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[Greek: Kadmeia nikê]—A Cadmæan victory, i.e., one in which the conquerors suffer as much as the conquered.
[Greek: Kai touto toi t' andreion, hê promêthia]—And forethought too is a manly virtue. Euripides.
[Greek: Kairon gnôthi]—Know your opportunity. Pittachus, one of the seven sages of Greece.
[Greek: Kakon anankaion]—A necessary evil. 50
[Greek: Kakou korakos kakon ôon]—From a bad crow a bad egg. Pr.
Kalendæ Græcæ—Never (lit. the Greek Kalends).
Kalte Hand, warmes Herz—A cold hand, a warm heart. Ger. Pr.
Kann auch der Sonne Kraft ein irrer Stern entwallen? / Wie könnte denn ein Mensch aus Gottes Liebe fallen?—Can a planet wander away even from the power of the sun? How then can man fall out of the love of God? Rückert.
Kann er mir mehr als seine Seele geben?—Can he give me more than his soul? Lortzing.
Kann ich Armeen aus der Erde stampfen? / Wächst mir ein Kornfeld in der flachen Hand?—Can I stamp armies out of the earth? Does a field of corn grow on the palm of my hand? Schiller.
Kannst dem Schicksal widerstehen, / Aber manchmal giebt es Schläge; / Will's nicht aus dem Wege gehen, / Ei! so geh' du aus dem Wege.—Thou canst withstand fate, but many a time it gives blows. Will it not go out of thy way, why then, go thou out of its. Goethe.
Kannst du nicht allen gefallen durch deine 5 That und dein Kunstwerk: / Mach' es wenigen recht; vielen gefallen ist schlimm—If thou canst not by thy act or thy art please every one, be it thy endeavour to please a few; to attempt to please many is naught. Schiller.
Kannst du nicht der Welt entsagen, / Winkt das Glück dir nimmer zu—If thou canst not renounce the world, the genius of happiness never salutes thee. Prutz.
Kannst du nicht schön empfinden, dir bleibt doch, vernünftig zu wollen, / Und als ein Geist zu thun, was du als Mensch nicht vermagst—If thou canst not have fineness of feelings, it is still open to thee to will what is reasonable, and to do as a spirit what thou canst not do as a man. Goethe.
Kartenspiel ist des Teufels Gebetsbuch—A pack of cards is the devil's prayer-book. Ger. Pr.
[Greek: Kat' exochên]—By way of excellence; pre-eminently.
[Greek: Katopin heorês]—After the feast; too late. 10
[Greek: Katthane kai Patroklos, hoper seo pollon ameinôn]—Even Patroclus is dead, who was much better than thou. Hom.
Kauf bedarf hundert Augen; Verkauf hat an einem genug—One who buys needs a hundred eyes; one is enough for him who sells. Ger. Pr.
Kaufen ist wohlfeiler als Bitten—Buying is cheaper than asking. Ger. Pr.
Kaum ist ein Irrthum unterdrückt, so erhebt sich wieder ein anderer, den man schon in tiefe Vergessenheit begraben glaubte—No sooner is one error suppressed than another rises up again which was believed to be buried in eternal oblivion. Oersted.
Keep a gamester from dice, and a good student 15 from his book. Merry Wives, iii. 1.
Keep a thing seven years, and you find a use for it. Sc. Pr.
Keep all thy native good, and naturalise / All foreign of that name; but scorn their ill; / Embrace their activeness, not vanities. George Herbert.
Keep always in your mind that, with due submission to Providence, a man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself. Johnson.
Keep company with the humble, with the devout, and with the virtuous; and confer with them of things that edify. Thomas à Kempis.
Keep cool, and you command everybody. St. 20 Just.
Keep good company, and you shall be of the number. Pr.
Keep me in patience; and, with ripened time, / Unfold the evil which is here wrapt up / In countenance. Meas. for Meas., v. 1.
Keep my judgments and do them. Bible.
