Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
I care little for dying. Plaut.
Du moment qu'on aime, on devient si doux—From 15 the moment one falls in love, one becomes sweet in the temper. Marmontel.
Dum se bene gesserit—So long as his behaviour is good. L.
Dum singuli pugnant, universi vincuntur—While they fight separately, the whole are conquered. Tacit.
Dum spiro, spero—While I breathe, I hope. M.
Dum tacent, clamant—While silent, they cry aloud, i.e., their silence bespeaks discontent. Cic.
Du musst steigen oder sinken, / Du musst herrschen 20 und gewinnen, / Oder dienen und verlieren, / Leiden oder triumphiren, / Amboss oder Hammer sein—Thou must mount up or sink down, must rule and win or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be anvil or hammer. Goethe.
Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate labores: / Jam veniet tacito curva senecta pede—While your strength and years permit, you should endure labour; bowed old age will soon come on with silent foot. Ovid.
Dum vitant stulti vitia, in contraria currunt—While fools shun one set of faults, they run into the opposite one. Hor.
Dum vivimus, vivamus—While we live, let us live. M.
D'une vache perdue, c'est quelque chose de recouvrer la queue—When a cow is lost, it is something to recover the tail. Fr. Pr.
Duo quum faciunt idem non est idem—When 25 two do the same thing, it is not the same. Ter.
Duos qui sequitur lepores neutrum capit—He who follows two hares is sure to catch neither. Pr.
Dupes indeed are many; but of all dupes there is none so fatally situated as he who lives in undue terror of being duped. Carlyle.
Durante beneplacito—During good pleasure.
Durante vita—During life.
Dura più incudine che il martello—The anvil 30 lasts longer than the hammer. It. Pr.
Durate, et vosmet rebus servate secundis—Be patient, and preserve yourself for better times. Virg.
Durch Vernünfteln wird Poesie vertrieben / Aber sie mag das Vernüftige lieben—Poetry loves what is true in reason, but is scared away (dispersed) by subtlety in reasoning. Goethe.
Durum et durum non faciunt murum—Hard and hard (i.e., without mortar) do not make a wall.
Durum! Sed levius fit patientia / Quicquid corrigere est nefas—'Tis hard! But that which we are not permitted to correct is rendered lighter by patience. Hor.
Durum telum necessitas—Necessity is a hard 35 weapon. Pr.
Du sollst mit dem Tode zufrieden sein. / Warum machst du dir das Leben zur Pein?—Thou shouldst make peace (lit. be content) with death. Why then make thy life a torture to thee? Goethe.
Dusting, darning, drudging, nothing is great or small, / Nothing is mean or irksome: love will hallow it all. Dr. Walter Smith.
Dust long outlasts the storied stone. Byron.
Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return. Bible.
Du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas—There 40 is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. Napoleon.
Dutchmen must have wide breeches. Fris. Pr.
Duties are but coldly performed which are but philosophically fulfilled. Mrs. Jameson.
Duties are ours; events are God's. Cecil.
Duty by habit is to pleasure turn'd; / He is content who to obey has learn'd. Sir E. Brydges.
Duty demands the parent's voice / Should sanctify 45 the daughter's choice, / In that is due obedience shown; / To choose belongs to her alone. Moore.
Duty, especially out of the domain of love, is the veriest slavery in the world. J. G. Holland.
Duty has the virtue of making us feel the reality of a positive world, while at the same time it detaches us from it. Amiel.
Duty is a power which rises with us in the morning, and goes to bed with us in the evening. Gladstone.
Duty is the demand of the passing hour. Goethe.
Duty scorns prudence, and criticism has few 50 terrors for a man with a great purpose. Disraeli.
Duty—the command of Heaven, the eldest voice of God. Kingsley.
Dux fœmina facti—A woman the leader in the deed. Virg.
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Each animal out of its habitat would starve. Emerson.
Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, / Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new. Johnson.
Each creature is only a modification of the other; the likeness in them is more than the difference, and their radical law is one and the same. Emerson.
Each creature seeks its perfection in another. Luther.
Each day still better other's happiness, / Until 5 the heavens, envying earth's good hap, / Add an immortal title to your crown. Rich. II., i. 1.
Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world, and the old man lives among graves. Jean Paul.
Each good thought or action moves / The dark world nearer to the sun. Whittier.
Each heart is a world. You find all within yourself that you find without. The world that surrounds you is the magic glass of the world within you. Lavater.
Each human heart can properly exhibit but one love, if even one; the "first love, which is infinite," can be followed by no second like unto it. Carlyle.
Each in his narrow cell for ever laid,/ The rude 10 forefathers of the hamlet sleep. Gray.
Each man begins the world afresh, and the last man repeats the blunders of the first. Amiel.
Each man can learn something from his neighbour; at least he can learn to have patience with him—to live and let live. Kingsley.
Each man has his fortune in his own hands, as the artist has a piece of rude matter, which he is to fashion into a certain shape. Goethe.
Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. Emerson.
Each man sees over his own experience a 15 certain stain of error, whilst that of other men looks fair and ideal. Emerson.
Each man's chimney is his golden