=Qu'est ce donc que l'aristocratie? L'aristocratie!
je vais vous le dire: l'aristocratie,
c'est la ligue, la coalition de ceux qui veulent
consommer sans produire, vivre sans
travailler, occuper toutes les places sans
être en état de les remplir, envahir tous
les honneurs sans les avoir mérités: voilà
l'aristocratie!=--What, then, is the aristocracy?
The aristocracy, I mean to tell you, is the league,
the combination of those who are bent on consuming
without producing, living without working,
occupying all public posts without being
able to fill them, and usurping all honours
without having earned them--that is the aristocracy.
_Gen. Foy._
=Qu'est-ce que le Tiers-Etat. Rien! Que
veut-il être? Tout=--What is the Third
Estate? Nothing. What does it intend to be?
Everything. _Abbé Sieyès._
=Qu'est-ce qu'un noble? Un homme qui s'est
donné la peine de naître=--What is a nobleman?
A man who has given himself the
trouble of being born. _Beaumarchais._
=Qu'heureux est le mortel qui, du monde ignoré, /= 40
=Vit content de soi-même en un coin retiré!=--How
happy the man who, unknown to the world,
lives content with himself in some nook apart!
_Boileau._
=Qu'il faut à chaque mois, / Du moins s'enyvre
une fois=--We should get drunk at least once a
month. _Old Fr. Pr._
=Qu'on me donne six lignes écrites de la main du
plus honnête homme, j'y trouverai de quoi
le faire pendre=--Give me six lines written by
the most honourable man alive, and I shall find
matter therein to condemn him to the gallows.
_Richelieu._
=Qu'on parle bien ou mal du fameux cardinal, /
Ma prose ni mes vers n'en diront jamais
rien; / Il m'a fait trop de bien pour en dire
du mal, / Il m'a fait trop de mal pour en dire
du bien=--Let the world speak well or ill of the
famous cardinal, neither in my prose or verse
will I mention his name; he has done me too
much kindness to speak ill of him, and too much
injury to speak well. _Corn. of Richelieu._
=Qu'un joueur est heureux! sa poche est un
trésor! / Sous ses heureuses mains le cuivre
devient or=--How happy is a gambler! His
pocket is a treasure-store; in his lucky hands
copper turns into gold. _Regnard._
=Qu'une nuit paraît longue à la douleur qui
veille!=--What a long night that seems in which
one is kept awake with pain. _Saurin._
=Qua vincit victos protegit ille manu=--With the
same hand with which he conquers he protects
the conquered. _Ovid._
=Quackery has no friend like gullibility.= _Pr._
=Quadrupedante putrem sonitu quatit ungula= 5
=campum=--The hoof, in its four-footed galloping,
shakes the crumbling plain. _An onomatopoetic
line from Virgil._
=Quæ amissa salva=--Things which have been lost
are safe. _M._
=Quæ e longinquo magis placent=--Things please
the more the farther fetched. _Pr._
=Quæ fuerant vitia mores sunt=--What were once
vices are now the fashion of the day. _Sen._
=Quæ fuit durum pati / Meminisse dulce est=--What
was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
_Sen._
=Quæ infra nos nihil ad nos=--The things that are 10
below us are nothing to us. _Pr._
=Quæ lucis miseris tam dira cupido?=--How is it
that the wretched have such an infatuated longing
for life (_lit._ the light)? _Virg._
=Quæ peccamus juvenes ea luimus senes=--We
pay when old for the excesses of our youth. _Pr._
=Quæ regio in terris nostri non plena laboris?=--What
region of the earth is not full of the story
of our calamities? _Virg._
=Quæ sint, quæ fuerint, quæ mox ventura trahantur=--What
is, what has been, and what shall
in time be. _Virg._
=Quæ supra nos nihil ad nos=--Things which are 15
above us are nothing to us. _Pr._
=Quæ sursum volo videre=--I desire to see the
things which are above. _M._
=Quæ te dementia cepit?=--What madness has
seized you? _Virg._
=Quæ virtus et quanta, boni, sit vivere parvo!=--How
great, my friends, is the virtue of living
upon a little! _Hor._
=Quæ volumus et credimus libenter, et quæ sentimus
ipsi reliquos sentire putamus=--What
we wish we readily believe, and what we think
ourselves we imagine that others think also.
_Cæs._
=Quæque ipse miserrima vidi et quorum pars= 20
=magna fui=--Unhappy scenes which I myself
witnessed, and in which I acted a principal
part. _Virg._
=Quære verum=--Seek the truth. _Pr._
=Quærenda pecunia primum, / Virtus post nummos=--Money
must be sought for in the first instance;
virtue after riches. _Hor._
=Quærens quem devoret=--Seeking some one to
devour. _M._
=Quæstio vexata=--A vexed, _i.e._, much debated,
question.
=Quævis terra alit artificem=--Every land supports 25
the artisan. _Pr._
=Qualem commendes etiam atque etiam aspice,
ne mox / Incutiant aliena tibi peccata pudorem=--Study
carefully the character of him you
recommend, lest his misdeeds bring you shame.
_Hor._
=Quales sunt summi civitatis viri talis est civitas=--A
community is as those who rule it.
_Cic._
=Qualis avis, talis cantus; qualis vir, talis
oratio=--As is the bird, so is its song; as is the
man, so is his manner of speech.
