=J'ai bonne cause=--I have good cause or reason. 30
_M._
=J'ai en toujours pour principe de ne faire jamais
par autrui ce que je pouvais faire par moi-même=--I
have ever held it as a maxim never
to do that through another which it was possible
for me to do myself. _Montesquieu._
=J'ai failli attendre=--I was all but kept waiting.
_Louis XIV., as his carriage drove up just at
the last moment._
=J'ai graissé la patte au concierge=--I have
tipped the door-keeper (_lit._ greased his paw).
_Fr. Pr._
=J'ai ris, me voilà désarmé=--I was set a-laughing,
and lo! I was at once disarmed. _Piron._
=J'ai toujours vu que, pour réussir dans le= 35
=monde, il fallait avoir l'air fou et être sage=--I
have always observed that to succeed in the
world a man must seem simple but be wise.
_Montesquieu._
=J'ai trouvé chaussure à mon pied=--I have found
a good berth (_lit._ shoes for my feet). _Fr. Pr._
=J'ai vécu=--I existed through it all (the Reign of
Terror). _Siéyès._
=J'ai voulu voir, j'ai vu=--I wish to see, and have
seen. _Racine._
=J'aime mieux ma mie=--I love my lass better.
_A French Old Song._
=J'appelle un chat un chat, et Rolet un fripon=--I 40
call a cat a cat, and Rolet a knave. _Boileau._
=J'embrasse mon rival, mais c'est pour l'étouffer=--I
press my rival to my heart, but it is to
smother him. _Corneille._
=J'en passe et des meilleurs=--I pass by them,
and better than they. _Victor Hugo._
=J'étais poète, historien, / Et maintenant je ne
suis rien=--I was once a poet and a historian, and
now I am nothing. _Boudier, for his epitaph._
=J'étais pour Ovide à quinze ans, / Mais je
suis pour Horace à trente=--I was for Ovid
at fifteen, but I am for Horace at thirty.
_Ducerceau._
=J'évite d'être long, et je deviens obscur=--In 45
avoiding to be diffuse, I become obscure.
_Boileau, after Horace._
=J'y suis, et j'y reste=--Here I am, and here I remain.
_MacMahon in the trenches before the
Malakoff._
=Ja, das Gold ist nur Chimäre=--Yes, gold is but
a chimæra. _Scribe-Meyerbeer._
=Ja, der Krieg verschlingt die Besten!=--Yes,
war swallows up the best people! _Schiller._
=Ja, grosse Männer werden stets verfolgt, /
Und kommen immer in Verlegenheiten=--Yes,
great men are always subject to persecution,
and always getting into straits. _Schiller._
=Ja, so schätzt der Mensch das Leben, als= 50
=heiliges Kleinod, / Dass er jenen am meisten
verehrt, der es trotzig verschmähet=--Yes,
man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way
that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns
it. _Platen._
=Jacet ecce Tibullus, / Vix manet e toto parva
quod urna capit=--See, here Tibullus lies; of
all that he was there hardly remains enough to
fill a little urn. _Ovid._
=Jack at a pinch.= _Pr._
=Jack is as good as Jill.= _Pr._
=Jack-o'-both sides is, before long, trusted by
nobody, and abused by both parties.= _Pr._
=Jack of all trades and master of none.= _Pr._
=Jack shall pipe and Jill shall dance.= _G._ 5
_Wither._
=Jack will never be a gentleman.= _Pr._
=Jack's as good as his master.= _Pr._
=Jacta alea est=--The die is cast. _Cæsar, when
he passed the Rubicon._
=Jactitatio=--A boasting. _Jactitation of marriage
is cognizable in the Ecclesiastical Courts.
L._
=Jam nunc minaci murmure cornuum / Perstringis= 10
=aures; jam litui strepunt=--Even now
you stun our ears with the threatening murmur
of horns; already I hear the clarions sound.
_Hor._
=Jam pauca aratro jugera regiæ / Moles relinquent=--Soon
will regal piles leave but few acres
to the plough. _Hor._
=Jam portum inveni, Spes et Fortuna valete! /
Nil mihi vobiscum est, ludite nunc alios=--Now
I have gained the port, hope and fortune,
farewell! I have nothing more to do with you;
go now and make sport of others. _A Greek
epitaph._
=Jam redit et Virgo, redeunt Saturnia regna=--Now
the Virgin goddess of justice returns; now
the reign of Saturn and age of gold returns.
_Virg._
=Jam seges est ubi Troja fuit, resecandaque
falce / Luxuriat Phrygio sanguine pinguis
humus=--New fields of corn wave where Troy
once stood, and the ground enriched with Trojan
blood is luxuriant with grain ready for the sickle.
_Ovid._
=Jam summa procul villarum culmina fumant=--Now 15
the high tops of the far-off villas send forth
their smoke. _Virg._
=Jamais abattu=--Never cast down. _M._
=Jamais arrière=--Never behind. _M._
=Jamais l'innocence et le mystère n'habitèrent
long tems ensemble=--Innocence and mystery
never dwelt any length of time together. _Fr._
=Jamais la cornemuse ne dit mot si elle n'a le
ventre plein=--The bagpipe never utters a word
till its belly is full. _Fr. Pr._
=Jamais long nez n'a gâté beau visage=--A big 20
nose never disfigured a handsome face, _i.e._, it is
disfigured already. _Fr. Pr._
=Jamais nous ne goûtons de parfaite allégresse; /
Nos plus heureux succès sont
mêlés de tristesse=--We never taste happiness
in perfection; our most fortunate successes are
mixed with sadness. _Corneille._
=Jamais on ne vaincra les Romains que dans
Rome=--The Romans will never be conquered
except in Rome. _Fr._
=Jamque opus exegi, quod nec Jovis ira, nec
ignis, / Nec poterit ferrum, nec edax abolere
vetustas=--And now I have completed what
neither the wrath of Jove, nor fire, nor the
sword, nor the corroding tooth of time will be
able to destroy. _Ovid._
=Januæ mentis=--Inlets of knowledge (_lit._ gates of
the mind).
