Quo semel est imbuta recens servabit odorem / Testa diu—The jar will long retain the odour of the liquor with which, when new, it was once saturated. Hor.
Quo teneam vultus mutantem Protea nodo?—By 45 what noose shall I hold this Proteus who is ever changing his shape? Hor.
Quoad hoc—So far (lit. as regards this).
Quocirca vivite fortes / Fortiaque adversis opponite pectora rebus—Wherefore live as brave men, and front adversity with stout hearts.
Quocunque aspicio, nihil est nisi mortis imago—Wherever I look I see nothing but some form of death. Ovid.
Quod avertat Deus!—God forbid!
Quod cito fit, cito perit—What is done quickly does not last long.
Quod commune cum alio est, desinit esse proprium—What we share with another ceases to be our own. Quinct.
Quod decet honestum est et quod honestum est decet—What is becoming is honourable, and what is honourable is becoming. Cic.
Quod eorum minimis mihi—As to the least of 5 these, so to me. M.
Quod erat demonstrandum—Which was to be proved.
Quod erat faciendum—Which was to be done.
Quod est absurdum—Which is absurd.
Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: cœli / Scrutantur plagas—What is at his feet no one looks at; they scan the tracks of heaven. Enn.
Quod licet Jovi, non licet bovi—What is allowed 10 to Jupiter is not allowed to the ox.
Quod medicorum est / Promittunt medici, tractant fabrilia fabri / Scribimus indocti doctique poemata passim—Doctors practise what belongs to doctors, workmen handle the tools they have been trained to, but all of us everywhere, trained and untrained, alike write verses. Hor.
Quod nimis miseri volunt, hoc facile credunt—Whatever the wretched anxiously wish for, they are ready to believe. Sen.
Quod non opus est, asse carum est—What you don't need is dear at a doit. Cato.
Quod non vetat lex, hoc vetat fieri pudor—Modesty forbids what the law does not. Sen.
Quod nunc ratio est, impetus ante fuit—What 15 is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct. Ovid.
Quod potui perfeci—What I could I have done. M.
Quod satis est cui contingit, nihil amplius optet—Let him who for his share has enough wish for nothing more. Hor.
Quod scripsi, scripsi—What I have written, I have written.
Quod semper, quod ubique, et quod ab omnibus—What has been always, been everywhere, and been by all believed.
Quot servi, tot hostes—So many servants you 20 maintain, so many enemies.
Quod sis esse velis, nihilque malis: / Summum nec metuas diem, nec optes—Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, neither fear nor wish for your last day. Mart.
Quod sursum volo videre—I wish to see that which is above. M.
Quod verum est, meum est—What is true belongs to me (whoever said it). Sen.
Quod verum tutum—What is true is safe. M.
Quod vide (or videas)—Which see. 25
Quondam his vicimus armis—We formerly conquered with these arms. M.
Quot capitum vivunt, totidem studiorum—There are as many thousands of different tastes of pursuits as there are individuals alive. Hor.
Quot cœlum stellas, tot habet tua Roma puellas—There are as many girls in your Rome as there are stars in the sky. Ovid.
Quotation confesses inferiority. Emerson.
Quotation, like much better things, has its 30 abuses. One may quote till one compiles. I. Disraeli
Quotations from profane authors, cold allusions, false pathetic, antitheses and hyperboles, are out of doors. La Bruyère.
Quum Romæ fueris, Romano vivite more—When you are at Rome live after the fashion at Rome. Pr.
Quum talis sis, utinam noster esses!—How I wish you were one of us, since I find you so worthy! L.
Racine passera comme le café—Racine will go out of fashion like coffee. Mme. de Sévigné.
Rage avails less than courage. Fr. Pr. 35
Rage is for little wrongs; despair is dumb. Hannah More.
Rage is mental imbecility. H. Ballou.
Raggio d'asino non arriva al cielo—The braying of an ass does not reach heaven. It. Pr.
Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public. Lamb.
Rail not in answer, but be calm, / For silence 40 yields a rapid balm; / Live it down! Dr. Henry Rink.
Railing and praising were his usual themes; / And both, to show his judgment, in extremes; / So over-violent or over-civil, / That every man with him was god or devil. Dryden.
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favour of one's wit against one's good nature. Montaigne.
Raillery is sometimes more insupportable than wrong; because we have a right to resent injuries, but it is ridiculous to be angry at a jest. La Roche.
Railway travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel. Ruskin.
Rainy days will surely come; / Take your 45 friend's umbrella home. Saying.
Raise nae mair deils than ye're able to lay. Sc. Pr.
Raison d'état—A reason of state. Pr.
Raison d'être—The reason for a thing's existence.
Raisonner sur l'amour, c'est perdre la raison—To reason about love is to lose reason. Bouflers.
Rake not into the bowels of unwelcome truth 50 to save a halfpenny. Lamb.
Rami felicia poma ferentes—Branches bearing beauteous fruit. Ovid.
Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains. Ruffini.
Rank is a great beautifier. Bulwer Lytton.
Rank is but the guinea's stamp, / The man's the gowd for a' that. Burns.
Raphael wäre ein grosser Maler geworden, 55 selbst wenn er ohne Hände auf die Welt gekommen wäre—Raphael would have been a great painter even if he had come into the world without hands. Lessing.
Rapiamus, amici, / Occasionem de die—Let us, my friends, snatch our opportunity from the passing day. Hor.
