--Learn to endure.
=Disce, puer, virtutem ex me, verumque laborem,= 50
=/ Fortunam ex aliis=--Learn, my son,
valour and patient toil from me, good fortune
from others. _Virg._
=Disciplined inaction.= _Sir J. Macintosh._
=Discipulus est prioris posterior dies=--Each
succeeding day is the scholar of the preceding.
_Pub. Syr._
=Discite justitiam moniti, et non temnere divos=--Warned
by me, learn justice, and not to despise
the gods. _Virg._
=Discit enim citius, meminitque libentius illud /
Quod quis deridet quam quod probat et
veneratur=--Each learns more readily, and retains
more willingly, what makes him laugh
than what he approves of and respects. _Hor._
=Discontent is like ink poured into water, which= 55
=fills the whole fountain full of blackness. It
casts a cloud over the mind, and renders it
more occupied about the evil which disquiets
it than about the means of removing it.=
_Feltham._
=Discontent is the want of self-reliance; it is
infirmity of will.= _Emerson._
=Discontent makes us to lose what we have;
contentment gets us what we want. Fretting
never removed a cross nor procured
a comfort; quiet submission doth both.=
_Jacomb._
=Discontents are sometimes the better part of
our life.= _Feltham._
=Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.=
_Spenser._
=Discreet women have neither eyes nor ears.= 5
_Fr. Pr._
=Discrepant facta cum dictis=--The facts don't
agree with the statements. _Cic._
=Discretion / And hard valour are the twins of
honour, / And, nursed together, make a
conqueror; / Divided, but a talker.= _Beaumont
and Fletcher._
=Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a
guide to us in all the duties of life.= _La
Bruyère._
=Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar, of
life; the one preserves, the other sweetens
it.= _Bovee._
=Discretion of speech is more than eloquence,= 10
=and to speak agreeably to him with whom
we deal is more than to speak in good words
or in good order.= _Bacon._
=Discretion, the best part of valour.= _Beaumont
and Fletcher._
=Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eye, /
Misprising what they look on.= _Much Ado_,
iii. 1.
=Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth / In
strange eruptions, and the teeming earth /
Is with a kind of cholic pinch'd and vex'd /
By the imprisoning of unruly wind / Within
her womb, which, for enlargement striving, /
Shakes the old bedlam earth, and topples
down / Steeples and moss-grown towers.=
_Hen. IV._, iii. 1.
=Diseases, desperate grown, / By desperate
appliance are relieved, / Or not at all.=
_Ham._, iv. 3.
=Diseur de bons mots=--A sayer of good things; 15
a would-be wit. _Fr._
=Diseuse de bonne aventure=--A mere fortune-teller.
_Fr._
=Disgrace consists infinitely more in the crime
than in the punishment.= _Bacon._
=Disguise our bondage as we will, / 'Tis woman,
woman rules us still.= _Moore._
=Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery,
thou art a bitter draught.= _Sterne._
=Dishonesty is the forsaking of permanent for= 20
=temporary advantages.= _Bovee._
=Dishonest men conceal their faults from themselves
as well as others; honest men know
and confess them.= _Bovee._
=Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance
any day in the week, if there is anything
to be got by it.= _Dickens._
=Dishonour waits on perfidy. The villain /
Should blush to think a falsehood; 'tis the
crime / Of cowards.= _C. Johnson._
=Disillusion is the chief characteristic of old age.=
=Disjecta membra=--Scattered remains. 25
=Disjecti membra poetæ=--Limbs of the dismembered
poet. _Hor._
=Disjice compositam pacem, sere crimina belli=--Dash
the patched-up peace, sow the seeds of
wicked war. _Virg._
=Dismiss your vows, your feigned tears, your
flattery; / For where a heart is hard, they
make no battery.= _Shakespeare._
=Disobedience is the beginning of evil and the
broad way to ruin.= _D. Davies._
=Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar; in an= 30
=antiquary's study, not; the black stain on a
soldier's face is not vulgar, but the dirty face
of a housemaid is.= _Ruskin._
=Disorder is dissolution, death.= _Carlyle._
=Disorder makes nothing at all, but unmakes
everything.= _Prof. Blackie._
=Disponendo me, non mutando me=--By displacing,
not by changing me. _M._
=Disputandi pruritus ecclesiarum scabies=--The
itch for controversy is the scab of the Church.