=Januis clausis=--With closed doors. 25
=Jardin des plantes=--A botanical garden. _Fr._
=Jasper fert myrrham, thus Melchior, Balthazar
aurum. / Hæc quicum secum portet
tria nomina regum, / Solvitur a morbo,
Domini pietate, caduco=--Jasper brings myrrh,
Melchior frankincense, and Balthazar gold.
Whoever carries with him the names of these
three kings (the three kings of Cologne, the
Magi) will, by the grace of God, be exempt
from the falling sickness. _A Mediæval charm._
=Je allseitiger, je individueller=--The more universal
a man is, the greater he is as an individual.
_Mme. Varnhagen von Ense._
=Je cognois tout, fors que moy-mesme=--I know
everything except myself. _Old Fr._
=Je crains Dieu, cher Abner, et n'ai pas d'autre= 30
=crainte=--I fear God, Abner, and have no other
fear. _Racine._
=Je crains l'homme d'un seul livre=--I am afraid
of the man of one book. _Thomas Aquinas._
=Je fetter der Floh, je magerer der Hund=--The
fatter the flea, the leaner the dog. _Ger.
Pr._
=Je jouis des ouvrages qui surpassent les miens=--I
enjoy works which surpass my own. _La
Harpe._
=Je laisse à penser la vie / Que firent ces deux
amis=--I leave you to imagine the festive time
these two friends (the town mouse and the
country mouse) had of it. _La Fontaine._
=Je le tiens=--I hold it. _M._ 35
=Je m'en vais chercher un grand peut-être;
tirez le rideau, la farce est jouée=--I am going
in quest of a great perhaps; let the curtain drop,
the farce is played out. _Rabelais, on his deathbed._
=Je m'en vais voir le soleil pour la dernière fois!=--I
shall see the sun for the last time. _Rousseau's
last words._
=Je m'estonne fort pourquoy / La mort osa
songer a moy / Qui ne songeais jamais à
elle=--I wonder greatly why death should condescend
to think of me, who never thought of
her. _Regnier._
=Je maintiendrai le droit=--I will maintain the
right. _M._
=Je me fie en Dieu=--I put my trust in God. _M._ 40
=Je mehr der Brunnen gebraucht wird, desto
mehr giebt er Wasser=--The more the well is
used, the more water it gives. _Ger. Pr._
=Je mehr Gesetze, je weniger Recht=--The
more laws, the less justice. _Ger. Pr._
=Je mehr man das Ich versteckt, je mehr Welt
hat man=--The more we merge our I, the larger
is our world. _Hippel._
=Je mets en fait que, si tous les hommes savaient
ce qu'ils disent les uns des autres,
il n'y aurait pas quatre amis dans le monde=--I
lay it down as beyond dispute that if every
one knew what every one said of another, there
would not be four friends in the world. _Pascal._
=Je minder sich der Kluge selbst gefällt, / Um= 45
=desto mehr schätzt ihn die Welt=--The less
the sage pleases himself, the more the world
esteems him. _Gellert._
=Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parceque
je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte=--I
have made this (letter) a rather long one,
only because I had not the leisure to make it
shorter. _Pascal._
=Je n'ai mérité / Ni cet excès d'honneur ni cette
indignité=--I have deserved neither so much
honour nor such disgrace. _Corneille._
=Je n'ai point d'ennemis que ceux de l'état=--I
have no enemies whatever but those of the state.
_Richelieu to his confessor on his death-bed._
=Je n'oublierai jamais=--I will never forget. _M._
=Je ne change qu'en mourant=--I change only
when I die. _M._
=Je ne changerois pas mon répos pour tous les
trésors du monde=--I would not exchange my
leisure hours for all the wealth in the world.
=Je ne cherche qu'un=--I seek but one. _M._ 5
=Je ne connais que trois moyens d'exister dans
la société: être ou voleur, ou mendiant, ou
salarié=--I know only three means of subsisting
in society: by stealing, begging, or receiving
a salary. _Mirabeau, to the Clergy._
=Je ne puis pas me refondre=--I cannot change
my opinion or purpose (_lit._ recast myself). _Fr._
=Je ne sais quoi=--I know not what. _Fr._
=Je pense=--I think. _M._
=Je pense plus=--I think more. _M._ 10
=Je plie et ne romps pas=--I bend, but don't break.
_La Font._
=Je prends mon bien où je le trouve=--I take my
own where I find it. _Molière._
=Je sais à mon pot comment les autres bouillent=--I
can tell by my own pot how others boil.
_Fr. Pr._
=Je schöner die Wirthin, je schwerer die Zeche=--The
fairer the hostess the heavier the bill.
