Truly unhappy is the man who leaves undone what he can do, and undertakes what he does not understand; no wonder he comes to grief. Goethe.
Trusse up thy packe, and trudge from me, to every little boy, / And tell them thus from me, their time most happy is, / If to theyr time they reason had, to know the truth of this. Chaucer.
Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses. Johnson.
Trust begets truth. Pr.
Trust, but not too much. Pr. 5
Trust dies because bad pay poisons him. Pr.
Trust him little who praises all, him less who censures all, and him least who is indifferent about all. Lavater.
Trust in that man's promise who dares to refuse that which he fears he cannot perform. Spurgeon.
Trust in the Lord, and do good, so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. Bible.
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and 10 lean not onto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Bible.
Trust instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. Emerson.
Trust me not at all or all in all. Tennyson.
Trust me, that for the instructed, time will come / When they shall meet no object but may teach / Some acceptable lesson to their minds / Of human suffering or human joy. / For them shall all things speak of man. Wordsworth.
Trust men, and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great. Emerson.
Trust no future, howe'er pleasant; / Let the 15 dead past bury its dead. / Act, act in the living present; / Heart within, and God o'erhead! Longfellow.
Trust no man who pledges you with his hand on his heart. Lichtenberg.
Trust not him that hath once broken faith. 3 Hen. VI., iv. 4.
Trust not in him that seems a saint. Fuller.
Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable. Carlyle.
Trust not this hollow world; she's empty; 20 hark, she sounds. Quarles.
Trust not those cunning waters of his eyes, for villany is not without such rheum. King John, iv. 3.
Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything. Sterne.
Trust thyself; every heart vibrates to that iron string. Emerson.
Truth alone wounds. Napoleon.
Truth and fidelity are the pillars of the temple 25 of the world; when these are broken, the fabric falls, and crushes all to pieces. Feltham.
Truth and oil are ever above. Pr.
Truth being weighed against a thousand Aswamedha sacrifices, was found to be of more consequence than the whole thousand offerings. Hitopadesa.
Truth contradicts our nature, error does not, and for a very simple reason: truth requires us to regard ourselves as limited, error flatters us to think of ourselves as in one or other way unlimited. Goethe.
Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again, / The eternal years of God are hers; / But error, wounded, writhes with pain, / And dies among his worshippers. W. C. Bryant.
Truth does not conform itself to us, but we 30 most conform ourselves to it. M. Claudius.
Truth does not consist in minute accuracy of detail, but in conveying a right impression; and there are vague ways of speaking that are truer than strict facts would be. When the Psalmist said, "Rivers of water run down mine eyes, because men keep not thy law," he did not state the fact but he stated a truth deeper than fact and truer. Dean Alford.
Truth does not do as much good in the world as the shows of it do of evil. La Roche.
Truth dwells not in the clouds; the bow that's there / Doth often aim at, never hit the sphere. George Herbert.
Truth for ever on the scaffold, wrong for ever on the throne. Lowell.
Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, / 35 And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray. Goldsmith.
Truth has a quiet breast. Rich. II., i. 3.
Truth has no gradations; nothing which admits of increase can be so much what it is as truth is truth. There may be a strange thing, and a thing more strange; but if a proposition be true, there can be none more true. Johnson.
Truth hath always a fast bottom. Pr.
Truth hath better deeds than words to grace it. Two Gent. of Verona, ii. 2.
"Truth," I cried, "though the heavens crush 40 me for following her; no falsehood, though a whole celestial Lubberland were the price of apostasy!" Carlyle.
Truth in its own essence cannot be / But good. Byron.
Truth, in the great practical concerns of life, is so much a question of the reconciling and combining of opposites, that very few have minds sufficiently capacious and impartial to make the adjustment with an approach to correctness. J. S. Mill.
Truth irritates only those whom it enlightens, but does not convert. Pasquier Quesnel.
Truth is a good dog; but beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. Coleridge.
Truth is a queen who has her eternal throne 45 in heaven, and her seat of empire in the heart of God. Bossuet.
Truth is a stronghold, and diligence is laying siege to it; so that it must observe all the avenues and passes to it. South.
Truth is always consistent with itself and needs nothing to help it out; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware. Tillotson.
Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction. Byron.
Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam. Milton.
Truth is born with us; and we must do violence to nature, to shake off our veracity. St. Evremond.
Truth is God's daughter. Pr.
Truth is never learned, in any department of industry, by arguing, but by working and observing. Ruskin.
Truth is one, for ever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the dispositions of the spectator. Wendell Phillips.
Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. 5 Lowell.
Truth is simple and gives little trouble, but falsehood gives occasion for the frittering away of time and strength. Goethe.
Truth is simple indeed, but we have generally no small trouble in learning to apply it to any practical purpose. Goethe.
Truth is the body of God, and light his shadow. Plato.
Truth is the daughter of Time. Pr.
Truth is the easiest part of all to play (das 10 leichteste Spiel von allen). Present thyself as thou art (stelle dich selber dar), and thou runnest no risk of falling out of thy rôle. Rückert.
Truth is the highest thing that man may keep. Chaucer.
Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life. Chapin.
Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line. Tillotson.
Truth is to be costly to you—of labour and patience; and you are never to sell it, but to guard and to give. Ruskin.
Truth is to be loved purely and solely because 15 it is true. Carlyle.
Truth is too simple for us; we do not like those who unmask our illusions. Emerson.
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. Does not Mr. Bryant say that Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while Error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger? Holmes.
Truth is truth to the end of reckoning. Meas. for Meas., v. 1.
Truth itself shall lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none. South.
Truth lies at the bottom of a well, the depth 20 of which, alas! gives but little hope of release. Democritus.
Truth, like gold, is not the less so for being newly brought out of the mine. Locke.
Truth, like roses, often blossoms upon a thorny stem. Hafiz.
