=Pabulum Acherontis=--Food for Acheron, _i.e._, on 30
the verge of the grave. _Plaut._
=Pace tanti viri=--If so great a man will forgive
me.
=Pacem hominibus habe, bellum cum vitiis=--Maintain
peace with men, war with their vices.
=Pacta conventa=--Conditions agreed upon.
=Pacte de famille=--A family compact. _Fr._
=Pactum non pactum est; non pactum pactum= 35
=est; quod vobis lubet=--A bargain is not a bargain,
no bargain is a bargain, as it pleases you.
_Plaut._
=Paga lo que debes, sabrás lo que tienes=--Pay
what you owe, and what you have you'll know.
_It. Pr._
="Pagan self-assertion" is one of the elements
of human worth as well as "Christian self-denial."=
_J. S. Mill._
=Pain has its own noble joy, when it kindles a
strong consciousness of life, before stagnant
and torpid.= _J. Sterling._
=Pain is less subject than pleasure to capricious
expression.= _Johnson._
=Pain is so uneasy a sentiment that very little= 40
=of it is enough to corrupt every enjoyment.=
_Rogers._
=Pain is the deepest thing we have in our
nature, and union through pain has always
seemed more real and holy than any other.=
_Hallam._
=Pain is the positive element in life, and pleasure
its negation.= _Schopenhauer._
=Pain past is pleasure.= _Pr._
=Pain pays the income of each precious thing.=
_Shakespeare._
=Painful for man is rebellious independence= 45
=when it has become inevitable; only in loving
companionship with his fellows does he
feel safe; only in reverently bowing down
before the Higher does he feel himself exalted.=
_Carlyle._
=Pains of love be sweeter far / Than all other
pleasures are.= _Dryden._
=Paint costs nothing.= _Dut. Pr._
="Paint me as I am."= (?)
=Painters draw their nymphs in thin and airy
habits, but the weight of gold and of embroideries
is reserved for queens and goddesses.=
_Dryden._
=Painting does not proceed so much by intelligence= 50
=as by sight and feeling and invention.=
_Hamerton._
=Painting is silent poetry, and poetry speaking
painting.= _Simonides._
=Painting is the intermediate between a thought
and a thing.= _Coleridge._
=Palabra de boca, piedra de honda=--A word
from the mouth is as a stone from a sling.
_Sp. Pr._
=Palabra y piedra suelta no tiene vuelta=--A
word and a stone once launched cannot be recalled.
_Sp. Pr._
=Palam mutire plebeio piaculum est=--For a
common man to mutter what he thinks is a
risky venture.
=Palinodiam canere=--To recant.
=Pallida mors æquo pulsat pede pauperum
tabernas, / Regumque turres=--Pale Death
with impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the
poor and the palaces of kings. _Hor._
=Palma non sine pulvere=--The palm, but not 5
without a struggle. _M._
=Palma virtuti=--The palm to virtue. _M._
=Palmam qui meruit ferat=--Let him bear the palm
that deserves it. _M._
=Panem et circenses=--Bread and the games of the
circus (what the Roman plebs took sole interest
in). _Juv._
=Paper and leather and ink, / All are but trash /
If I find not the thought / Which the writer
can think.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=Par bene comparatum=--A pair well matched. 10
=Par droit de conquète et par droit de naissance=--By
right of conquest and by right of birth.
_Henry IV. of France._
=Par excellence=--Pre-eminently. _Fr._
=Par l'écoulement du temps=--By the lapse of
time. _Fr._
=Par le droit du plus fort=--By the right of the
strongest. _Pr._
=Par les mêmes voies on ne va pas toujours aux= 15
=mêmes fins=--The same means do not always lead
to the same ends. _La Roche._
=Par ma foi! l'âge ne sert de guère / Quand on
n'a pas cela=--By my faith, age serves but little
if one has not that (brains). _Molière._
=Par manière d'acquit=--For form's sake. _Fr._
=Par negotiis, neque supra=--Equal to, and not
above, his business. _Tac._
=Par nobile fratrum=--A precious pair of brothers.
_Hor._
=Par pari referto=--Give him back tit for tat. _Ter._ 20
=Par signe de mépris=--In token of contempt. _Fr._
=Par ternis suppar=--The two are equal to the
three. _M._
=Par trop débattre la vérité se perd=--The truth
is sacrificed by too much disputation. _Fr. Pr._
=Par un prompt désespoir souvent on se marie, /
Qu'on s'en repent après tout le temps de sa
vie=--We often marry in despair, so that we repent
of it all our life after. _Molière._
=Paradise is always where love dwells.= _Jean_ 25
_Paul._
=Paradise is for those who control their anger.=
_Koran._
=Paradise is under the shadow of our swords.=
_Mahomet._
=Parasiticam cœnam quærit=--He seeks the meal
of a parasite or hanger-on.
=Parce, puer, stimulis et fortius utere loris=--Boy,
spare the goad and more firmly grasp the
reins. _Ovid._
=Parcere personis, dicere de vitiis=--To spare persons, 30
to condemn crimes. _Mart._
=Parcere subjectis et debellare superbos=--To
spare the conquered, to subdue the haughty. _Virg._
=Parcite paucorum diffundere crimen in omnes=--Forbear
to lay the guilt of the few upon the
many. _Ovid._
=Parcus Deorum cultor, et infrequens, / Insanientis
dum sapientiæ / Consultus erro;
nunc retrorsum / Vela dare, atque iterare
cursus / Cogor relictos=--A niggard and unfrequent
worshipper of the gods, as long as I strayed
from the way by senseless philosophy; I am now
forced to turn my sail back, and to retrace the
course I had deserted. _Hor._
=Pardon is the choicest flower of victory.= _Arab.
Pr._
=Parents are commonly more careful to bestow= 35
=wit on their children than virtue, the art of
speaking well than of doing well; but their
manners ought to be the great concern.=
_Fuller._
=Parents' blessings can neither be drowned in
water nor consumed in fire.= _Pr._
=Parents we can have but once; and he promises
himself too much who enters life with
the expectation of finding many friends.=
_Johnson._
=Pares cum paribus ut est in veteri proverbio
facillime congregantur=--As in the old proverb,
"Like associates most naturally with like." _Cic._
=Parfois, élus maudits de la fureur suprême, / ... Ces
envoyés du ciel sont apparus au monde /
Comme s'ils venaient de l'enfer=--Sometimes
these ambassadors of heaven, the accursed elect
of the wrath of heaven, appear in the world as
though they came from hell. _Victor Hugo._
=Pari passu=--With equal steps or pace; neck and 40
neck.
=Pari ratione=--By parity of reason.
=Paritur pax bello=--Peace is produced by war.
_Corn. Nep._
=Parlez du loup et vous en verrez la queue=--Speak
of the wolf and you will see his tail; speak
of the devil and he will appear. _Fr. Pr._
=Parlez peu et bien, si vous voulez qu'on vous
regarde comme un homme de mérite=--Speak
little and well if you wish to be esteemed a man
of merit. _Fr._
=Parliamentary government is government by= 45
=speaking.= _Macaulay._
=Pars beneficii est quod petitur si belle neges=--To
refuse graciously is to confer a favour. _Pub.
Syr._
=Pars beneficii est quod petitur si cito neges=--To
refuse a favour quickly is to grant one. _Pub.
Syr._
=Pars hominum vitiis gaudet constanter, et
urget / Propositum: pars multa natat, modo
recta capessens, / Interdum pravis obnoxia=--A
portion of mankind glory consistently in
their vices and pursue their purpose; many
more waver between doing what is right and
complying with what is wrong. _Hor._
=Pars minima est ipsa puella sui=--The girl herself
is the least part of herself. _Ovid._
=Pars minima sui=--The smallest part of himself 50
or itself.
=Pars sanitatis velle sanari fuit=--It is a step to
the cure to be willing to be cured. _Sen._
=Parsimonia est magnum vectigal=--Thrift is a
great revenue. _Cic._
=Parsimony is enough to make the master of
the golden mines as poor as he that has
nothing; for a man may be brought to a
morsel of bread by parsimony as well as
profusion.= _Henry Home._
=Parta tueri=--Defend what you have won. _M._
=Partage de Montgomerie: tout d'un côté,
rien de l'autre=--A Montgomery division: everything
on one side and nothing on the other.
_Fr. Pr._
=Parthis mendacior=--More mendacious than the
Parthians. _Hor._
=Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme
culture to simplicity.= _Bovee._
=Particeps criminis=--A partaker in a crime; an
accessory either before or after the fact.
=Parties do not consider; they only feel.= _Ranke._ 5
=Parting day / Dies like a dolphin, whom each
pang imbues / With a new colour as it gasps
away, / The last still loveliest, till--'tis gone,
and all is gray.= _Byron._
=Parting is worse than death; it is death of
love.= _Dryden._
=Parting with a delusion makes one wiser than
falling in with a truth.= _Börne._
=Parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus=--Mountains
are in labour, a ridiculous mouse will
be brought forth. _Hor._
=Party honesty is party expediency.= _G. Cleveland._ 10
=Party is the madness of many for the gain of
the few.= _Pope._
=Party standards are shadows in which patriotism
is buried.= _Bernardine de St. Pierre._
=Parva leves capiunt animos=--Little minds are
caught with trifles. _Ovid._
=Parva sunt hæc; sed parva ista non contemnendo
majores nostri maximam hanc rem
fecerunt=--These are small things; but it was
by not despising these small things that our
forefathers made the commonwealth so great.
_Livy._
=Parvis componere magna=--To compare great 15
things with small. _Virg._
=Parvula (nam exemplo est) magni formica laboris
/ Ore trahit quodcunque potest atque
addit acervo, / Quem struit, haud ignara ac
non incauta futuri=--The ant, for instance, is a
creature of great industry, drags with its mouth
all it can, and adds to the heap it piles up, not
ignorant or improvident of the future. _Hor._
=Parvula scintilla sæpe magnum suscitavit incendium=--A
very small spark has often kindled
a great conflagration.
=Parvum non parvæ amicitiæ pignus=--A slight
pledge of no small friendship. _M._
=Parvum parva decent=--Him that is little little
things become. _Hor._
=Pas à pas on va bien loin=--Step by step one goes 20
very far. _Fr._
=Pas un pouce de notre territoire, ni une pierre
de nos forteresses!=--Not an inch of our territory,
not a stone of our fortresses! _Jules Favre
in_ 1870, _to the demand of Germany._
=Pascitur in vivis livor, post fata quiescit; /
Tunc suus, ex merito, quemque tuetur honos=--Envy
feeds upon the living, after death it rests;
then the honour a man deserves protects him.
_Ovid._
[Greek: Pasin gar eu phronousi symmachei tychê]--Fortune
always fights on the side of the prudent.
_Critias._
=Pass no rash censure upon other people's words
or actions.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Passato il pericolo gabbato il santo=--When the 25
danger is passed the saint is cheated. _It. Pr._
=Passe avant=--Pass ahead. _M._
=Passe par tout=--A master-key; a pass-key.
=Passez-moi la rhubarbe et je vous passerai le
séné=--Pass you me the rhubarb, and I will pass
you the senna, _i.e._, shut your eyes to my faults,
and I will to yours. _Molière._
=Passion depraves, but also ennobles.= _Lamartine._
=Passion drives the man, passions the woman;= 30
=him a stream, her the winds.= _Jean Paul._
=Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.= _South._
=Passion is universal humanity. Without it
religion, history, romance, art, would be useless.=
_Balzac._
=Passion looks not beyond the moment of its
existence.= _Bovee._
=Passion makes the best observations and the
sorriest conclusions.= _Jean Paul._
=Passion makes the will lord of the reason.= 35
_Shakespeare._ (?)
=Passion often makes a fool of the most ingenious
man, and often makes the greatest
blockhead ingenious.= _Thomson._
=Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful
spring.= _Emerson._
=Passionate people are like men who stand upon
their heads; they see all things in the wrong
way.= _Plato._
=Passions are likened best to floods and
streams; / The shallow murmur, but the
deep are dumb.= _Sir W. Raleigh._
=Passions are the gales of life.= _Pope._ 40
=Passions are the vices or virtues in their highest
powers.= _Goethe._
=Passions existed before principles; they came
into the world with us.= _Mrs. Jameson._
=Passions may not unfitly be termed the mob
of the man, that commits a riot upon his
reason.= _Wm. Penn._
=Passions spin the plot; we are betrayed by
what is false within.= _George Meredith._
=Past and to come seem best, things present= 45
=worst.= 2 _Hen. IV._, i. 2.
=Pastime, like wine, is poison in the morning.=
_Thomas Fuller._
=Patch and long sit, / Build and soon flit.=
_Pr._
=Patch grief with proverbs.= _Much Ado_, v. 1.
=Pater familias=--The father of a family.
=Pater noster=--Our father; the Lord's prayer. 50
=Pater patriæ=--The father of his country.
[Greek: pathêmata--mathêmata]--We learn from the things
we suffer. _Æsop._
=Patience and perseverance overcome the
greatest difficulties.= _Clarissa._
=Patience, and shuffle the cards.= _Cervantes._
=Patience et longueur de temps / Font plus= 55
=que force ni que rage=--Patience and length of
time accomplish more than violence and rage.
_La Fontaine._
=Patience had no sooner placed herself by the
mount of sorrows, but the whole heap sunk
to such a degree, that it did not appear a
third part so big as it was before.= _Addison._
=Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.=
_Disraeli._
=Patience is a plaister for all sores.= _Pr._
=Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.= _Pub.
