Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
the obstruction of wisdom. Bion.
Ars artium omnium conservatrix—The art preservative of all others, viz., printing.
Ars est celare artem—It is the perfection of art to conceal art. Ovid.
Ars est sine arte, cujus principium est mentiri, medium laborare, et finis mendicare—It is an art without art, which has its beginning in falsehood, its middle in toil, and its end in poverty. Applied originally to the pursuits of the Alchemists.
Ars longa, vita brevis—Art is long, life is short. 30
Ars varia vulpis, ast una echino maxima—The fox has many tricks; the hedgehog only one, and that greatest of all. Pr.
Art does not represent things falsely, but truly as they appear to mankind. Ruskin.
Arte magistra—By the aid of art. Virg.
Art is a jealous mistress. Emerson.
Art is long and time is fleeting, / And our 35 hearts, though stout and brave, / Still, like muffled drums, are beating / Funeral marches to the grave. Longfellow.
Art is noble, but the sanctuary of the human soul is nobler still. W. Winter.
Art is not the bread indeed, but it is the wine of life. Jean Paul.
Art is simply a bringing into relief of the obscure thought of Nature. Amiel.
Art is the mediatrix of the unspeakable. Goethe.
Art is the path of the creator to his work. 40 Emerson.
Art is the work of man under the guidance and inspiration of a mightier power. Hare.
Artists are of three classes: those who perceive and pursue the good, and leave the evil; those who perceive and pursue the good and evil together, the whole thing as it verily is; and those who perceive and pursue the evil, and leave the good. Ruskin.
Artium magister—Master of arts.
Art may err, but Nature cannot miss. Dryden.
Art may make a suit of clothes, but Nature 45 must produce a man. Hume.
Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly. Hazlitt.
Art must not be a superficial talent, but must begin further back in man. Emerson.
Art, not less eloquently than literature, teaches her children to venerate the single eye. Willmott.
Art not thou a man? Bible.
Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a 50 deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion. Goethe.
Art thou afraid of death, and dost thou wish to live for ever? Live in the whole that remains when thou hast long been gone (wenn du lange dahin bist). Schiller.
A rude âne rude ânier—A stubborn driver to a stubborn ass. Fr. Pr.
A rusty nail, placed near the faithful compass, / Will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy. Scott.
A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages. Emerson.
A saint abroad, a devil at home. Pr. 55
A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn. Pope.
As all men have some access to primary truth, so all have some art or power of communication in the head, but only in the artist does it descend into the hand. Emerson.
As a man makes his bed, so must he lie. Gael. Pr.
As a priest, or interpreter of the holy, is the noblest and highest of all men; so is a sham priest the falsest and basest. Carlyle.
A satirical poet is the check of the layman on 60 bad priests. Dryden.
As a tree falls, so shall it lie. Pr.
[Greek: asbestos gelôs]—Unquenchable, or Homeric, laughter. Hom.
A scalded cat dreads cauld water. Sc. Pr.
As dear to me as are the ruddy drops / That visit my sad heart. Jul. Cæs., ii. 1.
A second Daniel. Mer. of Ven., iv. 1.
A secret is in my custody if I keep it; but if 5 I blab it, it is I that am prisoner. Arab Pr.
A self-denial no less austere than the saint's is demanded of the scholar. Emerson.
As ever in my great taskmaster's eye. Milton.
As every great evil, so every excessive power wears itself out at last. Herder.
As falls the dew on quenchless sands, / Blood only serves to wash ambition's hands. Byron.
As for discontentments, they are in the politic 10 body like humours in the natural, which are apt to gather a preternatural heat and inflame. Bacon.
As formerly we suffered from wickedness, so now we suffer from the laws. Tac.
As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure. But there's no love lost between us. Goldsmith.
As for talkers and futile persons, they are commonly vain and credulous withal. Bacon.
As from the wing no scar the sky retains, / The parted wave no furrow from the keel; So dies in human hearts the thought of death. Young.
As good be out of the world as out of the 15 fashion. Pr.
As good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself. Milton.
As guid fish i' the sea as e'er came oot o't. Sc. Pr.
As guid may haud (hold) the stirrup as he that loups on. Sc. Pr.
A's guid that God sends. Sc. Pr.
As he alone is a good father who at table serves 20 his children first, so is he alone a good citizen who, before all other outlays, discharges what he owes to the state. Goethe.
As he who has health is young, so he who owes nothing is rich. Pr.
A short cut is often a wrong cut. Dan. Pr.
A sicht (sight) o' you is guid for sair een. Sc. Pr.
A sick man's sacrifice is but a lame oblation. Sir Thomas Browne.
As idle as a painted ship / Upon a painted 25 ocean. Coleridge.
A sight to dream of, not to tell. Coleridge.
A silent man's words are not brought into court. Dan. Pr.
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