Truth, like the juice of a poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in its excess. Landor.
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time. Bovee.
Truth, like the Venus de Medici, will pass 25 down in thirty fragments to posterity; but posterity will collect and recompose them into a goddess. Richter.
Truth loves open dealing. Henry VIII., iii. 1.
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water. Cervantes.
Truth may languish, but can never perish. Pr.
Truth may lie in laughter, and wisdom in a jest. Dr. W. Smith.
Truth may perhaps come to the price of a 30 pearl, that showeth best by day, but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. Bacon.
Truth, or clothed or naked let it be. Tennyson.
Truth provokes those whom it does not convert. Bp. Wilson.
Truth reaches her full action by degrees, and not at once. Draper.
Truth, says Horne Tooke, means simply the thing trowed, the thing believed; and now, from this to the thing itself, what a new fatal deduction have we to suffer. Carlyle.
Truth scarce ever yet carried it by vote anywhere 35 at its first appearance. Locke.
Truth seeks no corners. Pr.
Truth shines with its own light; it is not by the flames of funeral piles that the minds of men are illuminated. Belisarius.
Truth should be strenuous and bold; but the strongest things are not always the noisiest, as any one may see who compares scolding with logic. Chapin.
Truth will be uppermost one time or another like cork, though kept down in the water. Sir W. Temple.
Truth will bear / Neither rude handling, nor 40 unfair / Evasion of its wards, and mocks / Whoever would falsely enter there. Dr. Walter Smith.
Truth's a dog that must to kennel. He must be whipped out, when the lady brach may stand by the fire and stink. Lear, i. 4.
Truths are first clouds, then rain, then harvests and food. Ward Beecher.
Truths that wake, / To perish never. Wordsworth.
Try and Trust will move mountains. Pr.
Try for yourselves what you can read in half-an-hour, ... 45 and consider what treasures you might have laid by at the end of the year; and what happiness, fortitude and wisdom they would have given you during all the days of your life. John Morley.
Try it, ye who think there is nothing in it; try what it is to speak with God behind you. Ward Beecher.
Try to do your duty, and you at once know what is in you. Goethe.
Try to forget our cares and our maladies, and contribute, as we can, to the cheerfulness of each other. Johnson.
Try what repentance can; what can it not? Yet what can it, when one cannot repent? Ham., iii. 2.
Tu, Domine, gloria mea—Thou, O Lord, art my 50 glory. M.
Tu dors, Brutus, et Rome est dans les fers!—Sleepest thou, Brutus, and Rome in bonds! Voltaire.
Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito / Quam tua te fortuna sinet—Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune shall permit you. Virg.
Tu ne quæsieris, scire nefas, quem mihi quem tibi / Finem di dederint, Leuconoë—Forbear to inquire, thou mayst not know, Leuconoë, for you may not know what the gods have appointed either for you or for me. Hor.
Tu nihil invita dices faciesve Minerva—You must say and do nothing against the bent of your genius, i.e., in default of the necessary inspiration. Hor.
Tu pol si sapis, quod scis nescis—You, if you are wise, will not know what you do know. Ter.
Tu quamcunque Deus tibi fortunaverit horam, / Grata sume manu; nec dulcia differ in annum, / Ut quocunque loco fueris, vixisse libenter / Te dicas—Receive with a thankful hand every hour that God may have granted you, and defer not the comforts of life to another year; that in whatever place you are, you may say you have lived agreeably. Hor.
Tu quoque—You too; you're another. 5
Tu quoque, Brute!—You too, Brutus!
Tu recte vivis, si curas esse quod audis—You live a true life if you make it your care to be what you seem. Hor.
Tu si animum vicisti, potius quam animus te, est quod gaudeas—If you have conquered your inclination, rather than your inclination you, you have something to rejoice at. Plaut.
Tu si hic sis, aliter sentias—If you were in my place, you would think differently. Terence.
Tu vincula frange—Break thy chains. M. 10
Tua camicia non sappia il secreto—Let not your shirt know your secret. It. Pr.
Tua res agitur—It is a matter that concerns you.
Tuebor—I will protect. M.
Tui me miseret, mei piget—I pity you and vex myself. Ennius.
Tunica propior pallio est—My tunic is nearer 15 than my cloak. Plaut.
Turba Remi sequitur fortunam, ut semper, et odit / Damnatos—The Roman mob follows the lead of fortune, as it always does, and hates those that are condemned. Juv.
Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel with smile or frown; / With that wild wheel we go not up or down; / Our hoard is little, but our hearts are great. Tennyson.
Turn him to any cause of policy, / The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, / Familiar as his garter. Henry V., i. 1.
Turpe est aliud loqui, aliud sentire; quanto turpius aliud scribere, aliud sentire!—It is base to say one thing and to think another; how much more base to write one thing and think another! Sen.
Turpe est in patria peregrinari, et in eis rebus 20 quæ ad patriam pertinent hospitem esse—It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in those matters which affect our welfare. Manutius.
Turpius ejicitur quam non admittitur hospes—It is more disgraceful to turn a guest out than not to admit him. Ovid.
Turris fortissima est nomen Jehovah—A most strong tower is the name of Jehovah. M.
Tuta petant alii. Fortuna miserrima tuta est; / Nam timor eventus deterioris abest—Let others seek security. My most wretched fortune is secure; for there is no fear of worse to follow. Ovid.
Tuta scelera esse possunt, non secura—Wickedness may be safe, but not secure. Sen.
Tuta timens—Fearing even safety. Virg. 25
Tutte quanti—Et cetera. It.
Tuum est—It is thine. M.
'Twas doing nothing was his curse—/ Is there a vice can plague us worse? Hannah More.
'Twas strange, 'twas passing strange, / 'Twas pitiful; 'twas wondrous pitiful. Othello, i. 3.
