Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
thy time well if thou meanest to gain 45 leisure, and, since you are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour. Ben. Franklin.
[Greek: Empodizei ton logon ho phobos]—Fear hampers speech. Demades.
Empressement—Ardour; warmth. Fr.
Empta dolore docet experientia—Experience bought with pain teaches effectually. Pr.
Empty vessels make the most noise. Pr.
Emulation admires and strives to imitate great 50 actions; envy is only moved to malice. Balzac.
Emulation, even in the brutes, is sensitively nervous; see the tremor of the thorough-bred racer before he starts. Bulwer Lytton.
E multis paleis paulum fructus collegi—Out of much chaff I have gathered little grain. Pr.
Emunctæ naris—Of nice discernment (lit. scent). Hor.
[Greek: Hena … alla leonta]—One, but a lion. Æsop.
En ami—As a friend. Fr.
En amour comme en amitié, un tiers souvent nous embarrasse—A third person is often an annoyance to us in love as in friendship. Fr.
En arrière—In the rear. Fr. 5
En attendant—In the meantime. Fr.
En avant—Forward; on. Fr.
En badinant—In jest. Fr.
En beau—In a favourable light. Fr.
En bloc—In a lump. Fr. 10
En boca cerrada no entra mosca—Flies don't enter a shut mouth. Sp. Pr.
En bon train—In a fair way. Fr.
En buste—Half-length. Fr.
En cada tierra su uso—Every country has its own custom. Sp. Pr.
Encouragement after censure is as the sun 15 after a shower. Goethe.
En cuéros—Naked. Sp.
Endeavouring, by logical argument, to prove the existence of God, were like taking out a candle to look for the sun. Carlyle, after Kant.
Endeavour not to settle too many habits at once, lest by variety you confound them, and so perfect none. Locke.
En dernier ressort—As a last resource. Fr.
En déshabille—In an undress. Fr. 20
En Dieu est ma fiance—In God is my trust. M.
En Dieu est tout—All depends on God. M.
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. Ruskin.
Endurance is the crowning quality, and patience all the passion, of great hearts. Lowell.
En échelon—Like steps. Fr. 25
En effet—In fact; substantially. Fr.
Ene i Raad, ene i Sorg—Alone in counsel, alone in sorrow. Dan. Pr.
En el rio do no hay pezes por demas es echar redes—It is in vain to cast nets in a river where there are no fish. Sp. Pr.
En émoi—In a flutter or ferment. Fr.
Energy may be turned to bad uses; but more 30 good may always be made of an energetic nature than of an indolent and impassive one. J. S. Mill.
Energy will do anything that can be done in this world; no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it. Goethe.
[Greek: En ergmasi de nika tychê, ou sthenos]—In great acts it is not our strength but our good fortune that has triumphed. Pindar.
En famille—In a domestic state. Fr.
Enfant gâté du monde qu'il gâtait—A child spoiled by the world which he spoiled. Said of Voltaire.
Enfants de famille—Children of the family. Fr. 35
Enfants perdus—The forlorn hope (lit. lost children). Fr.
Enfants terribles—Dreadful children; precocious youths who say and do rash things to the annoyance of their more conservative seniors. Fr.
Enfant trouvé—A foundling. Fr.
Enfermer le loup dans la bergerie—To shut up the wolf in the sheepfold; to patch up a wound or a disease. Fr. Pr.
En fin les renards se trouvent chez le pelletier—Foxes 40 come to the furrier's in the end. Fr. Pr.
Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages. Milton.
En foule—In a crowd. Fr.
England expects this day that every man shall do his duty. Nelson, his signal at Trafalgar.
England is a domestic country: here home is revered and the hearth sacred. Disraeli.
England is a paradise for women and a hell 45 for horses; Italy a paradise for horses and a hell for women. Burton.
England is safe if true within itself. 3 Hen. VI., iv. 1.
English speech, the sea that receives tributaries from every region under heaven. Emerson.
En grace affié—On grace depend. Fr.
En grande tenue—In full dress. Fr.
En habiles gens—Like able men. Fr. 50
Enjoying things which are pleasant, that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is. Carlyle.
Enjoyment soon wearies both itself and us; effort, never. Jean Paul.
Enjoyment stops when indolence begins. Pollock.
Enjoy the blessings of this day, if God sends them, and the evils bear patiently and sweetly. For this day only is ours; we are dead to yesterday and we are not born to to-morrow. Jeremy Taylor.
Enjoy what God has given thee, and willingly 55 dispense with what thou hast not. Every condition has its own joys and sorrows. Gellert.
Enjoy what thou hast inherited from thy sires if thou wouldst possess it; what we employ not is an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by. Goethe.
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. Goethe.
Enjoy your little while the fool is seeking for more. Sp. Pr.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.