Lotis manibus—With clean-washen hands.
Loud clamour is always more or less insane. Carlyle.
Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true wit or good sense never excited a laugh since the creation of the world. Chesterfield.
Loudness is a foe to melody. Pr. 35
Louer les princes des vertus qu'ils n'ont pas, c'est leur dire impunément des injures—To praise princes for virtues which they do not possess, is to insult them with impunity. La Roche.
Louis ne sut qu'aimer, pardonner et mourir; / Il aurait su régner s'il avait su punir—Louis (XVI.) knew only how to love, pardon, and die; had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign. Tilly.
Love abounds in honey and poison. Sp. Pr.
Love accomplishes all things. Petrarch.
Love all, trust a few, / Do wrong to none; be 40 able for thine enemy / Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend / Under thy own life's key; be checked for silence, / But never tax'd for speech. All's Well, i. 1.
Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn. B. R. Haydon.
Love and friendship exclude each other. Du Cœur.
Love and gratitude are seldom found in the same breast without impairing each other ... we cannot command both together. Goldsmith.
Love and light winna hide. Sc. Pr.
Love and lordship like not fellowship. Pr. 45
Love and poverty are hard to hide. Pr.
Love and pride stock Bedlam. Pr.
Love and religion are both stronger than friendship. Disraeli.
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. Fielding.
Love and the Soul, working together, might 50 go on producing Venuses without end, each different, and all beautiful; but divorced and separated, they may continue producing indeed, yet no longer any being, or even thing, truly godlike. Ed.
Love and trust are the only mother-milk of any man's soul. Ruskin.
Love, and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation. Emerson.
Love asks faith, and faith asks firmness. Pr.
Love at two-and-twenty is a terribly intoxicating draft. Ruffini.
Love betters what is best, / Even here below, but more in heaven above. Wordsworth.
Love breaks in with lightning flash: friendship comes like dawning moonlight. Love will obtain and possess; friendship makes sacrifices but asks nothing. Geibel.
Love can do much, but duty still more. Goethe.
Love can hope where reason would despair. 5 Lyttleton.
Love can neither be bought nor sold; its only price is love. Pr.
Love cannot clasp all it yearns for in its bosom, without first suffering for it. Ward Beecher.
Love concedes in a moment what we can hardly attain by effort after years of toil. Goethe.
Love converts the hut into a palace of gold. Hölty.
Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when 10 it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and silence the expression of its yearning tenderness. Bovee.
Love delights to bring her best, / And where love is, that offering evermore is blest. Keble.
Love dies by satiety, and forgetfulness inters it. Du Cœur.
Love divine, all love excelling, / Joy of heaven to earth come down. Toplady.
Love does much, but money does more. Pr.
Love ends with hope: the sinking statesman's 15 door / Pours in the morning worshipper no more. Johnson.
Love ever flows downward. Quoted by Hare.
Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, / Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. Pope.
Love, friendship, charity are subjects all / To envious and calumniating time. Troil. and Cress., iii. 3.
Love furthers knowledge. Pr.
Love gives itself, and is not bought. Longfellow. 20
Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books; / But love from love, toward school with heavy looks. Rom. and Jul., ii. 2.
Love has made its best interpreter a sigh. Byron.
Love has no age, as it is always renewing itself. Pascal.
Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights, all the rays emitted from the beloved object, by the burning-glass of fantasy, into one focus, and making of them one radiant sun without spots. Goethe.
Love hath a large mantle. Pr. 25
Love hides ugliness. Gael. Pr.
Love in the heart is better than honey in the mouth. Pr.
Love is a bottomless pit; it is a cormorant—a harpy that devours everything. Swift.
Love is a boy by poets spoiled. S. Butler.
Love is a debt which inclination always pays, 30 obligation never. Pascal.
Love is a familiar; love is a devil: there is no evil angel but love. Yet was Samson so tempted, and he had an excellent strength; yet was Solomon so seduced, and he had a very good wit. Love's L. Lost, i. 2.
Love is a personal debt. George Herbert.
Love is a reality which is born in the fairy region of romance. Talleyrand.
Love is a secondary passion in those who love most, a primary in those who love least. He who is inspired by it in a high degree is inspired by honour in a higher; it never reaches its plenitude of growth and perfection but in the most exalted minds. Landor.
Love is a secret no man knows / Till it within 35 his bosom glows. Pr.
Love is a sleep; love is a dream; and you have lived if you have loved. Alfred De Musset.
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; / Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; / Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears: / What is it else? A madness most discreet, / A choking gall, and a preserving sweet. Rom. and Jul., i. 1.
Love is a spirit all compact of fire; / Not gross to sink, but light and will aspire. Shakespeare.
Love is a superstition that doth fear the idol which itself hath made. Sir T. Overbury.
Love is a sweet idolatry, enslaving all the soul. 40 Tupper.
Love is an exotic of the most delicate constitution. Goldsmith.
Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image; not one painted on paper, but the living essence of the divine nature, which beams full of all goodness. Luther.
Love is as warm among cottars as courtiers. Sc. Pr.
Love is as warm in fustian as in velvet. Pr.
Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty 45 follies that themselves commit. Mer. of Ven., ii. 6.
Love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage round his eyes. Blind: yes, because he does not see what he does not like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love for finding what he seeks, and only that. Emerson.
Love is deemed the tenderest (zärteste) of our affections, as even the blind and the deaf know; but I know, what few believe, that true friendship is more tender still. Platen.
Love is eternally awake, never tired with labour, nor oppressed with affliction, nor discouraged by fear. Thomas à Kempis.
