All men are born sincere and die deceivers. Vauvenargues.

All men are fools, and with every effort they differ only in the degree. Boileau.

All men commend patience, though few be willing to practise it. Thomas à Kempis.

All men have their price. Anon.

All men honour love, because it looks up, and 65 not down. Emerson.

All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong. Carlyle.

All men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. Emerson.

All men may dare what has by man been done. Young.

All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities. Burke.

All men think all men mortal but themselves. 70 Young.

All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself. Goethe.

All men who know not where to look for truth, save in the narrow well of self, will find their own image at the bottom and mistake it for what they are seeking. Lowell.

All minds quote. Old and new make up the warp and woof of every moment. Emerson.

All mischief comes from our inability to be alone. La Bruyère.

All money is but a divisible title-deed. Ruskin. 5

All my possessions for a moment of time! Queen Elizabeth's last words.

All nature is but art unknown to thee. / All chance, direction which thou canst not see. / All discord, harmony not understood; / All partial evil, universal good. Pope.

All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority. Emerson.

All objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude. Carlyle.

All orators are dumb when beauty pleadeth. 10 Sh.

[Greek: all' ou Zeus andressi noêmata panta teleutâ]—Zeus, however, does not give effect to all the schemes of man. Hom.

[Greek: Allos egô]—Alter ego. Zeno's definition of a friend.

All our evils are imaginary, except pain of body and remorse of conscience. Rousseau.

All our most honest striving prospers only in unconscious moments. Goethe.

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions 15 only because they do exaggerate. Chamfort.

All pleasure must be bought at the price of pain. John Foster.

All power appears only in transition. Novalis.

All power, even the most despotic, rests ultimately on opinion. Hume.

All power of fancy over reason is a degree of insanity. Johnson.

All promise outruns performance. Emerson. 20

All public disorder proceeds from want of work. Courier.

All speech, even the commonest, has something of song in it. Carlyle.

All strength lies within, not without. Jean Paul.

All strong men love life. Heine.

All strong souls are related. Schiller. 25

All's well that ends well. Pr.

All talent, all intellect, is in the first place moral. Carlyle.

All that a man has he will give for right relations with his mates. Emerson.

All that glisters is not gold; / Gilded tombs do worms infold. Mer. of Ven., ii. 7.

All that is best in the great poets of all countries 30 is not what is national in them, but what is universal. Longfellow.

All that is human must retrograde, if it do not advance. Gibbon.

All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast. Goethe.

All that lives must die, / Passing through nature to eternity. Ham., i. 2.

All that man does and brings to pass is the vesture of a thought. Sartor Resartus.

All that mankind has done, thought, gained, 35 or been, it is all lying in magic preservation in the pages of books. Carlyle.

All that tread the globe are but a handful to the tribes that slumber in its bosom. Bryant.

All the armed prophets have conquered, all the unarmed have perished. Machiavelli.

All the arts affecting culture (i.e., the fine arts) have a certain common bond, and are connected by a certain blood relationship with each other. Cic.

All the difference between the wise man and the fool is, that the wise man keeps his counsel, and the fool reveals it. Gael. Pr.

All the diseases of mind, leading to fatalest 40 ruin, are due to the concentration of man upon himself, whether his heavenly interests or his worldly interests, matters not. Ruskin.

All the faults of the man I can pardon in the player; no fault of the player can I pardon in the man. Goethe.

All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience. J. S. Mill.

All the great ages have been ages of belief. Emerson.

All the keys don't hang at one man's girdle. Pr.

All the makers of dictionaries, all the compilers 45 of opinions already printed, we may term plagiarists, but honest plagiarists, who arrogate not the merit of invention. Voltaire.

All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Macb., v. 1.

All the pursuits of men are the pursuits of women also, and in all of them a woman is only a weaker man. Plato.

All the thinking in the world does not bring us to thought; we must be right by nature, so that good thoughts may come. Goethe.

All the wit in the world is not in one head. Pr.

All the wit in the world is thrown away upon 50 the man who has none. Bruyère.

All the world's a stage / And all the men and women merely players. As You Like It, ii. 7.

All things are double, one against another. Good is set against evil, and life against death. Ecclus.

All things are for the sake of the good, and it is the cause of everything beautiful. Plato.

All things are in perpetual flux and fleeting. Pr.

All things are symbolical, and what we call 55 results are beginnings. Plato.

All things happen by necessity; in Nature there is neither good nor bad. Spinoza.

All things that are / Are with more spirit chased than enjoyed. Mer. of Ven., ii. 6.

All things that love the sun are out of doors. Wordsworth.

All this (in the daily press) does not concern one in the least; one is neither the wiser nor the better for knowing what the day brings forth. Goethe.

All true men are soldiers in the same army, 60 to do battle against the same enemy—the empire of darkness and wrong. Carlyle.

All truth is not to be told at all times. Pr.

All virtue is most rewarded, and all wickedness most punished, in itself. Bacon.

All went as merry as a marriage-bell. Byron.

All, were it only a withered leaf, works together with all. Carlyle.

All will be as God wills. Gael. Pr.

