DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS. (continued 22)

Qui jure suo utitur, neminem lædit—He who enjoys his own right injures no man. L.

Qui legitis flores et humi nascentia fragra, / 40 Frigidus, O pueri fugite hinc, latet anguis in herba—Ye youths that pluck flowers and strawberries on the ground, flee hence; a cold clammy snake lurks in the grass. Virg.

Qui mange du pape, en meurt—Who eats what comes from the pope dies of it.

Qui medice vivit, misere vivit—He who lives by medical prescription lives miserably. Pr.

Qui mentiri aut fallere insuevit patrem, / Tanto magis is audebit cæteros—He who has made it a practice to lie to or deceive his father, the more daring will he be in deceiving others. Ter.

Qui mores hominum multorum vidit et urbes—He who saw the manners of many men and cities. Hor., of Ulysses.

Qui n'a, ne peut—He who has not cannot. Fr. Pr.

Qui n'a pas l'esprit de son âge / De son âge a tout le malheur—He who has not the spirit of his time has all the misery of it. Voltaire.

Qui n'a plus qu'un moment à vivre / N'a plus rien à dissimuler—He who has only a moment to live has no more reason to dissemble. Quinault.

Qui n'a point d'amour n'a pas de beaux jours—He who knows not love has no happy days. Fr.

Qui n'a point de sens à trente ans n'en aura 5 jamais—He who has not sense at thirty will never have any. Fr. Pr.

Qui n'a rien, ne craint rien—He who has nought fears nought. Fr. Pr.

Qui ne craint point la mort ne craint point les menaces—He who fears not death cares not for threats. Corn.

Qui ne sait obéir, ne sait commander—Who knows not how to obey knows not how to command. Fr. Pr.

Qui ne sait pas, trouvera à apprendre—He that does not know will find ways and means to learn. Fr. Pr.

Qui ne sait se borner, ne sut jamais écrire—He 10 who cannot limit himself will never know how to write. Boileau.

Qui nescit dissimulare, nescit regnare—He who knows not how to dissemble knows not how to rule. Louis XI.

Qui nescit dissimulare nescit vivere—He who knows not how to dissemble, knows not how to live.

Qui nil molitur inepte—One who never makes any unsuccessful effort. Hor.

Qui nil potest sperare, desperet nihil—Who can hope for nothing should despair of nothing. Sen.

Qui nolet fieri desidiosus, amet—If any man wish 15 to be idle, let him fall in love. Ovid.

Qui non est hodie, cras minus aptus erit—He who is not prepared to-day will be less ready to-morrow. Ovid.

Qui non laborat, non manducet—If any does not work, he shall not eat. Vulgate.

Qui non moderabitur iræ / Infectum volet esse, dolor quod suaserit et mens—He who does not restrain his anger will wish that undone which his irritation and temper prompted him to. Hor.

Qui non proficit, deficit—He who does not advance loses ground. Pr.

Qui non prohibet quod prohibere potest assentire 20 videtur—He who does not prevent what he can prevent is held to consent. L.

Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum, / Illuc unde negant redire quenquam—Who now is travelling along the darksome walk to the spot from which, they say, no one ever returns. Cat.

Qui parcit virgæ odit filium—He that spareth his rod hates the child. M.

Qui pardonne aisément invite à l'offenser—He who easily forgives invites offences. Corn.

Qui patitur vincit—He who endures conquers. M.

Qui peccat ebrius luat sobrius—He that commits 25 an offence when drunk shall pay for it when he is sober. L.

Qui perd péche—He who loses sins. Pr.

Qui pense—He who thinks. M.

Qui peut ce qui lui plait, commande alors qu'il prie—He who can do what he pleases, commands when he entreats. Corn.

Qui porte épée porte paix—He who bears the sword bears peace. Fr. Pr.

Qui prête à l'ami perd au double—He who lends 30 money to a friend loses doubly. Fr. Pr.

Qui pro quo—Who for whom; one instead of another.

Qui proficit in literis et deficit in moribus, plus deficit quam proficit—He who is proficient in learning and deficient in morals is more deficient than proficient. Anon.

Qui quæ vult dicit, quod non vult audiet—He who says what he likes will hear what he does not like. Ter.

Qui recte vivendi prorogat horam / Rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis, at ille / Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis ævum—He who postpones the hour for living aright is as one who waits like the clown till the river flow by; but it glides and will glide on to all time. Hor.

Qui rit Vendredi, Dimanche pleurera—He who 35 laughs Friday will weep Sunday. Fr. Pr.

Qui s'excuse, s'accuse—He who excuses himself accuses himself. Fr. Pr.

Qui sait dissimuler, sait régner—He that knows how to dissemble knows how to reign. Fr. Pr.

Qui sait tout souffrir peut tout oser—He who can bear all can dare all. Vauvenargues.

Qui se fait brebis, loup le mange—Him who makes himself a sheep the wolf eats. Fr. Pr.

Qui se ressemble, s'assemble—Like associates 40 with like. Fr. Pr.

Qui se sent galeux se gratte—Let him who feels it resent it, or apply it (lit. let him scratch who feels the itch). Fr. Pr.

Qui se ultro morti offerant, facilius reperiuntur, quam qui dolorem patienter ferant—It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die than who will endure pain with patience. Cæs.

Qui semel aspexit quantum dimissa petitis / Præstant, mature redeat, repetatque relicta—Let him who has once perceived how much what he has given up is better than what he has chosen, immediately return and resume what he has relinquished. Hor.

Qui sert bien son pays n'a pas besoin d'aieux—He who serves his country well has no need of ancestors. Voltaire.

Qui sibi amicus est, scito hunc amicum omnibus 45 esse—He who is a friend to himself you may be sure he is a friend to all. Sen.

Qui spe aluntur, pendent, non vivunt—Those who feed on hope, hang on, they do not live. Pr.

Qui stultis videri eruditi volunt stulti eruditis videntur—They who wish to appear learned to fools will appear fools to learned men. Quinct.

Qui tacet consentire videtur—He who is silent professes consent. L.

Qui terret plus ipse timet—He who terrifies others is himself in continual fear. Claud.

Qui timide rogat, docet negare—He who asks 50 timidly courts refusal. Sen.

Qui trop embrasse, mal étreint—He who grasps too much grasps ill. Fr. Pr.

Qui uti scit, ei bona—Good to him who knows how to use it. Ter.

Qui veut la fin, veut les moyens—Who wills the end, wills the means. Fr. Pr.

Qui veut manger de noyeau, qu'il casse la noix—He that would eat the kernel must break the shell. Fr. Pr.

Qui veut mourir ou vaincre est vaincu rarement—He who is resolved to conquer or die is rarely conquered. Corneille.

Qui veut tener nette sa maison, / N'y mette ni femme, ni prêtre, ni pigeon—Let him who would keep his home clean, house in it neither woman, priest, nor pigeon. Fr. Pr.

Qui veut voyager loin ménage sa monture—He who has far to ride spares his horse. Racine.

Qui vit sans folie, n'est pas si sage qu'il croit—He who lives without folly is not as wise as he thinks. Fr. Pr.

Qui vive?—Who goes there? Fr. 5

Qui vult decipi, decipiatur—Let him be deceived who chooses to be deceived.

Quick at meat, quick at work, i.e. at that kind of work. Sc. Pr.

Quick removals are slow prosperings. Pr.

Quick resentments are often fatal. Pr.

Quick returns make rich merchants. Pr. 10

Quick sensibility is inseparable from a ready understanding. Addison.

Quick steps are best over miry ground. Pr.

Quick to borrow is always slow to pay. Pr.

Quick to learn and wise to know. Burns.

Quicken yourself up to duty by the remembrance 15 of your station, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be. Thomas à Kempis.

Quicker by taking more time. Pr.

Quiconque a beaucoup de témoins de sa mort, meurt toujours avec courage—He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage. Voltaire.

Quiconque est loup, agisse en loup—Whoever is a wolf acts as a wolf. La Fontaine.

Quiconque rougit est déjà coupable; la vraie innocence n'a honte de rien—Whoever blushes confesses guilt; true innocence feels no shame. Rousseau.

Quiconque s'imagine la pouvoir mieux écrire, 20 ne l'entend pas—Whoso fancies he can write it (the Life of Christ) better does not understand it. (?)

Quicquid agas, prudenter agas, et respice finem—Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view. Thomas à Kempis.

Quicquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira, voluptas, / Gaudia, discursus, nostri est farrago libelli—Whatever men are engaged in, their wishes and fear, anger, pleasures, joys, runnings to and fro, form the medley of my book. Juv.

Quicquid excessit modum / Pendet instabili loco—Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability. Sen.

Quicunque turpi fraude semel innotuit, / Etiamsi verum dicit, amittit fidem—Whoever has once been detected in a shameful fraud is not believed even if he speak the truth. Phædr.

Quid æternis minorem / Consiliis animum fatigas?—Why 25 harass with eternal purposes a mind too weak to grasp them? Hor.

Quid brevi fortes jaculamur ævo / Multa? quid terras alio calentes / Sole mutamus?—Why do we, whose life is so brief, aim at so many things? Why change we to lands warmed by another sun? Hor.

Quid cæco cum speculo?—What has a blind man to do with a mirror?

Quid clarius astris?—What is brighter than the stars? M.

Quid crastina volveret ætas / Scire nefas homini—It is not permitted to man to know what to-morrow may bring forth. Stat.

Quid datur a Divis felici optatius hora?—What 30 thing more to be wished do the gods bestow than a happy hour? Cat.

Quid de quoque viro, et cui dicas, sæpe caveto—Be ever on your guard what you say of any man, and to whom. Hor.

Quid deceat, quid non obliti—Neglectful of what is seemly and what is not. Hor.

Quid dem? quid non dem? renuis tu quod jubet alter—What shall I give? what withhold? you refuse what another demands. Hor.

Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu?—What will this promiser produce worthy of such boastful language? Hor.

Quid domini facient audent quum talia fures?—What 35 would the masters do, when their knaves dare such things? Virg.

Quid enim ratione timemus / Aut cupimus?—What do we fear or desire with reason? Juv.

Quid enim salvis infamia nummis?—What matters infamy when the money is safe? Juv.

Quid est somnus gelidæ nisi mortis imago?—What is sleep but the image of cold death? Ovid.

Quid est turpius quam senex vivere incipiens?—What is more scandalous than an old man just beginning to live? Sen.

Quid faciunt pauci contra tot millia fortes?—What 40 can a few brave men do against so many thousand? Ovid.

