Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
not reveal himself here 10 and there, but everywhere. Lowell.
Agree, for the law is costly. Pr.
A green winter makes a fat churchyard. Pr.
A grey eye is a sly eye; a brown one indicates a roguish humour; a blue eye expresses fidelity; while the sparkling of a dark eye is, like the ways of Providence, always a riddle. Bodenstedt.
A growing youth has a wolf in his belly. Pr.
Agues come on horseback and go away on 15 foot. Pr.
A guilty conscience needs no accuser. Pr.
A hair of the dog that bit him. Pr.
A haute voix—Loudly; audibly. Fr.
A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute. Gibbon.
A hedge between, keeps friendship green. Pr. 20
Ah! il n'y a plus d'enfants—Ah! there are no children now-a-days! Mol.
Ah me! for aught that ever I could read … / The course of true love never did run smooth. Mid. N.'s Dream, i. 1.
Ah me! how sweet this world is to the dying! Schiller.
A hook's well lost to catch a salmon. Pr.
A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse. 25 Rich. III., v. 4.
Ah! pour être dévot, je n'en suis pas moins homme—Though I am a religious man, I am not therefore the less a man. Mol.
Ah! quam dulce est meminisse—Ah! how sweet it is to remember! M.
Ah! that deceit should steal such gentle shapes / And with a virtuous visor hide deep vice. Rich. III., ii. 2.
A hundred years cannot repair a moment's loss of honour. Pr.
A hungry belly has no ears. Pr. 30
Ah! vitam perdidi operose nihil agendo—I have lost my life, alas! in laboriously doing nothing. Grotius.
Aide-toi, et le ciel t'aidera—Help yourself and Heaven will help you. Fr.
[Greek: Ai symphorai poiousi makrologous]—Misfortunes make men talk loquaciously. Appian.
[Greek: Aidôs olôlen]—Modesty has died out. Theognis.
Ainsi que son esprit, tout peuple a son langage—Every 35 nation has its own language as well as its own temperament. Voltaire.
Air de fête—Looking festive. Fr.
Air distingué—Distinguished looking. Fr.
Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence. Lavater.
Aisé à dire est difficile à faire—Easy to say is hard to do. Fr. Pr.
A jest loses its point when he who makes it 40 is the first to laugh. Schiller.
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear / Of him that hears it, never in the tongue / Of him that makes it. Love's L. Lost, v. 2.
A Jove principium—Beginning with Jove.
A judge who cannot punish, associates himself in the end with the criminal. Goethe.
A judicious (verständiger) man is of much value for himself, of little for the whole. Goethe.
A king of shreds and patches. Ham., iii. 4. 45
A king's son is no nobler than his company. Gael. Pr.
A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear. Ham., iv. 2.
A l'abandon—At random; little cared for. Fr.
A la belle étoile—In the open air. Fr.
A la bonne heure—Well-timed; very well. Fr. 50
A l'abri—Under shelter. Fr.
A la chandelle la chèvre semble demoiselle—By candlelight a goat looks like a young lady. Fr. Pr.
A la dérobée—By stealth. Fr.
A la fin saura-t-on qui a mangé le lard—We shall know in the end who ate the bacon. Fr. Pr.
A la française—In the French fashion. Fr. 55
A la lettre—Literally. Fr.
A la mode—According to the fashion. Fr.
A l'amour satisfait tout son charme est ôté—When love is satisfied all the charm of it is gone. Corneille.
A la portée de tout le monde—Within reach of every one. Fr.
A la presse vont les fous—Fools go in crowds. 60 Fr. Pr.
Alas! the devil's sooner raised than laid. Sheridan.
A last judgment is necessary, because fools flourish. Wm. Blake.
A last judgment is not for making bad men better, but for hindering them from oppressing the good. Wm. Blake.
A latere—From the side of (sc. the Pope).
A lazy man is necessarily a bad man; an 65 idle, is necessarily a demoralised population. Draper.
Albæ gallinæ filius—The son of a white hen.
Album calculum addere—To give a white stone, i.e., to vote for, by putting a white stone into an urn, a black one indicating rejection.
Al corral con ello—Out of the window with it. Sp.
Alea belli—The hazard of war.
Alea jacta est—The die is cast. 70
Alea judiciorum—The hazard or uncertainty of law.
A leaden sword in an ivory scabbard. Pr.
A learned man is a tank; a wise man is a spring. W. R. Alger.
Al enemigo, si vuelve la espalda, la puente de plata—Make a bridge of silver for the flying enemy. Sp. Pr.
Alere flammam—To feed the flame.
Ales volat propriis—A bird flies to its own.
Al fin se canta la Gloria—Not till the end is the 5 Gloria chanted. Sp. Pr.
Al fresco—In the open air. It.
Aliam excute quercum—Go, shake some other oak (of its fruit). Pr.
Alia res sceptrum, alia plectrum—Ruling men is one thing, fiddling to them another. Pr.
A liar is always lavish of oaths. Corneille.
A liar should have a good memory.