=Üb' immer Treu und Redlichkeit / Bis an dein= 15
=kühles Grab=--Be sure thou always practise
fidelity and honesty till thou lie in thy cold grave.
_L. H. Hölty._
=Über allen Gipfeln / Ist Ruh=--Over all heights
is rest. _Goethe._
=Über die Berge mit Ungestüm=--Over the mountains
by storm. _Kotzebue._
=Über vieles kann / Der Mensch zum Herrn
sich machen, seinen Sinn / Bezwinget kaum
die Not und lange Zeit=--Man can make himself
master over much, hardly can necessity and
length of time subdue his spirit. _Goethe._
=Überall bin ich zu Hause, / Überall bin ich
bekannt=--Everywhere am I at home, everywhere
am I known. _F. Hückstädt._
=Übereilung thut nicht gut; / Bedachtsamkeit= 20
=macht alle Dinge besser=--Precipitation spoils
everything; consideration improves everything.
_Schiller._
=Uberibus semper lacrymis, semperque paratis /
In statione sua, atque expectantibus illam /
Quo jubeat manare modo=--With tears always
in abundance, and always ready at their station,
and awaiting her signal to flow as she bids them.
_Juv., of a pettish woman._
=Uberrima fides=--The fullest confidence; implicit
faith.
=Überzeugung soll mir niemand rauben / Wer's
besser weiss, der mag es glauben=--No one
shall deprive me of this conviction that a man's faith
in a thing is not weaker, but stronger, the better
he knows it. _Goethe._
=Ubi amici, ibi opes=--Where there are friends there
is wealth. _Plaut._
=Ubi amor condimentum inerit cuivis placiturum= 25
=credo=--Where love enters to season a dish, I
believe it will please any one. _Plaut._
=Ubi bene, ibi patria=--Where it is well with me,
there is my country. _Pr._
=Ubi dolor, ibi digitus=--Where the pain is, there
the finger will be. _Pr._
=Ubi homines sunt modi sunt=--Where men are
there are manners.
=Ubi idem et maximus et honestissimus amor
est, aliquando præstat morte jungi quam
vita distrahi=--Where there exists the greatest
and most honourable love, it is sometimes better
to be joined in death than separated in life.
_Valerius Maximus._
=Ubi jus, ibi remedium=--Where there is a right 30
there is a remedy. _L._
=Ubi jus incertum, ibi jus nullum=--Where the
law is uncertain there is no law. _L._
=Ubi lapsus? Quid feci?=--Where have I made
slip? What have I done? _M._
=Ubi major pars est, ibi est totum=--Where the
greater part is, there the whole is. _L._
=Ubi mel, ibi apes=--Where there is honey to be
found, there will be bees. _Plaut._
=Ubi sæva indignatio cor ulterius lacerare= 35
=nequit=--Where bitter indignation cannot lacerate
my heart any more. _Swift's epitaph._
=Ubi summus imperator non adest ad exercitum,
/ Citius quod non facto 'st usus fit,
quam quod facto 'st opus=--When the commander-in-chief
is not with the army, that is
sooner done which need not to be done than that
which requires to be done. _Plaut._
=Ubi supra=--Where above mentioned.
=Ubi timor adest, sapientia adesse nequit=--Where
fear is present, wisdom cannot be. _Lactantius._
=Ubi uber, ibi tuber=--There are no roses without
thorns. _Pr._
=Ubicunque ars ostentatur, veritas abesse videtur=--Wherever 40
there is a display of art, truth
seems to us to be wanting.
=Ubique=--Everywhere. _M._
=Ubique patriam reminisci=--I remember my
country everywhere. _M._
=Übung macht den Meister=--Practice makes perfect
(_lit._ the master). _Ger. Pr._
=Ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure.
If I were a grave-digger, or even a
hangman, there are some people I could
work for with a great deal of enjoyment.=
_Douglas Jerrold._
=Ulcus tangere=--To touch a sore. _Ter._ 45
=Ulterius ne tende odiis=--Press no further with
your hate. _Virg._
=Ultima ratio regum=--The last argument of kings.
_Inscription on cannon._
=Ultima semper / Expectanda dies homini,
dicique beatus / Ante obitum nemo supremaque
funera debet=--The last day must always
be awaited by man, and no man should be pronounced
happy before his death and his final
obsequies. _Ovid._
=Ultima Thule=--Remotest Thule. _Virg._
=Ultimatum=--A final proposition or condition.
=Ultimum moriens=--The last to die or disappear. 5
=Ultimus Romanorum=--The last of the Romans.
=Ultra posse nemo obligatur=--Nobody can be
bound to do beyond what he is able to do. _L._
=Ultra vires=--Beyond the powers or rights possessed.