Quid furor est census corpore ferre suo!—What madness it is to carry one's fortune on one's back! Ovid.

Quid leges sine moribus / Vanæ proficiunt—What do idle laws avail without morals? Hor.

Quid me alta silentia cogis / Rumpere—Why force me to break the deep silence? Virg.

Quid non ebrietas designat? Operta recludit; / Spes jubet esse ratas; in prælia trudit inertem; / Sollicitis animis onus eximit; addocet artes—What does not drink effect? it unlocks secrets; bids our hopes to be realised; urges the dastard to the fight; lifts the load from troubled minds; teaches accomplishments. Hor.

Quid non mortalia pectora cogis, / Auri sacra 45 fames?—To what lust dost thou not drive mortal hearts, thou accursed lust for gold? Virg.

Quid nos dura refugimus / Ætas? Quid intactum nefasti / Liquimus?—What have we, a hardened generation, shrunk from? What have we, in our impiety, left inviolate? Hor.

Quid nunc—What now; a newsmonger.

Quid obseratis auribus fundis preces?—Why do you pour prayers into ears that are stopped? Hor.

Quid pro quo—Equivalent; one thing instead of another.

Quid prodest, Pontice, longo / Sanguine censeri, 50 pictosque ostendere vultus / Majorum?—What boots it, Ponticus, to be accounted of a long line, and to display the painted busts of our ancestors? Juv.

Quid quisque vitet, nunquam homini satis / Cautum est in horas—What he should shun from hour to hour man is never sufficiently on his guard. Hor.

Quid Romæ faciam? mentiri nescio—What should I do at Rome? I know not how to lie. Juv.

Quid si nunc cœlum ruat?—What if the sky should now fall? Ter.

Quid sit futurum cras fuge quærere, et / Quem sors dierum cunque dabit, lucro / Appone—Shrink from asking what is to be to-morrow, and every day that fortune shall grant you set down as gain. Hor.

Quid te exempta juvat spinis de pluribus una?—What 5 better are you if you pluck out but one of many thorns? Hor.

Quid tibi cum pelago? Terra contenta fuisses—What have you to do with the sea? You should have been content with the land. Ovid.

Quid tristes querimoniæ / Si non supplicio culpa reciditur?—What do sad complaints avail if the offence is not cut down by punishment? Hor.

Quid turpius quam sapientis vitam ex insipientis sermone pendere?—What more discreditable than to estimate the life of a wise man from the talk of a fool?

Quid verum atque decens curo et rogo, et omnis in hoc sum—My care and study is what is true and becoming, and in this I am wholly absorbed. Hor.

Quid velit et possit rerum concordia discors—What 10 the discordant concord of things means and can educe. Hor.

Quid vesper ferat, incertum est.—Who knows what the evening may bring us? Livy.

Quidquid erit, superanda omnis fortuna ferendo est—Our fate, whatever it be, is to be overcome by patience under it. Virg.

Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes—Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts with them. Virg.

Quidquid præcipies, esto brevis, ut cito dicta / Percipiant animi dociles, teneantque fideles / Omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat—Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel. Hor.

Quien da la suyo antes de morir aparajese a 15 bien sufrir—Who parts with his own before he dies, let him prepare for death. Sp. Pr.

Quien larga vida vive mucho mal vide—To live long is to see much evil. Sp. Pr.

Quien mas sabe mas calla—Who knows most says least. Sp. Pr.

Quien no va á carava, no sabe nada—He who does not mix with the crowd knows nothing. Sp. Pr.

Quien se muda, Dios le ayuda—God assists him who reforms himself. Sp. Pr.

Quien tiene arte, va por toda parte—Who has 20 a trade may go anywhere. Sp. Pr.

Quiet continuity of life is the principle of human happiness. Lindner.

Quieta non movere—Don't stir things at rest.

Quietly do the next thing that has to be done, and allow one thing to follow upon the other. Goethe.

Quietness is best. Sc. Pr.

Quin corpus onustum / Hesternis vitiis animum 25 quoque prægravat una, / Atque affigit humo divinæ particulam auræ—And the body, overcharged with yesterday's excess, weighs down the soul also along with it, and fastens to the ground a particle of the divine ether. Hor.

Quis desiderio sit pudor aut modus / Tam cari capitis?—What shame or measure can there be to our regret for one so dear? Hor.

Quis enim virtutem amplectitur ipsam, / Præmia si tollas?—For who would embrace virtue herself if you took away the reward? Juv.

Quis fallere possit amantem?—Who can deceive a lover? Virg.

Quis nescit, primam esse historiæ legem, ne quid falsi dicere audeat? Deinde ne quid veri non audeat?—Who does not know that it is the first law of history not to dare to say anything that is false, and the second not to dare to say anything that is not true? Cic.

Quis scit an adjiciant hodiernæ crastina summæ 30 / Tempora Di superi?—Who knows whether the gods above will add to-morrow's hours to the sum of to-day? Hor.

Quis separabit?—Who shall separate? M.

Quisnam igitur liber? Sapiens qui sibi imperiosus; / Quem neque pauperies neque mors neque vincula terrent; / Responsare cupidinibus, contemnere honores / Fortis, et in seipso totus teres atque rotundus—Who then is free? He who is wisely lord of himself, whom neither poverty, nor death, nor bonds terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and despise honours, and is complete in himself, smooth and round like a globe. Hor.

Quisque suos patimur Manes—The ghost of each of us undergoes (in the nether world) his own special punishment or purgation.

Quit not certainty for hope. Pr.

Quit the world, and the world forgets you. 35 Disraeli.

Quit thyself manfully; banish impatience and distrust. Thomas à Kempis.

Quixadas sin barbas no merecen ser honradas—Chins without beards deserve no honour. Sp. Pr.

Quo animo—With what intention.

Quo fata vocant—Whither the Fates call. M.

Quo jure—By what right. 40

Quo jure quaque injuria—Right or wrong. Ter.

Quo mihi fortunam, si non conceditur uti?—To what end have the gods given me fortune, if I may not use it? Hor.

Quo res cunque cadent, unum et commune periclum, / Una salus ambobus erit—Whatever may be the issue, we have both one common peril and one safety. Virg.

Quo semel est imbuta recens servabit odorem / Testa diu—The jar will long retain the odour of the liquor with which, when new, it was once saturated. Hor.

Quo teneam vultus mutantem Protea nodo?—By 45 what noose shall I hold this Proteus who is ever changing his shape? Hor.

Quoad hoc—So far (lit. as regards this).

Quocirca vivite fortes / Fortiaque adversis opponite pectora rebus—Wherefore live as brave men, and front adversity with stout hearts.

Quocunque aspicio, nihil est nisi mortis imago—Wherever I look I see nothing but some form of death. Ovid.

Quod avertat Deus!—God forbid!

Quod cito fit, cito perit—What is done quickly does not last long.

Quod commune cum alio est, desinit esse proprium—What we share with another ceases to be our own. Quinct.

Quod decet honestum est et quod honestum est decet—What is becoming is honourable, and what is honourable is becoming. Cic.

Quod eorum minimis mihi—As to the least of 5 these, so to me. M.

Quod erat demonstrandum—Which was to be proved.

Quod erat faciendum—Which was to be done.

Quod est absurdum—Which is absurd.

Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: cœli / Scrutantur plagas—What is at his feet no one looks at; they scan the tracks of heaven. Enn.

Quod licet Jovi, non licet bovi—What is allowed 10 to Jupiter is not allowed to the ox.

Quod medicorum est / Promittunt medici, tractant fabrilia fabri / Scribimus indocti doctique poemata passim—Doctors practise what belongs to doctors, workmen handle the tools they have been trained to, but all of us everywhere, trained and untrained, alike write verses. Hor.

Quod nimis miseri volunt, hoc facile credunt—Whatever the wretched anxiously wish for, they are ready to believe. Sen.

Quod non opus est, asse carum est—What you don't need is dear at a doit. Cato.

Quod non vetat lex, hoc vetat fieri pudor—Modesty forbids what the law does not. Sen.

Quod nunc ratio est, impetus ante fuit—What 15 is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct. Ovid.

Quod potui perfeci—What I could I have done. M.

Quod satis est cui contingit, nihil amplius optet—Let him who for his share has enough wish for nothing more. Hor.

Quod scripsi, scripsi—What I have written, I have written.

Quod semper, quod ubique, et quod ab omnibus—What has been always, been everywhere, and been by all believed.

Quot servi, tot hostes—So many servants you 20 maintain, so many enemies.

Quod sis esse velis, nihilque malis: / Summum nec metuas diem, nec optes—Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, neither fear nor wish for your last day. Mart.

Quod sursum volo videre—I wish to see that which is above. M.

Quod verum est, meum est—What is true belongs to me (whoever said it). Sen.

Quod verum tutum—What is true is safe. M.

Quod vide (or videas)—Which see. 25

Quondam his vicimus armis—We formerly conquered with these arms. M.

Quot capitum vivunt, totidem studiorum—There are as many thousands of different tastes of pursuits as there are individuals alive. Hor.

Quot cœlum stellas, tot habet tua Roma puellas—There are as many girls in your Rome as there are stars in the sky. Ovid.

Quotation confesses inferiority. Emerson.

Quotation, like much better things, has its 30 abuses. One may quote till one compiles. I. Disraeli

Quotations from profane authors, cold allusions, false pathetic, antitheses and hyperboles, are out of doors. La Bruyère.

Quum Romæ fueris, Romano vivite more—When you are at Rome live after the fashion at Rome. Pr.

Quum talis sis, utinam noster esses!—How I wish you were one of us, since I find you so worthy! L.

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Racine passera comme le café—Racine will go out of fashion like coffee. Mme. de Sévigné.

Rage avails less than courage. Fr. Pr. 35

Rage is for little wrongs; despair is dumb. Hannah More.

Rage is mental imbecility. H. Ballou.

Raggio d'asino non arriva al cielo—The braying of an ass does not reach heaven. It. Pr.

Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public. Lamb.

Rail not in answer, but be calm, / For silence 40 yields a rapid balm; / Live it down! Dr. Henry Rink.

Railing and praising were his usual themes; / And both, to show his judgment, in extremes; / So over-violent or over-civil, / That every man with him was god or devil. Dryden.

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favour of one's wit against one's good nature. Montaigne.

Raillery is sometimes more insupportable than wrong; because we have a right to resent injuries, but it is ridiculous to be angry at a jest. La Roche.

