Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
tutte le arti maestro è amore—Love is master of all arts. It. Pr.
Diversité, c'est ma devise—Variety, that is my motto. La Fontaine.
Dives agris, dives positis in fœnore nummis—Rich 55 in lands, rich in money laid out at interest. Hor.
Dives aut iniquus est aut iniqui hæres—A rich man is an unjust man, or the heir of one. Pr.
Dives est, cui tanta possessio est, ut nihil optet amplius—He is rich who wishes no more than he has. Cic.
Dives qui fieri vult, / Et cito vult fieri—He who wishes to become rich, is desirous of becoming so at once. Juv.
Divide et impera—Divide and govern.
Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana ædificavit 5 urbes—Divine nature gave the fields, man's invention built the cities. Varro.
Divination seems heightened to its highest power in woman. A. B. Alcott.
Divine love is a sacred flower, which in its early bud is happiness, and in its full bloom is heaven. Hervey.
Divine moment, when over the tempest-tossed soul, as over the wild-weltering chaos, it was spoken: Let there be light. Even to the greatest that has felt such a moment, is it not miraculous and God-announcing; even as, under simpler figures, to the humblest and least? Carlyle.
Divine Philosophy, by whose pure light / We first distinguish, then pursue the right; / Thy power the breast from every error frees, / And weeds out all its vices by degrees. Juv.
Divine right, take it on the great scale, is found 10 to mean divine might withal. Carlyle.
Divines but peep on undiscovered worlds, / And draw the distant landscape as they please. Dryden.
Divinity should be empress, and philosophy and other arts merely her servants. Luther.
Divitiæ grandes homini sunt, vivere parce / Æquo animo—It is great wealth to a man to live frugally with a contented mind. Lucr.
Divitiæ virum faciunt—Riches make the man.
Divitiarum et formæ gloria fluxa atque fragilis; 15 virtus clara æternaque habetur—The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting. Sall.
Divitis servi maxime servi—Servants to the rich are the most abject.
Divorce from this world is marriage with the next. Talmud.
Dla przyjaciela nowego / Nie opuszczaj starego!—To keep a new friend, never break with the old. Russ. Pr.
Do as others do, and few will laugh at you. Dan. Pr.
Do as the bee does with the rose, take the 20 honey and leave the thorn. Amer. Pr.
Do as the lassies do; say "No" and tak' it. Sc. Pr.
Dobrze to w kazdym znale['s]['c] przyjaciela!—How delightful to find a friend in every one. Brodzinski.
Docendo discimus—We learn by teaching.
Dochters zijn broze waren—Daughters are fragile ware. Dut. Pr.
Doch werdet ihr nie Herz zu Herzen schaffen / 25 Wenn es auch nicht von Herzen geht—Yet will ye never bring heart to heart unless it goes out of your own. Goethe.
Dociles imitandis / Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus—We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. Juv.
Docti rationem artis intelligunt, indocti voluptatem—The learned understand the principles of art, the unlearned feel the pleasure only. Quinct.
Doctor Luther's shoes don't fit every village priest. Ger. Pr.
Doctor utriusque legis—Doctor of both civil and canon law.
Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam / Rectique 30 cultus pectora roborant—But instruction improves the innate powers, and good discipline strengthens the heart. Hor.
Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed. Ward Beecher.
Does Homer interest us now, because he wrote of what passed beyond his native Greece, and two centuries before he was born; or because he wrote what passed in God's world, which is the same after thirty centuries? Carlyle.
Do faita dicha, por demas es diligencia—Diligence is of no use where luck is wanting. Sp. Pr.
Dogmatic jargon, learn'd by heart, / Trite sentences, hard terms of art, / To vulgar ears seem so profound, / They fancy learning in the sound. Gay.
Do good and throw it into the sea; if the fish 35 know it not, the Lord will. Turk. Pr.
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. Pope.
Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him. Ben. Franklin.
Dogs should not be taught to eat leather (so indispensable for leashes and muzzles). Ger. Pr.
Dogs that bark at a distance ne'er bite at hand. Sc. Pr.
Doing good is the only certainly happy action 40 of a man's life. Sir P. Sidney.
Doing is activity; and he will still be doing. Hen. V., iii. 7.
Doing is the great thing; for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it. Ruskin.
Doing leads more surely to saying than saying to doing. Vinet.
Doing nothing is doing ill. Pr.
Dolce far niente—Sweet idleness. It. 45
Dolci cose a vedere, e dolci inganni—Things sweet to see, and sweet deceptions. Ariosto.
Dolendi modus, timendi non autem—There is a limit to grief, but not to fear. Pliny.
Doli non doli sunt, nisi astu colas—Fraud is not fraud, unless craftily planned. Plaut.
Dolium volvitur—An empty vessel rolls easily. Pr.
Dolori affici, sed resistere tamen—To be affected 50 with grief, but still to resist it. Pliny.
Dolus an virtus, quis in hoste requirat?—Who inquires in an enemy whether it be stratagem or valour? Virg.
Dolus versatur in generalibus—Fraud deals in generalities. L.
Domandar chi nacque prima, l'uovo o la gallina—Ask which was first produced, the egg or the hen. It. Pr.
Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. Fielding.
Domestic happiness! thou only bliss / Of happiness 55 that has survived the Fall. Cowper.
Domi manere convenit felicibus—Those