Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
Pr.
A loan should come laughing home. Pr. 15
A l'œuvre on connaît l'artisan—By the work one knows the workman. La Font.
A loisir—At leisure. Fr.
Alomban és szerelemben nincs lehetetlenséej—In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. J. Arany.
Along the cool sequester'd vale of life / They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Gray.
A los bobos se les aperece la Madre de Dios—The 20 mother of God appears to fools. Sp. Pr.
A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind. Love's L. Lost, iv. 3.
Alte fert aquila—The eagle bears me on high. M.
Altera manu fert lapidem, altera panem ostentat—He carries a stone in one hand, and shows bread in the other. Pr.
Altera manu scabunt, altera feriunt—They tickle with one hand and smite with the other. Pr.
Alter ego—Another or second self. 25
Alter idem—Another exactly the same.
Alter ipse amicus—A friend is a second self. Pr.
Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest—Let no man be slave of another who can be his own master. M. of Paracelsus.
Alter remus aquas, alter mihi radat arenas—Let me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch the sands, i.e., so as not to go out of my depth.
Alterum tantum—As much more. 30
Although men are accused of not knowing their weakness, yet perhaps as few know their strength. Swift.
Although the last, not least. King Lear, i. 1.
Altissima quæque flumina minimo sono labuntur—The deepest rivers flow with the least noise. Curt.
Alt ist das Wort, doch bleibet hoch und wahr der Sinn—Old is the Word, yet does the meaning abide as high and true as ever. Faust.
Altro diletto che' mparar, non provo—Learning 35 is my sole delight. Petrarch.
Always filling, never full. Cowper.
Always have two strings to your bow. Pr.
Always strive for the whole; and if thou canst not become a whole thyself, connect thyself with a whole as a ministering member. Schiller.
Always there is a black spot in our sunshine, the shadow of ourselves. Carlyle.
Always to distrust is an error, as well as always 40 to trust. Goethe.
Always win fools first; they talk much, and what they have once uttered they will stick to. Helps.
Amabilis insania—A fine frenzy. Hor.
A machine is not a man or a work of art; it is destructive of humanity and art. Wm. Blake.
A madness most discreet, / A choking gall and a preserving sweet, i.e., Love is. Rom. and Jul., i. 1.
A mad world, my masters. Middleton. 45
A main armée—By force of arms. Fr.
Ama l'amico tuo con il diffetto suo—Love your friend with all his faults. It. Pr.
A man at sixteen will prove a child at sixty. Pr.
A man belongs to his age and race, even when he acts against them. Renan.
A man, be the heavens praised, is sufficient 50 for himself; yet were ten men, united in love, capable of being and doing what ten thousand singly would fail in. Carlyle.
A man can be so changed by love as to be unrecognisable as the same person. Ter.
A man can do no more than he can. Pr.
A man can keep another's secret better than his own; a woman, her own better than another's. La Bruyère.
A man canna wive and thrive the same year. Sc. Pr.
A man can never be too much on his guard 55 when he writes to the public, and never too easy towards those with whom he converses. D'Alembert.
A man can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven. John Baptist.
A man cannot be in the seventeenth century and the nineteenth at one and the same moment. Carlyle's experience while editing Cromwell's Letters.
A man cannot spin and reel at the same time. Pr.
A man cannot whistle and drink at the same time. Pr.
A man dishonoured is worse than dead. Cervantes. 60
A man does not represent a fraction, but a whole number; he is complete in himself. Schopenhauer.
A man hears only what he understands. Goethe.
A man he was to all the country dear, / And passing rich with forty pounds a year. Goldsmith.
A man in a farm and his thoughts away, is better out of it than in it. Gael. Pr.
A man in debt is so far a slave. Emerson. 65
A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone. Amer. Pr.
A man is a fool or his own physician at forty. Pr.
A man is a golden impossibility. Emerson.
A man is always nearest to his good when at home, and farthest from it when away. J. G. Holland.
A man is king in his own house. Gael. Pr. 5
A man is never happy till his vague striving has itself marked out its proper limitation. Goethe.
A man is not born the second time, any more than the first, without travail. Carlyle.
A man is not as God, / But then most godlike being most a man. Tennyson.
A man is not strong who takes convulsion fits, though six men cannot hold him; only he that can walk under the heaviest weight without staggering. Carlyle.
A man is only a relative and a representative 10 nature. Emerson.
A man is the façade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide. Emerson.
A man is the prisoner of his power. Emerson.
A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. Carlyle.
A man may be proud of his house, and not ride on the rigging (ridge) of it. Sc. Pr.
A man may do what he likes with his own. Pr. 15
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