Dictionary of Quotations

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Pabulum Acherontis—Food for Acheron, i.e., on 30 the verge of the grave. Plaut.

Pace tanti viri—If so great a man will forgive me.

Pacem hominibus habe, bellum cum vitiis—Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

Pacta conventa—Conditions agreed upon.

Pacte de famille—A family compact. Fr.

Pactum non pactum est; non pactum pactum 35 est; quod vobis lubet—A bargain is not a bargain, no bargain is a bargain, as it pleases you. Plaut.

Paga lo que debes, sabrás lo que tienes—Pay what you owe, and what you have you'll know. It. Pr.

"Pagan self-assertion" is one of the elements of human worth as well as "Christian self-denial." J. S. Mill.

Pain has its own noble joy, when it kindles a strong consciousness of life, before stagnant and torpid. J. Sterling.

Pain is less subject than pleasure to capricious expression. Johnson.

Pain is so uneasy a sentiment that very little 40 of it is enough to corrupt every enjoyment. Rogers.

Pain is the deepest thing we have in our nature, and union through pain has always seemed more real and holy than any other. Hallam.

Pain is the positive element in life, and pleasure its negation. Schopenhauer.

Pain past is pleasure. Pr.

Pain pays the income of each precious thing. Shakespeare.

Painful for man is rebellious independence 45 when it has become inevitable; only in loving companionship with his fellows does he feel safe; only in reverently bowing down before the Higher does he feel himself exalted. Carlyle.

Pains of love be sweeter far / Than all other pleasures are. Dryden.

Paint costs nothing. Dut. Pr.

"Paint me as I am." (?)

Painters draw their nymphs in thin and airy habits, but the weight of gold and of embroideries is reserved for queens and goddesses. Dryden.

Painting does not proceed so much by intelligence 50 as by sight and feeling and invention. Hamerton.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry speaking painting. Simonides.

Painting is the intermediate between a thought and a thing. Coleridge.

Palabra de boca, piedra de honda—A word from the mouth is as a stone from a sling. Sp. Pr.

Palabra y piedra suelta no tiene vuelta—A word and a stone once launched cannot be recalled. Sp. Pr.

Palam mutire plebeio piaculum est—For a common man to mutter what he thinks is a risky venture.

Palinodiam canere—To recant.

Pallida mors æquo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas, / Regumque turres—Pale Death with impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of kings. Hor.

Palma non sine pulvere—The palm, but not 5 without a struggle. M.

Palma virtuti—The palm to virtue. M.

Palmam qui meruit ferat—Let him bear the palm that deserves it. M.

Panem et circenses—Bread and the games of the circus (what the Roman plebs took sole interest in). Juv.

Paper and leather and ink, / All are but trash / If I find not the thought / Which the writer can think. Dr. Walter Smith.

Par bene comparatum—A pair well matched. 10

Par droit de conquète et par droit de naissance—By right of conquest and by right of birth. Henry IV. of France.

Par excellence—Pre-eminently. Fr.

Par l'écoulement du temps—By the lapse of time. Fr.

Par le droit du plus fort—By the right of the strongest. Pr.

Par les mêmes voies on ne va pas toujours aux 15 mêmes fins—The same means do not always lead to the same ends. La Roche.

Par ma foi! l'âge ne sert de guère / Quand on n'a pas cela—By my faith, age serves but little if one has not that (brains). Molière.

Par manière d'acquit—For form's sake. Fr.

Par negotiis, neque supra—Equal to, and not above, his business. Tac.

Par nobile fratrum—A precious pair of brothers. Hor.

Par pari referto—Give him back tit for tat. Ter. 20

Par signe de mépris—In token of contempt. Fr.

Par ternis suppar—The two are equal to the three. M.

Par trop débattre la vérité se perd—The truth is sacrificed by too much disputation. Fr. Pr.

Par un prompt désespoir souvent on se marie, / Qu'on s'en repent après tout le temps de sa vie—We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after. Molière.

Paradise is always where love dwells. Jean 25 Paul.

Paradise is for those who control their anger. Koran.

Paradise is under the shadow of our swords. Mahomet.

Parasiticam cœnam quærit—He seeks the meal of a parasite or hanger-on.

Parce, puer, stimulis et fortius utere loris—Boy, spare the goad and more firmly grasp the reins. Ovid.

Parcere personis, dicere de vitiis—To spare persons, 30 to condemn crimes. Mart.

Parcere subjectis et debellare superbos—To spare the conquered, to subdue the haughty. Virg.

Parcite paucorum diffundere crimen in omnes—Forbear to lay the guilt of the few upon the many. Ovid.

Parcus Deorum cultor, et infrequens, / Insanientis dum sapientiæ / Consultus erro; nunc retrorsum / Vela dare, atque iterare cursus / Cogor relictos—A niggard and unfrequent worshipper of the gods, as long as I strayed from the way by senseless philosophy; I am now forced to turn my sail back, and to retrace the course I had deserted. Hor.

Pardon is the choicest flower of victory. Arab. Pr.

Parents are commonly more careful to bestow 35 wit on their children than virtue, the art of speaking well than of doing well; but their manners ought to be the great concern. Fuller.

Parents' blessings can neither be drowned in water nor consumed in fire. Pr.

Parents we can have but once; and he promises himself too much who enters life with the expectation of finding many friends. Johnson.

Pares cum paribus ut est in veteri proverbio facillime congregantur—As in the old proverb, "Like associates most naturally with like." Cic.

Parfois, élus maudits de la fureur suprême, /... Ces envoyés du ciel sont apparus au monde / Comme s'ils venaient de l'enfer—Sometimes these ambassadors of heaven, the accursed elect of the wrath of heaven, appear in the world as though they came from hell. Victor Hugo.

Pari passu—With equal steps or pace; neck and 40 neck.

Pari ratione—By parity of reason.

Paritur pax bello—Peace is produced by war. Corn. Nep.

Parlez du loup et vous en verrez la queue—Speak of the wolf and you will see his tail; speak of the devil and he will appear. Fr. Pr.

Parlez peu et bien, si vous voulez qu'on vous regarde comme un homme de mérite—Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a man of merit. Fr.

Parliamentary government is government by 45 speaking. Macaulay.

Pars beneficii est quod petitur si belle neges—To refuse graciously is to confer a favour. Pub. Syr.

Pars beneficii est quod petitur si cito neges—To refuse a favour quickly is to grant one. Pub. Syr.

Pars hominum vitiis gaudet constanter, et urget / Propositum: pars multa natat, modo recta capessens, / Interdum pravis obnoxia—A portion of mankind glory consistently in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong. Hor.

Pars minima est ipsa puella sui—The girl herself is the least part of herself. Ovid.

Pars minima sui—The smallest part of himself 50 or itself.

Pars sanitatis velle sanari fuit—It is a step to the cure to be willing to be cured. Sen.

Parsimonia est magnum vectigal—Thrift is a great revenue. Cic.

Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion. Henry Home.

Parta tueri—Defend what you have won. M.

Partage de Montgomerie: tout d'un côté, rien de l'autre—A Montgomery division: everything on one side and nothing on the other. Fr. Pr.

Parthis mendacior—More mendacious than the Parthians. Hor.

Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity. Bovee.

Particeps criminis—A partaker in a crime; an accessory either before or after the fact.

Parties do not consider; they only feel. Ranke. 5

Parting day / Dies like a dolphin, whom each pang imbues / With a new colour as it gasps away, / The last still loveliest, till—'tis gone, and all is gray. Byron.

Parting is worse than death; it is death of love. Dryden.

Parting with a delusion makes one wiser than falling in with a truth. Börne.

Parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus—Mountains are in labour, a ridiculous mouse will be brought forth. Hor.

Party honesty is party expediency. G. Cleveland. 10

Party is the madness of many for the gain of the few. Pope.

Party standards are shadows in which patriotism is buried. Bernardine de St. Pierre.

Parva leves capiunt animos—Little minds are caught with trifles. Ovid.

Parva sunt hæc; sed parva ista non contemnendo majores nostri maximam hanc rem fecerunt—These are small things; but it was by not despising these small things that our forefathers made the commonwealth so great. Livy.

Parvis componere magna—To compare great 15 things with small. Virg.

Parvula (nam exemplo est) magni formica laboris / Ore trahit quodcunque potest atque addit acervo, / Quem struit, haud ignara ac non incauta futuri—The ant, for instance, is a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth all it can, and adds to the heap it piles up, not ignorant or improvident of the future. Hor.

Parvula scintilla sæpe magnum suscitavit incendium—A very small spark has often kindled a great conflagration.

Parvum non parvæ amicitiæ pignus—A slight pledge of no small friendship. M.

Parvum parva decent—Him that is little little things become. Hor.

Pas à pas on va bien loin—Step by step one goes 20 very far. Fr.

Pas un pouce de notre territoire, ni une pierre de nos forteresses!—Not an inch of our territory, not a stone of our fortresses! Jules Favre in 1870, to the demand of Germany.

Pascitur in vivis livor, post fata quiescit; / Tunc suus, ex merito, quemque tuetur honos—Envy feeds upon the living, after death it rests; then the honour a man deserves protects him. Ovid.

[Greek: Pasin gar eu phronousi symmachei tychê]—Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent. Critias.

Pass no rash censure upon other people's words or actions. Thomas à Kempis.

Passato il pericolo gabbato il santo—When the 25 danger is passed the saint is cheated. It. Pr.

Passe avant—Pass ahead. M.

Passe par tout—A master-key; a pass-key.

Passez-moi la rhubarbe et je vous passerai le séné—Pass you me the rhubarb, and I will pass you the senna, i.e., shut your eyes to my faults, and I will to yours. Molière.

Passion depraves, but also ennobles. Lamartine.

Passion drives the man, passions the woman; 30 him a stream, her the winds. Jean Paul.

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind. South.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance, art, would be useless. Balzac.

Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Bovee.

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions. Jean Paul.

Passion makes the will lord of the reason. 35 Shakespeare. (?)

Passion often makes a fool of the most ingenious man, and often makes the greatest blockhead ingenious. Thomson.

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. Emerson.

Passionate people are like men who stand upon their heads; they see all things in the wrong way. Plato.

Passions are likened best to floods and streams; / The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb. Sir W. Raleigh.

Passions are the gales of life. Pope. 40

Passions are the vices or virtues in their highest powers. Goethe.

Passions existed before principles; they came into the world with us. Mrs. Jameson.

Passions may not unfitly be termed the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason. Wm. Penn.

Passions spin the plot; we are betrayed by what is false within. George Meredith.

Past and to come seem best, things present 45 worst. 2 Hen. IV., i. 2.

Pastime, like wine, is poison in the morning. Thomas Fuller.

Patch and long sit, / Build and soon flit. Pr.

Patch grief with proverbs. Much Ado, v. 1.

Pater familias—The father of a family.

Pater noster—Our father; the Lord's prayer. 50

Pater patriæ—The father of his country.

[Greek: pathêmata—mathêmata]—We learn from the things we suffer. Æsop.

Patience and perseverance overcome the greatest difficulties. Clarissa.

Patience, and shuffle the cards. Cervantes.

Patience et longueur de temps / Font plus 55 que force ni que rage—Patience and length of time accomplish more than violence and rage. La Fontaine.

Patience had no sooner placed herself by the mount of sorrows, but the whole heap sunk to such a degree, that it did not appear a third part so big as it was before. Addison.