=Um das Leben zu erkennen, muss man sich
vom Leben absondern=--To know life, a man
must separate himself from life. _Feuerbach._
=Um einen Mann zu schätzen, muss man ihn /= 10
=Zu prüfen wissen=--In order to estimate a man,
one must know how to test him. _Goethe._
=Um Gut's zu thun, braucht's keiner Ueberlegung;
/ Der Zweifel ist's, der Gutes böse
macht, / Bedenke nicht! gewähre wie du's
fühlst=--To do good needs no consideration; it is
doubt that makes good evil. Don't reflect; do
good as you feel. _Goethe._
=Un ángulo me basta entre mis lares, / Un libro
y un amigo, un sueño breve, / Que no perturben
deudas ni pesares=--Enough for me a
nook by a hearth of my own, a good book, a friend,
a short sleep, unburdened by debt and sorrow.
_Rioja._
=Un bienfait reproché tint toujours lieu d'offense=--To
reproach a man with your kindness to him
is tantamount to an affront. _Racine._
=Un bon ami vaut mieux que cent parents=--A
good friend is worth more than a hundred relations.
_Fr. Pr._
=Un bon ouvrier n'est jamais trop chèrement= 15
=payé=--The wages of a good workman are never
too high. _Fr. Pr._
=Un clou chasse l'autre=--One nail drives out
another. _Fr. Pr._
=Un corps débile affaiblit l'âme=--A feeble body
weakens the mind. _Rousseau._
=Un des plus grands malheurs des honnêtes
gens c'est qu'ils sont de lâches=--One of the
greatest misfortunes of worthy people is that
they are cowards. _Voltaire._
=Un Dieu, un roy=--One God, one king. _M._
=Un dîner réchauffé ne valut jamais rien=--A 20
dinner warmed up again was never worth anything.
_Boileau._
=Un enfant en ouvrant les yeux doit voir la
patrie, et jusqu'à la mort ne voir qu'elle=--A
child, on first opening his eyes, ought to see his
country, and till death through life see only it.
_Fr._
=Un fat quelquefois ouvre un avis important=--A
simpleton often suggests a significant bit of
advice. _Boileau._
=Un fou avise bien un sage=--A wise man may
learn of a fool. _Fr. Pr._
=Un frère est un ami donné par la nature=--A
brother is a friend provided by nature. _Legouvé
père._
=Un gentilhomme qui vit mal est un monstre= 25
=dans la nature=--A nobleman who leads a degraded
life is a monster in nature. _Molière._
=Un homme d'esprit seroit souvent bien embarrassé
sans la compagnie des sots=--A man
of wit would often be much embarrassed if it
were not for the company of fools. _La Roche._
=Un homme toujours satisfait de lui-même, peu
souvent l'est des autres; rarement on l'est
de lui=--A man who is always well satisfied with
himself seldom is so with others, and others rarely
are with him. _La Roche._
=Un homme vous protège par ce qu'il vaut; une
femme par ce que vous valez. Voilà pourquoi
de ces deux empires, l'un est si odieux,
l'autre si doux=--A man protects you by what
he is worth; a woman by what you are worth.
That is why the empire of the one is so odious,
and the other so sweet. _Fr._
=Un livre est un ami qui ne trompe jamais=--A
book is a friend that never deceives us. _Fr._
=Un menteur est toujours prodigue de serments=--A 30
liar is always lavish of oaths. _Corn._
=Un père est un banquier donné par la nature=--A
father is a banker provided by nature. _Fr._
=Un peu d'encens brulé rajuste bien des choses=--A
little incense offered puts many things to
rights.
=Un peu de fiel gâte beaucoup de miel=--A little
gall spoils a great deal of honey. _Fr. Pr._
=Un renard n'est pas pris deux fois à un piège=--A
fox is not caught twice in the same trap.
_Fr. Pr._
=Un sot n'a pas assez d'étoffe pour être bon=--A 35
fool has not stuff in him to turn out well. _La
Roche._
=Un sot savant est sot plus qu'un sot ignorant=--A
learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant
one. _Fr. Pr._
=Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire=--Every
fool finds a greater to admire him.
_Boileau._
=Un soupir, un regard, un mot de votre bouche, /
Voilà l'ambition d'un cœur comme le mien=--A
sigh, a look, a word from your lips, that is the
ambition of a heart like mine. _Racine._
=Un souvenir heureux est peut-être sur terre /
Plus vrai que le bonheur=--A happy recollection
is perhaps in this world more real than the
happiness it recalls. _Fr._ (?)
=Un "tiens" vaut mieux que deux "tu l'aura"=--One 40
"take this" is worth more than two "you-shall-have-it."