Rapt with zeal, pathetic, bold, and strong, / Roll'd the full tide of eloquence along. Falconer.
Rara avis in terris, nigroque similima cygno—A bird rarely seen on earth, and very much resembling a black swan. Juv.
Rara est adeo concordia formæ / Atque pudicitiæ—So rare is the union of beauty with modesty. Juv.
Rara fides pietasque viris qui castra sequuntur—Faith and piety are rare among the men who follow the camp. Lucan.
Rara temporum felicitate, ubi sentire quæ 5 velis, et quæ sentias dicere licet—Such was the happiness of the times, that you might think as you chose and speak as you thought. Tac.
Rare benevolence, the minister of God. Carlyle.
Rari nantes in gurgite vasto—Swimming one here and another there in the vast abyss. Virg.
Rari quippe boni; numero vix sunt totidem quot / Thebarum portæ, vel divitis ostia Nili—Rare indeed are the good; in number they are scarcely as many as the gates of Thebes or the mouths of the fertile Nile. Juv.
Rarity imparts a charm; thus early fruits and winter roses are most prized; thus coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while a door ever open tempts no suitor. Mart.
Rarity / Of Christian charity / Under the sun. 10 T. Hood.
Raro antecedentem scelestum / Deseruit pede pœna claudo—Rarely does punishment, with halting foot, fail to overtake the criminal in his flight. Hor.
Raro sermo illis, et magna libido tacendi—They seldom speak, and have a great conceit of holding their tongues. Juv.
Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in illa / Fortuna—Common sense is generally rare in that position of life, i.e., in high rank. Juv.
Rascals are always sociable, and the test of a man's nobility is the small pleasure he has in others' society. Schiller.
Rasch tritt der Tod den Menschen an, / Es ist 15 ihm keine Frist gegeben, / Es stürzt ihn mitten in der Bahn, / Es reisst ihn fort vom vollen Leben. / Bereitet oder nicht; zu gehen, / Er muss vor seinen Richter stehen—Death of a sudden arrests his victim, man; there is no respite given; he falls upon him in midday, and tears him away when life is at the full. Ready to go or not, he must stand before his judge. Schiller.
Rashness is the faithful but unhappy parent of misfortune. Fuller.
Rast' ich, so rost' ich—Rest I, rust I. Luther.
Rast macht Rost—Rest breeds rust. Ger. Pr.
Rathe Niemand ungebeten—Advise no man unasked. Ger. Pr.
Rathen ist leichter denn helfen—To advise is 20 easier than to help. Ger. Pr.
Rathen ist nicht zwingen—To advise is not to compel. Ger. Pr.
Rather an egg to-day than a hen to-morrow. Dan. Pr.
Rather assume thy right in silence and de facto, than voice it with claims and challenges. Bacon.
Rather bear those ills we have / Than fly to others that we know not of. Ham., iii. 1.
Rather find what beauty is than anxiously inquire 25 what it is. Goethe.
Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt. Ben. Franklin.
Rather let my head stoop to the block than these knees bow to any save to the God of heaven. 2 Hen. VI., iv. 1.
Rather than be less, / Cared not to be at all. Milton.
Rather to do nothing than to do good is the lowest state of a degraded mind. Johnson.
Ratio decidendi—The reason for deciding. 30
Ratio et auctoritas, duo clarissima mundi lumina—Reason and authority, the two brightest luminaries of the world. Coke.
Ratio et consilium propriæ ducis artes—Thought and deliberation are the qualities proper to a general. Tac.
Ratio justifica—The reason which justifies.
Ratio quasi quædam lux lumenque vitæ—Reason is, as it were, the guide and light of life. Cic.
Ratio suasoria—The reason which persuades. 35
Rauch ist alles irdsche Wesen; / Wie des Dampfes Säule weht, / Schwinden alle Erdengrössen, / Nur die Götter bleiben stät—A vapour is all earthly existence; as a column of vapour it drifts along: vanish all earth's great ones; only the gods remain stable. Schiller.
Raum für alle hat die Erde—The earth is wide enough for all. Schiller.
Raum, ihr Herrn, dem Flügelschlag / Einer freien Seele—Room, gentlemen, for a free soul to clap its wings. G. Herwegh.
Raum ist in der kleinsten Hütte / Für ein glücklich liebend Paar—There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair. Schiller.
Ravish'd with the whistling of a name. Pope. 40
Rays must converge to a point in order to glow intensely. Blair.
Re infecta—The business being unfinished. Cæs.
Re ipsa repperi, / Facilitate nihil esse homini melius, neque clementia—I have learned by experience that nothing is more advantageous to a man than complaisance and clemency of temper. Ter.
Re opitulandum non verbis—We should assist by deeds, not in words. Pr.
Re secunda fortis, dubia fugax—In prosperity 45 courageous, in danger timid. Phæd.
Read Homer once, and you can read no more, / For all books else appear so mean, so poor, / Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read, / And Homer will be all the books you need. Buckingham.
Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest. Book of Common Prayer.
Read my little fable: / He that runs may read. / Most can raise the flowers now, / For all have got the seed. Tennyson.
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself; if thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet-lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than deceitful sweetness. Quarles.
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to 50 believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Bacon.
Read nothing that you do not care to remember, and remember nothing you do not mean to use. Prof. Blackie, to young men.