_Wotton._
=Dissensions, like small streams at first begun, /= 35
=Unseen they rise, but gather as they run.=
_Garth._
=Dissimulation in youth is the forerunner of
perfidy in old age.= _Blair._
=Dissimulation is but faint policy, for it asketh
a strong wit and a strong heart to know
when to tell the truth and to do it.= _Bacon._
=Distance produces in idea the same effect as
in real perspective.= _Scott._
=Distance sometimes endears friendship, and
absence sweeteneth it.= _Howell._
=Distinction is an eminence that is attained but= 40
=too frequently at the expense of a fireside.=
_Simms._
=Distinction is the consequence, never the
object, of a great mind.= _W. Allston._
=Distinction, with a broad and powerful fan /
Puffing at all, winnows the light away.= _Troil.
and Cress._, i. 3.
=Distingué=--Distinguished; eminent; gentlemanlike.
_Fr._
=Distinguished talents are not necessarily connected
with discretion.= _Junius._
=Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the= 45
=dislocated mind whose movements are spasmodic.=
_Willmott._
=Distrahit animum librorum multitudo=--A multitude
of books distracts the mind. _Sen._
=Distrait=--Absent in mind. _Fr._
=Distressed valour challenges great respect,
even from enemies.= _Plutarch._
=Distringas=--You may distrain. _L._
=Distrust and darkness of a future state /= 50
=Make poor mankind so fearful of their fate, /
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear / To
be we know not what, we know not where.=
_Dryden._
=Dites-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que
tu es=--Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you
what you are. _Brillat-Savarin._
=Ditissimus agris=--An extensive landed proprietor.
=Di tutte le arti maestro è amore=--Love is master
of all arts. _It. Pr._
=Diversité, c'est ma devise=--Variety, that is my
motto. _La Fontaine._
=Dives agris, dives positis in fœnore nummis=--Rich 55
in lands, rich in money laid out at interest.
_Hor._
=Dives aut iniquus est aut iniqui hæres=--A
rich man is an unjust man, or the heir of one.
_Pr._
=Dives est, cui tanta possessio est, ut nihil optet
amplius=--He is rich who wishes no more than
he has. _Cic._
=Dives qui fieri vult, / Et cito vult fieri=--He who
wishes to become rich, is desirous of becoming so
at once. _Juv._
=Divide et impera=--Divide and govern.
=Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana ædificavit= 5
=urbes=--Divine nature gave the fields,
man's invention built the cities. _Varro._
=Divination seems heightened to its highest
power in woman.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Divine love is a sacred flower, which in its
early bud is happiness, and in its full bloom
is heaven.= _Hervey._
=Divine moment, when over the tempest-tossed
soul, as over the wild-weltering chaos, it was
spoken: Let there be light. Even to the
greatest that has felt such a moment, is it
not miraculous and God-announcing; even
as, under simpler figures, to the humblest
and least?= _Carlyle._
=Divine Philosophy, by whose pure light / We
first distinguish, then pursue the right; /
Thy power the breast from every error
frees, / And weeds out all its vices by
degrees.= _Juv._
=Divine= _right_, =take it on the great scale, is found= 10
=to mean divine= _might_ =withal.= _Carlyle._
=Divines but peep on undiscovered worlds, /
And draw the distant landscape as they
please.= _Dryden._
=Divinity should be empress, and philosophy
and other arts merely her servants.= _Luther._
=Divitiæ grandes homini sunt, vivere parce /
Æquo animo=--It is great wealth to a man to
live frugally with a contented mind. _Lucr._
=Divitiæ virum faciunt=--Riches make the man.
=Divitiarum et formæ gloria fluxa atque fragilis;= 15
=virtus clara æternaque habetur=--The glory of
wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue
is illustrious and everlasting. _Sall._
=Divitis servi maxime servi=--Servants to the rich
are the most abject.
=Divorce from this world is marriage with the
next.= _Talmud._
=Dla przyjaciela nowego / Nie opuszczaj starego!=--To
keep a new friend, never break with
the old. _Russ. Pr._
=Do as others do, and few will laugh at you.=
_Dan. Pr._
=Do as the bee does with the rose, take the= 20
=honey and leave the thorn.= _Amer. Pr._
=Do as the lassies do; say "No" and tak' it.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Dobrze to w kazdym znale['s]['c] przyjaciela!=--How
delightful to find a friend in every one.
_Brodzinski._
=Docendo discimus=--We learn by teaching.