_Fr. Pr._
=Un viaggiatore prudente non disprezza mai il
suo paese=--A wise traveller never depreciates
his own country. _Goldoni._
=Una dies aperit, conficit una dies=--In one day it
opens its blossoms, in one day it decays. _Auson.
of the rose._
=Una salus victis nullam sperare salutem=--The
only safety for the conquered is to hope for no
safety. _Virg._
=Una voce=--With one voice; unanimously.
=Unbedingte Thätigkeit, von welcher Art sie= 45
=sei, macht zuletzt bankerott=--Undisciplined
activity in any line whatever ends at last in
failure. _Goethe._
=Unbidden guests / Are often welcomest when
they are gone.= 1 _Hen. VI._, ii. 2.
=Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, /
Tempting each other in the victor's mind, /
Alternately proclaim him good and great, /
And make the hero and the man complete.=
_Addison._
=Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of
life.= _Congreve._
=Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The
human soul, that can support despair, supports
not thee.= _Mallet._
=Unconsciousness belongs to pure unmixed
life; consciousness, to a diseased mixture
and conflict of life and death; unconsciousness
is the sign of creation; consciousness,
at best, that of manufacture. So deep, in
this existence of ours, is the significance of
mystery.= _Carlyle._
=Unconsciousness is one of the most important
conditions of a good style in speaking or in
writing.= _R. S. White._
=Und bin ich strafbar, weil ich menschlich= 5
=war? Ist Mitleid Sünde?=--And am I to suffer
for it because I was born a man? Is pity a sin?
_Schiller._
=Und da keiner wollte leiden, / Dass der andre
für ihn zahle / Zahlte keiner von den beiden=--And
as neither would allow the other to pay
for him, neither paid at all. _Heine._
=Und der Mensch versuche die Götter nicht /
Und begehre nimmer und nimmer zu
schauen, / Was sie gnädig bedecken mit
Nacht und Grauen=--And let not man tempt
the gods, and let him never, never desire to
behold what they have graciously hid under a
veil of night and terror. _Schiller._
=Und ob die Wolke sie verhülle, / Die Sonne
bleibt am Himmelszelt! / Es waltet dort
ein heiliger Wille; / Nicht blindem Zufall
dient die Welt=--And though the cloud veils his
light, the sun is ever in the tent of heaven.
There a holy will holds sway, to no blind
chance is the world the servant. _Fr. Kind-Weber._
=Und scheint die Sonne noch so schön, / Am
Ende muss sie untergehen=--And though the
sun still shines so brightly, in the end it must go
down. _Heine._
=Und vor der Wahrheit mächt'gem Siege /= 10
=Verschwindet jedes Werk der Lüge=--And
before the mighty triumph of the truth, every
work of lies will one day vanish. _Schiller._
=Und was kein Verstand der Verständigen
sieht / Das übet in Einfalt ein kindisch
Gemüt=--And what no intelligence of the intelligent
sees, that is practised in simplicity by a
childish mind. _Schiller._
=Und wenn die Welt voll Teufel wär' / Und
wollt uns gar verschlingen / So fürchten
wir uns nicht so sehr, / Es soll uns doch
gelingen=--And were this all devils o'er, / And
watching to devour us, / We lay it not to
heart so sore, / Not they can overpower us.
_Luther._
=Und wenn ich dich lieb habe, was geht es
dich an?=--And if I love thee, what is that to
thee? _Goethe._
=Und wenn ihr euch nur selbst vertraut, / Vertrauen
euch die andern Seelen=--And if ye
only trust yourselves, other souls will trust you.
_Goethe._
=Und wer mich nicht verstehen kann, / Der= 15
=lerne besser lesen=--And let him who cannot
understand me learn to read better. _Goethe._
=Undank ist der Welt Lohn=--Ingratitude is the
world's reward. _Ger. Pr._
=Unde fames homini vetitorum tanta ciborum
est?=--Why does man hunger so much after forbidden
fruit? _Ovid._
=Unde habeas quærit nemo; sed oportet
habere=--Whence you have got your wealth, nobody
inquires; but you must have it. _Juv._
=Unde / Ingenium par materiæ?=--Where can
we find talent equal to the subject? _Juv._
=Unde tibi frontem libertatemque parentis, /= 20
=Cum facias pejora senex?=--Whence can your
authority and liberty as a parent come, when
you, who are old, do worse things? _Juv._
=Under a despotic government there is no such
thing as patriotic feeling, and its place is
supplied in other ways, by private interest,
public fame, and devotion to one's chief.= _La
Bruyère._
=Under all sorrow there is the force of virtue;
over all ruin, the restoring charity of God.
To these alone we have to look; in these
alone we may understand the past, and predict
the future destiny of the ages.= _Ruskin._
=Under all speech that is good for anything
there lies a silence that is better.= _Carlyle._
=Under fair words have a care of fraud.= _Port.