All wise men are of the same religion, and 5 keep it to themselves. Lord Shaftesbury.

All women are good, viz., for something or nothing. Pr.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Pr.

Allzugrosse Zartheit der Gefühle ist ein wahres Unglück—It is a real misfortune to have too great delicacy of feeling. C. J. Weber.

Allzustraff gespannt, zerspringt der Bogen—If the bow is overstrained, it breaks. Schiller.

Allzuviel ist nicht genug—Too much is not 10 enough. Ger. Pr.

Alma mater—A benign mother; applied to one's university, also to the "all-nourishing" earth.

Al molino, ed alla sposa / Sempre manca qualche cosa—A mill and a woman are always in want of something. It. Pr.

Almost all our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. Schopenhauer.

Almsgiving never made any man poor. Pr.

A loan should come laughing home. Pr. 15

A l'œuvre on connaît l'artisan—By the work one knows the workman. La Font.

A loisir—At leisure. Fr.

Alomban és szerelemben nincs lehetetlenséej—In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. J. Arany.

Along the cool sequester'd vale of life / They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Gray.

A los bobos se les aperece la Madre de Dios—The 20 mother of God appears to fools. Sp. Pr.

A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind. Love's L. Lost, iv. 3.

Alte fert aquila—The eagle bears me on high. M.

Altera manu fert lapidem, altera panem ostentat—He carries a stone in one hand, and shows bread in the other. Pr.

Altera manu scabunt, altera feriunt—They tickle with one hand and smite with the other. Pr.

Alter ego—Another or second self. 25

Alter idem—Another exactly the same.

Alter ipse amicus—A friend is a second self. Pr.

Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest—Let no man be slave of another who can be his own master. M. of Paracelsus.

Alter remus aquas, alter mihi radat arenas—Let me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch the sands, i.e., so as not to go out of my depth.

Alterum tantum—As much more. 30

Although men are accused of not knowing their weakness, yet perhaps as few know their strength. Swift.

Although the last, not least. King Lear, i. 1.

Altissima quæque flumina minimo sono labuntur—The deepest rivers flow with the least noise. Curt.

Alt ist das Wort, doch bleibet hoch und wahr der Sinn—Old is the Word, yet does the meaning abide as high and true as ever. Faust.

Altro diletto che' mparar, non provo—Learning 35 is my sole delight. Petrarch.

Always filling, never full. Cowper.

Always have two strings to your bow. Pr.

Always strive for the whole; and if thou canst not become a whole thyself, connect thyself with a whole as a ministering member. Schiller.

Always there is a black spot in our sunshine, the shadow of ourselves. Carlyle.

Always to distrust is an error, as well as always 40 to trust. Goethe.

Always win fools first; they talk much, and what they have once uttered they will stick to. Helps.

Amabilis insania—A fine frenzy. Hor.

A machine is not a man or a work of art; it is destructive of humanity and art. Wm. Blake.

A madness most discreet, / A choking gall and a preserving sweet, i.e., Love is. Rom. and Jul., i. 1.

A mad world, my masters. Middleton. 45

A main armée—By force of arms. Fr.

Ama l'amico tuo con il diffetto suo—Love your friend with all his faults. It. Pr.

A man at sixteen will prove a child at sixty. Pr.

A man belongs to his age and race, even when he acts against them. Renan.

A man, be the heavens praised, is sufficient 50 for himself; yet were ten men, united in love, capable of being and doing what ten thousand singly would fail in. Carlyle.

A man can be so changed by love as to be unrecognisable as the same person. Ter.

A man can do no more than he can. Pr.

A man can keep another's secret better than his own; a woman, her own better than another's. La Bruyère.

A man canna wive and thrive the same year. Sc. Pr.

A man can never be too much on his guard 55 when he writes to the public, and never too easy towards those with whom he converses. D'Alembert.

A man can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven. John Baptist.

A man cannot be in the seventeenth century and the nineteenth at one and the same moment. Carlyle's experience while editing Cromwell's Letters.

A man cannot spin and reel at the same time. Pr.

A man cannot whistle and drink at the same time. Pr.

A man dishonoured is worse than dead. Cervantes. 60

A man does not represent a fraction, but a whole number; he is complete in himself. Schopenhauer.

A man hears only what he understands. Goethe.

A man he was to all the country dear, / And passing rich with forty pounds a year. Goldsmith.

A man in a farm and his thoughts away, is better out of it than in it. Gael. Pr.

A man in debt is so far a slave. Emerson. 65

A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone. Amer. Pr.

A man is a fool or his own physician at forty. Pr.

A man is a golden impossibility. Emerson.

A man is always nearest to his good when at home, and farthest from it when away. J. G. Holland.

A man is king in his own house. Gael. Pr. 5

A man is never happy till his vague striving has itself marked out its proper limitation. Goethe.

A man is not born the second time, any more than the first, without travail. Carlyle.

A man is not as God, / But then most godlike being most a man. Tennyson.

A man is not strong who takes convulsion fits, though six men cannot hold him; only he that can walk under the heaviest weight without staggering. Carlyle.

A man is only a relative and a representative 10 nature. Emerson.

A man is the façade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide. Emerson.