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. Disraeli.

Patience is a plaister for all sores. Pr.

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow. Pub. Syr.

Patience is a stout horse, but it will tire at the last. Pr.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. Rousseau.

Patience is even more rarely manifested in the intellect than in the temper. Helps.

Patience is genius. Buffon.

Patience is good for poltroons. 3 Hen. VI., 5 i. 1.

Patience is sister to meekness, and humility is its mother. Saying.

Patience is the art of hoping. Vauvenargues.

Patience is the ballast of the soul, that will keep it from rolling and tumbling in the greatest storms. Bp. Hopkins.

Patience is the key of content. Mahomet.

Patience is the key of Paradise. Turk. Pr. 10

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience, the ruin of strength. Colton.

Patience, money, and time bring all things to pass. Pr.

Patience of obscurity is a duty which we owe not more to our happiness than to the quiet of the world at large. Sydney Smith.

Patience passe science—Patience surpasses knowledge. M.

Patience, unmoved, no marvel though she 15 pause; / They can be meek that have no other cause. Com. of Errors, ii. 1.

Patience wears out stones. Gael. Pr.

Patience, when it is a divine thing, is active, not passive. Lowell.

Patience wi' poverty is a man's best remedy. Sc. Pr.

Patient waiters are no losers. Pr.

Patientia læsa fit furor—Patience abused becomes 20 fury.

Patientia vinces—You will conquer by patience. M.

Patiently add farthing to farthing. Goldsmith.

Patitur qui vincit—He suffers who conquers. M.

Patria cara, carior libertas—Dear is my country, but liberty is dearer. M.

Patria quis exul / Se quoque fugit?—What 25 fugitive from his country can also fly from himself? Hor.

Patriæ fumus igne alieno luculentior—The smoke of our own country is brighter than fire in a foreign one. Pr.

Patriæ infelici fidelis—Faithful to my unhappy country. M.

Patriæ pietatis imago—The image of his filial affection. Virg.

Patriæ solum omnibus carum est—The soil of their native land is dear to the hearts of all men. Cic.

Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering 30 as on mutual success. Disraeli.

Patriotism has its roots deep in the instincts and the affections. Love of country is the expansion of filial love. D. D. Field.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Johnson.

Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence. G. W. Curtis.

Patriotism must be founded on great principles and supported by great virtue. Bolingbroke.

[Greek: patris gar esti pas', hin' an prattê tis eu]—One's 35 country is wherever things go well with him. Aristophanes.

Patroclus is dead, who was better by far than thou. Hom.

Patronage, that is, pecuniary or other economic furtherance, has been pronounced to be twice cursed, cursing him that gives and him that takes. Carlyle.

Pauca Catonis verba, sed a pleno venientia pectore veri—The words of Cato were few, but they came from a heart full of truth. Lucan.

Pauca verba—Few words.

Pauci dignoscere possunt / Vera bona, atque 40 illis multum diversa—Few men can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse. Juv.

Paucis carior est fides quam pecunia—To few is good faith more than valuable money. Sall., of his own times.

Paul Pry is on the spy. Pr.

Paullatim—By degrees. M.

Paulum sepultæ distat inertiæ / Celata virtus—Worth that is hidden differs little from buried sloth. Hor.

Pauper enim non est cui rerum suppetit usus. / 45 Si ventri bene, si lateri pedibusque tuis, nil / Divitiæ poterunt regales addere majus—That man is not poor who has a sufficiency for all his wants. If it is well with your stomach, your lungs, and your feet, the wealth of kings can add no more. Hor.

Pauper sum, fateor, patior; quod Di dant fero—I am poor, I admit; I put up with it. What the gods give I bear with. Plaut.

Pauper ubique jacet—Everywhere the poor man is despised. Ovid.

Pauperism is our social sin grown manifest. Carlyle.

Pauperism is the general leakage through every joint of the ship that is rotten. Carlyle.

Paupertas est, non quæ pauca possidet, sed 50 quæ multa non possidet—Poverty is not possessing few things, but lacking many things. Sen.

Paupertas fugitur, totoque arcessitur orbe—Poverty is shunned and treated as criminal throughout the world. Lucan.

Paupertatis pudor et fuga—The shame and the bugbear of poverty. Hor.

Pauperum solatio—For the solace of the poor. M.

Pauvres gens, je les plains; car on a pour les fous / Plus de pitié que de courroux—Poor people, I pity them; for one always entertains for fools more pity than anger. Boileau, on disappointed authors.

Pavore carent qui nihil commiserunt; at 55 pœnam semper ob oculos versari putant qui peccarunt—The innocent are free from fear; but the guilty have always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

Pax Cererem nutrit, pacis alumna Ceres—Peace is the nurse of Ceres; Ceres is the nursling of Peace. Ovid.

Pax in bello—Peace in war. M.

Pax paritur bello—Peace is produced by war. Corn. Nep.

Pax vobiscum—Peace be with you.

Pay as you go is the philosopher's stone. S. 60 Randolph of Roanoke.

Pay beforehand if you would have your work ill done. Pr.

Pay good wages, or your servants will pay themselves. Pr.

Pay not before thy work be done; if thou dost, it will never be well done, and thou wilt have but a pennyworth for twopence. Franklin.

Pay the reckoning over-night, and you won't be troubled in the morning. Pr.

Pay well when you are served well. Pr. 5

Pay what you owe, and what you're worth you'll know. Pr.

Pay without fail, / Down on the nail. Pr.

Pazza è chi non sa da che parte vien il vento—He is a senseless fellow who does not know from what quarter the wind blows. It. Pr.

Peace hath her victories, / No less renown'd than war. Milton.

Peace is liberty in tranquility. Cic. 10

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful. Schiller.

Peace is the happy natural state of man; war his corruption, his disgrace. Thomson.

Peace is the masterpiece of reason. J. Müller.

Peace, justice, and the word of God must be given to the people, not sold. Ruskin.

Peace, of all worldly blessings, is the most 15 valuable. Smallridge.

Peace with a cudgel in hand is war. Port. Pr.

Peacefully and reasonably to contemplate is at no time hurtful, and while we use ourselves to think of the advantages of others, our own mind comes insensibly to imitate them; and every false activity to which our fancy was alluring us is then willingly abandoned. Goethe.

Peccare docentes / Fallax historias movet—He deceitfully relates stories that are merely lessons in vice. Hor.

Peccare licet nemini—No one has leave to sin. Cic.

Peccavi—I have sinned. To cry "peccavi" is to 20 acknowledge one's error.

Péché avoué est à moitié pardonné—A sin confessed is half forgiven. Fr. Pr.

Pectus est quod disertos facit—It is the heart which inspires eloquence. Quinct.

Pecuniam in loco negligere / Interdum maximum est lucrum—To despise money on proper occasions is sometimes a very great gain. Ter.

Pecuniam perdidisti: fortasse illa te perderet manens—You have lost your money; perhaps, if you had kept it, it would have lost you.

Pedanterie setzt ganz nothwendig Leere—Pedantry 25 quite necessarily presupposes vacancy. Rahel.

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber, and takes out our brains to make room for it. Colton.

Pedantry is properly overrating any kind of knowledge we pretend to. Swift.

Pedibus timor addidit alas—Fear gave wings to his feet.

Peevishness covers with its dark fog even the most distant horizon. Jean Paul.

Pegasus im Joche—Pegasus in harness. Schiller. 30

Peggior della morte è il turpe riposo—Worse than death is shameful repose. Niccolo Tommaseo.

Peine forte et dure—Heavy and severe punishment (specially that of putting heavy weights on prisoners who refused to plead).

Pelt all dogs that bark, and you will need many stones. Pr.

[Greek: pêm' epi pêmati]—Evil on the top of evil.

Pence well-spent are better than pence ill-spared. 35 Pr.

Pendente lite—While the suit is pending.

Pendre la crémaillère—To give a house-warming. Fr.

Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind. La Roche.

Penitus toto divisos orbe Britannos—The Britons, quite sundered from all the world. Virg.

Penny goes after penny, / Till Peter hasn't 40 any. Pr.

Penny wise is often pound foolish. Pr.

Pense ce que tu veux, dis ce que tu dois—Think what you like, say what you ought. Fr. Pr.

Pense moult, parle peu, écris moins—Think much, speak little, write less. Fr. Pr.

Penser, vivre, et mourir en roi—To think, live, and die as a king. Frederick the Great.

Pensez à bien—Think of good. M. 45

People abuse freedom only where they have asserted it, not where it has been given them. Börne.

People are always expecting to get peace in heaven; but you know whatever peace they get there will be ready-made. Whatever of making peace they can be blest for must be on the earth here. Ruskin.

People are only accustomed to revolve around themselves. Goethe.

People are rendered sociable by their inability to endure their own society. Schiller.

People are wise for the past day in the evening, 50 but never wise enough for the coming one. Rückert.

People, crushed by laws, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous, more or less. Burke.

People dispute a great deal about the good that is done and the harm by disseminating the Bible (Bibelverbreitung). To me this is clear: the Bible will do harm if, as hitherto, it is used dogmatically and interpreted fancifully, and it will do good if it is treated feelingly and applied didactically. Goethe.

People do not care to give alms without some security for their money; and a wooden leg or a withered arm is a sort of draft upon heaven for those who choose to have their money placed to account there. Mackenzie.

People do not lack strength; they lack will. Victor Hugo.

People do not mind their faults being spread 55 out before them, but they become impatient if called upon to give them up. Goethe.

People in adversity should preserve laudable customs. Clarissa.

People (in authority) are accustomed merely to forbid, to hinder, to refuse, but rarely to bid, to further, and to reward. They let things go along till some mischief happens; then they fly into a rage, and lay about them. Goethe.

People love to have all rash actions done in a hurry. Goldsmith.

People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselves debtor or creditor to some one. Goethe.

People must begin before they attempt to finish or improve. Wm. Blake.

People seem to think themselves in some 5 ways superior to heaven itself, when they complain of the sorrow and want round about them; and yet it is not the devil for certain who puts pity into their hearts. Anne J. Thackeray.

People should never sit talking till they don't know what to talk about. Saying.

People that are like-minded (Gleichgesinnten) can never for any length be disunited (entzweien); they always come together again; whereas those that are not like-minded (Widergesinnten) try in vain to maintain harmony; the essential discord between them will be sure to break out some day. Goethe.

People that have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. J. Collier.

People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism. Holmes.

People that will crowd about bonfires may, 10 sometimes very fairly, get their beards singed; it is the price they pay for such illumination; natural twilight is safe and free to all. Carlyle.

People throw stones only at trees which have fruit on them. Pr.

People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding up a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy. Sterne.

People who are too sharp cut their own fingers. Pr.

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be pious and affectionate. George Eliot.

People who do not know how to laugh are always 15 pompous and self-conceited. Thackeray.

People who have little to do are great talkers. The less they think the more they talk, and so women talk more than men. A nation where women determine the fashion is always talkative. Montesquieu.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be consistent. Holmes.

People who live in glass houses should never throw stones. Pr.

People who never have any time are those who do least. Lichtenberg. (?)

People will not look forward to posterity who 20 never look backward to their ancestors. Burke.

People would do well if, tarrying here for years together, they observed a while a Pythagorean silence. Goethe.

People would do well if they would keep piety, which is so essential and lovable in life, distinct from art, where, owing to its very simplicity and dignity, it checks their energy, allowing only the very highest mind freedom to unite with, if not actually to master, it. Goethe.