Love is ever busy with his shuttle, is ever wearing into life's dull warp bright gorgeous flowers and scenes Arcadian. Longfellow.
Love is ever the beginning of knowledge, as 50 fire is of light; and works also more in the manner of fire. Carlyle.
Love is ever the gift, the sacrifice of self. Canon Liddon.
Love is full of unbefitting strains; / All wanton as a child, skipping and vain; / Formed by the eye, and therefore, like the eye, / Full of strange shapes, of habits, and of forms, / Varying in subjects as the eye doth roll / To every varied object in his glance. Love's L. Lost, v. 2.
Love is incompatible with fear. Pub. Syr.
Love is indestructible, / Its holy flame for ever burneth; / From heaven it came, to heaven returneth. Southey.
Love is just another name for the inscrutable presence by which the soul is connected with humanity. Simms.
Love is kin to duty. Lewis Morris.
Love is life's end—an end, but never ending.... 5 Love is life's wealth; ne'er spent, but ever spending.... Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding. Spenser.
Love is like the painter, who, being to draw the picture of a friend having a blemish in one eye, would picture only the other side of his face. South.
Love is loveliest when embalmed in tears. Scott.
Love is merely a madness. As You Like It, iii. 2.
Love is mightier than indignation. Ward Beecher.
Love is more pleasing than marriage, because 10 romances are more amusing than history. Chamfort.
Love is neither bought nor sold. Pr.
Love is never lasting which flames before it burns. Feltham.
Love is not a fire which can be confined within the breast; everything betrays it; and its fires imperfectly covered, only burst out the more. Racine.
Love is not altogether a delirium, yet has it many points in common therewith ... I call it rather a discerning of the Infinite in the Finite, of the Idea made Real; which discerning again may be either true or false, either seraphic or demonic, Inspiration or Insanity. Carlyle.
Love is not blind; it is an extra eye, which 15 shows us what is most worthy of regard. J. M. Barrie.
Love is not love / Which alters when it alteration finds. Shakespeare.
Love is not to be reason'd down or lost / In high ambition or a thirst of greatness. Addison.
Love is old, old as eternity, but not outworn; with each new being born or to be born. Byron.
Love is omnipresent in nature as motive and reward. Emerson.
Love is sparingly soluble in the words of men, 20 therefore they speak much of it; but one syllable of woman's speech can dissolve more of it than a man's heart can hold. Holmes.
Love is strong as death. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. Bible.
Love is strongest in pursuit, friendship in possession. Emerson.
Love is swift, sincere, pious, pleasant, gentle, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, manly, and never seeking her own. Thomas à Kempis.
Love is the bond which never corrodes. Dr. Parker.
Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness 25 of the busy. Bulwer Lytton.
Love is the eldest, noblest, and mightiest of the gods, and the chiefest author and giver of virtue in life and happiness after death. Plato.
Love is the greatest thing that God can give us, and it is the greatest we can give God. Jeremy Taylor.
Love is the joining of two souls on their way to God. J. M. Barrie.
Love is the master-key that opens every ward of the heart of man. J. H. Evans.
Love is the most easy and agreeable, and 30 gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind. Goldsmith.
Love is the mother of love. Pr.
Love is the occupation of an idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign. Napoleon.
Love is the only ink which does not fade. Dr. Parker.
Love is the only memory which strengthens with time. Dr. Parker.
Love is vanity, / Selfish in its beginning as its 35 end. Byron.
Love knows nothing of labour. It. Pr.
Love labour; for if thou dost not want it for food, thou may'st for physic. Wm. Penn.
Love laughs at locksmiths. Pr.
Love lessens the woman's refinement and strengthens the man's. Jean Paul.
Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths; 40 / Love laps his wings on either side the heart / ... Absorbing all the incense of sweet thoughts, / So that they pass not to the shrine of sound. Tennyson.
Love lightens labour and sweetens sorrow. Pr.
Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues; / Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues. Merry Wives, ii. 2.
Love, like fire, cannot subsist without continual motion, and ceases to exist as soon as it ceases to hope or fear. La Roche.
Love, like men, dies oftener of excess than hunger. Jean Paul.
Love likes not shallow mirth. Dr. Walter 45 Smith.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; / And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Mid. Night's Dream, i. 1.
Love makes labour light. J. G. Holland.
Love makes obedience lighter than liberty. W. R. Alger.
Love makes time pass away, and time makes love pass away. Fr. Pr.
Love me little, love me long, / Is the burden of 50 my song; / Love that is too hot and strong / Burneth soon to waste; / Still I would not have thee cold, / Not too backward or too bold; / Love that lasteth till 'tis old / Fadeth not in haste. Old Ballad.
Love me, love my dog. Pr.
Love mocks all sorrows but its own, and damps each joy he does not yield. Lady Dacre.
Love moderately; long love doth so; / Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. Rom. and Jul., ii. 6.
Love must be as much a light as a flame. Thoreau.
Love must be taken by stratagem, not by open force. Goldsmith.
Love never reasons, but profusely gives—gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles then lest it has done too little. Hannah More.
Love not pleasure; love God. This is the everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved: wherein whoso walks and works, it is well with him. Carlyle.
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty. Bible.
Love not thyself, nor give thy humours way; / 5 God gave them to thee under lock and key. George Herbert.
Love of gain never made a painter, but it has marred many. W. Allston.
Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of it creates a great man. Talleyrand.
Love of men cannot be bought by cash payment; and without love men cannot endure to be together. Carlyle.