_Ger. Pr._
=Je sens qu'il y a un Dieu, et je ne sens pas= 15
=qu'il n'y en ait point; cela me suffit=--I feel
there is a God, and I don't feel there is none;
that is enough for me. _La Bruyère._
=Je suis assez semblable aux girouettes, qui ne
se fixent que quand elles sont rouillées=--I am
like enough to the weathercocks, which don't
veer only when they become rusty. _Voltaire._
=Je suis oiseau, voyez mes ailes! / Je suis
souris; vivent les rats=--I am a bird, see my
wing! I am a mouse; long live the rats. _La
Fontaine._
=Je suis prêt=--I am ready. _M._
=Je suis riche des biens dont je sais me passer=--I
am rich in the goods that I can do without.
_Vigée._
=Je t'aime d'autant plus que je t'estime moins=--I 20
love you all the more the less I esteem you.
_Collé Cocatrix._
=Je veux de bonne guerre=--I am for fairplay in
war. _M._
=Je veux le droit=--I mean to have my right. _M._
=Je veux que, le dimanche, chaque paysan ait
sa poule au pot=--It is my wish that every
peasant may have a fowl in his pot on Sundays.
_Henry IV. of France._
=Je vis en espoir=--I live in hope. _M._
=Je vois, je sais, je crois, je suis désabusé=--I 25
see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.
_Corneille._
=Je voudrais voir un homme sobre, modéré.
chaste, équitable prononcer qu'il n'y-a point
de Dieu; il parlerait du moins sans intérêt;
mais cet homme ne se trouve point=--I should
like to see a man who is sober, moderate, chaste
and just assert that there is no God; he would
speak disinterestedly at least, but such a man is
not to be found. _La Bruyère._
=Je vous apprendrai à vivre=--I will teach you
better manners (_lit._ to live). _Fr. Pr._
=Je vous ferai voir de quel bois je me chauffe=--I
will let you see what metal I am made of (_lit._
with what wood I heat myself). _Fr. Pr._
=Je weniger die Worte, je besser Gebet=--The
fewer the words, the better the prayer. _Ger. Pr._
=Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, /= 30
=Seeking the bubble reputation / Even in the
cannon's mouth.= _As You Like It_, ii. 7.
=Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.= _Byron._
=Jealousy / Hath in it an alchemic force to
fuse / Almost into one metal love and hate.=
_Tennyson._
=Jealousy is a painful passion; yet without
some share of it, the agreeable affection of
love has difficulty to subsist in its full force
and violence.= _Hume._
=Jealousy is always born with love, but it does
not always die with it.= _La Roche._
=Jealousy is cruel as the grave; the coals= 35
=thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most
vehement flame.= _Bible._
=Jealousy is love's bed of burning snarl.= _George
Meredith._
=Jealousy is often the helpmate of sweet love.=
_Kingsley._
=Jealousy is the forerunner of love, and sometimes
its awakener.= _F. Marion Crawford._
=Jealousy is the rage of a man.= _Bible._
=Jealousy is the sister of love, as the devil is= 40
=the brother of the angel.= _Weber._
=Jealousy: / It is the green-eyed monster that
doth mock / The meat it feeds on.= _Othello_,
iii. 2.
=Jealousy lives upon doubts; it becomes madness
or ceases entirely as soon as we pass
from doubt to certainty.= _La Roche._
=Jean a étudié pour être bête=--John has been to
college to learn to be a fool. _Fr. Pr._
=Jean s'en alla comme il était venu=--John went
away as he came. _La Fontaine's epitaph, written
by himself._
=Jeddart justice: First hang a man, and syne= 45
(then) =try him.= _Sc. Pr._
=Jede grosse Zeit erfasst den ganzen Menschen=--Every
great epoch seizes possession of the
whole man. _Mommsen._
=Jede Macht, welche wir über andere Gegenstände
ausüben, hängt von der Macht ab, die
wir über uns selbst besitzen=--All the power
which we, in every case, exercise over other
objects depends on the power we have over
ourselves. _Cötvös._
=Jede That der Weltgeschichte / Zeugt auch
wieder eine That=--Every deed in the history of
the world begets another deed in turn. _Arnold
Schlönbach._
=Jede Unthat, / Trägt ihren eignen Racheengel
schon, / Die böse Hoffnung unter ihrem
Herzen=--Every evil deed already bears its own
avenging angel, the dread of evil, in the heart of
it. _Schiller._
=Jedem das Seine ist nicht zu viel=--To no one is 50
his own too much. _Ger. Pr._
=Jedem redlichen Bemühn / Sel Beharrlichkeit
verliehn.=--Be perseverance vouchsafed to every
honest endeavour. _Goethe._
=Jeden anderen Meister erkennt man an dem,
was er ausspricht; was er weiss, verschweigt,
zeigt mir den Meister des Styls=--Every
other master may be known by what
he expresses; what he wisely suppresses reveals
to me the master of style. _Schiller._
=Jeder ausserordentliche Mensch hat eine
gewisse Sendung, die er zu vollführen berufen ist=--Every
man above the ordinary has a
certain mission which he is called to fulfil.
_Goethe._
=Jeder freut sich seiner Stelle, / Bietet dem Verächter
Trutz=--Every one is proud of his office,
and bids defiance to the scorner. _Schiller._
=Jeder gilt so viel als er hat=--Every one is worth
as much as he has. _Ger. Pr._
=Jeder ist seiner Worte bester Ausleger=--Every
one is the best interpreter of his own words.