Syr._
=Patience is a stout horse, but it will tire at
the last.= _Pr._
=Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.=
_Rousseau._
=Patience is even more rarely manifested in the
intellect than in the temper.= _Helps._
=Patience is genius.= _Buffon._
=Patience is good for poltroons.= 3 _Hen. VI._, 5
i. 1.
=Patience is sister to meekness, and humility is
its mother.= _Saying._
=Patience is the art of hoping.= _Vauvenargues._
=Patience is the ballast of the soul, that will
keep it from rolling and tumbling in the
greatest storms.= _Bp. Hopkins._
=Patience is the key of content.= _Mahomet._
=Patience is the key of Paradise.= _Turk. Pr._ 10
=Patience is the support of weakness; impatience,
the ruin of strength.= _Colton._
=Patience, money, and time bring all things to
pass.= _Pr._
=Patience of obscurity is a duty which we owe
not more to our happiness than to the quiet
of the world at large.= _Sydney Smith._
=Patience passe science=--Patience surpasses
knowledge. _M._
=Patience, unmoved, no marvel though she= 15
=pause; / They can be meek that have no
other cause.= _Com. of Errors_, ii. 1.
=Patience wears out stones.= _Gael. Pr._
=Patience, when it is a divine thing, is active,
not passive.= _Lowell._
=Patience wi' poverty is a man's best remedy.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Patient waiters are no losers.= _Pr._
=Patientia læsa fit furor=--Patience abused becomes 20
fury.
=Patientia vinces=--You will conquer by patience.
_M._
=Patiently add farthing to farthing.= _Goldsmith._
=Patitur qui vincit=--He suffers who conquers. _M._
=Patria cara, carior libertas=--Dear is my country,
but liberty is dearer. _M._
=Patria quis exul / Se quoque fugit?=--What 25
fugitive from his country can also fly from himself?
_Hor._
=Patriæ fumus igne alieno luculentior=--The
smoke of our own country is brighter than fire
in a foreign one. _Pr._
=Patriæ infelici fidelis=--Faithful to my unhappy
country. _M._
=Patriæ pietatis imago=--The image of his filial
affection. _Virg._
=Patriæ solum omnibus carum est=--The soil of
their native land is dear to the hearts of all
men. _Cic._
=Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering= 30
=as on mutual success.= _Disraeli._
=Patriotism has its roots deep in the instincts
and the affections. Love of country is the
expansion of filial love.= _D. D. Field._
=Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.=
_Johnson._
=Patriotism is the vital condition of national
permanence.= _G. W. Curtis._
=Patriotism must be founded on great principles
and supported by great virtue.= _Bolingbroke._
[Greek: patris gar esti pas', hin' an prattê tis eu]--One's 35
country is wherever things go well with
him. _Aristophanes._
=Patroclus is dead, who was better by far than
thou.= _Hom._
=Patronage, that is, pecuniary or other economic
furtherance, has been pronounced to be twice
cursed, cursing him that gives and him that
takes.= _Carlyle._
=Pauca Catonis verba, sed a pleno venientia
pectore veri=--The words of Cato were few, but
they came from a heart full of truth. _Lucan._
=Pauca verba=--Few words.
=Pauci dignoscere possunt / Vera bona, atque= 40
=illis multum diversa=--Few men can distinguish
the genuinely good from the reverse. _Juv._
=Paucis carior est fides quam pecunia=--To few
is good faith more than valuable money. _Sall.,
of his own times._
=Paul Pry is on the spy.= _Pr._
=Paullatim=--By degrees. _M._
=Paulum sepultæ distat inertiæ / Celata virtus=--Worth
that is hidden differs little from buried
sloth. _Hor._
=Pauper enim non est cui rerum suppetit usus. /= 45
=Si ventri bene, si lateri pedibusque tuis, nil /
Divitiæ poterunt regales addere majus=--That
man is not poor who has a sufficiency for
all his wants. If it is well with your stomach,
your lungs, and your feet, the wealth of kings
can add no more. _Hor._
=Pauper sum, fateor, patior; quod Di dant fero=--I
am poor, I admit; I put up with it. What
the gods give I bear with. _Plaut._
=Pauper ubique jacet=--Everywhere the poor man
is despised. _Ovid._
=Pauperism is our social sin grown manifest.=
_Carlyle._
=Pauperism is the general leakage through
every joint of the ship that is rotten.= _Carlyle._
=Paupertas est, non quæ pauca possidet, sed= 50
=quæ multa non possidet=--Poverty is not possessing
few things, but lacking many things.
_Sen._
=Paupertas fugitur, totoque arcessitur orbe=--Poverty
is shunned and treated as criminal
throughout the world. _Lucan._
=Paupertatis pudor et fuga=--The shame and the
bugbear of poverty. _Hor._
=Pauperum solatio=--For the solace of the poor. _M._
=Pauvres gens, je les plains; car on a pour les
fous / Plus de pitié que de courroux=--Poor
people, I pity them; for one always entertains
for fools more pity than anger. _Boileau, on disappointed
authors._
=Pavore carent qui nihil commiserunt; at= 55
=pœnam semper ob oculos versari putant qui
peccarunt=--The innocent are free from fear;
but the guilty have always the dread of punishment
before their eyes.
=Pax Cererem nutrit, pacis alumna Ceres=--Peace
is the nurse of Ceres; Ceres is the nursling
of Peace. _Ovid._
=Pax in bello=--Peace in war. _M._
=Pax paritur bello=--Peace is produced by war.
_Corn. Nep._
=Pax vobiscum=--Peace be with you.
=Pay as you go is the philosopher's stone.= _S._ 60
_Randolph of Roanoke._
=Pay beforehand if you would have your work
ill done.= _Pr._
=Pay good wages, or your servants will pay
themselves.= _Pr._
=Pay not before thy work be done; if thou
dost, it will never be well done, and thou
wilt have but a pennyworth for twopence.=
_Franklin._
=Pay the reckoning over-night, and you won't
be troubled in the morning.= _Pr._
=Pay well when you are served well.= _Pr._ 5
=Pay what you owe, and what you're worth
you'll know.= _Pr._
=Pay without fail, / Down on the nail.= _Pr._
=Pazza è chi non sa da che parte vien il vento=--He
is a senseless fellow who does not know from
what quarter the wind blows. _It. Pr._
=Peace hath her victories, / No less renown'd
than war.= _Milton._
=Peace is liberty in tranquility.= _Cic._ 10
=Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.= _Schiller._
=Peace is the happy natural state of man;
war his corruption, his disgrace.= _Thomson._
=Peace is the masterpiece of reason.= _J. Müller._
=Peace, justice, and the word of God must be
given to the people, not sold.= _Ruskin._
=Peace, of all worldly blessings, is the most= 15
=valuable.= _Smallridge._
=Peace with a cudgel in hand is war.= _Port.
Pr._
=Peacefully and reasonably to contemplate is
at no time hurtful, and while we use ourselves
to think of the advantages of others,
our own mind comes insensibly to imitate
them; and every false activity to which our
fancy was alluring us is then willingly abandoned.=
_Goethe._
=Peccare docentes / Fallax historias movet=--He
deceitfully relates stories that are merely
lessons in vice. _Hor._
=Peccare licet nemini=--No one has leave to sin.
_Cic._
=Peccavi=--I have sinned. To cry "peccavi" is to 20
acknowledge one's error.
=Péché avoué est à moitié pardonné=--A sin
confessed is half forgiven. _Fr. Pr._
=Pectus est quod disertos facit=--It is the heart
which inspires eloquence. _Quinct._
=Pecuniam in loco negligere / Interdum maximum
est lucrum=--To despise money on proper
occasions is sometimes a very great gain. _Ter._
=Pecuniam perdidisti: fortasse illa te perderet
manens=--You have lost your money; perhaps,
if you had kept it, it would have lost you.
=Pedanterie setzt ganz nothwendig Leere=--Pedantry 25
quite necessarily presupposes vacancy.
_Rahel._
=Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber,
and takes out our brains to make room for
it.= _Colton._
=Pedantry is properly overrating any kind
of knowledge we pretend to.= _Swift._
=Pedibus timor addidit alas=--Fear gave wings to
his feet.
=Peevishness covers with its dark fog even the
most distant horizon.= _Jean Paul._
=Pegasus im Joche=--Pegasus in harness. _Schiller._ 30
=Peggior della morte è il turpe riposo=--Worse
than death is shameful repose. _Niccolo Tommaseo._
=Peine forte et dure=--Heavy and severe punishment
(specially that of putting heavy weights on
prisoners who refused to plead).
=Pelt all dogs that bark, and you will need
many stones.= _Pr._
[Greek: pêm' epi pêmati]--Evil on the top of evil.
=Pence well-spent are better than pence ill-spared.= 35
_Pr._
=Pendente lite=--While the suit is pending.
=Pendre la crémaillère=--To give a house-warming.
_Fr._
=Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases
our vanity more than any other quality of
the mind.= _La Roche._
=Penitus toto divisos orbe Britannos=--The
Britons, quite sundered from all the world.
_Virg._
=Penny goes after penny, / Till Peter hasn't= 40
=any.= _Pr._
=Penny wise is often pound foolish.= _Pr._
=Pense ce que tu veux, dis ce que tu dois=--Think
what you like, say what you ought.
_Fr. Pr._
=Pense moult, parle peu, écris moins=--Think
much, speak little, write less. _Fr. Pr._
=Penser, vivre, et mourir en roi=--To think, live,
and die as a king. _Frederick the Great._
=Pensez à bien=--Think of good. _M._ 45
=People abuse freedom only where they have
asserted it, not where it has been given
them.= _Börne._
=People are always expecting to get peace in
heaven; but you know whatever peace they
get there will be ready-made. Whatever of
making peace they can be blest for must be
on the earth here.= _Ruskin._
=People are only accustomed to revolve around
themselves.= _Goethe._
=People are rendered sociable by their inability
to endure their own society.= _Schiller._
=People are wise for the past day in the evening,= 50
=but never wise enough for the coming
one.= _Rückert._
=People, crushed by laws, have no hopes but
from power. If laws are their enemies,
they will be enemies to laws; and those
who have much to hope and nothing to
lose will always be dangerous, more or
less.= _Burke._
=People dispute a great deal about the good
that is done and the harm by disseminating
the Bible= (_Bibelverbreitung_). =To me
this is clear: the Bible will do harm if, as
hitherto, it is used dogmatically and interpreted
fancifully, and it will do good if it
is treated feelingly and applied didactically.=
_Goethe._
=People do not care to give alms without some
security for their money; and a wooden
leg or a withered arm is a sort of draft
upon heaven for those who choose to have
their money placed to account there.= _Mackenzie._
=People do not lack strength; they lack will.=
_Victor Hugo._
=People do not mind their faults being spread= 55
=out before them, but they become impatient
if called upon to give them up.= _Goethe._
=People in adversity should preserve laudable
customs.= _Clarissa._
=People (in authority) are accustomed merely
to forbid, to hinder, to refuse, but rarely to
bid, to further, and to reward. They let
things go along till some mischief happens;
then they fly into a rage, and lay about
them.= _Goethe._
=People love to have all rash actions done in a
hurry.= _Goldsmith._
=People may live as much retired from the world
as they like, but sooner or later they find
themselves debtor or creditor to some one.=
_Goethe._
=People must begin before they attempt to finish
or improve.= _Wm. Blake._
=People seem to think themselves in some= 5
=ways superior to heaven itself, when they
complain of the sorrow and want round
about them; and yet it is not the devil for
certain who puts pity into their hearts.=
_Anne J. Thackeray._
=People should never sit talking till they don't
know what to talk about.= _Saying._
=People that are like-minded= (_Gleichgesinnten_)
=can never for any length be disunited= (_entzweien_);
=they always come together again;
whereas those that are not like-minded=
(_Widergesinnten_) =try in vain to maintain harmony;
the essential discord between them
will be sure to break out some day.= _Goethe._
=People that have nothing to do are quickly
tired of their own company.= _J. Collier._
=People that make puns are like wanton boys
that put coppers on the railroad tracks.
They amuse themselves and other children,
but their little trick may upset a freight
train of conversation for the sake of a battered
witticism.= _Holmes._
=People that will crowd about bonfires may=, 10
=sometimes very fairly, get their beards
singed; it is the price they pay for such
illumination; natural twilight is safe and
free to all.= _Carlyle._
=People throw stones only at trees which have
fruit on them.= _Pr._
=People who are always taking care of their
health are like misers, who are hoarding up
a treasure which they have never spirit
enough to enjoy.= _Sterne._
=People who are too sharp cut their own
fingers.= _Pr._
=People who can't be witty exert themselves to
be pious and affectionate.= _George Eliot._
=People who do not know how to laugh are always= 15
=pompous and self-conceited.= _Thackeray._
=People who have little to do are great talkers.
The less they think the more they talk, and
so women talk more than men. A nation
where women determine the fashion is always
talkative.= _Montesquieu._
=People who honestly mean to be true really
contradict themselves much more rarely than
those who try to be consistent.= _Holmes._
=People who live in glass houses should never
throw stones.= _Pr._
=People who never have any time are those
who do least.= _Lichtenberg._ (?)
=People will not look forward to posterity who= 20
=never look backward to their ancestors.=
_Burke._
=People would do well if, tarrying here for
years together, they observed a while a
Pythagorean silence.= _Goethe._
=People would do well if they would keep piety,
which is so essential and lovable in life, distinct
from art, where, owing to its very simplicity
and dignity, it checks their energy,
allowing only the very highest mind freedom
to unite with, if not actually to master, it.=
_Goethe._
=Per accidens=--By accident, _i.e._, not following
from the nature of the thing, but from some
accidental circumstance.
=Per acuta belli=--Through the perils of war. _M._
=Per angusta ad augusta=--Through hardship to 25
triumph. _M._
=Per annum=--By the year; yearly.
