[Greek: Kadmeia nikê]--A Cadmæan victory, _i.e._, one in
which the conquerors suffer as much as the conquered.
[Greek: Kai touto toi t' andreion, hê promêthia]--And
forethought too is a manly virtue. _Euripides._
[Greek: Kairon gnôthi]--Know your opportunity. _Pittachus,
one of the seven sages of Greece._
[Greek: Kakon anankaion]--A necessary evil. 50
[Greek: Kakou korakos kakon ôon]--From a bad crow a
bad egg. _Pr._
=Kalendæ Græcæ=--Never (_lit._ the Greek Kalends).
=Kalte Hand, warmes Herz=--A cold hand, a
warm heart. _Ger. Pr._
=Kann auch der Sonne Kraft ein irrer Stern
entwallen? / Wie könnte denn ein Mensch
aus Gottes Liebe fallen?=--Can a planet wander
away even from the power of the sun? How
then can man fall out of the love of God?
_Rückert._
=Kann er mir mehr als seine Seele geben?=--Can
he give me more than his soul? _Lortzing._
=Kann ich Armeen aus der Erde stampfen? /
Wächst mir ein Kornfeld in der flachen
Hand?=--Can I stamp armies out of the earth?
Does a field of corn grow on the palm of my
hand? _Schiller._
=Kannst dem Schicksal widerstehen, / Aber
manchmal giebt es Schläge; / Will's nicht
aus dem Wege gehen, / Ei! so geh' du aus
dem Wege.=--Thou canst withstand fate, but
many a time it gives blows. Will it not go out of
thy way, why then, go thou out of its. _Goethe._
=Kannst du nicht allen gefallen durch deine= 5
=That und dein Kunstwerk: / Mach' es
wenigen recht; vielen gefallen ist schlimm=--If
thou canst not by thy act or thy art please
every one, be it thy endeavour to please a few; to
attempt to please many is naught. _Schiller._
=Kannst du nicht der Welt entsagen, / Winkt
das Glück dir nimmer zu=--If thou canst not
renounce the world, the genius of happiness
never salutes thee. _Prutz._
=Kannst du nicht schön empfinden, dir bleibt
doch, vernünftig zu wollen, / Und als ein
Geist zu thun, was du als Mensch nicht
vermagst=--If thou canst not have fineness of
feelings, it is still open to thee to will what is
reasonable, and to do as a spirit what thou canst
not do as a man. _Goethe._
=Kartenspiel ist des Teufels Gebetsbuch=--A pack
of cards is the devil's prayer-book. _Ger. Pr._
[Greek: Kat' exochên]--By way of excellence; pre-eminently.
[Greek: Katopin heorês]--After the feast; too late. 10
[Greek: Katthane kai Patroklos, hoper seo pollon
ameinôn]--Even Patroclus is dead, who was much
better than thou. _Hom._
=Kauf bedarf hundert Augen; Verkauf hat an
einem genug=--One who buys needs a hundred
eyes; one is enough for him who sells. _Ger. Pr._
=Kaufen ist wohlfeiler als Bitten=--Buying is
cheaper than asking. _Ger. Pr._
=Kaum ist ein Irrthum unterdrückt, so erhebt
sich wieder ein anderer, den man schon in
tiefe Vergessenheit begraben glaubte=--No
sooner is one error suppressed than another rises
up again which was believed to be buried in
eternal oblivion. _Oersted._
=Keep a gamester from dice, and a good student= 15
=from his book.= _Merry Wives_, iii. 1.
=Keep a thing seven years, and you find a use
for it.= _Sc. Pr._
=Keep all thy native good, and naturalise /
All foreign of that name; but scorn their
ill; / Embrace their activeness, not vanities.=
_George Herbert._
=Keep always in your mind that, with due submission
to Providence, a man of genius has
been seldom ruined but by himself.= _Johnson._
=Keep company with the humble, with the devout,
and with the virtuous; and confer with
them of things that edify.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Keep cool, and you command everybody.= _St._ 20
_Just._
=Keep good company, and you shall be of the
number.= _Pr._
=Keep me in patience; and, with ripened time, /
Unfold the evil which is here wrapt up /
In countenance.= _Meas. for Meas._, v. 1.