Love of power, merely to make flunkeys come and go for you, is a love, I should think, which enters only into the minds of persons in a very infantine state. Carlyle.
Love of truth shows itself in being able everywhere 10 to find and value what is good. Goethe.
Love on his lips and hatred in his heart: / His motto—constancy, his creed—to part. Byron.
Love one human being with warmth and purity, and thou wilt love the world. The heart, in that celestial sphere of love, is like the sun in its course. From the drop on the rose to the ocean, all is for him a mirror, which he fills and brightens. Jean Paul.
Love one time layeth burdens, another time giveth wings. Sir P. Sidney.
Love ought to raise a low heart and not humble a high one. Ariosto.
Love ower het (hot) soon cools. Sc. Pr. 15
Love prefers twilight to daylight. Holmes.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age. Dryden.
Love requires not so much proofs as expressions of love. Jean Paul.
Love rules his kingdom without a sword. Pr.
Love rules the camp, the court, the grove, / 20 And men below and saints above; / For love is heaven, and heaven is love. Scott.
Love rules without a sword and binds without a cord. Pr.
Love rules without law. It. Pr.
Love sees what no eye sees; hears what no ear hears; and what never rose in the heart of man love prepares for its object. Lavater.
Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, / And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise. Pope.
Love should have some rest and pleasure in 25 himself, / Not ever be too curious for a boon, / Too prurient for a proof against the grain / Of him ye say ye love. Tennyson.
Love should not be all on one side. Pr.
Love shows, even to the dullest, the possibilities of the human race. Helps.
Love silence rather than speech in these tragic days, when for very speaking the voice of man has fallen inarticulate to man. Carlyle.
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. Twelfth Night, iii. 1.
Love strikes one hour—love. Those never 30 loved / Who dream that they loved once. Elizabeth B. Browning.
Love that can flow, and can admit increase, / Admits as well an ebb, and may grow less. Suckling.
Love the good and forgive the bad. Gael. Pr.
Love, the last relay and ultimate outpost of eternity. D. G. Rossetti.
Love the sense of right and wrong confounds; / Strong love and proud ambition have no bounds. Dryden.
Love thinks nae ill, envy speaks nae gude. 35 Sc. Pr.
Love thyself, and many will hate thee. Anon.
Love to a yielding heart is a king, but to a resisting is a tyrant. Sidney.
Love to make others happy; yes, surely at all times, so far as you can. But at bottom that is not the aim of any life. Do not think that your life means a mere searching in gutters for fallen creatures to wipe and set up.... In our life there is no meaning at all except the work we have done. Carlyle.
Love too late can never glow. Keble.
Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all 40 the chords with might; / Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight. Tennyson.
Love-verses, writ without any real passion, are the most nauseous of all conceits. Shenstone.
Love waits for love, though the sun be set, / And the stars come out, the dews are wet, / And the night-winds moan. Dr. Walter Smith.
Love—what a volume in a word, an ocean in a tear! Tupper.
Love, when founded in the heart, will show itself in a thousand unpremeditated sallies of fondness; but every cool deliberate exhibition of the passion only argues little understanding or great insincerity. Goldsmith.
Love which hath ends will have an end. 45 Dryden.
Love, which is only an episode in the life of a man, is the entire history of a woman's life. Mme. de Staël.
Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man. Emerson.
Love will creep where it cannot go. Pr.
Love will find its way / Through paths where wolves would fear to prey. Byron.
Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope, 50 but not altogether without it. Scott.
Love with men is not a sentiment, but an idea. Mme. de Girardin.
Love without return is like a question without an answer. Ger. Pr.
Love worketh no ill to his neighbour; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. St. Paul.
Love works a different way in different minds, / The fool enlightens and the wise he blinds. Dryden.
Love yet lives, and patience shall find rest. Keble.
Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you, bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you. Jesus.
Love your neighbour, but don't tear down the fence. Ger. Pr.
Love yourself, and in that love / Not unconsidered leave your honour. Hen. VIII., i. 2.
Love's fire, if it once go out, is hard to kindle. 5 Pr.
Love's heralds should be thoughts, / Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams / Driving back shadows over lowering hills. Rom. and Jul., ii. 5.
Love's not love / When it is mingled with regards that stand / Aloof from the entire point. Lear, i. 1.
Love's of a strangely open simple kind, / And thinks none sees it 'cause itself is blind. Cowley.
Love's of itself too sweet; the best of all / Is when love's honey has a dash of gall. Herrick.
Love's plant must be watered with tears and 10 tended with care. Dan. Pr.
Love's reasons without reason. Cymbeline, iv. 2.
Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words, and resorts to the pantomime of sighs and glances. Bovee.
Love's the noblest frailty of the mind. Dryden.
Love's true function in the world is as the regenerator and restorer of social life, the reconciler and uniter of living men. Ed.
Love's voice doth sing as sweetly in a beggar 15 as a king. Decker.
Lovely, far more lovely, the sturdy gloom of laborious indigence than the fawning simper of thriving adulation. Goldsmith.
Loveliness does more than destroy ugliness; it destroys matter. A mere touch of it in a room, in a street, even on a door-knocker, is a spiritual force. Prof. Drummond.
Loveliness / Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, / But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most. Thomson.
Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, / Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend / More than cool reason ever comprehends. Mid. Night's Dream, v. 1.
Lovers are as punctual as the sun. Goethe. 20
Lovers are never tired of each other; they always speak of themselves. La Roche.
Lovers break not hours, / Unless it be to come before their time; / So much they spur their expedition. Two Gent. of Ver., v. 1.