=Qualis rex, talis grex=--Like king, like people.
_Pr._
=Qualis sit animus, ipse animus nescit=--What 30
the soul is, the soul itself knows not. _Cic._
=Qualis vita, finis ita=--As a man's life is, so is the
end. _M._
=Quality is better than quantity.= _Pr._
=Quam continuis et quantis longa senectus /
Plena malis!=--How incessant and great are
the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
_Juv._
=Quam inique comparatum est, hi qui minus
habent / Ut semper aliquid addant divitioribus!=--How
unjust is the fate which ordains
that those who have least should be always
adding to the store of the more wealthy! _Ter._
=Quam magnum vectigal sit parsimonia!=--What 35
a wonderful revenue lies in thrift! _Cic._
=Quam parva sapientia regatur=--Think with how
little wisdom the world is governed.
=Quam prope ad crimen sine crimine!=--How
near to guilt a man may approach without being
guilty!
=Quam temere in nosmet legem sancimus iniquam!=--How
rashly do we sanction a rule to
tell against ourselves! _Hor._
=Quam veterrimus homini optimus est amicus=--A
man's oldest friend is his best. _Plaut._
=Quamvis digressu veteris confusus amici /= 40
=Laudo tamen=--Though distressed at the departure
of my old friend, yet I commend him
for going. _Juv._
=Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas
et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de
la métaphysique=--When he to whom a man
speaks does not understand, and he who speaks
does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.
_Voltaire._
=Quand l'aveugle porte la bannière, mal pour
ceux qui marchent derrière=--When the blind
man bears the standard, pity those who follow.
_Fr. Pr._
=Quand le peuple est en mouvement, on ne
comprend pas par où le calme peut en
y rentrer; et quand il est paisible, on ne voit
pas par où le calme peut en sortir=--When the
people are in agitation, we do not understand
how tranquility is to return; and when they are
at peace, we do not see how tranquility can
depart. _La Bruyère._
=Quand les sauvages de la Louisiane veulent
avoir du fruit, ils coupent l'arbre au pied et
cueillent le fruit; voilà le gouvernement despotique=--When
the savages of Louisiana want
fruit, they cut down the tree by the root to
obtain it. Such is despotic government. _Montesquieu._
=Quand les vices nous quittent, nous nous flattons= 45
=que c'est nous qui les quittons=--When
vices forsake us, we flatter ourselves that it is we
who forsake them. _Fr._
=Quand on a tout perdu, quand on n'a plus
d'espoir, / La vie est une opprobre, et la
mort un devoir=--When one has lost everything
and has no more any hope, it is a disgrace to
live and a duty to die. _Voltaire._
=Quand on est jeune, on se soigne pour plaire,
et quand on est vieille, on se soigne pour ne
pas déplaire=--When we are young we take
pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we
take pains not to be disagreeable.
=Quand on est mort, c'est pour longtemps=--When
one is dead, it is for a long while. _Fr.
Pr._
=Quand on n'a pas ce que l'on aime, / Il faut
aimer ce que l'on a=--When we have not what
we like, we must like what we have. _Fr._
=Quand on ne trouve pas son repos en soi-même,
il est inutile de le chercher ailleurs=--When
we do not find repose in ourselves, it is in vain to
look for it elsewhere. _Fr._
=Quand on se fait aimer, on n'est pas inutile=--They 5
are a useful people who have learnt how to
please. _Ratisbonne._
=Quand on se fait entendre on parle toujours
bien=--We always speak well when we manage
to be understood. _Molière._
=Quand on voit le style naturel, on est tout
étonné et ravi; car on s'attendait de voir un
auteur, et on trouve un homme=--When we
see a natural style, we are astonished and
charmed; for we expected to see an author, and
we find a man. _Pascal._
=Quand sur une personne on prétend se régler /
C'est par les beaux côtés qu'il lui faut ressembler=--When
we aspire to imitate any one, it
is after his fine qualities we must fashion ourselves.
_Molière._
=Quand tout le monde a tort, tout le monde a
raison=--When all are wrong, every one is right.
_La Chaussée._
=Quand une fois j'ai pris ma résolution, je vais= 10
=droit à mon but, et je renverse tout de ma
soutane rouge=--When once I have taken my
resolution, I go straight to my point, and overturn
everything out of my way with my red
cassock. _Fr._ (?)
=Quand une lecture vous élève l'esprit et qu'elle
vous inspire des sentiments nobles et courageux,
il est bon, et fait de main d'ouvrier=--When
a work has an elevating effect on the
mind, and inspires you with noble and courageous
thoughts, it is good and is from the hand
of a master. _La Bruyère._
=Quando Dios amanece, para todos amanece=--When
God's light rises, it rises for all. _Sp.