Pr._
=Under sackcloth there is something else.= 25
_Sp. and Port. Pr._
=Under the sky is no uglier spectacle than
two men with clenched teeth and hell-fire
eyes hacking one another's flesh, converting
precious living bodies and priceless
living souls into nameless masses of putrescence,
useful only for turnip-manure.= _Carlyle._
=Under the weight of his knowledge, a man
cannot move so lightly as in the days of his
simplicity.= _Ruskin._
=Under white ashes there often lurk glowing
embers.= _Dan. Pr._
=Underground / Precedency's a jest; vassal
and lord, / Grossly familiar, side by side consume.=
_Blair._
=Underneath this stone doth lie / As much= 30
=beauty as could die; / Which in life did harbour
give / To more virtue than doth live.=
_Jonson, on Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland._
=Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him
that hath it.= _Bible._
=Understanding is the most important matter
in everything.= _Hans Andersen._
=Understanding is the wages of a lively faith,
and faith is the reward of a humble ignorance.=
_Quarles._
=Undertake no more than you can perform.= _Pr._
=Undipped people may be as good as dipped,= 35
=if their hearts are clean.= _Ruskin's rendering
of the faith of St. Martin._
=Undique ad inferos tantundem viæ est=--Descend
by what way you will, you come at last
to the nether world. _Anaxagoras._
=Une faute niée est deux fois commise=--A fault
denied is twice committed. _Fr. Pr._
=Une froideur ou une incivilité qui vient de ceux
qui sont au-dessus de nous nous les fait haïr,
mais un salut ou un sourire nous les réconcilie=--A
coldness or an incivility from such as
are above us makes us hate them, but a salute
or a smile quickly reconciles us to them.
=Une grande âme est au-dessus de l'injustice,
de la douleur, de la moquerie; et elle seroit
invulnérable si elle ne souffroit par la compassion=--A
great soul is proof against injustice,
pain, and mockery; and it would be invulnerable
if it were not open to compassion.
=Une nation boutiquière=--A nation of shopkeepers.
_B. Barrère, Napoleon, of England._
=Une once de vanité gâte un quintal de mérite=--An
ounce of vanity spoils a hundredweight of
merit. _Fr. Pr._
=Une seule foi, une seule langue, un seul cœur=--One
faith, one tongue, one heart. _Fr. Pr._
=Une souris qui n'a qu'un trou est bientôt prise=--A
mouse that has only one hole is soon taken.
_Fr. Pr._
=Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.= 5
2 _Hen. IV._, iii. 1.
=Unendlich ist das Räthsel der Natur=--Endless
is the riddle of Nature. _Körner._
=Unendlichkeit kann nur das Wesen ahnen /
Das zur Unendlichkeit erkoren ist=--Only
that being can surmise the infinite who is chosen
for infinity. _Liedge._
=Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous
to the weaker side.= _Goldsmith._
=Unequal marriages are seldom happy ones.= _Pr._
=Unextinguish'd laughter shakes the skies.= 10
_Pope._
=Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all.=
_Tennyson._
=Unfortunate and imprudent are two words for
the same thing.= _Fr. Pr._
=Unfortunately friends too often weigh one
another in their hypochondriacal humours,
and in an over-exacting spirit. One must
weigh men by avoirdupois weight, and not
by the jeweller's scales.= _Goethe._
=Unfortunately, it is more frequently the
opinions expressed on things than the things
themselves that divide men.= _Goethe._
=Ung je servirai=--One will I serve. _M._ 15
=Ung roy, ung foy, ung loy=--One king, one faith,
one law. _M._
=Ungern entdeck' ich höheres Geheimniss=--It
is with reluctance I ever unveil a higher mystery.
_Goethe._
=Unguibus et rostro=--With nails and beak; with
tooth and nail.
=Unguis in ulcere=--A nail in the wound. _Cic._
=Unhappy is the man for whom his own mother= 20
=has not made all mothers venerable.= _Jean
Paul._
=Unhappy lot of man! Hardly has the mind
attained maturity, when the body begins to
pine away.= _Montesquieu._
=Unhappy state of kings! it is well the robe of
majesty is gay, or who would put it on?=
_Hannah More._
=Unheedful vows may heedfully be broken; /
And he wants wit that wants resolvèd will, /
To learn his wit to exchange the bad for
better.= _Two Gent. of Verona_, ii. 6.
=Uniformity must tire at last, though it be
uniformity of excellence. We love to expect,
and when expectation is disappointed
or gratified, we want to be again expecting.=
_Johnson._
=Uni æquus virtuti, atque ejus amicis=--Friendly 25
to virtue alone and to the friends of virtue. _Hor._
=Unica virtus necessaria=--Virtue is the only
thing necessary.