Lovers' purses are tied with cobwebs. Pr.
Lovers (Verliebte) see only each other in the world, but they forget that the world sees them. Platen.
Lovers' time runs faster than the clock. 25 Pr.
Loving goes by haps; some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. Much Ado, iii. 1.
Lowliness is the base of every virtue, and he who goes the lowest builds the safest. Bailey.
Lowliness is young ambition's ladder, / Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; / But when he once attains the upmost round, / He then unto the ladder turns his back, / Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees / By which he did ascend. Jul. Cæs., ii. 1.
Loyal à la mort—Loyal to death. M.
Loyal en tout—Loyal in all. M. 30
Loyal je serai durant ma vie—I will be loyal during my life. M.
Loyauté m'oblige—Loyalty binds me. M.
Loyauté n'a honte—Loyalty feels no shame. M.
Lubrici sunt fortunæ gressus—The footsteps of fortune are slippery.
Lubricum linguæ non facile in pœnam est 35 trahendum—A slip of the tongue ought not to be rashly punished. L.
[Greek: Lychnou arthentos, gynê pasa hê autê]—When the candle is taken away, every woman is alike. Gr. Pr.
Luck is ever waiting for something to turn up. Labour, with keen eyes and strong will, will turn up something. Luck relies on chance, labour on character. Cobden.
Luck is everything in promotion. Cervantes.
Luck is the idol of the idle. Pr.
Luck, mere luck, may make even madness 40 wisdom. Douglas Jerrold.
Luck seeks those who flee, and flees those who seek it. Ger. Pr.
Lucri bonus est odor ex re / Qualibet—The smell of gain is good, from whatever it proceeds. Juv.
Luctantem Icariis fluctibus Africum / Mercator metuens, otium et oppidi / Laudat rura sui: mox reficit rates / Quassas, indocilis pauperiem pati—The merchant, dreading the south-west wind wrestling with the Icarian waves, praises retirement and the rural life of his native town, but soon he repairs his shattered bark, incapable of being taught to endure poverty. Hor.
Ludere cum sacris—To trifle with sacred things.
Ludit in humanis divina potestas rebus, / Et 45 certam præsens vix habet hora fidem—The divine power sports with human affairs so much that we can scarcely be sure of the passing hour. Ovid.
Lugete o Veneres Cupidinesque—Weep, all ye Venuses and Cupids. Cat.
Lull'd in the countless chambers of the brain, / Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; / Awake but one, and lo! what myriads rise! / Each stamps its image as the other flies. Rogers.
Lupo agnum eripere postulant—They insist on snatching the lamb from the wolf. Plaut.
Lupo ovem commisisti—You have put the sheep to the care of the wolf. Ter.
Lupus in fabula—It is the wolf in the story; 50 talking of him, he appeared.
Lupus non curat numerum (ovum)—The wolf is not scared by the number of the sheep. Pr.
Lupus pilum mutat, non mentem—The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition. Pr.
Lusisti satis, edisti satis, atque bibisti; / Tempus abire tibi est—Thou hast amused thyself enough, hast eaten and drunk enough; 'tis time for thee to depart. Hor.
Lust—hard by fate. Milton.
Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop. St. Ambrose.
Lust is an enemy to the purse, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and a mortal bane to all the body. Pliny.
Lust is, of all the frailties of our nature, / What most we ought to fear; the headstrong beast / Rushes along, impatient of the course; / Nor hears the rider's call, nor fears the rein. Rowe.
Lust of gain, in the spirit of Cain, is it better 5 or worse / Than the heart of the citizen hissing in war on his own hearthstone? Tennyson.
Lust und Liebe sind die Fittiche / Zu grossen Thaten—Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds. Goethe.
Lust yielded to is a pleasant madness, but it is a desperate madness when opposed. Bp. Hall.
Lusus naturæ—A freak of nature.
Luther's shoes don't fit every country parson. Ger. Pr.
Luther's words are half battles. Jean Paul. 10
Luxuriæ desunt multa, avaritiæ omnia—Luxury is in want of many things; avarice, of everything. Pub. Syr.
Luxuriant animi rebus plerumque secundis; / Nec facile est æqua commoda mente pati—The feelings generally run riot in prosperity; and to bear good fortune with evenness of mind is no easy task. Ovid.
Luxury is a nice master, hard to be pleased. Sir G. Mackenzie.
Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail. Victor Hugo.
Luxury possibly may contribute to give bread 15 to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor. H. Home.
Lydius lapis—A Lydian or test stone.
Lying and stealing live next door to each other. Pr.
Lying is a breach of promise; for whoever seriously addresses his discourse to another tacitly promises to speak the truth, because he knows the truth is expected. Paley.
Lying is a disgraceful vice, "affording testimony," as Plutarch says, "that one first despises God and then fears men." Montaigne.
Lying is the strongest acknowledgment of 20 the force of truth. Hazlitt.
Lying lips are an abomination unto the Lord. Bible.
Lying may be pernicious in its general tendency, and therefore criminal, though it produce no particular or visible mischief to any one. Paley.
Lying pays no tax. Pr.
Lying rides on debt's back. Pr.
Lynx envers nos pareils, et taupes envers 25 nous—Lynx-eyed to our neighbours, and mole-eyed to ourselves. La Fontaine.
Lyrical poetry is much the same in every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time. Heine.
Ma vie est un combat—My life is a battle. Voltaire.
Macbeth does murder sleep, the innocent sleep; / Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care, / The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, / Balm of hurt minds, great Nature's second course, / Chief nourisher in life's feast. Macb., ii. 2.