A man is the prisoner of his power. Emerson.

A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. Carlyle.

A man may be proud of his house, and not ride on the rigging (ridge) of it. Sc. Pr.

A man may do what he likes with his own. Pr. 15

A man may smile, and smile, and be a villain. Ham., i. 5.

A man may spit in his nieve and do little. Sc. Pr.

A man may survive distress, but not disgrace. Gael. Pr.

A man / More sinn'd against than sinning. King Lear, iii. 2.

A man must ask his wife's leave to thrive. Pr. 20

A man must become wise at his own expense. Montaigne.

A man must be healthy before he can be holy. Mme. Swetchine.

A man must be well off who is irritated by trifles, for in misfortune trifles are not felt. Schopenhauer.

A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge. Johnson.

A man must seek his happiness and inward 25 peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him. W. von Humboldt.

A man must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion. Emerson.

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. Emerson.

A man must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into certainty of Yes or No. Carlyle.

A man must wait for the right moment. Schopenhauer.

A man never feels the want of what it never 30 occurs to him to ask for. Schopenhauer.

A man never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going. Oliver Cromwell.

A man of intellect without energy added to it is a failure. Chamfort.

A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that eye in the back of his head. Coleridge.

A man of pleasure is a man of pains. Young.

A man often pays dear for a small frugality. 35 Emerson.

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be. La Bruyère.

A man of wit would often be much embarrassed without the company of fools. La Roche.

A man only understands what is akin to some things already in his mind. Amiel.

A man places himself on a level with him whom he praises. Goethe.

A man protesting against error is on the way 40 towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth. Carlyle.

A man so various, that he seem'd to be, / Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Dryden.

A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time. Bacon.

A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected. Johnson.

A man who cannot gird himself into harness will take no weight along these highways. Carlyle.

A man who claps his Pegasus into a harness, 45 and urges on his muse with the whip, will have to pay to Nature the penalty of this trespass. Schopenhauer.

A man who does not know rigour cannot pity either. Carlyle.

A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not began to comprehend the real nature of it. J. G. Holland.

A man who has nothing to do is the devil's playfellow. J. G. Holland.

A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is ignorant of his own. Goethe.

A man who reads much becomes arrogant and 50 pedantic; one who sees much becomes wise, sociable, and helpful. Lichtenberg.

A man will love or hate solitude—that is, his own society—according as he is himself worthy or worthless. Schopenhauer.

A man will not be observed in doing that which he can do best. Emerson.

A man with half a volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road. Carlyle.

A man with knowledge but without energy, is a house furnished but not inhabited; a man with energy but no knowledge, a house dwelt in but unfurnished. John Sterling.

A man's a man for a' that. Burns. 55

A man's aye crousest in his ain cause. Sc. Pr.

A man's best fortune or his worst is his wife. Pr.

A man's best things are nearest him, / Lie close about his feet. Monckton Milnes.

A man's fate is his own temper. Disraeli.

A man's friends belong no more to him than 60 he to them. Schopenhauer.

A man's gift makes room for him. Pr.

A man's happiness consists infinitely more in admiration of the faculties of others than in confidence in his own. Ruskin.

A man's house is his castle. Pr.

A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side until he learns its arc. Emerson.

A man's task is always light if his heart is 65 light. Lew Wallace.

A man's virtue is to be measured not by his extraordinary efforts, but his everyday conduct. Pascal.

A man's walking is a succession of falls. Pr.

A man's wife is his blessing or his bane. Gael. Pr.

Amantes, amentes—In love, in delirium. Ter.

Amantium iræ amoris redintegratio est—The 5 quarrels of lovers bring about a renewal of love. Ter.

A man who cannot mind his own business is not to be trusted with the king's. Saville.

A ma puissance—To my power. M.

Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur—To be in love and act wisely is scarcely in the power of a god. Faber.

[Greek: Hamartôlai ... en anthrôpoisin hepontai thnêtois]—Proneness to sin cleaves fast to mortal men. Theognis.

Ambigendi locus—Reason for questioning or 10 doubt.

Ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces—To scatter ambiguous reports among the people. Virg.

Ambition is not a vice of little people. Montaigne.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth in nobleness proceeds. T. D. English.

Ambos oder Hammer—One must be either anvil or hammer. Ger. Pr.

Ame damnée—Mere tool, underling. Fr. 15

Ame de boue—Base, mean soul. Fr.

Amende honorable—Satisfactory apology; reparation. Fr.

A mensâ et thoro—From bed and board; divorced.

A menteur, menteur à demi—To a liar, a liar and a half, i.e., one be a match for him. Fr.

Amentium, haud amantium—Of lunatics, not 20 lovers.

A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong. Ecclus.

A merciful man is merciful to his beast. Bible.

A mere madness to live like a wretch and die rich. Burton.

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine; but a broken spirit drieth the bones. Bible.

A merveille—To a wonder. Fr. 25

Am Golde hängt doch Alles—On gold, after all, hangs everything. Margaret in "Faust."

Amici, diem perdidi—Friends, I have lost a day. Titus (at the close of a day on which he had done good to no one).