=Dochters zijn broze waren=--Daughters are
fragile ware. _Dut. Pr._
=Doch werdet ihr nie Herz zu Herzen schaffen /= 25
=Wenn es auch nicht von Herzen geht=--Yet
will ye never bring heart to heart unless it goes
out of your own. _Goethe._
=Dociles imitandis / Turpibus ac pravis omnes
sumus=--We are all easily taught to imitate what
is base and depraved. _Juv._
=Docti rationem artis intelligunt, indocti voluptatem=--The
learned understand the principles
of art, the unlearned feel the pleasure only.
_Quinct._
=Doctor Luther's shoes don't fit every village
priest.= _Ger. Pr._
=Doctor utriusque legis=--Doctor of both civil and
canon law.
=Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam / Rectique= 30
=cultus pectora roborant=--But instruction improves
the innate powers, and good discipline
strengthens the heart. _Hor._
=Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set
up and stuffed.= _Ward Beecher._
=Does Homer interest us now, because he wrote
of what passed beyond his native Greece,
and two centuries before he was born; or
because he wrote what passed in God's world,
which is the same after thirty centuries?=
_Carlyle._
=Do faita dicha, por demas es diligencia=--Diligence
is of no use where luck is wanting.
_Sp. Pr._
=Dogmatic jargon, learn'd by heart, / Trite
sentences, hard terms of art, / To vulgar
ears seem so profound, / They fancy learning
in the sound.= _Gay._
=Do good and throw it into the sea; if the fish= 35
=know it not, the Lord will.= _Turk. Pr._
=Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.=
_Pope._
=Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy
enemy to gain him.= _Ben. Franklin._
=Dogs should not be taught to eat leather (so indispensable
for leashes and muzzles).= _Ger. Pr._
=Dogs that bark at a distance ne'er bite at hand.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Doing good is the only certainly happy action= 40
=of a man's life.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Doing is activity; and he will still be doing.=
_Hen. V._, iii. 7.
=Doing is the great thing; for if people resolutely
do what is right, they come in time
to like doing it.= _Ruskin._
=Doing leads more surely to saying than saying
to doing.= _Vinet._
=Doing nothing is doing ill.= _Pr._
=Dolce far niente=--Sweet idleness. _It._ 45
=Dolci cose a vedere, e dolci inganni=--Things
sweet to see, and sweet deceptions. _Ariosto._
=Dolendi modus, timendi non autem=--There is
a limit to grief, but not to fear. _Pliny._
=Doli non doli sunt, nisi astu colas=--Fraud is not
fraud, unless craftily planned. _Plaut._
=Dolium volvitur=--An empty vessel rolls easily. _Pr._
=Dolori affici, sed resistere tamen=--To be affected 50
with grief, but still to resist it. _Pliny._
=Dolus an virtus, quis in hoste requirat?=--Who
inquires in an enemy whether it be stratagem or
valour? _Virg._
=Dolus versatur in generalibus=--Fraud deals in
generalities. _L._
=Domandar chi nacque prima, l'uovo o la gallina=--Ask
which was first produced, the egg or the
hen. _It. Pr._
=Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our
pursuits, and the common reward of all our
pains.= _Fielding._
=Domestic happiness! thou only bliss / Of happiness= 55
=that has survived the Fall.= _Cowper._
=Domi manere convenit felicibus=--Those who are
happy at home should remain at home. _Pr._
=Domine, dirige nos=--Lord, direct us!
=Domini pudet, non servitutis=--I am ashamed of
my master, but not of my condition as a servant.
_Sen._
=Dominus illuminatio mea=--The Lord is my light.
_M._
=Dominus providebit=--The Lord will provide. _M._ 5
=Dominus videt plurimum in rebus suis=--The
master sees best in his own affairs. _Phæd._
=Dominus vobiscum, et cum spiritu tuo=--The
Lord be with you, and with thy spirit.
=Domitæ naturæ=--Of a tame nature.
=Domus amica domus optima=--The house of a
friend is the best house.
=Domus et placens uxor=--Thy house and pleasing 10
wife.
=Domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium=--The
safest place of refuge for every man is his own
home. _Coke._
=Dona præsentis cape lætus horæ, et / Linque
severa=--Gladly enjoy the gifts of the present
hour, and banish serious thoughts. _Hor._
=Donatio mortis causa=--A gift made in prospect
of death. _L._
=Don de plaire=--The gift of pleasing. _Fr._
=Donec eris felix multos numerabis amicos; /= 15
=Tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris=--So
long as you are prosperous you will reckon
many friends; if fortune frowns on you, you
will be alone. _Ovid._
=Done to death by slanderous tongues.= _Much
Ado_, v. 3.
=Donna di finestra, uva di strada=--A woman at
the window is a bunch of grapes by the wayside.
_It. Pr._
=Donna è mobile come piume in vento=--Woman is
as changeable as a feather in the wind. _Verdi._
=Donner de si mauvaise grâce qu'on n'a pas
d'obligation=--To give so ungraciously as to do
away with any obligation. _Fr._
=Donner une chandelle à Dieu et une au diable=--To 20
give one candle to God and another to the
devil. _Fr. Pr._
=Donnez, mais, si vous pouvez, épargnez au
pauvre, la honte de tendre la main=--Give,
but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of
holding out the hand. _Diderot._
=Dono dedit=--Gave as a gift.
=Do not allow your daughters to be taught
letters by a man, though he be a St. Paul or
a St Francis of Assisi. The saints are in
heaven.= _Bp. Liguori._
=Do not ask if a man has been through college.
Ask if a college has been through him.=
_Chapin._
=Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, / Show= 25
=me the steep and thorny way to heaven, /
Whilst, like a puffed and reckless libertine, /
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, /
And recks not his own rede.= _Ham._, i. 3.
=Do not flatter your benefactors.= _Buddhist Pr._
=Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose /
That you resolv'd to effect.= _Tempest_, iii. 2.
=Do not give dalliance / Too much the rein; the
strongest oaths are straw / To the fire i' the
blood. Be more abstemious, / Or else good
night your vow.= _Tempest_, iv. 1.
=Do not halloo till you are out of the wood.= _Pr._
=Do not lose the present in vain perplexities= 30
=about the future. If fortune lours to-day,
she may smile to-morrow.= _Sir T. Martin._
=Do not refuse the employment which the
hour brings you for one more ambitious.=
_Emerson._
=Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor.=
_Sp. Pr._
=Do not tell a friend anything that you would
conceal from an enemy.= _Ar. Pr._
=Do not think of one falsity as harmless, and
one as slight, and another as unintended.
Cast them all aside; it is better our hearts
should be swept clean of them.= _Ruskin._
=Do not train boys to learning by force or harshness;= 35
=but direct them to it by what amuses
their minds, so that you may be the better
able to discover with accuracy the peculiar
bent of the genius of each.= _Plato._
=Do not trouble yourself too much about the
light on your statue; the light of the public
square will test its value.= _Michael Angelo to
a young sculptor._
=Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher.
Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative
propositions. Nerve us with incessant
affirmatives. Don't waste yourself in rejection,
nor bark against the bad, but chant the
beauty of the good.= _Emerson._
=Don't be "consistent," but be simply true.=
_Holmes._
=Don't budge, if you are at ease where you are.=
_Ger. Pr._
=Don't despise a slight wound or a poor relative.= 40
_Dan. Pr._
=Don't dissipate your powers; strive constantly
to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can
do whatever it sees others doing, but it is
sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.=
_Goethe._
=Don terrible de la familiarité=--The terrible gift
of familiarity. _Mirabeau._
=Don't fly till your wings are fledged.= _Ger. Pr._
=Don't hate; only pity and avoid those that
follow lies.= _Carlyle._
=Don't put too fine a point to your wit, for fear= 45
=it should get blunted.= _Cervantes._
=Don't quit the highway for a short cut.= _Port.
Pr._
=Don't reckon your chickens before they are
hatched.= _Pr._
=Don't throw away the old shoes till you've got
new ones.= _Dut. Pr._
=Donum exitiale Minervæ=--The fatal gift to
Minerva, _i.e._, the wooden horse, by means of
which the Greeks took Troy. _Virg._
=Do on the hill as ye do in the ha'.= _Sc. Pr._ 50
=Do right; though pain and anguish be thy lot, /
Thy heart will cheer thee when the pain's
forgot; / Do wrong for pleasure's sake, then
count thy gains, / The pleasure soon departs,
the sin remains.= _Bp. Shuttleworth._
=Dormit aliquando jus, moritur nunquam=--A
right is sometimes in abeyance, but never abolished.