Railway travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel. Ruskin.

Rainy days will surely come; / Take your 45 friend's umbrella home. Saying.

Raise nae mair deils than ye're able to lay. Sc. Pr.

Raison d'état—A reason of state. Pr.

Raison d'être—The reason for a thing's existence.

Raisonner sur l'amour, c'est perdre la raison—To reason about love is to lose reason. Bouflers.

Rake not into the bowels of unwelcome truth 50 to save a halfpenny. Lamb.

Rami felicia poma ferentes—Branches bearing beauteous fruit. Ovid.

Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains. Ruffini.

Rank is a great beautifier. Bulwer Lytton.

Rank is but the guinea's stamp, / The man's the gowd for a' that. Burns.

Raphael wäre ein grosser Maler geworden, 55 selbst wenn er ohne Hände auf die Welt gekommen wäre—Raphael would have been a great painter even if he had come into the world without hands. Lessing.

Rapiamus, amici, / Occasionem de die—Let us, my friends, snatch our opportunity from the passing day. Hor.

Rapt with zeal, pathetic, bold, and strong, / Roll'd the full tide of eloquence along. Falconer.

Rara avis in terris, nigroque similima cygno—A bird rarely seen on earth, and very much resembling a black swan. Juv.

Rara est adeo concordia formæ / Atque pudicitiæ—So rare is the union of beauty with modesty. Juv.

Rara fides pietasque viris qui castra sequuntur—Faith and piety are rare among the men who follow the camp. Lucan.

Rara temporum felicitate, ubi sentire quæ 5 velis, et quæ sentias dicere licet—Such was the happiness of the times, that you might think as you chose and speak as you thought. Tac.

Rare benevolence, the minister of God. Carlyle.

Rari nantes in gurgite vasto—Swimming one here and another there in the vast abyss. Virg.

Rari quippe boni; numero vix sunt totidem quot / Thebarum portæ, vel divitis ostia Nili—Rare indeed are the good; in number they are scarcely as many as the gates of Thebes or the mouths of the fertile Nile. Juv.

Rarity imparts a charm; thus early fruits and winter roses are most prized; thus coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while a door ever open tempts no suitor. Mart.

Rarity / Of Christian charity / Under the sun. 10 T. Hood.

Raro antecedentem scelestum / Deseruit pede pœna claudo—Rarely does punishment, with halting foot, fail to overtake the criminal in his flight. Hor.

Raro sermo illis, et magna libido tacendi—They seldom speak, and have a great conceit of holding their tongues. Juv.

Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in illa / Fortuna—Common sense is generally rare in that position of life, i.e., in high rank. Juv.

Rascals are always sociable, and the test of a man's nobility is the small pleasure he has in others' society. Schiller.

Rasch tritt der Tod den Menschen an, / Es ist 15 ihm keine Frist gegeben, / Es stürzt ihn mitten in der Bahn, / Es reisst ihn fort vom vollen Leben. / Bereitet oder nicht; zu gehen, / Er muss vor seinen Richter stehen—Death of a sudden arrests his victim, man; there is no respite given; he falls upon him in midday, and tears him away when life is at the full. Ready to go or not, he must stand before his judge. Schiller.

Rashness is the faithful but unhappy parent of misfortune. Fuller.

Rast' ich, so rost' ich—Rest I, rust I. Luther.

Rast macht Rost—Rest breeds rust. Ger. Pr.

Rathe Niemand ungebeten—Advise no man unasked. Ger. Pr.

Rathen ist leichter denn helfen—To advise is 20 easier than to help. Ger. Pr.

Rathen ist nicht zwingen—To advise is not to compel. Ger. Pr.

Rather an egg to-day than a hen to-morrow. Dan. Pr.

Rather assume thy right in silence and de facto, than voice it with claims and challenges. Bacon.

Rather bear those ills we have / Than fly to others that we know not of. Ham., iii. 1.

Rather find what beauty is than anxiously inquire 25 what it is. Goethe.

Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt. Ben. Franklin.

Rather let my head stoop to the block than these knees bow to any save to the God of heaven. 2 Hen. VI., iv. 1.

Rather than be less, / Cared not to be at all. Milton.

Rather to do nothing than to do good is the lowest state of a degraded mind. Johnson.

Ratio decidendi—The reason for deciding. 30

Ratio et auctoritas, duo clarissima mundi lumina—Reason and authority, the two brightest luminaries of the world. Coke.

Ratio et consilium propriæ ducis artes—Thought and deliberation are the qualities proper to a general. Tac.

Ratio justifica—The reason which justifies.

Ratio quasi quædam lux lumenque vitæ—Reason is, as it were, the guide and light of life. Cic.

Ratio suasoria—The reason which persuades. 35

Rauch ist alles irdsche Wesen; / Wie des Dampfes Säule weht, / Schwinden alle Erdengrössen, / Nur die Götter bleiben stät—A vapour is all earthly existence; as a column of vapour it drifts along: vanish all earth's great ones; only the gods remain stable. Schiller.

Raum für alle hat die Erde—The earth is wide enough for all. Schiller.

Raum, ihr Herrn, dem Flügelschlag / Einer freien Seele—Room, gentlemen, for a free soul to clap its wings. G. Herwegh.

Raum ist in der kleinsten Hütte / Für ein glücklich liebend Paar—There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair. Schiller.

Ravish'd with the whistling of a name. Pope. 40

Rays must converge to a point in order to glow intensely. Blair.

Re infecta—The business being unfinished. Cæs.

Re ipsa repperi, / Facilitate nihil esse homini melius, neque clementia—I have learned by experience that nothing is more advantageous to a man than complaisance and clemency of temper. Ter.

Re opitulandum non verbis—We should assist by deeds, not in words. Pr.

Re secunda fortis, dubia fugax—In prosperity 45 courageous, in danger timid. Phæd.

Read Homer once, and you can read no more, / For all books else appear so mean, so poor, / Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read, / And Homer will be all the books you need. Buckingham.

Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest. Book of Common Prayer.

Read my little fable: / He that runs may read. / Most can raise the flowers now, / For all have got the seed. Tennyson.

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself; if thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet-lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than deceitful sweetness. Quarles.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to 50 believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Bacon.

Read nothing that you do not care to remember, and remember nothing you do not mean to use. Prof. Blackie, to young men.

Read the book you do honestly feel a wish and curiosity to read. Johnson.

Reader, attend—whether thy soul / Soars fancy's flights beyond the pole, / Or darkling grubs this earthly hole / In low pursuit; / Know, prudent, cautious self-control / Is wisdom's root. Burns.

Reader, if thou an oft-told tale wilt trust, / Thou'lt gladly do and suffer what thou must. Henry Marten.

Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the 5 dewy grass at sunrise. Lowell.

Reading furnishes us only with the materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. Locke.

Reading for the sense (in Shakespeare's plays) will best bring out the rhythm. Emerson.

Reading is thinking with another's head instead of one's own. Schopenhauer.

Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, have a present wit; and if he read little, have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. Bacon.

Reading without purpose is sauntering, not 10 exercise. Bulwer Lytton.

Real action is in silent moments. Emerson.

Real friends are our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow. Fénelon.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit! H. Ballou.

Real knowledge consists not in an acquaintance with facts, which only makes a pedant, but in the use of facts, which makes a philosopher. Buckle.

Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover 15 as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other. Mme. Swetchine.

Real ugliness in either sex means always some kind of hardness of heart or vulgarity of education. Ruskin.

Real worth floats not with people's fancies, no more than a rock in the sea rises and falls with the tide. Fuller.

Real worth requires no interpreter; its everyday deeds form its blazonry. Chamfort.

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction; nay, it is in the right interpretation of reality and history that poetry consists. Carlyle.

Reality is, no doubt, greater and more vital 20 to know, in so real a world and life, than any fiction; and the thoughts of God, which the facts are, are infinitely more precious than the fancies of men about them, or even according to them; yet is man's power of fancying, or fantasying, in harmony with the fact, the measure of his knowledge of it and vital relationship to it, and the divinely appointed means withal whereby the fact itself is brought home to our affections. Ed.

Reality surpasses imagination; and we see breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of dreams. Goethe.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. Washington.

Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular; but reason always remains the sole property of a few eminent individuals. Goethe.

Reason can no more influence the will and operate as a motive, than the eyes, which show a man his road, can enable him to move from place to place, or than a ship provided with a compass can sail without a wind. Whately.

Reason cannot show itself more reasonable 25 than to cease reasoning on things above reason. Sir P. Sidney.

Reason gains all men by compelling none. Aaron Hill.

Reason has done, what it can do, when it discovers and draws up the law; to execute this law is reserved for him who feels the obligation of it, and has the due firmness of purpose. Schiller.

Reason has only to do with the becoming, the living; but understanding with the become, the already fixed, that it may make use of it. Goethe.

Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim—nay, blind—thou art in preventing them! Sir P. Sidney.

Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it 30 makes; its usefulness takes the place of beauty. Joubert.

Reason is a historian, but the passions are the actors. Rivarol.

Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off. Swift.

Reason is directed to the process (das Werdende), understanding to the product (das Gewordene). The former is nowise concerned about the whither, or the latter about the whence. Goethe.

Reason is like the sun, of which the light is constant, uniform, and lasting; fancy, a meteor of bright but transitory lustre, irregular in its motion and delusive in its direction. Johnson.

Reason is progressive; instinct, stationary. 35 Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee nor the house of the beaver. Colton.

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason. Coke.

Reason (Vernunft) is the only true despot. Rahel.

Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth. Warburton.

Reason itself is true and just, but the reason of every particular man is weak and wavering. Swift.

Reason lies between bridle and spur. It. Pr. 40

Reason, looking upwards, and carried to the true above, realises a delight in wisdom, unknown to the other parts of our nature. Plato.

Reason raise o'er instinct as you can; / In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis man. Pope.

Reason requires culture to expand it. It resembles the fire concealed in the flint, which only shows itself when struck with the steel. Gordil.

Reason serves when pressed, but honest instinct comes a volunteer. Pope.

Reason should direct, and appetite obey. Cic.

Reason teaches us to be silent; the heart teaches us to speak. Jean Paul.

Reason's a staff for age when Nature's gone; / But youth is strong enough to walk alone. Dryden.

Reason's glimmering ray / Was lent, not to 5 assure our doubtful way, / But guide us upward to a better day. Dryden.

Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, / Lie in three words,—health, peace, and competence. Pope.

Reasonable, or sensible, people are always the best Conversation's Lexicon. Goethe.