=Keep my judgments and do them.= _Bible._
=Keep not standing fix'd and rooted; / Briskly
venture, briskly roam; / Head and hand,
where'er thou foot it, / And stout heart are
still at home. / In what land the sun does
visit, / Brisk are we, whate'er betide; / To
give space for wandering is it / That the
world was made so wide.= _Goethe._
=Keep oot o' his company wha cracks o' his= 25
=cheatery=, _i.e._, boasts of cunning. _Sc. Pr._
=Keep some till more come.= _Pr._
=Keep the bowels open, the head cool, and the
feet warm, and a fig for the doctors.= _Pr._
=Keep the common road and you are safe.= _Pr._
=Keep the dogs near when thou suppest with
the wolf.= _Eastern Pr._
=Keep the doors of thy mouth from her that= 30
=lieth in thy bosom.= _Bible._
=Keep the imagination sane; that is one of the
truest conditions of communion with heaven.=
_Hawthorne._
=Keep thy father's commandment, and forsake
not the law of thy mother.= _Bible._
=Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of
God, and be more ready to hear than to
give the sacrifice of fools.= _Bible._
=Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of
it are the issues of life.= _Bible._
=Keep thy mind always at its own disposal.= 35
_Thomas à Kempis._
=Keep thyself perfectly still, however it may
storm around thee. The more thou feelest
thyself to be a man, so much the more dost
thou resemble the gods.= _Goethe._
=Keep to companions of your own rank.= _Goldsmith._
=Keep to your subject close in all you say; /
Nor for a sounding sentence ever stray.=
_Dryden._
=Keep well while you are well.= _Pr._
=Keep what you want, cast what you can, and= 40
=expect nothing back once lost or once given.=
_Ruskin._
=Keep you in the rear of your affection, / Out of
the shot and danger of desire.= _Ham._, i. 3.
=Keep your ain fish guts for your ain seamaws=,
_i.e._, what you don't need yourselves for your own
friends. _Sc. Pr._
=Keep your breath to cool your own crowdie=
(cold stirabout), _i.e._, till you can use it to some
purpose. _Sc. Pr._
=Keep your eyes wide open before marriage;
half-shut afterwards.= _Amer. Pr._
=Keep your gab steeket= (mouth shut) =when ye= 45
=kenna= (know not) =your company.= _Sc. Pr._
=Keep your hurry in your fist.= _Irish Pr._
=Keep your idea while you can; let it still circulate
in your blood, and there fructify; inarticulately
inciting you to good activities;
giving to your whole spiritual life a ruddier
health. And when the time comes for speaking
it you will speak it all the more concisely
and the more expressively; and if such a
time should never come, have you not already
acted it and uttered it as no words
can?= _Carlyle._
=Keep your mouth and keep your friend.= _Dan.
Pr._
=Keep your mouth shut and your een open.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Keep your shop, and your shop will keep you.=
_Pr._
=Keeping from falling is better than helping
up.= _Pr._
=Kein Baum fällt auf den ersten Schlag=--No 5
tree falls at the first blow. _Ger. Pr._
=Kein Bündniss ist mit dem Gezücht der Schlangen=--No
covenant is to be made with the serpent's
brood. _Schiller._
=Kein Ding ist so schlecht, dass es nicht zu
etwas nützen sollte=--There's nothing so bad
as not to be of service for something. _Ger. Pr._
=Kein grosser Mann muss eines natürlichen
Todes sterben=--No great man is ordained to
die a natural death. _Goethe._
=Kein Kaiser hat dem Herzen vorzuschreiben=--No
emperor has power to dictate to the heart.
_Schiller._
=Kein kluger Streiter hält den Feind gering=--No 10
prudent antagonist thinks light of his
adversary. _Goethe._
=Kein Mann ist im Stande, den Werth eines
Weibes zu fühlen, das nicht sich zu ehren
weiss=--No man is able to feel the worth of a
woman who knows not how to respect herself.