=Union does everything when it is perfect; it
satisfies desires, it simplifies needs, it foresees
the wishes of the imagination; it is an
aisle always open, and becomes a constant
fortune.= _De Senancour._
=Union= (combination) =is best for men, either with
their own tribe or with strangers; for even
a grain of rice groweth not when divided
from its husk.= _Hitopadesa._
=Union is strength.= _Pr._
=Unitate fortior=--Stronger by being united. _M_ 30
="United we stand, divided we fall," / It made
and preserves us a nation.= _G. P. Morris._
=Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced;
it is only discord that loudly proclaims
itself.= _Carlyle._
=Unity and morality belong to philosophy, not
to poetry.= _Wm. Blake._
=Unity and simplicity are the two true sources
of beauty. Supreme beauty resides in God.=
_Winckelmann._
=Uniforms are often masks.= _Wellington._ 35
=Universal love is a glove without fingers,
which fits all hands alike, and none closely;
but true affection is like a glove with fingers,
which fits one hand only, and sits close to
that one.= _Jean Paul._
=Universal plodding prisons up / The nimble
spirits in the arteries, / As motion and long-during
action tires / The sinewy vigour of
the traveller.= _Love's L. Lost_, iv. 3.
=Universal suffrage I will consult about the
quality of New Orleans pork or the coarser
kinds of Irish butter; but as to the character
of men, I will if possible ask it no question.=
_Carlyle._
=Universus mundus exercet histrioniam=--All
the world practises the player's art.
=Unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow,= 40
=which must be drawn backward with horrible
anguish, or else will be your destruction.=
_Jeremy Taylor._
=Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits
of unkindness, that is, suffering in the bosom
of others.= _Bentham._
=Unkindness destroys love.= _Pr._
=Unkindness has no remedy at law; let its
avoidance be with you a point of honour.=
_Hosea Ballou._
=Unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown.= _Byron._
=Unlawful desires are punished after the effect= 45
=of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished
in the desire itself.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Unlearn not what you have learned.= _Antisthenes._
=Unlearned men of books assume the care, / As
eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.=
_Young._
=Unless a man can link his written thoughts
with the everlasting wants of men, so that
they shall draw from them as from wells,
there is no more immortality to the thoughts
and feelings of the soul than to the muscles
and the bones.= _Ward Beecher._
=Unless a man works he cannot find out what
he is able to do.= _Hamerton._
=Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring,= 50
=you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.=
_Hare._
=Unless above himself he can / Erect himself,
how poor a thing is man!= _Daniel._
=Unless music exalt and purify, virtually it is
not music at all.= _Ruskin._
=Unless quickened from above and from within,
art has in it nothing beyond itself which is
visible beauty.= _Dr. John Brown._
=Unless the people can be kept in total darkness,
it is the wisest way for the advocates
of truth to give them full light.= _Whately._
=Unless we are accustomed to them from early
youth, splendid chambers and elegant furniture
are for people who neither have nor can
have any thoughts.= _Goethe._
=Unless we can cast off the prejudices of the
man and become as children, docile and unperverted,
we need never hope to enter the
temple of philosophy.= _Sir Wm. Hamilton._
=Unless we place our religion and our treasure
in the same thing, religion will always be
sacrificed.= _Epictetus._
=Unless we see our object, how shall we know= 5
=how to place or prize it in our understanding,
our imagination, our affections?= _Carlyle._
=Unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractised; /
Happy in this, she is not yet so old / But she
may learn.= _Mer. of Venice_, iii. 2.
=Unlike my subject now shall be my song; / It
shall be witty, but it shan't be long.= _Chesterfield._
=Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine
brightest after they set.= _Colton._
=Unmarried men are best friends, best masters,
best servants, but not always best subjects;
for they are light to run away, and
almost all fugitives are of that condition.=
_Bacon._
=Unmingled good cannot be expected; but as= 10
=we may lawfully gather all the good within
our reach, we may be allowed to lament over
that which we lose.= _Johnson._
=Unmingled joys to no one here befall; / Who
least, hath some; who most, hath never all.=
_Coleridge._
=Unmöglich ist's, was Edle nicht vermögen=--That
is impossible which noble souls are unable
to do. _Goethe._
=Unnatural deeds / Do breed unnatural troubles:
infected minds / To their deaf pillows will discharge
their secrets.= _Macb._, v. 1.
=Unnumbered suppliants crowd preferment's
gate, / Athirst for wealth, and burning to
be great; / Delusive fortune hears the incessant
call, / They mount, they shine,
evaporate, and fall.= _Johnson._
=Uno avulso non deficit alter=--If one is torn away, 15
another takes its place. _M._
=Uno ictu=--At once (_lit._ at one blow).
=Uno impetu=--At once (_lit._ by one onset).
=Uno levanto la caza, y otro la mata=--One
starts the game, and another carries it off.