Pr._
=Quando el Español canta, ó rabia, ó no tiene
blanca=--If a Spaniard sing, he's either mad or
without money. _Sp. Pr._
=Quando i furbi vanno in processione, il diabolo
porta la croce=--When rogues go in procession
the devil carries the cross. _It. Pr._
=Quando non c'è, perde la chiesa=--When there 15
is nothing, the church is a loser. _It. Pr._
=Quando ullum inveniet parem?=--When shall we
find his like again? _Hor._
=Quando vierás tu casa quemar llegate á escalentar=--When
thou seest thy house in flames, go
warm thyself by it. _Sp. Pr._
=Quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus=--Even
the worthy Homer nods sometimes. _Hor._
=Quanta est gula, quæ sibi totos / Ponit apros,
animal propter convivia natum=--What a glutton
is he who has whole boars served up for him,
an animal created for banquets alone. _Juv._
=Quanti est sapere!=--What a grand thing it is to 20
be clever, or to have sense. _Ter._
=Quanto la cosa è più perfetta, / Più senta il
bene e cosi la doglienza=--The more perfect a
thing is, the more susceptible of good and bad
treatment. _Dante._
=Quanto piace al mondo è breve sogno=--All the
pleasure of the world is only a short dream.
_Petrarch._
=Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit, / A Dis
plura feret=--The more a man denies himself,
the more will he receive from the gods.
_Hor._
=Quantum=--Proper quantity or allowance (_lit._
how much).
=Quantum est in rebus inane!=--What emptiness 25
there is in human affairs! _Pers._
=Quantum meruit=--As much as he deserved. _L._
=Quantum mutatus ab illo=--How greatly changed
from what he was! _Virg._
=Quantum nobis nostrisque hæc fabula de
Christo profuerit notum est=--Every one knows
what a godsend this story about Christ has been
to us and our order. _Pope Leo X._
=Quantum quisque sua nummorum servat in
arca / Tantum habet et fidei=--The credit of
every man is in proportion to the number of
coins he keeps in his chest. _Juv._
=Quantum sufficit=--As much as is sufficient. 30
=Quarrelling with occasion.= _Mer. of Venice_,
iii. 5.
=Quarrels would not last long if the fault were
only on one side.= _La Roche._
=Qué es la vida? Un frenesi. / Qué es la vida?
Una ilusión. / Una sombra, una ficcion, / Y el
mayor bien es pequeño; / Que toda la vida
es sueño, / Y los sueños, sueños son!=--What
is life? A conceit of the fancy. What is life?
An illusion, / a shadow, a fiction, and the greatest
earthly possession insignificant; the whole of life
nothing but a dream, and dreams are shadows.
_Calderon._
=Que j'aime la hardiesse anglaise! que j'aime
les gens qui disent ce qu'ils pensent=--How
I like the boldness of the English; how I like
the people who say what they think! _Voltaire._
=Que la Suisse soit libre, et que nos noms périssent!=--Let 35
Switzerland be free and our names
perish! _Lemierre._
=Que les gens de l'esprit sont bêtes=--What silly
people wits are! _Beaumarchais._
=Que mon nom soit flétri=--(So be the cause triumphs)
let my name be blighted. _Fr._
=Que votre âme et vos mœurs peintes dans vos
ouvrages=--Let your mind and manners be
painted in your works. _Fr._
=Que vouliez-vous qu'il fit contre trois?--Qu'il
mourut!=--What would you have him do with
three against him. I would have him die.
_Corn._ (?)
=Quel che fa il pazzo all' ultimo, lo fa il savio= 40
=alla prima=--The wise man does that at first
which the fool must do at last. _It. Pr._
=Quelqu'éclatante que soit une action, elle ne
doit passer pour grande lorsqu'elle n'est pas
l'effet d'un grand dessein=--An action should
not be regarded as great, however brilliant it
may be, if it is not the offspring of a great
design. _La Roche._
=Quelque parti que je prenne je sais bien que je
serai blâmé=--Whatever side I take, I know
well that I shall be blamed. _Louis XIV._
=Quelque soin que l'on prenne de couvrir ses
passions par des apparences de piété et l'honneur,
elles paraissent toujours au travers de
ces voiles=--Whatever care we take to conceal
our passions by show of piety and honour, they
always appear through these veils. _La Roche._
=Quelques crimes toujours précèdent les grands
crimes=--Small crimes always precede great ones.
_Racine._
=Quem di diligunt, adolescens moritur, dum
valet, sentit, sapit=--Whom the gods love dies
young, while his strength and senses and faculties
are in their full vigour. _Plaut._
=Quem Jupiter vult perdere dementat prius=--Him
whom Jupiter wishes to ruin, he first infatuates.
_Pr._
=Quem pœnitet peccasse pene est innocens=--He 5
who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
_Sen._
=Quem res plus nimio delectavere secundæ, /
Mutatæ quatient=--The man whom prosperity
too much delights will be most shocked by reverses.
_Hor._
=Quem te Deus esse jussit=--What God bade you
be. _M._
=Quemcunque miserum videris, hominem scias=--Whenever
you behold a fellow-creature in distress,
remember that he is a man. _Sen._
=Questi non hanno speranza di morte=--These
have not the hope to die. _Dante._
=Questioning is not the mode of conversation= 10
=among gentlemen.= _Johnson._
=Quey= (female) =calfs are dear veal.= _Sc. Pr._
=Qui a bruit de se lever matin peut dormir jusqu'à
diner=--He who has a name for rising in
the morning may sleep till midday. _Fr. Pr._
=Qui a nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem=--He
who would eat the kernel must first crack
the shell. _Plaut._
=Qui a vécu un seul jour a vécu un siècle=--He
who has lived a single day has lived an age. _La
Bruyère._
=Qui a vu la cour, a vu du monde, ce qu'il y a= 15
=de plus beau, le plus spécieux, et le plus
orné; qui méprise la cour après l'avoir vu
méprise le monde=--He who has seen the court
has seen all this most beautiful, most specious,
and best decorated in the world; and he who
despises the court after having seen it despises
the world. _La Bruyère._
=Qui aime bien, châtie bien=--Who loves well,
chastises well. _Fr. Pr._
=Qui alterum incusat probri eum ipsum se intueri
oportet=--He who accuses another of improper
conduct ought to look to himself. _Plaut._
=Qui aura esté une fois bien fol ne sera nulle
autre fois bien sage=--He who has once been
very foolish will never be very wise. _Montaigne._
=Qui bene conjiciet, hunc vatem perhibeto optimum=--Hold
him the best prophet who forms the
best conjectures.
