Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
ascend a step in choosing thy friend. The Talmud.
Description is always a bore, both to the describer 5 and the describee. Disraeli.
Deserted, at his utmost need, / By those his former bounty fed, / On the bare earth exposed be lies, / With not a friend to close his eyes. Dryden.
Desiderantem quod satis est, neque / Tumultuosum sollicitat mare, / Non verberatæ grandine vineæ / Fundusque mendax—A storm at sea, a vine-wasting hail tempest, a disappointing farm, cause no anxiety to him who is content with enough. Hor.
Desideratum—A thing desired, but regretfully wanting.
Desine fata Deum flecti sperare precando—Cease to hope that the decrees of the gods can bend to prayer. Virg.
Desinit in piscem mulier formosa superne—A 10 beautiful woman in the upper parts terminating in a fish. Hor.
Désir de Dieu et désir de l'homme sont deux—What God wishes and man wishes are two different things. Fr. Pr.
Desires are the pulse of the soul. Manton.
Des Lebens Mühe / Lehrt uns allein des Lebens Güter schätzen—The labour of life alone teaches us to value the good things of life. Goethe.
Des Mannes Mutter ist der Frau Teufel—The husband's mother is the wife's devil. Ger. Pr.
Des Menschen Engel ist die Zeit—Time is 15 man's angel. Schiller.
Des Menschens Leben ist / Ein kurzes Blühen und ein langes Welken—The life of man is a short blossoming and a long withering. Uhland.
Despair defies even despotism; there is that in my heart would make its way through hosts with levelled spears. Byron.
Despair is like froward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. Charron.
Despair is the only genuine atheism. Jean Paul.
Despair takes heart when there's no hope to 20 speed; / The coward then takes arms and does the deed. Herrick.
Despair—the last dignity of the wretched. H. Giles.
Despatch is the soul of business. Chesterfield.
Desperate diseases need desperate remedies. Pr.
Despise anxiety and wishing, the past and the future. Jean Paul.
Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything; 25 for there is no man that has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place. Rabbi Ben Azai.
Despise not the discoveries of the wise, but acquaint thyself with their proverbs, for of them thou shalt learn instruction. Ecclus.
Despise your enemy and you will soon be beaten. Port. Pr.
Despite his titles, power, and pelf, / The wretch concentred all in self, / Living, shall forfeit fair renown, / And, doubly dying, shall go down / To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, / Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. Scott.
Despondency comes readily enough to the most sanguine. Emerson.
Desponding fear, of feeble fancies full, / Weak 30 and unmanly, loosens every power. Thomson.
Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement, and the means justified by actually effecting that end. J. S. Mill.
Despotism is essential in most enterprises; I am told they do not tolerate "freedom of debate" on board a seventy-four. Carlyle.
Despotism is often the effort of Nature to cure herself from a worse disease. Robert, Lord Lytton.
Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom. Landor.
Despotismus ist der schwarze Punkt in aller 35 Menschen Herzen—Despotism is the black spot in the hearts of all men. C. J. Weber.
Desque nací lloré, y cada dia nace porqué—I wept as soon as I was born, and every day explains why. Sp. Pr.
Des Rats bedarf die Seele nicht, die Rechtes will—The soul which wills what is right needs no counsel. Platen.
Destiny is our will, and will is nature. Disraeli.
Destitutus ventis remos adhibe—The wind failing, ply the oars.
Destroy his fib or sophistry—in vain! / The 40 creature's at his dirty work again. Pope.
Des Uebels Quelle findest du nicht aus, und aufgefunden fliesst sie ewig fort—The well-spring of evil thou canst not discover, and even if discovered, it flows on continually. Goethe.
Desunt cætera—The remainder is wanting.
Desunt inopiæ multa, avaritiæ omnia—Poverty is in want of many things, avarice of everything. L. Pr.
Des Zornes Ende ist der Reue Anfang—The end of anger is the beginning of repentance. Bodenstedt.
Deteriores omnes sumus licentia—We are all 45 the worse for the license. Ter.
Determined, dared, and done. Smart.
Detested sport, that owes its pleasures to another's pain. Cowper.
De tijd is aan God en ons—Time is God's and ours. Dut. Pr.
Det ille veniam facile, cui venia est opus—He who needs pardon should readily grant it. Sen.
Detour—A circuitous march. Fr. 50
De tout s'avise à qui pain faut—A man in want of bread is ready for anything. Fr. Pr.
Detraction's a bold monster, and fears not / To wound the fame of princes, if it find / But any blemish in their lives to work on. Massinger.
De trop—Too much, or too many; out of place. Fr.
Detur aliquando otium quiesque fessis—Leisure and repose should at times be given to the weary. Sen.
Detur digniori—Let it be given to the most worthy. M.
Detur pulchriori—Let it be given to the fairest. The inscription on the golden apple of discord.
Deum cole, regem serva—Worship God, preserve the king. M.
Deum colit, qui novit—He who knows God worships 5 Him. Sen.
Deus avertat—God forbid.
Deus ex machina—A mechanical instead of a rational or spiritual explanation (lit. a god mechanically introduced).
Deus hæc fortasse benigna / Reducet in sedem vice—God will perhaps by a gracious change restore these things to a stable condition. Hor.
Deus id vult—God wills it. War-cry of the Crusaders before Jerusalem.
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