Keep not standing fix'd and rooted; / Briskly venture, briskly roam; / Head and hand, where'er thou foot it, / And stout heart are still at home. / In what land the sun does visit, / Brisk are we, whate'er betide; / To give space for wandering is it / That the world was made so wide. Goethe.
Keep oot o' his company wha cracks o' his 25 cheatery, i.e., boasts of cunning. Sc. Pr.
Keep some till more come. Pr.
Keep the bowels open, the head cool, and the feet warm, and a fig for the doctors. Pr.
Keep the common road and you are safe. Pr.
Keep the dogs near when thou suppest with the wolf. Eastern Pr.
Keep the doors of thy mouth from her that 30 lieth in thy bosom. Bible.
Keep the imagination sane; that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven. Hawthorne.
Keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother. Bible.
Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear than to give the sacrifice of fools. Bible.
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. Bible.
Keep thy mind always at its own disposal. 35 Thomas à Kempis.
Keep thyself perfectly still, however it may storm around thee. The more thou feelest thyself to be a man, so much the more dost thou resemble the gods. Goethe.
Keep to companions of your own rank. Goldsmith.
Keep to your subject close in all you say; / Nor for a sounding sentence ever stray. Dryden.
Keep well while you are well. Pr.
Keep what you want, cast what you can, and 40 expect nothing back once lost or once given. Ruskin.
Keep you in the rear of your affection, / Out of the shot and danger of desire. Ham., i. 3.
Keep your ain fish guts for your ain seamaws, i.e., what you don't need yourselves for your own friends. Sc. Pr.
Keep your breath to cool your own crowdie (cold stirabout), i.e., till you can use it to some purpose. Sc. Pr.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage; half-shut afterwards. Amer. Pr.
Keep your gab steeket (mouth shut) when ye 45 kenna (know not) your company. Sc. Pr.
Keep your hurry in your fist. Irish Pr.
Keep your idea while you can; let it still circulate in your blood, and there fructify; inarticulately inciting you to good activities; giving to your whole spiritual life a ruddier health. And when the time comes for speaking it you will speak it all the more concisely and the more expressively; and if such a time should never come, have you not already acted it and uttered it as no words can? Carlyle.
Keep your mouth and keep your friend. Dan. Pr.
Keep your mouth shut and your een open. Sc. Pr.
Keep your shop, and your shop will keep you. Pr.
Keeping from falling is better than helping up. Pr.
Kein Baum fällt auf den ersten Schlag—No 5 tree falls at the first blow. Ger. Pr.
Kein Bündniss ist mit dem Gezücht der Schlangen—No covenant is to be made with the serpent's brood. Schiller.
Kein Ding ist so schlecht, dass es nicht zu etwas nützen sollte—There's nothing so bad as not to be of service for something. Ger. Pr.
Kein grosser Mann muss eines natürlichen Todes sterben—No great man is ordained to die a natural death. Goethe.
Kein Kaiser hat dem Herzen vorzuschreiben—No emperor has power to dictate to the heart. Schiller.
Kein kluger Streiter hält den Feind gering—No 10 prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversary. Goethe.
Kein Mann ist im Stande, den Werth eines Weibes zu fühlen, das nicht sich zu ehren weiss—No man is able to feel the worth of a woman who knows not how to respect herself. Goethe.
Kein Mensch ergründet sein Verhängniss—No man ever fathoms the mystery of his fate. Bodenstedt.
Kein Mensch kann so ganz Teufel sein, dass er / Des Lichtes letzten Strahl in sich ersticke—No man can be so entirely evil as to stifle the last ray of light in his soul. Körner.
Kein Mensch / Muss das Unmögliche erzwingen wollen—No man must seek to constrain the impossible. Goethe.
Kein Mensch muss müssen—No man is compelled 15 to be compelled (lit., must must). Lessing.
Kein schöner Ding ist wohl auf Erden / Als Frauenlieb, wem sie mag werden—There is no finer thing, I ween, on earth than woman's love to him who may be the object of it. Luther.
