En queue—Behind.
Enquire not what is in another man's pot. Pr.
En rapport—In relation; in connection. Fr.
En règle—According to rules. Fr. 25
En resumé—Upon the whole. Fr.
En revanche—In revenge; to return; to make amends. Fr.
En route—On the way. Fr.
En salvo está el que repica—He is in safe quarters who sounds the alarm. Sp. Pr.
Ense et aratro—With sword and plough. M. 30
En suite—In company. Fr.
En suivant la vérité—In following the truth. Fr.
Entente cordiale—A good or cordial understanding. Fr.
Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm. Longfellow.
Enthusiasm flourishes in adversity, kindles in 35 the hour of danger, and awakens to deeds of renown. Dr. Chalmers.
Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible, and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world. Mme. de Staël.
Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically, and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment. A. B. Alcott.
Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastical, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter. John Sterling.
Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it. Bulwer Lytton.
Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the 40 passing from the human to the divine. Emerson.
Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding. Emerson.
Entienda primero, y habla postrero—Hear first and speak afterwards. Sp. Pr.
Entire affection hateth nicer hands. Spenser.
Entire love is a worship and cannot be angry. Leigh Hunt.
[Greek: En tô phronein gar mêden hêdistos bios]—The 45 happiest life consists in knowing nothing. Soph.
Entourage—Surroundings. Fr.
En toute chose il faut considérer la fin—In everything we must consider the end. Fr.
Entre chien et loup—In the dusk (lit. between dog and wolf). Fr.
Entre deux vins—To be half-seas over; to be mellow. Fr.
Entre esprit et talent il y a la proportion du 50 tout à sa partie—Wit is to talent as a whole to a part. La Bruyère.
Entre le bon sens et le bon goût il y a la différence de la cause à son effet—Between good sense and good taste, there is the same difference as that between cause and effect. La Bruyère.
Entre nos ennemis les plus à craindre sont souvent les plus petits—Of our enemies, the smallest are often the most to be dreaded. La Fontaine.
Entre nous—Between ourselves. Fr.
Entzwei und gebiete—Divide and rule. Ger. Pr.
Entzwei und gebiete! Tüchtig Wort: Verein' 55 und leite, Bessrer Hort—Divide and rule, an excellent motto: unite and lead, a better.
En vérité—In truth.
En vérité l'amour ne saurait être profond, s'il n'est pas pur—Love, in fact, can never be deep unless it is pure.
En vieillissant on devient plus fou et plus sage—As men grow old they become both foolisher and wiser. Fr. Pr.
En villig Hielper töver ei til man beder—One who is willing to help does not wait till he is asked. Dan. Pr.
Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture 60 of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune. Hazlitt.
Envy does not enter an empty house. Dan. Pr.
Envy feels not its own happiness but by comparison with the misery of others. Johnson.
Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined with a circle of fire, will sting itself to death. Colton.
Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame, that nobody ever had the confidence to own it. Rochester.
Envy is ignorance. Emerson. 65
Envy is littleness of soul. Hazlitt.
Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred. La Roche.
Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate. Epictetus.
Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism. Hazlitt.
Envy is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul. H. Ballou.
Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock. J. Beaumont.
Envy ne'er does a gude turn but when it means an ill ane. Sc. Pr.
Envy will merit as its shade pursue, / But, like a shadow, proves the substance true. Pope.
Eodem collyrio mederi omnibus—To cure all 5 by the same ointment.
Eo instanti—At that instant.
Eo magis præfulgebat quod non videbatur—He shone the brighter that he was not seen. Tac.
[Greek: Epea pteroenta]—Winged words. Hom.
Epicuri de grege porcus—A pig of the flock of Epicurus.
[Greek: Epi to poly adikousin hoi anthrôpoi, hotan 10 dynôntai]—In general men do wrong whenever circumstances enable them. Arist.
E pluribus unum—One of many.
"Eppur si muove"—Yet it moves. Galileo, after he had been forced to swear that the earth stood still.
Equality (Gleichheit) is always the firmest bond of love. Lessing.
Equality (i.e., in essential nature) is the sacred law of humanity. Schiller.
Eques ipso melior Bellerophonte—A better 15 horseman than Bellerophon himself. Hor.
Equi et poetæ alendi, non saginandi—Horses and poets should be fed, not pampered. Charles IX. of France.
Equity is a roguish thing; for law we have a measure ... (but) equity is according to the conscience of him who is chancellor, and, as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. Selden.
Equity judges with lenity, laws with severity. Scott.
Equivocation is half way to lying, and lying is the whole way to hell. W. Penn.
Equo frænato est auris in ore—The ear of the 20 bridled horse is in the mouth. Hor.
Equo ne credite, Teucri—Trust not the horse, Trojans. Virg.
Erant in officio, sed tamen qui mallent imperantium mandata interpretari, quam exsequi—They attended to their regulations, but still as if they would rather debate about the commands of their superiors than obey them. Tacit.
Erase que se era—What has been has been. Sp. Pr.
Erasmus laid the egg (i.e., of the Reformation), and Luther hatched it.
Er, der einzige Gerechte / Will für Jedermann 25 das Rechte / Sei, von seinen hundert Namen, / Dieser hochgelobet!—Amen!—He, the only Just, wills for each one what is right. Be of His hundred names this one the most exalted. Amen. Goethe.
Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, / Death came with friendly care, / The opening bud to heaven conveyed, / And bade it blossom there. Coleridge.
Ere we censure a man for seeming what he is not, we should be sure that we know what he is. Carlyle.
Er geht herum, wie die Katze um den heissen Brei—He goes round it like a cat round hot broth. Ger. Pr.