Twenty people can gain money for one who 30 can use it; and the vital question for individuals and for nations, is never "how much do they make," but "to what purpose do they spend." Ruskin.
'Twere all as good to ease one beast of grief, / As sit and watch the sorrows of the world / In yonder caverns with the priests who pray. Sir Edwin Arnold.
Twist ye, twine ye! even so, / Mingle shades of joy and woe, / Hope, and fear, and peace, and strife, / In the thread of human life. Scott.
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labour. Bible.
Two dogs over one bone seldom agree. Pr.
Two dogs strive for a bone, and a third runs 35 away with it. Pr.
Two gifts are indispensable to the dramatic poet; one is the power of forgetting himself, the other is the power of remembering his characters. Stoddart.
Two grand tasks have been assigned to the English people—the grand Industrial task of conquering some half, or more, of the terraqueous planet for the use of man; then, secondly, the grand Constitutional task of sharing, in some pacific endurable manner, the fruit of said conquest, and showing all people how it might be done. Carlyle.
Two heads are better than one, or why do folks marry? Pr.
Two in distress make sorrow less. Pr.
Two is company, but three is none. Pr. 40
Two kitchen fires burn not on one hearth. Pr.
Two may keep counsel, putting one away. Pr.
Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort. Emerson.
Two meanings have our lightest fantasies, / One of the flesh, and of the spirit one. Lowell.
Two men I honour, and no third. First, the 45 toilworn craftsman that with earth-made implement laboriously conquers the earth, and makes her man's.... A second man I honour, and still more highly—him who is seen toiling for the spiritually indispensable; not daily bread, but the bread of life.... These two in all their degrees I honour; all else is chaff and dust, which let the wind blow whither it listeth. Carlyle.
Two misfortunes are twice as many at least as are needful to be talked over at one time. Sterne.
Two of a trade seldom agree. Pr.
Two orders of poets I admit, but no third; the creative (Shakespeare, Homer, Dante), and reflective or perceptive (Wordsworth, Keats, Tennyson); and both these must be first-rate in their range. Ruskin.
Two pots stood by a river, one of brass, the other of clay; the water carried them away; the earthen vessel kept aloof from the other. L'Estrange.
Two principles in human nature reign—/ Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain. Pope.
Two qualities are demanded of a statesman who would direct any great movement of opinion in which he himself takes a part; he must have a complete understanding of the movement itself, and he must be animated by the same motives as those which inspire the movement. Lamartine.
Two removals are as bad as a fire. Pr.
Two sorts of writers possess genius; those 5 who think, and those who cause others to think. J. Roux.
Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere. Hen. IV., v. 4.
Two things a man should never be angry at; what he can help, and what he cannot. Pr.
Two things I abhor: the learned in his infidelities, and the fool in his devotions. Mahomet.
Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man. Kant.
Two things, well considered, would prevent 10 many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms rather than things; and, secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about. Colton.
Type of the wise who soar, but never roam, / True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home. Wordsworth.
Tyran, descends du trône, et fais place à ton maître—Tyrant, come down from the throne, and give place to your master! Corn.
Tyranny and anarchy are never far asunder. Bentham.
Tyranny is irresponsible power ... whether the power be lodged in one or many. Canning.
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Üb' immer Treu und Redlichkeit / Bis an dein 15 kühles Grab—Be sure thou always practise fidelity and honesty till thou lie in thy cold grave. L. H. Hölty.
Über allen Gipfeln / Ist Ruh—Over all heights is rest. Goethe.
Über die Berge mit Ungestüm—Over the mountains by storm. Kotzebue.
Über vieles kann / Der Mensch zum Herrn sich machen, seinen Sinn / Bezwinget kaum die Not und lange Zeit—Man can make himself master over much, hardly can necessity and length of time subdue his spirit. Goethe.
Überall bin ich zu Hause, / Überall bin ich bekannt—Everywhere am I at home, everywhere am I known. F. Hückstädt.
Übereilung thut nicht gut; / Bedachtsamkeit 20 macht alle Dinge besser—Precipitation spoils everything; consideration improves everything. Schiller.
Uberibus semper lacrymis, semperque paratis / In statione sua, atque expectantibus illam / Quo jubeat manare modo—With tears always in abundance, and always ready at their station, and awaiting her signal to flow as she bids them. Juv., of a pettish woman.
Uberrima fides—The fullest confidence; implicit faith.
Überzeugung soll mir niemand rauben / Wer's besser weiss, der mag es glauben—No one shall deprive me of this conviction that a man's faith in a thing is not weaker, but stronger, the better he knows it. Goethe.
Ubi amici, ibi opes—Where there are friends there is wealth. Plaut.
Ubi amor condimentum inerit cuivis placiturum 25 credo—Where love enters to season a dish, I believe it will please any one. Plaut.
Ubi bene, ibi patria—Where it is well with me, there is my country. Pr.
Ubi dolor, ibi digitus—Where the pain is, there the finger will be. Pr.
Ubi homines sunt modi sunt—Where men are there are manners.
Ubi idem et maximus et honestissimus amor est, aliquando præstat morte jungi quam vita distrahi—Where there exists the greatest and most honourable love, it is sometimes better to be joined in death than separated in life. Valerius Maximus.
Ubi jus, ibi remedium—Where there is a right 30 there is a remedy. L.
Ubi jus incertum, ibi jus nullum—Where the law is uncertain there is no law. L.
Ubi lapsus? Quid feci?—Where have I made slip? What have I done? M.
Ubi major pars est, ibi est totum—Where the greater part is, there the whole is. L.
Ubi mel, ibi apes—Where there is honey to be found, there will be bees. Plaut.
Ubi sæva indignatio cor ulterius lacerare 35 nequit—Where bitter indignation cannot lacerate my heart any more. Swift's epitaph.