Read the book you do honestly feel a wish and curiosity to read. Johnson.
Reader, attend—whether thy soul / Soars fancy's flights beyond the pole, / Or darkling grubs this earthly hole / In low pursuit; / Know, prudent, cautious self-control / Is wisdom's root. Burns.
Reader, if thou an oft-told tale wilt trust, / Thou'lt gladly do and suffer what thou must. Henry Marten.
Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the 5 dewy grass at sunrise. Lowell.
Reading furnishes us only with the materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. Locke.
Reading for the sense (in Shakespeare's plays) will best bring out the rhythm. Emerson.
Reading is thinking with another's head instead of one's own. Schopenhauer.
Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, have a present wit; and if he read little, have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. Bacon.
Reading without purpose is sauntering, not 10 exercise. Bulwer Lytton.
Real action is in silent moments. Emerson.
Real friends are our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow. Fénelon.
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit! H. Ballou.
Real knowledge consists not in an acquaintance with facts, which only makes a pedant, but in the use of facts, which makes a philosopher. Buckle.
Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover 15 as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other. Mme. Swetchine.
Real ugliness in either sex means always some kind of hardness of heart or vulgarity of education. Ruskin.
Real worth floats not with people's fancies, no more than a rock in the sea rises and falls with the tide. Fuller.
Real worth requires no interpreter; its everyday deeds form its blazonry. Chamfort.
Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction; nay, it is in the right interpretation of reality and history that poetry consists. Carlyle.
Reality is, no doubt, greater and more vital 20 to know, in so real a world and life, than any fiction; and the thoughts of God, which the facts are, are infinitely more precious than the fancies of men about them, or even according to them; yet is man's power of fancying, or fantasying, in harmony with the fact, the measure of his knowledge of it and vital relationship to it, and the divinely appointed means withal whereby the fact itself is brought home to our affections. Ed.
Reality surpasses imagination; and we see breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of dreams. Goethe.
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. Washington.
Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular; but reason always remains the sole property of a few eminent individuals. Goethe.
Reason can no more influence the will and operate as a motive, than the eyes, which show a man his road, can enable him to move from place to place, or than a ship provided with a compass can sail without a wind. Whately.
Reason cannot show itself more reasonable 25 than to cease reasoning on things above reason. Sir P. Sidney.
Reason gains all men by compelling none. Aaron Hill.
Reason has done, what it can do, when it discovers and draws up the law; to execute this law is reserved for him who feels the obligation of it, and has the due firmness of purpose. Schiller.
Reason has only to do with the becoming, the living; but understanding with the become, the already fixed, that it may make use of it. Goethe.
Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim—nay, blind—thou art in preventing them! Sir P. Sidney.
Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it 30 makes; its usefulness takes the place of beauty. Joubert.
Reason is a historian, but the passions are the actors. Rivarol.
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off. Swift.
Reason is directed to the process (das Werdende), understanding to the product (das Gewordene). The former is nowise concerned about the whither, or the latter about the whence. Goethe.
Reason is like the sun, of which the light is constant, uniform, and lasting; fancy, a meteor of bright but transitory lustre, irregular in its motion and delusive in its direction. Johnson.
Reason is progressive; instinct, stationary. 35 Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee nor the house of the beaver. Colton.
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason. Coke.
Reason (Vernunft) is the only true despot. Rahel.
Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth. Warburton.
Reason itself is true and just, but the reason of every particular man is weak and wavering. Swift.
Reason lies between bridle and spur. It. Pr. 40
Reason, looking upwards, and carried to the true above, realises a delight in wisdom, unknown to the other parts of our nature. Plato.
Reason raise o'er instinct as you can; / In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis man. Pope.
Reason requires culture to expand it. It resembles the fire concealed in the flint, which only shows itself when struck with the steel. Gordil.
Reason serves when pressed, but honest instinct comes a volunteer. Pope.
Reason should direct, and appetite obey. Cic.
Reason teaches us to be silent; the heart teaches us to speak. Jean Paul.
Reason's a staff for age when Nature's gone; / But youth is strong enough to walk alone. Dryden.
Reason's glimmering ray / Was lent, not to 5 assure our doubtful way, / But guide us upward to a better day. Dryden.
Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, / Lie in three words,—health, peace, and competence. Pope.
Reasonable, or sensible, people are always the best Conversation's Lexicon. Goethe.
Reasoning against a prejudice is like fighting against a shadow; it exhausts the reasoner, without visibly affecting the prejudice. Argument cannot do the work of instruction any more than blows can take the place of sunlight. Mildmay.
Reasoning banishes reason. Molière.
Reasons are the pillars of the fabric of a sermon, 10 but similitudes are the windows which give the best light. Fuller.
Rebellentreue ist wankend—Fidelity among rebels is unsteady. Schiller.
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. Inscription on a cannon.
Rebuke ought to have a grain more of salt than of sugar. Pr.
Rebuke with soft words and hard arguments. Pr.
Rebus angustis animosus atque / Fortis appare; 15 sapienter idem / Contrahes vento nimium secundo / Turgida vela—Wisely show yourself spirited and resolute when perils press you; likewise reef your sails when they swell too much by a favouring breeze. Hor.
Rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam; / Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest—It is easy in misfortune to despise life; but he does bravely who can endure misery. Mart.
Rebus secundis etiam egregios duces insolescere—In the hour of prosperity even the best generals are apt to be haughty and insolent. Tac.