Per accidens—By accident, i.e., not following from the nature of the thing, but from some accidental circumstance.

Per acuta belli—Through the perils of war. M.

Per angusta ad augusta—Through hardship to 25 triumph. M.

Per annum—By the year; yearly.

Per ardua liberi—Free through difficulty. M.

Per aspera ad astra—over rough paths to the stars. M.

Per contra—On the other hand.

Per Deum et ferrum obtinui—I have obtained 30 it by God and my sword. M.

Per fas et nefas—By right ways and by wrong.

Per il suo contrario—By its opposite. M.

Per incuriam—Through carelessness.

Per mare per terram—By sea and land. M.

Per obitum—Through the death of. 35

Per quod servitium amisit—For loss of his or her services. L.

Per saltam—By a leap; by passing over the intermediate steps.

Per undas et ignes fluctuat nec mergitur—Through water and fire she goes plunging but is not submerged. M. of Paris.

Per varios casus, per tot discrimina rerum—Through manifold misfortunes, and so many perils. Virg.

Per vias rectas—By direct ways. M. 40

Peras imposuit Jupiter nobis duas; / Propriis repletam vitiis post tergum dedit. / Alienis ante pectus suspendit gravem—Jupiter has laid two wallets on us; he has placed one behind our backs filled with our own faults, and has hung another before, heavy with the faults of other people. Phædr.

Percunctatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est; / Nec retinent patulæ commissa fideliter aures—Avoid an inquisitive person, for he is sure to be a gossip; ears always open to hear will not keep faithfully what is intrusted to them. Hor.

Perdidit arma, locum virtutis deseruit, qui / Semper in augenda festinat et obruitur re—He has lost his arms and deserted the cause of virtue who is ever eager and engrossed in increasing his wealth. Hor.

Perdis, et in damno gratia nulla tuo—You lose, and for your loss get no thanks. Ovid.

Pereant amici, dum una inimici intercidant—Let 45 our friends perish, provided our enemies fall along with them. Gr. and Lat. Pr., quoted by Cicero to condemn it.

Pereunt et imputantur—They (hours) pass, and are placed to our account. Mart.

Perfect existence can only be where spirit and body are one; an embodied spirit, a spiritual body. (?)

Perfect experience must itself embrace theoretical knowledge. Goethe.

Perfect life is ever in one's acts to deal with innocence, which proves itself in doing wrong to no one but itself. Goethe.

Perfect light / Would dazzle, not illuminate, the sight; / From earth it is enough to glimpse at heaven. Lord Houghton.

Perfect love canna be without equality. Sc. Pr.

Perfect love casteth out fear. St. John.

Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty. J. G. Holland.

Perfect woman, nobly planned, / To warn, to 5 comfort, and command; / And yet a spirit still, and bright / With something of an angel light. Wordsworth.

Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite: and this rare conjunction, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant. Chateaubriand.

Perfecting is our destiny, but perfection is never our lot. J. C. Weber.

Perfection is not the affair of the scholar; it is enough if he practises. Goethe.

Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim—Bear and endure; this sorrow will one day prove to be for your good. Ovid.

Perfer et obdura; multo graviora tulisti—Bear 10 and endure; you have borne much heavier misfortunes than these. Ovid.

Perfervidum ingenium Scotorum—The very ardent temper of the Scots.

Perfida, sed quamvis perfida, cara tamen—Faithless, but, though faithless, still dear. Tibull.

Pergis pugnantia secum / Frontibus adversis componere—You are attempting to reconcile things which are opposite in their natures. Hor.

"Perhaps" hinders folks from lying. Pr.

Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to 15 denote the manners of the gentleman. Hazlitt.

Perhaps the early grave / Which men weep over may be meant to save. Byron.

Periculosæ plenum opus aleæ / Tractas, et incedis per ignes / Suppositos cineri doloso—The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes. Hor.

Periculosum est credere et non credere; / Ergo exploranda est veritas, multam prius / Quam stulta prave judicet sententia—It is equally dangerous to believe and to disbelieve; therefore search diligently into the truth rather than suffer an erroneous impression to pervert your judgment. Phædr.

Periculum in mora—There is danger in delay.

Perierunt tempora longi / Servitii—My long 20 period of service has led to no advancement. Juv.

Perimus licitis—We come to ruin by permitted things. Pr.

Perish discretion when it interferes with duty. Hannah More.

Périsse l'univers pourvu que je me venge!—Let the universe perish, provided I have my revenge! Cyrano.

Périssons en résistant!—Let us die resisting! Fr.

Perituræ parcite chartæ—Spare the paper which 25 is fated to perish. Adapted from Juvenal.

Perjuria ridet amantum Jupiter—Jupiter laughs at the perjuries of lovers. Ovid.

Perjurii pœna divina exitium, humana dedecus—The punishment of perjury at the hands of the gods is perdition; at the hands of man, is disgrace. One of the laws of the Twelve Tables.

Perlen bedeuten Thränen—Pearls mean tears. Lessing.

Permanence is what I advocate in all human relations; nomadism, continual change, is prohibitory of any good whatsoever. Carlyle.

Permanence, perseverance, persistence in spite 30 of hindrances, discouragements, and "impossibilities:" it is this that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak; the civilised burgher from the nomadic savage—the species Man from the genus Ape. Carlyle.

Permanence, persistence, is the first condition of all fruitfulness in the ways of men. Carlyle.

Permissu superiorum—By permission of the superiors.

Permitte divis cætera—Commit the rest to the gods. Hor.

Perpetual solitude, in a place where you see nothing to raise your spirits, at length wears them out, and conversation falls into dull and insipid. Lady Montagu.

Perpetuus nulli datur usus, et hæres / Hæredem 35 alterius, velut unda supervenit undam—Perpetual possession is allowed to none, and one heir succeeds another, as wave follows wave. Hor.

Persecution is a tribute the great must ever pay for pre-eminence. Goldsmith.

Persecution is not wrong because it is cruel; it is cruel because it is wrong. Whately.

Persecution to persons in high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue. Cardinal de Retz.

Perseverance and audacity generally win. Mme. Deluzy.

Perseverance and tact are the two great 40 qualities most valuable for all men who would mount, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd. Disraeli.

Perseverance, dear, my lord, / Keeps honour bright. To have done is to hang / Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail, / In monumental mockery. Troil. and Cres., iii. 3.

Perseverance is a Roman virtue that wins each godlike act, and plucks success even from the spear-proof crest of rugged danger. Harvard.

Perseverance performs greater works than strength. Pr.

Perseverance, self-reliance, energetic effort, are doubly strengthened when you rise from a failure to battle again. Anon.

Perseverando—By persevering. M. 45

Perseverantia—By perseverance. M.

Persevere and never fear. Pr.

Persevere in the fight, struggle on, do not let go, think magnanimously of man and life, for man is good and life is affluent and fruitful. Vauvenargues.

Persist, persevere, and you will find most things attainable that are possible. Chesterfield.

Personæ mutæ—Mute characters in a play. 50

Personal attachment is no fit ground for public conduct, and those who declare they will take care of the rights of the sovereign because they have received favours at his hand, betray a little mind and warrant the conclusion that if they did not receive those favours they would be less mindful of their duties, and act with less zeal for his interest. C. Fox.

Personal force never goes out of fashion. (?)

Personality is everything in art and poetry. Goethe.

Persons are love's world, and the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul, wandering here in nature to the power of love, without being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social instincts. Emerson.

Persons of fine manners make behaviour the first sign of force,—behaviour, and not performance, or talent, or, much less, wealth. Emerson.

Persons who are very plausible and excessively 5 polite have generally some design upon you, as also religionists who call you "dear" the first time they see you. Spurgeon.

Perspicuity is the offset of profound thoughts. Vauvenargues.

Persuasion is better than force. Pr.

Peter's in, Paul's out. Pr.

Petit homme abat grand chêne—A little man fells a tall oak. Fr. Pr.

Petit maître—Fop; coxcomb. Fr. 10

Petite étincelle luit en ténèbres—A tiny spark shines in the dark. Fr. Pr.

Petites affiches—Advertiser. Fr.

Petites maisons—A madhouse. Fr.

Petitio principii—Begging of the question in debate.

Petitioners for admittance into favour must 15 not harass the condescension of their benefactor. Burns.

Petits soins—Little attentions. Fr.

Petty laws breed great crimes. Ouida.

Peu d'hommes ont été admirés par leurs domestiques—Few men have been looked up to by their domestics. Montaigne.

Peu de bien, peu de soin—Little wealth, little care. Fr. Pr.

Peu de chose nous console, parceque peu de 20 chose nous afflige—Little consoles us because little afflicts us. Pascal.

Peu de gens savent être vieux—Few people know how to be old. La Roche.

Peu de gens sont assez sages pour préférer le blame qui leur est utile, à la louange qui les trahit—Few people are wise enough to prefer censure which may be useful, to flattery which may betray them. La Roche.

Peu de moyens, beaucoup d'effet—Simple means, great results. Fr. Pr.

Peu de philosophie mène à méspriser l'érudition; beaucoup de philosophie mène à l'estimer—A little philosophy leads men to despise learning; a great deal leads them to esteem it, Chamfort.

Peu et bien—Little but good. Fr. 25

Peuples libres, souvenez-vous de cette maxime: on peut acquérir la liberté, mais on ne la retrouve jamais—Free people, remember this rule: you may acquire liberty, but never regain it if you once lose it. Rousseau.

Phaeton was his father's heir; born to attain the highest fortune without earning it; he had built no sun-chariot (could not build the simplest wheel-barrow), but could and would insist on driving one; and so broke his own stiff neck, sent gig and horses spinning through infinite space, and set the universe on fire. Carlyle.

[Greek: phantasmata theia, kai skiai tôn ontôn]—Divine phantasms and shadows of things that are. Gr.

Pharmaca das ægroto, aurum tibi porrigit æger, / Tu morbum curas illius, ille tuum—You give medicine to a sick man, he hands you your fee; you cure his complaint, he cures yours. To a doctor.

[Greek: pheideo tôn kteanôn]—Husband your resources. Gr. 30

[Greek: phêmê ge mentoi dêmothrous mega sthenei]—The voice of the people truly is great in power. Æschylus.

Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home. Lamb.

"Philistine" must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the children of the light. Heine.

Philologists, who chase / A panting syllable through time and space, / Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark / To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's ark. Cowper.

Philosophers are only men in armour after all. 35 Dickens.

Philosophers call God "the great unknown." "The great misknown" would be more correct. Joseph Roux.

Philosophia simulari potest, eloquentia non potest—Philosophy may be feigned, eloquence cannot. Quinct.

Philosophy and theology are become theorem, brain-web and shadow, wherein no earnest soul can find solidity for itself. Shadow, I say; yet shadow projected from an everlasting reality within ourselves. Quit the shadow, seek the reality. Carlyle to John Sterling.

Philosophy can add to our happiness in no other manner but by diminishing our misery; it should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of. Goldsmith.

Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can 40 procure for us God, freedom, immortality. Which, then, is more practical—philosophy or economy? Novalis.

Philosophy does not regard pedigree; she did not receive Plato as a noble, but she made him so. Sen.

Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not; whoso would behold her must climb with long and laborious effort, nay, still linger in the forecourt, till manifold trial have proved him worthy of admission into the interior solemnities. Carlyle.