=Per ardua liberi=--Free through difficulty. _M._
=Per aspera ad astra=--over rough paths to the
stars. _M._
=Per contra=--On the other hand.
=Per Deum et ferrum obtinui=--I have obtained 30
it by God and my sword. _M._
=Per fas et nefas=--By right ways and by wrong.
=Per il suo contrario=--By its opposite. _M._
=Per incuriam=--Through carelessness.
=Per mare per terram=--By sea and land. _M._
=Per obitum=--Through the death of. 35
=Per quod servitium amisit=--For loss of his or
her services. _L._
=Per saltam=--By a leap; by passing over the intermediate
steps.
=Per undas et ignes fluctuat nec mergitur=--Through
water and fire she goes plunging but
is not submerged. _M. of Paris._
=Per varios casus, per tot discrimina rerum=--Through
manifold misfortunes, and so many
perils. _Virg._
=Per vias rectas=--By direct ways. _M._ 40
=Peras imposuit Jupiter nobis duas; / Propriis
repletam vitiis post tergum dedit. / Alienis
ante pectus suspendit gravem=--Jupiter has
laid two wallets on us; he has placed one behind
our backs filled with our own faults, and has
hung another before, heavy with the faults of
other people. _Phædr._
=Percunctatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem
est; / Nec retinent patulæ commissa fideliter
aures=--Avoid an inquisitive person, for he is
sure to be a gossip; ears always open to hear
will not keep faithfully what is intrusted to them.
_Hor._
=Perdidit arma, locum virtutis deseruit, qui /
Semper in augenda festinat et obruitur re=--He
has lost his arms and deserted the cause of
virtue who is ever eager and engrossed in increasing
his wealth. _Hor._
=Perdis, et in damno gratia nulla tuo=--You lose,
and for your loss get no thanks. _Ovid._
=Pereant amici, dum una inimici intercidant=--Let 45
our friends perish, provided our enemies fall
along with them. _Gr. and Lat. Pr., quoted by
Cicero to condemn it._
=Pereunt et imputantur=--They (hours) pass, and
are placed to our account. _Mart._
=Perfect existence can only be where spirit and
body are one; an embodied spirit, a spiritual
body.= (?)
=Perfect experience must itself embrace theoretical
knowledge.= _Goethe._
=Perfect life is ever in one's acts to deal with
innocence, which proves itself in doing wrong
to no one but itself.= _Goethe._
=Perfect light / Would dazzle, not illuminate,
the sight; / From earth it is enough to
glimpse at heaven.= _Lord Houghton._
=Perfect love canna be without equality.= _Sc. Pr._
=Perfect love casteth out fear.= _St. John._
=Perfect love holds the secret of the world's
perfect liberty.= _J. G. Holland._
=Perfect woman, nobly planned, / To warn, to= 5
=comfort, and command; / And yet a spirit
still, and bright / With something of an
angel light.= _Wordsworth._
=Perfect works are rare, because they must be
produced at the happy moment when taste
and genius unite: and this rare conjunction,
like that of certain planets, appears to occur
only after the revolution of several cycles,
and only lasts for an instant.= _Chateaubriand._
=Perfecting is our destiny, but perfection is
never our lot.= _J. C. Weber._
=Perfection is not the affair of the scholar; it is
enough if he practises.= _Goethe._
=Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim=--Bear
and endure; this sorrow will one day
prove to be for your good. _Ovid._
=Perfer et obdura; multo graviora tulisti=--Bear 10
and endure; you have borne much heavier misfortunes
than these. _Ovid._
=Perfervidum ingenium Scotorum=--The very
ardent temper of the Scots.
=Perfida, sed quamvis perfida, cara tamen=--Faithless,
but, though faithless, still dear. _Tibull._
=Pergis pugnantia secum / Frontibus adversis
componere=--You are attempting to reconcile
things which are opposite in their natures. _Hor._
="Perhaps" hinders folks from lying.= _Pr._
=Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to= 15
=denote the manners of the gentleman.= _Hazlitt._
=Perhaps the early grave / Which men weep
over may be meant to save.= _Byron._
=Periculosæ plenum opus aleæ / Tractas, et incedis
per ignes / Suppositos cineri doloso=--The
work you are treating is one full of dangerous
hazard, and you are treading over fires
lurking beneath treacherous ashes. _Hor._
=Periculosum est credere et non credere; /
Ergo exploranda est veritas, multam prius /
Quam stulta prave judicet sententia=--It is
equally dangerous to believe and to disbelieve;
therefore search diligently into the truth rather
than suffer an erroneous impression to pervert
your judgment. _Phædr._
=Periculum in mora=--There is danger in delay.
=Perierunt tempora longi / Servitii=--My long 20
period of service has led to no advancement. _Juv._
=Perimus licitis=--We come to ruin by permitted
things. _Pr._
=Perish discretion when it interferes with duty.=
_Hannah More._
=Périsse l'univers pourvu que je me venge!=--Let
the universe perish, provided I have my
revenge! _Cyrano._
=Périssons en résistant!=--Let us die resisting! _Fr._
=Perituræ parcite chartæ=--Spare the paper which 25
is fated to perish. _Adapted from Juvenal._
=Perjuria ridet amantum Jupiter=--Jupiter laughs
at the perjuries of lovers. _Ovid._
=Perjurii pœna divina exitium, humana dedecus=--The
punishment of perjury at the hands of the
gods is perdition; at the hands of man, is disgrace.
_One of the laws of the Twelve Tables._
=Perlen bedeuten Thränen=--Pearls mean tears.
_Lessing._
=Permanence is what I advocate in all human
relations; nomadism, continual change, is
prohibitory of any good whatsoever.= _Carlyle._
=Permanence, perseverance, persistence in spite= 30
=of hindrances, discouragements, and "impossibilities:"
it is this that in all things distinguishes
the strong soul from the weak; the
civilised burgher from the nomadic savage--the
species Man from the genus Ape.= _Carlyle._
=Permanence, persistence, is the first condition
of all fruitfulness in the ways of men.= _Carlyle._
=Permissu superiorum=--By permission of the
superiors.
=Permitte divis cætera=--Commit the rest to the
gods. _Hor._
=Perpetual solitude, in a place where you see
nothing to raise your spirits, at length wears
them out, and conversation falls into dull and
insipid.= _Lady Montagu._
=Perpetuus nulli datur usus, et hæres / Hæredem= 35
=alterius, velut unda supervenit undam=--Perpetual
possession is allowed to none, and
one heir succeeds another, as wave follows
wave. _Hor._
=Persecution is a tribute the great must ever
pay for pre-eminence.= _Goldsmith._
=Persecution is not wrong because it is cruel;
it is cruel because it is wrong.= _Whately._
=Persecution to persons in high rank stands
them in the stead of eminent virtue.= _Cardinal
de Retz._
=Perseverance and audacity generally win.=
_Mme. Deluzy._
=Perseverance and tact are the two great= 40
=qualities most valuable for all men who
would mount, but especially for those who
have to step out of the crowd.= _Disraeli._
=Perseverance, dear, my lord, / Keeps honour
bright. To have done is to hang / Quite
out of fashion, like a rusty mail, / In monumental
mockery.= _Troil. and Cres._, iii. 3.
=Perseverance is a Roman virtue that wins each
godlike act, and plucks success even from the
spear-proof crest of rugged danger.= _Harvard._
=Perseverance performs greater works than
strength.= _Pr._
=Perseverance, self-reliance, energetic effort,
are doubly strengthened when you rise from
a failure to battle again.= _Anon._
=Perseverando=--By persevering. _M._ 45
=Perseverantia=--By perseverance. _M._
=Persevere and never fear.= _Pr._
=Persevere in the fight, struggle on, do not let
go, think magnanimously of man and life,
for man is good and life is affluent and fruitful.=
_Vauvenargues._
=Persist, persevere, and you will find most things
attainable that are possible.= _Chesterfield._
=Personæ mutæ=--Mute characters in a play. 50
=Personal attachment is no fit ground for public
conduct, and those who declare they will
take care of the rights of the sovereign
because they have received favours at his
hand, betray a little mind and warrant the
conclusion that if they did not receive those
favours they would be less mindful of their
duties, and act with less zeal for his interest.=
_C. Fox._
=Personal force never goes out of fashion.= (?)
=Personality is everything in art and poetry.=
_Goethe._
=Persons are love's world, and the coldest philosopher
cannot recount the debt of the young
soul, wandering here in nature to the power
of love, without being tempted to unsay, as
treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to
the social instincts.= _Emerson._
=Persons of fine manners make behaviour the
first sign of force,--behaviour, and not performance,
or talent, or, much less, wealth.=
_Emerson._
=Persons who are very plausible and excessively= 5
=polite have generally some design
upon you, as also religionists who call you
"dear" the first time they see you.= _Spurgeon._
=Perspicuity is the offset of profound thoughts.=
_Vauvenargues._
=Persuasion is better than force.= _Pr._
=Peter's in, Paul's out.= _Pr._
=Petit homme abat grand chêne=--A little man
fells a tall oak. _Fr. Pr._
=Petit maître=--Fop; coxcomb. _Fr._ 10
=Petite étincelle luit en ténèbres=--A tiny spark
shines in the dark. _Fr. Pr._
=Petites affiches=--Advertiser. _Fr._
=Petites maisons=--A madhouse. _Fr._
=Petitio principii=--Begging of the question in
debate.
=Petitioners for admittance into favour must= 15
=not harass the condescension of their benefactor.=
_Burns._
=Petits soins=--Little attentions. _Fr._
=Petty laws breed great crimes.= _Ouida._
=Peu d'hommes ont été admirés par leurs
domestiques=--Few men have been looked up
to by their domestics. _Montaigne._
=Peu de bien, peu de soin=--Little wealth, little
care. _Fr. Pr._
=Peu de chose nous console, parceque peu de= 20
=chose nous afflige=--Little consoles us because
little afflicts us. _Pascal._
=Peu de gens savent être vieux=--Few people
know how to be old. _La Roche._
=Peu de gens sont assez sages pour préférer le
blame qui leur est utile, à la louange qui les
trahit=--Few people are wise enough to prefer
censure which may be useful, to flattery which
may betray them. _La Roche._
=Peu de moyens, beaucoup d'effet=--Simple
means, great results. _Fr. Pr._
=Peu de philosophie mène à méspriser l'érudition;
beaucoup de philosophie mène à l'estimer=--A
little philosophy leads men to despise
learning; a great deal leads them to esteem it,
_Chamfort._
=Peu et bien=--Little but good. _Fr._ 25
=Peuples libres, souvenez-vous de cette maxime:
on peut acquérir la liberté, mais on ne la
retrouve jamais=--Free people, remember this
rule: you may acquire liberty, but never regain
it if you once lose it. _Rousseau._
=Phaeton was his father's heir; born to attain
the highest fortune without earning it; he
had built no sun-chariot (could not build the
simplest wheel-barrow), but could and would
insist on driving one; and so broke his
own stiff neck, sent gig and horses spinning
through infinite space, and set the universe
on fire.= _Carlyle._
[Greek: phantasmata theia, kai skiai tôn ontôn]--Divine
phantasms and shadows of things that are. _Gr._
=Pharmaca das ægroto, aurum tibi porrigit
æger, / Tu morbum curas illius, ille tuum=--You
give medicine to a sick man, he hands you
your fee; you cure his complaint, he cures yours.
_To a doctor._
[Greek: pheideo tôn kteanôn]--Husband your resources. _Gr._ 30
[Greek: phêmê ge mentoi dêmothrous mega sthenei]--The
voice of the people truly is great in power.
_Æschylus._
=Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.=
_Lamb._
="Philistine" must have originally meant, in the
mind of those who invented the nickname,
a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent
of the children of the light.= _Heine._
=Philologists, who chase / A panting syllable
through time and space, / Start it at home,
and hunt it in the dark / To Gaul, to Greece,
and into Noah's ark.= _Cowper._
=Philosophers are only men in armour after all.= 35
_Dickens._
=Philosophers call God "the great unknown."
"The great misknown" would be more correct.=
_Joseph Roux._
=Philosophia simulari potest, eloquentia non
potest=--Philosophy may be feigned, eloquence
cannot. _Quinct._
=Philosophy and theology are become theorem,
brain-web and shadow, wherein no earnest
soul can find solidity for itself. Shadow, I
say; yet shadow projected from an everlasting
reality within ourselves. Quit the
shadow, seek the reality.= _Carlyle to John
Sterling._
=Philosophy can add to our happiness in no
other manner but by diminishing our misery;
it should not pretend to increase our present
stock, but make us economists of what we
are possessed of.= _Goldsmith._
=Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can= 40
=procure for us God, freedom, immortality.