=Qui bene imperat, paruerit aliquando necesse= 20
=est=--He who is good at commanding must have
some time been good at obeying. _Cic._
=Qui brille au second rang s'éclipse au premier=--He
who shines in the second rank is eclipsed
in the first. _Fr. Pr._
=Qui capit ille facit=--He who takes it to himself
has done it. _Pr._
=Qui commence et ne parfait, sa peine perd=--He
who begins and does not finish loses his pains.
_Fr. Pr._
=Qui conducit=--He who leads. _M._
=Qui craindra la mort n'entreprendra rien sur= 25
=moi: qui méprisera la vie sera toujours maître
de la mienne=--He who fears death will never
take any advantage of me; but he who despises
life will ever be master of mine. _Henry IV. of
France._
=Qui craint de souffrir, souffre de crainte=--He
who fears to suffer suffers from fear. _Fr. Pr._
=Qui de contemnenda gloria libros scribunt,
nomen suum inscribunt=--Those who write
books on despising fame inscribe their own name
on the title-page.
=Qui dedit hoc hodie, cras, si volet, auferet=--He
who has given to-day may, if he so please,
take away to-morrow. _Hor._
=Qui est maître de sa soif est maître de sa santé=--He
who has the mastery of his thirst has the
mastery of his health. _Fr. Pr._
=Qui est plus esclave qu'un courtisan assidu si= 30
=ce n'est un courtisan plus assidu?=--Who is
more of a slave than an assiduous courtier, unless
it be another courtier who is more assiduous still?
_La Bruyère._
=Qui facit per alium facit per se=--He who does
a thing by another does it himself. _Coke._
=Qui fingit sacros auro vel marmore vultus, /
Non facit ille deos: qui rogat, ille facit=--He
does not make gods who fashions sacred images
of gold or marble: he makes them such who
prays to them. _Mart._
=Qui fit, Mæcenas, ut nemo, quam sibi sortem /
Seu ratio dederit, seu fors objecerit, illa /
Contentus vivat; laudet diversa sequentes?=--How
happens it, Mæcenas, that no one lives
content with the lot which either reason has chosen
for him or chance thrown in his way; but that he
praises the fortune of those who follow other pursuits?
_Hor._
=Qui genus jactat suum aliena laudat=--He who
boasts of his descent boasts of what he owes to
others. _Sen._
=Qui homo mature quæsivit pecuniam, / Nisi= 35
=eam mature parcit, mature esurit=--He who
has acquired wealth in time, unless he saves it
in time, will in time come to starvation. _Plaut._
=Qui invidet minor est=--He who envies another
is his inferior. _M._
=Qui jacet in terra non habet unde cadat=--Who
lies upon the ground cannot fall. _Alain de Lille._
=Qui jeune n'apprend, vieux ne saura=--He will
not know when he is old who learns not when
he is young.
=Qui jure suo utitur, neminem lædit=--He who
enjoys his own right injures no man. _L._
=Qui legitis flores et humi nascentia fragra, /= 40
=Frigidus, O pueri fugite hinc, latet anguis
in herba=--Ye youths that pluck flowers and
strawberries on the ground, flee hence; a cold
clammy snake lurks in the grass. _Virg._
=Qui mange du pape, en meurt=--Who eats what
comes from the pope dies of it.
=Qui medice vivit, misere vivit=--He who lives by
medical prescription lives miserably. _Pr._
=Qui mentiri aut fallere insuevit patrem, / Tanto
magis is audebit cæteros=--He who has made
it a practice to lie to or deceive his father, the
more daring will he be in deceiving others. _Ter._
=Qui mores hominum multorum vidit et urbes=--He
who saw the manners of many men and
cities. _Hor., of Ulysses._
=Qui n'a, ne peut=--He who has not cannot. _Fr. Pr._
=Qui n'a pas l'esprit de son âge / De son âge
a tout le malheur=--He who has not the spirit
of his time has all the misery of it. _Voltaire._
=Qui n'a plus qu'un moment à vivre / N'a plus
rien à dissimuler=--He who has only a moment
to live has no more reason to dissemble. _Quinault._
=Qui n'a point d'amour n'a pas de beaux jours=--He
who knows not love has no happy days. _Fr._
=Qui n'a point de sens à trente ans n'en aura= 5
=jamais=--He who has not sense at thirty will
never have any. _Fr. Pr._
=Qui n'a rien, ne craint rien=--He who has nought
fears nought. _Fr. Pr._
=Qui ne craint point la mort ne craint point les
menaces=--He who fears not death cares not for
threats. _Corn._
=Qui ne sait obéir, ne sait commander=--Who
knows not how to obey knows not how to command.