Amici probantur rebus adversis—Friends are proved by adversity. Cic.

Amici vitium ni feras, prodis tuum—Unless you bear with the faults of a friend, you betray your own. Pub. Syr.

Amico d'ognuno, amico di nessuno—Everybody's 30 friend is nobody's friend. It. Pr.

Amicorum esse communia omnia—Friends' goods are all common property. Pr.

Amicum ita habeas posse ut fieri hunc inimicum scias—Be on such terms with your friend as if you knew he may one day become your enemy. Laber.

Amicum perdere est damnorum maximum—To lose a friend is the greatest of losses. Syr.

Amicus animæ dimidium—A friend the half of life.

Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur—A true 35 friend is seen when fortune wavers. Ennius.

Amicus curiæ—A friend to the court, i.e., an uninterested adviser in a case.

Amicus est unus animus in duobus corporibus—A friend is one soul in two bodies. Arist.

Amicus humani generis—A friend of the human race.

Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas—Plato is my friend, but truth is my divinity (lit. more a friend).

Amicus usque ad aras—A friend to the very 40 altar, i.e., to the death.

A mighty maze! but not without a plan. Pope.

A millstone and a man's heart are kept constantly revolving; where they have nothing to grind, they grind and fray away their own substance. Logan.

A mirror is better than a whole gallery of ancestral portraits. Menzel.

A miser is as furious about a halfpenny as the man of ambition about the conquest of a kingdom. Adam Smith.

A miss is as good as a mile. Pr. 45

"Am I to be saved? or am I to be lost?" Certain to be lost, so long as you put that question. Carlyle.

Amittit famam qui se indignis comparat—He loses repute who compares himself with unworthy people. Phædr.

Amittit merito proprium, qui alienum appetit—He who covets what is another's, deservedly loses what is his own. (Moral of the fable of the dog and the shadow.) Phædr.

Am meisten Unkraut trägt der fettste Boden—The fattest soil brings forth the most weeds. Ger. Pr.

A mob is a body voluntarily bereaving itself 50 of reason and traversing its work. Emerson.

A modest confession of ignorance is the ripest and last attainment of philosophy. R. D. Hitchcock.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. Holmes.

A monarchy is apt to fall by tyranny; an aristocracy, by ambition; a democracy, by tumults. Quarles.

Among nations the head has alway preceded the heart by centuries. Jean Paul.

Among the blind the one-eyed is a king. Pr. 55

Amor al cor gentil ratto s' apprende.—Love is quickly learned by a noble heart. Dante.

Amor a nullo amato amar perdona—Love spares no loved one from loving. Dante.

Amor bleibt ein Schalk, und wer ihm vertraut, ist betrogen—Cupid is ever a rogue, and whoever trusts him is deceived. Goethe.

Amore è di sospetti fabro—Love is a forger of suspicions. It. Pr.

Amore sitis uniti—Be ye united in love. 60

Amor et melle et felle est fecundissimus—Love is most fruitful both of honey and gall. Plaut.

Amor et obœdientia—Love and obedience. M.

Amor gignit amorem—Love begets love.

Amor omnibus idem—Love is the same in all. Virg.

Amor patriæ—Love of one's country. 65

Amor proximi—Love for one's neighbour.

Amor tutti eguaglia—Love makes all equal. It. Pr.

Amoto quæramus seria ludo—Jesting aside, let us give attention to serious business. Hor.

Amour avec loyaulté—Love with loyalty. M.

Amour fait moult, argent fait tout—Love can do much, but money can do everything. Fr. Pr.

Amour propre—Vanity; self-love. Fr.

A mouse never trusts its life to one hole only. 5 Plaut.

Amphora cœpit / Institui: currente rota cur urceus exit?—A vase was begun; why from the revolving wheel does it turn out a worthless pitcher? Hor.

Ampliat ætatis spatium sibi vir bonus; hoc est / Vivere bis vitâ posse priore frui—The good man extends the term of his life; it is to live twice, to be able to enjoy one's former life. Mar.

Am Rhein, am Rhein, da wachsen uns're Reben—On the Rhine, on the Rhine, there grow our vines! Claudius.

Am sausenden Webstuhl der Zeit—On the noisy loom of Time. Goethe.

Amt ohne Geld macht Diebe—Office without 10 pay makes thieves. Ger. Pr.

A mucho hablar, mucho errar—Talk much, err much. Sp. Pr.

A multitude of sparks yields but a sorry light. Amiel.

Anacharsis among the Scythians—A wise man among unwise.

An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. Macaulay.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world 15 of promise. Howell.

Analysis is not the business of the poet. His office is to portray, not to dissect. Macaulay.

Analysis kills spontaneity, just as grain, once it is ground into flour, no longer springs and germinates. Amiel.

An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth. Sir H. Wotten.

An ambitious man is slave to everybody. Feijoó.

A name is no despicable matter. Napoleon, 20 for the sake of a great name, broke in pieces almost half a world. Goethe.

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts. Bismarck.

An archer is known by his aim, not by his arrows. Pr.

An arc in the movement of a large intellect does not differ sensibly from a straight line. Holmes.

An Argus at home, a mole abroad. Pr.