Philosophy easily triumphs over past and future ills, but present ills triumph over philosophy. La Roche.

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve. Froude.

Philosophy has given several plausible rules 45 for attaining peace and tranquillity, but they fall very much short of bringing men to it. Tillotson.

Philosophy is a bully that talks very loud when the danger is at a distance; but the moment she is hard pressed by the enemy, she is not to be found at her post, but leaves the brunt of the battle to be borne by her humbler but steadier comrade, Religion. Colton.

Philosophy is a good horse in a stable, but an arrant jade on a journey. Goldsmith.

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if any one modestly meddles with it; but, if he is conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts the man. Plato.

Philosophy is but a continual battle against custom; an ever-renewed effort to transcend the sphere of blind custom, and so become transcendental. Carlyle.

Philosophy is no more than the art of making ourselves happy; that is, of seeking pleasure in regularity, and reconciling what we owe to society with what is due to ourselves. Goldsmith.

Philosophy is nothing but discretion. Selden. 5

Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home. Novalis.

Philosophy is reason with the eyes of the soul. Simms.

Philosophy is to poetry what old age is to youth; and the stern truths of philosophy are as fatal to the fictions of the one as the chilling testimonies of experience are to the hopes of the other. Colton.

Philosophy, rightly defined, is simply the love of wisdom. Cic.

Philosophy teaches us to do willingly and 10 from conviction what others do under compulsion. Arist.

Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt; when thoroughly explored, it dispels it. Bacon.

Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition. Bulwer Lytton.

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. Keats.

[Greek: phobou to gêras, ou gar erchetai monon]—Fear old age, for it does not come alone. Gr. Pr.

Phœnices primi, famæ si creditur, ausi / Mansuram 15 rudibus vocem signare figuris—The Phœnicians, if rumour may be trusted, were the first who dared to write down the fleeting word in rude letters. Lucan.

Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance. Addison.

Physic is of little use to a temperate person, for a man's own observation on what he finds does him good or what hurts him, is the best physic to preserve health. Bacon.

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a man brave in another. Colton.

Physical science has taught us to associate Deity with the normal rather than with the abnormal. Lecky.

Physician, heal thyself. Heb. Pr. 20

Physicians, of all men, are most happy; whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth; and what faults they commit, the earth covereth. Quarles.

Pia fraus—A pious fraud (either for good or evil).

Pick out of mirth, like stones out of thy ground, / Profaneness, filthiness, abusiveness. George Herbert.

Pickpockets and beggars are the best practical physiognomists, without having read a line of Lavater, who, it is notorious, mistook a philosopher for a highwayman. Colton.

Pictoribus atque poetis / Quidlibet audendi 25 semper fuit æqua potestas—The power of daring anything their fancy suggests has always been conceded to the painter and the poet. Hor.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects, and please or displease but in memory. Bacon.

Pie repone te—Repose in pious confidence. M.

Pièce de position—A heavy gun. Fr.

Pièce de résistance—A solid joint. Fr.

Pièces de théâtre—Plays. Fr. 30

Piety is a kind of modesty. It makes us cast down our thoughts, just as modesty makes us cast down our eyes in presence of whatever is forbidden. Joubert.

Piety is not a religion, although it is the soul of all religions. Joubert.

Piety is only a means whereby, through purest inward peace, we may attain to highest culture. Quoted by Emerson from Goethe.

Piety, like wisdom, consists in the discovery of the rules under which we are actually placed, and in faithfully obeying them. Froude.

Piety, stretched beyond a certain point, is the 35 parent of impiety. Sydney Smith.

Pigmæi gigantum humeris impositi plusquam ipsi gigantes vident—Dwarfs on a giant's back see more than the giant himself. Didacus Stella.

Pigmies are pigmies still, though perched on Alps; / And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Young.

Pigs grow fat where lambs would starve. Pr.

Pigs grunt about everything and nothing. Pr.

Pigs when they fly go tail first. Pr. 40

Pikes are caught when little fish go by. R. Southwell.

Pillen muss man schlingen, nicht kauen—Pills must be swallowed, not chewed. Ger. Pr.

Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve; hast thou not two eyes of thy own? Carlyle.

Pinguis venter non gignit sensum tenuem—A fat paunch does not produce fine sense. St. Jerome, from the Greek.

Pis-aller—A last shift. Fr. 45

Pitch a lucky man into the Nile and he will come up with a fish in his mouth. Arab. Pr.

Pitch thy behaviour low, thy projects high; / So shalt thou humble and magnanimous be. George Herbert.

Pith's gude at a' play but threadin' o' needles. Sc. Pr.

Pity and friendship are passions incompatible with each other. Goldsmith.

Pity and need make all flesh kin. There is no 50 caste in blood / Which runneth of one hue; nor caste in tears, which trickle salt with all. Sir Edwin Arnold.

Pity him who has his choice, and chooses the worse. Gael. Pr.

Pity is a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed. Colton.

Pity is imagination or fiction of future calamity to ourselves proceeding from the sense of another man's calamity. Hobbes.

Pity is the virtue of the law, / And none but tyrants use it cruelly. Timon of Athens, iii. 5.

Pity makes the world / Soft to the weak and 55 noble for the strong. Sir Edwin Arnold.

Pity only with new objects stays, / But with the tedious sight of woe decays. Dryden.

Pity shapes not into syllogisms; / Nor can affection ape philosophy. Lewis Morris.

Pity, the tenderest part of love. Yalden.

Pity those whom Nature abuses, never those who abuse Nature. Sheridan.

Pity weakness and ignorance, bear with the 5 dulness of understandings, or perverseness of tempers. Law.

Più ombra che frutto fanno gli arberi grandi—Large trees yield more shade than fruit. It. Pr.

Più sa il matto in casa sua che il savio in casa d'altri—The fool knows more in his own house than a wise man does in another's. It. Pr.

Più vale il fumo di casa mia, che il fuoco dell'altrui—The smoke of my own house is better than the fire of another's. It. Pr.

Place moral heroes in the field, and heroines will follow them as brides. Jean Paul.

Placeat homini quidquid Deo placuit—That 10 which has seemed good to God should seem good to man. Sen.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from. Coleridge.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation. I. Disraeli.

Plain dealing is dead, and died without issue. Pr.

Plain dealing's a jewel, but they that use it die beggars. Pr.

Plain living and high thinking. Wordsworth. 15

Plants are children of the earth; we are children of the ether. Our lungs are properly our root; we live when we breathe: we begin our life with breathing. Novalis.

Plaster thick, / Some will stick. Pr.

Plate sin with gold, / And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; / Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it. King Lear, iv. 6.

Plato enim mihi unus est instar omnium—Plato alone in my regard is worth them all. Antimachus, in Cic.

Plato's scheme was impossible even in his own 20 day, as Bacon's "New Atlantis" in his day, as Calvin's reform in his day, as Goethe's "Academe" in his. Out of the good there was in all these men, the world gathered what it could find of evil, made its useless Platonism out of Plato, its graceless Calvinism out of Calvin, determined Bacon to be the meanest of mankind, and of Goethe gathered only a luscious story of seduction, and daintily singable devilry. Ruskin.

Plausibus ex ipsis populi, lætoque furore, / ingenium quodvis incaluisse potest—At the applauses of the public, and at its transports of joy, every genius may grow warm. Ovid.

Plausus tunc arte carebat—In those days applause was unaffected. Ovid.

Play not for gain, but sport. George Herbert.

Play, that is, activity, not pleasures, will keep children cheerful. Jean Paul.

Play the man. George Herbert. 25

Pleasant tastes depend, not on the things themselves, but their agreeableness to this or that particular palate. Locke.

Pleasant words are as an honeycomb; sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. Bible.

Pleas'd with a rattle, tickl'd with a straw. Pope.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short. Othello, ii. 3.

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite, 30 are yet so contrived by nature as to be constant companions. Charron.

Pleasure and revenge / Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice / Of any true decision. Troil. and Cress., ii. 2.

Pleasure and sympathy in things is all that is real and again produces reality; all else is empty and vain. Goethe.

Pleasure can be supported by illusion; but happiness rests upon truth. Chamfort.

Pleasure is a wanton trout; / An ye drink but deep ye'll find him out. Burns.

Pleasure is far sweeter as a recreation than a 35 business. R. D. Hitchcock.

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain, the enjoying of something I am in great trouble for till I get it. John Selden.

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil. Plato.

Pleasure is the reflex of unimpeded energy. Sir W. Hamilton.

Pleasure itself is painful at bottom. Montaigne.

Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies. 40 Burke.

Pleasure preconceived and preconcerted ends in disappointment; but disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue. Johnson.

Pleasure soon exhausts us, and itself also but endeavour never does. Jean Paul.

Pleasure which cannot be obtained but by unreasonable and unsuitable expense, must always end in pain. Johnson.

Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be such as a worthy mind can fully delight in. Johnson.

Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave. Duganne. 45

Pleasures are like poppies spread, / You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; / Or, like the snowflake in the river, / A moment white, then melts for ever. Burns.

Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem; / There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground / But holds some joy of silence or of sound, / Some sprite begotten of a summer dream. Blanchard.

Pleasures waste the spirits more than pains. Zimmermann.

Pledges taken of faithless minds, / I hold them but as the idle winds / Heard and forgot. Dr. W. Smith.

Plenty, and peace, breeds cowards; hardness 50 ever of hardiness is mother. Cymbeline, iii. 6.

Plenty makes dainty. Sc. Pr.

[Greek: pleon hêmisy pantos]—The half (i.e. well used) is more than the whole (i.e. abused). Hesiod.

Plerique enim lacrimas fundunt ut ostendant; et toties siccos oculos habent, quoties spectator definit—Many shed tears merely for show; and have their eyes quite dry whenever there is no one to observe them. Sen.

Plerumque modestus / Occupat obscuri speciem, taciturnus acerbi—Usually the modest man passes for a reserved man, the silent for a sullen one. Hor.

Ploratur lacrymis amissa pecunia veris—The loss of money is bewailed with unaffected tears. Juv.

Ploravere suis non respondere favorem / Speratum meritis—They lamented that their merits did not meet with the gratitude they hoped for. Hor.

Plough deep while sluggards sleep. Franklin.

Plough or not plough, you must pay your rent. 5 Pr.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting. Goethe.

Plura faciunt homines e consuetudine quam e ratione—Men do more things from custom than from reason.

Plura sunt quæ nos terrent, quam quæ premunt; et sæpius opinione quam re laboramus—There are more things to alarm than to harm us, and we suffer much oftener in apprehension than reality. Sen.

Plures adorant solem orientem quam occidentem—More do homage to the rising sun than the setting one. Pr.

Plures crapula quam gladius—Excess kills more 10 than the sword. Pr.

Plurima mortis imago—Death in very many a form. Virg.

Plurima sont quæ / Non audent homines pertusa dicere læna—There are very many things that men, when their cloaks have got holes in them, dare not say. Juv.

Pluris est oculatus testis unus quam auriti decem. / Qui audiunt, audita dicunt: qui vident, plane sciunt—One eye-witness is better than ten from mere hearsay. Hearers can only tell what they heard. Those who see, know exactly. Plaut.

Plus aloes quam mellis habet—She has more of the aloe than the honey. Juv.

Plus dolet quam necesse est, qui ante dolet 15 quam necesse est—He who grieves before it is necessary, grieves more than is necessary.