Reasoning against a prejudice is like fighting against a shadow; it exhausts the reasoner, without visibly affecting the prejudice. Argument cannot do the work of instruction any more than blows can take the place of sunlight. Mildmay.

Reasoning banishes reason. Molière.

Reasons are the pillars of the fabric of a sermon, 10 but similitudes are the windows which give the best light. Fuller.

Rebellentreue ist wankend—Fidelity among rebels is unsteady. Schiller.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. Inscription on a cannon.

Rebuke ought to have a grain more of salt than of sugar. Pr.

Rebuke with soft words and hard arguments. Pr.

Rebus angustis animosus atque / Fortis appare; 15 sapienter idem / Contrahes vento nimium secundo / Turgida vela—Wisely show yourself spirited and resolute when perils press you; likewise reef your sails when they swell too much by a favouring breeze. Hor.

Rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam; / Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest—It is easy in misfortune to despise life; but he does bravely who can endure misery. Mart.

Rebus secundis etiam egregios duces insolescere—In the hour of prosperity even the best generals are apt to be haughty and insolent. Tac.

Receive what cheer you may; / The night is long that never finds the day. Macb., iv. 3.

Receiving a new truth is adding a new sense. Liebig.

Recepto / Dulce mihi furere est amico—It is 20 delightful to indulge in extravagance on the return of a friend. Hor.

Rechauffé—Heated again; stale. Fr.

Recherché—Sought for; much esteemed.

Recht geht vor Macht—Right goes before might. Count v. Schwerin.

Recht stets behält das Schicksal, denn das Herz, / In uns ist sein gebietrischer Vollzieher—Fate always carries its point, for the heart in us is its imperious executor. Schiller.

[Greek: rechthen de te nêpios egnô]—What has happened 25 even the fool knows. Homer.

Recipiunt feminæ sustentacula a nobis—Women receive supports from us. Motto of the Pattenmakers' Company.

Reckless youth makes ruefu' age. Sc. Pr.

Reckon no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may overlook it. Confucius.

Reckon what is in a man, not what is on him, if you would know whether he is rich or poor. Ward Beecher.

Reckoners without their host must reckon 30 twice. Pr.

Recommending secrecy where a dozen of people are acquainted with the circumstance to be concealed, is only putting the truth in masquerade, for the story will be circulated under twenty different shapes. Scott.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness. Confucius.

Recompense to no man evil for evil. St. Paul.

Recta actio non erit, nisi recta fuit voluntas, ab hac enim est actio. Rursus, voluntas non erit recta, nisi habitus animi rectus fuerit, ab hoc enim est voluntas—An action will not be right unless the intention is right, for from it comes the action. Again, the intention will not be right unless the state of the mind has been right, for from it proceeds the intention. Sen.

Recte et suaviter—Uprightly and mildly. M. 35

Rectius vives, Licini, neque altum / Semper urgendo, neque, dum procellas / Cautus horrescis, nimium premendo / Littus iniquum—You will live more prudently, Licinius, by neither always keeping out at sea, nor, while you warily shrink from storms, hugging too closely the treacherous shore. Hor.

Rectus in curia—Upright in the court, i.e., having come out of it with clean hands. L.

Reculer pour mieux sauter—To step back in order to leap better. Fr.

Red as a roost-cock. S. Devon Pr.

Reddere personæ scit convenientia cuique—He 40 knows how to assign to each character what it is proper for him to think and say. Hor., of a dramatic poet.

Reddere qui voces jam scit puer, et pede certo / Signat humum, gestit paribus colludere, et iram / Colligit ac ponit temere, et mutatur in horas—The boy who just knows how to talk and treads the ground with firm foot, delights to play with his mates, is easily provoked and easily appeased, and changes every hour. Hor.

Rede wenig, rede wahr. Zehre wenig, zahle baar—Speak little, speak true. Spend little, pay cash down. Ger. Pr.

Redeat miseris, abeat fortuna superbis—May fortune revisit the wretched, and forsake the proud! Hor.

Reden ist Silber und Schweigen ist Gold—Speech is silver and silence is gold. Old Ger. Pr.

Reden kommt von Natur, Schweigen vom 45 Verstande—Speaking comes from nature, silence from discretion. Ger. Pr.

Redeunt Saturnia regna—The golden age (lit. the reign of Saturn) is returning.

Redit agricolis labor actus in orbem, / Atque in se sua per vestigia volvitur annus—The husbandman's toil returns in a circle, and the year rolls round in its former footsteps. Virg.

Redlichkeit gedeiht in jedem Stande—Honesty prospers in every condition of life. Schiller.

Reductio ad absurdum—A reduction of an adversary's conclusion to an absurdity.

Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement. Ward Beecher.

Reflect that life, like every other blessing, derives its value from its use alone. Johnson.

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many—not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. Dickens.

Reflection dissolves reverie and burns her delicate wings. Amiel.

Reform is affirmative, conservatism negative; 5 conservatism goes for comfort, reform for truth. Emerson.

Reform is not joyous but grievous; no single man can reform himself without stern suffering and stern working; how much less can a nation of men. Carlyle.

Reform, like charity, must begin at home. Once well at home, how will it radiate outwards, irrepressible, into all that we touch and handle, speak and work; kindling ever new light by incalculable contagion; spreading, in geometric ratio, far and wide; doing good only, wherever it spreads, and not evil. Carlyle.

Reformers (Reformatorische Geister) do not step into the arena amid a flourish of drums and trumpets; they must make their debut rather under the badge of the cross, and have been cradled at their birth in a manger; poverty and a humble pedigree is all their inheritance, and their childhood is never touched or shone upon by the glitter (Glanze) of the world. K. Fischer.

Reforms are generally most unpopular where most needed. Martin.

Refricare cicatricem—To open a wound, or an 10 old sore, afresh.

Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears. Cato.

Regard not much who is for thee or who against thee; but give all thy care to this, that God be with thee in everything thou doest. Thomas à Kempis.

Reges dicuntur multis urgere culullis, / Et torquere mero, quem perspexisse laborent, / An sit amicitia dignus—Kings are said to press with many a cup, and test with wine the man whom they desire to try whether he is worthy of their friendship. Hor.

Regia, crede mihi, res est, succurrere lapsis—It is a right kingly act, believe me, to succour the fallen. Ovid.

Regibus boni quam mali suspectiores sunt, 15 semperque his aliena virtus formidolosa est—Good men are more suspected by kings than bad men; and virtue in other men is to them always a source of dread. Sall.

Régime—Form of government. Fr.

Regium donum—A royal gift.

Regnare nolo, liber ut non sim mihi—I would not be a king and forfeit my liberty. Phædr.

Regum æquabat opes animis; seraque revertens / Nocte domum, dapibus mensas onerabat inemptis—He equalled the wealth of kings in contentment of mind; and at night returning home, would load his board with unbought dainties. Virg., of the husbandman.

Reichen giebt man, Armen nimmt man—We 20 give to the rich, we take from the poor. Ger. Pr.

Reine d'un jour—Queen for a day. Fr.

Reipublicæ forma laudari facilius quam evenire, et si evenit, haud diuturna esse potest—It is more easy to praise a republican form of government than to establish it; and when it is established, it cannot be of long duration. Tac.

Reisst den Menschen aus seinen Verhältnissen; und was er dann ist, nur das ist er—Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is, that only is he. Seume.

Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ himself. Bovee.

Rejoice in joyous things—nor overmuch / Let 25 grief thy bosom touch / Midst evil, and still bear in mind / How changeful are the ways of humankind. Archilochus.

Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes; but know thou that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. Bible.

Rejoice that you have still long to live before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see. Goethe.

Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep. St. Paul.

Relata refero—I tell the story as it was told to me.

Relegare bona religionibus—To bequeath one's 30 property for religious purposes. L.

Relever des bagatelles—To give importance to trifles.

Relicta non bene parmula—Having ingloriously left my shield behind. Hor.

Religentem esse oportet, religiosum nefas—A man should be religious, not superstitious. Quoted by Aul. Gell.

Religion and education are not a match for evil without the grace of God. Haydon.

Religion and morality, as they now stand, 35 compose a practical code of misery and servitude.... How would morality, dressed up in stiff stays and finery, start from her own disgusting image, should she look into the mirror of Nature! Shelley.

Religion bids man prefer the endurance of a lesser evil before a greater, and nature itself does no less. South.

Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, / And unawares morality expires. Pope.

Religion cannot change, though we do. Jeremy Taylor.

Religion cannot rise above the state of the votary. Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. Emerson.

Religion contains infinite sadness. If we are 40 to love God, he must be in distress (lit., in need of help). Novalis. See Matt., xxvii. 46.

Religion des Kreuzes, nur du verknüpfest, in einem / Kranze der Demut und Kraft doppelte Palme zugleich—Religion of the Cross! only thou unitest in one wreath together the twofold palm of humility and power. Platen.

Religion gives part of its reward in hand, the present comfort of having done our duty; and for the rest, it offers us the best security that heaven can give. Tillotson.

Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, / Needs only to be seen to be admired. Cowper.

Religion, if it be true, is central truth; and all knowledge which is not gathered round it, and quickened and illuminated by it, is hardly worth the name. Channing.

Religion implies revelation. R. D. Hitchcock.

Religion is a fire which example keeps alive, and which goes out if not communicated. Joubert.

Religion is a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its roots and practical in its fruits. Amiel.

Religion is again here, for whoever will piously struggle upward, and sacredly, sorrowfully refuse to speak lies, which indeed will mostly mean refuse to speak at all on that topic. Carlyle.

Religion is an everlasting lodestar, that beams 5 the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night. Carlyle.

Religion is as necessary to reason as reason to religion. Washington.

Religion is life, philosophy is thought.... We need both thought and life, and we need that the two shall be in harmony. J. F. Clarke.

Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy, but a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement. Joubert.

Religion is not a dogma nor an emotion, but a service. R. D. Hitchcock.

Religion is not a doubt, but a certainty,—or 10 else a mockery and horror. Carlyle.

Religion is not a method, but a life. Amiel.

Religion is not an end, but a means. Goethe.

Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its own majesty. Goethe.

Religion is nothing if it is not everything; if existence is not filled with it. Mme. de Staël.

Religion is the basis of civil society. Burke. 15

Religion is the best armour in the world, but the worst cloak. Bunyan.

Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy; on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most so about their inheritance. Landor.

Religion is the highest humanity (Humanität) of man. Herder.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilise, if unmixed with cant. Coleridge.

Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude 20 can understand and adopt. Joubert.

Religion is the spice which is meant to keep life from corruption. Bacon.

Religion is universal, theology is exclusive; religion is humanitarian, theology is sectarian; religion unites mankind, theology divides it; religion is love—broad and all-comprising as God's love, theology preaches love and practises bigotry; religion looks to the moral worth of man, theology to his creed and denomination. M. Lilienthal.

Religion lies more in walk than in talk. Pr.

Religion, like its votaries, while it exists on earth, must have a body as well as a soul. Colton.

Religion must always be a crab fruit; it cannot 25 be grafted and keep its wild beauty. Emerson.

Religion or worship is the attitude of those who see that, against all appearances, the nature of things works for truth and right for ever. Emerson.

Religion, poetry, is not dead; it will never die. Its dwelling and birthplace is in the soul of man, and it is eternal as the being of man. In any point of space, in any section of time, let there be a living man; and there is an infinitude above him and beneath him, and an eternity encompasses him on this hand and on that; and tones of sphere-music and tidings from loftier worlds will flit round him, if he can but listen, and visit him with holy influences, even in the thickest press of trivialities or the din of busiest life. Carlyle.

Religion presents few difficulties to the humble, many to the proud, innumerable ones to the vain. Hare.

Religion primarily means obedience; bending to something or some one. To be bound, or in bonds, as apprentice; to be bound, or in bonds, by military oath; to be bound, or in bonds, as a servant of man; to be bound, or in bonds, under the yoke of God. Ruskin.

Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science 30 only applies the meaning to the course of circumstances. Tolstoi.

Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it. Disraeli.

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse; and anything like an adequate and complete morality without religion is impossible. Mark Hopkins.

Religion would frame a just man; Christ would make a whole man. Religion would save a man; Christ would make him worth saving. Ward Beecher.

Religionen sind Kinder der Unwissenheit, die ihre Mutter nicht lange überleben—Religions are the children of ignorance, and they do not long outlive their mother. Schopenhauer.

Religions are not proved, are not established, 35 are not overthrown, by logic. They are, of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and inexplicable; they are of instinct, and not of reason. Lamartine.

Religious contention is the devil's harvest. La Fontaine.

Religious zeal leads to cleanliness, cleanliness to purity, purity to godliness, godliness to humility, humility to the fear of sin. Rabbi Pinhas-Ben-Jair.

Rem acu tetigit—He has hit the nail on the head (lit. touched it with a needle-point).

Rem, facias rem, / Si possis recte, si non, quocunque modo rem—A fortune, make a fortune, honestly if you can; if not, make it by any means. Hor.

Rem tu strenuus auge—Labour assiduously to 40 increase your property. Hor.

"Remain content in the station in which Providence has placed you," is on the whole a good maxim, but it is peculiarly for home use. That your neighbour should, or should not, remain content with his position is not your business; but it is very much your business to remain content with your own. Ruskin.

Remark how many are better off than you are; consider how many are worse. Sen.

Remember Atlas was weary. Fuller.

Remember now thy creator in the days of thy youth. Bible.

Remember, now, when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword. Sheridan.

Remember that all tricks are either knavish or childish. Johnson.

Remember that the time once yours can never be so again. Thomas à Kempis.

Remember that with every breath we draw, an ethereal stream of Lethe runs through our whole being, so that we have but a partial recollection of our joys, and scarcely any of our sorrows. Goethe.

Remember that you are an actor in a drama 5 of such sort as the Author chooses. If short, then in a short one; if long, then in a long one. If it be His pleasure that you should act a poor man, see that you act it well; or a cripple, or a ruler, or a private citizen. For this is your business, to act well the given part; but to choose it, belongs to another. Epictetus.

Remember this: that your conscience is not a law—no; God and reason made the law, and has placed conscience within you to determine. Sterne.

Remember thy prerogative is to govern, and not to serve, the things of this world. Thomas à Kempis.

Remember your failures are the seed of your most glorious successes. Despond if you must, but don't despair. Anon.

Remembrance and reflection how allied! / What thin partitions sense from thought divide! Pope.

Remembrance (Erinnerung) is the only Paradise 10 from which we cannot be driven. Jean Paul.

Remembrance makes the poet; 'tis the past, / Lingering within him with a keener sense / Than is upon the thoughts of common men, / Of what has been, that fills the actual world / With unreal likenesses of lovely shapes, / That were and are not. L. E. Landon.

Remembrance wakes with all her busy train, / Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain. Goldsmith.

Remis velisque—With oars and sails; with tooth and nail. Pr.

Remis ventisque—With oars and wind.

Remorse is as the heart in which it grows: / 15 If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews / Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, / It is the poison tree that, pierced to the inmost, / Weeps only tears of poison. Coleridge.

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue. Bulwer Lytton.

Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid. Cowper.

Remote from man, with God he passed his days; / Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise. Parnell.

Remove not the ancient land-mark. Bible.

Remove the cause, and the effect will cease. 20 Pr.

Renascentur—They will rise again. M.

Render to all their dues. St. Paul.

Render to Cæsar the things that are Cæsar's, and to God the things that are God's. Jesus.

Renounce, thou must (sollst) renounce! That is the song which sounds for ever in the ears of every one, which every hour sings to us hoarsely our whole life long. Goethe in "Faust."

Renovate animos—Renew your courage. M. 25

Renown is not to be sought, and all pursuit of it is vain. A person may, indeed, by skilful conduct and various artificial means, make a sort of name for himself; but if the inner jewel is wanting, all is vanity, and will not last a day. Goethe.

Rente viagère—An annuity. Fr.

Rentes—Funds bearing interest; stocks. Fr.

Rentier—A fund-holder. Fr.

Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose 30 with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it bespeaks the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused. Colton.

Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid. J. Sterling.

Repentance costs very dear. Pr.

Repentance hath a purifying power, and every tear is of a cleansing virtue; but these penitential clouds must be still kept dropping; one shower will not suffice; for repentance is not one single action, but a course. South.

Repentance is accepted remorse. Mme. Swetchine.

Repentance is good, but innocence is better. Pr. 35

Repentance is heart's sorrow, and a clear life ensuing. Tempest, iii. 3.

Repentance is nothing else but a renunciation of our will, and a controlling of our fancies, which lead us which way they please. Montaigne.

Repentance is the daughter of over-haste. M. Beer.

Repentance is the May of the virtues. Chinese Pr.

Repentance won't cure mischief. Gael. Pr. 40

Repente dives nemo factus est bonus—No good man ever became suddenly rich. Pub. Syr.

Reperit Deus nocentem—God finds out the guilty man.

Reply with wit to gravity, and with gravity to wit. Colton.

Réponse sans réplique—An answer that does not admit of reply. Fr.

Report makes crows blacker than they are. Pr. 45

Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman—repose in energy. The Greek battle-pieces are calm; the heroes, in whatever violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect. Emerson.

Repose and happiness is what thou covetest, but these are only to be obtained by labour. Thomas à Kempis.

Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture. Hazlitt.

Repose is the cradle of power. J. G. Holland.

Repose without stagnation is the state most 50 favourable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbation." Bovee.

Reproof is a medicine like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good. H. Mann.

Reproof never does a wise man harm. Pr.

Reproof on her lips, but a smile in her eye. S. Lover.

Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly. Solon.

Republics end with luxury; monarchies, with poverty. Montesquieu.

Reputation is an idle and false imposition, oft 5 got without merit, and lost without deserving; you have lost no reputation at all unless you repute yourself such a loser. Othello, ii. 3.

Reputation is commonly measured by the acre. Pr.

Reputation is in itself only a farthing candle, of a wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. Lowell.

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue. St. Evermond.

Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what God and angels know of us. Thomas Paine.

Reputation, reputation, reputation! O I have 10 lost my reputation. I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. Othello, ii. 3.

Reputation serves to virtue as light does to a picture. Pr.

Requiem æternam dona eis, Domine—Grant them eternal rest, O Lord.

Requiescat in pace—Let him rest in peace.

Rerum cognitio vera, e rebus ipsis est—The true knowledge of things is from the things themselves. Scaliger.

Res amicos invenit—Money finds friends. Plaut. 15

Res angusta domi—Straitened circumstances at home. Juv.

Res est blanda canor; discant cantare puellæ—Singing is a charming accomplishment: let girls learn to sing. Ovid.

Res est ingeniosa dare—To give requires good sense. Ovid.

Res est sacra miser—A man overwhelmed by misfortune is a sacred object. Sen.

Res est solliciti plena timoris amor—Love is 20 full of anxious fears. Ovid.

Res gestæ—Exploits; transactions.

Res in cardine est—The affair is at a crisis (lit. on the hinge).

Res judicata—A case decided.

Res nolunt diu male administrari—Things refuse to be mismanaged long.

Res rustica—A rural affair. Cic. 25

Res severa est verum gaudium—True joy is an earnest thing.

Res sunt humanæ flebile ludibrium—Human affairs are a jest to be wept over.

Resembles ocean into tempest wrought, / To waft a feather or to drown a fly. Young.

Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it. Johnson.

Resentment, indeed, may remain, perhaps 30 cannot be quite extinguished in the noblest minds; but revenge never will harbour there. Pope.

Resentment seems to have been given us by Nature for defence, and for defence only; it is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence. Adam Smith.

Reserve the master-blow. Pr.

Resignation is putting God between one's self and one's grief. Mme. Swetchine.

Resist as much as thou wilt; heaven's ways are heaven's ways. Lessing.

Resist not evil. Jesus. 35

Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. St. James.

Resistance ought never to be thought of but when an utter subversion of the laws of the realm threatens the whole frame of our constitution, and no redress can otherwise be hoped for. It therefore does, and ought for ever, to stand in the eye and letter of the law as the highest offence. Walpole.

Resolution is independent of great age, but without it one lives a hundred years in vain. Chinese Pr.

Resolution will sometimes relax, and diligence will sometimes be interrupted; but let no accidental surprise or deviation, whether short or long, dispose you to despondency. Johnson.

Resolutions are well kept when they jump 40 with inclination. Goldsmith.

Resolve, resolve, and to be men aspire. / Exert that noblest privilege, alone / Here to mankind indulged; control desire: / Let godlike Reason, from her sovereign throne, / Speak the commanding word "I will!" and it is done. Thomson.

Resolved to ruin or to rule the state. Dryden.

Respect a man, he will do the more. Pr.

Respect for one's parents is the highest of the duties of civil life. Chinese Pr.