An army, like a serpent, goes on its belly. 25 Frederick the Great (?).

A narrow faith has much more energy than an enlightened one. Amiel.

An artist is a person who has submitted to a law which it is painful to obey, that he may bestow a delight which it is gracious to bestow. Ruskin.

An artist is only then truly praised by us when we forget him in his work. Lessing.

An artist must have his measuring tools, not in the hand, but in the eye. Michael Angelo.

An artist should be fit for the best society, and 30 should keep out of it. Ruskin.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down. George Eliot.

A nation which labours, and takes care of the fruits of labour, would be rich and happy, though there were no gold in the universe. Ruskin.

[Greek: Ananka d' oude theoi machontai]—The gods themselves do not fight against necessity. Gr. Pr.

Anche il mar, che è si grande, si pacifica—Even the sea, great though it be, grows calm. It. Pr.

Anch' io sono pittore—I too am a painter. Correggio 35 before a picture of Raphael's.

Anche la rana morderebbe se avesse denti—Even the frog would bite if it had teeth. It. Pr.

Ancient art corporealises the spiritual; modern spiritualises the corporeal. Börne.

Ancient art is plastic; modern, pictorial. Schlegel.

And better had they ne'er been born / Who read to doubt, or read to scorn. Scott.

And can eternity belong to me, / Poor pensioner 40 on the bounties of an hour? Young.

And earthly power doth then show likest God's, / When mercy seasons justice. Mer. of Ven., iv. 1.

And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side. Goldsmith.

And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost. Milton.

And he is oft the wisest man / Who is not wise at all. Wordsworth.

"And is this all?" cried Cæsar at his height, 45 disgusted. Young.

An dives sit omnes quærunt, nemo an bonus—Every one inquires if he is rich; no one asks if he is good.

And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair. Byron.

And much it grieved my heart to think / What man has made of man. Wordsworth.

And, often times, excusing of a fault / Doth make the fault worse by the excuse. King John, iv. 2.

And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, / 50 And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot, / And thereby hangs a tale. As You Like It, ii. 7.

And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, / That one small head could carry all he knew. Goldsmith.

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. As You Like It, ii. 1.

A needle's eye is wide enough for two friends; the whole world is too narrow for two foes. Pers. Pr.

[Greek: Anechou kai apechou]—Bear and forbear. Epictetus.

A nemico che fugge, fa un ponte d'oro—Make 55 a bridge of gold for an enemy who is flying from you. It. Pr.

An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles. Pr.

An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly. Whipple.

[Greek: Anêr ho pheugôn kai palin machêsetai]—The man who runs away will fight again.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. Amiel.

An evening red and morning grey, is a sure sign of a fair day. Pr.

A new broom sweeps clean. Pr.

A new life begins when a man once sees with his own eyes all that before he has but partially read or heard of. Goethe.

A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views. Vauvenargues.

An eye like Mars, to threaten or command. 5 Ham., iii. 4.

Anfang heiss, Mittel lau, Ende kalt—The beginning hot, the middle lukewarm, the end cold. Ger. Pr.

Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. Macb., iv. 3.

Angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. George Eliot.

Anger is like / A full-hot horse; who, being allow'd his way, / Self-mettle tires him. Hen. VIII., i. 2.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul. Fuller. 10

Anger resteth in the bosom of fools. Bible.

Anger, when it is long in coming, is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Quarles.

Anglicè—In English.

Angling is somewhat like poetry; men are to be born so. Isaak Walton.

Anguis in herbâ—A snake in the grass. 15

An honest citizen who maintains himself industriously has everywhere as much freedom as he wants. Goethe.

An honest man's the noblest work of God. Pope.

An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told. Rich. III., iv. 4.

An idle brain is the devil's workshop. Pr.

An idler is a watch that wants both hands; / 20 As useless if it goes as if it stands. Cowper.

An ill-willie (ill-natured) cow should have short horns. Sc. Pr.

An ill wind that blows nobody good. Pr.

An ill workman quarrels with his tools. Pr.

Animal implume bipes—A two-legged animal without feathers. Plato's definition of man.

Animals can enjoy, but only men can be cheerful. 25 Jean Paul.

Anima mundi—The soul of the world.

Animo ægrotanti medicus est oratio—Kind words are as a physician to an afflicted spirit. Pr.

Animo et fide—By courage and faith. M.

Animo, non astutia—By courage, not by craft. M.

Animum pictura pascit inani—He feeds his soul 30 on the unreal picture. Virg.

Animum rege, qui nisi paret imperat—Rule your spirit well, for if it is not subject to you, it will lord it over you. Hor.

Animus æquus optimum est ærumnæ condimentum—A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble. Plaut.

Animus furandi—The intention of stealing. L.

Animus homini, quicquid sibi imperat, obtinet—The mind of man can accomplish whatever it resolves on.

Animus hominis semper appetit agere aliquid—The 35 mind of man is always longing to do something. Cic.

Animus non deficit æquus—Equanimity does not fail us. M.

Animus quod perdidit optat / Atque in præterita se totus imagine versat—The mind yearns after what is gone, and loses itself in dreaming of the past. Petron.