Kein Schurke ist so dumm, dass er nicht einen Grund für seine Niederträchtigkeit fände—No scoundrel is so stupid as not to find a reason for his vile conduct. Körner.
Kein Wunder, dass wir uns Alle mehr oder weniger im Mittelmässigen gefallen, weil es uns in Ruhe lässt; es giebt das behagliche Gefühl, als wenn man mit seines Gleichen umginge—No wonder we are all more or less content with the ordinary, for it leaves us undisturbed; we have the comfortable feeling of having only to deal with our like. Goethe.
Keine Gaukelkunst berückt / Das Flammenauge, das ins Innere blickt—By no juggler's art can you beguile the eye of fire which glances into the inner soul of things. Schiller.
Keine Kunst ist, Geister loszulassen; / Kunstgerecht 20 sie binden, ist die Kunst—There is no art in freeing spirits; to bind them by art is art. Rückert.
Keine Probe ist gefährlich, zu der man Muth hat—No ordeal is hazardous which one has the courage to face. Goethe.
Keinen Glauben hat die Liebe / Als den Glauben an sich selber!—Love has no faith but faith in itself. Bodenstedt.
Keinen Reimer wird man finden, / Der sich nicht den besten hielte, / Keinen Fiedler, der nicht lieber / Eigne Melodien spielte—You will meet with no rhymer who does not think himself the best, no fiddler who does not prefer to play his own tunes. Goethe.
Keiner ist so klug, dass er nicht ein wenig Narrheit übrig hätte—No one is so wise as not to have a little folly to spare. Ger. Pr.
Ken when to spend, and when to spare, and 25 when to buy, and you'll ne'er be bare. Sc. Pr.
Ken yoursel', and your neebours winna mistak' you. Sc. Pr.
Kennst du das herrliche Gift der unbefriedigten Liebe? / Es versengt und erquickt, zehret am Mark und erneut's—Knowest thou the lordly poison of disappointed love? It withers up and quickens, consumes to the marrow and renews. Goethe.
Kennst du das Land, wo die Citronen blüh'n?—Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom? Goethe.
Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness than all the other holes in this world put together. Sterne.
Ki sokat markol, keveset szorit—He who 30 roves much takes firm root nowhere. J. Arany.
Kill, and thou shalt be killed, and they shall kill him who kills thee. Sp. Pr.
Kill no more than you can salt. Dan. Pr.
Kin or no kin, evil to him who has nothing. It. Pr.
Kind hearts are more than coronets, and simple faith than Norman blood. Tennyson.
Kind words are worth much and they cost 35 little. Pr.
Kind words don't wear the tongue. Dan. Pr.
Kind words prevent a good deal of that perverseness which rough and imperious usage often produces in generous minds. Locke.
Kindle not a fire that you cannot extinguish. Pr.
Kindliness decreases when money is in question. Hausemann.
Kindness by secret sympathy is tied; / For 40 noble souls in nature are allied. Dryden.
Kindness canna aye lie on ae side o' the hoose. Sc. Pr.
Kindness comes o' will; it canna be coft (bought). Sc. Pr.
Kindness has resistless charms; / All things else but weakly move; / Fiercest anger it disarms, / And clips the wings of flying love. Rochester.
Kindness, in act at least, is in our power, but fondness is not. Johnson.
Kindness in us is the honey that blunts the 45 sting of unkindness in another. Landor.
Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love. Tam. the Shrew, iv. 2.
Kindness is a good thing in itself. Johnson.
Kindness is lost upon an ungrateful man. Pr.
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together. Goethe.
Kindness is virtue itself. Lamartine. 50
Kindness, nobler ever than revenge. As You Like It, iv. 3.
Kindness out of season destroys authority. Saadi.
Kindness overcomes a' dislike. Sc. Pr.
Kindness will creep whaur it canna gang. Sc. Pr.
Kindnesses, like grain, increase by sowing. 5 Pr.
Kindnesses misplaced are nothing but a curse and a disservice. Ennius.
Kindred weaknesses induce friendship as often as kindred virtues. Bovee.
Kings alone are no more than single men. Pr.