Mach' dich nicht zu hoch, die Thür ist niedrig—Don't carry your head too high; the door is low. Ger. Pr.
Mach' es Wenigen recht: Vielen gefallen ist 30 schlimm—Be content to please a few; to please many is bad. Schiller.
Machines cannot increase the possibilities of life, only the possibilities of idleness. Ruskin.
Macht, was ihr wollt; nur lasst mich ungeschoren—Produce what ye like, only leave me unmolested (lit. unshorn). Goethe.
Mächtig in Werke, nicht in Worte—Mighty in deeds, not in words. Ger. Pr.
Macies et nova febrium / Terris incubuit cohors—A wasting disease and an unheard-of battalion of fevers have swooped down on the earth. Hor.
Macte nova virtute, puer, sic itur ad astra—Go 35 on in new deeds of valour, my son! That is the way to the stars. Virg.
Macte virtute—Persevere in virtue; go on and prosper.
Macte virtute diligentiaque esto—Persevere in virtue and diligence. Livy.
Maculæ quas incuria fudit—The blemishes, or errors, which carelessness has produced. Hor.
Mad bulls cannot be tied up with a packthread. Pr.
Mad dogs cannot live long. Pr. 40
Mad people think others mad. Pr.
Madame fut douce envers la mort, comme elle l'était envers tout le monde—She was gentle towards death, as she was towards every one. Bossuet.
Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go. Ham., iii. 1.
Madness is consistent, which is more than can be said for poor reason. Our passions and principles are steady in frenzy, but begin to shift and waver as we return to reason. Sterne.
Madness is the last stage of human debasement. 45 It is the abdication of humanity. Better to die a thousand times! Napoleon.
Madruga y verás, trabaja y habrás—Rise betimes, and you will see; labour diligently, and you will have. Sp. Pr.
Magalia quondam—Formerly humble huts stood here. Virg.
Magasins de nouveautés—Linen-draper's, or fancy goods', shop. Fr.
Magis gaudet quam qui senectam exuit—He rejoices more than an old man who has put off old age, i.e., has become young again. Pr.
Magis magni clerici non sunt magis sapientes—The 50 greater scholars are not the wisest men. Pr.
Magister alius casus—Misfortune is a second master. Pliny the elder.
Magister artis ingeniique largitor / Venter—The belly (i.e., hunger or necessity) is the teacher of arts and the bestower of genius. Pers.
Magister dixit—The master has said so.
Magistratum legem esse loquentem, legem autem mutum magistratum—A judge is a speaking law, law a silent judge. Cic.
Magistratus indicat virum—Office shows the 5 man. M.
Magna Charta—The Great Charter (obtained from King John in 1215).
Magna civitas, magna solitudo—A great city is a great desert. Gr. and L. Pr.
Magna comitante caterva—A great crowd accompanying. Virg.
Magna est admiratio copiose sapienterque dicentis—Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion. Cic.
Magna est veritas et prævalebit—Truth is 10 mighty, and will in the end prevail.
Magna est vis consuetudinis: hæc ferre laborem, contemnere vulnus et dolorem docet—Great is the power of habit: teaching us as it does to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain. Cic.
Magna fuit quondam capitis reverentia cani, / Inque suo pretio ruga senilis erat—Great was the respect paid of old to the hoary head, and great the honour to the wrinkles of age. Ovid.
Magna servitus est magna fortuna—A great fortune is a great slavery. Sen.
Magna vis est, magnum nomen, unum et idem sentientis senatus—Great is the power, great the authority, of a senate which is unanimous in its opinions. Cic.
Magnæ felicitates multum caliginis mentibus 15 humanis objiciunt—Great and sudden prosperity has a deadening (lit. densely darkening) effect on the human mind. Sen.
Magnæ fortunæ comes adest adulatio—Adulation is ever the attendant on great wealth.
Magnanimiter crucem sustine—Bear up bravely under the cross. M.
Magnanimity is the good sense of pride, and the noblest way of acquiring applause. La Roche.
Magnanimity owes to prudence no account of its motives. Vauvenargues.
Magnas inter opes inops—Poor in the midst 20 of great wealth. Hor.
Magni animi est injurias despicere—It is the mark of a great mind to despise injuries. Sen.
Magni animi est magna contemnere, ac mediocria malle quam nimia—It is a sign of a great mind to despise greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess. Sen.
Magni est ingenii revocare mentem a sensibus, et cogitationem a consuetudine abducere—It argues a mind of great native force to be able to emancipate itself from the thraldom of the senses, and to wean its thoughts from old habits. Cic.
Magni nominis umbra—The shadow of a great name. Lucan.
Magni refert quibuscum vixeris—It matters a 25 great deal with whom you live. Pr.
Magnificat—The song of the Virgin Mary (lit. she magnifies). Luke, i. 44-45.
Magnificence cannot be cheap, for what is cheap cannot be magnificent. Johnson.
Magnis excidit ausis—He failed in bold attempts. Ovid.
Magno conatu magnas nugas—By great efforts to obtain great trifles. Ter.
Magno cum periculo custoditur, quod multis 30 placet—That is guarded at great risk which is coveted by many. Pub. Syr.
Magno de flumine mallem / Quam ex hoc fonticulo tantundem sumere—I had rather take my glass of water from a great river like this than from this little fountain. Hor., in reproof of those who lay by large stores and never use them.
Magnorum haud unquam indignus avorum—Never unworthy of his illustrious ancestors. Virg.