_Sp. Pr._
=Unproductive truth is none. But there are
products which cannot be weighed in patent
scales, or brought to market.= _J. Sterling._
=Unpublished nature will have its whole secret= 20
=told.= _Emerson._
=Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.=
_Molière._
=Unreflective minds possess thoughts only as a
jug does water, by containing them. In a
disciplined mind knowledge exists like vital
force in the physical frame, ready to be
directed to tongue, or hand, or foot, hither,
thither, anywhere, and for any use desired.=
_Coley._
=Unseasonable mirth always turns to sorrow.=
_Cervantes._
=Unselfish and noble acts are the most radiant
epochs in the biography of souls. When
wrought in the earliest youth, they lie in
the memory of age like the coral islands,
green and sunny amidst the melancholy
waste of ocean.= _Dr. Thomas._
=Unser Gefühl für Natur gleicht der Empfindung= 25
=des Kranken für die Gesundheit=--Our
feeling for nature is like the sensation of an invalid
for health. _Schiller._
=Unsociable tempers are contracted in solitude,
which will in the end not fail of corrupting
the understanding as well as the manners,
and of utterly disqualifying a man for the
satisfactions and duties of life. Men must
be taken as they are, and we neither make
them nor ourselves better by flying from or
quarrelling with them.= _Burke._
=Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel.= _Bible._
=Unstained thoughts do seldom dream on evil; /
Birds never limed no secret bushes fear.=
_Shakespeare._
=Unstät treiben die Gedanken / Auf dem Meer
der Leidenschaft=--Unsteady is the course of
thought on the sea of passion. _Schiller._
=Unsterblich ist was einmal hat gelebt=--What 30
has once lived is immortal. _G. Kinkel._
=Unsterblich sein, das ist der Dichtkunst Los=--Immortality
is the destiny of the poetic art.
_Feuchtersleben._
=Unter allen Völkerschaften haben die Griechen
den Traum des Lebens am schönsten geträumt=--Of
all peoples the Greek has dreamt
most enchantingly the dream of life. _Goethe._
=Unter mancherlei wunderlichen Albernheiten
der Schulen kommt mir keine so vollkommen
lächerlich vor, als der Streit über die
Aechtheit alter Schriften, alter Werke. Ist
es denn der Autor oder die Schrift die wir
bewundern oder tadeln? es ist immer nur
der Autor, den wir vor uns haben; was
kümmern uns die Namen, wenn wir ein
Geisteswerk auslegen?=--Among the manifold
strange follies of the schools, I know no one so
utterly ridiculous and absurd as the controversy
about the authenticity of old writings, old works.
Is it the author or the writing we admire or
censure? It is always the author we have before
us. What have we to do with names, when it is
a work of the spirit we are interpreting? _Goethe._
=Unthinking, idle, wild, and young, / I laughed,
and danced, and talked, and sung.= _Princess
Amelia._
=Until men have learned industry, economy, and= 35
=self-control, they cannot be safely intrusted
with wealth.= _Gladstone._
=Until you know as much about other people's
affairs as they do themselves, it is not very
safe to laugh at them or to find fault with
them.= _W. E. Forster._
=Unto every one that hath shall be given, and
he shall have abundance; but from him that
hath not shall be taken away even that which
he seemeth to have.= _Jesus._
=Unto him who works, and feels he works, /
This same grand year= (the Golden Year) =is
ever at the doors.= _Tennyson._
=Unto the pure all things are pure.= _St. Paul._
=Unto the youth should be shown the worth of= 40
=a noble and ripened age, and unto the old
man, youth; that both may rejoice in the
eternal circle, and life may in life be made
perfect.= _Goethe._
=Untwine me from the mass / Of deeds which
make up life, one deed / Power shall fall
short in or exceed.= _Browning._
=Unum pro multis dabitur caput=--One will be
sacrificed for many. _Virg._
=Unus et idem=--One and the same. _M._
=Unus Pellæo juveni non sufficit orbis; / Æstuat
infelix angusto limite mundi=--One world is not
enough for the youth of Pella; the unhappy man
frets at the narrow limits of the world. _Juv. of
Alexander the Great._
=Unus vir nullus vir=--One man is no man. _Pr._ 5
=Unvanquished Time, the conqueror of conquerors,
and lord of desolation.= _Kirke
White._
=Unverhofft kommt oft=--The unlooked-for often
happens. _Ger. Pr._
=Unverzeihlich find' ich den Leichtsinn; doch
liegt er im Menschen=--Levity I deem unpardonable,
though it lies in the heart of man.