Which, then, is more practical--philosophy
or economy?= _Novalis._
=Philosophy does not regard pedigree; she did
not receive Plato as a noble, but she made
him so.= _Sen._
=Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of
Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine;
her dictates descend among men, but she herself
descends not; whoso would behold her
must climb with long and laborious effort,
nay, still linger in the forecourt, till manifold
trial have proved him worthy of admission
into the interior solemnities.= _Carlyle._
=Philosophy easily triumphs over past and
future ills, but present ills triumph over
philosophy.= _La Roche._
=Philosophy goes no further than probabilities,
and in every assertion keeps a doubt in
reserve.= _Froude._
=Philosophy has given several plausible rules= 45
=for attaining peace and tranquillity, but
they fall very much short of bringing men
to it.= _Tillotson._
=Philosophy is a bully that talks very loud when
the danger is at a distance; but the moment
she is hard pressed by the enemy, she is not
to be found at her post, but leaves the brunt
of the battle to be borne by her humbler but
steadier comrade, Religion.= _Colton._
=Philosophy is a good horse in a stable, but an
arrant jade on a journey.= _Goldsmith._
=Philosophy is an elegant thing, if any one
modestly meddles with it; but, if he is conversant
with it more than is becoming, it
corrupts the man.= _Plato._
=Philosophy is but a continual battle against
custom; an ever-renewed effort to transcend
the sphere of blind custom, and so become
transcendental.= _Carlyle._
=Philosophy is no more than the art of making
ourselves happy; that is, of seeking pleasure
in regularity, and reconciling what we
owe to society with what is due to ourselves.=
_Goldsmith._
=Philosophy is nothing but discretion.= _Selden._ 5
=Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the
wish to be everywhere at home.= _Novalis._
=Philosophy is reason with the eyes of the soul.=
_Simms._
=Philosophy is to poetry what old age is to
youth; and the stern truths of philosophy
are as fatal to the fictions of the one as the
chilling testimonies of experience are to the
hopes of the other.= _Colton._
=Philosophy, rightly defined, is simply the love
of wisdom.= _Cic._
=Philosophy teaches us to do willingly and= 10
=from conviction what others do under compulsion.=
_Arist._
=Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites
doubt; when thoroughly explored, it dispels
it.= _Bacon._
=Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps
the ambition.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.= _Keats._
[Greek: phobou to gêras, ou gar erchetai monon]--Fear
old age, for it does not come alone. _Gr. Pr._
=Phœnices primi, famæ si creditur, ausi / Mansuram= 15
=rudibus vocem signare figuris=--The
Phœnicians, if rumour may be trusted, were
the first who dared to write down the fleeting
word in rude letters. _Lucan._
=Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but
the substitute of exercise and temperance.=
_Addison._
=Physic is of little use to a temperate person,
for a man's own observation on what he
finds does him good or what hurts him, is
the best physic to preserve health.= _Bacon._
=Physical courage, which despises all danger,
will make a man brave in one way; and
moral courage, which defies all opinion, will
make a man brave in another.= _Colton._
=Physical science has taught us to associate
Deity with the normal rather than with the
abnormal.= _Lecky._
=Physician, heal thyself.= _Heb. Pr._ 20
=Physicians, of all men, are most happy; whatever
good success soever they have, the
world proclaimeth; and what faults they
commit, the earth covereth.= _Quarles._
=Pia fraus=--A pious fraud (either for good or
evil).
=Pick out of mirth, like stones out of thy ground, /
Profaneness, filthiness, abusiveness.= _George
Herbert._
=Pickpockets and beggars are the best practical
physiognomists, without having read a line
of Lavater, who, it is notorious, mistook a
philosopher for a highwayman.= _Colton._
=Pictoribus atque poetis / Quidlibet audendi= 25
=semper fuit æqua potestas=--The power of
daring anything their fancy suggests has always
been conceded to the painter and the poet. _Hor._
=Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects,
and please or displease but in memory.= _Bacon._
=Pie repone te=--Repose in pious confidence. _M._
=Pièce de position=--A heavy gun. _Fr._
=Pièce de résistance=--A solid joint. _Fr._
=Pièces de théâtre=--Plays. _Fr._ 30
=Piety is a kind of modesty. It makes us cast
down our thoughts, just as modesty makes
us cast down our eyes in presence of whatever
is forbidden.= _Joubert._
=Piety is not a religion, although it is the soul
of all religions.= _Joubert._
=Piety is only a means whereby, through purest
inward peace, we may attain to highest culture.=
_Quoted by Emerson from Goethe._
=Piety, like wisdom, consists in the discovery of
the rules under which we are actually placed,
and in faithfully obeying them.= _Froude._
=Piety, stretched beyond a certain point, is the= 35
=parent of impiety.= _Sydney Smith._
=Pigmæi gigantum humeris impositi plusquam
ipsi gigantes vident=--Dwarfs on a giant's back
see more than the giant himself. _Didacus Stella._
=Pigmies are pigmies still, though perched on
Alps; / And pyramids are pyramids in vales.=
_Young._
=Pigs grow fat where lambs would starve.= _Pr._
=Pigs grunt about everything and nothing.= _Pr._
=Pigs when they fly go tail first.= _Pr._ 40
=Pikes are caught when little fish go by.= _R.
Southwell._
=Pillen muss man schlingen, nicht kauen=--Pills
must be swallowed, not chewed. _Ger. Pr._
=Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve; hast thou not
two eyes of thy own?= _Carlyle._
=Pinguis venter non gignit sensum tenuem=--A
fat paunch does not produce fine sense. _St.
Jerome, from the Greek._
=Pis-aller=--A last shift. _Fr._ 45
=Pitch a lucky man into the Nile and he will
come up with a fish in his mouth.= _Arab. Pr._
=Pitch thy behaviour low, thy projects high; /
So shalt thou humble and magnanimous be.=
_George Herbert._
=Pith's gude at a' play but threadin' o' needles.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Pity and friendship are passions incompatible
with each other.= _Goldsmith._
=Pity and need make all flesh kin. There is no= 50
=caste in blood / Which runneth of one hue;
nor caste in tears, which trickle salt with all.=
_Sir Edwin Arnold._
=Pity him who has his choice, and chooses the
worse.= _Gael. Pr._
=Pity is a thing often avowed, seldom felt;
hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.=
_Colton._
=Pity is imagination or fiction of future calamity
to ourselves proceeding from the sense of
another man's calamity.= _Hobbes._
=Pity is the virtue of the law, / And none but
tyrants use it cruelly.= _Timon of Athens_,
iii. 5.
=Pity makes the world / Soft to the weak and= 55
=noble for the strong.= _Sir Edwin Arnold._
=Pity only with new objects stays, / But with
the tedious sight of woe decays.= _Dryden._
=Pity shapes not into syllogisms; / Nor can
affection ape philosophy.= _Lewis Morris._
=Pity, the tenderest part of love.= _Yalden._
=Pity those whom Nature abuses, never those
who abuse Nature.= _Sheridan._
=Pity weakness and ignorance, bear with the= 5
=dulness of understandings, or perverseness
of tempers.= _Law._
=Più ombra che frutto fanno gli arberi grandi=--Large
trees yield more shade than fruit. _It. Pr._
=Più sa il matto in casa sua che il savio in casa
d'altri=--The fool knows more in his own house
than a wise man does in another's. _It. Pr._
=Più vale il fumo di casa mia, che il fuoco dell'altrui=--The
smoke of my own house is better
than the fire of another's. _It. Pr._
=Place moral heroes in the field, and heroines
will follow them as brides.= _Jean Paul._
=Placeat homini quidquid Deo placuit=--That 10
which has seemed good to God should seem
good to man. _Sen._
=Plagiarists are always suspicious of being
stolen from.= _Coleridge._
=Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.=
_I. Disraeli._
=Plain dealing is dead, and died without issue.=
_Pr._
=Plain dealing's a jewel, but they that use it
die beggars.= _Pr._
=Plain living and high thinking.= _Wordsworth._ 15
=Plants are children of the earth; we are children
of the ether. Our lungs are properly
our root; we live when we breathe: we
begin our life with breathing.= _Novalis._
=Plaster thick, / Some will stick.= _Pr._
=Plate sin with gold, / And the strong lance of
justice hurtless breaks; / Arm it in rags, a
pigmy's straw does pierce it.= _King Lear_,
iv. 6.
=Plato enim mihi unus est instar omnium=--Plato
alone in my regard is worth them all. _Antimachus,
in Cic._
=Plato's scheme was impossible even in his own= 20
=day, as Bacon's "New Atlantis" in his day,
as Calvin's reform in his day, as Goethe's
"Academe" in his. Out of the good there
was in all these men, the world gathered
what it could find of evil, made its useless
Platonism out of Plato, its graceless Calvinism
out of Calvin, determined Bacon to
be the meanest of mankind, and of Goethe
gathered only a luscious story of seduction,
and daintily singable devilry.= _Ruskin._
=Plausibus ex ipsis populi, lætoque furore, /
ingenium quodvis incaluisse potest=--At the
applauses of the public, and at its transports of
joy, every genius may grow warm. _Ovid._
=Plausus tunc arte carebat=--In those days applause
was unaffected. _Ovid._
=Play not for gain, but sport.= _George Herbert._
=Play, that is, activity, not pleasures, will
keep children cheerful.= _Jean Paul._
=Play the man.= _George Herbert._ 25
=Pleasant tastes depend, not on the things
themselves, but their agreeableness to this
or that particular palate.= _Locke._
=Pleasant words are as an honeycomb; sweet
to the soul, and health to the bones.= _Bible._
=Pleas'd with a rattle, tickl'd with a straw.=
_Pope._
=Pleasure and action make the hours seem
short.= _Othello_, ii. 3.
=Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite,= 30
=are yet so contrived by nature as to be constant
companions.= _Charron._
=Pleasure and revenge / Have ears more deaf
than adders to the voice / Of any true decision.=
_Troil. and Cress._, ii. 2.
=Pleasure and sympathy in things is all that is
real and again produces reality; all else is
empty and vain.= _Goethe._
=Pleasure can be supported by illusion; but
happiness rests upon truth.= _Chamfort._
=Pleasure is a wanton trout; / An ye drink but
deep ye'll find him out.= _Burns._
=Pleasure is far sweeter as a recreation than a= 35
=business.= _R. D. Hitchcock._
=Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission
of pain, the enjoying of something I am in
great trouble for till I get it.= _John Selden._
=Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.=
_Plato._
=Pleasure is the reflex of unimpeded energy.=
_Sir W. Hamilton._
=Pleasure itself is painful at bottom.= _Montaigne._
=Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies.= 40
_Burke._
=Pleasure preconceived and preconcerted ends in
disappointment; but disappointment, when
it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good
as success; for it supplies as many images to
the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.=
_Johnson._
=Pleasure soon exhausts us, and itself also
but endeavour never does.= _Jean Paul._
=Pleasure which cannot be obtained but by unreasonable
and unsuitable expense, must
always end in pain.= _Johnson._
=Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense
of another's pain, can never be such as a
worthy mind can fully delight in.= _Johnson._
=Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.= _Duganne._ 45
=Pleasures are like poppies spread, / You seize
the flower, its bloom is shed; / Or, like the
snowflake in the river, / A moment white,
then melts for ever.= _Burns._
=Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures
seem; / There's not a leaf that falls upon
the ground / But holds some joy of silence
or of sound, / Some sprite begotten of a
summer dream.= _Blanchard._
=Pleasures waste the spirits more than pains.=
_Zimmermann._
=Pledges taken of faithless minds, / I hold them
but as the idle winds / Heard and forgot.=
_Dr. W. Smith._
=Plenty, and peace, breeds cowards; hardness= 50
=ever of hardiness is mother.= _Cymbeline_,
iii. 6.
=Plenty makes dainty.= _Sc. Pr._
[Greek: pleon hêmisy pantos]--The half (_i.e._ well used) is
more than the whole (_i.e._ abused). _Hesiod._
=Plerique enim lacrimas fundunt ut ostendant;
et toties siccos oculos habent, quoties spectator
definit=--Many shed tears merely for show;
and have their eyes quite dry whenever there is
no one to observe them. _Sen._
=Plerumque modestus / Occupat obscuri speciem,
taciturnus acerbi=--Usually the modest
man passes for a reserved man, the silent for a
sullen one. _Hor._
=Ploratur lacrymis amissa pecunia veris=--The
loss of money is bewailed with unaffected tears.
_Juv._
=Ploravere suis non respondere favorem / Speratum
meritis=--They lamented that their merits
did not meet with the gratitude they hoped for.
_Hor._
=Plough deep while sluggards sleep.= _Franklin._
=Plough or not plough, you must pay your rent.= 5
_Pr._
=Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize
it where you will, it is always interesting.=
_Goethe._
=Plura faciunt homines e consuetudine quam e
ratione=--Men do more things from custom than
from reason.
=Plura sunt quæ nos terrent, quam quæ premunt;
et sæpius opinione quam re laboramus=--There
are more things to alarm than to
harm us, and we suffer much oftener in apprehension
than reality. _Sen._
=Plures adorant solem orientem quam occidentem=--More
do homage to the rising sun than the
setting one. _Pr._
=Plures crapula quam gladius=--Excess kills more 10
than the sword. _Pr._
=Plurima mortis imago=--Death in very many a
form. _Virg._
=Plurima sont quæ / Non audent homines pertusa
dicere læna=--There are very many things
that men, when their cloaks have got holes in
them, dare not say. _Juv._
=Pluris est oculatus testis unus quam auriti
decem. / Qui audiunt, audita dicunt: qui
vident, plane sciunt=--One eye-witness is better
than ten from mere hearsay. Hearers can only
tell what they heard. Those who see, know
exactly. _Plaut._
=Plus aloes quam mellis habet=--She has more of
the aloe than the honey. _Juv._
=Plus dolet quam necesse est, qui ante dolet= 15
=quam necesse est=--He who grieves before it is
necessary, grieves more than is necessary.
=Plus etenim fati valet hora benigni / Quam si
nos Veneris commendet epistola Marti=--A
moment of smiling fortune is of more avail (to a
soldier) than if he were recommended to Mars by
an epistle from Venus. _Juv._
=Plus fait douceur que violence=--Gentleness does
more than violence. _La Fontaine._
=Plus impetus, majorem constantiam, penes
miseros=--We find greater violence and more
perseverance among the wretched. _Tac._
=Plus in amicitia valet similitudo morum quam
affinitas=--Similarity of manners conduces more
to friendship than relationship. _Corn. Nep._
=Plus in posse quam in actu=--More in possibility 20
than actuality.