Kings and bears aft worry their keepers. Sc. Pr.
Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, 10 find a common level in two places—at the foot of the cross and in the grave. Colton.
Kings are but the slaves of their position; they dare not follow what their own hearts dictate. Schiller.
Kings are like stars; they rise and set; they have / The worship of the world, but no repose. Shelley.
Kings are said to have long arms; but every man should have long arms, and should pluck his living, his instruments, his power, and his knowing from the sun, moon, and stars. Emerson.
Kings are willing to be aided, but not surpassed. Grattan.
Kings' caff (chaff) is better than ither folk's 15 corn, i.e., perquisites in his service are better than the wages others give. Sc. Pr.
Kings' cheese gangs half awa' in parings, i.e., in the expense of collecting it. Sc. Pr.
Kings chiefly in this should imitate God; their mercy should be above all their works. Wm. Penn.
Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive them at their current, and not at their real value. La Roche.
Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause. Dryden.
Kings hae long lugs (ears). Sc. Pr. 20
Kings have long arms. Pr.
Kings may be bless'd, but Tam was glorious, / O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. Burns.
Kings ought to be kings in all things. Adrian.
Kings ought to shear, not skin their sheep. Herrick.
Kings' titles commonly begin by force, / Which 25 time wears off, and mellows on to right. Dryden.
Kings who affect to be familiar with their companions make use of men as they do of oranges, which, when they have well sucked, they throw away. Alva.
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. Burke.
Kings wish to be absolute, and they are sometimes told that the best way to become so is to make themselves beloved by the people; but the maxim, unhappily, is laughed at in court. Rousseau.
Kiss (a) from my mother made me a painter. Ben. West.
Kisses are like grains of gold or silver found 30 upon the ground, of no value themselves, but precious as showing what a mine is near. George Villiers.
Kisses are pledges and incentives of love. Cotton.
Kisses are the messengers of love. Dan. Pr.
Kissing goes by favour. Pr.
Klein gewin brengt rijkdom in—Small gains bring riches in. Dut. Pr.
Kleine Diebe henkt man, grosse lässt man 35 laufen—We hang little thieves, but we let big ones off. Ger. Pr.
Kleine Diebe henkt man, vor grossen zieht man den Hut ab—We hang little thieves, and doff our hats to big ones. Ger. Pr.
Kleine Feinde und kleine Wunden sind nicht zu verachten—Paltry enemies and trifling wounds are not to be despised. Ger. Pr.
Kleine Geschenke erhalten die Freundschaft—Little gifts keep friendship green. Montesquieu.
Kleiner Profit und oft, ist besser wie grosser und selten—Slender profits and often are better than large ones and seldom. Ger. Pr.
Kluge Männer suchen wirthliche Frauen—Prudent 40 men woo thrifty women—Ger. Pr.
Knave! because thou strikest as a knight; / Being but knave, I hate thee all the more. Tennyson.
Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not. Collier.
Knavery may serve for a turn, but honesty is best in the long-run. Pr.
Knavery's plain face is never seen till used. Othello, ii. 1.
Knaves easily believe that others are like 45 themselves; they can hardly be deceived, and they do not deceive others for any length of time. La Bruyère.
Knaves starve not in the land of fools. Churchill.
Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live. Shirley.
Kneeling ne'er spoiled silk stockings; quit thy state; / All equal are within the church's gate. George Herbert.
Know ere thou hint, and then thou may'st slack: / If thou hint ere thou know, then it is too late. Pr.
Know, fools only trade by the eye. Quarles. 50
Know from the bounteous heaven all riches flow; / And what man gives, the gods by man bestow. Pope.
Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong. Longfellow.
Know, Nature's children all divide her care; / The fur that warms a monarch warm'd a bear. Pope.
Know of a truth that only the time-shadows have perished or are perishable; that the real being of whatever was, and whatever is, and whatever will be, is even now and for ever. Carlyle.
Know that nothing can so foolish be / As 55 empty boldness. George Herbert.