_Goethe._
=Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung.= _Scott._
=Unwilling service earns no thanks.= _Dan. Pr._ 10
=Unwise work, if it but persist, is everywhere
struggling towards correction and restoration
to health; for it is still in contact with
Nature, and all Nature incessantly contradicts
it, and will heal it or annihilate it; not
so with unwise talk, which addresses itself,
regardless of veridical Nature, to the universal
suffrages; and can, if it be dexterous,
find harbour there, till all the suffrages are
bankrupt and gone to Houndsditch.= _Carlyle._
=Unworthy offspring brag most of their worthy
descent.= _Dan. Pr._
=Uom, se' tu grande o vil? Muori, e il saprai=--Man,
whether thou be great or vile, die, and it
will be known. _Alfieri._
=Up and try.= _Wollaston._
=Up from unfeeling mould, / To seraphs burning= 15
=round the Almighty's throne, / Life rising
still on life, in higher tone, / Perfection forms,
and with perfection bliss.= _Thomson._
=Up! up! my friend, and quit your books, / Or
surely you'll grow double. / Up! up! my
friend, and clear your looks, / Why all this
toil and trouble?= _Wordsworth._
=Upbraiding turns a benefit into an injury.= _Pr._
=Upon every occasion, be sure to make a conscience
of what you do or say.= _Thomas à
Kempis._
=Upon the common course of life must our
thoughts and our conversation be generally
employed.= _Johnson._
=Upon the education of the people of this= 30
=country the fate of this country depends.=
_Disraeli._
=Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper /
Sprinkle cool patience.= _Ham._, iii. 4.
=Uprightness, judgment, and sympathy with
others will profit thee at every time and in
every place.= _Goethe._
=Urbem lateritiam invenit, marmoream reliquit=--He
found a city of brick, and left it one of
marble. _Suet. of the Rome of Cæsar Augustus._
=Urbem quam dicunt Romam, Melibœe, putavi, /
Stultus ego, huic nostræ similem=--The
city, Melibœus, which they call Rome, I
foolishly imagined to be like this town of ours.
_Virg._
=Urbem venalem et mature perituram, si emptorem= 25
=invenerit=--A city for sale and ripe for
ruin, once it finds a purchaser. _Sall. of Rome._
=Urbes constituit ætas: hora dissolvit. Momento
fit cinis, diu sylva=--It takes an age to
build a city, but an hour involves it in ruin.
A forest is long in growing, but in a moment it
may be reduced to ashes. _Sen._
=Urbi et orbi=--For Rome (_lit._ the city) and the
world.
=Urit enim fulgore suo, qui prægravat artes /
Infra se positas: exstinctus amabitur idem=--He
who depresses the merits of those beneath
him blasts them by his very splendour; but when
his light is extinguished, he will be admired. _Hor._
=Ursprünglich eignen Sinn lass dir nicht rauben! /
Woran die Menge glaubt, ist leicht
zu glauben=--Let no one conjure you out of
your own native sense of things; what the multitude
believe in is easy to believe. _Goethe._
=Urticæ proxima sæpe rosa est=--The nettle is 30
often next to the rose. _Ovid._
=Use almost can change the stamp of nature, /
And either curb the devil or throw him out.=
_Ham._, iii. 4.
=Use doth breed a habit in a man.= _Two Gent.
of Verona_, v. 4.
=Use every man after his desert, and who
should 'scape whipping? Use them after
your own honour and dignity; the less they
deserve, the more merit is in your bounty.=
_Ham._, ii. 2.
=Use him= (the frog or bait) =as if you loved him.=
_Isaak Walton._
=Use is the judge, the law, and rule of speech.= 35
_Roscommon._
=Use makes a better soldier than the most
urgent considerations of duty--familiarity
with danger enabling him to estimate the
danger. He sees how much is the risk, and
is not afflicted with imagination; knows
practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every
soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in
lead.= _Emerson._
=Use sin as it will use you; spare it not, for it
will not spare you: it is your murderer, and
the murderer of the whole world. Use it,
therefore, as a murderer should be used; kill
it before it kills you; and though it bring
you to the grave, it shall not be able to keep
you there.= _Baxter._
=Use sometimes to be alone.= _George Herbert._
=Use the pen; there is no magic in it, but it
keeps the mind from staggering about.= (?)
=Use thy youth so that thou mayest have comfort= 40
=to remember it when it hath forsaken
thee, and not sigh and grieve at the account
thereof. Use it as the springtime which
soon departeth, and wherein thou oughtest
to plant and sow all provisions for a long and
happy life.= _Sir Walter Raleigh._
=Used with due abstinence, hope acts as a
healthful tonic; intemperately indulged, as
an enervating opiate. The visions of future
triumph, which at first animate exertion, if
dwelt upon too intently, will usurp the place
of the stern reality; and noble objects will
be contemplated, not for their own inherent
worth, but on account of the day-dreams
they engender. Thus hope, aided by imagination,
makes one man a hero, another a
somnambulist, and a third a lunatic; while it
renders them all enthusiasts.= _Sir J. Stephen._
=Useful be where thou livest, that they may /
Both want and wish thy pleasing presence
still. / Kindness, good parts, great places,
are the way / To compass this.= _George
Herbert._
=Usefulness comes by labour, wit by ease.=
_George Herbert._
=Usque ad aras=--To the very altars; to the last
extremity.