_Goethe._
=Kein Mensch ergründet sein Verhängniss=--No
man ever fathoms the mystery of his fate.
_Bodenstedt._
=Kein Mensch kann so ganz Teufel sein, dass er /
Des Lichtes letzten Strahl in sich ersticke=--No
man can be so entirely evil as to stifle the
last ray of light in his soul. _Körner._
=Kein Mensch / Muss das Unmögliche erzwingen
wollen=--No man must seek to constrain
the impossible. _Goethe._
=Kein Mensch muss müssen=--No man is compelled 15
to be compelled (_lit._, must must). _Lessing._
=Kein schöner Ding ist wohl auf Erden / Als
Frauenlieb, wem sie mag werden=--There is
no finer thing, I ween, on earth than woman's
love to him who may be the object of it.
_Luther._
=Kein Schurke ist so dumm, dass er nicht einen
Grund für seine Niederträchtigkeit fände=--No
scoundrel is so stupid as not to find a reason
for his vile conduct. _Körner._
=Kein Wunder, dass wir uns Alle mehr oder
weniger im Mittelmässigen gefallen, weil
es uns in Ruhe lässt; es giebt das behagliche
Gefühl, als wenn man mit seines
Gleichen umginge=--No wonder we are all
more or less content with the ordinary, for it
leaves us undisturbed; we have the comfortable
feeling of having only to deal with our like.
_Goethe._
=Keine Gaukelkunst berückt / Das Flammenauge,
das ins Innere blickt=--By no juggler's
art can you beguile the eye of fire which glances
into the inner soul of things. _Schiller._
=Keine Kunst ist, Geister loszulassen; / Kunstgerecht= 20
=sie binden, ist die Kunst=--There is no
art in freeing spirits; to bind them by art is
art. _Rückert._
=Keine Probe ist gefährlich, zu der man Muth
hat=--No ordeal is hazardous which one has the
courage to face. _Goethe._
=Keinen Glauben hat die Liebe / Als den
Glauben an sich selber!=--Love has no faith
but faith in itself. _Bodenstedt._
=Keinen Reimer wird man finden, / Der sich
nicht den besten hielte, / Keinen Fiedler,
der nicht lieber / Eigne Melodien spielte=--You
will meet with no rhymer who does not
think himself the best, no fiddler who does not
prefer to play his own tunes. _Goethe._
=Keiner ist so klug, dass er nicht ein wenig
Narrheit übrig hätte=--No one is so wise as
not to have a little folly to spare. _Ger. Pr._
=Ken when to spend, and when to spare, and= 25
=when to buy, and you'll ne'er be bare.= _Sc.
Pr._
=Ken yoursel', and your neebours winna mistak'
you.= _Sc. Pr._
=Kennst du das herrliche Gift der unbefriedigten
Liebe? / Es versengt und erquickt, zehret
am Mark und erneut's=--Knowest thou the
lordly poison of disappointed love? It withers
up and quickens, consumes to the marrow and
renews. _Goethe._
=Kennst du das Land, wo die Citronen blüh'n?=--Know'st
thou the land where the lemon-trees
bloom? _Goethe._
=Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and
wickedness than all the other holes in this
world put together.= _Sterne._
=Ki sokat markol, keveset szorit=--He who 30
roves much takes firm root nowhere. _J. Arany._
=Kill, and thou shalt be killed, and they shall
kill him who kills thee.= _Sp. Pr._
=Kill no more than you can salt.= _Dan. Pr._
=Kin or no kin, evil to him who has nothing.=
_It. Pr._
=Kind hearts are more than coronets, and
simple faith than Norman blood.= _Tennyson._
=Kind words are worth much and they cost= 35
=little.= _Pr._
=Kind words don't wear the tongue.= _Dan. Pr._
=Kind words prevent a good deal of that perverseness
which rough and imperious usage
often produces in generous minds.= _Locke._
=Kindle not a fire that you cannot extinguish.=
_Pr._
=Kindliness decreases when money is in question.=
_Hausemann._
=Kindness by secret sympathy is tied; / For= 40
=noble souls in nature are allied.= _Dryden._
=Kindness canna aye lie on ae side o' the hoose.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Kindness comes o' will; it canna be coft=
(bought). _Sc. Pr._
=Kindness has resistless charms; / All things
else but weakly move; / Fiercest anger it
disarms, / And clips the wings of flying love.=
_Rochester._
=Kindness, in act at least, is in our power, but
fondness is not.= _Johnson._
=Kindness in us is the honey that blunts the= 45
=sting of unkindness in another.= _Landor._
=Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks,
shall win my love.= _Tam. the Shrew_, iv. 2.