=Plus je vis l'étranger, plus j'aimai ma patrie=--The
more I saw of foreign countries, the more I
loved my own. _De Belloy._
=Plus on approche des grands hommes, plus on
trouve qu'ils sont hommes=--The nearer one
approaches to great persons, the more one sees
that they are but men. _La Bruyère._
=Plus on lui ôte, plus il est grand=--The more you
take from him, the greater he is. _Quoted by
Emerson._
=Plus ratio quam vis cæca valere solet=--Reason
can generally effect more than blind force.
_Gallus._
=Plus salis quam sumptus=--More taste than expense. 25
_Corn. Nep._
=Plus une pierre est jétée de haut, plus elle
fait d'impression où elle tombe=--The greater
the height from which a stone is cast, the greater
the impression on the spot where it falls. _Fr._ (?)
=Plus vetustis nam favet / Invidia mordax,
quam bonis præsentibus=--Stinging envy is
more merciful to good things that are old than
such as are new. _Phædr._
=Plutarch warns young men that it is well to
go for a light to another man's fire, but by
no means to tarry by it, instead of kindling a
torch of their own.= _John Morley._
=Plutôt une défaite au Rhin que l'abandon du
Pape!=--Rather a defeat on the Rhine than
abandon the Pope. _Louis Napoleon, to the proposal
to buy the allegiance of Italy against Germany
by the sacrifice of Rome._
=Poco daño espanta, y mucho amansa=--A little 30
loss alarms one, a great loss tames one down.
_Sp. Pr._
=Poem (a) is a thought so passionate and alive,
that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal,
it has an architecture of its own, and adorns
nature with a new thing.= _Emerson._
=Poems that are great, books that are great,
all of them, if you search the first foundation
of their greatness, have been veridical, the
truest they could get to be.= _Carlyle._
=Poesie ist tiefes Schmerzen, / Und es kommt
das echte Lied / Einzig aus dem Menschenherzen
/ Das ein tiefes Leid durchglüht=--Poetry
is deep pain, and the genuine song issues
only from the human heart through which a
deep sorrow glows. _Justin Kerner._
=Poesy is love's chosen apostle, and the very
almoner of God. She is the home of the
outcast, and the wealth of the needy.= _Lowell._
=Poesy is of so subtle a spirit, that in pouring= 35
=out of one language into another it will
evaporate.= _Denham._
=Poeta nascitur, non fit=--A poet is born, not
made. _L._
=Poetica surgit / Tempestas=--A storm is gathering
in the poetic world. _Juv._
=Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.=
_Plato._
=Poetry creates life.= _Fred. W. Robertson._
=Poetry has given me the habit of wishing to= 40
=discover the good and the beautiful in all
that meets and surrounds me.= _Coleridge._
=Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy
expresses a particle of it.= _Thoreau._
=Poetry incorporates those spirits which, like
angels, can never assume the body of an outward
act; and sheds the perfume of those
flowers which spring up but never bear any
seed.= _Jean Paul._
=Poetry interprets in two ways: by expressing
with magical felicity the physiognomy and
movements of the outer world; and by expressing
with inward conviction the ideas
and laws of the inward.= _Matthew Arnold._
=Poetry is a spirit, not disembodied, but in the
flesh, so as to affect the senses of living men.=
_Stedman._
=Poetry is always a personal interpretation of= 45
=life.= _H. W. Mabie._
=Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, and
the hardest in which to reach true excellence.=
_Stedman._
=Poetry is an attempt man makes to render his
existence harmonious.= _Carlyle._
=Poetry is faith.= _Emerson._
=Poetry is inestimable as a lonely faith, a lonely
protest in the uproar of atheism.= _Emerson._
=Poetry is inspiration; has in it a certain spirituality= 5
=and divinity which no dissecting knife
will discover; arises in the most secret and
most sacred region of man's soul, as it were
in our Holy of Holies; and as for external
things, depends only on such as can operate
in that region; among which it will be found
that Acts of Parliament and the state of
Smithfield Markets nowise play the chief
parts.= _Carlyle._
=Poetry is music in words, and music is poetry
in sound; both excellent sauce, but they
have lived and died poor that made them
their meal.= _Fuller._
=Poetry is musical thought, thought of a mind
that has penetrated into the inmost heart of
a thing, detected the melody that lies hidden
in it, ... the heart of Nature being everywhere
music, if you can only reach it.= _Carlyle._
=Poetry is only born after painful journeys into
the vast regions of thought.= _Balzac._
=Poetry is right royal. It puts the individual
for the species, the one above the infinite
many.= _Hazlitt._
=Poetry is something to make us wiser and= 10
=better by continually revealing those types
of beauty and truth which God has set in all
men's souls.= _Lowell._
=Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows
and of lending existence to nothing.= _Burke._
=Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth
by calling imagination to the help of reason.=
_Johnson._
=Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge;
it is the impassioned expression which
is the countenance of all science.= _Wordsworth._
=Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite
impressions.= _J. Roux._
=Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge--it= 15
=is as immortal as the heart of man.= _Wordsworth._
=Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of
nature.= _Hare._
=Poetry is the language of feeling.= _W. Winter._
=Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.=
_Lamartine._
=Poetry is the music of the soul; and, above
all, of great and feeling souls.= _Voltaire._
=Poetry is the offspring of the rarest beauty,= 20
=begot by imagination upon thought, and
clad by taste and fancy in habiliments of
grace.= _Simms._
=Poetry is the only verity, the expression of a
sound mind speaking after the ideal, and not
after the apparent.= _Emerson._
=Poetry is the perpetual endeavour to express
the spirit of the thing; to pass the brute
body, and search the life and reason which
cause it to exist; to see that the object is
always flowing away, whilst the spirit or
necessity which causes it subsists.= _Emerson._
=Poetry is the record of the best and happiest
moments of the happiest and best minds.=
_Shelley._
=Poetry is the utterance of truth,--deep, heartfelt
truth. The true poet is very near the
oracle.= _Chapin._
=Poetry is the worst mask in the world behind= 25
=which folly and stupidity could attempt to
hide their features.= _Bryant._
=Poetry itself is strength and joy, whether it
be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in
its own magic hermitage.= _J. Sterling._
=Poetry must first be good sense, though it is
something better.= _Quoted by Emerson._
=Poetry ought to go straight to the heart,
because it has come from the heart; and
aim at the man in the citizen, and not the
citizen in the man.= _Schiller._
=Poetry says more and in fewer words than
prose.= _Voltaire._
=Poetry should be great and unobtrusive.= _Keats._ 30
=Poetry should be vital, either stirring our
blood by its divine movements, or snatching
our breath by its divine perfection.= _A.
Birrell._
=Poetry uses the rainbow tints for special
effects, but always keeps its essential object
in the purest white light of truth.= _Holmes._
=Poetry was given to us to hide the little discords
of life and to make man contented
with the world and his condition.= _Goethe._
=Poetry, were it the rudest, so it be sincere, is
the attempt which man makes to render his
existence harmonious, the utmost he can do
for that end; it springs therefore from his
whole feelings, opinions, activity, and takes
its character from these. It may be called
the music of the whole inner being.= _Carlyle._
=Poets and heroes are of the same race; the= 35
=latter do what the former conceive.= _Lamartine._
=Poets and painters ha'e leave to lee.= _Sc.
Pr._
=Poets are all who love, who feel great truths,
and tell them.= _Bailey._
=Poets are liberating gods; they are free and
make free.= _Emerson._
=Poets are natural sayers, sent into the world
for the end of expression.= _Emerson._
=Poets are never young in one sense. Their= 40
=delicate ear hears the far-off whispers of
eternity, which coarser souls must travel
towards for scores of years before their dull
sense is touched by them. A moment's insight
is sometimes worth a life's experience.=
_Holmes._
=Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended
inspiration, the mirrors of the gigantic shadows
which futurity casts upon the present.=
_Schiller._
=Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of
the world.= _Disraeli._
=Poets lose half the praise they should have
got, / Could it be known what they discreetly
blot.= _Waller._
=Poets of old date, being privileged with senses,
had also enjoyed external Nature; but chiefly
as we enjoy the crystal cup which holds good
or bad liquor for us; that is to say, in silence,
or with slight incidental commentary; never,
as I compute, till after the "Sorrows of Werter"
was there man found who would say:
Come, let us make a description: Having
drunk the liquor, Come, let us eat the glass.=
_Carlyle._
=Poets should be lawgivers; that is, the boldest
lyric inspiration should not chide and insult,
but should announce and lead the civil code,
the day's work.= _Emerson._
=Poets should turn philosophers in age, as Pope
did. We are apt to grow chilly when we sit
out our fire.= _Sterne._
=Poets utter great and wise things which they
do not themselves understand.= _Plato._
=Point d'argent, point de Suisse=--No money, no
Swiss. _Fr. Pr._
=Policy sits above conscience.= _Timon of Athens_, 5
iii. 2.
=Polished steel will not shine in the dark; no
more can reason, however refined, shine
efficaciously but as it reflects the light of
Divine truth shed from heaven.= _John Foster._
=Politeness is benevolence in small things.= (?)
=Politeness is real kindness kindly expressed.=
_Witherspoon._
=Politeness is the flower of humanity.= _Joubert._
=Politeness is to goodness what words are to= 10
=thoughts.= _Joubert._
=Politeness makes a man appear outwardly as
he should be within.= _La Bruyère._
=Political liberty is to be found only in moderate
governments.= _Montesquieu._
=Politicians think that by stopping up the
chimney they can stop its smoking. They
try the experiment; they drive the smoke
back, and there is more smoke than ever.=
_Borne._
=Politics is a deleterious profession, like some
poisonous handicrafts.= _Emerson._
=Politics is the science of exigencies.= _Theodore_ 15
_Parker._
[Greek: polla metaxy pelei kylikos kai cheileos akrou]--Much
may happen between the cup and the
lip. _Gr._
[Greek: polla ta deina kouden anthrôpou deinoteron
pelei]--Many dread powers exist, and no one
more so than man. _Sophocles._
=Pompa mortis magis terret quam mors ipsa=--The
solemnity associated with death awes us
more than death itself.
[Greek: pompholox ho anthrôpos]--Man is an air-bubble.
_Gr. Pr._
=Ponamus nimios gemitus; flagrantior æquo /= 20
=Non debet dolor esse viri, nec vulnere major=--Let
us dismiss excessive laments; a man's
grief should not be immoderate, nor greater
than the wound received. _Juv._
=Ponderanda sunt testimonia, non numeranda=--Testimonies
are to be weighed, not counted.
=Pone seram, cohibe; sed quis custodiet ipsos /
Custodes? cauta est, et ab illis incipit uxor=--Fasten
the bolt and restrain her; but who is to
watch over the watchers themselves? The wife is
cunning, and will begin with them. _Juv._
=Pons asinorum=--The asses' bridge. _The Fifth
Proposition in the First Book of Euclid._
=Ponto nox incubat atra, / Intonuere poli et
crebris micat ignibus æther=--Black night sits
brooding on the deep; the heavens thunder, and
the ether gleams with incessant flashes. _Virg._
=Poor and content is rich and rich enough; /= 25
=But riches fineless is as poor as winter / To
him that ever fears he shall be poor.= _Othello_,
iii. 3.
=Poor folk hae neither ony kindred nor ony
freends.= _Sc. Pr._
=Poor folk seek meat for their stomachs, and
rich folks stomachs for their meat.= _Sc. Pr._
=Poor folks are glad of porridge.= _Sc. Pr._
=Poor folks must say "Thank ye" for little.=
_Pr._
=Poor folk's wisdom goes for little.= _Dut. Pr._ 30
=Poor in abundance, famished at a feast, man's
grief is but his grandeur in disguise, and discontent
is immortality.= _Young._
=Poor is the triumph o'er the timid hare.= _Thomson._
=Poor love is lost in men's capacious minds; /
In women's it fills all the room it finds.= _John
Crowne._
=Poor men do penance for rich men's sins.= _It.
Pr._
=Poor men, when Yule is cold, / Must be content= 35
=to sit by little fires.= _Tennyson._
=Poor men's tables are soon placed.= _Pr._
=Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, /
That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, /
How shall your houseless heads and unfed
sides, / Your looped and windowed raggedness,
defend you / From seasons such as
these? O I have ta'en / Too little care of
this!= _Lear_, iii. 2.
=Poor tenant bodies, scant o' cash, / How they
maun thole= (bear) =a factor's snash; / He'll
stamp and threaten, curse and swear, / He'll
apprehend them, poind their gear; / While
they maun= (must) =stan', wi' aspect humble, /
An' hear it a', and fear and tremble!= _Burns._
=Poor the raiment you may wear, / Scanty fare
at best be thine; / Let the soul within be
clothed / With a majesty divine.= _M. W. Wood._
=Poor though I am, despised, forgot, / Yet God,= 40
=my God, forgets me not; / And he is safe, and
must succeed, / For whom the Lord vouchsafes
to plead.= _Cowper._
=Poor, wandering, wayward man! Art thou
not tired, and beaten with stripes, even as
I am? Ever, whether thou bear the royal
mantle or the beggar's gaberdine, art thou
so weary, so heavy-laden; and thy bed of
rest is but a grave.= _Carlyle._
=Poor when I have, poor when I haven't, poor
will I ever be.= _Gael. Pr._
=Poortith= (poverty) =is better than pride.= _Sc. Pr._
=Popular glory is a perfect coquette; her lovers
must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every
caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted into the
bargain.= _Goldsmith._
=Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.= 45
_Carlyle._
=Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to
sense, are often true, but seldom or never
the whole truth.= _J. S. Mill._
=Popularity is a blaze of illumination, or alas!
of conflagration, kindled round a man; showing
what is in him; not putting the smallest
item more into him; often abstracting much
from him; conflagrating the poor man himself
into ashes and "caput mortuum."= _Carlyle._
=Populus me sibilat; at mihi plaudo / Ipse domi,
simul ac nummos contemplor in arca=--The
people hiss me; but I applaud myself at home
as soon as I gaze upon the coins in my chest.