Ubi summus imperator non adest ad exercitum, / Citius quod non facto 'st usus fit, quam quod facto 'st opus—When the commander-in-chief is not with the army, that is sooner done which need not to be done than that which requires to be done. Plaut.
Ubi supra—Where above mentioned.
Ubi timor adest, sapientia adesse nequit—Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be. Lactantius.
Ubi uber, ibi tuber—There are no roses without thorns. Pr.
Ubicunque ars ostentatur, veritas abesse videtur—Wherever 40 there is a display of art, truth seems to us to be wanting.
Ubique—Everywhere. M.
Ubique patriam reminisci—I remember my country everywhere. M.
Übung macht den Meister—Practice makes perfect (lit. the master). Ger. Pr.
Ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. If I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment. Douglas Jerrold.
Ulcus tangere—To touch a sore. Ter. 45
Ulterius ne tende odiis—Press no further with your hate. Virg.
Ultima ratio regum—The last argument of kings. Inscription on cannon.
Ultima semper / Expectanda dies homini, dicique beatus / Ante obitum nemo supremaque funera debet—The last day must always be awaited by man, and no man should be pronounced happy before his death and his final obsequies. Ovid.
Ultima Thule—Remotest Thule. Virg.
Ultimatum—A final proposition or condition.
Ultimum moriens—The last to die or disappear. 5
Ultimus Romanorum—The last of the Romans.
Ultra posse nemo obligatur—Nobody can be bound to do beyond what he is able to do. L.
Ultra vires—Beyond the powers or rights possessed.
Um das Leben zu erkennen, muss man sich vom Leben absondern—To know life, a man must separate himself from life. Feuerbach.
Um einen Mann zu schätzen, muss man ihn / 10 Zu prüfen wissen—In order to estimate a man, one must know how to test him. Goethe.
Um Gut's zu thun, braucht's keiner Ueberlegung; / Der Zweifel ist's, der Gutes böse macht, / Bedenke nicht! gewähre wie du's fühlst—To do good needs no consideration; it is doubt that makes good evil. Don't reflect; do good as you feel. Goethe.
Un ángulo me basta entre mis lares, / Un libro y un amigo, un sueño breve, / Que no perturben deudas ni pesares—Enough for me a nook by a hearth of my own, a good book, a friend, a short sleep, unburdened by debt and sorrow. Rioja.
Un bienfait reproché tint toujours lieu d'offense—To reproach a man with your kindness to him is tantamount to an affront. Racine.
Un bon ami vaut mieux que cent parents—A good friend is worth more than a hundred relations. Fr. Pr.
Un bon ouvrier n'est jamais trop chèrement 15 payé—The wages of a good workman are never too high. Fr. Pr.
Un clou chasse l'autre—One nail drives out another. Fr. Pr.
Un corps débile affaiblit l'âme—A feeble body weakens the mind. Rousseau.
Un des plus grands malheurs des honnêtes gens c'est qu'ils sont de lâches—One of the greatest misfortunes of worthy people is that they are cowards. Voltaire.
Un Dieu, un roy—One God, one king. M.
Un dîner réchauffé ne valut jamais rien—A 20 dinner warmed up again was never worth anything. Boileau.
Un enfant en ouvrant les yeux doit voir la patrie, et jusqu'à la mort ne voir qu'elle—A child, on first opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and till death through life see only it. Fr.
Un fat quelquefois ouvre un avis important—A simpleton often suggests a significant bit of advice. Boileau.
Un fou avise bien un sage—A wise man may learn of a fool. Fr. Pr.
Un frère est un ami donné par la nature—A brother is a friend provided by nature. Legouvé père.
Un gentilhomme qui vit mal est un monstre 25 dans la nature—A nobleman who leads a degraded life is a monster in nature. Molière.
Un homme d'esprit seroit souvent bien embarrassé sans la compagnie des sots—A man of wit would often be much embarrassed if it were not for the company of fools. La Roche.
Un homme toujours satisfait de lui-même, peu souvent l'est des autres; rarement on l'est de lui—A man who is always well satisfied with himself seldom is so with others, and others rarely are with him. La Roche.
Un homme vous protège par ce qu'il vaut; une femme par ce que vous valez. Voilà pourquoi de ces deux empires, l'un est si odieux, l'autre si doux—A man protects you by what he is worth; a woman by what you are worth. That is why the empire of the one is so odious, and the other so sweet. Fr.
Un livre est un ami qui ne trompe jamais—A book is a friend that never deceives us. Fr.
Un menteur est toujours prodigue de serments—A 30 liar is always lavish of oaths. Corn.
Un père est un banquier donné par la nature—A father is a banker provided by nature. Fr.
Un peu d'encens brulé rajuste bien des choses—A little incense offered puts many things to rights.
Un peu de fiel gâte beaucoup de miel—A little gall spoils a great deal of honey. Fr. Pr.
Un renard n'est pas pris deux fois à un piège—A fox is not caught twice in the same trap. Fr. Pr.
Un sot n'a pas assez d'étoffe pour être bon—A 35 fool has not stuff in him to turn out well. La Roche.
Un sot savant est sot plus qu'un sot ignorant—A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant one. Fr. Pr.
Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire—Every fool finds a greater to admire him. Boileau.
Un soupir, un regard, un mot de votre bouche, / Voilà l'ambition d'un cœur comme le mien—A sigh, a look, a word from your lips, that is the ambition of a heart like mine. Racine.
Un souvenir heureux est peut-être sur terre / Plus vrai que le bonheur—A happy recollection is perhaps in this world more real than the happiness it recalls. Fr. (?)
Un "tiens" vaut mieux que deux "tu l'aura"—One 40 "take this" is worth more than two "you-shall-have-it." Fr. Pr.
Un viaggiatore prudente non disprezza mai il suo paese—A wise traveller never depreciates his own country. Goldoni.
Una dies aperit, conficit una dies—In one day it opens its blossoms, in one day it decays. Auson. of the rose.