[Greek: Ergon d' ouden oneidos]—Labour is no disgrace. Hesiod.
Erfahrung bleibt des Lebens Meisterin—Experience 30 is ever life's mistress. Goethe.
Erfüllte Pflicht empfindet sich immer noch als Schuld, weil man sich nie ganz genug gethan—Duty fulfilled ever entails a sense of further obligation, because one feels he has never done enough to satisfy himself. Goethe.
Er hat noch nie die Stimme der Natur gehört—He has not yet heard the voice of Nature. Schiller.
Eripe te moræ—Tear thyself from all that detains thee. Hor.
Eripe turpi / Colla jugo. Liber, liber sum, dic age—Tear away thy neck from the base yoke. Come, say, I am free; I am free. Hor.
Eripit interdum, modo dat medicina salutem—Medicine 35 sometimes destroys health, sometimes restores it. Ovid.
"Eripuit cœlo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis"—He snatched the lightning from heaven and the sceptre from tyrants. (On the bust of Franklin.)
Eris mihi magnus Apollo—You shall be my great Apollo. Virg.
Erlaubt ist was gefällt; erlaubt ist was sich ziemt—What pleases us is permitted us; what is seemly is permitted us. Goethe.
Ernste Thätigkeit söhnt suletzt immer mit dem Leben aus—Earnest activity always reconciles us with life in the end. Jean Paul.
Ernst ist der Anblick der Nothwendigkeit. / 40 Nicht ohne Schauder greift des Menschen Hand / In des Geschicks geheimnissvolle Urne—Earnest is the aspect of necessity. Not without a shudder is the hand of man thrust into the mysterious urn of fate. Schiller.
Ernst ist das Leben; heiter ist die Kunst—Life is earnest; art is serene. Schiller.
Erquickung hast du nicht gewonnen, / Wenn sie dir nicht aus eigner Seele quillt—Thou hast gained no fresh life unless it flows to thee direct out of thine own soul. Goethe.
Errantem in viam reducito—Lead back the wanderer into the right way.
Errare humanum est—It is human to err.
Errare malo cum Platone, quam cum istis vera 45 sentire—I had rather be wrong with Plato than think right with those men. Cic.
Errata—Errors in print.
Erringen will der Mensch, er will nicht sicher sein—Man will ever wrestle; he will never trust. Goethe.
Erring is not cheating. Ger. Pr.
Error cannot be defended but by error. Bp. Jewel.
Error is always more busy than ignorance. 50 Ignorance is a blank sheet on which we may write, but error is a scribbled one from which we must first erase. Colton.
Error is always talkative. Goldsmith.
Error is but opinion in the making. Milton.
Error is but the shadow of truth. Stillingfleet.
Error is created; truth is eternal. Wm. Blake.
Error is on the surface; truth is hid in great depths. Goethe.
Error is sometimes so nearly allied to truth that it blends with it as imperceptibly as the colours of the rainbow fade into each other. W. B. Clulow.
Error is worse than ignorance. Bailey.
Error never leaves us, yet a higher need 5 always draws the striving spirit gently on to truth. Goethe.
Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. Jefferson.
Errors like straws upon the surface flow; / He who would search for pearls must dive below. Dryden.
Error, sterile in itself, produces only by means of the portion of truth which it contains. Mme. Swetchine.
Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them; ... from pure extravagance, and genuine, unmingled falsehood, the world never has sustained, and never can sustain, any mischief. Sydney Smith.
Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther 10 to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance. Colton.
Erröten macht die Hässlichen so schön: / Und sollte Schöne nicht noch schöner machen?—Blushing makes even the ugly beautiful, and should it not make beauty still more beautiful? Lessing.
Ersparte Wahl ist auch ersparte Mühe—Selection saved is trouble saved. Platin.
Er steckt seine Nase in Alles—He thrusts his nose into everything. Ger. Pr.
Erst seit ich liebe ist das Leben schön, / Erst seit ich liebe, weiss ich, dass ich lebe—Only since I loved is life lovely; only since I loved knew I that I lived. Körner.
Erst wägen, dann wagen—First weigh, then 15 venture. M. von Moltke.
Ertragen muss man was der Himmel sendet. / Unbilliges erträgt kein edles Herz—We must bear what Heaven sends. No noble heart will bear injustice. Schiller.
Erudition is not like a lark, which flies high and delights in nothing but singing; 'tis rather like a hawk, which soars aloft indeed, but can stoop when she finds it convenient, and seize her prey. Bacon.
Er wünscht sich einen grossen Kreis / Um ihn gewisser zu erschüttern—He desires a large circle in order with greater certainty to move it deeply. Goethe.
Es bedarf nur einer Kleinigkeit, um zwei Liebende zu unterhalten—Any trifle is enough to entertain two lovers. Goethe.
Es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille, / Sich ein 20 Character in dem Strom der Welt—A talent is formed in retirement, a character in the current of the world. Goethe.
Es bildet / Nur das Leben den Mann, und wenig bedeuten die Worte—Only life forms the man, and words signify little. Goethe.
Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple ones as you would native roses on your cheek. Hare.
Escuchas al agujero; oirás de tû mal y del ageno—Listen at the keyhole; you will hear evil of yourself as well as your neighbour. Sp. Pr.
E se finxit velut araneus—He spun from himself like a spider.
Esel singen schlecht, weil sie zu hoch anstimmen—Asses 25 sing abominably, because they pitch their notes at too high a key. Ger. Pr.
Es erben sich Gesetz' und Rechte / Wie eine ewige Krankheit fort—Laws and rights descend like an inveterate inherited disease. Goethe.