_Ger. Pr._
=Jeder Jüngling sehnt sich so zu lieben. / Jedes= 5
=Mädchen so geliebt zu sein: / Ach, der heiligste
von unsern Trieben / Warum quillt aus
ihm die grimme Pein?=--The youth longs so to
love, the maiden so to be loved; ah! why does
there spring out of this holiest of all our instincts
such agonising pain? _Goethe._
=Jeder Krämer lobt seine Ware=--Every dealer
cracks up his wares. _Ger. Pr._
=Jeder Mensch muss nach seiner Weise denken:
denn er findet auf seinem Wege immer ein
Wahres, oder eine Art von Wahrem, die ihm
durchs Leben hilft; nur darf er sich nicht
gehen lassen; er muss sich controliren; der
blosse nackte Instinct geziemt nicht dem
Menschen=--Every man must think in his own
way; for on his own pathway he always finds
a truth, or a measure of truth, which is helpful to
him in his life; only he must not follow his own
bent without restraint; he must control himself;
to follow mere naked instinct does not beseem
a man. _Goethe._
=Jeder Morgen ruft zu, das Gehörige zu thun,
und das Mögliche zu erwarten=--We are summoned
every morning to do what it requires of
us, and to expect what it may bring. _Goethe._
=Jeder muss der Natur seine Schuld bezahlen=--Every
one must pay his debt to Nature. _Ger.
Pr._
=Jeder muss ein Paar Narrenschuhe zerreissen,= 10
=zerreisst er nicht mehr=--Every one must wear
out one pair of fool's shoes, if he wear out no
more. _Ger. Pr._
=Jeder, sieht man ihn einzeln, ist leidlich klug
und verständig; / Sind sie in corpori, gleich
wird euch ein Dummkopf daraus=--Every man,
as we see him singly, is tolerably wise and intelligent;
but see him in a corporate capacity, and
you think him a born blockhead and fool.
_Schiller._
=Jeder stirbt / Und sterben ist die grösste That
für jedem=--Every one dies, and for every one to
die is his greatest act. _L. Schefer._
=Jeder Tag hat seine Plage / Und die Nacht
hat ihre Lust=--Every day has its torment,
and the night has its pleasure. _Philina, in
Goethe._
=Jeder Weg zum rechten Zwecke / Ist auch
recht in jeder Strecke=--Every road to the right
end is also right in every stretch (step or turn) of
it. _Goethe._
=Jeder Zustand, ja jeder Augenblick, ist von= 15
=unendlichem Werth, denn er ist der Repräsentant
einer ganzen Ewigkeit=--Every condition,
nay, every moment, is of infinite value,
for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
_Goethe._
=Jedes ausgesprochene Wort erregt den Eigensinn=--Every
uttered (_lit._ outspoken) word rouses
our self-will. _Goethe._
=Jedes Weib will lieber schön als fromm sein=--Every
woman would rather be handsome than
pious. _Ger. Pr._
=Jedes Weibes / Fehler ist des Mannes Schuld=--The
husband is to blame for the fault of the wife
(in every case). _Herder._
=Jedwede Tugend / Ist fleckenrein bis auf den
Augenblick / Der Probe=--Every virtue is stainless
up to the moment of trial. _Schiller._
=Jedwede Zeit hat ihre Wehen=--Every time has 20
its sorrows. _Freiligrath._
=Jedweder ist des dunkeln Schicksals Knecht=--Every
one is dark fate's thrall. _Schillerbuch._
=Jeer not others upon any occasion.= _South._
=Jeerers must be content to taste of their own
broth.= _Pr._
=Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit=--The
hungry stomach rarely scorns plain fare. _Hor._
=Jeshurun waxed fat and kicked.= _Bible._ 25
=Jess would have been an omnivorous reader
of books had it not been her conviction that
reading was idling.= _George Eliot._
=Jest not with the eye, nor religion.= _Pr._
=Jest so that it may not become earnest.= _Sp.
Pr._
=Jest with an ass, and he will flap you in the
face with his tail.= _Pr._
=Jest with your equals.= _Dan. Pr._ 30
=Jesters do oft prove prophets.= _King Lear_, v. 3.
=Jesting brings serious sorrows.= _Pr._
=Jesting lies bring serious sorrows.= _Pr._
=Jesting Pilate, asking, "What is truth?" had
not the smallest chance to ascertain it. He
could not have known it had a god shown it
to him.= _Carlyle._
=Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets.= 35
=He saw with open eye the mystery
of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony,
ravished with its beauty, He lived in it, and
had His being there.= _Emerson._
=Jesus hominum salvator=--Jesus the Saviour of
men. _M._
=Jesus of Nazareth, and the life He lived and
the death He died;--through this, as through
a miraculous window, the heaven of Martyr
Heroism, the "divine depths of sorrow," of
noble labour, and the unspeakable silent expanses
of eternity, first in man's history disclose
themselves.= _Carlyle._
=Jesus of Nazareth was not poor, though He
had not where to lay His head.= (?)
=Jesus speaks always from within, and in a
degree that transcends all others. In that
is the miracle.= _Emerson._
=Jet d'eau=--A jet of water. _Fr._ 40
=Jeter le manche après la cognée=--To throw the
helve after the hatchet. _Fr. Pr._
=Jetzt giebt es keine Riesen mehr; Gewalt /
Ist für den Schwachen jederzeit ein Riese=--There
are no more any giants now; for the
weak, force is a giant at all times. _Schiller._
=Jeu d'enfant=--Child's play. _Fr._
=Jeu de hazard=--Game of chance. _Fr._
=Jeu de mains, jeu de vilain=--Horse-play, or 45
practical joking, is vulgar. _Fr._
=Jeu de mots=--Quibble; pun. _Fr._
=Jeu de theâtre=--Stage-trick; clap-trap. _Fr._
=Jeune chirurgien, vieux médécin=--A surgeon
(should be) young, a physician old. _Fr. Pr._
=Jeune, et dans l'âge heureux qui méconnait la
crainte=--Young, and at that happy age which
knows no fear. _Fr._
=Jeune, on conserve pour sa vieillesse; vieux,
on épargne pour la mort=--In youth men save
for old age; in old age, they hoard for death.