Know that the loudest roar of the million is not fame; that the wind bag, are ye mad enough to mount it, will burst, or be shot through with arrows, and your bones too shall act as scarecrows. Carlyle.
Know then this truth (enough for man to know), / Virtue alone is happiness below. Pope.
Know then thyself; presume not God to scan; / The proper study of mankind is man. Pope.
Know thy thought—believe it—front heaven and earth with it, in whatsoever words nature and art have made readiest for thee. Carlyle.
Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God. Ruskin.
Know whom to honour, and emulate, and 5 follow; know whom to dishonour and avoid, and coerce under hatches, as a foul rebellious thing—this is all the Law and all the Prophets. Carlyle.
Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? St. James.
Know ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow? / By their right arms the conquest must be wrought. Byron.
Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle / Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime; / Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, / Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime? Byron.
Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me / From mine own library with volumes that / I prize above my dukedom. Tempest, i. 2.
Knowing is seeing. Locke. 10
Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason; / Work'st thou well to-day for worthy things; / Calmly wait the morrow's hidden season; / Need'st not fear what hap soe'er it brings. Carlyle, after Goethe.
Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps. Macaulay.
Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself. Johnson.
Knowledge and timber should not be much used until they are seasoned. Holmes.
Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, / 15 Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells / In heads replete with thoughts of other men; / Wisdom, in minds attentive to their own. Cowper.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous. Plato.
Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true. Locke.
Knowledge by rote is no knowledge, it is only a retention of what has been intrusted to the memory. Montaigne.
Knowledge by suffering entereth, / And life is perfected by death. E. B. Browning.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Tennyson. 20
Knowledge comes from experience alone. Carlyle.
Knowledge conquered by labour becomes a possession—a property entirely our own. S. Smiles.
Knowledge descries alone, wisdom applies; / That makes some fools, this maketh none but wise. Quarles.
Knowledge exists to be imparted. Emerson.
Knowledge has its penalties and pains as 25 well as its prizes. Bulwer Lytton.
Knowledge hath a bewildering tongue, and she will stoop and lead you to the stars, and witch you with her mysteries, till gold is a forgotten dross, and power and fame toys of an hour, and woman's careless love light as the breath that breaks it. Willis.
Knowledge humbleth the great man, astonisheth the common man, and puffeth up the little man. Pr.
Knowledge in music is in the thinking, and not in memorising. H. E. Holt.
Knowledge introduceth man to acquaintance; and, as the humble stream to the ocean, so doth it conduct him into the hard-acquired presence of the prince, whence fortune floweth. Hitopadesa.
Knowledge is a perennial spring of wealth, 30 ... and of itself is riches. Saadi.
Knowledge is a retreat and shelter for us in advanced age; and if we do not plant it when young, it will give us no shade when we grow old. Chesterfield.
Knowledge is as food, and needs no less / Her temp'rance over appetite, to know / In measure what the mind may well contain, / Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns / Wisdom to folly, as nourishment to wind. Milton.
Knowledge is boundless; human capacity limited. Chamfort.
Knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth. Bible.
Knowledge is escape from one's self. (?) 35
Knowledge is essential to freedom. Channing.
Knowledge is just like the sun in the heavens, inviting us to noble deeds and lighting our path. M. Harvey.
Knowledge is like current coin. A man may have some right to be proud of possessing it, (only) if he has worked for the gold of it, and assayed it, and stamped it, so that it may be received of all men as true, or earned it fairly, being already assayed. Ruskin.
Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. Bacon.
Knowledge is most surely engraved on brains 40 well prepared for it. Rousseau.
Knowledge is no burden. Pr.
Knowledge is not an inert and passive principle, which comes to us whether we will or no; but it must be sought before it can be won; it is the product of great labour, and therefore of great sacrifice. Buckle.
Knowledge is not education, and can neither make us happy nor rich. Ruskin.
Knowledge is not happiness, and science but an exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance. Byron.
Knowledge is of things we see; / And yet we 45 trust it comes from thee, / A beam in darkness; let it grow. Tennyson.
Knowledge is power. Bacon.
Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; / Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. Cowper.
Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another. Addison.
Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom. Jeremy Collier.
Knowledge is the excellency of man, whereby he is usually differenced from the brute. Swinnock.
Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know. Emerson.
Knowledge is the material with which genius builds her fabrics. Bryant.
Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, 5 love itself. Hare.
Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man. Wm. Penn.
Knowledge is the treasure of the mind, but discretion is the key to it, without which it is useless. The practical part of wisdom is the best. Feltham.
Knowledge is to one a goddess, to another only an excellent cow. Schiller.
Knowledge, love, power constitute the complete life. Amiel.
Knowledge may not be as a courtesan for 10 pleasure and vanity only; or as a bond-woman, to acquire and gain for her master's use; but as a spouse, for generation, fruit, and comfort. Bacon.
Knowledge of my way is a good part of my journey. A. Warwick.
Knowledge of our duties is the most useful part of philosophy. Whately.
Knowledge of the world is dearly bought at the price of moral purity. E. Wigglesworth.
Knowledge perverted is knowledge no longer. Bulwer Lytton.
Knowledge produceth humility; from humility 15 proceedeth worthiness; from worthiness riches are acquired; from riches religion, and thence happiness. Hitopadesa.
Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. St. Paul.
Knowledge shall vanish away. St. Paul.
Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Schopenhauer.
Knowledge that terminates in curiosity and speculation is inferior to that which is useful, and of all useful knowledge that is the most so which consists in a due care and just notion of ourselves. St. Bernard.
Knowledge, the wing wherewith we fly to 20 heaven. 2 Hen. VI., iv. 7.
Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, / Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll; / Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, / And froze the genial current of the soul. Gray.
Knowledge, when wisdom is too weak to guide her, / Is like a headstrong horse that throws the rider. Quarles.
Knowledge without education is but armed injustice. Hor.
Knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Johnson.
Knowledge without justice ought to be called 25 cunning rather than wisdom. Plato.
Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use. Swinnock.
Known unto God are all His works from the beginning of the world. St. Paul.
Komm jedem, wie er sei, mit edeln Sinn entgegen, / Vielleicht wird dann in ihm, was edel ist, sich regen—Accost whoever you may meet with noble feeling; perhaps what is noble will begin to stir in him. J. Trojan.
Kraft erwart' ich vom Mann, des Gesetzes Würde behaupt' er; / Aber durch Anmuth allein herrschet und herrsche das Weib—I look for power in the man; he affirms the dignity of the law; but the woman rules, and will continue to rule, through grace alone. Schiller.
Krankes Fleisch, kranker Geist—Sickly in body, 30 sickly in mind. Ger. Pr.
Krieg bis aufs Messer—War to the knife. Ger.
Krieg ist ewig zwischen List und Argwohn, / Nur zwischen Glauben und Vertraun ist Friede—War is unending between cunning and mistrust; only between faith and trust is there peace. Schiller.
[Greek: Kreisson toi sophiê kai megalês aretês]—Wisdom is better than even great valour. Theognis.
[Greek: Kreitôn hê pronoia tês metameleias]—Thought beforehand is better than regret afterwards. Dionysius of Hal.
[Greek: Ktêma es aei]—A possession for ever. Thucydides. 35
[Greek: Kudos]—Fame; glory. Gr.
Kühl bis an's Herz hinan—Cool to the very heart. Goethe.
[Greek: Kynos ommat' echôn]—Having dog's eyes. Hom.
Kunst ist die rechte Hand der Natur. Diese hat nur Geschöpfe, jene hat Menschen gemacht—Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has made only creatures, the former has made men. Schiller.
Kurz ist der Lieb' Entzücken, doch ewig ist 40 die Pein—Short is the rapture of love, but eternal is the pain. S. Rossini.
Kurz ist der Schmerz, und ewig ist die Freude!—Short is the pain and eternal the joy! Schiller.
Kyrie eleeison—Lord, have mercy upon us.
Kythe (appear) in your ain colours, that folk may ken ye. Sc. Pr.