Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources

Part 7

1910 words  |  Chapter 7

t, / A choking gall and a preserving sweet=, _i.e._, =Love is.= _Rom. and Jul._, i. 1. =A mad world, my masters.= _Middleton._ 45 =A main armée=--By force of arms. _Fr._ =Ama l'amico tuo con il diffetto suo=--Love your friend with all his faults. _It. Pr._ =A man at sixteen will prove a child at sixty.= _Pr._ =A man belongs to his age and race, even when he acts against them.= _Renan._ =A man, be the heavens praised, is sufficient= 50 =for himself; yet were ten men, united in love, capable of being and doing what ten thousand singly would fail in.= _Carlyle._ =A man can be so changed by love as to be unrecognisable as the same person.= _Ter._ =A man= _can_ =do no more than he can.= _Pr._ =A man can keep another's secret better than his own; a woman, her own better than another's.= _La Bruyère._ =A man canna wive and thrive the same year.= _Sc. Pr._ =A man can never be too much on his guard= 55 =when he writes to the public, and never too easy towards those with whom he converses.= _D'Alembert._ =A man can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven.= _John Baptist._ =A man cannot be in the seventeenth century and the nineteenth at one and the same moment.= _Carlyle's experience while editing Cromwell's Letters._ =A man cannot spin and reel at the same time.= _Pr._ =A man cannot whistle and drink at the same time.= _Pr._ =A man dishonoured is worse than dead.= _Cervantes._ 60 =A man does not represent a fraction, but a whole number; he is complete in himself.= _Schopenhauer._ =A man hears only what he understands.= _Goethe._ =A man he was to all the country dear, / And passing rich with forty pounds a year.= _Goldsmith._ =A man in a farm and his thoughts away, is better out of it than in it.= _Gael. Pr._ =A man in debt is so far a slave.= _Emerson._ 65 =A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone.= _Amer. Pr._ =A man is a fool or his own physician at forty.= _Pr._ =A man is a golden impossibility.= _Emerson._ =A man is always nearest to his good when at home, and farthest from it when away.= _J. G. Holland._ =A man is king in his own house.= _Gael. Pr._ 5 =A man is never happy till his vague striving has itself marked out its proper limitation.= _Goethe._ =A man is not born the second time, any more than the first, without travail.= _Carlyle._ =A man is not as God, / But then most godlike being most a man.= _Tennyson._ =A man is not strong who takes convulsion fits, though six men cannot hold him; only he that can walk under the heaviest weight without staggering.= _Carlyle._ =A man is only a relative and a representative= 10 =nature.= _Emerson._ =A man is the façade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.= _Emerson._ =A man is the prisoner of his power.= _Emerson._ =A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things.= _Carlyle._ =A man may be proud of his house, and not ride on the rigging (ridge) of it.= _Sc. Pr._ =A man may do what he likes with his own.= _Pr._ 15 =A man may smile, and smile, and be a villain.= _Ham._, i. 5. =A man may spit in his nieve and do little.= _Sc. Pr._ =A man may survive distress, but not disgrace.= _Gael. Pr._ =A man / More sinn'd against than sinning.= _King Lear_, iii. 2. =A man must ask his wife's leave to thrive.= _Pr._ 20 =A man must become wise at his own expense.= _Montaigne._ =A man must be healthy before he can be holy.= _Mme. Swetchine._ =A man must be well off who is irritated by trifles, for in misfortune trifles are not felt.= _Schopenhauer._ =A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.= _Johnson._ =A man must seek his happiness and inward= 25 =peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.= _W. von Humboldt._ =A man must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion.= _Emerson._ =A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.= _Emerson._ =A man must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into certainty of Yes= _or_ =No.= _Carlyle._ =A man must wait for the right moment.= _Schopenhauer._ =A man never feels the want of what it never= 30 =occurs to him to ask for.= _Schopenhauer._ =A man never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going.= _Oliver Cromwell._ =A man of intellect without energy added to it is a failure.= _Chamfort._ =A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that eye in the back of his head.= _Coleridge._ =A man of pleasure is a man of pains.= _Young._ =A man often pays dear for a small frugality.= 35 _Emerson._ =A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be.= _La Bruyère._ =A man of wit would often be much embarrassed without the company of fools.= _La Roche._ =A man only understands what is akin to some things already in his mind.= _Amiel._ =A man places himself on a level with him whom he praises.= _Goethe._ =A man protesting against error is on the way= 40 =towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.= _Carlyle._ =A man so various, that he seem'd to be, / Not one, but all mankind's epitome.= _Dryden._ =A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time.= _Bacon._ =A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.= _Johnson._ =A man who cannot gird himself into harness will take no weight along these highways.= _Carlyle._ =A man who claps his Pegasus into a harness,= 45 =and urges on his muse with the whip, will have to pay to Nature the penalty of this trespass.