_Hor., for the miser._
=Populus vult decipi; decipiatur=--The people
wish to be deceived; then let them.
=Por mucho madrugar, no amanéce mas aina=--Early
rising does not make the day dawn sooner.
_Sp. Pr._
=Porcus Epicuri=-A pig of Epicurus.
=Porro unum est necessarium=--But one thing is
needful. _M._
=Porte fermée, le diable s'en va=--The devil goes 5
away when he sees a shut door. _Fr. Pr._
=Portrait-painting may be to the painter what
the practical knowledge of the world is to
the poet, provided he considers it as a school
by which he is to acquire the means of perfection
in his art, and not as the object of
that perfection.= _Burke._
=Portraiture is the basis and the touchstone of
historic painting.= _Schlegel._
=Positive happiness is constitutional and incapable
of increase; misery is artificial, and
generally proceeds from our folly.= _Goldsmith._
=Positiveness is a good quality for preachers
and orators, because whoever would obtrude
his thoughts and reasons upon a multitude,
win convince others the more as he appears
convinced himself.= _Swift._
=Posse comitatus=--The power of the county, which 10
the sheriff has the power to raise in certain
cases. _L._
=Possession is nine-tenths of the law.= _Pr._
=Possession of land implies the duty of living
on it, and by it, if there is enough to live on;
then ... if there is more land than enough
for one's self, the duty of making it fruitful
and beautiful for as many more as can live
on it.= _Ruskin._
=Possunt quia posse videntur=--They are able
because they look as if they were. _Virg._
=Post bellum auxilium=--Aid after the war is over.
=Post cineres gloria sera venit=--- Glory comes too 15
late after one is reduced to ashes. _Mart._
=Post epulas stabis vel passus mille meabis=--After
eating, you should either stand or walk a
mile. _Pr._
=Post equitem sedet atra cura=--Behind the
horseman sits dark care. _Hor._
=Post hoc; ergo propter hoc=--After this; therefore
on account of this. _A logical fallacy._
=Post mediam noctem visus quum somnia vera=--He
appeared to me in vision after midnight,
when dreams are true. _Hor._
=Post nubila Phœbus=--After clouds the sun. _M._
=Post prælia præmia=--After battle rewards. _M._
=Post tenebras lux=--After darkness light. _M._
=Post tot naufragia portum=--After so many shipwrecks
we reach port. _M._
=Posthumous charities are the very essence of
selfishness, when bequeathed by those who,
when alive, would part with nothing.= _Colton._
=Postulata=--Things admitted; postulates. 25
=Pot! don't call the kettle black.= _Pr._
=Potatoes don't grow by the side of the pot.= _Pr._
=Potentissimus est, qui se habet in potestate=--He
is the most powerful who has himself in his
power. _Sen._
=Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of
craftsman; and poor man has a grudge
against poor man, and poet against poet.=
_Hesiod._
[Greek: pou stô]--Where I may stand, and plant my lever. 30
_Archimedes._
=Pound an almond, and the clear white colour
will be altered into a dirty one, and the
sweet taste into an oily one.= _Locke._
=Pour avoir du goût, il faut avoir de l'âme=--To
have taste, one must have some soul. _Vauvenargues._
=Pour bien connaître un homme il faut avoir
mangé un boisseau de sel avec lui=--To know
a man well, one must have eaten a bushel of salt
with him. _Fr. Pr._
=Pour bien désirer=--To desire good. _M._
=Pour bien instruire, il ne faut pas dire tout ce= 35
=qu'on sait, mais seulement ce qui convient à
ceux qu'on instruit=--To teach successfully we
must not tell all we know, but only what is
adapted to the pupil we are teaching. _La
Harpe._
=Pour comble de bonheur=--As the height of
happiness. _Fr._
=Pour connaître le prix de l'argent, il faut être
obligé d'en emprunter=--To know the value of
money, a man has only to borrow. _Fr. Pr._
=Pour connaître les autres, il faut se connaître
soi-même=--To know other people one must
know one's self. _Fr. Pr._
=Pour couper court=--To cut the matter short.
_Fr._
=Pour dompter les anglais, / Il faut bâtir un= 40
=pont / Sur le Pas-de-Calais=--To conquer the
English one must build a bridge over the Straits
of Dover. _A French song._
=Pour encourager les autres=--To encourage the
rest to go and do likewise. _Fr._
=Pour être assez bon, il faut l'être trop=--To
be good enough, one must be too good. _Fr.
Pr._
=Pour exécuter de grandes choses il faut vivre
comme si on ne devait jamais mourir=--To
achieve great things a man should so live as if
he were never to die. _La Roche._
=Pour faire de l'esprit=--To play the wit. _Fr._
=Pour faire rire=--To excite laughter. _Fr._ 45
=Pour faire un bon ménage il faut que l'homme
soit sourd et la femme aveugle=--To live
happily together the husband must be deaf and
the wife blind. _Fr. Pr._
=Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, /
Obedient passions, and a will resigned; / For
love, which scarce collective man can fill; /
For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill; /
For faith, that, panting for a happier seat, /
Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat.=
_Johnson._
=Pour grands que soient les rois, ils sont ce
que nous sommes; / Ils peuvent se tromper
comme les autres hommes=--However great
kings may be, they are what we are; they may
be deceived like other men. _Corn._
=Pour l'ordinaire la fortune nous vend bien
chèrement, ce qu'on croit qu'elle nous donne=--Fortune
usually sells us very dear what we fancy
she is giving us. _Fr._
=Pour parvenir à bonne foy=--To succeed honourably. 50
_M._
=Pour qui ne les croit pas, il n'est pas de prodiges=--There
are no miracles for those who have
no faith in them. _Fr._
=Pour ranger le loup, il faut le marier=--To tame
the wolf you must get him married. _Fr. Pr._
=Pour savoir quelles étoient véritablement les
opinions des hommes, je devois plutôt prendre
garde à ce qu'ils pratiquoient qu'à ce qu'ils
disoient=--To know what men really think, I
would pay regard rather to what they do than
to what they say. _Descartes._
=Pour se faire valoir=--To make one's self of consequence.
=Pour s'établir dans le monde, on fait tout ce
que l'on peut pour y paraître établi=--To
establish himself in the world a man must do all
he can to appear already established. _La Roche._
=Pour soutenir les droits que le ciel autorise, /
Abîme tout plutôt; c'est l'esprit de l'église=--To
maintain your rights granted by Heaven, let
everything perish rather than yield; this is the
spirit of the Church. _Boileau._
=Pour tromper un rival l'artifice est permis: /= 5
=On peut tout employer contre ses ennemis=--We
may employ artifice to deceive a rival, anything
against our enemies. _Richelieu._
=Pour un plaisir mille douleurs=--For a single
pleasure a thousand pains. _Fr. Pr._
=Pour y parvenir=--To carry your point. _M._
=Povertà non ha parenti=--Poor people have no
relations. _It. Pr._
=Poverty and hunger have many learned disciples.=
_Ger. Pr._
=Poverty breeds strife.= _Pr._ 10
=Poverty breeds wealth, and wealth in its turn
breeds poverty. The earth to form the
mould is taken out of the ditch; and whatever
may be the height of the one will be the
depth of the other.= _Hare._
=Poverty consists in feeling poor.= _Emerson._
=Poverty demoralises.= _Emerson._
=Poverty ever comes at the call.= _Goldsmith._
=Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.= 15
_Pr._
=Poverty, incessant drudgery, and much worse
evils, it has often been the lot of poets and
wise men to strive with, and their glory to
conquer.= _Carlyle._
=Poverty is but as the pain of piercing the ears
of a maiden, and you hang jewels in the
wound.= _Jean Paul._
=Poverty is in want of much, avarice of everything.=
_Pub. Syr._
=Poverty is no crime and no credit.= _Pr._
=Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed= 20
=of it is.= _Pr._
=Poverty is often concealed in splendour, and
often in extravagance. It is the care of a
great part of mankind to conceal their indigence
from the rest. They support themselves
by temporary expedients, and everyday
is lost in contriving for to-morrow.=
_Johnson._
=Poverty is the mither= (mother) =o' a' arts.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Poverty is the only load which is the heavier
the more loved ones there are to assist in
supporting it.= _Jean Paul._
=Poverty is the reward of idleness.= _Dut. Pr._
=Poverty makes people satirical--soberly, sadly,= 25
=bitterly satirical.= _H. Friswell._
=Poverty of soul is irreparable.= _Montesquieu._
=Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and
virtue. It is hard for an empty bag to stand
upright.= _Ben. Franklin._
=Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it
cows industry and casts resolution itself
into despair.= _Addison._
=Poverty persuades a man to do and suffer
everything that he may escape from it.=
_Lucian._
=Poverty should engender an honest pride, that= 30
=it may not lead and tempt us to unworthy
actions.= _Dickens._
=Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great
men, and rocks them up to manhood.=
_Heine._
=Poverty snatches the reins out of the hands of
piety.= _Saadi._
=Poverty takes away so many means of doing
good, and produces so much inability to
resist evil, both natural and moral, that
it is by all virtuous means to be avoided.=
_Johnson._
=Poverty treads upon the heels of great and
unexpected riches.= _La Bruyère._
=Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice= 35
=all things.= _Cowley._
=Power and permanence reside only in limitations.=
_Grabbe._
=Power belongeth unto God.= _Bible._
=Power cannot have too gentle an expression.=
_Jean Paul._
=Power exercised with violence has seldom been
of long duration, but temper and moderation
generally produce permanence in all things.=
_Sen._
=Power, in its quality and degree, is the= 40
=measure of manhood.= _J. G. Holland._
=Power is according to quality, not quantity.
How much more are men than nations?=
_Emerson._
=Power is ever stealing from the many to the
few.= _Wendell Phillips._
=Power is no blessing in itself, but when it is
employed to protect the innocent.= _Swift._
=Power is nothing but as it is felt, and the delight
of superiority is proportionate to the
resistance overcome.= _Johnson._
=Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness= 45
=in itself has the aspect of strength.=
_Bulwer Lytton._
=Power, like a desolating pestilence, / Pollutes
whate'er it touches; and obedience, / Bane
of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, / Makes
slaves of men, and of the human frame a
mechanized automaton.= _Shelley._
=Power, like the diamond, dazzles the beholder,
and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness;
it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible,
it gives authority; to what is
low, exaltation.= _Colton._
=Power to do good is the true and lawful end of
aspiring.= _Bacon._
=Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine
the strongest heads. No man is wise enough,
no man good enough, to be trusted with unlimited
power.= _Colton._
=Power's footstool is opinion, and his throne the= 50
=human heart.= _Sir Aubrey de Vere._
=Powerful attachment will give a man spirit
and confidence which he could by no means
call up or command of himself; and in this
mood he can do wonders which would not
be possible to him without it.= _Matthew
Arnold._
=Practically men have come to imagine that the
laws of this universe, like the laws of constitutional
countries, are decided by voting;
that it is all a study of division-lists, and for
the universe too depends a little on the activity
of the whippers-in.= _Carlyle._
=Practice aims at what is immediate; speculation
at what is remote. In practical life, the
wisest and soundest men avoid speculation,
and ensure success, because, by limiting
their range, they increase the tenacity
with which they grasp events, while in
speculative life the course is exactly the
reverse, since in that department the greater
the range the greater the command.= _Buckle._
=Practice in time becomes second nature.= _Anon._
=Practice is everything.= _Periander._
=Practice makes perfect.= _Pr._ 5
=Practice must settle the habit of doing without
reflecting on the rule.= _Locke._
=Practise thrift, or else you'll drift.= _Pr._
=Præcedentibus insta=--Follow close on those who
precede. _M._
=Præcepta ducunt, at exempla trahunt=--Precept
guides, but example draws. _Pr._
=Præmia virtutis honores=--Honours are the rewards 10
of virtue. _M._
=Præsis ut prosis=--Be first, that you may be of
service. _M._
=Præsto et persto=--I press on and persevere. _M._
=Praise a fool and you may make him useful.=
_Dan. Pr._
=Praise a fool, and you water his folly.= _Pr._
=Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes= 15
=her at the grave. Plausibility clings
to her skirts and holds her back till then.=
_Lowell._
=Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of
all commendations.= _Steele._
=Praise God more, and blame neighbours less.=
_Pr._
=Praise is indeed the consequence and encouragement
of virtue; but it is sometimes so
unseasonably applied as to become its bane
and corruption too.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Praise is so pleasing to the mind of man that
it is the original motive of almost all our
actions.= _Johnson._
=Praise is the tribute of men, but felicity the= 20
=gift of God.= _Bacon._
=Praise is virtue's shadow; who courts her doth
more the handmaid than the dame admire.=
_Heath._
=Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value
only to its scarcity.= _Johnson._
=Praise makes good men better, and bad men
worse.= _Pr._
=Praise Peter, but don't find fault with Paul.=
_Pr._
=Praise the bridge which carries you over.= _Pr._ 25
=Praise the hill, but keep below.= _Pr._
=Praise the sea, but keep on land.= _George Herbert._
=Praise undeserved is satire in disguise.= _Pope._
[Greek: praos tous logous, oxys ta pragmata]--Mild
in speech, keen in action. _Himerius._
=Pray devoutly, / And hammer stoutly.= _Pr._ 30
=Pray to God, but keep the hammer going.= _Pr._
=Pray to God, sailor, but pull for the shore.= _Pr._
=Prayer and practice is good rhyme.= _Sc. Pr._
=Prayer and provender never hinder a journey.=
_Pr._
=Prayer is a groan.= _St. Jerome._ 35
=Prayer is a powerful thing; for God has bound
and tied himself thereto.= _Luther._
=Prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to
God, and a scourge to Satan.= _Bunyan._
=Prayer is a study of truth,--a sally of the soul
into the unfound infinite.= _Emerson._
=Prayer is a turning of one's soul, in heroic
reverence, in infinite desire and endeavour,
towards the Highest, the All-excellent,
Supreme.= _Carlyle, in a letter to a young
friend._
=Prayer is intended to increase the devotion of= 40
=the individual, but if the individual himself
prays he requires no formulæ.... Real inward
devotion knows no prayer but that
arising from the depths of its own feelings.=
_W. v. Humboldt._
=Prayer is the aspiration of our poor, struggling,
heavy-laden soul towards its Eternal
Father, and, with or without words, ought
not to become impossible, nor need it ever.