_La Bruyère._
=Jewels five words long, / That on the stretch'd
forefinger of all time / Sparkle for ever.=
_Tennyson._
=Jo ædlere Blod, jo mindre Hovmod=--The nobler
the blood, the less the pride. _Dan. Pr._
=Jo argere Skalk, je bedre Lykke=--The greater 5
knave, the better luck. _Dan. Pr._
=Jo mere af Lov, jo mindre af Ret=--The more by
law, the less by right. _Dan. Pr._
=Joan is as good as my lady in the dark.=
_Pr._
=John Gilpin kiss'd his loving wife; / O'erjoy'd
was he to find / That, though on pleasure
she was bent, / She had a frugal mind.=
_Cowper._
=Johnsons are rare; yet, Boswells are perhaps
still rarer.= _Carlyle._
=Join hands with God to make a man to live.= 10
_George Herbert._
=Joindre les mains, c'est bien; les ouvrir, c'est
mieux=--To fold the hands (in prayer) is well;
to open them (in charity) is better. _Fr. Pr._
=Joke at your leisure; ye kenna wha may jibe
yoursel'.= _Sc. Pr._
=Joke with a slave, and he'll soon show his
heels.= _Ar. Pr._
=Jong rijs is te buigen, maar geen oude boomen=--Young
twigs will bend, but not old trees.
_Dut. Pr._
=Jonge lui, domme lui; oude lui, koude lui=--Young 15
folk, silly folk; old folk, cold folk.
_Dut. Pr._
=Jouk and let the jaw= (or =jaup=) =gae by=, _i.e._, duck
and let the dash of dirty water pass over you.
_Sc. Pr._
=Jour de fête=--Holiday. _Fr._
=Jour de ma vie=--The day of my life. _M._
=Jour gras=--Flesh day. _Fr._
=Jour maigre=--Fish day. _Fr._ 20
=Journal pour rire=--Comic journal. _Fr._
=Journalists are like little dogs; whenever anything
stirs they immediately begin to bark.=
_Schopenhauer._
=Journeys end in lovers' meeting, / Every wise
man's son doth know.= _Twelfth Night_, ii. 3.
=Jove tonante cum populo agi non est fas=--When
Jove thunders there must be no parleying
with the people. _Cic._
=Jovis omnia plena=--All things are full of Jove, 25
_i.e._, of the deity. _Virg._
=Joy? a moon by fits reflected in a swamp or
watery bog.= _Wordsworth._
=Joy and grief are never far apart.= _Willmott._
=Joy and sorrow / Are to-day and to-morrow.=
_Pr._
=Joy descends gently upon us like the evening
dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.=
_Jean Paul._
=Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs= 30
=men of reason.= _Platen._
=Joy, in a changeable subject, must necessarily
change as the subject changeth.= _S. Bern._
=Joy is a guest who generally comes uninvited.=
_Schopenhauer._
=Joy is a sunbeam between two clouds.= _Mme.
Deluzy._
=Joy is as a raiment fine, / Spun of magic
threads divine; / Which as you are in act to
don, / The wearer and the robe are gone.=
_Sophocles._
=Joy is buyable--by forsaking all that a man= 35
=hath.= _Ruskin._
=Joy is like the ague; one good day between
two bad ones.= _Dan. Pr._
=Joy is more divine than sorrow; for joy is
bread, and sorrow is medicine.= _Ward
Beecher._
=Joy is the best of wine.= _George Eliot._
=Joy is the mainspring in the whole round of
universal Nature; joy moves the wheels of
the great timepiece of the world; she it is
that loosens flowers from their buds, suns
from their firmaments, rolling spheres in
distant space not seen by the glass of the
astronomer.= _Schiller._
=Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud.= 40
_Coleridge._
=Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow
alone can consecrate.= _Horace Greely._
=Joy must have sorrow; sorrow, joy.= _Goethe._
=Joy never feasts so high as when the first
course is of misery.= _Suckling._
=Joy ruled the day and love the night.= _Dryden._
=Joy shared is joy doubled.= _Goethe._ 45
=Joy surfeited turns to sorrow.= _Pr._
=Joy wholly from without is false, precarious
and short. Joy from within is like smelling
the rose on the tree; it is more sweet, and
fair, and lasting.= _Young._
=Joy's a subtle elf; / I think man's happiest
when he forgets himself.= _Cyril Tourneur._
=Joys are for the gods; / Man's common course
of nature is distress; / His joys are prodigies;
and like them too, / Portend approaching
ill. The wise man starts / And trembles
at the perils of a bliss.= _Young._
=Joys are our wings, sorrows are our spurs.= 50
_Jean Paul._
=Joys carried too far change into sorrows.=
_Justin Bertuch._
=Joy's recollection is no longer joy, while
sorrow's memory is a sorrow still.= _Byron._
=Joys shared with others are more enjoyed.= _Pr._
=Joys, tender and true, / Yet all with wings.=
_Proctor._
=Joyful to live, yet not afraid to die.= _Prior._ 55
=Joyfulness= (_Freudigkeit_) =is the mother of all
virtues.= _Goethe._
=Jubilate Deo=--Be joyful in the Lord.