Plus etenim fati valet hora benigni / Quam si nos Veneris commendet epistola Marti—A moment of smiling fortune is of more avail (to a soldier) than if he were recommended to Mars by an epistle from Venus. Juv.

Plus fait douceur que violence—Gentleness does more than violence. La Fontaine.

Plus impetus, majorem constantiam, penes miseros—We find greater violence and more perseverance among the wretched. Tac.

Plus in amicitia valet similitudo morum quam affinitas—Similarity of manners conduces more to friendship than relationship. Corn. Nep.

Plus in posse quam in actu—More in possibility 20 than actuality.

Plus je vis l'étranger, plus j'aimai ma patrie—The more I saw of foreign countries, the more I loved my own. De Belloy.

Plus on approche des grands hommes, plus on trouve qu'ils sont hommes—The nearer one approaches to great persons, the more one sees that they are but men. La Bruyère.

Plus on lui ôte, plus il est grand—The more you take from him, the greater he is. Quoted by Emerson.

Plus ratio quam vis cæca valere solet—Reason can generally effect more than blind force. Gallus.

Plus salis quam sumptus—More taste than expense. 25 Corn. Nep.

Plus une pierre est jétée de haut, plus elle fait d'impression où elle tombe—The greater the height from which a stone is cast, the greater the impression on the spot where it falls. Fr. (?)

Plus vetustis nam favet / Invidia mordax, quam bonis præsentibus—Stinging envy is more merciful to good things that are old than such as are new. Phædr.

Plutarch warns young men that it is well to go for a light to another man's fire, but by no means to tarry by it, instead of kindling a torch of their own. John Morley.

Plutôt une défaite au Rhin que l'abandon du Pape!—Rather a defeat on the Rhine than abandon the Pope. Louis Napoleon, to the proposal to buy the allegiance of Italy against Germany by the sacrifice of Rome.

Poco daño espanta, y mucho amansa—A little 30 loss alarms one, a great loss tames one down. Sp. Pr.

Poem (a) is a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. Emerson.

Poems that are great, books that are great, all of them, if you search the first foundation of their greatness, have been veridical, the truest they could get to be. Carlyle.

Poesie ist tiefes Schmerzen, / Und es kommt das echte Lied / Einzig aus dem Menschenherzen / Das ein tiefes Leid durchglüht—Poetry is deep pain, and the genuine song issues only from the human heart through which a deep sorrow glows. Justin Kerner.

Poesy is love's chosen apostle, and the very almoner of God. She is the home of the outcast, and the wealth of the needy. Lowell.

Poesy is of so subtle a spirit, that in pouring 35 out of one language into another it will evaporate. Denham.

Poeta nascitur, non fit—A poet is born, not made. L.

Poetica surgit / Tempestas—A storm is gathering in the poetic world. Juv.

Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history. Plato.

Poetry creates life. Fred. W. Robertson.

Poetry has given me the habit of wishing to 40 discover the good and the beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me. Coleridge.

Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses a particle of it. Thoreau.

Poetry incorporates those spirits which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act; and sheds the perfume of those flowers which spring up but never bear any seed. Jean Paul.

Poetry interprets in two ways: by expressing with magical felicity the physiognomy and movements of the outer world; and by expressing with inward conviction the ideas and laws of the inward. Matthew Arnold.

Poetry is a spirit, not disembodied, but in the flesh, so as to affect the senses of living men. Stedman.

Poetry is always a personal interpretation of 45 life. H. W. Mabie.

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, and the hardest in which to reach true excellence. Stedman.

Poetry is an attempt man makes to render his existence harmonious. Carlyle.

Poetry is faith. Emerson.

Poetry is inestimable as a lonely faith, a lonely protest in the uproar of atheism. Emerson.

Poetry is inspiration; has in it a certain spirituality 5 and divinity which no dissecting knife will discover; arises in the most secret and most sacred region of man's soul, as it were in our Holy of Holies; and as for external things, depends only on such as can operate in that region; among which it will be found that Acts of Parliament and the state of Smithfield Markets nowise play the chief parts. Carlyle.

Poetry is music in words, and music is poetry in sound; both excellent sauce, but they have lived and died poor that made them their meal. Fuller.

Poetry is musical thought, thought of a mind that has penetrated into the inmost heart of a thing, detected the melody that lies hidden in it,... the heart of Nature being everywhere music, if you can only reach it. Carlyle.

Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought. Balzac.

Poetry is right royal. It puts the individual for the species, the one above the infinite many. Hazlitt.

Poetry is something to make us wiser and 10 better by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth which God has set in all men's souls. Lowell.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows and of lending existence to nothing. Burke.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth by calling imagination to the help of reason. Johnson.

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is the countenance of all science. Wordsworth.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions. J. Roux.

Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge—it 15 is as immortal as the heart of man. Wordsworth.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature. Hare.

Poetry is the language of feeling. W. Winter.

Poetry is the morning dream of great minds. Lamartine.

Poetry is the music of the soul; and, above all, of great and feeling souls. Voltaire.

Poetry is the offspring of the rarest beauty, 20 begot by imagination upon thought, and clad by taste and fancy in habiliments of grace. Simms.

Poetry is the only verity, the expression of a sound mind speaking after the ideal, and not after the apparent. Emerson.

Poetry is the perpetual endeavour to express the spirit of the thing; to pass the brute body, and search the life and reason which cause it to exist; to see that the object is always flowing away, whilst the spirit or necessity which causes it subsists. Emerson.

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. Shelley.

Poetry is the utterance of truth,—deep, heartfelt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle. Chapin.

Poetry is the worst mask in the world behind 25 which folly and stupidity could attempt to hide their features. Bryant.

Poetry itself is strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage. J. Sterling.

Poetry must first be good sense, though it is something better. Quoted by Emerson.

Poetry ought to go straight to the heart, because it has come from the heart; and aim at the man in the citizen, and not the citizen in the man. Schiller.

Poetry says more and in fewer words than prose. Voltaire.

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive. Keats. 30

Poetry should be vital, either stirring our blood by its divine movements, or snatching our breath by its divine perfection. A. Birrell.

Poetry uses the rainbow tints for special effects, but always keeps its essential object in the purest white light of truth. Holmes.

Poetry was given to us to hide the little discords of life and to make man contented with the world and his condition. Goethe.

Poetry, were it the rudest, so it be sincere, is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious, the utmost he can do for that end; it springs therefore from his whole feelings, opinions, activity, and takes its character from these. It may be called the music of the whole inner being. Carlyle.

Poets and heroes are of the same race; the 35 latter do what the former conceive. Lamartine.

Poets and painters ha'e leave to lee. Sc. Pr.

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, and tell them. Bailey.

Poets are liberating gods; they are free and make free. Emerson.

Poets are natural sayers, sent into the world for the end of expression. Emerson.

Poets are never young in one sense. Their 40 delicate ear hears the far-off whispers of eternity, which coarser souls must travel towards for scores of years before their dull sense is touched by them. A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. Holmes.

Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration, the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present. Schiller.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. Disraeli.

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, / Could it be known what they discreetly blot. Waller.

Poets of old date, being privileged with senses, had also enjoyed external Nature; but chiefly as we enjoy the crystal cup which holds good or bad liquor for us; that is to say, in silence, or with slight incidental commentary; never, as I compute, till after the "Sorrows of Werter" was there man found who would say: Come, let us make a description: Having drunk the liquor, Come, let us eat the glass. Carlyle.

Poets should be lawgivers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil code, the day's work. Emerson.

Poets should turn philosophers in age, as Pope did. We are apt to grow chilly when we sit out our fire. Sterne.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand. Plato.

Point d'argent, point de Suisse—No money, no Swiss. Fr. Pr.

Policy sits above conscience. Timon of Athens, 5 iii. 2.

Polished steel will not shine in the dark; no more can reason, however refined, shine efficaciously but as it reflects the light of Divine truth shed from heaven. John Foster.

Politeness is benevolence in small things. (?)

Politeness is real kindness kindly expressed. Witherspoon.

Politeness is the flower of humanity. Joubert.

Politeness is to goodness what words are to 10 thoughts. Joubert.

Politeness makes a man appear outwardly as he should be within. La Bruyère.

Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments. Montesquieu.

Politicians think that by stopping up the chimney they can stop its smoking. They try the experiment; they drive the smoke back, and there is more smoke than ever. Borne.

Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts. Emerson.

Politics is the science of exigencies. Theodore 15 Parker.

[Greek: polla metaxy pelei kylikos kai cheileos akrou]—Much may happen between the cup and the lip. Gr.

[Greek: polla ta deina kouden anthrôpou deinoteron pelei]—Many dread powers exist, and no one more so than man. Sophocles.

Pompa mortis magis terret quam mors ipsa—The solemnity associated with death awes us more than death itself.

[Greek: pompholox ho anthrôpos]—Man is an air-bubble. Gr. Pr.

Ponamus nimios gemitus; flagrantior æquo / 20 Non debet dolor esse viri, nec vulnere major—Let us dismiss excessive laments; a man's grief should not be immoderate, nor greater than the wound received. Juv.

Ponderanda sunt testimonia, non numeranda—Testimonies are to be weighed, not counted.

Pone seram, cohibe; sed quis custodiet ipsos / Custodes? cauta est, et ab illis incipit uxor—Fasten the bolt and restrain her; but who is to watch over the watchers themselves? The wife is cunning, and will begin with them. Juv.

Pons asinorum—The asses' bridge. The Fifth Proposition in the First Book of Euclid.

Ponto nox incubat atra, / Intonuere poli et crebris micat ignibus æther—Black night sits brooding on the deep; the heavens thunder, and the ether gleams with incessant flashes. Virg.

Poor and content is rich and rich enough; / 25 But riches fineless is as poor as winter / To him that ever fears he shall be poor. Othello, iii. 3.

Poor folk hae neither ony kindred nor ony freends. Sc. Pr.

Poor folk seek meat for their stomachs, and rich folks stomachs for their meat. Sc. Pr.

Poor folks are glad of porridge. Sc. Pr.

Poor folks must say "Thank ye" for little. Pr.

Poor folk's wisdom goes for little. Dut. Pr. 30

Poor in abundance, famished at a feast, man's grief is but his grandeur in disguise, and discontent is immortality. Young.

Poor is the triumph o'er the timid hare. Thomson.

Poor love is lost in men's capacious minds; / In women's it fills all the room it finds. John Crowne.

Poor men do penance for rich men's sins. It. Pr.

Poor men, when Yule is cold, / Must be content 35 to sit by little fires. Tennyson.

Poor men's tables are soon placed. Pr.

Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, / That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, / How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, / Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you / From seasons such as these? O I have ta'en / Too little care of this! Lear, iii. 2.

Poor tenant bodies, scant o' cash, / How they maun thole (bear) a factor's snash; / He'll stamp and threaten, curse and swear, / He'll apprehend them, poind their gear; / While they maun (must) stan', wi' aspect humble, / An' hear it a', and fear and tremble! Burns.

Poor the raiment you may wear, / Scanty fare at best be thine; / Let the soul within be clothed / With a majesty divine. M. W. Wood.

Poor though I am, despised, forgot, / Yet God, 40 my God, forgets me not; / And he is safe, and must succeed, / For whom the Lord vouchsafes to plead. Cowper.