=Kindness is a good thing in itself.= _Johnson._
=Kindness is lost upon an ungrateful man.=
_Pr._
=Kindness is the golden chain by which society
is bound together.= _Goethe._
=Kindness is virtue itself.= _Lamartine._ 50
=Kindness, nobler ever than revenge.= _As You
Like It_, iv. 3.
=Kindness out of season destroys authority.=
_Saadi._
=Kindness overcomes a' dislike.= _Sc. Pr._
=Kindness will creep whaur it canna gang.= _Sc.
Pr._
=Kindnesses, like grain, increase by sowing.= 5
_Pr._
=Kindnesses misplaced are nothing but a curse
and a disservice.= _Ennius._
=Kindred weaknesses induce friendship as often
as kindred virtues.= _Bovee._
=Kings alone are no more than single men.=
_Pr._
=Kings and bears aft worry their keepers.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves,= 10
=find a common level in two places--at the
foot of the cross and in the grave.= _Colton._
=Kings are but the slaves of their position; they
dare not follow what their own hearts dictate.=
_Schiller._
=Kings are like stars; they rise and set; they
have / The worship of the world, but no repose.=
_Shelley._
=Kings are said to have long arms; but every
man should have long arms, and should
pluck his living, his instruments, his power,
and his knowing from the sun, moon, and
stars.= _Emerson._
=Kings are willing to be aided, but not surpassed.=
_Grattan._
=Kings' caff= (chaff) =is better than ither folk's= 15
=corn=, _i.e._, perquisites in his service are better
than the wages others give. _Sc. Pr._
=Kings' cheese gangs half awa' in parings=, _i.e._,
in the expense of collecting it. _Sc. Pr._
=Kings chiefly in this should imitate God; their
mercy should be above all their works.= _Wm.
Penn._
=Kings do with men as with pieces of money;
they give them what value they please, and
we are obliged to receive them at their current,
and not at their real value.= _La Roche._
=Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.=
_Dryden._
=Kings hae long lugs= (ears). _Sc. Pr._ 20
=Kings have long arms.= _Pr._
=Kings may be bless'd, but Tam was glorious, /
O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.= _Burns._
=Kings ought to be kings in all things.= _Adrian._
=Kings ought to shear, not skin their sheep.=
_Herrick._
=Kings' titles commonly begin by force, / Which= 25
=time wears off, and mellows on to right.=
_Dryden._
=Kings who affect to be familiar with their
companions make use of men as they do of
oranges, which, when they have well sucked,
they throw away.= _Alva._
=Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects
are rebels from principle.= _Burke._
=Kings wish to be absolute, and they are sometimes
told that the best way to become so is
to make themselves beloved by the people;
but the maxim, unhappily, is laughed at in
court.= _Rousseau._
=Kiss (a) from my mother made me a painter.=
_Ben. West._
=Kisses are like grains of gold or silver found= 30
=upon the ground, of no value themselves, but
precious as showing what a mine is near.=
_George Villiers._
=Kisses are pledges and incentives of love.=
_Cotton._
=Kisses are the messengers of love.= _Dan. Pr._
=Kissing goes by favour.= _Pr._
=Klein gewin brengt rijkdom in=--Small gains
bring riches in. _Dut. Pr._
=Kleine Diebe henkt man, grosse lässt man= 35
=laufen=--We hang little thieves, but we let big
ones off. _Ger. Pr._
=Kleine Diebe henkt man, vor grossen zieht
man den Hut ab=--We hang little thieves, and
doff our hats to big ones. _Ger. Pr._
=Kleine Feinde und kleine Wunden sind nicht zu
verachten=--Paltry enemies and trifling wounds
are not to be despised. _Ger. Pr._
=Kleine Geschenke erhalten die Freundschaft=--Little
gifts keep friendship green. _Montesquieu._
=Kleiner Profit und oft, ist besser wie grosser
und selten=--Slender profits and often are better
than large ones and seldom. _Ger. Pr._
=Kluge Männer suchen wirthliche Frauen=--Prudent 40
men woo thrifty women--_Ger. Pr._
=Knave! because thou strikest as a knight; /
Being but knave, I hate thee all the more.=
_Tennyson._
=Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty
is firm and upright, and yields not.= _Collier._
=Knavery may serve for a turn, but honesty is
best in the long-run.= _Pr._
=Knavery's plain face is never seen till used.=
_Othello_, ii. 1.