Es findet jeder seinen Meister—Every one finds his master. Ger. Pr.
Es geht an—It is a beginning. Ger.
Es giebt eine Höflichkeit des Herzens; sie ist der Liebe verwandt.—There is a courtesy of the heart which is allied to love; out of it there springs the most obliging courtesy of external behaviour. Goethe.
Es giebt eine Schwelgerei des Geistes wie 30 es eine Schwelgerei der Sinne giebt—There is a debauchery of spirit, as there is of senses. Börne.
Es giebt gewisse Dinge, wo ein Frauenzimmer immer schärfer sieht, als hundert Augen der Mannspersonen—There are certain things in which a woman's vision is sharper than a hundred eyes of the male. Lessing.
Es giebt keine andre Offenbarung, als die Gedanken der Weisen—There is no other revelation than the thoughts of the wise among men. Schopenhauer.
Es giebt kein Gesetz was hat nicht ein Loch, wer's finden kann—There is no law but has in it a hole for him who can find it. Ger. Pr.
Es giebt Männer welche die Beredsamkeit weiblicher Zungen übertreffen, aber kein Mann besitzt die Beredsamkeit weiblicher Augen—There are men the eloquence of whose tongues surpasses that of women, but no man possesses the eloquence of women's eyes. Weber.
Es giebt mehr Diebe als Galgen—There are 35 more thieves than gallows. Ger. Pr.
Es giebt Menschen, die auf die Mängel ihrer Freunde sinnen; dabei kommt nichts heraus. Ich habe immer auf die Verdienste meiner Widersacher Acht gehabt und davon Vortheil gezogen—There are men who brood on the failings of their friends, but nothing comes of it. I have always had respect to the merits of my adversaries, and derived profit from doing so. Goethe.
Es giebt Naturen, die gut sind durch das was sie erreichen, andere durch das was sie verschmähen—There are natures which are good by what they attain, and others that are so by what they disdain. H. Grimm.
Es giebt nur eine Religion, aber es kann vielerlei Arten der Glaubens geben—There is only one religion, but there may be divers forms of belief. Kant.
Es hört doch Jeder nur was er versteht—Every one hears only what he understands. Goethe.
Es irrt der Mensch, so lang er strebt—Man is 40 liable to err as long as he strives. Goethe.
Es ist besser, das geringste Ding von der Welt zu thun, als eine halbe Stunde für gering halten—It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to regard half an hour as a small thing. Goethe.
Es ist bestimmt in Gottes Rath / Dass man vom Liebsten, was man hat, / Muss scheiden—It is ordained in the counsel of God that we must all part from the dearest we possess. Feuchtersleben.
Es ist das Wohl des Ganzen, wovon jedes patriotische, wovon selbst jedes eigennützige Gemüth das seinige hofft—It is the welfare of the whole from which every patriotic, and even every selfish, soul expects its own. Gentz.
Es ist der Geist, der sich den Körper baut—It is the spirit which builds for itself the body. Schiller.
Es ist freundlicher das menschliche Leben anzulachen, als es anzugrinzen—It is more kindly to laugh at human life than to grin at it. Wieland.
Es ist klug und kühn den unvermeidlichen. Uebel entgegenzugehen—It shows sense and courage to be able to confront unavoidable evil. Goethe.
Es ist nicht gut, wenn derjenige der die 5 Fackel trägt, zugleich auch den Weg sucht—It is not good when he who carries the torch has at the same time also the way to seek. Cölvös.
Es ist nicht nötig, dass ich lebe, wohl aber, dass ich meine Pflicht thue und für mein Vaterland kämpfe—It is not a necessity that I should live, but it is that I should do my duty and fight for my fatherland. Frederick the Great. (?)
Es ist öde, nichts ehren können, als sich selbst—It is dreary for a man to be able to worship nothing but himself. Hebbel.
Es ist schwer gegen den Augenblick gerecht sein; der gleichgültige macht uns Langeweile, am Guten hat man zu tragen und am Bösen zu schleppen—It is difficult to be square with the moment; the indifferent one is a bore to us (lit. causes us ennui); with the good we have to bear and with the bad to drag. Goethe.
Es ist so schwer, den falschen Weg zu meiden—It is so difficult to avoid the wrong way. Goethe.
Es ist unköniglich zu weinen—ach, / Und 10 hier nicht weinen ist unväterlich—To weep is unworthy of a king—alas! and not to weep now is unworthy of a father. Schiller.
Es kämpft der Held am liebsten mit dem Held—Hero likes best to fight with hero. Körner.
Es kann der beste Herz in dunkeln Stunden fehlen—The best heart may go wrong in dark hours. Goethe.
Es kann ja nicht immer so bleiben / Hier unter dem wechselnden Mond—Sure it cannot always be so here under the changing moon. Kotzebue.
Es kann nichts helfen ein grosses Schicksal zu haben, wenn man nicht weiss, dass man eines hat—It is of no avail for a man to have a great destiny if he does not know that he has one. Rahel.
Es kommen Fälle vor im Menschenleben, / 15 Wo's Weisheit ist, nicht allzu weise sein—There are situations in life when it is wisdom not to be too wise. Schiller.
Es leben Götter, die den Hochmut rächen—There live gods who take vengeance on pride. Schiller.
Es liebt die Welt das Strahlende zu schwärtzen, / Und das Erhabne in den Staub zu ziehn—The world is fain to obscure what is brilliant, and to drag down to the dust what is exalted. Schiller.
Es liesse sich Alles trefflich schlichten, Könnte man die Sachen zweimal verrichten—Everything could be beautifully adjusted if matters could be a second time arranged. Goethe.