Poor, wandering, wayward man! Art thou not tired, and beaten with stripes, even as I am? Ever, whether thou bear the royal mantle or the beggar's gaberdine, art thou so weary, so heavy-laden; and thy bed of rest is but a grave. Carlyle.

Poor when I have, poor when I haven't, poor will I ever be. Gael. Pr.

Poortith (poverty) is better than pride. Sc. Pr.

Popular glory is a perfect coquette; her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted into the bargain. Goldsmith.

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. 45 Carlyle.

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth. J. S. Mill.

Popularity is a blaze of illumination, or alas! of conflagration, kindled round a man; showing what is in him; not putting the smallest item more into him; often abstracting much from him; conflagrating the poor man himself into ashes and "caput mortuum." Carlyle.

Populus me sibilat; at mihi plaudo / Ipse domi, simul ac nummos contemplor in arca—The people hiss me; but I applaud myself at home as soon as I gaze upon the coins in my chest. Hor., for the miser.

Populus vult decipi; decipiatur—The people wish to be deceived; then let them.

Por mucho madrugar, no amanéce mas aina—Early rising does not make the day dawn sooner. Sp. Pr.

Porcus Epicuri-A pig of Epicurus.

Porro unum est necessarium—But one thing is needful. M.

Porte fermée, le diable s'en va—The devil goes 5 away when he sees a shut door. Fr. Pr.

Portrait-painting may be to the painter what the practical knowledge of the world is to the poet, provided he considers it as a school by which he is to acquire the means of perfection in his art, and not as the object of that perfection. Burke.

Portraiture is the basis and the touchstone of historic painting. Schlegel.

Positive happiness is constitutional and incapable of increase; misery is artificial, and generally proceeds from our folly. Goldsmith.

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and orators, because whoever would obtrude his thoughts and reasons upon a multitude, win convince others the more as he appears convinced himself. Swift.

Posse comitatus—The power of the county, which 10 the sheriff has the power to raise in certain cases. L.

Possession is nine-tenths of the law. Pr.

Possession of land implies the duty of living on it, and by it, if there is enough to live on; then... if there is more land than enough for one's self, the duty of making it fruitful and beautiful for as many more as can live on it. Ruskin.

Possunt quia posse videntur—They are able because they look as if they were. Virg.

Post bellum auxilium—Aid after the war is over.

Post cineres gloria sera venit—- Glory comes too 15 late after one is reduced to ashes. Mart.

Post epulas stabis vel passus mille meabis—After eating, you should either stand or walk a mile. Pr.

Post equitem sedet atra cura—Behind the horseman sits dark care. Hor.

Post hoc; ergo propter hoc—After this; therefore on account of this. A logical fallacy.

Post mediam noctem visus quum somnia vera—He appeared to me in vision after midnight, when dreams are true. Hor.

Post nubila Phœbus—After clouds the sun. M.

Post prælia præmia—After battle rewards. M.

Post tenebras lux—After darkness light. M.

Post tot naufragia portum—After so many shipwrecks we reach port. M.

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when bequeathed by those who, when alive, would part with nothing. Colton.

Postulata—Things admitted; postulates. 25

Pot! don't call the kettle black. Pr.

Potatoes don't grow by the side of the pot. Pr.

Potentissimus est, qui se habet in potestate—He is the most powerful who has himself in his power. Sen.

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and poor man has a grudge against poor man, and poet against poet. Hesiod.

[Greek: pou stô]—Where I may stand, and plant my lever. 30 Archimedes.

Pound an almond, and the clear white colour will be altered into a dirty one, and the sweet taste into an oily one. Locke.

Pour avoir du goût, il faut avoir de l'âme—To have taste, one must have some soul. Vauvenargues.

Pour bien connaître un homme il faut avoir mangé un boisseau de sel avec lui—To know a man well, one must have eaten a bushel of salt with him. Fr. Pr.

Pour bien désirer—To desire good. M.

Pour bien instruire, il ne faut pas dire tout ce 35 qu'on sait, mais seulement ce qui convient à ceux qu'on instruit—To teach successfully we must not tell all we know, but only what is adapted to the pupil we are teaching. La Harpe.

Pour comble de bonheur—As the height of happiness. Fr.

Pour connaître le prix de l'argent, il faut être obligé d'en emprunter—To know the value of money, a man has only to borrow. Fr. Pr.

Pour connaître les autres, il faut se connaître soi-même—To know other people one must know one's self. Fr. Pr.

Pour couper court—To cut the matter short. Fr.

Pour dompter les anglais, / Il faut bâtir un 40 pont / Sur le Pas-de-Calais—To conquer the English one must build a bridge over the Straits of Dover. A French song.

Pour encourager les autres—To encourage the rest to go and do likewise. Fr.

Pour être assez bon, il faut l'être trop—To be good enough, one must be too good. Fr. Pr.

Pour exécuter de grandes choses il faut vivre comme si on ne devait jamais mourir—To achieve great things a man should so live as if he were never to die. La Roche.

Pour faire de l'esprit—To play the wit. Fr.

Pour faire rire—To excite laughter. Fr. 45

Pour faire un bon ménage il faut que l'homme soit sourd et la femme aveugle—To live happily together the husband must be deaf and the wife blind. Fr. Pr.

Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, / Obedient passions, and a will resigned; / For love, which scarce collective man can fill; / For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill; / For faith, that, panting for a happier seat, / Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat. Johnson.

Pour grands que soient les rois, ils sont ce que nous sommes; / Ils peuvent se tromper comme les autres hommes—However great kings may be, they are what we are; they may be deceived like other men. Corn.

Pour l'ordinaire la fortune nous vend bien chèrement, ce qu'on croit qu'elle nous donne—Fortune usually sells us very dear what we fancy she is giving us. Fr.

Pour parvenir à bonne foy—To succeed honourably. 50 M.

Pour qui ne les croit pas, il n'est pas de prodiges—There are no miracles for those who have no faith in them. Fr.

Pour ranger le loup, il faut le marier—To tame the wolf you must get him married. Fr. Pr.

Pour savoir quelles étoient véritablement les opinions des hommes, je devois plutôt prendre garde à ce qu'ils pratiquoient qu'à ce qu'ils disoient—To know what men really think, I would pay regard rather to what they do than to what they say. Descartes.

Pour se faire valoir—To make one's self of consequence.

Pour s'établir dans le monde, on fait tout ce que l'on peut pour y paraître établi—To establish himself in the world a man must do all he can to appear already established. La Roche.

Pour soutenir les droits que le ciel autorise, / Abîme tout plutôt; c'est l'esprit de l'église—To maintain your rights granted by Heaven, let everything perish rather than yield; this is the spirit of the Church. Boileau.

Pour tromper un rival l'artifice est permis: / 5 On peut tout employer contre ses ennemis—We may employ artifice to deceive a rival, anything against our enemies. Richelieu.

Pour un plaisir mille douleurs—For a single pleasure a thousand pains. Fr. Pr.

Pour y parvenir—To carry your point. M.

Povertà non ha parenti—Poor people have no relations. It. Pr.

Poverty and hunger have many learned disciples. Ger. Pr.

Poverty breeds strife. Pr. 10

Poverty breeds wealth, and wealth in its turn breeds poverty. The earth to form the mould is taken out of the ditch; and whatever may be the height of the one will be the depth of the other. Hare.

Poverty consists in feeling poor. Emerson.

Poverty demoralises. Emerson.

Poverty ever comes at the call. Goldsmith.

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness. 15 Pr.

Poverty, incessant drudgery, and much worse evils, it has often been the lot of poets and wise men to strive with, and their glory to conquer. Carlyle.

Poverty is but as the pain of piercing the ears of a maiden, and you hang jewels in the wound. Jean Paul.

Poverty is in want of much, avarice of everything. Pub. Syr.

Poverty is no crime and no credit. Pr.

Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed 20 of it is. Pr.

Poverty is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance. It is the care of a great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and everyday is lost in contriving for to-morrow. Johnson.

Poverty is the mither (mother) o' a' arts. Sc. Pr.

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in supporting it. Jean Paul.

Poverty is the reward of idleness. Dut. Pr.

Poverty makes people satirical—soberly, sadly, 25 bitterly satirical. H. Friswell.

Poverty of soul is irreparable. Montesquieu.

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue. It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright. Ben. Franklin.

Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry and casts resolution itself into despair. Addison.

Poverty persuades a man to do and suffer everything that he may escape from it. Lucian.

Poverty should engender an honest pride, that 30 it may not lead and tempt us to unworthy actions. Dickens.

Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men, and rocks them up to manhood. Heine.

Poverty snatches the reins out of the hands of piety. Saadi.

Poverty takes away so many means of doing good, and produces so much inability to resist evil, both natural and moral, that it is by all virtuous means to be avoided. Johnson.

Poverty treads upon the heels of great and unexpected riches. La Bruyère.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice 35 all things. Cowley.

Power and permanence reside only in limitations. Grabbe.

Power belongeth unto God. Bible.

Power cannot have too gentle an expression. Jean Paul.

Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration, but temper and moderation generally produce permanence in all things. Sen.

Power, in its quality and degree, is the 40 measure of manhood. J. G. Holland.

Power is according to quality, not quantity. How much more are men than nations? Emerson.

Power is ever stealing from the many to the few. Wendell Phillips.

Power is no blessing in itself, but when it is employed to protect the innocent. Swift.

Power is nothing but as it is felt, and the delight of superiority is proportionate to the resistance overcome. Johnson.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness 45 in itself has the aspect of strength. Bulwer Lytton.

Power, like a desolating pestilence, / Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, / Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, / Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame a mechanized automaton. Shelley.

Power, like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation. Colton.

Power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring. Bacon.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, no man good enough, to be trusted with unlimited power. Colton.

Power's footstool is opinion, and his throne the 50 human heart. Sir Aubrey de Vere.

Powerful attachment will give a man spirit and confidence which he could by no means call up or command of himself; and in this mood he can do wonders which would not be possible to him without it. Matthew Arnold.

Practically men have come to imagine that the laws of this universe, like the laws of constitutional countries, are decided by voting; that it is all a study of division-lists, and for the universe too depends a little on the activity of the whippers-in. Carlyle.

Practice aims at what is immediate; speculation at what is remote. In practical life, the wisest and soundest men avoid speculation, and ensure success, because, by limiting their range, they increase the tenacity with which they grasp events, while in speculative life the course is exactly the reverse, since in that department the greater the range the greater the command. Buckle.

Practice in time becomes second nature. Anon.

Practice is everything. Periander.

Practice makes perfect. Pr. 5

Practice must settle the habit of doing without reflecting on the rule. Locke.

Practise thrift, or else you'll drift. Pr.

Præcedentibus insta—Follow close on those who precede. M.

Præcepta ducunt, at exempla trahunt—Precept guides, but example draws. Pr.

Præmia virtutis honores—Honours are the rewards 10 of virtue. M.

Præsis ut prosis—Be first, that you may be of service. M.

Præsto et persto—I press on and persevere. M.

Praise a fool and you may make him useful. Dan. Pr.

Praise a fool, and you water his folly. Pr.

Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes 15 her at the grave. Plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then. Lowell.

Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations. Steele.

Praise God more, and blame neighbours less. Pr.

Praise is indeed the consequence and encouragement of virtue; but it is sometimes so unseasonably applied as to become its bane and corruption too. Thomas à Kempis.

Praise is so pleasing to the mind of man that it is the original motive of almost all our actions. Johnson.