Receive what cheer you may; / The night is long that never finds the day. Macb., iv. 3.
Receiving a new truth is adding a new sense. Liebig.
Recepto / Dulce mihi furere est amico—It is 20 delightful to indulge in extravagance on the return of a friend. Hor.
Rechauffé—Heated again; stale. Fr.
Recherché—Sought for; much esteemed.
Recht geht vor Macht—Right goes before might. Count v. Schwerin.
Recht stets behält das Schicksal, denn das Herz, / In uns ist sein gebietrischer Vollzieher—Fate always carries its point, for the heart in us is its imperious executor. Schiller.
[Greek: rechthen de te nêpios egnô]—What has happened 25 even the fool knows. Homer.
Recipiunt feminæ sustentacula a nobis—Women receive supports from us. Motto of the Pattenmakers' Company.
Reckless youth makes ruefu' age. Sc. Pr.
Reckon no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may overlook it. Confucius.
Reckon what is in a man, not what is on him, if you would know whether he is rich or poor. Ward Beecher.
Reckoners without their host must reckon 30 twice. Pr.
Recommending secrecy where a dozen of people are acquainted with the circumstance to be concealed, is only putting the truth in masquerade, for the story will be circulated under twenty different shapes. Scott.
Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness. Confucius.
Recompense to no man evil for evil. St. Paul.
Recta actio non erit, nisi recta fuit voluntas, ab hac enim est actio. Rursus, voluntas non erit recta, nisi habitus animi rectus fuerit, ab hoc enim est voluntas—An action will not be right unless the intention is right, for from it comes the action. Again, the intention will not be right unless the state of the mind has been right, for from it proceeds the intention. Sen.
Recte et suaviter—Uprightly and mildly. M. 35
Rectius vives, Licini, neque altum / Semper urgendo, neque, dum procellas / Cautus horrescis, nimium premendo / Littus iniquum—You will live more prudently, Licinius, by neither always keeping out at sea, nor, while you warily shrink from storms, hugging too closely the treacherous shore. Hor.
Rectus in curia—Upright in the court, i.e., having come out of it with clean hands. L.
Reculer pour mieux sauter—To step back in order to leap better. Fr.
Red as a roost-cock. S. Devon Pr.
Reddere personæ scit convenientia cuique—He 40 knows how to assign to each character what it is proper for him to think and say. Hor., of a dramatic poet.
Reddere qui voces jam scit puer, et pede certo / Signat humum, gestit paribus colludere, et iram / Colligit ac ponit temere, et mutatur in horas—The boy who just knows how to talk and treads the ground with firm foot, delights to play with his mates, is easily provoked and easily appeased, and changes every hour. Hor.
Rede wenig, rede wahr. Zehre wenig, zahle baar—Speak little, speak true. Spend little, pay cash down. Ger. Pr.
Redeat miseris, abeat fortuna superbis—May fortune revisit the wretched, and forsake the proud! Hor.
Reden ist Silber und Schweigen ist Gold—Speech is silver and silence is gold. Old Ger. Pr.
Reden kommt von Natur, Schweigen vom 45 Verstande—Speaking comes from nature, silence from discretion. Ger. Pr.
Redeunt Saturnia regna—The golden age (lit. the reign of Saturn) is returning.
Redit agricolis labor actus in orbem, / Atque in se sua per vestigia volvitur annus—The husbandman's toil returns in a circle, and the year rolls round in its former footsteps. Virg.
Redlichkeit gedeiht in jedem Stande—Honesty prospers in every condition of life. Schiller.
Reductio ad absurdum—A reduction of an adversary's conclusion to an absurdity.
Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement. Ward Beecher.
Reflect that life, like every other blessing, derives its value from its use alone. Johnson.
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many—not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. Dickens.
Reflection dissolves reverie and burns her delicate wings. Amiel.
Reform is affirmative, conservatism negative; 5 conservatism goes for comfort, reform for truth. Emerson.
Reform is not joyous but grievous; no single man can reform himself without stern suffering and stern working; how much less can a nation of men. Carlyle.
Reform, like charity, must begin at home. Once well at home, how will it radiate outwards, irrepressible, into all that we touch and handle, speak and work; kindling ever new light by incalculable contagion; spreading, in geometric ratio, far and wide; doing good only, wherever it spreads, and not evil. Carlyle.
Reformers (Reformatorische Geister) do not step into the arena amid a flourish of drums and trumpets; they must make their debut rather under the badge of the cross, and have been cradled at their birth in a manger; poverty and a humble pedigree is all their inheritance, and their childhood is never touched or shone upon by the glitter (Glanze) of the world. K. Fischer.
Reforms are generally most unpopular where most needed. Martin.
Refricare cicatricem—To open a wound, or an 10 old sore, afresh.
Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears. Cato.
Regard not much who is for thee or who against thee; but give all thy care to this, that God be with thee in everything thou doest. Thomas à Kempis.
Reges dicuntur multis urgere culullis, / Et torquere mero, quem perspexisse laborent, / An sit amicitia dignus—Kings are said to press with many a cup, and test with wine the man whom they desire to try whether he is worthy of their friendship. Hor.
Regia, crede mihi, res est, succurrere lapsis—It is a right kingly act, believe me, to succour the fallen. Ovid.