=Jucunda est memoria præteritorum malorum=--The
recollection of past miseries is pleasant.
_Cic._
=Jucunda et idonea dicere vitæ=--To describe
what is pleasant and suited for life. _Hor._
=Jucunda rerum vicissitudo=--A delightful change 60
of circumstances.
=Jucundi acti labores=--It is pleasant to think of
labours that are past. _Cic._
=Jucundum et carum sterilis facit uxor amicum=--A
wife who has no children makes (to her husband's
heirs) a dear and engaging friend. _Juv._
=Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur=--The
judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.
_Pub. Syr._
=Judex non potest esse testis in propria causa=--A
judge cannot be a witness in his own cause.
_Coke._
=Judge before friendship, then confide till death, /
Well for thy friend, but nobler far for thee.=
_Young._
=Judge me, ye powers; let fortune tempt or
frown, I am prepared; my honour is my
own.= _Lansdowne._
=Judge not according to the appearance, but= 5
=judge righteous judgment.= _Jesus._
=Judge not of men and things at first sight.= _Pr._
=Judge not, that ye be not judged.= _Jesus._
=Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, / But
trust Him for His grace.= _Cowper._
=Judge not the play before the play is done; /
Her plot has many changes; every day /
Speaks a new scene; the last act crowns
the play.= _Quarles._
=Judge not the preacher.... Do not grudge /= 10
=To pick out treasures from an earthen pot. /
The worst speak something good; if all
want sense, / God takes a text and preacheth
patience.= _George Herbert._
=Judge of the pleasure of the heart by the
pleasure of the eye.= _Bacon._
=Judge thou me by what I am, / So shalt thou
find me fairest.= _Tennyson._
=Judge thyself with a judgment of sincerity,
and thou wilt judge others with a judgment
of charity.= _Mason._
=Judges and senates have been bought for
gold; / Esteem and love were never to be
sold.= _Pope._
=Judges are but men, and are swayed, like other= 15
=men, by vehement prejudices.= _D. Dudley
Field._
=Judges ought to be more learned than witty,
more reverent than plausible, and more advised
than confident. Above all things, integrity
is their portion and proper virtue.=
_Bacon._
=Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed
some day or two, some century or
two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.=
_Carlyle._
=Judgment is forced upon us by experience.=
_Johnson._
=Judgment is not a swift-growing plant; it
requires time and culture to mature it.= _H.
Ballou._
=Judgment is turned away backward, and justice= 20
=standeth afar off; for truth is fallen in
the street, and equity cannot enter.= _Bible._
=Judgment must sway the feelings and keep
them in their right place, or harm will be
done where good was intended.= _Spurgeon._
=Judgments are prepared for scorners, and
stripes for the back of fools.= _Bible._
=Judgments that are made on the wrong side
of the danger amount to no more than
an affectation of skill, without either credit
or effect.= _L'Estrange._
=Judicandum est legibus, non exemplis=--Judgment
should be given according to law and not
precedent. _L._
=Judicata res pro veritate accipitur=--A matter 25
that has been adjudged is received as true. _L._
=Judice te mercede caret, per seque petenda
est / Externis virtus incomitata bonis=--In
your judgment virtue needs no reward, and is
to be sought for her own sake, unaccompanied
by external benefits. _Ovid._
=Judicia Dei sunt ita recondita ut quis illa
scrutari nullatenus possit=--The purposes of
God are so abstruse that no one can possibly
scrutinise them. _Cic._
=Judicio acri perpendere=--To weigh with a keen
judgment. _Lucret._
=Judicious persons will think all the less of us
because of the ill-judged praises of our silly
friends.= _Spurgeon._
=Judicis est innocentiæ subvenire=--It is the duty 30
of the judge to support innocence. _Cic._
=Judicis est judicare secundum allegata et probata=--It
is the judge's duty to decide in accordance
with what is alleged and proved. _L._
=Judicis est jus dicere non dare=--It is the judge's
duty to enunciate the law, not to make it. _L._
=Judicis officium est, ut res, ita tempora rerum
quærere=--It is the judge's duty to inquire into
not only the facts, but the circumstances. _Ovid._
=Judicium a non suo judice datum nullius est
momenti=--Judgment given by a judge in a
matter outside his jurisdiction is of no legal
force. _L._
=Judicium Dei=--The judgment of God (as by 35
ordeal).
=Judicium parium aut leges terræ=--The judgment
of our peers or the laws of the land. _L._
=Judicium subtile videndis artibus=--A judgment
nice in discriminating works of art. _Hor._
=Jugez un homme par ses questions, plutôt que
par ses réponses=--Judge of a man by his questions
rather than his answers. _Fr._
=Jugulare mortuos=--To stab the dead; to slay
the slain. _Pr._
=Juncta juvant=--Trivial things when united aid 40
each other.
=Junctæque Nymphis Gratiæ decentes=--The
beauteous Graces linked hand in hand with the
nymphs. _Hor._
=Junge Faullenzer, alte Bettler=--A young idler
makes an old beggar. _Ger. Pr._
=Junger Spieler, alter Bettler=--Young a gambler,
old a beggar. _Ger. Pr._
=Jungere dextras=--To join right hands; to shake
hands. _Virg._
=Jungere equos Titan velocibus imperat Horis=--Titan 45
commands the swift-flying Hours to
yoke the horses of the sun. _Ovid._
=Juniores ad labores=--The younger men for
labours, _i.e._, the heavier burdens.