Praise is the tribute of men, but felicity the 20 gift of God. Bacon.

Praise is virtue's shadow; who courts her doth more the handmaid than the dame admire. Heath.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. Johnson.

Praise makes good men better, and bad men worse. Pr.

Praise Peter, but don't find fault with Paul. Pr.

Praise the bridge which carries you over. Pr. 25

Praise the hill, but keep below. Pr.

Praise the sea, but keep on land. George Herbert.

Praise undeserved is satire in disguise. Pope.

[Greek: praos tous logous, oxys ta pragmata]—Mild in speech, keen in action. Himerius.

Pray devoutly, / And hammer stoutly. Pr. 30

Pray to God, but keep the hammer going. Pr.

Pray to God, sailor, but pull for the shore. Pr.

Prayer and practice is good rhyme. Sc. Pr.

Prayer and provender never hinder a journey. Pr.

Prayer is a groan. St. Jerome. 35

Prayer is a powerful thing; for God has bound and tied himself thereto. Luther.

Prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan. Bunyan.

Prayer is a study of truth,—a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite. Emerson.

Prayer is a turning of one's soul, in heroic reverence, in infinite desire and endeavour, towards the Highest, the All-excellent, Supreme. Carlyle, in a letter to a young friend.

Prayer is intended to increase the devotion of 40 the individual, but if the individual himself prays he requires no formulæ.... Real inward devotion knows no prayer but that arising from the depths of its own feelings. W. v. Humboldt.

Prayer is the aspiration of our poor, struggling, heavy-laden soul towards its Eternal Father, and, with or without words, ought not to become impossible, nor need it ever. Loyal sons and subjects can approach the King's throne who have no "request" to make there except that they may continue loyal. Carlyle, in a letter to a young friend.

Prayer is the cable, at whose end appears / The anchor hope, ne'er slipp'd but in our fears. Quarles.

Prayer is the Christian's vital breath, / The Christian's native air. James Montgomery.

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscles of Omnipotence. Martin Tupper.

Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, / Uttered 45 or unexpressed, / The motion of a hidden fire that trembles in the breast. J. Montgomery.

Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven; and meditation the eye with which we see God. St. Ambrose.

Prayer knocks till the door opens. Pr.

Prayer, like Jonathan's bow, returns not empty. Gurnall.

Prayer moves the hand that moves the universe. Anon.

Prayer must not come from the roof of the 50 mouth, but from the root of the heart. Pr.

Prayer purifies; it is a self-preached sermon. Jean Paul.

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night. Pr.

Prayer that craves a particular commodity, anything less than all good, is vicious. As a means to effect a private end, it is meanness and theft. Emerson.

Prayers are but the body of the bird; desires are its angel's wings. Jeremy Taylor.

Praying's the end of preaching. George Herbert. 55

Preaching is of much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument that you can offer to the sceptic. H. Ballou.

Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life. Emerson.

Précepte commence, exemple achève—Precept begins, example perfects. Fr.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find. Sen.

Preces armatæ—Armed prayers, i.e., with arms to back them up.

Precious beyond price are good resolutions. Valuable beyond price are good feelings. H. R. Haweis.

Precious ointments are put in small boxes. Pr.

Predominant opinions are generally the 5 opinions of the generation that is vanishing. Disraeli.

Prefer loss before unjust gain; for that brings grief but once, this for ever. Chilo.

Prejudice is a prophet which prophesies only evil. Pr.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance. Hazlitt.

Prejudice squints when it looks, and lies when it talks. Duchess d'Abrantes.

Prejudice, which he pretends to hate, is man's 10 absolute lawgiver; mere use-and-wont everywhere leads him by the nose: thus let but a rising of the sun, let but a creation of the world happen twice, and it ceases to be marvellous, to be noteworthy or noticeable. Carlyle.

Prendre la clef des champs—To run away (lit. take the key of the fields). Fr. Pr.

Prendre les choses au pis—To regard matters in the most unfavourable light. Fr.

Prends le premier conseil d'une femme et non le second—Take a woman's first advice and not her second. Fr. Pr.

Prends moi tel que je suis—Take me as I am. M.

Present fears / Are less than horrible imaginings. 15 Macb., i. 3.

Preserve the rights of inferior places, and think it more honour to direct in chief than to be busy in all. Bacon.

Pressure alone causes water to rise and directs it. Renan.

Presumption is our natural and original disease. Montaigne.

Presumptuousness, which audaciously strides over all the steps of gradual culture, affords little encouragement to hope for any masterpiece. Goethe.

Prêt d'accomplir—Ready to accomplish. M. 20

Prêt pour mon pays—Ready for my country. M.

"Pretty Pussy" will not feed a cat. Pr.

Prevention is better than cure. Pr.

Pria Veneziani, poi Christiane—Venetian first, Christian afterwards. Ven. Pr.

Pride adds to a man's stature; vanity only 25 puffs him out. Chamfort.

Pride and grace ne'er dwell in ae place. Sc. Pr.

Pride and poverty are ill met, yet often live together. Pr.

Pride feels no cold. Pr.

Pride flows from want of reflection and ignorance of ourselves. Knowledge and humility come upon us together. Addison.

Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty 30 spirit before a fall. Bible.

Pride hath no other glass to show itself but pride. Troil. and Cress., iii. 3.

Pride, ill-nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill-manners; without some one of these defects no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world. Swift.

Pride is a flower that grows in the devil's garden. Howell.

Pride is lofty, calm, immovable; vanity is uncertain, capricious, and unjust. Chamfort.

Pride is still aiming at the blest abodes; / 35 Men would be angels, angels would be gods; / Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, / Aspiring to be angels, men rebel. Pope.

Pride is the source of a thousand virtues; vanity is that of nearly all vices and all perversities. Chamfort.

Pride must suffer pain. Pr.

Pride never leaves its master till he gets a fa'. Sc. Pr.

Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness. Lowell.

Pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Pope. 40

Pride will have a fall; for pride goeth before, and shame cometh after. Pr.

Pride with pride will not abide. Pr.

Pride would never owe, nor self-love ever pay. La Roche.

Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but bony bodies. Pr.

Priestcraft is no better than witchcraft. Pr. 45

Priesthoods that do not teach, aristocracies that do not govern; the misery of that, and the misery of altering that, are written in Belshazzar fire-letters on the history of France. Carlyle.

Priests pray for enemies, but princes kill. 2 Hen. VI., v. 2.

Prima et maxima peccantium est pœna peccasse—The first and greatest punishment of sinners is the conscience of sin. Sen.

Prima facie—At first sight or view of a case.

Primo avulso non deficit alter / aureus—The first 50 being wrenched away, another of gold succeeds. Virg.

Primum mobile—The primary motive power.

Primus in orbe Deos fecit timor—It was fear that first suggested the existence of the gods. Statius.

Primus inter pares—The first among equals.

Primus sapientiæ gradus est falsa intelligere—The first step towards wisdom is to distinguish what is false.

Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, / 55 "An honest man's the noblest work of God." Burns.

Princes and lords may flourish or may fade; / A breath can make them, as a breath has made. Goldsmith.

Principes mortales, rempublicam æternam—Princes are mortal, the republic is eternal. Tac.

Principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est—To have earned the goodwill of the great is not the least of merits. Hor.

Principiis obsta; sero medicina paratur, / Cum mala per longas convaluere moras—Resist the first beginnings; a cure is attempted too late when through long delay the malady has waxed strong. Ovid.

Principis est virtus maxima nosse suos—It is the greatest merit of a prince to know those his subjects. Mart.

Principle is a passion for truth. (?)

Principle is ever my motto, not expediency. Disraeli.

Prisoners of hope. Bible.

Pristinæ virtutis memores—Mindful of ancient 5 valour. M.

Priusquam incipias consulto, et ubi consulueris mature facto opus est—Before you begin, consider; but having considered, use despatch. Sall.

Private affection bereaves us easily of a right judgment. Thomas à Kempis.

Private credit is wealth; public honour is security. The feather that adorns the royal bird supports its flight; strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth. Junius.

Private judgment with the accent on "private" is self-will; but with the accent on "judgment," it is freedom, free-will. J. Hutchison Stirling.

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is 10 almost omnipotent. Ward Beecher.

Private reproof is the best grave for private faults. Pr.

Private self-regard must have been wholly subordinated to, if not entirely cast out by, a higher principle of action and a purer affection before a man can become either truly moral or religious. J. C. Sharp.

Privatorum conventio juri publico non derogat—No bargain between individuals derogates from a law. L.

Privatus illis census erat brevis, / Commune magnum—Their private property was small, the public revenue great. Hor.

Privilegium est quasi privata lex—Privilege is 15 as it were private law. L.

Pro aris et focis—For our altars and our hearths.

Pro bono publico—For the public good.

Pro Christo et patria—For Christ and country. M.

Pro confesso—As confessed or admitted.

Pro Deo et rege—For God and king. M. 20

Pro et con.—For and against.

Pro forma—For form's sake.

Pro hac vice—For this turn; on this occasion.

Pro libertate patriæ—For the liberty of my country. M.

Pro patria et rege—For king and country. M. 25

Pro rata (parte)—In proportion, proportionally.

Pro re nata—For circumstances that have arisen.

Pro rege et patria—For king and country. M.

Pro rege, lege, et grege—For king, law, and people. M.

Pro tanto—For so much. 30

Pro tempore—For the time.

Pro virtute bellica—For valour in war. M.

Pro virtute felix temeritas—Instead of valour successful rashness. Sen., of Alexander the Great.

Probably imposture is of a sanative, anodyne nature, and man's gullibility not his worst blessing. Carlyle.

Probably men were never born demigods in any 35 century, but precisely god-devils as we see; certain of whom do become a kind of demigods. Carlyle.

Probatum est—It has been settled.

Probitas laudatur, et alget—Integrity is praised and is left out in the cold. Juv.

Probitas verus honos—Integrity is true honour. M.

Probitate et labore—By honesty and labour. M.

Probity is as rarely in accord with interest as 40 reason is with passion. Saneal-Dubay.

Probum non pœnitet—The upright man has no regrets. M.

Procellæ quanto plus habent virium tanto minus temporis—The more violent storms are, the sooner they are over. Sen.

Procrastination is the thief of time. Young.

Procul a Jove, procul a fulmine.—Far from Jove, far from his thunderbolts. Pr.

Procul O! procul este, profani—Away, I pray 45 you; keep off, ye profane. Virg.

Prodesse quam conspici—To be of service rather than to be conspicuous. M.

Prodigus et stultus donat quæ spernit et odit. / Hæc seges ingratos tulit, et feret omnibus annis—The spendthrift and fool gives away what he despises and hates. This seed has ever borne, and will bear, an ungrateful brood. Hor.

Productions (of a certain artistic quality) are at present possible which are nought (Null) without being bad—nought, because there is nothing in them, and not bad, because a general form after some good model has hovered vaguely (vorschwebt) before the mind of the author. Goethe.

Profaneness is a brutal vice; he who indulges in it is no gentleman. Chapin.

Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing 50 and appreciating either diamonds in the rough state or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical laboratory has scales and weights, but neither crucible nor touchstone. Joubert.

Proffered service stinks, i.e., is not appreciated. Pr.

Profligacy consists not in spending years of time or chests of money, but in spending them off the line of your career. Emerson.

Profound joy has more of severity than gaiety in it. Montaigne.

Progress begins with the minority. G. W. Curtis.