Regibus boni quam mali suspectiores sunt, 15 semperque his aliena virtus formidolosa est—Good men are more suspected by kings than bad men; and virtue in other men is to them always a source of dread. Sall.
Régime—Form of government. Fr.
Regium donum—A royal gift.
Regnare nolo, liber ut non sim mihi—I would not be a king and forfeit my liberty. Phædr.
Regum æquabat opes animis; seraque revertens / Nocte domum, dapibus mensas onerabat inemptis—He equalled the wealth of kings in contentment of mind; and at night returning home, would load his board with unbought dainties. Virg., of the husbandman.
Reichen giebt man, Armen nimmt man—We 20 give to the rich, we take from the poor. Ger. Pr.
Reine d'un jour—Queen for a day. Fr.
Reipublicæ forma laudari facilius quam evenire, et si evenit, haud diuturna esse potest—It is more easy to praise a republican form of government than to establish it; and when it is established, it cannot be of long duration. Tac.
Reisst den Menschen aus seinen Verhältnissen; und was er dann ist, nur das ist er—Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is, that only is he. Seume.
Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ himself. Bovee.
Rejoice in joyous things—nor overmuch / Let 25 grief thy bosom touch / Midst evil, and still bear in mind / How changeful are the ways of humankind. Archilochus.
Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes; but know thou that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. Bible.
Rejoice that you have still long to live before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see. Goethe.
Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep. St. Paul.
Relata refero—I tell the story as it was told to me.
Relegare bona religionibus—To bequeath one's 30 property for religious purposes. L.
Relever des bagatelles—To give importance to trifles.
Relicta non bene parmula—Having ingloriously left my shield behind. Hor.
Religentem esse oportet, religiosum nefas—A man should be religious, not superstitious. Quoted by Aul. Gell.
Religion and education are not a match for evil without the grace of God. Haydon.
Religion and morality, as they now stand, 35 compose a practical code of misery and servitude.... How would morality, dressed up in stiff stays and finery, start from her own disgusting image, should she look into the mirror of Nature! Shelley.
Religion bids man prefer the endurance of a lesser evil before a greater, and nature itself does no less. South.
Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, / And unawares morality expires. Pope.
Religion cannot change, though we do. Jeremy Taylor.
Religion cannot rise above the state of the votary. Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. Emerson.
Religion contains infinite sadness. If we are 40 to love God, he must be in distress (lit., in need of help). Novalis. See Matt., xxvii. 46.
Religion des Kreuzes, nur du verknüpfest, in einem / Kranze der Demut und Kraft doppelte Palme zugleich—Religion of the Cross! only thou unitest in one wreath together the twofold palm of humility and power. Platen.
Religion gives part of its reward in hand, the present comfort of having done our duty; and for the rest, it offers us the best security that heaven can give. Tillotson.
Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, / Needs only to be seen to be admired. Cowper.
Religion, if it be true, is central truth; and all knowledge which is not gathered round it, and quickened and illuminated by it, is hardly worth the name. Channing.
Religion implies revelation. R. D. Hitchcock.
Religion is a fire which example keeps alive, and which goes out if not communicated. Joubert.
Religion is a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its roots and practical in its fruits. Amiel.
Religion is again here, for whoever will piously struggle upward, and sacredly, sorrowfully refuse to speak lies, which indeed will mostly mean refuse to speak at all on that topic. Carlyle.
Religion is an everlasting lodestar, that beams 5 the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night. Carlyle.
Religion is as necessary to reason as reason to religion. Washington.
Religion is life, philosophy is thought.... We need both thought and life, and we need that the two shall be in harmony. J. F. Clarke.
Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy, but a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement. Joubert.
Religion is not a dogma nor an emotion, but a service. R. D. Hitchcock.
Religion is not a doubt, but a certainty,—or 10 else a mockery and horror. Carlyle.
Religion is not a method, but a life. Amiel.
Religion is not an end, but a means. Goethe.
Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its own majesty. Goethe.
Religion is nothing if it is not everything; if existence is not filled with it. Mme. de Staël.
Religion is the basis of civil society. Burke. 15
Religion is the best armour in the world, but the worst cloak. Bunyan.
Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy; on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most so about their inheritance. Landor.
Religion is the highest humanity (Humanität) of man. Herder.
Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilise, if unmixed with cant. Coleridge.
Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude 20 can understand and adopt. Joubert.
Religion is the spice which is meant to keep life from corruption. Bacon.
Religion is universal, theology is exclusive; religion is humanitarian, theology is sectarian; religion unites mankind, theology divides it; religion is love—broad and all-comprising as God's love, theology preaches love and practises bigotry; religion looks to the moral worth of man, theology to his creed and denomination. M. Lilienthal.
Religion lies more in walk than in talk. Pr.
Religion, like its votaries, while it exists on earth, must have a body as well as a soul. Colton.
Religion must always be a crab fruit; it cannot 25 be grafted and keep its wild beauty. Emerson.
Religion or worship is the attitude of those who see that, against all appearances, the nature of things works for truth and right for ever. Emerson.
Religion, poetry, is not dead; it will never die. Its dwelling and birthplace is in the soul of man, and it is eternal as the being of man. In any point of space, in any section of time, let there be a living man; and there is an infinitude above him and beneath him, and an eternity encompasses him on this hand and on that; and tones of sphere-music and tidings from loftier worlds will flit round him, if he can but listen, and visit him with holy influences, even in the thickest press of trivialities or the din of busiest life. Carlyle.