=Jupiter est quodcunque vides, quocunque
moveris=--Whatever you see, wherever you
turn, there is Jupiter (Deity). _Lucan._
=Jupiter in multos temeraria fulmina torquet, /
Qui pœnam culpa non meruere pati=--Jupiter
hurls his reckless thunderbolts against many
who have not guiltily deserved such punishment.
_Ovid._
=Jupiter tonans=--The thunderer Jove.
=Jura negat sibi nata, nihil non arrogat armis=--He 50
says that laws were not framed for him;
he claims everything by force of arms. _Hor._
=Jurado ha el vano de lo negro no hacer blanco=--The
bath has sworn not to wash the black
man white. _Sp. Pr._
=Jurare in verba magistri=--To swear by the
words of the master.
=Juravi lingua, mentem injuratam gero=--I have
sworn with my tongue, but I bear a mind unsworn.
_Cic._
=Jure divino=--By Divine right, or ordination of
heaven.
=Jure humano=--By human law, or the will of the
people.
=Jure, non dono=--By right, not by gift. _M._ 5
=Jure repræsentationis=--By right of representation.
_L._
=Jurgia præcipue vino stimulata caveto=--Above
all, avoid quarrels excited by wine. _Ovid._
=Juris utriusque doctor=--Doctor of both laws,
civil and canon.
=Juristen, böse Christen=--Jurists are bad Christians.
_Ger. Pr._
=Jus civile=--The civil or Roman law. 10
=Jus civile neque inflecti gratia, neque perfringi
potentia, neque adulterari pecunia debet=--The
law ought neither to be warped by favour,
nor broken through by power, nor corrupted by
money. _Cic._
=Jus commune=--The common or customary law.
=Jus devolutum=--A devolved right, specially of
a presbytery in Scotland to present to a benefice,
the patron having failed to do so. _L._
=Jus et norma loquendi=--The law and rule of
language.
=Jus gentium=--The law of nations, as the basis 15
of their international relations.
=Jus gladii=--The right of the sword.
=Jus in re=--A real right. _L._
=Jus omnium in omnia, et consequenter bellum
omnium in omnes=--The right of all to everything,
and therefore of all to make war on all.
_Hobbes._
=Jus mariti=--The right of a husband. _L._
=Jus postliminii=--The law of recovery of forfeited 20
rights. _L._
=Jus primogenituræ=--The right of primogeniture.
_L._
=Jus proprietatis=--The right of property. _L._
=Jus regium=--Royal right, or right of the Crown. _L._
=Jus sanguinis=--The right of consanguinity, or
blood. _L._
=Jus summum sæpe summa malitia est=--Extreme 25
law is often extreme wrong. _Ter._
=Jusqu'où les hommes ne se portent-ils point
par l'intérêt de la religion, dont ils sont si
peu persuadés, et qu'ils pratiquent si mal?=--To
what excesses are not men carried in the interest
of a religion of which they have little or
no faith, and which they so badly practise? _La
Bruyère._
=Just a kind word and a yielding manner, and
anger and complaining may be avoided.=
_Spurgeon._
=Just a path that is sure, / Thorny or not, /
And a heart honest and pure / Keeping the
path that is sure, / That be my lot.= _Dr. W.
Smith._
=Just and true are thy ways, thou King of
saints.= _Bible._
=Just are the ways of God, / And justifiable to= 30
=men; / Unless there be who think not God
at all.= _Milton._
=Just as a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy
consume a man.= _St. Chrysostom._
=Just as "dirt is something in its wrong place,"
so social evils are mainly wrong applications
of right powers.= _H. Willett._
=Just as gymnastic exercise is necessary to
keep the body healthy, so is musical exercise
necessary to keep the soul healthy; the
proper nourishment of the intellect and passions
can no more take place without music
than the proper functions of the stomach and
the blood without exercise.= _Plato, interpreted
by Ruskin._
=Just as the flint contains the spark, unknown
to itself, which the steel alone can wake into
life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden
gems which prosperity or negligence would
cause for ever to lie hid.= _Billings._
=Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, / When= 35
=thought is speech, and speech is truth.=
_Scott._
=Just enou', and nae mair, like Janet Howie's
shearers' meat.= _Sc. Pr._
=Just hatred of scoundrels, fixed, irreconcilable,
inexorable enmity to the enemies of God;
this, and not love of them, is the backbone
of any religion whatsoever, let alone the
Christian.= _Carlyle._
=Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true, /
A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew.=
_Cowper._
=Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of
the good, for the good man desires nothing
which a just law will interfere with.= _Froude._
=Just plain duty to know, / Irksome or not, /= 40
=And truer and better to grow / In doing the
duty I know, / That I have sought.= _Dr. W
Smith._
=Justa razon engañar el engañador=--It is fair to
cheat the cheater. _Sp. Pr._
=Justæ causæ facilis est defensio=--The defence
of a just cause is easy.