_Fr. Pr._
=Qui ne sait pas, trouvera à apprendre=--He that
does not know will find ways and means to learn.
_Fr. Pr._
=Qui ne sait se borner, ne sut jamais écrire=--He 10
who cannot limit himself will never know how to
write. _Boileau._
=Qui nescit dissimulare, nescit regnare=--He
who knows not how to dissemble knows not how
to rule. _Louis XI._
=Qui nescit dissimulare nescit vivere=--He who
knows not how to dissemble, knows not how to
live.
=Qui nil molitur inepte=--One who never makes
any unsuccessful effort. _Hor._
=Qui nil potest sperare, desperet nihil=--Who can
hope for nothing should despair of nothing. _Sen._
=Qui nolet fieri desidiosus, amet=--If any man wish 15
to be idle, let him fall in love. _Ovid._
=Qui non est hodie, cras minus aptus erit=--He
who is not prepared to-day will be less ready to-morrow.
_Ovid._
=Qui non laborat, non manducet=--If any does not
work, he shall not eat. _Vulgate._
=Qui non moderabitur iræ / Infectum volet esse,
dolor quod suaserit et mens=--He who does
not restrain his anger will wish that undone
which his irritation and temper prompted him to.
_Hor._
=Qui non proficit, deficit=--He who does not advance
loses ground. _Pr._
=Qui non prohibet quod prohibere potest assentire= 20
=videtur=--He who does not prevent what he
can prevent is held to consent. _L._
=Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum, / Illuc unde
negant redire quenquam=--Who now is travelling
along the darksome walk to the spot from
which, they say, no one ever returns. _Cat._
=Qui parcit virgæ odit filium=--He that spareth
his rod hates the child. _M._
=Qui pardonne aisément invite à l'offenser=--He
who easily forgives invites offences. _Corn._
=Qui patitur vincit=--He who endures conquers. _M._
=Qui peccat ebrius luat sobrius=--He that commits 25
an offence when drunk shall pay for it when
he is sober. _L._
=Qui perd péche=--He who loses sins. _Pr._
=Qui pense=--He who thinks. _M._
=Qui peut ce qui lui plait, commande alors qu'il
prie=--He who can do what he pleases, commands
when he entreats. _Corn._
=Qui porte épée porte paix=--He who bears the
sword bears peace. _Fr. Pr._
=Qui prête à l'ami perd au double=--He who lends 30
money to a friend loses doubly. _Fr. Pr._
=Qui pro quo=--Who for whom; one instead of
another.
=Qui proficit in literis et deficit in moribus, plus
deficit quam proficit=--He who is proficient in
learning and deficient in morals is more deficient
than proficient. _Anon._
=Qui quæ vult dicit, quod non vult audiet=--He
who says what he likes will hear what he does
not like. _Ter._
=Qui recte vivendi prorogat horam / Rusticus
expectat dum defluat amnis, at ille / Labitur
et labetur in omne volubilis ævum=--He who
postpones the hour for living aright is as one who
waits like the clown till the river flow by; but it
glides and will glide on to all time. _Hor._
=Qui rit Vendredi, Dimanche pleurera=--He who 35
laughs Friday will weep Sunday. _Fr. Pr._
=Qui s'excuse, s'accuse=--He who excuses himself
accuses himself. _Fr. Pr._
=Qui sait dissimuler, sait régner=--He that knows
how to dissemble knows how to reign. _Fr. Pr._
=Qui sait tout souffrir peut tout oser=--He who
can bear all can dare all. _Vauvenargues._
=Qui se fait brebis, loup le mange=--Him who
makes himself a sheep the wolf eats. _Fr. Pr._
=Qui se ressemble, s'assemble=--Like associates 40
with like. _Fr. Pr._
=Qui se sent galeux se gratte=--Let him who feels
it resent it, or apply it (_lit._ let him scratch who
feels the itch). _Fr. Pr._
=Qui se ultro morti offerant, facilius reperiuntur,
quam qui dolorem patienter ferant=--It is easier
to find men who will volunteer to die than who
will endure pain with patience. _Cæs._
=Qui semel aspexit quantum dimissa petitis /
Præstant, mature redeat, repetatque relicta=--Let
him who has once perceived how much
what he has given up is better than what he has
chosen, immediately return and resume what he
has relinquished. _Hor._
=Qui sert bien son pays n'a pas besoin d'aieux=--He
who serves his country well has no need
of ancestors. _Voltaire._
=Qui sibi amicus est, scito hunc amicum omnibus= 45
=esse=--He who is a friend to himself you may be
sure he is a friend to all. _Sen._
=Qui spe aluntur, pendent, non vivunt=--Those
who feed on hope, hang on, they do not live. _Pr._
=Qui stultis videri eruditi volunt stulti eruditis
videntur=--They who wish to appear learned to
fools will appear fools to learned men. _Quinct._
=Qui tacet consentire videtur=--He who is silent
professes consent. _L._
=Qui terret plus ipse timet=--He who terrifies
others is himself in continual fear. _Claud._
=Qui timide rogat, docet negare=--He who asks 50
timidly courts refusal. _Sen._
=Qui trop embrasse, mal étreint=--He who grasps
too much grasps ill. _Fr. Pr._
=Qui uti scit, ei bona=--Good to him who knows
how to use it. _Ter._
=Qui veut la fin, veut les moyens=--Who wills the
end, wills the means. _Fr. Pr._
=Qui veut manger de noyeau, qu'il casse la noix=--He
that would eat the kernel must break the
shell. _Fr. Pr._
=Qui veut mourir ou vaincre est vaincu rarement=--He
who is resolved to conquer or die is
rarely conquered. _Corneille._
=Qui veut tener nette sa maison, / N'y mette ni
femme, ni prêtre, ni pigeon=--Let him who
would keep his home clean, house in it neither
woman, priest, nor pigeon. _Fr. Pr._
=Qui veut voyager loin ménage sa monture=--He
who has far to ride spares his horse. _Racine._
=Qui vit sans folie, n'est pas si sage qu'il croit=--He
who lives without folly is not as wise as
he thinks. _Fr. Pr._
=Qui vive?=--Who goes there? _Fr._ 5
=Qui vult decipi, decipiatur=--Let him be deceived
who chooses to be deceived.