Magnum est argumentum in utroque fuisse moderatum—It speaks volumes for man that, when placed in quite different situations, he displays in each the same spirit of moderation.
Magnum hoc ego duco / Quod placui tibi qui turpi secernis honestum—I account it a great honour that I have pleased a man like you, who know so well to discriminate between the base and the honourable. Hor.
Magnum hoc vitium vino est, / Pedes captat 35 primum; luctator dolosus est—This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler. Plaut.
Magnum pauperies opprobrium jubet / Quidvis aut facere aut pati—Poverty, that deep disgrace, bids us do or suffer anything. Hor.
Magnum vectigal est parsimonia—Thrift is a great revenue. Cic.
Magnus ab integro sæclorum nascitur ordo—The great cycle of the ages begins its round anew. Virg.
Magnus Alexander corpore parvus erat—The great Alexander was small in stature. Pr.
Magnus animus remissius loquitur et securius—The 40 talk of a great soul is at once more careless and confident than that of other men. Sen.
Magnus Apollo—A great oracle.
Magnus sine viribus ignis / Incassum furit—A great fire, unless you feed it, spends its rage in vain. Virg.
Mãi aguçosa, filha preguiçosa—A busy mother makes slothful daughters. Port. Pr.
Maidens' bairns and bachelors' wives are aye weel bred. Sc. Pr.
Maidens, like moths, are ever caught with 45 glare, / And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair. Byron.
Maidens should be mild and meek, / Swift to hear, and slow to speak. Pr.
Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. As You Like It, iv. 1.
Maids should be seen and not heard. Pr.
Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them they want everything. Somerset Pr.
Maids well summered, and warm kept, are like 50 flies at Bartholomew-tide—blind, though they have their eyes. Hen. V., v. 2.
Maintien le droit—Maintain the right. M.
Mair by luck than gude guiding (management). Sc. Pr.
Mais au moindre revers funeste / Le masque tombe, l'homme reste / Et le héros s'évanouit—But at the least sad reverse the mask drops off, the man remains, and the hero vanishes. J. B. Rousseau.
Mais de quoi sont composées les affaires du monde? Du bien d'autrui—By of what is the business of the world made up? Of the wealth of other people. Béroalde Verville.
Maison d'arrêt—A jail, a prison. Fr.
Maison de force—A house of correction. Fr.
Maître Jacques—A handy fellow who is ready to 5 undertake all kinds of work. Fr.
Major e longinquo reverentia—Respect is greater at a distance. Tac.
Major famæ sitis est quam / Virtutis; quis enim virtutem amplectitur ipsam, / Præmia si tollas?—The thirst for fame is greater than that for virtue; for, if you take away its reward, who would embrace virtue? Juv.
Major hereditas venit unicuique nostrum a jure et legibus, quam a parentibus—A more valuable inheritance falls to each of us in our civil and legal rights than comes to us from our fathers. Cic.
Major privato visus, dum privatus fuit, et omnium consensu capax imperii, nisi imperasset—He was regarded as greater than a private individual so long as he remained one, and, by the consent of all, would have been deemed worthy to rule had he never ruled. Tac., of the Emperor Galba.
Major rerum mihi nascitur ordo—A greater 10 succession of events presents itself to my muse. Virg.
Major sum quam cui possit Fortuna nocere / Multaque ut eripiat, multo mihi plura relinquet. / Excessere metum mea jam bona—I am above being injured by fortune; though she snatch away much, more will remain to me. The blessings I now enjoy transcend fear. Ov.
Majore tumultu / Planguntur nummi quam funera, nemo dolorem / Fingit in hoc casu / ... Ploratur lacrimis amissa pecunia veris—Money is bewailed with a greater tumult than death. No one feigns grief in this case.... The loss of money is deplored with true tears. Juv.
Majoresque cadunt altis de montibus umbræ—And the shadows lengthen as they fall from the lofty mountains. Virg.
Majori cedo—I retire before my superior.
Majority is applied to number, and superiority 15 to power. Johnson.
Majus et minus non variant speciem—Greater and less don't change the nature of a thing.
Make a crutch of your cross. Pr.
Make a virtue of necessity. Burton.
Make all sure, and keep all pure. Pr.
Make clean thy conscience; hide thee there. 20 Quarles.
Make clean work, and leave no tags. Allow no delays when you are at a thing; do it and be done with it. Prof. Blackie.
Make doors fast upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that, and 'twill out at the keyhole. As You Like It, iv. 1.
Make every bargain clear and plain, / That none may afterwards complain. Pr.
Make good cheese, if you make little. Pr.
Make haste slowly. Pr. 25
Make hay while the sun shines. Pr.
Make it an invariable and obligatory law to yourself never to mention your own mental diseases. When you talk of them, it is plain that you want either praise or pity; for praise there is no room, and pity will do you no good. Johnson.
Make knowledge circle with the winds; / But let her herald, Reverence, fly / Before her to whatever sky / Bear seed of men and growth of minds. Tennyson.
Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm. Colton.
Make not a bosom friend of a melancholy sad 30 soul.... He goes always heavy-loaded, and thou must bear half. Fenélon.
Make not another's shoes by your own foot. Pr.
Make not thy friend too cheap to thee, nor thyself to thy friend. Pr.
Make not thy sport abuses; for the fly, / That feeds on dung, is coloured thereby. George Herbert.
Make not thy tail broader than thy wings. Pr.
Make not two sorrows of one. Pr. 35
Make short the miles with talk and smiles. Pr.
Make temperance thy companion, so shall health sit on thy brow. Dodsley.
