Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources
Part 7
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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
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