Progress is the law of life—man is not man as 55 yet. Browning.

Progress, man's distinctive mark alone, / Not God's and not the beasts': God is, they are; / Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be. Browning.

Progress—the stride of God. Victor Hugo.

Prohibetur ne quis faciat in suo, quod nocere potest in alieno—No one is allowed to do on his own premises what may injure those of a neighbour. L.

Prolonged endurance tames the bold. Byron.

Promettre c'est donner, espérer c'est jouir—Promising 60 is giving, and hoping is fruition. Delille.

Promise is most given when the least is said. Chapman.

Promises make debts, and debts make promises. Dut. Pr.

Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them. Owen Feltham.

Proof of a God? A probable God! The smallest of finites struggling to prove to itself... and include within itself, the Highest Infinite, in which, by hypothesis, it lives and moves and has its being! Man, reduced to wander about, in stooping posture, with painfully-constructed sulphur-match, and farthing rushlight, or smoky tar-link, searching for the sun. Carlyle.

Prope ad summum, prope ad exitum—Near the summit, near the end. Pr.

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

Proper words in proper places make the true 5 definition of a style. Swift.

Properly speaking, the land belongs to these two: to the Almighty God and to all His children of men that have ever worked well on it, or shall ever work well on it. Carlyle.

Properly thou hast no other knowledge but what thou hast got by working. Carlyle.

Property has its duties as well as its rights. Drummond.

Property, O brother? Of my body I have but a liferent.... But my soul, breathed into me by God, my Me, and what capability is there, I call that mine and not thine. I will keep that, and do what work I can with it; God has given it me; the devil shall not take it away. Carlyle.

Property there is among us valuable to the 10 auctioneer; but the accumulated manufacturing, commercial, economic skill which lies impalpably warehoused in English hands and heads, what auctioneer can estimate? Carlyle.

Prophecy, not poetry, is the thing wanted in these days. How can we sing and paint when we do not yet believe and see? Carlyle.

Prophete rechts, Prophete links / Das Weltkind in der Mitten—Prophets to right, prophets to left, the world-child between. Goethe.

Propositi tenax—Tenacious of my purpose. M.

Propriæ telluris herum natura, neque illum, / Nec me, nec quemquam statuit. Nos expulit ille: / Illum aut nequities, aut vafri inscitia juris, / Postremo expellet certe vivacior hæres—Nature has appointed neither him nor me, nor any one, lord of this land in perpetuity. That one has ejected us; either some villany or quirk at law, at any rate, an heir surviving him, will at last eject him. Hor.

Propriety of thought and propriety of diction 15 are commonly found together. Obscurity and affectation are the two greatest faults of style. Macaulay.

Proprio motu—Of his own motion; spontaneously.

Proprio vigore—Of one's own strength.

Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem læseris—It is a weakness of your human nature to hate those whom you have wronged. Tac.

Proque sua causa quisque disertus erat—Every one was eloquent in his own cause. Ovid.

Prose, words in their best order; poetry, the 20 best words in the best order. Coleridge.

Prosperity destroys fools and endangers the wise. Pr.

Prosperity doth best discover vice, and adversity doth best discover virtue. Bacon.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. Bacon.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer revelation of God's favour. Bacon.

Prosperity is the touchstone of virtue; for it 25 is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure. Tac.

Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity. H. Ballou.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great. Pliny the Younger.

Prosperum et felix scelus / Virtus vocatur—Crime when it succeeds is called virtue. Sen.

Protectio trahit subjectionem, et subjectio protectionem—Protection involves allegiance, and allegiance protection. L.

Protestantism is a revolt against false sovereigns; 30 the painful but indispensable first preparation for true sovereigns getting place among us. Carlyle.

Proud people are intolerably selfish, and the vain are gentle and giving. Emerson.

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. St. Paul.

Proverbs are easily made in cold blood. Joe Willet.

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond-fields of the mind. W. R. Alger.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long 35 experience. Cervantes.

Proverbs are the abridgments of wisdom. Joubert.

Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. Dut. Pr.

Proverbs are the wisdom of ages. Ger. Pr.

Proverbs are the wisdom of the streets. Pr.

Proverbs cover the whole field of man as he is, 40 and life as it is, not of either as they ought to be. John Morley.

Proverbs have been always dear to the true intellectual aristocracy of a nation. Trench.

Proverbs have, not a few of them, come down to us from remotest antiquity, borne safely upon the waters of that great stream of time which has swallowed so much beneath its waves. Trench.

Proverbs have pleased not one nation only, but many, so that they have made themselves a home in the most different lands. Trench.

Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. Emerson.

Proverbs please the people, and have pleased 45 them for ages. Trench.

Proverbs possess so vigorous a principle of life, as to have maintained their ground, ever new and ever young, through all the centuries of a nation's existence. Trench.

Proverbs were anterior to books, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality. I. Disraeli.

Provide things honest in the sight of all men. St. Paul.

Providence certainly does not favour individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsels extends to the instruction and ennoblement of all. W. v. Humboldt.

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history. Lamartine.

Providence gives the power, of which reason teaches the use. Johnson.

Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end; and it is no use to try to whitewash its huge, mixed instrumentalities, to dress up that terrific benefactor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student in divinity. Emerson.

Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions—money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion—should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and unworthy; but those things which constitute our true riches, and which are properly our own, must be procured by our own labour. Erasmus.

Providence has given to the French the empire 5 of the land; to the English, that of the sea; to the Germans, that of—the air. Mme. de Staël.

Providence is but another name for natural law. Ward Beecher.

Providence is my next-door neighbour. An Italian hermit.

Providence is not counteracted by any means which Providence puts into our power. Johnson.

Providence may change, but the promise must stand. Pr.

Providence often puts a large potato in a little 10 pig's way. Pr.

Providence provides for the provident. Pr.

Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence. Sir P. Sidney.

Provocarem ad Philippum, inquit, sed sobrium—I would appeal to Philip, she said, but to Philip sober. Val. Max.

Proximorum incuriosi, longinqua sectamur—Uninquisitive of things near, we pursue those which are at a distance. Pliny.

Proximus a tectis ignis defenditur ægre—A 15 fire is difficult to ward off when next house is in flames. Ovid.

Proximus ardet Ucalegon—The house of your neighbour Ucalegon is on fire. Virg.

Proximus sum egomet mihi—I am my own nearest of kin. Ter.

Prudence and greatness are ever persuading us to contrary pursuits. The one instructs us to be content with our station, and to find happiness in bounding every wish: the other impels us to superiority, and calls nothing happiness but rapture. Goldsmith.

Prudence and love are not made for each other; as the love increases, prudence diminishes. La Roche.

Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the 20 virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess. Jeremy Collier.

Prudence is that virtue by which we discern what is proper to be done under the various circumstances of time and place. Milton.

Prudence is the virtue of the senses, the science of appearances, the outmost action of the inward life, God taking thought for oxen. Emerson.

Prudens futuri temporis exitum / Caliginosa nocte premit Deus; / Ridetque, si mortalis ultra / Fas trepidat—The Deity in His wisdom veils in the darkness of night the events of the future; and smiles if a mortal is unduly solicitous about what he is not permitted to know. Hor.

Prudens interrogatio quasi dimidium sapientiæ—Prudent questioning is, as it were, the half of knowledge.

Prudens qui patiens—He is prudent who has 25 patience. M.

Prudens simplicitas—A prudent simplicity. M.

Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limitation and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world. Goethe.

Prudentia et constantia—By prudence and constancy. M.

Prudentis est mutare consilium; stultus sicut luna mutatur—A prudent man may, on occasion, change his opinion, but a fool changes as often as the moon.

Prüft das Geschick dich, weiss es wohl warum; / 30 Es wünschte dich enthaltsam! Folge stumm—Destiny is proving thee; well knows she why: she meant thee to be abstinent! Follow thou dumb. Goethe.

Pshaw! what is this little dog-cage of an earth? what art thou that sittest whining there? Thou art still nothing, nobody; true, but who then is something, somebody? Carlyle.

Public affairs ought to progress quickly or slowly, but the people have always too much action or too little. Sometimes with their hundred thousand arms they will overthrow everything, and sometimes with their hundred thousand feet they will crawl along like insects. Montesquieu.

Public feeling now is apt to side with the persecuted, and our modern martyr is full as likely to be smothered with roses as with coals. Chapin.

Public instruction should be the first object of government. Napoleon.

Public opinion is a second conscience. W. R. 35 Alger.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. Thoreau.

Public opinion is democratic. J. G. Holland.

Public opinion is the mixed result of the intellect of the community acting upon general feeling. Hazlitt.

Publicum bonum privato est præferendum—The public good must be preferred to private. L.

Publicum meritorum præmium—The public reward 40 for public services. M.

Pulchre! bene! recte!—Beautiful! good! correct! Hor.

Pulvis et umbra sumus, fruges consumere nati—We are but dust and shadows, born merely to consume the fruits of the earth. Hor.

Punctuality is the soul of business. Pr.

Punishment follows hard upon crime. Pr.

Punishment is justice for the unjust. St. 45 Augustine.

Punishment is the last and the worst instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. Ruskin.

Punishment of a miser—to pay the drafts of his heir in his tomb. Hawthorne.

[Greek: pyr machaira mê skaleuein]—Don't stir fire with sword. Pythagoras.

Puras Deus non plenas adspicit manus—God looks to clean hands, not to full ones. (?)

Purchase the next world with this; thus shalt 5 thou win both. Arab. Pr.

Pure enjoyment and true usefulness can only be reciprocal. Goethe.

Pure love cannot merely do all, but is all. Jean Paul.

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this: To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. St. James.

Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation, because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves. They will not advance their minds to the standard, therefore they lower the standard to their minds. Colton.

Puridad de dos, puridad de Dios; puridad de 10 tres, de todos es—A secret between two is God's secret; but a secret between three is all men's. Sp. Pr.

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature. Simplicity is in the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God; purity unites with and enjoys Him. Thomas à Kempis.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honour. Hare.

Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman. Mme. de Staël.

Purpose barred, it follows, / Nothing is done to purpose. Coriolanus, iii. 1.

Purpose is what gives life a meaning. C. H. 15 Parkhurst.

Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness. Samuel Smiles.

Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties. Lord Brougham.

Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth. Ward Beecher.

Put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. Bible.

Put a stout heart to a stey (steep) brae. Sc. 20 Pr.

Put a tongue / In every wound of Cæsar that should move / The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny. Jul. Cæs., iii. 2.

Put a young healthy soul full of life under the teaching of the Graces, and the soul's body and workmanship will become transparent of the soul's self. Ed.

Put armour on thine ears and on thine eyes. Timon of Athens, iv. 3.

Put money in thy purse. Othello, i. 3.

Put no trust in money; put your money in 25 trust. Amer. Pr.

Put not all your crocks on one shelf. Sc. Pr.

Put not all your eggs in one basket. Dut. Pr.

Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men; for better it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen. Bible.

Put the saddle on the right horse. Pr.

Put your best foot foremost. Congreve. 30

Put your foot down where you mean to stand. Pr.

Put your hand no farther than your sleeve will reach. Pr.

Put your hand quickly to your hat and slowly to your purse, and you'll take no harm. Pr.

Put your own shoulder to the wheel. Pr.

Put your trust in God, and keep your powder 35 dry. Cromwell.

Putting out the natural eye of one's mind to see better with a telescope. Carlyle.