Loyal sons and subjects can approach the
King's throne who have no "request" to
make there except that they may continue
loyal.= _Carlyle, in a letter to a young friend._
=Prayer is the cable, at whose end appears /
The anchor hope, ne'er slipp'd but in our
fears.= _Quarles._
=Prayer is the Christian's vital breath, / The
Christian's native air.= _James Montgomery._
=Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the
muscles of Omnipotence.= _Martin Tupper._
=Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, / Uttered= 45
=or unexpressed, / The motion of a hidden
fire that trembles in the breast.= _J. Montgomery._
=Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to
heaven; and meditation the eye with which
we see God.= _St. Ambrose._
=Prayer knocks till the door opens.= _Pr._
=Prayer, like Jonathan's bow, returns not
empty.= _Gurnall._
=Prayer moves the hand that moves the universe.=
_Anon._
=Prayer must not come from the roof of the= 50
=mouth, but from the root of the heart.=
_Pr._
=Prayer purifies; it is a self-preached sermon.=
_Jean Paul._
=Prayer should be the key of the day and the
lock of the night.= _Pr._
=Prayer that craves a particular commodity,
anything less than all good, is vicious. As a
means to effect a private end, it is meanness
and theft.= _Emerson._
=Prayers are but the body of the bird; desires
are its angel's wings.= _Jeremy Taylor._
=Praying's the end of preaching.= _George Herbert._ 55
=Preaching is of much avail, but practice is far
more effective. A godly life is the strongest
argument that you can offer to the sceptic.=
_H. Ballou._
=Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment
in application to the duties of life.=
_Emerson._
=Précepte commence, exemple achève=--Precept
begins, example perfects. _Fr._
=Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and
a few useful ones at hand do more toward a
happy life than whole volumes that we know
not where to find.= _Sen._
=Preces armatæ=--Armed prayers, _i.e._, with arms
to back them up.
=Precious beyond price are good resolutions.
Valuable beyond price are good feelings.=
_H. R. Haweis._
=Precious ointments are put in small boxes.=
_Pr._
=Predominant opinions are generally the= 5
=opinions of the generation that is vanishing.=
_Disraeli._
=Prefer loss before unjust gain; for that brings
grief but once, this for ever.= _Chilo._
=Prejudice is a prophet which prophesies only
evil.= _Pr._
=Prejudice is the child of ignorance.= _Hazlitt._
=Prejudice squints when it looks, and lies when
it talks.= _Duchess d'Abrantes._
=Prejudice, which he pretends to hate, is man's= 10
=absolute lawgiver; mere use-and-wont everywhere
leads him by the nose: thus let but a
rising of the sun, let but a creation of the
world happen twice, and it ceases to be
marvellous, to be noteworthy or noticeable.=
_Carlyle._
=Prendre la clef des champs=--To run away (_lit._
take the key of the fields). _Fr. Pr._
=Prendre les choses au pis=--To regard matters in
the most unfavourable light. _Fr._
=Prends le premier conseil d'une femme et non
le second=--Take a woman's first advice and not
her second. _Fr. Pr._
=Prends moi tel que je suis=--Take me as I am. _M._
=Present fears / Are less than horrible imaginings.= 15
_Macb._, i. 3.
=Preserve the rights of inferior places, and
think it more honour to direct in chief than
to be busy in all.= _Bacon._
=Pressure alone causes water to rise and
directs it.= _Renan._
=Presumption is our natural and original
disease.= _Montaigne._
=Presumptuousness, which audaciously strides
over all the steps of gradual culture, affords
little encouragement to hope for any masterpiece.=
_Goethe._
=Prêt d'accomplir=--Ready to accomplish. _M._ 20
=Prêt pour mon pays=--Ready for my country. _M._
="Pretty Pussy" will not feed a cat.= _Pr._
=Prevention is better than cure.= _Pr._
=Pria Veneziani, poi Christiane=--Venetian first,
Christian afterwards. _Ven. Pr._
=Pride adds to a man's stature; vanity only= 25
=puffs him out.= _Chamfort._
=Pride and grace ne'er dwell in ae place.= _Sc.
Pr._
=Pride and poverty are ill met, yet often live
together.= _Pr._
=Pride feels no cold.= _Pr._
=Pride flows from want of reflection and ignorance
of ourselves. Knowledge and humility
come upon us together.= _Addison._
=Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty= 30
=spirit before a fall.= _Bible._
=Pride hath no other glass to show itself but
pride.= _Troil. and Cress._, iii. 3.
=Pride, ill-nature, and want of sense are the
three great sources of ill-manners; without
some one of these defects no man will behave
himself ill for want of experience, or what,
in the language of fools, is called knowing
the world.= _Swift._
=Pride is a flower that grows in the devil's garden.=
_Howell._
=Pride is lofty, calm, immovable; vanity is uncertain,
capricious, and unjust.= _Chamfort._
=Pride is still aiming at the blest abodes; /= 35
=Men would be angels, angels would be gods; /
Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, / Aspiring
to be angels, men rebel.= _Pope._
=Pride is the source of a thousand virtues;
vanity is that of nearly all vices and all perversities.=
_Chamfort._
=Pride must suffer pain.= _Pr._
=Pride never leaves its master till he gets a fa'.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs
from the same principle in human nature;
one is but the positive, the other the negative,
pole of a single weakness.= _Lowell._
=Pride, the never-failing vice of fools.= _Pope._ 40
=Pride will have a fall; for pride goeth before,
and shame cometh after.= _Pr._
=Pride with pride will not abide.= _Pr._
=Pride would never owe, nor self-love ever
pay.= _La Roche._
=Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but
bony bodies.= _Pr._
=Priestcraft is no better than witchcraft.= _Pr._ 45
=Priesthoods that do not teach, aristocracies
that do not govern; the misery of that, and
the misery of altering that, are written in
Belshazzar fire-letters on the history of
France.= _Carlyle._
=Priests pray for enemies, but princes kill.=
2 _Hen. VI._, v. 2.
=Prima et maxima peccantium est pœna peccasse=--The
first and greatest punishment of
sinners is the conscience of sin. _Sen._
=Prima facie=--At first sight or view of a case.
=Primo avulso non deficit alter / aureus=--The first 50
being wrenched away, another of gold succeeds.
_Virg._
=Primum mobile=--The primary motive power.
=Primus in orbe Deos fecit timor=--It was fear
that first suggested the existence of the gods.
_Statius._
=Primus inter pares=--The first among equals.
=Primus sapientiæ gradus est falsa intelligere=--The
first step towards wisdom is to distinguish
what is false.
=Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, /= 55
="An honest man's the noblest work of God."=
_Burns._
=Princes and lords may flourish or may fade; /
A breath can make them, as a breath has
made.= _Goldsmith._
=Principes mortales, rempublicam æternam=--Princes
are mortal, the republic is eternal. _Tac._
=Principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est=--To
have earned the goodwill of the great is not
the least of merits. _Hor._
=Principiis obsta; sero medicina paratur, / Cum
mala per longas convaluere moras=--Resist
the first beginnings; a cure is attempted too late
when through long delay the malady has waxed
strong. _Ovid._
=Principis est virtus maxima nosse suos=--It is
the greatest merit of a prince to know those his
subjects. _Mart._
=Principle is a passion for truth.= (?)
=Principle is ever my motto, not expediency.=
_Disraeli._
=Prisoners of hope.= _Bible._
=Pristinæ virtutis memores=--Mindful of ancient 5
valour. _M._
=Priusquam incipias consulto, et ubi consulueris
mature facto opus est=--Before you begin,
consider; but having considered, use despatch.
_Sall._
=Private affection bereaves us easily of a right
judgment.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Private credit is wealth; public honour is
security. The feather that adorns the royal
bird supports its flight; strip him of his plumage,
and you fix him to the earth.= _Junius._
=Private judgment with the accent on "private"
is self-will; but with the accent on "judgment,"
it is freedom, free-will.= _J. Hutchison
Stirling._
=Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is= 10
=almost omnipotent.= _Ward Beecher._
=Private reproof is the best grave for private
faults.= _Pr._
=Private self-regard must have been wholly
subordinated to, if not entirely cast out by,
a higher principle of action and a purer affection
before a man can become either truly
moral or religious.= _J. C. Sharp._
=Privatorum conventio juri publico non derogat=--No
bargain between individuals derogates from
a law. _L._
=Privatus illis census erat brevis, / Commune
magnum=--Their private property was small, the
public revenue great. _Hor._
=Privilegium est quasi privata lex=--Privilege is 15
as it were private law. _L._
=Pro aris et focis=--For our altars and our hearths.
=Pro bono publico=--For the public good.
=Pro Christo et patria=--For Christ and country. _M._
=Pro confesso=--As confessed or admitted.
=Pro Deo et rege=--For God and king. _M._ 20
=Pro et con.=--For and against.
=Pro forma=--For form's sake.
=Pro hac vice=--For this turn; on this occasion.
=Pro libertate patriæ=--For the liberty of my
country. _M._
=Pro patria et rege=--For king and country. _M._ 25
=Pro rata (parte)=--In proportion, proportionally.
=Pro re nata=--For circumstances that have arisen.
=Pro rege et patria=--For king and country. _M._
=Pro rege, lege, et grege=--For king, law, and
people. _M._
=Pro tanto=--For so much. 30
=Pro tempore=--For the time.
=Pro virtute bellica=--For valour in war. _M._
=Pro virtute felix temeritas=--Instead of valour
successful rashness. _Sen., of Alexander the
Great._
=Probably imposture is of a sanative, anodyne
nature, and man's gullibility not his worst
blessing.= _Carlyle._
=Probably men were never born demigods in any= 35
=century, but precisely god-devils as we see;
certain of whom do become a kind of demigods.=
_Carlyle._
=Probatum est=--It has been settled.
=Probitas laudatur, et alget=--Integrity is praised
and is left out in the cold. _Juv._
=Probitas verus honos=--Integrity is true honour.
_M._
=Probitate et labore=--By honesty and labour. _M._
=Probity is as rarely in accord with interest as= 40
=reason is with passion.= _Saneal-Dubay._
=Probum non pœnitet=--The upright man has no
regrets. _M._
=Procellæ quanto plus habent virium tanto
minus temporis=--The more violent storms are,
the sooner they are over. _Sen._
=Procrastination is the thief of time.= _Young._
=Procul a Jove, procul a fulmine.=--Far from Jove,
far from his thunderbolts. _Pr._
=Procul O! procul este, profani=--Away, I pray 45
you; keep off, ye profane. _Virg._
=Prodesse quam conspici=--To be of service rather
than to be conspicuous. _M._
=Prodigus et stultus donat quæ spernit et odit. /
Hæc seges ingratos tulit, et feret omnibus
annis=--The spendthrift and fool gives away
what he despises and hates. This seed has
ever borne, and will bear, an ungrateful brood.
_Hor._
=Productions (of a certain artistic quality) are
at present possible which are nought= (_Null_)
=without being bad--nought, because there is
nothing in them, and not bad, because a
general form after some good model has
hovered vaguely= (_vorschwebt_) =before the mind
of the author.= _Goethe._
=Profaneness is a brutal vice; he who indulges
in it is no gentleman.= _Chapin._
=Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing= 50
=and appreciating either diamonds
in the rough state or gold in bars. They
are traders, and in literature know only
the coins that are current. Their critical
laboratory has scales and weights, but
neither crucible nor touchstone.= _Joubert._
=Proffered service stinks=, _i.e._, is not appreciated.
_Pr._
=Profligacy consists not in spending years of
time or chests of money, but in spending
them off the line of your career.= _Emerson._
=Profound joy has more of severity than gaiety
in it.= _Montaigne._
=Progress begins with the minority.= _G. W.
Curtis._
=Progress is the law of life--man is not man as= 55
=yet.= _Browning._
=Progress, man's distinctive mark alone, / Not
God's and not the beasts': God is, they are; /
Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.=
_Browning._
=Progress--the stride of God.= _Victor Hugo._
=Prohibetur ne quis faciat in suo, quod nocere
potest in alieno=--No one is allowed to do on his
own premises what may injure those of a neighbour.
_L._
=Prolonged endurance tames the bold.= _Byron._
=Promettre c'est donner, espérer c'est jouir=--Promising 60
is giving, and hoping is fruition.