= _Schopenhauer._ =A man who does not know rigour cannot pity either.= _Carlyle._ =A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not began to comprehend the real nature of it.= _J. G. Holland._ =A man who has nothing to do is the devil's playfellow.= _J. G. Holland._ =A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is ignorant of his own.= _Goethe._ =A man who reads much becomes arrogant and= 50 =pedantic; one who sees much becomes wise, sociable, and helpful.= _Lichtenberg._ =A man will love or hate solitude--that is, his own society--according as he is himself worthy or worthless.= _Schopenhauer._ =A man will not be observed in doing that which he can do best.= _Emerson._ =A man with half a volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road.= _Carlyle._ =A man with knowledge but without energy, is a house furnished but not inhabited; a man with energy but no knowledge, a house dwelt in but unfurnished.= _John Sterling._ =A man's a man for a' that.= _Burns._ 55 =A man's aye crousest in his ain cause.= _Sc. Pr._ =A man's best fortune or his worst is his wife.= _Pr._ =A man's best things are nearest him, / Lie close about his feet.= _Monckton Milnes._ =A man's fate is his own temper.= _Disraeli._ =A man's friends belong no more to him than= 60 =he to them.= _Schopenhauer._ =A man's gift makes room for him.= _Pr._ =A man's happiness consists infinitely more in admiration of the faculties of others than in confidence in his own.= _Ruskin._ =A man's house is his castle.= _Pr._ =A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side until he learns its arc.= _Emerson._ =A man's task is always light if his heart is= 65 =light.= _Lew Wallace._ =A man's virtue is to be measured not by his extraordinary efforts, but his everyday conduct.= _Pascal._ =A man's walking is a succession of falls.= _Pr._ =A man's wife is his blessing or his bane.= _Gael. Pr._ =Amantes, amentes=--In love, in delirium. _Ter._ =Amantium iræ amoris redintegratio est=--The 5 quarrels of lovers bring about a renewal of love. _Ter._ =A man who cannot mind his own business is not to be trusted with the king's.= _Saville._ =A ma puissance=--To my power. _M._ =Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur=--To be in love and act wisely is scarcely in the power of a god. _Faber._ [Greek: Hamartôlai ... en anthrôpoisin hepontai thnêtois]--Proneness to sin cleaves fast to mortal men. _Theognis._ =Ambigendi locus=--Reason for questioning or 10 doubt. =Ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces=--To scatter ambiguous reports among the people. _Virg._ =Ambition is not a vice of little people.= _Montaigne._ =Ambition is the germ from which all growth in nobleness proceeds.= _T. D. English._ =Ambos oder Hammer=--One must be either anvil or hammer. _Ger. Pr._ =Ame damnée=--Mere tool, underling. _Fr._ 15 =Ame de boue=--Base, mean soul. _Fr._ =Amende honorable=--Satisfactory apology; reparation. _Fr._ =A mensâ et thoro=--From bed and board; divorced. =A menteur, menteur à demi=--To a liar, a liar and a half, _i.e._, one be a match for him. _Fr._ =Amentium, haud amantium=--Of lunatics, not 20 lovers. =A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong.= _Ecclus._ =A merciful man is merciful to his beast.= _Bible._ =A mere madness to live like a wretch and die rich.= _Burton._ =A merry heart doeth good like a medicine; but a broken spirit drieth the bones.= _Bible._ =A merveille=--To a wonder. _Fr._ 25 =Am Golde hängt doch Alles=--On gold, after all, hangs everything. _Margaret in "Faust."_ =Amici, diem perdidi=--Friends, I have lost a day. _Titus_ (at the close of a day on which he had done good to no one). =Amici probantur rebus adversis=--Friends are proved by adversity. _Cic._ =Amici vitium ni feras, prodis tuum=--Unless you bear with the faults of a friend, you betray your own. _Pub. Syr._ =Amico d'ognuno, amico di nessuno=--Everybody's 30 friend is nobody's friend. _It. Pr._ =Amicorum esse communia omnia=--Friends' goods are all common property. _Pr._ =Amicum ita habeas posse ut fieri hunc inimicum scias=--Be on such terms with your friend as if you knew he may one day become your enemy. _Laber._ =Amicum perdere est damnorum maximum=--To lose a friend is the greatest of losses. _Syr._ =Amicus animæ dimidium=--A friend the half of life. =Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur=--A true 35 friend is seen when fortune wavers. _Ennius._ =Amicus curiæ=--A friend to the court, _i.e._, an uninterested adviser in a case. =Amicus est unus animus in duobus corporibus=--A friend is one soul in two bodies. _Arist._ =Amicus humani generis=--A friend of the human race. =Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas=--Plato is my friend, but truth is my divinity (_lit._ more a friend). =Amicus usque ad aras=--A friend to the very 40 altar, _i.e._, to the death. =A mighty maze! but not without a plan.= _Pope._ =A millstone and a man's heart are kept constantly revolving; where they have nothing to grind, they grind and fray away their own substance.= _Logan._ =A mirror is better than a whole gallery of ancestral portraits.= _Menzel._ =A miser is as furious about a halfpenny as the man of ambition about the conquest of a kingdom.= _Adam Smith._ =A miss is as good as a mile.= _Pr._ 45 ="Am I to be saved? or am I to be lost?" Certain to be lost, so long as you p