Es muss auch solche Käuze geben—There must needs be such fellows in the world too. Goethe.
[Greek: hê sophias pêgê dia bibliôn rheei]—The fountain 20 of wisdom flows through books. Gr. Pr.
Espérance en Dieu—Hope in God. M.
Espionage—The spy system. Fr.
Esprit borné—Narrow mind. Fr.
Esprit de corps—Spirit of brotherhood in a corporate body. Fr.
Esprit de parti—Party spirit. Fr. 25
Esprit fort—A free-thinker. Fr.
Esprit juste—Sound mind. Fr.
Esprit vif—Ready wit. Fr.
Es reift keine Seligkeit unter dem Monde—No happiness ever comes to maturity under the moon. Schiller.
Essayez—Try. M. 30
Esse bonum facile est, ubi quod vetet esse remotum est—It is easy to be good, when all that prevents it is far removed. Ovid.
Esse quam videri—To be rather than to seem.
[Greek: Essetai êmar hot' an pot' olôlê Ilios hirê]—A day will come when the sacred Ilium shall be no more. Hom.
Es schwinden jedes Kummers Falten / So lang des Liebes Zauber walten—The wrinkles of every sorrow disappear as long as the spell of love is unbroken. Schiller.
Es sind nicht alle frei, die ihrer Ketten spotten—All 35 are not free who mock their chains. Ger. Pr.
Es sind so gute Katzen die Mäuse verjagen, als die sie fangen—They are as good cats that chase away the mice as those that catch them. Ger. Pr.
Es steckt nicht in Spiegel was man im Spiegel sieht—That is not in the mirror which you see in the mirror. Ger. Pr.
Es steht ihm an der Stirn' geschrieben, / Das er nicht mag eine Seele lieben—It stands written on his forehead that he cannot love a single soul. Goethe, of Mephistopheles.
Establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it. Bible.
Est aliquid fatale malum per verba levare—It 40 is some alleviation of an incurable disease to speak of it to others. Ovid.
Est animus tibi / Rerumque prudens, et secundis / Temporibus dubiisque rectus—You possess a mind both sagacious in the management of affairs, and steady at once in prosperous and perilous times. Hor.
Est animus tibi, sunt mores et lingua, fidesque—Thou hast a man's soul, cultured manners and power of expression, and fidelity. Hor., of a gentleman.
Est assez riche qui ne doit rien—He is rich enough who owes nothing. Fr. Pr.
Est aviditas dives, et pauper pudor—Covetousness is rich, while modesty is poor. Phædr.
Est bonus, ut melior vir / Non alius quisquam—He 45 is so good that no man can be better. Hor.
Est brevitate opus, ut currat sententia—There is need of conciseness that the thought may run on. Hor.
Est demum vera felicitas, felicitate dignum videri—True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it. Pliny.
Est deus in nobis, agitante calescimus illo—There is a god in us, who, when he stirs, sets us all aglow. Ovid.
Est deus in nobis, et sunt commercia cœli—There is a god within us, and we hold commerce with the sky. Ovid.
Esteem a man of many words and many lies 5 much alike. Fuller.
Esteem is the harvest of a whole life spent in usefulness; but reputation is often bestowed upon a chance action, and depends most on success. G. A. Sala.
Est enim lex nihil aliud nisi recta et a numine deorum tracta ratio, imperans honesta, prohibens contraria—For law is nothing else but right reason supported by the authority of the gods, commanding what is honourable and prohibiting the contrary. Cic.
Est egentissimus in sua re—He is in very straitened circumstances.
Est etiam miseris pietas, et in hoste probatur—Regard for the wretched is a duty, and deserving of praise even in an enemy. Ovid.
Est etiam, ubi profecto damnnum præstet facere, 10 quam lucrum—There are occasions when it is certainly better to lose than to gain. Plaut.
Est genus hominum qui esse primos se omnium rerum volunt, / Nec sunt—There is a class of men who wish to be first in everything, and are not. Ter.
Est hic, / Est ubivis, animus si te non deficit æquus—It (happiness) is here, it is everywhere, if only a well-regulated mind does not fail you. Hor.
Est miserorum, ut malevolentes sint atque invideant bonis—'Tis the tendency of the wretched to be ill-disposed towards and to envy the fortunate. Plaut.
Est modus in rebus; sunt certi denique fines, / Quos ultra citraque nequit consistere rectum—There is a mean in all things; there are, in fine, certain fixed limits, on either side of which what is right and true cannot exist. Hor.
Est multi fabula plena joci—It is a story full of 15 fun. Ovid.
Est natura hominum novitatis avida—It is the nature of man to hunt after novelty. Pliny.
Estne Dei sedes nisi terra, et pontus, et aër, / Et cœlum, et virtus? Superos quid quærimus ultra? / Jupiter est, quodcunque vides, quodcunque moveris—Has God a dwelling other than earth and sea and air and heaven and virtue? Why seek we the gods beyond? Whatsoever you see, wheresoever you go, there is Jupiter. Luc.
Est nobis voluisse satis—To have willed suffices us. Tibull.
Esto perpetua—Let it be perpetual.
Esto quod es; quod sunt alii, sine quemlibet 20 esse: / Quod non es, nolis; quod potes esse, velis—Be what you are; let whoso will be what others are. Don't be what you are not, but resolutely be what you can.
Esto quod esse videris—Be what you seem to be.
Esto, ut nunc multi, dives tibi, pauper amicis—Be, as many now are, rich to yourself, poor to your friends. Juv.
Est pater ille quem nuptiæ demonstrant—He is the father whom the marriage-rites point to as such. L.