Religion presents few difficulties to the humble, many to the proud, innumerable ones to the vain. Hare.
Religion primarily means obedience; bending to something or some one. To be bound, or in bonds, as apprentice; to be bound, or in bonds, by military oath; to be bound, or in bonds, as a servant of man; to be bound, or in bonds, under the yoke of God. Ruskin.
Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science 30 only applies the meaning to the course of circumstances. Tolstoi.
Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it. Disraeli.
Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse; and anything like an adequate and complete morality without religion is impossible. Mark Hopkins.
Religion would frame a just man; Christ would make a whole man. Religion would save a man; Christ would make him worth saving. Ward Beecher.
Religionen sind Kinder der Unwissenheit, die ihre Mutter nicht lange überleben—Religions are the children of ignorance, and they do not long outlive their mother. Schopenhauer.
Religions are not proved, are not established, 35 are not overthrown, by logic. They are, of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and inexplicable; they are of instinct, and not of reason. Lamartine.
Religious contention is the devil's harvest. La Fontaine.
Religious zeal leads to cleanliness, cleanliness to purity, purity to godliness, godliness to humility, humility to the fear of sin. Rabbi Pinhas-Ben-Jair.
Rem acu tetigit—He has hit the nail on the head (lit. touched it with a needle-point).
Rem, facias rem, / Si possis recte, si non, quocunque modo rem—A fortune, make a fortune, honestly if you can; if not, make it by any means. Hor.
Rem tu strenuus auge—Labour assiduously to 40 increase your property. Hor.
"Remain content in the station in which Providence has placed you," is on the whole a good maxim, but it is peculiarly for home use. That your neighbour should, or should not, remain content with his position is not your business; but it is very much your business to remain content with your own. Ruskin.
Remark how many are better off than you are; consider how many are worse. Sen.
Remember Atlas was weary. Fuller.
Remember now thy creator in the days of thy youth. Bible.
Remember, now, when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword. Sheridan.
Remember that all tricks are either knavish or childish. Johnson.
Remember that the time once yours can never be so again. Thomas à Kempis.
Remember that with every breath we draw, an ethereal stream of Lethe runs through our whole being, so that we have but a partial recollection of our joys, and scarcely any of our sorrows. Goethe.
Remember that you are an actor in a drama 5 of such sort as the Author chooses. If short, then in a short one; if long, then in a long one. If it be His pleasure that you should act a poor man, see that you act it well; or a cripple, or a ruler, or a private citizen. For this is your business, to act well the given part; but to choose it, belongs to another. Epictetus.
Remember this: that your conscience is not a law—no; God and reason made the law, and has placed conscience within you to determine. Sterne.
Remember thy prerogative is to govern, and not to serve, the things of this world. Thomas à Kempis.
Remember your failures are the seed of your most glorious successes. Despond if you must, but don't despair. Anon.
Remembrance and reflection how allied! / What thin partitions sense from thought divide! Pope.
Remembrance (Erinnerung) is the only Paradise 10 from which we cannot be driven. Jean Paul.
Remembrance makes the poet; 'tis the past, / Lingering within him with a keener sense / Than is upon the thoughts of common men, / Of what has been, that fills the actual world / With unreal likenesses of lovely shapes, / That were and are not. L. E. Landon.
Remembrance wakes with all her busy train, / Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain. Goldsmith.
Remis velisque—With oars and sails; with tooth and nail. Pr.
Remis ventisque—With oars and wind.
Remorse is as the heart in which it grows: / 15 If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews / Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, / It is the poison tree that, pierced to the inmost, / Weeps only tears of poison. Coleridge.
Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue. Bulwer Lytton.
Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid. Cowper.
Remote from man, with God he passed his days; / Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise. Parnell.
Remove not the ancient land-mark. Bible.
Remove the cause, and the effect will cease. 20 Pr.
Renascentur—They will rise again. M.
Render to all their dues. St. Paul.
Render to Cæsar the things that are Cæsar's, and to God the things that are God's. Jesus.
Renounce, thou must (sollst) renounce! That is the song which sounds for ever in the ears of every one, which every hour sings to us hoarsely our whole life long. Goethe in "Faust."
Renovate animos—Renew your courage. M. 25
Renown is not to be sought, and all pursuit of it is vain. A person may, indeed, by skilful conduct and various artificial means, make a sort of name for himself; but if the inner jewel is wanting, all is vanity, and will not last a day. Goethe.
Rente viagère—An annuity. Fr.
Rentes—Funds bearing interest; stocks. Fr.
Rentier—A fund-holder. Fr.
Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose 30 with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it bespeaks the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused. Colton.
Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid. J. Sterling.
Repentance costs very dear. Pr.
Repentance hath a purifying power, and every tear is of a cleansing virtue; but these penitential clouds must be still kept dropping; one shower will not suffice; for repentance is not one single action, but a course. South.
Repentance is accepted remorse. Mme. Swetchine.
Repentance is good, but innocence is better. Pr. 35
Repentance is heart's sorrow, and a clear life ensuing. Tempest, iii. 3.
Repentance is nothing else but a renunciation of our will, and a controlling of our fancies, which lead us which way they please. Montaigne.
Repentance is the daughter of over-haste. M. Beer.
Repentance is the May of the virtues. Chinese Pr.