Make the most and the best of your lot, and compare yourself not with the few that are above you, but with the multitudes which are below you. Johnson.
Make the most of time, it flies away so fast; yet method will teach you to win time. Goethe.
Make the night night, and the day day, and 40 you will have a pleasant time of it. Port. Pr.
Make the plaster as large as the sore. Pr.
Make thee my knight? my knights are sworn to vows / Of utter hardihood, utter gentleness, / And, loving, utter faithfulness in love, / And uttermost obedience to the king. Tennyson.
Make thick my blood, / Stop up the access and passage to remorse, / That no compunctious visitings of Nature / Shake my fell purpose. Macb., i. 5.
Make thy claim of wages for this world, and all worlds, at zero—at nothing; thus, and thus only, hast thou the world at thy feet. Carlyle.
Make your educational laws strict, and your 45 criminal ones may be gentle; but leave youth its liberty, and you will have to dig dungeons for age. Ruskin.
Make your hay as best you may. Pr.
Make your mark, but mind what your mark is. Pr.
Make yourself an ass, and you'll have every man's sack on your shoulders. Dan. Pr.
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world. Carlyle.
Make yourself necessary to the world and 50 mankind will give you bread. Emerson.
Make yourselves necessary to somebody. Emerson.
Mal à propos—Ill-timed; unseasonable. Fr.
Mala causa silenda est—'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause. Ovid.
Mala fides—Bad faith.
Mala gallina, malum ovum—Bad hen, bad egg. Pr.
Mala grammatica non vitiat chartam—Bad grammar does not vitiate a deed. L.
Mala mali malo mala contulit omnia mundo—The jawbone of the evil one by means of an apple brought all evils into the world.
Mala mens, malus animus—Bad mind, bad 5 heart. Ter.
Mala merx hæc, et callida est—She's a bad bargain and a crafty one. Plaut.
Mala ultro adsunt—Misfortunes come unsought. Pr.
Maladie du pays—Home-sickness. Fr.
Male cuncta ministrat / Impetus—Violence (of passion) conducts everything badly. Stat.
Male imperando summum imperium amittitur—By 10 misgovernment the supreme rule is lost. Pub. Syr.
Male parta male dilabuntur—Things ill gotten go ill. Pr.
Male partum male disperit—Property ill got is ill spent; lightly come, lightly go. Plaut.
Male secum agit æger, medicum qui hæredem facit—A sick man acts foolishly for himself who makes his doctor his heir.
Male verum examinat omnis / Corruptus judex—Badly is the truth weighed by a corrupt judge. Hor.
Male vivunt qui se semper victuros putant—They 15 live ill who think they will live for ever. Pub. Syr.
Malebranche saw all things in God, and M. Necker saw all things in Necker. Mirabeau.
Maledicus a malefico non distat nisi occasione—An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer in nothing but want of opportunity. Quinct.
Malesuada fames—Hunger that tempts to evil. Virg.
Malheureux celui qui est en avance de son siècle—Unhappy is the man who is in advance of his time. Fr. Pr.
Mali principii malus finis—Bad beginnings have 20 bad endings (lit. a bad end of a bad beginning). Ter.
Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate, that it often involves the agent and the patient. Government of the Tongue.
Malice sucks up the greatest part of our own venom, and poisons herself. Montaigne.
Malim indisertam prudentiam, quam stultitiam loquacem—I prefer sense that is faulty in expression to loquacious folly. Cic.
Malim inquietam libertatem quam quietum servitium—I would prefer turbulent liberty to quiet slavery.
Malis avibus—With a bad omen (lit. with bad 25 birds). Cic.
Malo benefacere tantumdem est periculum / Quantum bono malefacere—To do good to the bad is a danger just as great as to do bad to the good. Plaut.
Malo cum Platone errare, quam cum aliis recte sentire—I had rather be wrong with Plato than think right with others. Cic.
Malo mihi male quam molliter esse—I prefer being ill to being idle. Sen.
Malo mori quam fœdari—I had rather die than be disgraced. M.
Malo nodo malus quærendus cuneus—For a 30 hard knot a hard tool must be sought. Pr.
Malorum facinorum ministri quasi exprobrantes aspiciuntur—Accomplices in evil actions are always regarded as reproaching the deed. Tac.
Malum consilium consultori pessimum—Bad advice is most pernicious to the adviser. Ver. Flaccus.
Malum est consilium quod mutari non potest—That is bad counsel which cannot be changed. Pub. Syr.
Malum in se—A thing evil in itself.
Malum nascens facile opprimitur; inveteratum 35 fit robustius—An evil habit is easily subdued in the beginning, but when it becomes inveterate it gains strength. Cic.
Malum prohibitum—A crime because forbidden by law, such as smuggling. L.
Malum vas non frangitur—A worthless vessel is seldom broken. Pr.
Malus bonum ubi se simulat, tunc est pessimus—A bad man, when he pretends to be a good one, is worst of all. Pub. Syr.
Malus est enim custos diuturnitatis metus, contraque benevolentia fidelis vel ad perpetuitatem—Fear is a bad preserver of that which is intended to last; whereas mildness and good-will ensure fidelity for ever. Cic.
Malus usus est abolendus—An evil custom should 40 be abolished. L.
Mammon has enriched his thousands, and has damned his ten thousands. South.
Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell / From heaven. Milton.
Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair. Byron.
Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed. Sir W. Temple.
Man always worships something; always he 45 sees the infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon. Carlyle.
Man am I grown, a man's work must I do. / Follow the deer? follow the Christ, the King, / Live pure, speak true, right wrong, follow the King—/ Else wherefore born? Tennyson.