An indifferent agreement is better than a good verdict. Pr.

An individual helps not; only he who unites with many at the proper time. Goethe.

An individual man is a fruit which it cost all 40 the foregoing ages to form and ripen. Emerson.

An infant crying in the night, / An infant crying for the light; / And with no language but a cry. Tennyson.

An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men. Ruskin.

An innocent man needs no eloquence; his innocence is instead of it. Ben Jonson.

An iron hand in a velvet glove. Charles V., said of a gentle compulsion.

An irreverent knowledge is no knowledge; 45 it may be a development of the logical or other handicraft faculty, but is no culture of the soul of a man. Carlyle.

An nescis longas regibus esse manus?—Do you not know that kings have long, i.e., far-grasping, hands? Ovid.

An nescis, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur (or regatur orbis)?—Do you not know with how very little wisdom the world is governed? Axel Oxenstjerna to his son.

An nichts Geliebtes muszt du dein Gemüt / Also verpfänden, dass dich sein Verlust / Untröstbar machte—Never so set your heart on what you love that its loss may render you inconsolable. Herder.

Anno domini—In the year of our Lord.

Anno mundi—In the year of the world. 50

Annus mirabilis—The year of wonders.

A noble heart will frankly capitulate to reason. Schiller.

A noble man cannot be indebted for his culture to a narrow circle. The world and his native land must act on him. Goethe.

An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him. Pope.

A nod for a wise man, and a rod for a fool. 55 Heb. Pr.

An old bird is not to be caught with chaff. Pr.

An old knave is no babe. Pr.

An old man in a house is a good sign in a house. Heb. Pr.

An old warrior is never in haste to strike the blow. Metastasio.

An open confession is good for the soul. Pr. 60

An open door may tempt a saint. Pr.

Another such victory and we are done. Pyrrhus after his second victory over the Romans.

An ounce of a man's own wit is worth a pound of other peoples'. Sterne.

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. Fuller.

An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of 65 wit. Pr.

An ounce o' mother-wit is worth a pound o' clergy. Sc. Pr.

An ounce of practice is worth a pound of preaching. Pr.

An quidquid stultius, quam quos singulos contemnas, eos aliquid putare esse universos?—Can there be any greater folly than the respect you pay to men collectively when you despise them individually? Cic.

[Greek: Anthrôpos ôn tout' isthi kai memnês' aei]—Being a man, know and remember always that thou art one. Philemon Comicus.

[Greek: Anthrôpos physei zôon politikon]—Man is by nature an animal meant for civic life. Arist.

Ante lucem—Before daybreak.

Ante meridiem—Before noon. 5

Ante omnia—Before everything else.

Antequam incipias, consulto; et ubi consulueris, facto opus est—Before you begin, consider well; and when you have considered, act. Sall.

Ante senectutem curavi, ut bene viverem; in senectute, ut bene moriar—Before old age, it was my chief care to live well; in old age, it is to die well. Sen.

Ante tubam tremor occupat artus—We tremble all over before the bugle sounds. Virg.

Ante victoriam ne canas triumphum—Don't 10 celebrate your triumph before you have conquered.

Anticipation forward points the view. Burns.

Antiquâ homo virtute ac fide—A man of antique valour and fidelity. M.

Antiquitas sæculi juventus mundi—The ancient time of the world was the youth of the world. Bacon.

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor kind. Ruskin.

Anxiety is the poison of human life. Blair. 15

Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features; any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them. Thoreau.

Any port in a storm. Sc. Pr.

Any road will lead you to the end of the world. Schiller.

Anything for a quiet life. Pr.

"A pack of kinless loons;" said of Cromwell's 20 judges by the Scotch.

Apage, Satana—Begone, Satan!

A patron is one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached the land encumbers him with help. Johnson.

[Greek: Hapax legomenon]—A word that occurs only once in an author or book.

A peck of March dust is worth a king's ransom. Pr.

A pedant is a precocious old man. De Boufflers. 25

A penny hained (saved) is a penny gained. Sc. Pr.

Aperçu—A sketch. Fr.

A perfect woman, nobly planned, / To warn, to comfort, and command. Wordsworth.

Aperit præcordia liber—Wine opens the seals of the heart. Hor.

A perte de vue—Beyond the range of vision. Fr. 30

Aperte mala cum est mulier, tum demum est bona—A woman when she is openly bad, is at least honest.

Aperto vivere voto—To live with every wish avowed. Pers.

A pet lamb makes a cross ram. Pr.

Aphorisms are portable wisdom. W. R. Alger.

Apio opus est—There is need of parsley, i.e., 35 to strew on the grave, meaning that one is dying.

A pity that the eagle should be mew'd, / While kites and buzzards prey at liberty. Rich. III., i. 1.

A place for everything, and everything in its place. Pr.

A plague of sighing and grief; it blows a man up like a bladder. 1 Hen. IV., i. 4.

A plant often removed cannot thrive. Pr.

A pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation. 40 Bacon.

[Greek: Aplêstos pithos]—A cask that cannot be filled (being pierced at the bottom with holes.) Pr.

A plomb—Perpendicularly; firmly. Fr.