Respect for others is the first condition of 45 "savoir-vivre." Amiel.

Respect is better procured by exacting than soliciting it. Lord Greville.

Respect the burden. Napoleon.

Respect us human, and relieve us poor. Pope.

Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you. Pr.

Respectable mediocrity offends nobody. 50 Brougham.

Respice finem—Look to the end.

Respicere exemplar vitæ morumque jubebo / Doctum imitatorem, et veras hinc ducere voces—I would recommend the learned imitator to study closely his model in life and manners, and thence to draw his expressions to the life. Hor.

Respondeat superior—Let the principal answer. L.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power. J. G. Holland.

Rest and be thankful. Inscription on a wayside-seat. 55

Rest and success are fellows. Pr.

Rest and undisturbed content have now no place on earth, nor can the greatest affluence of worldly good procure them, ... they are peculiar to the love and fruition of God alone. Thomas à Kempis.

Rest is for the dead. Carlyle.

Rest is good after the work is done. Dan. Pr.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labour. Plutarch. 60

Rest is won only by work. Pr.

Rest not in an ovation, but in a triumph over thy passions. Sir Thomas Browne.

Rest not upon scattered counsels, for they will rather distract and mislead than settle and direct. Bacon.

Rest! rest! Shall I not have all eternity to rest in? Arnauld.

Rest thy unrest in England's lawful earth. Rich. III., iv. 4.

Restat iter cœlo: cœlo tentabimus ire; / Da veniam cœpto, Jupiter alte, meo—There remains a way through the heavens; through the heavens we will attempt to go. High Jupiter, pardon my bold design. Ovid, in the name of Dædalus when he escaped from the labyrinth on wings.

Restore to God his due in tithe and time: / 5 A tithe purloined cankers the whole estate. George Herbert.

Restraint and discipline, examples of virtue and of justice, these are what form the education of the world. Burke.

Restraint and obstruction (la gêne) constitute the principle of movement. Renan.

Résumé—Recapitulation; summary. Fr.

Resurgam—I shall rise again. M.

Retinens vestigia famæ—Retracing the footsteps 10 of fame. M.

Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of hosts. Bible.

Revelation may not need the help of reason, but man does, even when in possession of revelation. Reason may be described as the candle in the man's hand, to which revelation brings the necessary flame. Simms.

Revelation nowhere burns more purely and more beautifully than in the New Testament. Goethe.

Revenge, at first though sweet, bitter erelong back on itself recoils. Milton.

Revenge barketh only at the stars, and spite 15 spurns at that she cannot reach. Socrates.

Revenge commonly hurts both the offerer and the sufferer; as we see in a foolish bee, which in her anger envenometh the flesh and loseth her sting, and so lives a drone ever after. Bp. Hall.

Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong. Ger. Pr.

Revenge has no limits, for sin has none. Fr. Hebbel.

Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual. Colton.

"Revenge is a kind of wild justice." It is so, 20 but without this wild austere stock there would be no justice in the world. Burke.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which, the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. Bacon.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance, of justice. Johnson.

Revenge is an inheritance of weak souls. Körner.

Revenge is barren of itself; itself is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its satiety despair. Schiller.

Revenge is the abject pleasure of an abject 25 mind. Joubert.

Revenge of a wrong only makes another wrong. Spurgeon.

Revenons à nos moutons—Let us come back to our subject (lit. sheep). Pierre Blanchet.

Reverence for human worth, earnest devout search for it, and encouragement of it, loyal furtherance and obedience to it, is the outcome and essence of all true religions, and was and ever will be. Carlyle.

Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet and from it learn the all. Margaret Fuller.

Reverence (Ehrfurcht), which no child brings 30 into the world along with him, is the one thing on which all depends for making a man in every point a man. Goethe.

Reverie is the Sunday of thought. Amiel.

Reverie, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bordered as by a natural frontier. Victor Hugo.

Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographers, if they could; they have tried their talents at one or the other, and have failed; therefore they turn critics. Coleridge.

Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic. Shelley.

Revocate animos, mœstumque timorem / Mittite—Resume 35 your courage, and cast off desponding fear. Virg.

Revolutions are like the most noxious dung-heaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables. Napoleon.

Revolutions are not made, they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back. Wendell Phillips.

Revolutions never go backward. Wendell Phillips.

Rex datur propter regnum, non regnum propter regem. Potentia non est nisi ad bonum—A king is given for the sake of the kingdom, not the kingdom for the sake of the king. His power is only for the public good. L.

Rex est major singulis, minor universis—The 40 king is greater than each singly, but less than all unitedly. Bracton.

Rex est qui metuit nihil; / Rex est qui cupit nihil—He is a king who fears nothing; he is a king who desires nothing. Sen.

Rex non potest fallere nec falli—The king cannot deceive or be deceived.

Rex non potest peccare—The king can do no wrong.

Rex nunquam moritur—The king never dies. L.

Rex regnat, sed non gubernat—The king reigns, 45 but does not govern. Jan Zamoiski.

Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order. Jeremy Collier.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men. Plato.

Rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in; it is the quackery of eloquence, and deals in nostrums, not in cures. Colton.

Rhyme that had no inward necessity to be rhymed; it ought to have told us plainly, without any jingle, what it was aiming at. Carlyle.

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. Ham., iii. 1.

Rich men are indeed rather possessed by their money than possessors. Burton.

Rich men without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces. Solon.

Rich, not gaudy. Ham., i. 3.

Rich the treasure, / Sweet the pleasure; / 5 Sweet is pleasure after pain. Dryden.

Rich with the spoils of time. Sir T. Browne.

Richard's himself again! Cibber.

Richer than rubies, / Dearer than gold, / Woman, true woman, / Glad we behold! Old love-song.

Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply. Goethe.

Riches and favour go before wisdom and art. 10 Dan. Pr.

Riches are as a stronghold in the imagination of the rich man. Solomon.

Riches are for spending, and spending for honour and good actions. Bacon.

Riches are got wi' pain, kept wi' care, and tint (lost) wi' grief. Sc. Pr.

Riches are like bad servants, whose shoes are made of running leather, and will never tarry long with one master. Brooks.

Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities 15 to which mankind are liable. Cervantes.

Riches are often abused, never refused. Dan. Pr.

Riches breed care, poverty is safe. Dan. Pr.

Riches bring cares. Pr.

Riches come better after poverty than poverty after riches. Chinese Pr.

Riches do not consist in having more gold and 20 silver, but in having more in proportion than our neighbours. Locke.

Riches do not exhilarate us so much by their possession as they torment us with their loss. Gregory.

Riches fineless is as poor as winter / To him that ever fears he shall be poor. Othello, iii. 3.

Riches for the most part are hurtful to them that possess them. Plutarch.

Riches have made mair men covetous than covetousness has made men rich. Sc. Pr.

Riches have wings. Pr. 25

Riches profit not in the day of wrath. Bible.

Riches take peace from the soul, but rarely, if ever, confer it. Petrarch.

Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away, but love stays with us. Love is God. Lew Wallace.

Riches, though they may reward virtues, yet they cannot cause them; he is much more noble who deserves a benefit than he who bestows one. Feltham.

Richt wrangs nae man. Sc. Pr. 30

Richter sollen zwei gleiche Ohren haben—Judges should have two ears, both alike. Ger. Pr.

Ride si sapis—Laugh, if you are wise. Mart.

Ridentem dicere verum / Quid vetat?—Why may a man not speak the truth in a jocular vein? Hor.

Ridere in stomacho—To laugh inwardly, i.e., in one's sleeve.

Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm. 35 Addison.

Ridet argento domus—The house is smiling with silver. Hor.

Ridetur chorda qui semper oberrat eadem—He is laughed at who is for ever harping away on the same string. Hor.

Ridicule has ever been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success. Goldsmith.

Ridicule intrinsically is a small faculty; we may say, the smallest of all faculties that other men are at the pains to repay with any esteem. It is directly opposed to thought, to knowledge, properly so called; its nourishment and essence is denial, which hovers on the surface, while knowledge dwells far below. Carlyle.

Ridicule is a weak weapon when levelled at a 40 strong mind; but common men are cowards, and dread an empty laugh. Tupper.

Ridicule, while it often checks what is absurd, fully as often smothers that which is noble. Scott.

Ridiculous modes, invented by ignorance and adopted by folly. Smollett.

Ridiculum acri / Fortius ac melius magnas plerumque secat res—Ridicule often settles matters of importance better and more effectually than severity. Hor.

Ridiculus æque nullus est, quam quando esurit—No man is so facetious as when he is hungry. Plaut.

Rien de plus éloquent que l'argent comptant—Nothing 45 is more eloquent than ready money. Fr. Pr.

Rien de plus hautain qu'un homme médiocre devenu puissant—Nothing is more haughty than a common-place man raised to power. Fr. Pr.

Rien n'a qui assez n'a—Who has nothing has not enough. Fr. Pr.

Rien n'arrive pour rien—Nothing happens for nothing. Fr. Pr.

Rien n'empêche tant d'être naturel que l'envie de la paraître—Nothing so much prevents one from being natural as the desire to appear so. La Roche.

Rien n'est beau que le vrai; le vrai seul est 50 aimable—Nothing is beautiful but the true; the true alone is lovely. Boileau.

Rien n'est plus estimable que la civilité; mais rien de plus ridicule, et de plus à charge, que la cérémonie—Nothing is more estimable then politeness, and nothing more ridiculous or tiresome than ceremony. Fr.

Rien n'est plus rare que la véritable bonté; ceux même qui croient en avoir n'ont d'ordinaire que de la complaisance ou de la faiblesse—Nothing is rarer than real goodness; those even who think they possess it are generally only good-natured and weak. La Roche.

Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un indiscret ami; / Mieux vaudroit un sage ennemi—Nothing more dangerous than an imprudent friend; a prudent enemy would be better.

Rien ne déconcerte plus efficacement les desseins des pervers, que la tranquillité des grands cœurs—Nothing so effectively baffles the schemes of evil men so much as the calm composure of great souls. Mirabeau.

Rien ne m'est sûr que la chose incertaine—There is nothing certain but the uncertain. Fr.

Rien ne manque à sa gloire; il manquait à la nôtre—Nothing is wanting to his glory; he was wanting to ours. Inscription on the bust of Molière, which was placed in the Academy in 1773.

Rien ne pèse tant qu'un secret—Nothing presses so heavy on us as a secret. La Fontaine.