Repentance won't cure mischief. Gael. Pr. 40
Repente dives nemo factus est bonus—No good man ever became suddenly rich. Pub. Syr.
Reperit Deus nocentem—God finds out the guilty man.
Reply with wit to gravity, and with gravity to wit. Colton.
Réponse sans réplique—An answer that does not admit of reply. Fr.
Report makes crows blacker than they are. Pr. 45
Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman—repose in energy. The Greek battle-pieces are calm; the heroes, in whatever violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect. Emerson.
Repose and happiness is what thou covetest, but these are only to be obtained by labour. Thomas à Kempis.
Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture. Hazlitt.
Repose is the cradle of power. J. G. Holland.
Repose without stagnation is the state most 50 favourable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbation." Bovee.
Reproof is a medicine like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good. H. Mann.
Reproof never does a wise man harm. Pr.
Reproof on her lips, but a smile in her eye. S. Lover.
Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly. Solon.
Republics end with luxury; monarchies, with poverty. Montesquieu.
Reputation is an idle and false imposition, oft 5 got without merit, and lost without deserving; you have lost no reputation at all unless you repute yourself such a loser. Othello, ii. 3.
Reputation is commonly measured by the acre. Pr.
Reputation is in itself only a farthing candle, of a wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. Lowell.
Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue. St. Evermond.
Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what God and angels know of us. Thomas Paine.
Reputation, reputation, reputation! O I have 10 lost my reputation. I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. Othello, ii. 3.
Reputation serves to virtue as light does to a picture. Pr.
Requiem æternam dona eis, Domine—Grant them eternal rest, O Lord.
Requiescat in pace—Let him rest in peace.
Rerum cognitio vera, e rebus ipsis est—The true knowledge of things is from the things themselves. Scaliger.
Res amicos invenit—Money finds friends. Plaut. 15
Res angusta domi—Straitened circumstances at home. Juv.
Res est blanda canor; discant cantare puellæ—Singing is a charming accomplishment: let girls learn to sing. Ovid.
Res est ingeniosa dare—To give requires good sense. Ovid.
Res est sacra miser—A man overwhelmed by misfortune is a sacred object. Sen.
Res est solliciti plena timoris amor—Love is 20 full of anxious fears. Ovid.
Res gestæ—Exploits; transactions.
Res in cardine est—The affair is at a crisis (lit. on the hinge).
Res judicata—A case decided.
Res nolunt diu male administrari—Things refuse to be mismanaged long.
Res rustica—A rural affair. Cic. 25
Res severa est verum gaudium—True joy is an earnest thing.
Res sunt humanæ flebile ludibrium—Human affairs are a jest to be wept over.
Resembles ocean into tempest wrought, / To waft a feather or to drown a fly. Young.
Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it. Johnson.
Resentment, indeed, may remain, perhaps 30 cannot be quite extinguished in the noblest minds; but revenge never will harbour there. Pope.
Resentment seems to have been given us by Nature for defence, and for defence only; it is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence. Adam Smith.
Reserve the master-blow. Pr.
Resignation is putting God between one's self and one's grief. Mme. Swetchine.
Resist as much as thou wilt; heaven's ways are heaven's ways. Lessing.
Resist not evil. Jesus. 35
Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. St. James.
Resistance ought never to be thought of but when an utter subversion of the laws of the realm threatens the whole frame of our constitution, and no redress can otherwise be hoped for. It therefore does, and ought for ever, to stand in the eye and letter of the law as the highest offence. Walpole.
Resolution is independent of great age, but without it one lives a hundred years in vain. Chinese Pr.
Resolution will sometimes relax, and diligence will sometimes be interrupted; but let no accidental surprise or deviation, whether short or long, dispose you to despondency. Johnson.
Resolutions are well kept when they jump 40 with inclination. Goldsmith.
Resolve, resolve, and to be men aspire. / Exert that noblest privilege, alone / Here to mankind indulged; control desire: / Let godlike Reason, from her sovereign throne, / Speak the commanding word "I will!" and it is done. Thomson.
Resolved to ruin or to rule the state. Dryden.
Respect a man, he will do the more. Pr.
Respect for one's parents is the highest of the duties of civil life. Chinese Pr.
Respect for others is the first condition of 45 "savoir-vivre." Amiel.
Respect is better procured by exacting than soliciting it. Lord Greville.
Respect the burden. Napoleon.
Respect us human, and relieve us poor. Pope.
Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you. Pr.
Respectable mediocrity offends nobody. 50 Brougham.
Respice finem—Look to the end.
Respicere exemplar vitæ morumque jubebo / Doctum imitatorem, et veras hinc ducere voces—I would recommend the learned imitator to study closely his model in life and manners, and thence to draw his expressions to the life. Hor.
Respondeat superior—Let the principal answer. L.
Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power. J. G. Holland.
Rest and be thankful. Inscription on a wayside-seat. 55
Rest and success are fellows. Pr.
Rest and undisturbed content have now no place on earth, nor can the greatest affluence of worldly good procure them, ... they are peculiar to the love and fruition of God alone. Thomas à Kempis.
Rest is for the dead. Carlyle.
Rest is good after the work is done. Dan. Pr.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labour. Plutarch. 60
Rest is won only by work. Pr.
Rest not in an ovation, but in a triumph over thy passions. Sir Thomas Browne.