=Juste milieu=--Right medium. _M. of the government
of Louis Philippe._
=Justi ut sidera fulgent=--The just shine as the
stars. _M._
=Justice always is, whether we define or not.= 45
=Everything done, suffered, or proposed in
Parliament, or out of it, is either just or unjust;
either is accepted by the gods and
eternal facts, or is rejected by them.= _Carlyle._
=Justice and humanity have been fighting their
way, like a thunderstorm, against the organised
selfishness of human nature. God
has given manhood but one clue to success--utter
and exact justice.= _Wendell Phillips._
=Justice and judgment are the habitation of
God's throne.= _Bible._
=Justice and reverence are the everlasting
central law of this universe.= _Carlyle._
=Justice and truth alone are capable of being
"conserved" and preserved.= _Carlyle._
=Justice and truth are two points of such exquisite= 50
=delicacy, that our coarse and blunted
instruments will not touch them accurately.=
_Pascal._
=Justice consists in doing no injury to men;
decency in giving no offence.= _Cic._
=Justice consists mainly in the granting to every
human being due aid in the development of
such faculties as it possesses for action and
enjoyment, ... taking most pains with the
best material.= _Ruskin._
=Justice gives sentence many times / On one
man for another's crimes.= _Butler._
=Justice= (such as Giotto represents her) =has no
bandage about her eyes, and weighs not with
scales, but with her own hands; and weighs,
not merely the shares and remunerations of
men, but the worth of them; and finding
them worth this or that, gives them what
they deserve--death or honour.= _Ruskin._
=Justice is always violent to the party offending,
for every man is innocent in his own eyes.=
_Daniel Defoe._
=Justice is blind; he knows nobody.= _Dryden._
=Justice is conformity to what the Maker has= 5
=seen good to make.= _Carlyle._
=Justice is lame as well as blind among us.=
_Otway._
=Justice is love's order.= _J. M. Gibbon._
=Justice is not postponed. A perfect equality adjusts
its balance in all parts of life.= _Emerson._
=Justice is the bread of the nation; it is always
hungry for it.= _Chateaubriand._
=Justice is the first virtue of those who command,= 10
=and stops the complaints of those
who obey.= _Diderot._
=Justice is the freedom of those who are equal.
Injustice is the freedom of those who are unequal.=
_Jacobi._
=Justice is the great end of civil society.= _Dudley
Field._
=Justice is the keynote of the world, and all else
is ever out of tune.= _Theod. Parker._
=Justice is the whole secret of success in governments;
as absolutely essential to the training
of an infant as to the control of a mighty
nation.= _Simms._
=Justice is truth in action.= _Disraeli._ 15
=Justice, like lightning, ever shall appear, / To
few men's ruin, but to all men's fear.= _Swetnam._
=Justice may be furnished out of fire, as far as
her sword goes; and courage may be all
over a continual blaze.= _Addison._
=Justice must and will be done.= _Carlyle._
=Justice of thought and style, refinement in
manners, good breeding, and politeness of
every kind, can come only from the trial and
experience of what is best.= _Duncan._
=Justice pleaseth few in their own house.= _Pr._ 20
=Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone.=
_Emerson._
=Justice, self-command, and true thought are
our salvation.= _Plato._
=Justice, the miracle-worker among men.= _John
Bright._
=Justice were cruel weakly to relent; / From
Mercy's self she got her sacred glaive: /
Grace be to those who can and will repent; /
But penance long and dreary to the slave.=
_Thomson._
=Justice, while she winks at crimes, / Stumbles= 25
=on innocence sometimes.= _Butler._
=Justice without power is inefficient; power
without justice is tyranny.= _Pascal._
=Justice without wisdom is impossible.= _Froude._
=Justicia, mas no por mi casa=--Justice by all
means, but not in my own house. _Sp. Pr._
=Justissimus unus / Et servantissimus æqui=--Just
and observant of what is right, as no other
is. _Virg._
=Justitia erga Deum religio dicitur; erga parentes= 30
=pietas=--The discharge of our duty
towards God is called religion; towards our
parents, piety. _Cic._
=Justitia est constans et perpetua voluntas jus
suum cuique tribuendi=--Justice is the constant
and unswerving desire to render to every man
his own. _Just._
=Justitia est obtemperatio scriptis legibus=--Justice
is conformity to the written laws. _Cic._
=Justitia et pax=--Justice and peace. _M._
=Justitia nihil expetit præmii=--Justice seeks no
reward. _Cic._
=Justitia non novit patrem nec matrem, solum= 35
=veritatem spectat=--Justice knows neither father
nor mother; it regards the truth alone. _L._
=Justitia tanta vis est, ut ne illi quidem, qui
maleficio et scelere pascuntur, possint sine
ulla particula justitiæ vivere=--There is such
force in justice, that those even who live by
crime and wickedness cannot live without some
small portion of it among them. _Cic._
=Justitia virtutum regina=--Justice is the queen
of virtues. _M._
=Justitiæ partes sunt, non violare homines
verecundiæ non offendere=--It is the office of
justice to injure no man; of propriety, to offend
none. _Cic._
=Justitiæ soror fides=--Faith the sister of justice.
_M._
=Justitiæ tenax=--Tenacious of justice. _M._ 40
=Justum bellum quibus necessarium, et pia arma
quibus nulla nisi in armis relinquitur spes=--War
is just to those to whom it is necessary; and
to take up arms is a sacred duty with those who
have no other hope left. _Livy._
=Justum et tenacem propositi virum, / Non
civium ardor prava jubentium, / Non vultus
instantis tyranni / Mente quatit solida=--Not
the rage of the citizens commanding wrongful
measures, not the aspect of the threatening
tyrant, can shake from his firm purpose the
man who is just and resolute. _Hor._
=Justus propositi tenax=--A just man steadfast to
his purpose. _Hor._
=Justus ut palma florebit=--The just shall flourish
as a palm tree. _M._
=Juvante Deo=--By the help of God. _M._ 45
=Juvenile vitium regere non posse impetum=--It
is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain
its own violence. _Sen._