A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth. Schelling.

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in the darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. Shelley.

A poet must be before his age, to be even with 45 posterity. Lowell.

A poet must sing for his own people. Stedman.

A poet on canvas is exactly the same species of creature as a poet in song. Ruskin.

A poison which acts not at once is not therefore a less dangerous poison. Lessing.

A position of eminence makes a great man greater and a little man less. La Bruyère.

Apothegms are, in history, the same as the 50 pearls in the sand or the gold in the mine. Erasmus.

[Greek: 'Ap' echthrôn polla manthanousin hoi sophoi]—Wise men learn many things from their enemies. Aristoph.

A point—To a point exactly. Fr.

Apollo himself confessed it was ecstasy to be a man among men. Schiller.

A posse ad esse—From possibility to actuality.

A posteriori—From the effect to the cause; by 55 induction.

Apothecaries would not sugar their pills unless they were bitter. Pr.

A pound of care won't pay an ounce of debt. Pr.

Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto—A few are seen swimming here and there in the vast abyss. Virg.

Appetitus rationi pareat—Let reason govern desire. Cic.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the aim 60 and end of weak ones. Colton.

Après la mort le médecin—After death the doctor. Fr. Pr.

Après la pluie, le beau temps—After the rain, fair weather. Fr. Pr.

Après nous le déluge—After us the deluge! Mme. de Pompadour.

A primrose by a river's brim / A yellow primrose was to him, / And it was nothing more. Wordsworth.

A prince can mak' a belted knight, / A marquis, 65 duke, and a' that; / But an honest man's aboon his might, / Gude faith, he maunna fa' that. Burns.

A priori—From the cause to the effect; by deduction.

A progress of society on the one hand, a decline of souls on the other. Amiel.

A promise is a debt. Gael. Pr.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty. Hume.

A prophet is not without honour, save in his 5 own country, and in his own house. Jesus.

A propos—To the point; seasonably; in due time. Fr.

A propos de bottes—By-the-bye. Fr.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point. John Morley.

A proverb is much matter decocted into few words. Fuller.

Apt alliteration's artful aid. Churchill. 10

Apt to revolt, and willing to rebel, / And never are contented when they're well. Defoe.

A puñadas entran las buenas hadas—Good luck pushes its way (lit. gets on) by elbowing. Sp. Pr.

A purpose you impart is no longer your own. Goethe.

A quatre épingles—With four pins, i.e., done up like a dandy. Fr.

Aquel pierde venta que no tiene que venda—He 15 who has nothing to sell loses his market. Sp. Pr.

A quien tiene buena muger, ningun mal le puede venir, que no sea de sufrir—To him who has a good wife no evil can come which he cannot bear. Sp. Pr.

Aquilæ senectus—The old age of the eagle. Ter.

Aquila non capit muscas—An eagle does not catch flies. M.

A qui veut rien n'est impossible—Nothing is impossible to one with a will. Fr. Pr.

A raconter ses maux, souvent on les soulage—Our 20 misfortunes are often lightened by relating them. Corneille.

A ragged colt may make a good horse. Pr.

Aranearum telas texere—To weave spiders' webs, i.e., a tissue of sophistry.

Arbeit ist des Blutes Balsam: / Arbeit ist der Tugend Quell—Labour is balm to the blood: labour is the source of virtue. Herder.

Arbiter bibendi—The master of the feast (lit. the judge of the drinking).

Arbiter elegantiarum—The arbitrator of elegances; 25 the master of the ceremonies.

Arbiter formæ—Judge of beauty.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. Washington.

Arbore dejecta qui vult ligna colligit—When the tree is thrown down, any one that likes may gather the wood. Pr.

Arbores serit diligens agricola, quarum aspiciet baccam ipse nunquam—The industrious husbandman plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see. Cic.

"Arcades ambo," id est, blackguards both. 30 Byron.

Arcana imperii—State, or government, secrets.

[Greek: Archê andra deixei]—Office will prove the man.

Architecture is petrified music. Schelling, De Staël, Goethe.

Architecture is the work of nations. Ruskin.

[Greek: Archôn oudeis hamartanei tote hotan archôn ê]—No 35 ruler can sin so long as he is a ruler.

Ardeat ipsa licet, tormentis gaudet amantis—Though she is aflame herself, she delights in the torments of her lover. Juv.

Ardentia verba—Glowing words.

Arde verde por seco, y pagan justos por pecadores—Green burns for dry, and just men smart (lit. pay) for transgressors. Sp. Pr.

Ardua molimur: sed nulla nisi ardua virtus—I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth that is not of difficult achievement. Ovid.

A really great talent finds its happiness in 40 execution. Goethe.

A reasoning mule will neither lead nor drive. Mallett.

A rebours—Reversed. Fr.

A reconciled friend is a double enemy. Pr.

A reculons—Backwards. Fr.

A re decedunt—They wander from the point. 45

A refusal is less than nothing. Platen.

Arena sine calce—Sand without cement, i.e., speech unconnected. Suet.

Arenæ mandas semina—You are sowing grain in the sand. Pr.