_L._
=Dormiunt aliquando leges, nunquam moriuntur=--The
law sleeps sometimes, but never dies.
_L._
=Dos d'âne=--Saddleback (_lit._ ass's back). _Fr._
=Dos est magna parentum / Virtus=--The virtue 55
of parents is a great dowry. _Hor._
=Dos est uxoria lites=--Strife is the dowry of a
wife. _Ovid._
[Greek: Dosis d' oligê te, philê te]--Gift both dainty and
dear. _Hom._
=Dos linajes solo hay en el mundo, el "tener"
y el "no tener"=--There are but two families
in the world, those who have, and those who
have not. _Cervantes._
[Greek: Dos moi pou stô kai tên gên kinêsô]--Give
me where to stand, and I will move the earth.
_Archimedes._
=Dost thou love life? Then do not squander= 5
=time, for that is the stuff life is made of.=
_B. Franklin._
=Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say
aye; / And I will take thy word. Yet if
thou swear'st, / Thou may'st prove false; at
lovers' perjuries / They say Jove laughs.=
_Rom. and Jul._, ii. 2.
=Dost thou love pictures? We will fetch thee
straight / Adonis painted by a running
brook; / And Cytherea all in sedges hid; /
Which seem to move and wanton with her
breath; / Even as the waving sedges play
with wind.= _Tam. the Shrew_, Ind. 2.
=Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous,
there are to be no more cakes and ale?=
_Twelfth Night_, ii. 3.
=Do that which is assigned you, and you cannot
hope too much or dare too much.= _Emerson._
=Do the duty that lies nearest to you. Every= 10
=duty which is bidden to wait returns with
seven fresh duties at its back.= _Kingsley._
=Do the duty which lies nearest to thee. Thy
second duty will already have become clearer.=
_Carlyle._
=Do thine own task, and be therewith content.=
_Goethe._
=Doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the
meat in his youth that he cannot endure in
his age.= _Much Ado_, ii. 3.
=Doth the eagle know what is in the pit, /
Or wilt thou go ask the mole?= _William
Blake._
=Do thy little well, and for thy comfort know, /= 15
=Great men can do their greatest work no
better than just so.= _Goethe._
=Double, double, toil and trouble, / Fire burn,
and caldron bubble.= _Macb._, iv. 1.
=Double, double toil and trouble; that is the
life of all governors that really govern; not
the spoil of victory, only the glorious toil of
battle can be theirs.= _Carlyle._
=Double entendre=--A double meaning. _Fr._
=Double entente=--Double signification. _Fr._
=Doubting the reality of love leads to doubting= 20
=everything.= _Amiel._
=Doubting things go ill often hurts more / Than
to be sure they do.= _Cymbeline_, i. 7.
=Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient
inquiry leadeth the way.= _H. Ballou._
=Doubt is the abettor of tyranny.= _Amiel._
=Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass
before they can enter into the temple of
wisdom.= _Colton._
=Doubtless the pleasure is as great / Of being= 25
=cheated as to cheat.= _Butler._
=Doubt of any sort cannot be removed except
by action.= _Goethe._
=Doubt thou the stars are fire; / Doubt that
the sun doth move; / Doubt truth to be a
liar; / But never doubt I love.= _Ham._, ii. 2.
=Douceur=--A bribe. _Fr._
=Do ut des=--I give that you may give. _Maxim
of Bismarck._
=Doux yeux=--Tender glances. _Fr._ 30
=Dove bisognan rimedj, il sospirar non vale=--Where
remedies are needed, sighing is of no use.
_It. Pr._
=Dove è grand'amore, quivi è gran dolore=--Where
the love is great the pain is great. _It. Pr._
=Dove è il Papa, ivi è Roma=--Where the Pope is,
Rome is. _It. Pr._
=Dove è l'amore, là è l'occhio=--Where love is, there
the eye is. _It. Pr._
=Dove entra il vino, esce la vergogna=--When 35
wine enters modesty goes. _It. Pr._
=Dove la voglia è pronta, le gambe son leggiere=--When
the will is prompt, the legs are light.