Rest not upon scattered counsels, for they will rather distract and mislead than settle and direct. Bacon.
Rest! rest! Shall I not have all eternity to rest in? Arnauld.
Rest thy unrest in England's lawful earth. Rich. III., iv. 4.
Restat iter cœlo: cœlo tentabimus ire; / Da veniam cœpto, Jupiter alte, meo—There remains a way through the heavens; through the heavens we will attempt to go. High Jupiter, pardon my bold design. Ovid, in the name of Dædalus when he escaped from the labyrinth on wings.
Restore to God his due in tithe and time: / 5 A tithe purloined cankers the whole estate. George Herbert.
Restraint and discipline, examples of virtue and of justice, these are what form the education of the world. Burke.
Restraint and obstruction (la gêne) constitute the principle of movement. Renan.
Résumé—Recapitulation; summary. Fr.
Resurgam—I shall rise again. M.
Retinens vestigia famæ—Retracing the footsteps 10 of fame. M.
Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of hosts. Bible.
Revelation may not need the help of reason, but man does, even when in possession of revelation. Reason may be described as the candle in the man's hand, to which revelation brings the necessary flame. Simms.
Revelation nowhere burns more purely and more beautifully than in the New Testament. Goethe.
Revenge, at first though sweet, bitter erelong back on itself recoils. Milton.
Revenge barketh only at the stars, and spite 15 spurns at that she cannot reach. Socrates.
Revenge commonly hurts both the offerer and the sufferer; as we see in a foolish bee, which in her anger envenometh the flesh and loseth her sting, and so lives a drone ever after. Bp. Hall.
Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong. Ger. Pr.
Revenge has no limits, for sin has none. Fr. Hebbel.
Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual. Colton.
"Revenge is a kind of wild justice." It is so, 20 but without this wild austere stock there would be no justice in the world. Burke.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which, the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. Bacon.
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance, of justice. Johnson.
Revenge is an inheritance of weak souls. Körner.
Revenge is barren of itself; itself is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its satiety despair. Schiller.
Revenge is the abject pleasure of an abject 25 mind. Joubert.
Revenge of a wrong only makes another wrong. Spurgeon.
Revenons à nos moutons—Let us come back to our subject (lit. sheep). Pierre Blanchet.
Reverence for human worth, earnest devout search for it, and encouragement of it, loyal furtherance and obedience to it, is the outcome and essence of all true religions, and was and ever will be. Carlyle.
Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet and from it learn the all. Margaret Fuller.
Reverence (Ehrfurcht), which no child brings 30 into the world along with him, is the one thing on which all depends for making a man in every point a man. Goethe.
Reverie is the Sunday of thought. Amiel.
Reverie, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bordered as by a natural frontier. Victor Hugo.
Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographers, if they could; they have tried their talents at one or the other, and have failed; therefore they turn critics. Coleridge.
Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic. Shelley.
Revocate animos, mœstumque timorem / Mittite—Resume 35 your courage, and cast off desponding fear. Virg.
Revolutions are like the most noxious dung-heaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables. Napoleon.
Revolutions are not made, they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back. Wendell Phillips.
Revolutions never go backward. Wendell Phillips.
Rex datur propter regnum, non regnum propter regem. Potentia non est nisi ad bonum—A king is given for the sake of the kingdom, not the kingdom for the sake of the king. His power is only for the public good. L.
Rex est major singulis, minor universis—The 40 king is greater than each singly, but less than all unitedly. Bracton.
Rex est qui metuit nihil; / Rex est qui cupit nihil—He is a king who fears nothing; he is a king who desires nothing. Sen.
Rex non potest fallere nec falli—The king cannot deceive or be deceived.
Rex non potest peccare—The king can do no wrong.
Rex nunquam moritur—The king never dies. L.
Rex regnat, sed non gubernat—The king reigns, 45 but does not govern. Jan Zamoiski.
Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order. Jeremy Collier.
Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men. Plato.
Rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in; it is the quackery of eloquence, and deals in nostrums, not in cures. Colton.
Rhyme that had no inward necessity to be rhymed; it ought to have told us plainly, without any jingle, what it was aiming at. Carlyle.
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. Ham., iii. 1.
Rich men are indeed rather possessed by their money than possessors. Burton.
Rich men without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces. Solon.
Rich, not gaudy. Ham., i. 3.
Rich the treasure, / Sweet the pleasure; / 5 Sweet is pleasure after pain. Dryden.
Rich with the spoils of time. Sir T. Browne.
Richard's himself again! Cibber.
Richer than rubies, / Dearer than gold, / Woman, true woman, / Glad we behold! Old love-song.
Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply. Goethe.
Riches and favour go before wisdom and art. 10 Dan. Pr.
Riches are as a stronghold in the imagination of the rich man. Solomon.
Riches are for spending, and spending for honour and good actions. Bacon.
Riches are got wi' pain, kept wi' care, and tint (lost) wi' grief. Sc. Pr.
Riches are like bad servants, whose shoes are made of running leather, and will never tarry long with one master. Brooks.
Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities 15 to which mankind are liable. Cervantes.
Riches are often abused, never refused. Dan. Pr.
Riches breed care, poverty is safe. Dan. Pr.
Riches bring cares. Pr.
Riches come better after poverty than poverty after riches. Chinese Pr.
Riches do not consist in having more gold and 20 silver, but in having more in proportion than our neighbours. Locke.