Rien ne peut arrêter sa vigilante audace. / L'été n'a point de feux, l'hiver n'a point de glace—Nothing can check his watchful daring. For him the summer has no heat, the winter no ice. Boileau of Louis XIV.

Rien ne ressemble plus à un honnête homme 5 qu'un fripon—Nothing resembles an honest man more than a rogue. Fr. Pr.

Rien ne réussit mieux que le succès—Nothing succeeds like success.

Rien ne s'anéantit; non, rien, et la matière, / Comme un fleuve éternel, roule toujours entière—Nothing is annihilated, no, nothing; matter, like an ever-flowing stream, still rolls on undiminished. Boucher.

Rien ne s'arrête pour nous—Nothing anchors itself fast for us. Pascal.

Rien ne sert de courir: il faut partir à point—It's no use running; only setting out betimes. La Fontaine.

Rien ne vaut poulain s'il ne rompt son lien—A 10 colt is nothing worth if it does not break its halter. Fr. Pr.

Rien que s'entendre—Nothing but good understanding. Said of friendship.

Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past. T. Edwards.

Right ethics are central, and go from the soul outward. Gift is contrary to the law of the universe. Emerson.

Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom. Emerson.

Right is right, since God is God. Faber. 15

Right wrongs no man. Pr.

Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people. Bible.

Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way. Bible.

Rightly, poetry is organic. We cannot know things by words and writing, but only by taking a central position in the universe and living in its forms. Emerson.

Rightly to be great / Is not to stir without 20 great argument, / But greatly to find quarrel in a straw / When honour's at the stake. Ham., iv. 4.

Rigour pushed too far is sure to miss its aim, however good; as the bow snaps that is bent too stiffly. Schiller.

Rinasce più gloriosa—It rises more glorious than ever. M.

Riñen las comadres y dicense las verdades—Gossips quarrel and tell the truth. Sp. Pr.

Ring out the old, ring in the new, / Ring, happy bells, across the snow! Tennyson.

Ripening love is the stillest; the shady flowers 25 in this spring, as in the other, shun sunlight. Jean Paul.

Rira bien qui rira le dernier—He laughs well who laughs the last. Fr. Pr.

Rire à gorge déployée—To laugh immoderately. Fr.

Rire dans sa barbe—To laugh in one's sleeve.

Rise, Christopher! thou hast found thy King, and turn / Back to the earth, for I have need of thee. / Thou hast sustained the whole world, bearing me, / The Lord of earth and heaven. Lewis Morris.

Rise up before the hoary head, and honour 30 the face of the old man. Bible.

Rising genius always shoots forth its rays from among clouds and vapours, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady and meridian lustre. Washington Irving.

Rising to great place is by a winding stair. Bacon.

Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est—Nothing is more silly than silly laughter. Cat.

Risum teneatis, amici?—Can you refrain from laughter, my friends? Hor.

Risus abundat in ore stultorum—Laughter is 35 common in the mouth of fools.

Rivalem patienter habe—Bear patiently with a rival. Ovid.

Rivers are roads which travel, and which carry us whither we wish to go. Pascal.

Rivers cannot fill the sea, that, drinking, thirsteth still. Christina Rossetti.

Rivers flow with sweet waters; but, having joined the ocean, they become undrinkable. Hitopadesa.

Rivers need a spring. Pr. 40

Roads are many; authentic finger-posts are few. Carlyle.

Roast meat at three fires; as soon as you've basted one, another's burnin'. George Eliot.

Rob not the poor, because he is poor. Bible.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul. Pr.

Robespierre à pied et à cheval—Robespierre 45 on foot and on horseback, i.e., Robespierre and Napoleon. Mme. de Staël.

Rock of ages, cleft for me, / Let me hide myself in thee. Toplady.

Rock'd in the cradle of the deep, / I lay me down in peace to sleep. Emma Willard.

Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd. Milton.

Rogner les ailes à quelqu'un—To clip one's wings. Fr.

Rogues are always found out in some way. 50 Whoever is a wolf will act as a wolf; that is the most certain of all things. La Fontaine.

Roi fainéant—A do-nothing king. Fr.

Roland for an Oliver, i.e., one audacity capped by a greater.

Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! / Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; / Man marks the earth with ruin,—his control / Stops with the shore. Byron.

Roma locuta est; causa finita est—Rome has spoken; the case is at an end.

Romæ rus optas, absentem rusticus urbem / 55 Tollis ad astra levis—At Rome you pine unsettled for the country, in the country you laud the distant city to the skies. Hor.

Romæ Tibur amem, ventosus, Tibure Romam—Fickle as the wind, I love Tibur when at Rome, and Rome when at Tibur. Hor.

Romance and novel paint beauty in colours more charming than Nature, and describe a happiness that man never tastes. How delusive, how destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss! Goldsmith.

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love. I. Disraeli.

Romance is the poetry of literature. Mme. Necker.

Romance is the truth of imagination and boyhood. Homer's horses clear the world at a bound. The child's eye needs no horizon to its prospect.... The palace that grew up in a night merely awakens a wish to live in it. The impossibilities of fifty years are the common-places of five. Willmott.

Romance, like a ghost, eludes touching; it is 5 always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but is poetry in memory. G. W. Curtis.

Romam cuncta undique atrocia aut pudenda confluunt celebranturque—All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome. Tac.

Rome (room) indeed, and room enough, / When there is in it but one only man. Jul. Cæs., i. 2.

Rome n'est plus dans Rome; elle est toute où je suis—Rome is no longer in Rome; it is all where I am. Corn.

Rome was not built in one day. Heywood.

Root away / The noisome weeds, which without 10 profit suck / The soil's fertility from wholesome flowers. Rich. II., iii. 4.

Rore vixit more cicadæ—He lived upon dew like a grasshopper. Pr.

Roses fall, but the thorns remain. Dut. Pr.

Roses fair on thorns do grow: / And they tell me even so / Sorrows into virtues grow. Dr. W. Smith.

Roses grow among thorns. Pr.

Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; / 15 Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun. Shakespeare.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for pebbles. Sir Thomas Browne.

Round numbers are always false. Johnson.

Round the world, but never in it. Pr. of sailors.

Rouge et noir—A game of cards (lit. red and black). See Nuttall.

Ruat cœlum, fiat voluntas tua—Thy will be 20 done though the heavens should fall.

Rude am I in my speech, / And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace. Othello, i. 3.

Rudis indigestaque moles—A rude and unarranged mass. Ovid.

Ruh kommt aus Unruh, und wieder Unruh aus Ruh—Rest comes from unrest, and unrest again from rest. Ger. Pr.

Ruhe ist die erste Bürgerpflicht—Peace is the first duty of a citizen. Count Schulenburg-Kehnert after the battle of Jena.

Rühre die Laute nicht, wenn ringums Trommeln 25 erschallen; / Führen Narren das Wort, schweiget der Weisere still—Touch not the lute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent. Herder.

Ruin is most fatal when it begins from the bottom. Goldsmith.

Ruins are mile-stones on the road of time. Chamfort.

Ruins are the broken eggshell of a civilisation which time has hatched and devoured. Julia W. Howe.

Rule, Britannia, Britannia rules the waves; / Britons never shall be slaves. Thomson.

Rule youth weel and age will rule itsel'. Sc. Pr. 30

Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire. Mme. Dudevant.

Rumour is a pipe / Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures; / And of so easy and so plain a stop / That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, / The still-discordant wavering multitude, / Can play upon it. 2 Hen. IV., Induc.

Run here or there, thou wilt find no rest, but in humble subjection to the government of a superior. Thomas à Kempis.

Rus in urbe—Country in town. Mart.

Ruse contre ruse—Diamond cut diamond. Fr. 35

Ruse de guerre—A stratagem. Fr.

Rust consumes iron, and envy consumes itself. Dan. Pr.

Rust wastes more than use. Fr. Pr.

Rustica veritas—Rustic veracity.

Rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis; at ille / 40 Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis ævum—The peasant waits until the river shall cease to flow; but still it glides on, and will glide on for all time to come. Hor.

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S'abstenir pour jouir, c'est l'épicurisme de la raison—To abstain so as to enjoy is the epicurism of reason. Rousseau.

'S gibt kein schöner Leben als Studentenleben—There is no more beautiful life than that of the student. Fr. Albrecht.

S'il est vrai, il peut être—It may be, if it is true. Fr. Pr.

S'il fait beau, prends ton manteau; s'il pleut, prends-le si tu veux—If the weather is fine, take your cloak; if it rains, do as you please. Fr. Pr.

S'il y a beaucoup d'art à savoir parler à propos, 45 il n'y en a pas moins à savoir se taire—If it requires great tact to know how to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent. La Roche.

S'il y avait un peuple de dieux, il se gouvernerait démocratiquement. Un gouvernement si parfait ne convient pas des hommes—If there were a community of gods, the government would be democratic. A government so perfect is not suitable for men. Rousseau.

'S ist nichts so schlimm, als man wohl denkt / Wenn man's nur recht erfasst und lenkt—There is nothing so bad as we think it if only we would apprehend and guide it aright. Friedrich-Flotow.

'S wird besser gehen! 's wird besser gehen! / Die Welt ist rund und muss sich drehen—Things will mend! will mend! The world is round, and must needs spin round. Wohlbrück-Marschner.

Saat, dich säet der Herr dem grossen Tage der Ernte—Seed, the Lord sows thee for the great day of harvest. Klopstock.

Saat, von Gott gesäet, dem Tage der Garben zu reifen—Seed sown by God, to ripen against the day of the sheaf-binding. Klopstock.

Sabbath-days, quiet islands on the tossing sea of life. S. W. Duffield.

Sabbath profaned, / Whate'er may be gained, / Is sure to be followed by sorrow. Pr.

Sabbath well spent / Brings a week of content. 5 Pr.

Sacco pieno rizza l'orecchio—A full sack pricks up (lit. erects) its ear. It. Pr.

Sacred courage indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world; that he is aiming neither at self nor comfort, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought in his mind. Emerson.

Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself, in theological language, into the love of God. Froude.

Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest. Amiel.

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, 10 has never been the law of societies. Amiel.

Sacrificed his life to the delineating of life. Goethe, of Schiller.

Sacrificio dell' intelletto—Sacrifice of intellect. Frederick the Great to D'Alembert.

Sad natures are most tolerant of gaiety. Amiel.

Sad souls are slain in merry company. / Grief best is pleased with grief's society; / True sorrow then is feelingly sufficed / When with like semblance it is sympathised. Shakespeare.