_It. Pr._
=Do weel and doubt nae man; do ill and doubt
a' men.= _Sc. Pr._
=Do we not all submit to death? The highest
sentence of the law, sentence of death, is
passed on all of us by the fact of birth; yet
we live patiently under it, patiently undergo
it when the hour comes.= _Carlyle._
=Dower'd with the hate of hate, the scorn of
scorn, / The love of love.= _Tennyson, of the
poet._
=Do what he will, he cannot realise / Half he= 40
=conceives--the glorious vision flies; / Go
where he may, he cannot hope to find / The
truth, the beauty pictured in the mind.=
_Rogers._
=Do what we can, summer will have its flies; if
we go a-fishing, we must expect a wet coat.=
_Emerson._
=Down, thou climbing sorrow; / Thy element's
below.= _King Lear_, ii. 4.
=Downward to climb and backward to advance.=
_Pope._
=Downy sleep, death's counterfeit.= _Macb._, iii. 2.
=Do you think the porter and the cook have no= 45
=anecdotes, no experiences, no wonders for
you?= _Emerson._
=Do you wish to find out the really sublime?
Repeat the Lord's Prayer.= _Napoleon._
=Dramatis personæ=--Characters represented.
=Draw thyself from thyself.= _Goethe._
=Dream after dream ensues, / And still they
dream that they shall still succeed / And still
are disappointed.= _Cowper._
=Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no= 50
=end to illusion.= _Emerson._
=Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes. /
When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic
wakes; / Compounds a medley of disjointed
things, / A mob of cobblers and a court of
kings; / Light fumes are merry, grosser
fumes are sad; / Both are the reasonable
soul run mad.= _Dryden._
=Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things,
a semi-deliverance from the human prison.=
_Amiel._
=Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and
legend, who sport on the earth in the night
season, and melt away with the first beams
of the sun.= _Dickens._
=Dreams are the children of an idle brain, /
Begot of nothing but vain phantasy; / Which
are as thin of substance as the air, / And
more inconstant than the wind.= _Rom. and
Jul._, i. 4.
=Dreams, books, are each a world; and books,
we know, / Are a substantial world, both
pure and good; / Round these, with tendrils
strong as flesh and blood, / Our pastime and
our happiness will grow.= _Wordsworth._
=Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the substance
of the ambitious is merely the shadow
of a dream.= _Ham._, ii. 2.
=Dreams, in general, take their rise from those
incidents that have occurred during the day.=
_Herodotus._
=Dreams in their development have breath /= 5
=And tears and torture and the touch of joy; /
They leave a weight upon our waking
thoughts; / They take a weight from off
our waking toils; / They do divide our
being; they become a portion of ourselves
as of our time, / And look like heralds of
eternity.= _Byron._
=Dreigers vechten niet=--Those who threaten don't
fight. _Dut. Pr._
=Dress has a moral effect upon the conduct of
mankind.= _Sir J. Barrington._
=Drinking water neither makes a man sick nor
in debt, nor his wife a widow.= _John Neal._
=Drink nothing without seeing it, sign nothing
without reading it.= _Port. Pr._
=Drink not the third glass, which thou canst= 10
=not tame / When once it is within thee; but
before, / May'st rule it as thou list; and pour
the shame, / Which it would pour on thee,
upon the floor.= _G. Herbert._
=Drink to me only with thine eyes, / And I will
pledge with mine; / Or leave a kiss but in
the cup, / And I'll not look for wine.= _Ben
Jonson._
=Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and
running waters out of thine own well.= _Bible._
=Drive a coach and six through an act of parliament.=
_Baron S. Rice._
=Drive a cow to the ha', and she'll run to the
byre.= _Sc. Pr._
=Drive thy business, let not thy business drive= 15
=thee.= _Franklin._
=Droit d'aubaine=--The right of escheat; windfall. _Fr._
=Droit des gens=--Law of nations. _Fr._
=Droit et avant=--Right and forward. _Fr._
=Droit et loyal=--Right and loyal. _Fr._
=Drones hive not with me.= _Mer. of Ven._, ii. 5. 20
=Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.= _Bible._
=Drudgery and knowledge are of kin, / And
both descended from one parent sin.= _S. Butler._
=Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution
or of a bad memory;--of a constitution so
treacherously good than it never bends till
it breaks; or of a memory that recollects
the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets
the pains of getting sober.= _Colton._
=Drunkenness is voluntary madness.= _Sen._
[Greek: Dryos pesousês pas anêr xyleuetai]--When an 25
oak falls, every one gathers wood. _Men._
=Dry light is ever the best=, _i.e._, from one who, as
disinterested, can take a dispassionate view of a
matter. _Heraclitus._
=Dry shoes won't catch fish.= _Gael. Pr._
=Duabus sedere sellis=--To sit between two stools.