=Quick at meat, quick at work=, _i.e._ at that kind
of work. _Sc. Pr._
=Quick removals are slow prosperings.= _Pr._
=Quick resentments are often fatal.= _Pr._
=Quick returns make rich merchants.= _Pr._ 10
=Quick sensibility is inseparable from a ready
understanding.= _Addison._
=Quick steps are best over miry ground.= _Pr._
=Quick to borrow is always slow to pay.=
_Pr._
=Quick to learn and wise to know.= _Burns._
=Quicken yourself up to duty by the remembrance= 15
=of your station, who you are, and
what you have obliged yourself to be.=
_Thomas à Kempis._
=Quicker by taking more time.= _Pr._
=Quiconque a beaucoup de témoins de sa mort,
meurt toujours avec courage=--He who dies
before many witnesses always does so with
courage. _Voltaire._
=Quiconque est loup, agisse en loup=--Whoever is
a wolf acts as a wolf. _La Fontaine._
=Quiconque rougit est déjà coupable; la vraie
innocence n'a honte de rien=--Whoever blushes
confesses guilt; true innocence feels no shame.
_Rousseau._
=Quiconque s'imagine la pouvoir mieux écrire,= 20
=ne l'entend pas=--Whoso fancies he can write it
(the Life of Christ) better does not understand
it. (?)
=Quicquid agas, prudenter agas, et respice
finem=--Whatever you do, do it with intelligence,
and keep the end in view. _Thomas à
Kempis._
=Quicquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira,
voluptas, / Gaudia, discursus, nostri est
farrago libelli=--Whatever men are engaged in,
their wishes and fear, anger, pleasures, joys,
runnings to and fro, form the medley of my
book. _Juv._
=Quicquid excessit modum / Pendet instabili
loco=--Whatever has overstepped its due bounds
is always in a state of instability. _Sen._
=Quicunque turpi fraude semel innotuit, / Etiamsi
verum dicit, amittit fidem=--Whoever
has once been detected in a shameful fraud is not
believed even if he speak the truth. _Phædr._
=Quid æternis minorem / Consiliis animum fatigas?=--Why 25
harass with eternal purposes a mind
too weak to grasp them? _Hor._
=Quid brevi fortes jaculamur ævo / Multa? quid
terras alio calentes / Sole mutamus?=--Why
do we, whose life is so brief, aim at so many
things? Why change we to lands warmed by
another sun? _Hor._
=Quid cæco cum speculo?=--What has a blind man
to do with a mirror?
=Quid clarius astris?=--What is brighter than the
stars? _M._
=Quid crastina volveret ætas / Scire nefas homini=--It
is not permitted to man to know what
to-morrow may bring forth. _Stat._
=Quid datur a Divis felici optatius hora?=--What 30
thing more to be wished do the gods bestow than
a happy hour? _Cat._
=Quid de quoque viro, et cui dicas, sæpe caveto=--Be
ever on your guard what you say of any
man, and to whom. _Hor._
=Quid deceat, quid non obliti=--Neglectful of what
is seemly and what is not. _Hor._
=Quid dem? quid non dem? renuis tu quod
jubet alter=--What shall I give? what withhold?
you refuse what another demands. _Hor._
=Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu?=--What
will this promiser produce worthy of
such boastful language? _Hor._
=Quid domini facient audent quum talia fures?=--What 35
would the masters do, when their knaves
dare such things? _Virg._
=Quid enim ratione timemus / Aut cupimus?=--What
do we fear or desire with reason? _Juv._
=Quid enim salvis infamia nummis?=--What
matters infamy when the money is safe? _Juv._
=Quid est somnus gelidæ nisi mortis imago?=--What
is sleep but the image of cold death?
_Ovid._
=Quid est turpius quam senex vivere incipiens?=--What
is more scandalous than an old man just
beginning to live? _Sen._
=Quid faciunt pauci contra tot millia fortes?=--What 40
can a few brave men do against so many
thousand? _Ovid._
=Quid furor est census corpore ferre suo!=--What
madness it is to carry one's fortune on one's back!