Una salus victis nullam sperare salutem—The only safety for the conquered is to hope for no safety. Virg.
Una voce—With one voice; unanimously.
Unbedingte Thätigkeit, von welcher Art sie 45 sei, macht zuletzt bankerott—Undisciplined activity in any line whatever ends at last in failure. Goethe.
Unbidden guests / Are often welcomest when they are gone. 1 Hen. VI., ii. 2.
Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, / Tempting each other in the victor's mind, / Alternately proclaim him good and great, / And make the hero and the man complete. Addison.
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Congreve.
Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul, that can support despair, supports not thee. Mallet.
Unconsciousness belongs to pure unmixed life; consciousness, to a diseased mixture and conflict of life and death; unconsciousness is the sign of creation; consciousness, at best, that of manufacture. So deep, in this existence of ours, is the significance of mystery. Carlyle.
Unconsciousness is one of the most important conditions of a good style in speaking or in writing. R. S. White.
Und bin ich strafbar, weil ich menschlich 5 war? Ist Mitleid Sünde?—And am I to suffer for it because I was born a man? Is pity a sin? Schiller.
Und da keiner wollte leiden, / Dass der andre für ihn zahle / Zahlte keiner von den beiden—And as neither would allow the other to pay for him, neither paid at all. Heine.
Und der Mensch versuche die Götter nicht / Und begehre nimmer und nimmer zu schauen, / Was sie gnädig bedecken mit Nacht und Grauen—And let not man tempt the gods, and let him never, never desire to behold what they have graciously hid under a veil of night and terror. Schiller.
Und ob die Wolke sie verhülle, / Die Sonne bleibt am Himmelszelt! / Es waltet dort ein heiliger Wille; / Nicht blindem Zufall dient die Welt—And though the cloud veils his light, the sun is ever in the tent of heaven. There a holy will holds sway, to no blind chance is the world the servant. Fr. Kind-Weber.
Und scheint die Sonne noch so schön, / Am Ende muss sie untergehen—And though the sun still shines so brightly, in the end it must go down. Heine.
Und vor der Wahrheit mächt'gem Siege / 10 Verschwindet jedes Werk der Lüge—And before the mighty triumph of the truth, every work of lies will one day vanish. Schiller.
Und was kein Verstand der Verständigen sieht / Das übet in Einfalt ein kindisch Gemüt—And what no intelligence of the intelligent sees, that is practised in simplicity by a childish mind. Schiller.
Und wenn die Welt voll Teufel wär' / Und wollt uns gar verschlingen / So fürchten wir uns nicht so sehr, / Es soll uns doch gelingen—And were this all devils o'er, / And watching to devour us, / We lay it not to heart so sore, / Not they can overpower us. Luther.
Und wenn ich dich lieb habe, was geht es dich an?—And if I love thee, what is that to thee? Goethe.
Und wenn ihr euch nur selbst vertraut, / Vertrauen euch die andern Seelen—And if ye only trust yourselves, other souls will trust you. Goethe.
Und wer mich nicht verstehen kann, / Der 15 lerne besser lesen—And let him who cannot understand me learn to read better. Goethe.
Undank ist der Welt Lohn—Ingratitude is the world's reward. Ger. Pr.
Unde fames homini vetitorum tanta ciborum est?—Why does man hunger so much after forbidden fruit? Ovid.
Unde habeas quærit nemo; sed oportet habere—Whence you have got your wealth, nobody inquires; but you must have it. Juv.
Unde / Ingenium par materiæ?—Where can we find talent equal to the subject? Juv.
Unde tibi frontem libertatemque parentis, / 20 Cum facias pejora senex?—Whence can your authority and liberty as a parent come, when you, who are old, do worse things? Juv.
Under a despotic government there is no such thing as patriotic feeling, and its place is supplied in other ways, by private interest, public fame, and devotion to one's chief. La Bruyère.
Under all sorrow there is the force of virtue; over all ruin, the restoring charity of God. To these alone we have to look; in these alone we may understand the past, and predict the future destiny of the ages. Ruskin.
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Carlyle.
Under fair words have a care of fraud. Port. Pr.
Under sackcloth there is something else. 25 Sp. and Port. Pr.
Under the sky is no uglier spectacle than two men with clenched teeth and hell-fire eyes hacking one another's flesh, converting precious living bodies and priceless living souls into nameless masses of putrescence, useful only for turnip-manure. Carlyle.
Under the weight of his knowledge, a man cannot move so lightly as in the days of his simplicity. Ruskin.
Under white ashes there often lurk glowing embers. Dan. Pr.
Underground / Precedency's a jest; vassal and lord, / Grossly familiar, side by side consume. Blair.
Underneath this stone doth lie / As much 30 beauty as could die; / Which in life did harbour give / To more virtue than doth live. Jonson, on Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland.
Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it. Bible.
Understanding is the most important matter in everything. Hans Andersen.
Understanding is the wages of a lively faith, and faith is the reward of a humble ignorance. Quarles.
Undertake no more than you can perform. Pr.
Undipped people may be as good as dipped, 35 if their hearts are clean. Ruskin's rendering of the faith of St. Martin.
Undique ad inferos tantundem viæ est—Descend by what way you will, you come at last to the nether world. Anaxagoras.
Une faute niée est deux fois commise—A fault denied is twice committed. Fr. Pr.
Une froideur ou une incivilité qui vient de ceux qui sont au-dessus de nous nous les fait haïr, mais un salut ou un sourire nous les réconcilie—A coldness or an incivility from such as are above us makes us hate them, but a salute or a smile quickly reconciles us to them.
Une grande âme est au-dessus de l'injustice, de la douleur, de la moquerie; et elle seroit invulnérable si elle ne souffroit par la compassion—A great soul is proof against injustice, pain, and mockery; and it would be invulnerable if it were not open to compassion.
