Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
est ad legem bonum esse—It is but a small matter to be good in the eye of the law only. Sen.
Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe as one city. Cic.
Exilioque domos et dulcia limina mutant / 5 Atque alio patriam quærunt sub sole jacentem—They exchange their home and sweet thresholds for exile, and seek under another sun another home. Virg.
Ex improviso—Unexpectedly.
Ex industria—Purposely.
Ex inimico cogita posse fieri amicum—Think that you may make a friend of an enemy. Sen.
Ex integro—Anew; afresh.
Ex intervallo—At some distance. 10
Existence is not to be measured by mere duration. Caird.
Exitio est avidium mare nautis—The greedy sea is destruction to the sailors. Hor.
Ex malis eligere minima—Of evils to choose the least. Cic.
Ex malis moribus bonæ leges natæ sunt—From bad manners good laws have sprung. Coke.
Ex mero motu—Of one's own free will. 15
Ex nihilo nihil fit—Nothing produces nothing.
Ex officio—By virtue of his office.
Ex opere operato—By the external act.
Exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibus ultor—An avenger shall arise out of my bones. Virg.
Ex otio plus negotii quam ex negotio habemus—Our 20 leisure gives us more to do than our business.
Ex parte—One-sided.
Ex pede Herculem—We judge of the size of the statue of Hercules by the foot.
Expect injuries; for men are weak, and thou thyself doest such too often. Jean Paul.
Expediency is the science of exigencies. Kossuth.
Expense of time is the most costly of all expenses. 25 Theophrastus.
Experience, a jewel that I have purchased at an infinite rate. Merry Wives, ii. 2.
Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us. A. B. Alcott.
Experience is a text to which reflection and knowledge supply the commentary. Schopenhauer.
Experience is by industry achieved, / And perfected by swift course of time. Two Gent. of Ver., i. 3.
"Experience is the best teacher," only the 30 school-fees are heavy. Hegel. (?)
Experience is the grand spiritual doctor. Carlyle.
Experience is the mistress of fools. Pr.
Experience is the only genuine knowledge. Goethe.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct. Ben. Franklin.
Experience makes even fools wise. Pr. 35
Experience makes us see a wonderful difference between devotion and goodness. Pascal.
Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but teaches as no other. Carlyle.
Experience teaches us again and again that there is nothing men have less command over than their tongues. Spinoza.
Experience teacheth that resolution is a sole help in need. (?)
Experience that is bought is good, if not too 40 dear. Pr.
Experience to most men is like the stern-lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed. Coleridge.
Experientia docet—Experience teaches. Pr.
Experimentum crucis—A decisive experiment.
Expert men can execute, but learned men are more fit to judge and censure. Bacon.
Experto credite—Believe one who has had experience. 45 Virg.
Expertus metuit—He who has had experience is afraid. Hor.
Expetuntur divitiæ ad perficiendas voluptates—Riches are coveted to minister to our pleasures.
Explorant adversa viros; perque aspera duro / Nititur ad laudem virtus interrita clivo—Adversity tries men, and virtue struggles after fame, regardless of the adverse heights. Sil. Ital.
Ex post facto—After the event. L.
Expression alone can invest beauty with 50 supreme and lasting command over the eye. Fuseli.
Expressio unius est exclusio alterius—The naming of one man is the exclusion of another. L.
Ex professo—As one who knows; professedly.
Ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius—A Mercury is not to be made out of any log. Pr.
Ex scintilla incendium—From a spark a conflagration. Pr.
Ex tempore—Off-hand; unpremeditated. 55
Extended empire, like expanded gold, exchanges solid strength for feeble splendour. Johnson.
External manners of lament / Are merely shadows to the unseen grief / That swells with silence in the tortured soul. Rich. II., iv. 1.
Extinctus amabilis idem—He will be beloved when he is dead (who was envied when he was living). Hor.
Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science, as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules. Huxley.
Extra ecclesiam nulla salus—Outside the Church 60 there is no safety.
Extra lutum pedes habes—You have got your feet out of the mud. Pr.
Extra muros—Beyond the walls.
Extra telorum jactum—Beyond bow-shot.
Extrema gaudii luctus occupat—Grief treads on the confines of gladness. Pr.
Extrema manus nondum operibus ejus imposita est—The finishing hand has not yet been put to his works.
Extreme justice is often extreme injustice.
Extremes beget extremes. Pr.
Extreme in all things! hadst thou been betwixt, 5 / Thy throne had still been thine, or never been. Byron.
Extremes in nature equal ends produce; / In man they join to some mysterious use. Pope.
Extremes meet. Pr.