_Delille._
=Promise is most given when the least is said.=
_Chapman._
=Promises make debts, and debts make promises.=
_Dut. Pr._
=Promises may get friends, but it is performance
that must nurse and keep them.= _Owen Feltham._
=Proof of a God? A probable God! The smallest
of finites struggling to prove to itself ...
and include within itself, the Highest Infinite,
in which, by hypothesis, it lives and moves
and has its being! Man, reduced to wander
about, in stooping posture, with painfully-constructed
sulphur-match, and farthing
rushlight, or smoky tar-link, searching for
the sun.= _Carlyle._
=Prope ad summum, prope ad exitum=--Near the
summit, near the end. _Pr._
=Propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one
to fear and sorrow, real poverty.= _Hume._
=Proper words in proper places make the true= 5
=definition of a style.= _Swift._
=Properly speaking, the land belongs to these
two: to the Almighty God and to all His
children of men that have ever worked well
on it, or shall ever work well on it.= _Carlyle._
=Properly thou hast no other knowledge but
what thou hast got by working.= _Carlyle._
=Property has its duties as well as its rights.=
_Drummond._
=Property, O brother? Of my body I have but a
liferent.... But my soul, breathed into me
by God, my Me, and what capability is there,
I call that mine and not thine. I will keep
that, and do what work I can with it; God
has given it me; the devil shall not take
it away.= _Carlyle._
=Property there is among us valuable to the= 10
=auctioneer; but the accumulated manufacturing,
commercial, economic skill which lies
impalpably warehoused in English hands
and heads, what auctioneer can estimate?=
_Carlyle._
=Prophecy, not poetry, is the thing wanted in
these days. How can we sing and paint when
we do not yet believe and see?= _Carlyle._
=Prophete rechts, Prophete links / Das Weltkind
in der Mitten=--Prophets to right, prophets
to left, the world-child between. _Goethe._
=Propositi tenax=--Tenacious of my purpose. _M._
=Propriæ telluris herum natura, neque illum, /
Nec me, nec quemquam statuit. Nos expulit
ille: / Illum aut nequities, aut vafri
inscitia juris, / Postremo expellet certe vivacior
hæres=--Nature has appointed neither
him nor me, nor any one, lord of this land in
perpetuity. That one has ejected us; either
some villany or quirk at law, at any rate, an
heir surviving him, will at last eject him. _Hor._
=Propriety of thought and propriety of diction= 15
=are commonly found together. Obscurity
and affectation are the two greatest faults
of style.= _Macaulay._
=Proprio motu=--Of his own motion; spontaneously.
=Proprio vigore=--Of one's own strength.
=Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem læseris=--It
is a weakness of your human nature to
hate those whom you have wronged. _Tac._
=Proque sua causa quisque disertus erat=--Every
one was eloquent in his own cause. _Ovid._
=Prose, words in their best order; poetry, the= 20
=best words in the best order.= _Coleridge._
=Prosperity destroys fools and endangers the
wise.= _Pr._
=Prosperity doth best discover vice, and adversity
doth best discover virtue.= _Bacon._
=Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes;
and adversity is not without comforts
and hopes.= _Bacon._
=Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament;
adversity is the blessing of the New,
which carrieth the greater benediction and
the clearer revelation of God's favour.= _Bacon._
=Prosperity is the touchstone of virtue; for it= 25
=is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to
remain uncorrupted by pleasure.= _Tac._
=Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it
be mixed with a little adversity.= _H. Ballou._
=Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the
great.= _Pliny the Younger._
=Prosperum et felix scelus / Virtus vocatur=--Crime
when it succeeds is called virtue. _Sen._
=Protectio trahit subjectionem, et subjectio protectionem=--Protection
involves allegiance, and
allegiance protection. _L._
=Protestantism is a revolt against false sovereigns;= 30
=the painful but indispensable first
preparation for true sovereigns getting place
among us.= _Carlyle._
=Proud people are intolerably selfish, and the
vain are gentle and giving.= _Emerson._
=Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.=
_St. Paul._
=Proverbs are easily made in cold blood.= _Joe Willet._
=Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the
diamond-fields of the mind.= _W. R. Alger._
=Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long= 35
=experience.= _Cervantes._
=Proverbs are the abridgments of wisdom.=
_Joubert._
=Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience.=
_Dut. Pr._
=Proverbs are the wisdom of ages.= _Ger. Pr._
=Proverbs are the wisdom of the streets.= _Pr._
=Proverbs cover the whole field of man as he is,= 40
=and life as it is, not of either as they ought
to be.= _John Morley._
=Proverbs have been always dear to the true
intellectual aristocracy of a nation.= _Trench._
=Proverbs have, not a few of them, come down
to us from remotest antiquity, borne safely
upon the waters of that great stream of
time which has swallowed so much beneath
its waves.= _Trench._
=Proverbs have pleased not one nation only,
but many, so that they have made themselves
a home in the most different lands.=
_Trench._
=Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation,
are the sanctuary of the intuitions.= _Emerson._
=Proverbs please the people, and have pleased= 45
=them for ages.= _Trench._
=Proverbs possess so vigorous a principle of
life, as to have maintained their ground,
ever new and ever young, through all the
centuries of a nation's existence.= _Trench._
=Proverbs were anterior to books, and formed
the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest
ages were the unwritten laws of morality.=
_I. Disraeli._
=Provide things honest in the sight of all men.=
_St. Paul._
=Providence certainly does not favour individuals,
but the deep wisdom of its counsels
extends to the instruction and ennoblement
of all.= _W. v. Humboldt._
=Providence conceals itself in the details of
human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the
generalities of history.= _Lamartine._
=Providence gives the power, of which reason
teaches the use.= _Johnson._
=Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road
to its end; and it is no use to try to whitewash
its huge, mixed instrumentalities, to
dress up that terrific benefactor in a clean
shirt and white neckcloth of a student in
divinity.= _Emerson._
=Providence has decreed that those common
acquisitions--money, gems, plate, noble
mansions, and dominion--should be sometimes
bestowed on the indolent and unworthy;
but those things which constitute
our true riches, and which are properly our
own, must be procured by our own labour.=
_Erasmus._
=Providence has given to the French the empire= 5
=of the land; to the English, that of the
sea; to the Germans, that of--the air.= _Mme.
de Staël._
=Providence is but another name for natural
law.= _Ward Beecher._
=Providence is my next-door neighbour.= _An
Italian hermit._
=Providence is not counteracted by any means
which Providence puts into our power.=
_Johnson._
=Providence may change, but the promise must
stand.= _Pr._
=Providence often puts a large potato in a little= 10
=pig's way.= _Pr._
=Providence provides for the provident.= _Pr._
=Provision is the foundation of hospitality,
and thrift the fuel of magnificence.= _Sir
P. Sidney._
=Provocarem ad Philippum, inquit, sed sobrium=--I
would appeal to Philip, she said, but to
Philip sober. _Val. Max._
=Proximorum incuriosi, longinqua sectamur=--Uninquisitive
of things near, we pursue those
which are at a distance. _Pliny._
=Proximus a tectis ignis defenditur ægre=--A 15
fire is difficult to ward off when next house is
in flames. _Ovid._
=Proximus ardet Ucalegon=--The house of your
neighbour Ucalegon is on fire. _Virg._
=Proximus sum egomet mihi=--I am my own
nearest of kin. _Ter._
=Prudence and greatness are ever persuading us
to contrary pursuits. The one instructs us
to be content with our station, and to find
happiness in bounding every wish: the other
impels us to superiority, and calls nothing
happiness but rapture.= _Goldsmith._
=Prudence and love are not made for each other;
as the love increases, prudence diminishes.=
_La Roche._
=Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the= 20
=virtues, without which they degenerate into
folly and excess.= _Jeremy Collier._
=Prudence is that virtue by which we discern
what is proper to be done under the
various circumstances of time and place.=
_Milton._
=Prudence is the virtue of the senses, the science
of appearances, the outmost action of the
inward life, God taking thought for oxen.=
_Emerson._
=Prudens futuri temporis exitum / Caliginosa
nocte premit Deus; / Ridetque, si mortalis
ultra / Fas trepidat=--The Deity in His wisdom
veils in the darkness of night the events of the
future; and smiles if a mortal is unduly solicitous
about what he is not permitted to know.
_Hor._
=Prudens interrogatio quasi dimidium sapientiæ=--Prudent
questioning is, as it were, the half of
knowledge.
=Prudens qui patiens=--He is prudent who has 25
patience. _M._
=Prudens simplicitas=--A prudent simplicity. _M._
=Prudent and active men, who know their
strength and use it with limitation and circumspection,
alone go far in the affairs of
the world.= _Goethe._
=Prudentia et constantia=--By prudence and constancy.
_M._
=Prudentis est mutare consilium; stultus sicut
luna mutatur=--A prudent man may, on occasion,
change his opinion, but a fool changes as often
as the moon.
=Prüft das Geschick dich, weiss es wohl warum; /= 30
=Es wünschte dich enthaltsam! Folge stumm=--Destiny
is proving thee; well knows she why:
she meant thee to be abstinent! Follow thou
dumb. _Goethe._
=Pshaw! what is this little dog-cage of an
earth? what art thou that sittest whining
there? Thou art still nothing, nobody;
true, but who then is something, somebody?=
_Carlyle._
=Public affairs ought to progress quickly or
slowly, but the people have always too
much action or too little. Sometimes with
their hundred thousand arms they will overthrow
everything, and sometimes with their
hundred thousand feet they will crawl along
like insects.= _Montesquieu._
=Public feeling now is apt to side with the persecuted,
and our modern martyr is full as
likely to be smothered with roses as with
coals.= _Chapin._
=Public instruction should be the first object of
government.= _Napoleon._
=Public opinion is a second conscience.= _W. R._ 35
_Alger._
=Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared
with our own private opinion. What a man
thinks of himself, that it is which determines,
or rather indicates, his fate.= _Thoreau._
=Public opinion is democratic.= _J. G. Holland._
=Public opinion is the mixed result of the intellect
of the community acting upon general
feeling.= _Hazlitt._
=Publicum bonum privato est præferendum=--The
public good must be preferred to private.
_L._
=Publicum meritorum præmium=--The public reward 40
for public services. _M._
=Pulchre! bene! recte!=--Beautiful! good! correct!
_Hor._
=Pulvis et umbra sumus, fruges consumere nati=--We
are but dust and shadows, born merely
to consume the fruits of the earth. _Hor._
=Punctuality is the soul of business.= _Pr._
=Punishment follows hard upon crime.= _Pr._
=Punishment is justice for the unjust.= _St._ 45
_Augustine._
=Punishment is the last and the worst instrument
in the hands of the legislator for the
prevention of crime.= _Ruskin._
=Punishment of a miser--to pay the drafts of
his heir in his tomb.= _Hawthorne._
[Greek: pyr machaira mê skaleuein]--Don't stir fire with
sword. _Pythagoras._
=Puras Deus non plenas adspicit manus=--God
looks to clean hands, not to full ones. (?)
=Purchase the next world with this; thus shalt= 5
=thou win both.= _Arab. Pr._
=Pure enjoyment and true usefulness can only
be reciprocal.= _Goethe._
=Pure love cannot merely do all, but is all.=
_Jean Paul._
=Pure religion and undefiled before God and
the Father is this: To visit the fatherless
and widows in their affliction, and to keep
himself unspotted from the world.= _St. James._
=Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found
unfit for circulation, because men have discovered
that it is far more convenient to
adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
They will not advance their minds
to the standard, therefore they lower the
standard to their minds.= _Colton._
=Puridad de dos, puridad de Dios; puridad de= 10
=tres, de todos es=--A secret between two is God's
secret; but a secret between three is all men's.
_Sp. Pr._
=Purity and simplicity are the two wings with
which man soars above the earth and all
temporary nature. Simplicity is in the intention,
purity in the affection; simplicity
turns to God; purity unites with and enjoys
Him.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of
honour.= _Hare._
=Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory
of a woman.= _Mme. de Staël._
=Purpose barred, it follows, / Nothing is done
to purpose.= _Coriolanus_, iii. 1.
=Purpose is what gives life a meaning.= _C. H._ 15
_Parkhurst._
=Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched
into action, will run into rottenness.= _Samuel
Smiles._
=Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties.= _Lord
Brougham._
=Pushing any truth out very far, you are met
by a counter-truth.= _Ward Beecher._
=Put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man
given to appetite.= _Bible._
=Put a stout heart to a stey= (steep) =brae.= _Sc._ 20
_Pr._
=Put a tongue / In every wound of Cæsar that
should move / The stones of Rome to rise
and mutiny.= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 2.
=Put a young healthy soul full of life under the
teaching of the Graces, and the soul's body
and workmanship will become transparent
of the soul's self.= _Ed._
=Put armour on thine ears and on thine eyes.=
_Timon of Athens_, iv. 3.
=Put money in thy purse.= _Othello_, i. 3.
=Put no trust in money; put your money in= 25
=trust.= _Amer. Pr._
=Put not all your crocks on one shelf.= _Sc. Pr._
=Put not all your eggs in one basket.= _Dut.
Pr._
=Put not forth thyself in the presence of the
king, and stand not in the place of great
men; for better it is that it be said unto
thee, Come up hither; than that thou
shouldest be put lower in the presence of
the prince whom thine eyes have seen.=
_Bible._
=Put the saddle on the right horse.= _Pr._
=Put your best foot foremost.= _Congreve._ 30
=Put your foot down where you mean to stand.=
_Pr._
=Put your hand no farther than your sleeve will
reach.= _Pr._
=Put your hand quickly to your hat and slowly
to your purse, and you'll take no harm.= _Pr._
=Put your own shoulder to the wheel.= _Pr._
=Put your trust in God, and keep your powder= 35
=dry.= _Cromwell._
=Putting out the natural eye of one's mind to
see better with a telescope.= _Carlyle._