Une nation boutiquière—A nation of shopkeepers. B. Barrère, Napoleon, of England.
Une once de vanité gâte un quintal de mérite—An ounce of vanity spoils a hundredweight of merit. Fr. Pr.
Une seule foi, une seule langue, un seul cœur—One faith, one tongue, one heart. Fr. Pr.
Une souris qui n'a qu'un trou est bientôt prise—A mouse that has only one hole is soon taken. Fr. Pr.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. 5 2 Hen. IV., iii. 1.
Unendlich ist das Räthsel der Natur—Endless is the riddle of Nature. Körner.
Unendlichkeit kann nur das Wesen ahnen / Das zur Unendlichkeit erkoren ist—Only that being can surmise the infinite who is chosen for infinity. Liedge.
Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side. Goldsmith.
Unequal marriages are seldom happy ones. Pr.
Unextinguish'd laughter shakes the skies. 10 Pope.
Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all. Tennyson.
Unfortunate and imprudent are two words for the same thing. Fr. Pr.
Unfortunately friends too often weigh one another in their hypochondriacal humours, and in an over-exacting spirit. One must weigh men by avoirdupois weight, and not by the jeweller's scales. Goethe.
Unfortunately, it is more frequently the opinions expressed on things than the things themselves that divide men. Goethe.
Ung je servirai—One will I serve. M. 15
Ung roy, ung foy, ung loy—One king, one faith, one law. M.
Ungern entdeck' ich höheres Geheimniss—It is with reluctance I ever unveil a higher mystery. Goethe.
Unguibus et rostro—With nails and beak; with tooth and nail.
Unguis in ulcere—A nail in the wound. Cic.
Unhappy is the man for whom his own mother 20 has not made all mothers venerable. Jean Paul.
Unhappy lot of man! Hardly has the mind attained maturity, when the body begins to pine away. Montesquieu.
Unhappy state of kings! it is well the robe of majesty is gay, or who would put it on? Hannah More.
Unheedful vows may heedfully be broken; / And he wants wit that wants resolvèd will, / To learn his wit to exchange the bad for better. Two Gent. of Verona, ii. 6.
Uniformity must tire at last, though it be uniformity of excellence. We love to expect, and when expectation is disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting. Johnson.
Uni æquus virtuti, atque ejus amicis—Friendly 25 to virtue alone and to the friends of virtue. Hor.
Unica virtus necessaria—Virtue is the only thing necessary.
Union does everything when it is perfect; it satisfies desires, it simplifies needs, it foresees the wishes of the imagination; it is an aisle always open, and becomes a constant fortune. De Senancour.
Union (combination) is best for men, either with their own tribe or with strangers; for even a grain of rice groweth not when divided from its husk. Hitopadesa.
Union is strength. Pr.
Unitate fortior—Stronger by being united. M 30
"United we stand, divided we fall," / It made and preserves us a nation. G. P. Morris.
Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced; it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself. Carlyle.
Unity and morality belong to philosophy, not to poetry. Wm. Blake.
Unity and simplicity are the two true sources of beauty. Supreme beauty resides in God. Winckelmann.
Uniforms are often masks. Wellington. 35
Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all hands alike, and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one. Jean Paul.
Universal plodding prisons up / The nimble spirits in the arteries, / As motion and long-during action tires / The sinewy vigour of the traveller. Love's L. Lost, iv. 3.
Universal suffrage I will consult about the quality of New Orleans pork or the coarser kinds of Irish butter; but as to the character of men, I will if possible ask it no question. Carlyle.
Universus mundus exercet histrioniam—All the world practises the player's art.
Unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, 40 which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction. Jeremy Taylor.
Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness, that is, suffering in the bosom of others. Bentham.
Unkindness destroys love. Pr.
Unkindness has no remedy at law; let its avoidance be with you a point of honour. Hosea Ballou.
Unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown. Byron.
Unlawful desires are punished after the effect 45 of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself. Sir P. Sidney.
Unlearn not what you have learned. Antisthenes.
Unlearned men of books assume the care, / As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair. Young.
Unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw from them as from wells, there is no more immortality to the thoughts and feelings of the soul than to the muscles and the bones. Ward Beecher.
Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do. Hamerton.
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, 50 you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. Hare.
Unless above himself he can / Erect himself, how poor a thing is man! Daniel.
Unless music exalt and purify, virtually it is not music at all. Ruskin.
Unless quickened from above and from within, art has in it nothing beyond itself which is visible beauty. Dr. John Brown.
Unless the people can be kept in total darkness, it is the wisest way for the advocates of truth to give them full light. Whately.
Unless we are accustomed to them from early youth, splendid chambers and elegant furniture are for people who neither have nor can have any thoughts. Goethe.
Unless we can cast off the prejudices of the man and become as children, docile and unperverted, we need never hope to enter the temple of philosophy. Sir Wm. Hamilton.
Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed. Epictetus.
Unless we see our object, how shall we know 5 how to place or prize it in our understanding, our imagination, our affections? Carlyle.
Unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractised; / Happy in this, she is not yet so old / But she may learn. Mer. of Venice, iii. 2.
Unlike my subject now shall be my song; / It shall be witty, but it shan't be long. Chesterfield.
Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set. Colton.
Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants, but not always best subjects; for they are light to run away, and almost all fugitives are of that condition. Bacon.
Unmingled good cannot be expected; but as 10 we may lawfully gather all the good within our reach, we may be allowed to lament over that which we lose. Johnson.
Unmingled joys to no one here befall; / Who least, hath some; who most, hath never all. Coleridge.
Unmöglich ist's, was Edle nicht vermögen—That is impossible which noble souls are unable to do. Goethe.
Unnatural deeds / Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds / To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets. Macb., v. 1.