Sad wise valour is the brave complexion / 15 That leads the van and swallows up the cities. George Herbert.

Sad with the whole of pleasure. D. G. Rossetti.

Sadness and gladness succeed each other. Pr.

Sae rantingly, sae wantonly, / Sae dauntingly gaed he; / He play'd a spring, and danced it round, / Beneath the gallows-tree. Burns.

Säen ist nicht so beschwerlich als ernten—Sowing is not so difficult as reaping. Goethe.

Sæpe decipimur specie recti—We are often misled 20 by the appearance of truth. Hor.

Sæpe est etiam sub palliolo sordido sapientia—Wisdom is often found even under a shabby coat. Pr.

Sæpe Faunorum voces exauditæ, / Sæpe visæ formæ deorum—Voices of Fauns are often heard, and shapes of gods often seen.

Sæpe in conjugiis fit noxia, cum nimia est dos—Quarrels often arise in marriages when the dowry is excessive. Auson.

Sæpe ingenia calamitate intercidunt—Genius often goes to waste through misfortune. Phæd.

Sæpe nihil inimicus homini quam sibi ipse—Often 25 a man is his own worst enemy. Cic.

Sæpe premente Deo, fert Deus alter opem—Often when we are oppressed by one deity, another comes to our help.

Sæpe stylum vertas, iterum quæ digna legi sint / Scripturus; neque, te ut miretur turba, labores / Contentus paucis lectoribus—You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and labour not for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers. Hor.

Sæpe summa ingenia in occulto latent—The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight. Plaut.

Sæpe tacens vocem verbaque vultus habet—Often a silent countenance is expressive (lit. has a voice and speaks). Ovid.

Sæpe via obliqua præstat quam tendere recta—It 30 is often better to go the circuitous way than the direct one.

Sæpius ventis agitatur ingens / Pinus, et celsæ graviore casu / Decidunt turres, feriuntque summos / Fulmina montes—The huge pine is more frequently shaken by the winds, high towers fall with a heavier crash, and it is the mountain-tops that the thunderbolts strike. Hor.

Sæva paupertas, et avitus apto cum lare fundus—Stern poverty, and an ancestral piece of land with a dwelling to match. Hor.

Sævi inter se conveniunt ursi—Even savage bears agree among themselves. Juv.

Sævis tranquillus in undis—Calm in the raging waters. M. of William I. of Orange.

Safe bind, safe find. Pr. 35

Sag' eine Lüge, so hörst du die Wahrheit—Tell a lie, you will then hear the truth. Ger. Pr.

Sahest du nie die Schönheit im Augenblicke des Leidens, / Niemals hast du die Schönheit gesehn. / Sahest du die Freude nie in einem schönen Gesichte, / Niemals hast du die Freude gesehn—If thou hast never seen beauty in the moment of suffering, thou hast never seen beauty at all. If thou hast never seen joy in a beautiful countenance, thou hast never seen joy at all. Schiller.

Said will be a little ahead, but Done should follow at his heel. Spurgeon.

Saint cannot, if God will not. Fr. Pr.

Saints are sad, because they behold sin (even 40 when they speculate) from the point of view of the conscience, and not of the intellect. Emerson.

Sal atticum—Attic salt; wit.

Sal sapit omnia—Salt seasons everything. M.

Salle-à-manger—A dining-room. Fr.

Salon—A drawing-room; a picture gallery or exhibition. Fr.

Salt and bread make the cheeks red. Ger. Pr. 45

Salt is good, but if the salt have lost its savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned? It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill; but men cast it out. Jesus.

Salt is white and pure; there is something holy in salt. Hawthorne.

Salt spilt is never all gathered up. Sp. and Port. Pr.

Saltabat elegantius, quam necesse est probæ—She danced more daintily than a virtuous woman should. Sall., of Sempronia.

Salus per Christum redemptorem—Salvation 50 through Christ the Redeemer. M.

Salus populi suprema est lex—The well-being of the people is the supreme law. L.

Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. / Dare to look in thy chest, for 'tis thine own, / And tumble up and down what thou find'st there. George Herbert.

Salva conscientia—Without compromise of conscience.

Salva dignitate—Without compromising one's dignity.

Salva fide—Without breaking one's word.

Salve, magna parens—Hail! thou great parent! Virg.

Salvo jure—Saving the right.

Salvo ordine—Without dishonour to one's order.

Salvo pudore—With a proper regard to decency. 5

Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure. Petrarch.

Sammle dich zu jeglichem Geschäfte, / Nie zersplittre deine Kräfte—Gather thyself up for every task, never dissipate (lit. split up) thy powers. Bodenstedt.

Samson was a strong man, but he could not pay money before he got it. Ger. Pr.

Sanan llagas, y no malas palabras—Wounds heal, but not ill words. Sp. Pr.

Sands form the mountains, moments make the 10 year. Young.

Sane baro—A baron indeed. M.

Sang-froid—Indifference; apathy; coolness. Fr.

Sanno più un savio ed un matto che un savio solo—A wise man and a fool know more than a wise man alone. It. Pr.

Sans changer—Without changing. Fr.

Sans Dieu rien—Nothing without God. Fr. 15

Sans façon—Without ceremony. Fr.

Sans le goût, le génie n'est qu'une sublime folie. Ce toucher sûr par qui la lyre ne rend que le son qu'elle doit rendre, est encore plus rare que la faculté qui crée—Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch by which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself. Chateaubriand.

Sans les femmes les deux extrémités de la vie seroient sans secours, et le milieu sans plaisir—Without woman the two extremities of life would be destitute of succour, and the middle without pleasure. Fr.

Sans peur et sans reproche—Fearless and blameless. Surname of the Chevalier Bayard.

Sans phrase—Without phrase; without amplification; 20 simply. Fr.

Sans Souci—"No bother" here. Name given by Frederick the Great to his country-house at Potsdam.

Sans tache—Without stain. M.

Sanctio justa, jubens honesta, et prohibens contraria—A just decree, enforcing what is honourable and forbidding the contrary. Bracton.

Sanctum est vetus omne poema—Every old poem is sacred. Hor.

Sic vos non vobis—Thus do ye labour not for 25 yourselves. Virg.

Sanctum sanctorum—Holy of holies; a study; a private room.

Sanctus haberi / Justitiæque tenax, factis dictisque mereris? / Agnosco procerem—If you deserve to be held a man without blame, and tenacious of justice both in word and deed, then I recognise in you the nobleman. Juv.

Sapere aude—Dare to be wise. M.

Sapere isthac ætate oportet, qui sunt capite candido—They who have grey heads are old enough to be wise. Plaut.

Sapiens dominabitur astris—A wise man will 30 lord it over the stars. Pr.

Sapiens nihil facit invitus, nihil dolens, nihil coactus—A wise man does nothing against his will, nothing with repining or under coercion. Cic.

Sapiens qui prospicit—He is wise who looks ahead. M.

Sapientem pascere barbam—To cultivate a philosophic beard. Hor.

Sapienti sat—Enough for a wise man. Plaut.

Sapientissimus in septem—The wisest of the 35 seven, viz., Thales. Cic.

Sapientum octavus—The eighth of the wise men. Hor.

Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer. Byron.

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil. Carlyle.

Sarcasm poisons reproof. E. Wigglesworth.

Sardonicus risus—A sardonic laugh; a forced 40 ironical laugh.

Sartor resartus—The tailor patched.

Sat cito si sat bene—Quick enough, if well enough. Cato.

Sat pulchra, si sat bona—Fair enough, if good enough.

Satan finds some mischief still / For idle hands to do. Watts.

Satan's friendship reaches to the prison door. 45 Pr.

Satan himself is now transformed into an angel of light. St. Paul.

Satan now is wiser than of yore, / And tempts by making rich, not making poor. Pope.

Satan trembles when he sees / The weakest saint upon his knees. Cowper.

Satiety comes of riches, and contumaciousness of satiety. Solon.

Satire has a power of fascination that no other 50 written thing possesses. S. Lane-Poole.

Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. Swift.

Satire should, like a polished razor keen, / Wound with a touch that is scarcely seen. Lady M. Montagu.

Satires run faster than panegyrics. Pr.

Satis diu vel naturæ vel gloriæ—Long enough for the demands both of nature or of glory.

Satis eloquentiæ, sapientiæ parum—Fine talk 55 enough, but little wisdom. Sall.

Satis est orare Jovem, quæ donat et aufert; / Det vitam, det opes, æquum mi animum ipse parabo—It is enough to pray to Jove for those things which he gives and takes away; let him grant life, let him grant wealth; I myself will provide myself with a well-poised mind. Hor.

Satis quod sufficit—Enough is as good as a feast (lit. what suffices is enough).

Satis superque est—Enough, and more than enough.

Satis superque me benignitas tua / Ditavit—Your bounty has enriched me enough, and more than enough. Hor.

Satis verborum—Enough of words. 60

Satis vixi; invictus enim morior—I have lived enough; I die unvanquished. Epaminondas in Corn. Nep.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of existence. Schopenhauer.

Satius est recurrere, quam currere male—It is better to run back than run on the wrong way. Pr.

Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Pr.

Saucius ejurat pugnam gladiator, et idem / Immemor antiqui vulneris arma capit—The wounded gladiator forswears fighting, and yet, forgetful of his former wound, he takes up arms again.

Säume nicht, dich zu erdreisten, / Wenn die Menge zaudernd schweift; / Alles kann der Edle leisten / Der versteht und rasch ergreift—If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike thou in swift with all boldness; the noble heart that understands and seizes quick hold of opportunity can achieve everything. Goethe.

Sauter du coq à l'âne!—To change the subject 5 abruptly; to talk at cross purposes.

Sauve qui peut—Save himself who can.

Save a man from his friends, and leave him to struggle with his enemies. (?)

Save a thief from the gallows, and he'll cut your throat. Pr.

Save me, and hover o'er me with your wings, / You heavenly guards. Ham., iii. 4.

Save something for a sore foot. Pr. 10

Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois—To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings. Richelieu.

Savoir-faire—Skill; tact.

Savoir-vivre—Good breeding; good manners. Fr.

Savor (desire) no more than thee behoven shall, / Rede well thyself that other folks can rede, / And truth thee shalt deliver—'tis no drede. Chaucer.

Say little and say well. Gael. Pr. 15

Say nay, and take it. Pr.

Say no ill of the year till it be past. Pr.

Say not always what you know, but always know what you say. Claudius.

Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me; I will render to the man according to his work. Bible.