=Du bist am Ende was du bist=--Thou art in the
end what thou art. _Goethe._
=Dubitando ad veritatem pervenimus=--By way 30
of doubting we arrive at the truth. _Cic._
=Dubiam salutem qui dat afflictis, negat=--He
who offers to the wretched a dubious deliverance,
denies all hope. _Sen._
=Ducats are clipped, pennies are not.= _Ger.
Pr._
=Duce et auspice=--Under his guidance and
auspices. _M._
=Duces tecum=--You must bring with you (certain
documents). _L._
=Duce tempus eget=--The time calls for a leader. 35
_Lucan._
=Du choc des esprits jaillissent les étincelles=--When
great spirits clash, sparks fly about. _Fr.
Pr._
=Ducis ingenium, res / Adversæ nudare solent,
celare secundæ=--Disasters are wont to reveal
the abilities of a general, good fortune to conceal
them. _Hor._
=Ducit amor patriæ=--The love of country leads
me. _M._
=Du côté de la barbe est la toute-puissance=--The
male alone has been appointed to bear rule.
_Molière._
=Ductor dubitantium=--A guide to those in doubt. 40
=Ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt=--Fate
leads the willing, and drags the unwilling. _Sen.
from Cleanthes._
=Du fort au faible=--On an average (_lit._ from the
strong to the weak). _Fr._
=Du glaubst zu schieben und du wirst geschoben=--Thou
thinkest thou art shoving and thou art
shoved. _Goethe._
=Du gleichst dem Geist, den du begreifst / Nicht
mir=--Thou art like to the spirit which thou comprehendest,
not to me. _Goethe._
=Du hast das nicht, was andre haben, /= 45
=Und andern mangeln deine Gabe; / Aus
dieser Unvollkommenheit / Entspringt die
Geselligkeit=--Thou hast not what others
have, and others want what has been given
thee; out of such defect springs good-fellowship.
_Gellert._
=Du haut de ces pyramides quarante siècles
nous contemplent=--From the height of these
pyramids forty centuries look down on us.
_Napoleon to his troops in Egypt._
=Dulce domum=--Sweet home. _A school song._
=Dulce est desipere in loco=--It is pleasant to play
the fool (_i.e._ relax) sometimes. _Hor._
=Dulce est miseris socios habuisse doloris=--It
is a comfort to the wretched to have companions
in misfortune.
=Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori=--It is 50
sweet and glorious to die for one's country. _Hor._
=Dulce periculum=--Sweet danger. _M._
=Dulce sodalitium=--A pleasant association of
friends.
=Dulcibus est verbis alliciendus amor=--Love is
to be won by affectionate words. _Pr._
=Dulcique animos novitate tenebo=--And I will
hold your mind captive with sweet novelty.
_Ovid._
=Dulcis amor patriæ, dulce videre suos=--Sweet 55
is the love of country, sweet to see one's kindred.
_Ovid._
=Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici; /
Expertus metuit=--The cultivation of friendship
with the great is pleasant to the inexperienced,
but he who has experienced it dreads it. _Hor._
=Dull, conceited hashes, / Confuse their brains
in college classes; / They gang in stirks,
and come oot asses, / Plain truth to speak.=
_Burns._
=Dull not device by coldness and delay.= _Othello_,
ii. 3.
=Dumb dogs and still waters are dangerous.=
_Ger. Pr._
=Dumbie winna lee.= _Sc. Pr._ 5
=Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, / More
than quick words do move a woman's mind.=
_Two Gent. of Ver._, iii. 1.
=Dum deliberamus quando incipiendum incipere
jam serum est=--While we are deliberating to
begin, the time to begin is past. _Quinct._
=Dum fata fugimus, fata stulti incurrimus=--While
we flee from our fate, we like fools rush
on it. _Buchanan._
=Dum in dubio est animus, paulo momento huc
illuc impellitur=--While the mind is in suspense,
a very little sways it one way or other. _Ter._
=Dum lego, assentior=--Whilst I read, I assent. 10
_Cic._
=Dum loquor, hora fugit=--While I am speaking,
time flies. _Ovid._
=Dummodo morata recte veniat, dotata est
satis=--Provided she come with virtuous principles,
a woman brings dowry enough. _Plaut._
=Dummodo sit dives, barbarus ipse placet=--If
he be only rich, a very barbarian pleases us.