Est profecto Deus, qui quæ nos gerimus auditque et videt—There is certainly a God who both hears and sees the things which we do. Plaut.
Est proprium stultitiæ aliorum cernere vitia, 25 oblivisci suorum—It is characteristic of folly to discern the faults of others and forget its own. Cic.
Est quadam prodire tenus, si non datur ultra—You may advance to a certain point, if it is not permitted you to go farther. Hor.
Est quædam flere voluptas, / Expletur lachrymis egeriturque dolor—There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief is soothed and alleviated by tears. Ovid.
Est quoque cunctarum novitas carissima rerum—Novelty is the dearest to us of all things. Ovid.
Es trägt Verstand und rechter Sinn / Mit wenig Kunst sich selber vor; und wenn's euch Ernst ist was zu sagen / Ist's nötig Worten nachzujagen?—Understanding and good sense find utterance with little art; and when you have seriously anything to say, is it necessary to hunt for words? Goethe.
Es trinken tausend sich den Tod, ehe einer 30 stirbt vor Durstes Noth—A thousand will drink themselves to death ere one die under stress of thirst. Ger. Pr.
Est tempus quando nihil, est tempus quando aliquid, nullum tamen est tempus in quo dicenda sunt omnia—There is a time when nothing may be said, a time when something may, but no time when all things may. A Monkish Adage.
Esurienti ne occurras—Don't throw yourself in the way of a hungry man.
Es will einer was er soll, aber er kann's nicht machen; es kann einer was er soll, aber er will's nicht; es will und kann einer, aber er weiss nicht, was er soll—One would what he should, but he can't; one could what he should, but he won't; one would and could, but he knows not what he should. Goethe.
Es wird wohl auch drüben nicht anders seyn als hier—Even over there it will not be otherwise than it is here, I ween. Goethe.
[Greek: Ê tan ê epi tan]—Either this or upon this. (The 35 Spartan mother to her son on handing him his shield.)
E tardegradis asinis equus non prodiit—The horse is not the progeny of the slow-paced ass.
Et cætera—And the rest.
Et c'est être innocent que d'être malheureux—And misfortune is the badge of innocence. La Font.
Et credis cineres curare sepultos?—And do you think that the ashes of the dead concern themselves with our affairs? Virg.
Et daligt hufoud hade han, men hjertat det 40 var godt—He had a stupid head, but his heart was good. Swed. Pr.
Et decus et pretium recti—Both the ornament and the reward of virtue. M.
E tenui casa sæpe vir magnus exit—A great man often steps forth from a humble cottage. Pr.
Eternal love made me. Dante.
Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, / As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Pope.
Eternity, depending on an hour. Young.
Eternity looks grander and kinder if Time grow meaner and more hostile. Carlyle.
Eternity of being and well-being simply for 5 being and well-being's sake, is an ideal belonging to appetite alone, and which only the struggle of mere animalism (Thierheit), longing to be infinite gives rise to. Schiller.
Et facere et pati fortiter Romanum est—Bravery and endurance make a man a Roman. Liv.
Et genus et formam regina pecunia donat—Money, like a queen, confers both rank and beauty. Hor.
Et genus et proavos, et quæ non fecimus ipsi, / Vix ea nostra voco—We can scarcely call birth and ancestry and what we have not ourselves done, our own. Ovid.
Et genus et virtus, nisi cum re, vilior alga est—Without money both birth and virtue are as worthless as seaweed. Hor.
Ethics makes man's soul mannerly and wise, 10 but logic is the armoury of reason, furnished with all offensive and defensive weapons. Fuller.
Et hoc genus omne—And everything of this kind.
Etiam celeritas in desiderio, mora est—When we long for a thing, even despatch is delay. Pub. Syr.
Etiam fera animalia, si clausa teneas, virtutis obliviscuntur—Even savage animals, if you keep them in confinement, forget their fierceness.
Etiam fortes viros subitis terreri—Even brave men may be alarmed by a sudden event. Tac.
Etiam innocentes cogit mentiri dolor—Pain 15 makes even the innocent forswear themselves. Pub. Syr.
Etiam oblivisci quod scis, interdum expedit—It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know. Pub. Syr.
Etiam sanato vulnere cicatrix manet—Though the wound is healed, a scar remains.
Etiam sapientibus cupido gloriæ novissima exuitur—Even by the wise the desire of glory is the last of all passions to be laid aside. Tac.
Et jam summa procul villarum culmina fumant, / Majoresque cadunt altis de montibus umbræ—And now the cottage roofs yonder smoke, and the shadows fall longer from the mountain-tops. Virg.
Et je sais, sur ce fait, / Bon nombre d'hommes 20 qui sont femmes—And I know a great many men who in this particular are women. La Font.
Et l'avare Achéron ne lâche pas sa proie—And greedy Acheron lets not go his prey. Racine.
Et le combat cessa faute de combattants—And the battle ceased for want of combatants. Corneille.
Et l'on revient toujours / A ses premiers amours—One returns always to his first love. Fr. Pr.
Et mala sunt vicina bonis—There are bad qualities near akin to good. Ovid.
Et male tornatos incudi reddere versus—And 25 take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil. Hor.
Et mea cymba semel vasta percussa procella, / Illum, quo læsa est, horret adire locum—My bark, once shaken by the overpowering storm, shrinks from approaching the spot where it has been shattered. Ovid.
Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor—My aim ever is to subject circumstances to myself, not myself to them. Hor.
Et minimæ vires frangere quassa valent—A very small degree of force will suffice to break a vessel that is already cracked. Ovid.
