Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
Dat inania verba, / Dat sine mente sonum—He utters empty words; he utters sound without meaning. Virg.
Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas—He pardons the ravens, but visits with censure the doves. Juv.
Daub yourself with honey, and you'll be covered with flies. Pr.
Dauer im Wechsel—Persistence in change. Goethe.
Da veniam lacrymis—Forgive these tears. 20
Da ventura a tu hijo, y echa lo en el mar—Give your son luck and then throw him into the sea. Sp. Pr.
Davus sum, non Œdipus—I am a plain man, and no Œdipus (who solved the riddle of the Sphinx). Ter.
Dawted dochters mak' dawly wives, i.e. petted daughters make slovenly wives. Sc. Pr.
Day follows the murkiest night; and when the time comes, the latest fruits also ripen. Schiller.
Day is driven on by day, and the new moons 25 hasten to their wane. Smart, from Hor.
Daylight will come, though the cock does not crow. Dan. Pr.
Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom. Bible.
De adel der ziel is meer waardig dan de adel des geslachts—Nobility of soul is more honourable than nobility by birth. Dut. Pr.
Dead men open living men's eyes. Sp. Pr.
Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection. 30 Byron.
De alieno largitor, et sui restrictor—Lavish of what is another's, tenacious of his own. Cic.
Deal mildly with his youth; / For young hot colts, being raged, do rage the more. Rich. II., ii. 1.
Deal so plainly with man and woman as to constrain the utmost sincerity and destroy all hope of trifling with you. Emerson.
Dear is cheap, and cheap is dear. Port. Pr.
Dear son of memory, great heir of fame. 35 Milton on Shakespeare.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue. Bible.
Death-bed repentance is sowing seed at Martinmas. Gael. Pr.
Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave. Bp. Hall.
Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life. Coleridge.
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us 40 all equal when it comes. Donne.
Death finds us 'mid our playthings—snatches us, / As a cross nurse might do a wayward child. / From all our toys and baubles. Old Play.
Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality. Jean Paul.
Death is a black camel that kneels at every man's door. Turk. Pr.
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man eternity is seen looking through time. Goethe.
Death is a fearful thing. Meas. for Meas., 45 iii. 1.
Death is a friend of ours, and he who is not ready to entertain him is not at home. Bacon.
Death is but another phasis of life, which also is awful, fearful, and wonderful, reaching to heaven and hell. Carlyle.
Death is but a word to us. Our own experience alone can teach us the real meaning of the word. W. v. Humboldt.
Death is but what the haughty brave, / The weak must bear, the wretch must crave. Byron.
Death is sure / To those that stay and those 50 that roam. Tennyson.
Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years. George Eliot.
Death is the quiet haven of us all. Wordsworth.
Death is the tyrant of the imagination. Barry Cornwall.
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. Sen.
Death joins us to the great majority; / 'Tis to be borne to Platos and to Cæsars; / 'Tis to be great for ever; / 'Tis pleasure, 'tis ambition, then, to die. Young.
Death lays his icy hand on kings. Shirley.
Death levels all distinctions.
Death lies on her, like an untimely frost, / Upon the sweetest flower of all the field. Rom. and Jul., iv. 5.
Death may expiate faults, but it does not 5 repair them. Napoleon.
Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it. Sterne, after Bacon.
Death pays all debts. Pr.
Death puts an end to all rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them. Hazlitt.
Death rides in every passing breeze, / He lurks in every flower. Heber.
Death's but a path that must be trod, / If 10 man would ever pass to God. Parnell.
Death shuns the wretch who fain the blow would meet. Byron.
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, / And yet a third of life is passed in sleep. Byron.
Death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face. T. Adams.
Death treads in pleasure's footsteps round the world. Young.
Death will have his day. Rich. II., iii. 2. 15
De auditu—By hearsay.
Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine; the former angular, the latter circular and radiant of the underlying unity. A. B. Alcott.
De beste zaak heeft nog een goed' advocaat noodig—The best cause has need of a good pleader. Dut. Pr.
Debetis velle quæ velimus—You ought to wish as we wish. Plaut.
De bonne grâce—With good grace; willingly. 20 Fr.
De bonne lutte—By fair means. Fr.
De bon vouloir servir le roy—To serve the king with good-will. M.
Debt is the worst kind of poverty. Pr.
Debt is to a man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes both sinew and bone; its jaw is the pitiless grave. Bulwer Lytton.
Debts make the cheeks black. Arab. Pr. 25
De calceo sollicitus, at pedem nihil curans—Anxious about the shoe, but careless about the foot. L. Pr.
Deceit