Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
kytes belyve / Are bent like drums, / And auld guid man maist like to rive / "Bethankit" hums. Burns.
Dein Auge kann die Welt trüb' oder hell dir machen; / Wie du sie ansiehst, wird sie weinen oder lachen—Thy eye can make the world dark or bright for thee; as thou look'st on it, it will weep or laugh. Rückert.
De industria—Purposely.
De integro—Over again; anew.
[Greek: Dei pherein ta tôn theôn]—We must bear what the gods lay on us.
Dei plena sunt omnia—All things are full of God. 30 Cic.
Déjeûner à la fourchette—A meat breakfast. Fr.
De jure—By right.
De kleine dieven hangt men, de groote laat men loopen—We hang little thieves and let great ones off. Dut. Pr.
Del agua mansa me libre Dios; que de la recia me guardaré yo—From smooth water God guard me; from rough, I can guard myself. Sp. Pr.
De lana caprina—About goat's wool, i.e., a worthless 35 matter.
Delay has always been injurious to those who are ready. Lucan.
Delay in vengeance gives a heavier blow. J. Ford.
Delay of justice is injustice. Landor.
Delectando pariterque monendo—By pleasing as well as instructing. Hor.
Delenda est Carthago—Carthage must be destroyed. 40 Cato Major.
Del giudizio, ognun ne vende—Of judgment every one has some to sell. It. Pr.
Deliberando sæpe perit occasio—An opportunity is often lost through deliberation. Pub. Syr.
Deliberandum est diu quod statuendum est semel—We must take time for deliberation, where we have to determine once for all. Pub. Syr.
Deliberate treachery entails punishment upon the traitor. Junius.
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; 45 and yield with graciousness or oppose with firmness. Colton.
Deliberat Roma, perit Saguntum—While Rome deliberates, Saguntum perishes. Pr.
Delicacy is to the affections what grace is to the beauty. Degerando.
Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and misery, and makes us sensible to pain as well as pleasures, which escape the rest of mankind. Hume.
Deliciæ illepidæ atque inelegantes—Unmannerly and inelegant pleasures. Catull.
Deligas tantum quem diligas—Choose only him 50 whom you love.
Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, / To teach the young idea how to shoot. Thomson.
Deliramenta doctrinæ—The crazy absurdities of learned men. L.
Delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi—Whatsoever devilry kings do, the Greeks must pay the piper. Hor.
Deliriums are dreams not rounded with a sleep. Jean Paul.
Deliverer, God hath appointed thee to free the oppressed and crush the oppressor. Bryant.
Dell' albero non si giudica dalla scorza—You can't judge of a tree by its bark. It. Pr.
De loin c'est quelque chose, et de près ce n'est rien—At a distance it is something, at hand nothing. La Fontaine.
Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum—He 5 paints a porpoise in the woods, a boar amidst the waves. Hor.
De lunatico inquirendo—To inquire into a man's state of mind.
Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less because they are universal. Burke.
Delusion may triumph, but the triumphs of delusion are but for a day. Macaulay.
Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. Bovee.
Delusive ideas are the motives of the greatest 10 part of mankind, and a heated imagination the power by which their actions are incited. The world in the eye of a philosopher may be said to be a large madhouse. Mackenzie.
Del vero s'adira l'uomo—It is the truth that irritates a man. It. Pr.
De mal en pis—From bad to worse. Fr.
De male quæsitis vix gaudet tertius hæres—A third heir seldom enjoys what it dishonestly acquired. Juv.
Demean thyself more warily in thy study than in the street. If thy public actions have a hundred witnesses, thy private have a thousand. Quarles.
De medietate linguæ—Of a moiety of languages, 15 i.e., foreign jurymen. L.
Dem Esel träumet von Disteln—When the ass dreams, it is of thistles. Ger. Pr.
Dem Glücklichen schlägt keine Stunde—When a man is happy he does not hear the clock strike. Ger. Pr.
Dem harten Muss bequemt sich Will' und Grille—To hard necessity one's will and fancy (must) conform. Goethe.
Dem Herlichsten, was auch der Geist empfangen, drängt Stoff sich an—Matter presses heavily on the noblest efforts of the spirit. Goethe, in "Faust."
Dem Hunde, wenn er gut gezogen / Wird 20 selbst ein weiser Mann gewogen—Even a wise man will attach himself to the dog when he is well bred. Goethe.
De minimis non curat lex—The law takes no notice of trifles. L.
Dem Menschen ist / Ein Mensch noch immer lieber als ein Engel—A man is ever dearer to man than an angel. Lessing.
Democracies are prone to war, and war consumes them. W. H. Seward.
Democracy has done a wrong to everything that is not first-rate. Amiel.
Democracy is always the work of kings. 25 Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilise the land they are cast upon. Landor.
Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling business, and gives in the long-run a net result of zero. Carlyle.
Democracy is the healthful life-blood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself. Coleridge.
Democracy is the most powerful solvent of military organisation. The latter is founded on discipline; the former on the negation of discipline. Renan.
De monte alto—From a lofty mountain. M.
De mortuis nil nisi bonum (or bene)—Let nothing 30 be said of the dead but what is favourable.
De motu proprio—From the suggestion of one's own mind; spontaneously.
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