Et monere, et moneri, proprium est veræ amicitiæ—To give counsel as well as take it, is a feature of true friendship. Cic.
Et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis—The 30 children of our children, and those who shall be born of them, i.e., our latest posterity.
Et nova fictaque nuper habebunt verba fidem, si / Græco fonte cadunt parce detorta—And new and lately invented terms will be well received, if they descend, with slight deviation, from a Grecian source. Hor.
Et pudet, et metuo, semperque eademque precari, / Ne subeant animo tædia justa tuo—I am ashamed to be always begging and begging the same things, and fear lest you should conceive for me the disgust I merit. Ovid.
Et quæ sibi quisque timebat, / Unius in miseri exitium conversa tulere—And what each man dreaded for himself, they bore lightly when diverted to the destruction of one poor wretch. Virg.
Et quiescenti agendum est, et agenti quiescendum est—He who is indolent should work, and he who works should take repose. Sen.
Et qui nolunt occidere quenquam / Posse 35 volunt—Even those who have no wish to kill another would like to have the power. Juv.
Et quorum pars magna fui—And in which I played a prominent part. Virg.
Etre capable de se laisser servir n'est pas une des moindres qualités que puisse avoir un grand roi—The ability to enlist the services of others in the conduct of affairs is one of the most distinguishing qualities of a great monarch. Richelieu.
Etre pauvre sans être libre, c'est le pire état où l'homme puisse tomber—To be poor without being free is the worst condition into which man can sink. Rousseau.
Etre sur le qui vive—To be on the alert. Fr.
Etre sur un grand pied dans le monde—To be in 40 high standing (lit. on a great foot) in the world. Fr.
Et rose elle a vécu ce que vivent les roses / L'espace d'un matin—As rose she lived the life of a rose for but the space of a morning. Malherbe.
Et sanguis et spiritus pecunia mortalibus—Money is both blood and life to men. Pr.
Et semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum—And a word once uttered flies abroad never to be recalled. Hor.
Et sequentia, Et seq.—And what follows.
Et sic de ceteris—And so of the rest. 45
Et sic de similibus—And so of the like.
"Et tu, Brute fili"—And thou, son Brutus. Cæsar, at sight of Brutus among the conspirators.
Et vaincre sans péril serait vaincre sans gloire—To conquer without peril would be to conquer without glory. Corneille.
Et vitam impendere vero—Stake even life for truth. M.
Et voilà justement comme on écrit l'histoire—And that is exactly how history is written. Voltaire.
Etwas ist besser als gar nichts—Something is better than nothing at all. Ger. Pr.
Euch zu gefallen war mein höchster Wunsch; / Euch zu ergötzen war mein letzter Zweck—To please you was my highest wish; to delight you was my last aim. Goethe.
[Greek: Heudonti kyrtos hairei]—While the fisher sleeps the 5 net takes. Gr. Pr.
Euge, poeta!—Well done, poet! Pers.
Eum ausculta, cui quatuor sunt aures—Listen to him who has four ears, i.e., who is readier to hear than to speak. Pr.
[Greek: Eurêka]—I have found it. Archimedes when he found out the way to test the purity of Hiero's golden crown.
Europe's eye is fixed on mighty things, / The fall of empires and the fate of kings. Burns.
[Greek: Eutychia polyphilos]—Success is befriended by 10 many people. Gr. Pr.
[Greek: Eutychôn mê isthi hyperêphanos, aporêsas mê tapeinou]—Be not uplifted in prosperity nor downcast in adversity. Cleobulus.
E' va più d'un asino al mercato—There is more than one ass goes to the market. It. Pr.
Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation. Balzac.
Evasions are the common subterfuge of the hard-hearted, the false, and impotent, when called upon to assist. Lavater.
Even a fly has its spleen. It. Pr. 15
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise. Bible.
Even a frog would bite if it had teeth. It. Pr.
Even a haggis could charge down-hill. Scott.
Even a hair casts a shadow. Pr.
Even a horse, though he has four feet, will 20 stumble. Pr.
Even among the apostles there was a Judas. It. Pr.
Even beauty cannot palliate eccentricity. Balzac.
Even by means of our sorrows we belong to the eternal plan. W. v. Humboldt.
Even foxes are outwitted and caught. It. Pr.
Even in a righteous cause force is a fearful 25 thing; God only helps when men can help no more. Schiller.
Evening is the delight of virtuous age; it seems an emblem of the tranquil close of busy life. Bulwer Lytton.
Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments. Whipple.
Even perfect examples lead astray by tempting us to overleap the necessary steps in their development, whereby we are for the most part led past the goal into boundless error. Goethe.
Even so my sun one early morn did shine, / With all triumphant splendour on my brow; / But out, alack! it was but one hour mine. Sh.
Even success needs its consolations. George 30 Eliot.
Even that fish may be caught which resists most stoutly against it. Dan. Pr.
Even the just man has need of help. It. Pr.
Even the lowest book of chronicles partakes of the spirit of the age in which it was written. Goethe.
Even then a wish (I mind its power), / A wish that to my latest hour / Shall strongly heave my breast, / That I, for puir auld Scotland's sake, / Some usefu' plan or beuk could make, / Or sing a sang at least. Burns at the plough.
Even though the cloud veils it, the sun is ever 35 in the canopy of heaven (Himmelszelt). A holy will rules there; the world does not serve blind chance. F. K. Weber.
Even though vanquished, he could argue still. Goldsmith.
Even thou who mourn'st the daisy's fate, / That fate is thine—no distant date; / Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives elate / Full on thy bloom, / Till crush'd beneath the farrow's weight / Shall be thy doom. Burns.
Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallised in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet. Chapin.
Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases. Cowper.
Eventus stultorum magister est—Only the event 40 teaches fools. Liv.
Even weak men when united are powerful. Schiller.
Evêque d'or, crosse de bois; crosse d'or, évêque de bois—Bishop of gold, staff of wood; bishop of wood, staff of gold. Fr. Pr.
Ever, as of old, the thing a man will do is the thing he feels commanded to do. Carlyle.
Ever charming, ever new, / When will the landscape tire the view? John Dyer.
Ever learning, and never able to come to the 45 knowledge of the truth. St. Paul.
Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor. Rich. II., ii. 3.
Ever must pain urge us to labour, and only in free effort can any blessedness be imagined for us. Carlyle.
Ever must the sovereign of mankind be fitly entitled king, i.e., the man who kens and can. Carlyle.
Ever since Adam's time fools have been in the majority. Casimir Delavigne.
Ever take it for granted that man collectively 50 wishes that which is right; but take care never to think so of one! Schiller.
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for error is talkative. Goldsmith.
Every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. Emerson.
Every advantage has its tax, but there is none on the good of virtue; that is the incoming of God himself, or absolute existence. Emerson.
Every age regards the dawning of new light as the destroying fire of morality; while that very age itself, with heart uninjured, finds itself raised one degree of light above the preceding. Jean Paul.
Every attempt to crush an insurrection with means inadequate to the end foments instead of suppressing it. C. Fox.
Every author, in some degree, portrays himself in his works, be it even against his will. Goethe.
Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice and dull in every other. Sir P. Sidney.
Every bean has its black. Pr.
Every beginning is cheerful; the threshold is 5 the place of expectation. Goethe.
Every beloved object is the centre of a paradise. Novalis.
Every being is a moving temple of the Infinite. Jean Paul.
Everybody is wise after the event. Pr.
Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion caricatured; yet with many, contempt of fanaticism is received as a sure sign of hostility to religion. Whipple.
Everybody knows that government never began 10 anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs. W. Phillips.
Everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all. Holmes.
Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true. J. F. Cooper.
Everybody's business in the social system is to be agreeable. Dickens.
Everybody's business is nobody's. Pr.
Everybody's friend is nobody's. Pr. 15
Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood. Emerson.
Every book is written with a constant secret reference to the few intelligent persons whom the writer believes to exist in the million. Emerson.
Every brave life out of the past does not appear to us so brave as it really was, for the forms of terror with which it wrestled are now overthrown. Jean Paul.
Every brave man is a man of his word. Corneille.
Every brave youth is in training to ride and 20 rule his dragon. Emerson.
Every bullet has its billet. Pr.
Every Calvary has its Olivet. H. Giles.
Every capability, however slight, is born with us; there is no vague general capability in man. Goethe.
Every child is to a certain extent a genius, and every genius is to a certain extent a child. Schopenhauer.
Every cloud engenders not a storm. 3 Hen. 25 VI., v. 3.
Every cloud that spreads above / And veileth love, itself is love. Tennyson.
Every cock is proud on his own dunghill. Pr.
Every conceivable society may well be figured as properly and wholly a Church, in one or other of these three predicaments: an audibly preaching and prophesying Church, which is the best; a Church that struggles to preach and prophesy, but cannot as yet till its Pentecost come; a Church gone dumb with old age, or which only mumbles delirium prior to dissolution. Carlyle.
Every cottage should have its porch, its oven, and its tank. Disraeli.
Every couple is not a pair. Pr. 30
Every craw thinks her ain bird whitest. Sc. Pr.
Every creature can bear well-being except man. Gael. Pr.
Every crime has in the moment of its perpetration its own avenging angel. Schiller.
Every day hath its night, every weal its woe. Pr.
Every day in thy life is a leaf in thy history. 35 Arab. Pr.
Every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly until he knows that every day is Doomsday. Emerson.
Every day should be spent by us as if it were to be our last. Pub. Syr.
Every department of knowledge passes successively through three stages: the theological, or fictitious; the metaphysical, or abstract; and the scientific, or positive. Comte.
Every desire bears its death in its very gratification. W. Irving.
Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who, 40 when he was chill, was harmless, but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison. Johnson.
Every dog must have his day. Swift.
Every door may be shut but death's door. Pr.
Every established religion was once a heresy. Buckle.
Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him. Holmes.
Every evil to which we do not succumb is a 45 benefactor; we gain the strength of the temptation we resist. Emerson.
Every excess causes a defect; every deficit, an excess. Every sweet has its sour; every evil, its good. Every faculty which is a receiver of pleasure has an equal penalty put on its abuse. Emerson.
Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail. Emerson.
Every faculty is conserved and increased by its appropriate exercise. Epictetus.
Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality is, if we saw it aright and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excellent than that which we sacrifice to it. J. Sterling.
Every flood has its ebb. Dut. Pr. 50
Every fool thinks himself clever enough. Dan. Pr.
Every fool will be meddling. Bible.
Every foot will tread on him who is in the mud. Gael. Pr.
Every form of freedom is hurtful, except that which delivers us over to perfect command of ourselves. Goethe.
Every form of human life is romantic. T. W. 55 Higginson.
Every fresh acquirement is another remedy against affliction and time. Willmott.
Every friend is to the other a sun and a sunflower also: he attracts and follows. Jean Paul.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the herd. Thoreau.
Every generous action loves the public view, yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it. Cic.
Every genius has most power in his own language, and every heart in its own religion. Jean Paul.
Every genius is defended from approach by quantities of unavailableness. Emerson.