Unnumbered suppliants crowd preferment's gate, / Athirst for wealth, and burning to be great; / Delusive fortune hears the incessant call, / They mount, they shine, evaporate, and fall. Johnson.
Uno avulso non deficit alter—If one is torn away, 15 another takes its place. M.
Uno ictu—At once (lit. at one blow).
Uno impetu—At once (lit. by one onset).
Uno levanto la caza, y otro la mata—One starts the game, and another carries it off. Sp. Pr.
Unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed in patent scales, or brought to market. J. Sterling.
Unpublished nature will have its whole secret 20 told. Emerson.
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error. Molière.
Unreflective minds possess thoughts only as a jug does water, by containing them. In a disciplined mind knowledge exists like vital force in the physical frame, ready to be directed to tongue, or hand, or foot, hither, thither, anywhere, and for any use desired. Coley.
Unseasonable mirth always turns to sorrow. Cervantes.
Unselfish and noble acts are the most radiant epochs in the biography of souls. When wrought in the earliest youth, they lie in the memory of age like the coral islands, green and sunny amidst the melancholy waste of ocean. Dr. Thomas.
Unser Gefühl für Natur gleicht der Empfindung 25 des Kranken für die Gesundheit—Our feeling for nature is like the sensation of an invalid for health. Schiller.
Unsociable tempers are contracted in solitude, which will in the end not fail of corrupting the understanding as well as the manners, and of utterly disqualifying a man for the satisfactions and duties of life. Men must be taken as they are, and we neither make them nor ourselves better by flying from or quarrelling with them. Burke.
Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel. Bible.
Unstained thoughts do seldom dream on evil; / Birds never limed no secret bushes fear. Shakespeare.
Unstät treiben die Gedanken / Auf dem Meer der Leidenschaft—Unsteady is the course of thought on the sea of passion. Schiller.
Unsterblich ist was einmal hat gelebt—What 30 has once lived is immortal. G. Kinkel.
Unsterblich sein, das ist der Dichtkunst Los—Immortality is the destiny of the poetic art. Feuchtersleben.
Unter allen Völkerschaften haben die Griechen den Traum des Lebens am schönsten geträumt—Of all peoples the Greek has dreamt most enchantingly the dream of life. Goethe.
Unter mancherlei wunderlichen Albernheiten der Schulen kommt mir keine so vollkommen lächerlich vor, als der Streit über die Aechtheit alter Schriften, alter Werke. Ist es denn der Autor oder die Schrift die wir bewundern oder tadeln? es ist immer nur der Autor, den wir vor uns haben; was kümmern uns die Namen, wenn wir ein Geisteswerk auslegen?—Among the manifold strange follies of the schools, I know no one so utterly ridiculous and absurd as the controversy about the authenticity of old writings, old works. Is it the author or the writing we admire or censure? It is always the author we have before us. What have we to do with names, when it is a work of the spirit we are interpreting? Goethe.
Unthinking, idle, wild, and young, / I laughed, and danced, and talked, and sung. Princess Amelia.
Until men have learned industry, economy, and 35 self-control, they cannot be safely intrusted with wealth. Gladstone.
Until you know as much about other people's affairs as they do themselves, it is not very safe to laugh at them or to find fault with them. W. E. Forster.
Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance; but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he seemeth to have. Jesus.
Unto him who works, and feels he works, / This same grand year (the Golden Year) is ever at the doors. Tennyson.
Unto the pure all things are pure. St. Paul.
Unto the youth should be shown the worth of 40 a noble and ripened age, and unto the old man, youth; that both may rejoice in the eternal circle, and life may in life be made perfect. Goethe.
Untwine me from the mass / Of deeds which make up life, one deed / Power shall fall short in or exceed. Browning.
Unum pro multis dabitur caput—One will be sacrificed for many. Virg.
Unus et idem—One and the same. M.
Unus Pellæo juveni non sufficit orbis; / Æstuat infelix angusto limite mundi—One world is not enough for the youth of Pella; the unhappy man frets at the narrow limits of the world. Juv. of Alexander the Great.
Unus vir nullus vir—One man is no man. Pr. 5
Unvanquished Time, the conqueror of conquerors, and lord of desolation. Kirke White.
Unverhofft kommt oft—The unlooked-for often happens. Ger. Pr.
Unverzeihlich find' ich den Leichtsinn; doch liegt er im Menschen—Levity I deem unpardonable, though it lies in the heart of man. Goethe.
Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. Scott.
Unwilling service earns no thanks. Dan. Pr. 10
Unwise work, if it but persist, is everywhere struggling towards correction and restoration to health; for it is still in contact with Nature, and all Nature incessantly contradicts it, and will heal it or annihilate it; not so with unwise talk, which addresses itself, regardless of veridical Nature, to the universal suffrages; and can, if it be dexterous, find harbour there, till all the suffrages are bankrupt and gone to Houndsditch. Carlyle.
Unworthy offspring brag most of their worthy descent. Dan. Pr.
Uom, se' tu grande o vil? Muori, e il saprai—Man, whether thou be great or vile, die, and it will be known. Alfieri.
Up and try. Wollaston.
Up from unfeeling mould, / To seraphs burning 15 round the Almighty's throne, / Life rising still on life, in higher tone, / Perfection forms, and with perfection bliss. Thomson.
Up! up! my friend, and quit your books, / Or surely you'll grow double. / Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks, / Why all this toil and trouble? Wordsworth.
Upbraiding turns a benefit into an injury. Pr.
Upon every occasion, be sure to make a conscience of what you do or say. Thomas à Kempis.
Upon the common course of life must our thoughts and our conversation be generally employed. Johnson.
Upon the education of the people of this 30 country the fate of this country depends. Disraeli.
Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper / Sprinkle cool patience. Ham., iii. 4.
Uprightness, judgment, and sympathy with others will profit thee at every time and in every place. Goethe.