Man and man only can do the impossible; / ... He to the moment endurance can lend. Goethe.
Man becomes greater in proportion as he learns to know himself and his faculty. Let him once become conscious of what he is, and he will soon also learn to be what he should. Schelling.
Man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart. Amiel.
Man, behind his everlasting blind, which he 50 only colours differently, and makes no thinner, carries his pride with him from one step to another, and on the higher step blames only the pride of the lower. Jean Paul.
Man can dispense with much but not with men. Börne.
Man can elect the universal man, / And live in life that ends not with his breath. R. W. Dixon.
Man can invent nothing nobler than humanity. Ruskin.
Man can only learn to rise from the consideration of that which he cannot surmount. Jean Paul.
Man cannot be a naturalist, until he satisfies all the demands of the spirit. Emerson.
Man cannot choose his duties. George Eliot.
Man cannot live without his formulas. Dr. Walter Smith.
Man carries under his hat a private theatre, 5 wherein a greater drama is acted than ever on the mimic stage, beginning and ending in eternity. Carlyle.
Man consists in truth. If he exposes truth, he exposes himself. If he betrays truth, he betrays himself. We speak not here of lies, but of acting against conviction. Novalis.
Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food; but God has given us wit, and flavour, and brightness, and laughter, and perfumes, to enliven the day of man's pilgrimage, and to charm his pained steps over the burning marl. Sydney Smith.
Man creeps into childhood, bounds into youth, sobers into manhood, and softens into age. H. Giles.
Man darf nur sterben, um gelobt zu werden—One has but to die to be praised. Ger. Pr.
Man delights not me; no, nor woman neither. 10 Ham., ii. 2.
Man disputirt mehr über die Schaale, als über den Kern—People dispute more about the shell than the kernel. Ger. Pr.
Man does not willingly submit himself to reverence; or rather, he never so submits himself: it is a higher sense which must be communicated to his nature, which only in some peculiarly favoured individuals unfolds itself spontaneously, who on this account too have of old been looked upon as saints and gods. Goethe.
Man does not wish to be told the truth. Pascal.
Man doth what he can, and God what He will. Pr.
Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to 15 love. Tennyson.
Man ever tends to reckon his own insight as final, and goes upon it as such. Carlyle.
Man everywhere is the born enemy of lies. Carlyle.
Man findet tausend Gelehrte, bis man auf einen weisen Mann stösst—We may come upon a thousand men of learning before we stumble upon a single wise man. Klinger.
Man for the field and woman for the hearth; / Man for the sword and for the needle she: / Man with the head and woman with the heart: / Man to command and woman to obey; / All else confusion. Tennyson.
Man, forget not death, for death certainly forgets 20 not thee. Turkish Pr.
Man gives up all pretension to the infinite while he feels here that neither with thought nor without it is he equal to the finite. Goethe.
Man had not a hammer to begin, not a syllabled articulation; they had it all to make—and they have made it. Carlyle.
Man has a brief flowering season and a long fading. Uhland.
Man has a silent and solitary literature written by his heart upon the tables of stone in Nature; and next to God's finger, a man's heart writes the most memorable things. Ward Beecher.
Man has a soul as certainly as he has a body; 25 nay, much more certainly; properly it is the course of his unseen spiritual life, which informs and rules his external visible life, rather than receives rule from it, in which spiritual life the true secret of his history lies. Carlyle.
Man has always humour enough to make merry with what he cannot help. Goethe.
Man has ever been a striving, struggling, and, in spite of wide-spread calumnies to the contrary, a veracious creature. Carlyle.
Man has in his own soul an Eternal; can read something of the Eternal there, if he will look. Carlyle.
Man has not a greater enemy than himself. Petrarch.
Man has quite a peculiar pleasure in making 30 proselytes; in causing others to enjoy what he enjoys, in finding his own likeness represented and reflected back to him. Goethe.
Man has seldom an offer of kindness to make to a woman but she has a presentiment of it some moments before. Sterne.
Man has two and a half minutes here below—one to smile, one to sigh, and half a one to love; for in the midst of this minute he dies. Jean Paul.
Man, if he compare himself with all he can see, is at the zenith of his power; but if he compare himself with all he can conceive, he is at the nadir of his weakness. Colton.
Man is a born owl. Carlyle.
Man is a bundle of habits. Pr. 35
Man is a darkened being; he knows not whence he comes, nor whither he goes; he knows little of the world and least of himself. Goethe.
Man is a fallen god, who remembers heaven, his former dwelling-place. Lamartine.
Man is a forked radish with head fantastically carved. Swift.
Man is a forked straddling animal with bandy legs. Swift.
Man is a military animal, / Glories in gunpowder 40 and loves parade. P. J. Bailey.
Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. Sir T. Browne.
Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction. Hazlitt.
Man is a spirit, and bound by invisible bonds to all men. Carlyle.
Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Emerson.
Man is a substance clad in shadows. John 45 Sterling.
Man is a sun; his senses are the planets. Novalis.
Man is a tool-using animal; ... without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. Carlyle.
Man is actually here, not to ask questions but to do work; in this time, as in all times, it must be the heaviest evil for him if his faculty of action lie dormant, and only that of sceptical inquiry exert itself. Carlyle.
Man is an animal that cooks his victuals. Burke.
Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this. Adam Smith.
Man is an imitative creature, and whoever is foremost leads the herd. Schiller.
Man is, and always was, a blockhead and dullard; much readier to feel and digest than to think and consider. Carlyle.