Every genuine work of art has as much reason 5 for being as the earth and the sun. Emerson.
Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great if it be given with affection. Pindar.
Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows. Mahomet.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above. St. James.
Every good gift comes from God. Pr.
Every good picture is the best of sermons 10 and lectures: the sense informs the soul. Sydney Smith.
Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language. Landor.
Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm. Emerson.
Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great or original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished. Wordsworth.
Every great book is an action, and every great action is a book. Luther.
Every great genius has a special vocation, 15 and when he has fulfilled it, he is no longer needed. Goethe.
Every great man is unique. Emerson.
Every great mind seeks to labour for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good. Schiller.
Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite. Longfellow.
Every great reform which has been effected has consisted, not in doing something new, but in undoing something old. Buckle.
Every great writer is a writer of history, let 20 him treat on almost what subject he may. He carries with him for thousands of years a portion of his times; and, indeed, if only his own effigy were there, it would be greatly more than a fragment of his century. Landor.
Every healthy effort is directed from the inward to the outward world. Goethe.
Every heart knows its own bitterness. Pr.
Every hero becomes a bore at last. Emerson.
Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good; but it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol. Emerson.
Every honest miller has a golden thumb. 25 Pr.
Every hour has its end. Scott.
Every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God. St. Paul.
Every human being is intended to have a character of his own, to be what no other is, to do what no other can. Channing.
Every human feeling is greater and larger than the exciting cause—a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence. Coleridge.
Every idea must have a visible unfolding. 30 Victor Hugo.
Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. Jesus.
Every inch a king. Lear, iv. 6.
Every inch of joy has an ell of annoy. Sc. Pr.
Every individual colour makes on men an impression of its own, and thereby reveals its nature to the eye as well as the mind. Goethe.
Every individual nature has its own beauty. 35 Emerson.
Every inordinate cup is unbless'd, and the ingredient is a devil. Othello, ii. 3.
Every joy that comes to us is only to strengthen us for some greater labour that is to succeed. Fichte.
Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout. Bp. Berkeley.
Every light has its shadow. Pr.
Every little fish expects to become a whale. 40 Dan. Pr.
Every little helps. Pr.
Every little helps, as the sow said when she snapt at a gnat. Dan. Pr.
Every loving woman is a priestess of the past. Amiel.
Every man alone is sincere; at the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. Emerson.
Every man as an individual is secondary to 45 what he is as a worker for the progress of his kind and the glory of the gift allotted to him. Stedman.
Every man can build a chapel in his breast, himself the priest, his heart the sacrifice, and the earth he treads on the altar. Jeremy Taylor.
Every man can guide an ill wife but him that has her. Sc. Pr.
Every man carries an enemy in his own bosom. Dan. Pr.
Every man carries within him a potential madman. Carlyle.
Every man deems that he has precisely the 50 trials and temptations which are the hardest to bear; but they are so because they are the very ones he needs. Jean Paul.
Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old. Swift.
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. Lowell.
Every man has a bag hanging before him in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own. Coriolanus, ii. 1.
Every man has a goose that lays golden eggs, if he only knew it. Amer. Pr.
Every man has at times in his mind the ideal 55 of what he should be, but is not. In all men that really seek to improve, it is better than the actual character. Theo. Parker.
Every man hath business and desire, / Such as it is. Ham., i. 5.
Every man has his fault, and honesty is his. Timon of Athens, iii. 1.
Every man has his lot, and the wide world before him. Dan. Pr.
Every man has his own style, just as he has his own nose. Lessing.
Every man has his weak side. Pr. 5
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul. Sir J. Stephens.
Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding. Pope.
Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long. Burton.
Every man, however good he may be, has a still better man dwelling in him which is properly himself, but to whom nevertheless he is often unfaithful. It is to this interior and less unstable being that we should attach ourselves, not to the changeable every-day man. W. v. Humboldt.
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his 10 faults. Emerson.
Every man is an impossibility until he is born; everything impossible till we see it a success. Emerson.
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. Emerson.
Every man is a rascal as soon as he is sick. Johnson.
Every man is exceptional. Emerson.
Every man is his own greatest dupe. A. B. 15 Alcott.
Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age. Emerson.
Every man is the architect of his own fortune. Sallust.
Every man must carry his own sack to the mill. Dan. Pr.
Every man must in a measure be alone in the world. No heart was ever cast in the same mould as that which we bear within us. Berne.
Every man of sound brain whom you meet 20 knows something worth knowing better than yourself. Bulwer Lytton.
Every man ought to have his opportunity to conquer the world for himself. Emerson.
Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner of his joy. Jeremy Taylor.
Every man seeks the truth, but God only knows who has found it. Chesterfield.
Every man shall bear his own burden. St. Paul.
Every man shall kiss his lips that giveth a 25 right answer. Bible.
Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer. Feltham.
Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we challenge for ourselves is given us. Schiller.
Every man takes care that his neighbour shall not cheat him. Emerson.
Every man acts truly so long as he acts his nature, or some way makes good the faculties in himself. Sir T. Browne.
Every man turns his dreams into realities as 30 far as he can. Man is cold as ice to the truth, but as fire to falsehood. La Fontaine.
Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into a genius. Bulwer Lytton.
Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer. J. G. Holland.
Every man who would do anything well must come to us from a higher ground. Emerson.
Every man willingly gives value to the praise which he receives, and considers the sentence passed in his favour as the sentence of discernment. Johnson.
Every man, within that inconsiderable figure 35 of his, contains a whole spirit-kingdom and reflex of the All; and, though to the eye but some six standard feet in size, reaches downwards and upwards, unsurveyable, fading into the regions of immensity and eternity. Carlyle.