A republic is properly a polity in which the state, with its all, is at every man's service; and every man, with his all, is at the state's service. Ruskin.

Ares, no ares, renta me pagues—Plough or not 50 plough, you must pay rent all the same. Sp. Pr.

A rez de chaussée—Even with the ground. Fr.

Argent comptant—Ready money. Fr.

Argent comptant porte medicine—Ready money works great cures. Fr. Pr.

Argentum accepi, dote imperium vendidi—I have received money, and sold my authority for her dowry. Plaut.

Argilla quidvis imitaberis uda—You may model 55 any form you please out of damp clay. Hor.

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation; as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading. Swift.

Argument is like an arrow from a cross-bow, which has great force though shot by a child. Bacon.

Argumentum ad crumenam—An appeal to self-interest.

Argumentum ad hominem—An argument in refutation drawn from an opponent's own principles (lit. an argument to the man).

Argumentum ad ignorantiam—An argument 60 founded on the ignorance of an adversary.

Argumentum ad invidiam—An argument which appeals to low passions.

Argumentum ad judicium—An appeal to common sense.

Argumentum ad misericordiam—An appeal to the mercy of your adversary.

Argumentum ad populum—An appeal to popular prejudice.

Argumentum ad verecundiam—An appeal to 65 respect for some authority.

Argumentum baculinum—Club argument, i.e., by physical force.

Argus at home, a mole abroad. It. Pr.

Argus-eyes—Eyes ever wakeful and watchful.

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. Bible.

[Greek: Ariston metron]—A mean or middle course is best. Cleobulus.

[Greek: Ariston men hydôr]—Water is best. Pindar.

Aristocracy has three successive ages—of superiorities, of privileges, and of vanities; having passed out of the first, it degenerates in the second, and dies away in the third. Chateaubriand.

Arma amens capio; nec sat rationis in armis—I 5 madly take to arms; but have not wit enough to use them to any purpose. Virg.

Arma cerealia—The arms of Ceres, i.e., implements connected with the preparation of corn and bread.

Arm am Beutel, krank am Herzen—Poor in purse, sick at heart. Goethe.

Arma pacis fulcra—Arms are the props of peace. M.

Arma tenenti omnia dat, qui justa negat—He who refuses what is just, gives up everything to an enemy in arms. Luc.

Arma, viri, ferte arma; vocat lux ultima victos, / 10 Nunquam omnes hodie moriemur inulti—Arms, ye men, bring me arms! their last day summons the vanquished. We shall never all die unavenged this day. Virg.

Armé de foi hardi—Bold from being armed with faith. M.

Armes blanches—Side arms. Fr.

Arm in Arm mit dir, / So fordr' ich mein Jahrhundert in die Schranken—Arm in arm with thee, I defy the century to gainsay me. Schiller.

Arms and the man I sing. Virg.

Armuth des Geistes Gott erfreut, / Armuth, 15 und nicht Armseligkeit—It is poverty of spirit that God delights in—poverty, and not beggarliness. Claudius.

Armuth ist der sechste Sinn—Poverty is the sixth sense. Ger. Pr.

Armuth ist die grösste Plage, / Reichtum ist das höchste Gut—Poverty is the greatest calamity, riches the highest good. Goethe.

Armuth ist listig, sie fängt auch einen Fuchs—Poverty is crafty; it outwits (lit. catches) even a fox. Ger. Pr.

Armuth und Hunger haben viel gelehrte Jünger—Poverty and hunger have many learned disciples. Ger. Pr.

A rogue is a roundabout fool. Coleridge. 20

A rolling stone gathers no moss. Pr.

A Rome comment à Rome—At Rome do as Rome does. Fr. Pr.

A royal heart is often hid under a tattered coat. Dan. Pr.

Arrectis auribus adsto—I wait with listening ears. Virg.

Arrière pensée—A mental reservation. Fr. 25

Arrogance is the obstruction of wisdom. Bion.

Ars artium omnium conservatrix—The art preservative of all others, viz., printing.

Ars est celare artem—It is the perfection of art to conceal art. Ovid.

Ars est sine arte, cujus principium est mentiri, medium laborare, et finis mendicare—It is an art without art, which has its beginning in falsehood, its middle in toil, and its end in poverty. Applied originally to the pursuits of the Alchemists.

Ars longa, vita brevis—Art is long, life is short. 30

Ars varia vulpis, ast una echino maxima—The fox has many tricks; the hedgehog only one, and that greatest of all. Pr.

Art does not represent things falsely, but truly as they appear to mankind. Ruskin.

Arte magistra—By the aid of art. Virg.

Art is a jealous mistress. Emerson.

Art is long and time is fleeting, / And our 35 hearts, though stout and brave, / Still, like muffled drums, are beating / Funeral marches to the grave. Longfellow.

Art is noble, but the sanctuary of the human soul is nobler still. W. Winter.

Art is not the bread indeed, but it is the wine of life. Jean Paul.

Art is simply a bringing into relief of the obscure thought of Nature. Amiel.

Art is the mediatrix of the unspeakable. Goethe.

Art is the path of the creator to his work. 40 Emerson.

Art is the work of man under the guidance and inspiration of a mightier power. Hare.