_Ovid._
=Quid leges sine moribus / Vanæ proficiunt=--What
do idle laws avail without morals? _Hor._
=Quid me alta silentia cogis / Rumpere=--Why
force me to break the deep silence? _Virg._
=Quid non ebrietas designat? Operta recludit;
/ Spes jubet esse ratas; in prælia trudit
inertem; / Sollicitis animis onus eximit;
addocet artes=--What does not drink effect? it
unlocks secrets; bids our hopes to be realised;
urges the dastard to the fight; lifts the load
from troubled minds; teaches accomplishments.
_Hor._
=Quid non mortalia pectora cogis, / Auri sacra= 45
=fames?=--To what lust dost thou not drive mortal
hearts, thou accursed lust for gold? _Virg._
=Quid nos dura refugimus / Ætas? Quid intactum
nefasti / Liquimus?=--What have we,
a hardened generation, shrunk from? What
have we, in our impiety, left inviolate? _Hor._
=Quid nunc=--What now; a newsmonger.
=Quid obseratis auribus fundis preces?=--Why do
you pour prayers into ears that are stopped?
_Hor._
=Quid pro quo=--Equivalent; one thing instead of
another.
=Quid prodest, Pontice, longo / Sanguine censeri,= 50
=pictosque ostendere vultus / Majorum?=--What
boots it, Ponticus, to be accounted of a
long line, and to display the painted busts of our
ancestors? _Juv._
=Quid quisque vitet, nunquam homini satis /
Cautum est in horas=--What he should shun
from hour to hour man is never sufficiently on
his guard. _Hor._
=Quid Romæ faciam? mentiri nescio=--What
should I do at Rome? I know not how to lie. _Juv._
=Quid si nunc cœlum ruat?=--What if the sky
should now fall? _Ter._
=Quid sit futurum cras fuge quærere, et / Quem
sors dierum cunque dabit, lucro / Appone=--Shrink
from asking what is to be to-morrow,
and every day that fortune shall grant you set
down as gain. _Hor._
=Quid te exempta juvat spinis de pluribus una?=--What 5
better are you if you pluck out but one
of many thorns? _Hor._
=Quid tibi cum pelago? Terra contenta fuisses=--What
have you to do with the sea? You should
have been content with the land. _Ovid._
=Quid tristes querimoniæ / Si non supplicio
culpa reciditur?=--What do sad complaints
avail if the offence is not cut down by punishment?
_Hor._
=Quid turpius quam sapientis vitam ex insipientis
sermone pendere?=--What more discreditable
than to estimate the life of a wise man
from the talk of a fool?
=Quid verum atque decens curo et rogo, et omnis
in hoc sum=--My care and study is what is
true and becoming, and in this I am wholly absorbed.
_Hor._
=Quid velit et possit rerum concordia discors=--What 10
the discordant concord of things means and
can educe. _Hor._
=Quid vesper ferat, incertum est.=--Who knows
what the evening may bring us? _Livy._
=Quidquid erit, superanda omnis fortuna ferendo
est=--Our fate, whatever it be, is to be overcome
by patience under it. _Virg._
=Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes=--Whatever
it is, I fear the Greeks even when
they bring gifts with them. _Virg._
=Quidquid præcipies, esto brevis, ut cito dicta /
Percipiant animi dociles, teneantque fideles /
Omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat=--Whatever
you teach, be brief; what is quickly
said, the mind readily receives and faithfully
retains, everything superfluous runs over as from
a full vessel. _Hor._
=Quien da la suyo antes de morir aparajese a= 15
=bien sufrir=--Who parts with his own before he
dies, let him prepare for death. _Sp. Pr._
=Quien larga vida vive mucho mal vide=--To live
long is to see much evil. _Sp. Pr._
=Quien mas sabe mas calla=--Who knows most
says least. _Sp. Pr._
=Quien no va á carava, no sabe nada=--He who
does not mix with the crowd knows nothing.
_Sp. Pr._
=Quien se muda, Dios le ayuda=--God assists
him who reforms himself. _Sp. Pr._
=Quien tiene arte, va por toda parte=--Who has 20
a trade may go anywhere. _Sp. Pr._
=Quiet continuity of life is the principle of
human happiness.= _Lindner._
=Quieta non movere=--Don't stir things at rest.
=Quietly do the next thing that has to be done,
and allow one thing to follow upon the other.=
_Goethe._
=Quietness is best.= _Sc. Pr._
=Quin corpus onustum / Hesternis vitiis animum= 25
=quoque prægravat una, / Atque affigit humo
divinæ particulam auræ=--And the body, overcharged
with yesterday's excess, weighs down
the soul also along with it, and fastens to the
ground a particle of the divine ether. _Hor._
=Quis desiderio sit pudor aut modus / Tam cari
capitis?=--What shame or measure can there be
to our regret for one so dear? _Hor._
=Quis enim virtutem amplectitur ipsam, / Præmia
si tollas?=--For who would embrace virtue
herself if you took away the reward? _Juv._
=Quis fallere possit amantem?=--Who can deceive
a lover? _Virg._
=Quis nescit, primam esse historiæ legem, ne
quid falsi dicere audeat? Deinde ne quid
veri non audeat?=--Who does not know that it
is the first law of history not to dare to say anything
that is false, and the second not to dare
to say anything that is not true? _Cic._
=Quis scit an adjiciant hodiernæ crastina summæ= 30
=/ Tempora Di superi?=--Who knows
whether the gods above will add to-morrow's
hours to the sum of to-day? _Hor._
=Quis separabit?=--Who shall separate? _M._
=Quisnam igitur liber? Sapiens qui sibi imperiosus;
/ Quem neque pauperies neque
mors neque vincula terrent; / Responsare
cupidinibus, contemnere honores / Fortis, et
in seipso totus teres atque rotundus=--Who
then is free? He who is wisely lord of himself,
whom neither poverty, nor death, nor bonds
terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and
despise honours, and is complete in himself,
smooth and round like a globe. _Hor._
=Quisque suos patimur Manes=--The ghost of
each of us undergoes (in the nether world) his
own special punishment or purgation.