_Ovid._
=Dum ne ob malefacta peream, parvi æstimo=--So
be I do not die for evil-doing, I care little for
dying. _Plaut._
=Du moment qu'on aime, on devient si doux=--From 15
the moment one falls in love, one becomes
sweet in the temper. _Marmontel._
=Dum se bene gesserit=--So long as his behaviour
is good. _L._
=Dum singuli pugnant, universi vincuntur=--While
they fight separately, the whole are conquered.
_Tacit._
=Dum spiro, spero=--While I breathe, I hope. _M._
=Dum tacent, clamant=--While silent, they cry
aloud, _i.e._, their silence bespeaks discontent.
_Cic._
=Du musst steigen oder sinken, / Du musst herrschen= 20
=und gewinnen, / Oder dienen und verlieren, /
Leiden oder triumphiren, / Amboss
oder Hammer sein=--Thou must mount up or
sink down, must rule and win or serve and lose,
suffer or triumph, be anvil or hammer. _Goethe._
=Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate labores: /
Jam veniet tacito curva senecta pede=--While
your strength and years permit, you should endure
labour; bowed old age will soon come on
with silent foot. _Ovid._
=Dum vitant stulti vitia, in contraria currunt=--While
fools shun one set of faults, they run into
the opposite one. _Hor._
=Dum vivimus, vivamus=--While we live, let us
live. _M._
=D'une vache perdue, c'est quelque chose de
recouvrer la queue=--When a cow is lost, it
is something to recover the tail. _Fr. Pr._
=Duo quum faciunt idem non est idem=--When 25
two do the same thing, it is not the same. _Ter._
=Duos qui sequitur lepores neutrum capit=--He
who follows two hares is sure to catch neither.
_Pr._
=Dupes indeed are many; but of all dupes there
is none so fatally situated as he who lives in
undue terror of being duped.= _Carlyle._
=Durante beneplacito=--During good pleasure.
=Durante vita=--During life.
=Dura più incudine che il martello=--The anvil 30
lasts longer than the hammer. _It. Pr._
=Durate, et vosmet rebus servate secundis=--Be
patient, and preserve yourself for better
times. _Virg._
=Durch Vernünfteln wird Poesie vertrieben /
Aber sie mag das Vernüftige lieben=--Poetry
loves what is true in reason, but is scared away
(dispersed) by subtlety in reasoning. _Goethe._
=Durum et durum non faciunt murum=--Hard
and hard (_i.e._, without mortar) do not make a
wall.
=Durum! Sed levius fit patientia / Quicquid
corrigere est nefas=--'Tis hard! But that
which we are not permitted to correct is rendered
lighter by patience. _Hor._
=Durum telum necessitas=--Necessity is a hard 35
weapon. _Pr._
=Du sollst mit dem Tode zufrieden sein. / Warum
machst du dir das Leben zur Pein?=--Thou
shouldst make peace (_lit._ be content) with death.
Why then make thy life a torture to thee?
_Goethe._
=Dusting, darning, drudging, nothing is great
or small, / Nothing is mean or irksome: love
will hallow it all.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=Dust long outlasts the storied stone.= _Byron._
=Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return.=
_Bible._
=Du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas=--There 40
is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
_Napoleon._
=Dutchmen must have wide breeches.= _Fris.
Pr._
=Duties are but coldly performed which are but
philosophically fulfilled.= _Mrs. Jameson._
=Duties are ours; events are God's.= _Cecil._
=Duty by habit is to pleasure turn'd; / He is
content who to obey has learn'd.= _Sir E.
Brydges._
=Duty demands the parent's voice / Should sanctify= 45
=the daughter's choice, / In that is due
obedience shown; / To choose belongs to her
alone.= _Moore._
=Duty, especially out of the domain of love,
is the veriest slavery in the world.= _J. G.
Holland._
=Duty has the virtue of making us feel the
reality of a positive world, while at the
same time it detaches us from it.= _Amiel._
=Duty is a power which rises with us in the
morning, and goes to bed with us in the
evening.= _Gladstone._
=Duty is the demand of the passing hour.=
_Goethe._
=Duty scorns prudence, and criticism has few= 50
=terrors for a man with a great purpose.=
_Disraeli._
=Duty--the command of Heaven, the eldest voice
of God.= _Kingsley._
=Dux fœmina facti=--A woman the leader in the
deed. _Virg._