Urbem lateritiam invenit, marmoream reliquit—He found a city of brick, and left it one of marble. Suet. of the Rome of Cæsar Augustus.
Urbem quam dicunt Romam, Melibœe, putavi, / Stultus ego, huic nostræ similem—The city, Melibœus, which they call Rome, I foolishly imagined to be like this town of ours. Virg.
Urbem venalem et mature perituram, si emptorem 25 invenerit—A city for sale and ripe for ruin, once it finds a purchaser. Sall. of Rome.
Urbes constituit ætas: hora dissolvit. Momento fit cinis, diu sylva—It takes an age to build a city, but an hour involves it in ruin. A forest is long in growing, but in a moment it may be reduced to ashes. Sen.
Urbi et orbi—For Rome (lit. the city) and the world.
Urit enim fulgore suo, qui prægravat artes / Infra se positas: exstinctus amabitur idem—He who depresses the merits of those beneath him blasts them by his very splendour; but when his light is extinguished, he will be admired. Hor.
Ursprünglich eignen Sinn lass dir nicht rauben! / Woran die Menge glaubt, ist leicht zu glauben—Let no one conjure you out of your own native sense of things; what the multitude believe in is easy to believe. Goethe.
Urticæ proxima sæpe rosa est—The nettle is 30 often next to the rose. Ovid.
Use almost can change the stamp of nature, / And either curb the devil or throw him out. Ham., iii. 4.
Use doth breed a habit in a man. Two Gent. of Verona, v. 4.
Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honour and dignity; the less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty. Ham., ii. 2.
Use him (the frog or bait) as if you loved him. Isaak Walton.
Use is the judge, the law, and rule of speech. 35 Roscommon.
Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty—familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination; knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead. Emerson.
Use sin as it will use you; spare it not, for it will not spare you: it is your murderer, and the murderer of the whole world. Use it, therefore, as a murderer should be used; kill it before it kills you; and though it bring you to the grave, it shall not be able to keep you there. Baxter.
Use sometimes to be alone. George Herbert.
Use the pen; there is no magic in it, but it keeps the mind from staggering about. (?)
Use thy youth so that thou mayest have comfort 40 to remember it when it hath forsaken thee, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof. Use it as the springtime which soon departeth, and wherein thou oughtest to plant and sow all provisions for a long and happy life. Sir Walter Raleigh.
Used with due abstinence, hope acts as a healthful tonic; intemperately indulged, as an enervating opiate. The visions of future triumph, which at first animate exertion, if dwelt upon too intently, will usurp the place of the stern reality; and noble objects will be contemplated, not for their own inherent worth, but on account of the day-dreams they engender. Thus hope, aided by imagination, makes one man a hero, another a somnambulist, and a third a lunatic; while it renders them all enthusiasts. Sir J. Stephen.
Useful be where thou livest, that they may / Both want and wish thy pleasing presence still. / Kindness, good parts, great places, are the way / To compass this. George Herbert.
Usefulness comes by labour, wit by ease. George Herbert.
Usque ad aras—To the very altars; to the last extremity.
Usque ad nauseam—Till one is utterly sick of it.
Usque adeone mori miserum est?—Is it then so 5 very dreadful to die? Virg.
Usque adeone / Scire tuum nihil est, nisi te scire hoc sciat alter?—Is then your knowledge to pass for nothing unless others know of it?
Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad. Swift.
Usury is a "concessum propter duritiam cordis" (a concession on account of hardness of heart); for, since there must be borrowing and lending, and men are so hard of heart as they will not lend freely, usury must be permitted. Bacon.
Usus est tyrannus—Custom is a tyrant. Pr.
Usus promptum facit—Practice makes perfect. 10 Pr.
Ut ager, quamvis fertilis, sine cultura fructuosus esse non potest, sic sine doctrina animus—As a field, however fertile, can yield no fruit without culture, so neither can the mind of man without education. Sen.
Ut canis e Nilo—Like the dog by the Nile, i.e., drinking and running. Pr.
Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas—The will is commendable, though the ability may be wanting. Ovid.
Ut homines sunt, ita morem geras; / Vita quam sit brevis, simul cogita—As men are, so must you humour them. Think, at the same time, how short life is. Plaut.
Ut homo est, ita morem geras—As a man is, so 15 must you humour him. Ter.
Ut infra—As mentioned below.
Ut metus ad omnes, pœna ad paucos perveniret—That fear may reach all, punish but few. L.
Ut mos est—As the custom is. Juv.
Ut pictura, poësis—It fares with a poem as with a picture. Hor.
Ut placeas, debes immemor esse tui—That you 20 may please others you must be forgetful of yourself. Ovid.
Ut plerique solent, naso suspendis adunco / Ignotos—As is the way with most people, you turn up your nose at men of obscure origin. Hor.
Ut possedis—As you now are; as you possess.
Ut prosim—That I may benefit others. M.
Ut quimus, quando ut volumus non licet—As we can, when we cannot as we wish. Ter.
Ut quisque contemtissimus et ludibrio est, ita 25 solutæ linguæ est—The more despicable and ridiculous a man is, the readier he is with his tongue. Sen.
Ut ridentibus arrident, ita flentibus adflent, / Humani vultus—Human countenances, as they smile on those who smile, so they weep with those that weep. Hor.
Ut sæpe summa ingenia in occulto latent!—How often are men of the greatest genius lost in obscurity! Plaut.
Ut sementem feceris, ita et metes—As you have sown so shall you also reap. Cic.
Ut sunt humana, nihil est perpetuum—As human affairs go, nothing is everlasting. Plaut.
Ut sunt molles in calamitate mortalium animi!—How 30 weak are the hearts of mortals under calamity! Tac.
Ut supra—As mentioned above.
Utendum est ætate; cito pede labitur ætas—We must make use of time; time glides past at a rapid pace. Ovid.