=Quit not certainty for hope.= _Pr._
=Quit the world, and the world forgets you.= 35
_Disraeli._
=Quit thyself manfully; banish impatience and
distrust.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Quixadas sin barbas no merecen ser honradas=--Chins
without beards deserve no honour.
_Sp. Pr._
=Quo animo=--With what intention.
=Quo fata vocant=--Whither the Fates call. _M._
=Quo jure=--By what right. 40
=Quo jure quaque injuria=--Right or wrong. _Ter._
=Quo mihi fortunam, si non conceditur uti?=--To
what end have the gods given me fortune, if I
may not use it? _Hor._
=Quo res cunque cadent, unum et commune
periclum, / Una salus ambobus erit=--Whatever
may be the issue, we have both one common
peril and one safety. _Virg._
=Quo semel est imbuta recens servabit odorem /
Testa diu=--The jar will long retain the odour of
the liquor with which, when new, it was once
saturated. _Hor._
=Quo teneam vultus mutantem Protea nodo?=--By 45
what noose shall I hold this Proteus who is
ever changing his shape? _Hor._
=Quoad hoc=--So far (_lit._ as regards this).
=Quocirca vivite fortes / Fortiaque adversis
opponite pectora rebus=--Wherefore live as
brave men, and front adversity with stout hearts.
=Quocunque aspicio, nihil est nisi mortis imago=--Wherever
I look I see nothing but some form
of death. _Ovid._
=Quod avertat Deus!=--God forbid!
=Quod cito fit, cito perit=--What is done quickly
does not last long.
=Quod commune cum alio est, desinit esse proprium=--What
we share with another ceases to
be our own. _Quinct._
=Quod decet honestum est et quod honestum est
decet=--What is becoming is honourable, and
what is honourable is becoming. _Cic._
=Quod eorum minimis mihi=--As to the least of 5
these, so to me. _M._
=Quod erat demonstrandum=--Which was to be
proved.
=Quod erat faciendum=--Which was to be done.
=Quod est absurdum=--Which is absurd.
=Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: cœli /
Scrutantur plagas=--What is at his feet no one
looks at; they scan the tracks of heaven. _Enn._
=Quod licet Jovi, non licet bovi=--What is allowed 10
to Jupiter is not allowed to the ox.
=Quod medicorum est / Promittunt medici, tractant
fabrilia fabri / Scribimus indocti doctique
poemata passim=--Doctors practise what belongs
to doctors, workmen handle the tools they
have been trained to, but all of us everywhere,
trained and untrained, alike write verses. _Hor._
=Quod nimis miseri volunt, hoc facile credunt=--Whatever
the wretched anxiously wish for, they
are ready to believe. _Sen._
=Quod non opus est, asse carum est=--What you
don't need is dear at a doit. _Cato._
=Quod non vetat lex, hoc vetat fieri pudor=--Modesty
forbids what the law does not. _Sen._
=Quod nunc ratio est, impetus ante fuit=--What 15
is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
_Ovid._
=Quod potui perfeci=--What I could I have
done. _M._
=Quod satis est cui contingit, nihil amplius
optet=--Let him who for his share has enough
wish for nothing more. _Hor._
=Quod scripsi, scripsi=--What I have written, I
have written.
=Quod semper, quod ubique, et quod ab omnibus=--What
has been always, been everywhere, and
been by all believed.
=Quot servi, tot hostes=--So many servants you 20
maintain, so many enemies.
=Quod sis esse velis, nihilque malis: / Summum
nec metuas diem, nec optes=--Be content to be
what you are, and prefer nothing to it, neither
fear nor wish for your last day. _Mart._
=Quod sursum volo videre=--I wish to see that
which is above. _M._
=Quod verum est, meum est=--What is true belongs
to me (whoever said it). _Sen._
=Quod verum tutum=--What is true is safe. _M._
=Quod vide= (or =videas=)--Which see. 25
=Quondam his vicimus armis=--We formerly conquered
with these arms. _M._
=Quot capitum vivunt, totidem studiorum=--There
are as many thousands of different tastes
of pursuits as there are individuals alive. _Hor._
=Quot cœlum stellas, tot habet tua Roma
puellas=--There are as many girls in your Rome
as there are stars in the sky. _Ovid._
=Quotation confesses inferiority.= _Emerson._
=Quotation, like much better things, has its= 30
=abuses. One may quote till one compiles.=
_I. Disraeli_
=Quotations from profane authors, cold allusions,
false pathetic, antitheses and hyperboles,
are out of doors.= _La Bruyère._
=Quum Romæ fueris, Romano vivite more=--When
you are at Rome live after the fashion
at Rome. _Pr._
=Quum talis sis, utinam noster esses!=--How I
wish you were one of us, since I find you so
worthy! _L._