=Knaves easily believe that others are like= 45
=themselves; they can hardly be deceived,
and they do not deceive others for any
length of time.= _La Bruyère._
=Knaves starve not in the land of fools.=
_Churchill._
=Knaves will thrive when honest plainness
knows not how to live.= _Shirley._
=Kneeling ne'er spoiled silk stockings; quit
thy state; / All equal are within the church's
gate.= _George Herbert._
=Know ere thou hint, and then thou may'st
slack: / If thou hint ere thou know, then
it is too late.= _Pr._
=Know, fools only trade by the eye.= _Quarles._ 50
=Know from the bounteous heaven all riches
flow; / And what man gives, the gods by
man bestow.= _Pope._
=Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and
be strong.= _Longfellow._
=Know, Nature's children all divide her care; /
The fur that warms a monarch warm'd a
bear.= _Pope._
=Know of a truth that only the time-shadows
have perished or are perishable; that the
real being of whatever was, and whatever
is, and whatever will be, is even now and
for ever.= _Carlyle._
=Know that nothing can so foolish be / As= 55
=empty boldness.= _George Herbert._
=Know that the loudest roar of the million is
not fame; that the wind bag, are ye mad
enough to mount it, will burst, or be shot
through with arrows, and your bones too
shall act as scarecrows.= _Carlyle._
=Know then this truth (enough for man to
know), / Virtue alone is happiness below.=
_Pope._
=Know then thyself; presume not God to scan; /
The proper study of mankind is man.= _Pope._
=Know thy thought--believe it--front heaven
and earth with it, in whatsoever words
nature and art have made readiest for thee.=
_Carlyle._
=Know thyself, for through thyself only thou
canst know God.= _Ruskin._
=Know whom to honour, and emulate, and= 5
=follow; know whom to dishonour and avoid,
and coerce under hatches, as a foul rebellious
thing--this is all the Law and all the
Prophets.= _Carlyle._
=Know ye not that the friendship of the world
is enmity with God?= _St. James._
=Know ye not who would be free themselves
must strike the blow? / By their right arms
the conquest must be wrought.= _Byron._
=Know ye the land where the cypress and
myrtle / Are emblems of deeds that are
done in their clime; / Where the rage of
the vulture, the love of the turtle, / Now
melt into sorrow, now madden to crime?=
_Byron._
=Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me /
From mine own library with volumes that /
I prize above my dukedom.= _Tempest_, i. 2.