=Usque ad nauseam=--Till one is utterly sick
of it.
=Usque adeone mori miserum est?=--Is it then so 5
very dreadful to die? _Virg._
=Usque adeone / Scire tuum nihil est, nisi te scire
hoc sciat alter?=--Is then your knowledge to
pass for nothing unless others know of it?
=Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in
company is a young traveller just returned
from abroad.= _Swift._
=Usury is a "concessum propter duritiam cordis"=
(a concession on account of hardness of
heart); =for, since there must be borrowing
and lending, and men are so hard of heart as
they will not lend freely, usury must be permitted.=
_Bacon._
=Usus est tyrannus=--Custom is a tyrant. _Pr._
=Usus promptum facit=--Practice makes perfect. 10
_Pr._
=Ut ager, quamvis fertilis, sine cultura fructuosus
esse non potest, sic sine doctrina
animus=--As a field, however fertile, can yield
no fruit without culture, so neither can the mind
of man without education. _Sen._
=Ut canis e Nilo=--Like the dog by the Nile, _i.e._,
drinking and running. _Pr._
=Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas=--The
will is commendable, though the ability
may be wanting. _Ovid._
=Ut homines sunt, ita morem geras; / Vita
quam sit brevis, simul cogita=--As men are, so
must you humour them. Think, at the same
time, how short life is. _Plaut._
=Ut homo est, ita morem geras=--As a man is, so 15
must you humour him. _Ter._
=Ut infra=--As mentioned below.
=Ut metus ad omnes, pœna ad paucos perveniret=--That
fear may reach all, punish but
few. _L._
=Ut mos est=--As the custom is. _Juv._
=Ut pictura, poësis=--It fares with a poem as with
a picture. _Hor._
=Ut placeas, debes immemor esse tui=--That you 20
may please others you must be forgetful of yourself.
_Ovid._
=Ut plerique solent, naso suspendis adunco /
Ignotos=--As is the way with most people, you
turn up your nose at men of obscure origin.
_Hor._
=Ut possedis=--As you now are; as you possess.
=Ut prosim=--That I may benefit others. _M._
=Ut quimus, quando ut volumus non licet=--As
we can, when we cannot as we wish. _Ter._
=Ut quisque contemtissimus et ludibrio est, ita= 25
=solutæ linguæ est=--The more despicable and
ridiculous a man is, the readier he is with his
tongue. _Sen._
=Ut ridentibus arrident, ita flentibus adflent, /
Humani vultus=--Human countenances, as they
smile on those who smile, so they weep with
those that weep. _Hor._
=Ut sæpe summa ingenia in occulto latent!=--How
often are men of the greatest genius lost
in obscurity! _Plaut._
=Ut sementem feceris, ita et metes=--As you
have sown so shall you also reap. _Cic._
=Ut sunt humana, nihil est perpetuum=--As
human affairs go, nothing is everlasting. _Plaut._
=Ut sunt molles in calamitate mortalium animi!=--How 30
weak are the hearts of mortals under
calamity! _Tac._
=Ut supra=--As mentioned above.
=Utendum est ætate; cito pede labitur ætas=--We
must make use of time; time glides past at a
rapid pace. _Ovid._
=Uterque bonus belli pacisque minister=--A good
administrator equally in peace or in war. _Ovid._
=Utile dulci=--The useful with the agreeable.
=Utinam tam facile vera invenire possem, quam= 35
=falsa convincere!=--Would that I could as easily
find out the true as I can detect the false. _Cic._
=Utopia=--An imaginary republic nowhere existing.
=Utque alios industria, ita hunc ignavia ad
famam protulerat=--While other men have
attained to fame by their industry, this man has
by his indolence. _Tac._
=Utrum horum mavis accipe=--Take which you
prefer.
=Utrumque vitium est, et omnibus credere et
nulli=--It is equally an error to confide in all and
in none. _Sen._
=Uttered out of time, or concealed in its season,= 40
=good savoureth of evil.= _Tupper._
=Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, /
That the rude sea grew civil at her song, /
And certain stars shot madly from their
spheres / To hear the sea-maid's music.=
_Mid. N. Dream_, ii. 2.
=Uxorem, Posthume, ducis? / Dic qua Tisiphone,
quibus exagitare colubris=--Are you
marrying a wife, Posthumous? By what Fury,
say, by what snakes are you driven mad? _Juv._
=Uxori nubere nolo meæ=--I will not marry a wife
to be my master. _Mart._