=Knowing is seeing.= _Locke._ 10
=Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason; /
Work'st thou well to-day for worthy things; /
Calmly wait the morrow's hidden season; /
Need'st not fear what hap soe'er it brings.=
_Carlyle, after Goethe._
=Knowledge advances by steps, and not by
leaps.= _Macaulay._
=Knowledge always desires increase; it is like
fire, which must first be kindled by some external
agent, but which will afterwards propagate
itself.= _Johnson._
=Knowledge and timber should not be much
used until they are seasoned.= _Holmes._
=Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, /= 15
=Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge
dwells / In heads replete with thoughts of
other men; / Wisdom, in minds attentive
to their own.= _Cowper._
=Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not
virtuous.= _Plato._
=Knowledge being to be had only of visible
and certain truth, error is not a fault of
our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment,
giving assent to that which is not
true.= _Locke._
=Knowledge by rote is no knowledge, it is only
a retention of what has been intrusted to
the memory.= _Montaigne._
=Knowledge by suffering entereth, / And life
is perfected by death.= _E. B. Browning._
=Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.= _Tennyson._ 20
=Knowledge comes from experience alone.= _Carlyle._
=Knowledge conquered by labour becomes a
possession--a property entirely our own.=
_S. Smiles._
=Knowledge descries alone, wisdom applies; /
That makes some fools, this maketh none
but wise.= _Quarles._
=Knowledge exists to be imparted.= _Emerson._
=Knowledge has its penalties and pains as= 25
=well as its prizes.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Knowledge hath a bewildering tongue, and
she will stoop and lead you to the stars,
and witch you with her mysteries, till gold
is a forgotten dross, and power and fame
toys of an hour, and woman's careless love
light as the breath that breaks it.= _Willis._
=Knowledge humbleth the great man, astonisheth
the common man, and puffeth up the
little man.= _Pr._
=Knowledge in music is in the thinking, and not
in memorising.= _H. E. Holt._
=Knowledge introduceth man to acquaintance;
and, as the humble stream to the ocean,
so doth it conduct him into the hard-acquired
presence of the prince, whence fortune
floweth.= _Hitopadesa._
=Knowledge is a perennial spring of wealth,= 30
= ... and of itself is riches.= _Saadi._
=Knowledge is a retreat and shelter for us in
advanced age; and if we do not plant it
when young, it will give us no shade when
we grow old.= _Chesterfield._
=Knowledge is as food, and needs no less /
Her temp'rance over appetite, to know / In
measure what the mind may well contain, /
Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns /
Wisdom to folly, as nourishment to wind.=
_Milton._
=Knowledge is boundless; human capacity
limited.= _Chamfort._
=Knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.=
_Bible._
=Knowledge is escape from one's self.= (?) 35
=Knowledge is essential to freedom.= _Channing._
=Knowledge is just like the sun in the heavens,
inviting us to noble deeds and lighting our
path.= _M. Harvey._
=Knowledge is like current coin. A man may
have some right to be proud of possessing
it, (only) if he has worked for the gold of
it, and assayed it, and stamped it, so that it
may be received of all men as true, or earned
it fairly, being already assayed.= _Ruskin._
=Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.=
_Bacon._
=Knowledge is most surely engraved on brains= 40
=well prepared for it.= _Rousseau._
=Knowledge is no burden.= _Pr._
=Knowledge is not an inert and passive principle,
which comes to us whether we will
or no; but it must be sought before it can
be won; it is the product of great labour,
and therefore of great sacrifice.= _Buckle._
=Knowledge is not education, and can neither
make us happy nor rich.= _Ruskin._
=Knowledge is not happiness, and science but
an exchange of ignorance for that which
is another kind of ignorance.= _Byron._
=Knowledge is of things we see; / And yet we= 45
=trust it comes from thee, / A beam in darkness;
let it grow.= _Tennyson._
=Knowledge is power.= _Bacon._
=Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so
much; / Wisdom is humble that he knows
no more.= _Cowper._
=Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly
and essentially raises one man above another.=
_Addison._
=Knowledge is the consequence of time, and
multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.=
_Jeremy Collier._
=Knowledge is the excellency of man, whereby
he is usually differenced from the brute.=
_Swinnock._
=Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot
know.= _Emerson._
=Knowledge is the material with which genius
builds her fabrics.= _Bryant._
=Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom,= 5
=love itself.= _Hare._
=Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the
treasurer, of a wise man.= _Wm. Penn._
=Knowledge is the treasure of the mind, but
discretion is the key to it, without which
it is useless. The practical part of wisdom
is the best.= _Feltham._
=Knowledge is to one a goddess, to another
only an excellent cow.= _Schiller._
=Knowledge, love, power constitute the complete
life.= _Amiel._
=Knowledge may not be as a courtesan for= 10
=pleasure and vanity only; or as a bond-woman,
to acquire and gain for her master's
use; but as a spouse, for generation, fruit,
and comfort.= _Bacon._
=Knowledge of my way is a good part of my
journey.= _A. Warwick._
=Knowledge of our duties is the most useful
part of philosophy.= _Whately._
=Knowledge of the world is dearly bought at
the price of moral purity.= _E. Wigglesworth._
=Knowledge perverted is knowledge no longer.=
_Bulwer Lytton._
=Knowledge produceth humility; from humility= 15
=proceedeth worthiness; from worthiness
riches are acquired; from riches religion,
and thence happiness.= _Hitopadesa._
=Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.=
_St. Paul._
=Knowledge shall vanish away.= _St. Paul._
=Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth.=
_Schopenhauer._
=Knowledge that terminates in curiosity and
speculation is inferior to that which is useful,
and of all useful knowledge that is the
most so which consists in a due care and
just notion of ourselves.= _St. Bernard._
=Knowledge, the wing wherewith we fly to= 20
=heaven.= 2 _Hen. VI._, iv. 7.
=Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, /
Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll; /
Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, /
And froze the genial current of the soul.=
_Gray._
=Knowledge, when wisdom is too weak to guide
her, / Is like a headstrong horse that throws
the rider.= _Quarles._
=Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.=
_Hor._
=Knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.= _Johnson._
=Knowledge without justice ought to be called= 25
=cunning rather than wisdom.= _Plato._
=Knowledge without practice is like a glass
eye, all for show, and nothing for use.=
_Swinnock._
=Known unto God are all His works from the
beginning of the world.= _St. Paul._
=Komm jedem, wie er sei, mit edeln Sinn entgegen,
/ Vielleicht wird dann in ihm, was
edel ist, sich regen=--Accost whoever you may
meet with noble feeling; perhaps what is noble
will begin to stir in him. _J. Trojan._
=Kraft erwart' ich vom Mann, des Gesetzes
Würde behaupt' er; / Aber durch Anmuth
allein herrschet und herrsche das Weib=--I
look for power in the man; he affirms the dignity
of the law; but the woman rules, and will continue
to rule, through grace alone. _Schiller._
=Krankes Fleisch, kranker Geist=--Sickly in body, 30
sickly in mind. _Ger. Pr._
=Krieg bis aufs Messer=--War to the knife. _Ger._
=Krieg ist ewig zwischen List und Argwohn, /
Nur zwischen Glauben und Vertraun ist
Friede=--War is unending between cunning and
mistrust; only between faith and trust is there
peace. _Schiller._
[Greek: Kreisson toi sophiê kai megalês aretês]--Wisdom
is better than even great valour. _Theognis._
[Greek: Kreitôn hê pronoia tês metameleias]--Thought
beforehand is better than regret afterwards.
_Dionysius of Hal._
[Greek: Ktêma es aei]--A possession for ever. _Thucydides._ 35
[Greek: Kudos]--Fame; glory. _Gr._
=Kühl bis an's Herz hinan=--Cool to the very
heart. _Goethe._
[Greek: Kynos ommat' echôn]--Having dog's eyes. _Hom._
=Kunst ist die rechte Hand der Natur. Diese
hat nur Geschöpfe, jene hat Menschen
gemacht=--Art is the right hand of Nature.
The latter has made only creatures, the former
has made men. _Schiller._
=Kurz ist der Lieb' Entzücken, doch ewig ist= 40
=die Pein=--Short is the rapture of love, but
eternal is the pain. _S. Rossini._
=Kurz ist der Schmerz, und ewig ist die Freude!=--Short
is the pain and eternal the joy! _Schiller._
=Kyrie eleeison=--Lord, have mercy upon us.
=Kythe= (appear) =in your ain colours, that folk
may ken ye.= _Sc. Pr._