Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

In any controversy, the instant we feel angry we have already ceased striving for truth and begun striving for ourselves. Goethe.

In aqua scribis—You are writing on water. Pr. 5

In arena ædificas—You are building on sand. Pr.

In arguing, be calm; for fierceness makes / Error a fault, and truth discourtesy. George Herbert.

In argument with men, a woman ever / Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause. Milton.

In art and in deeds, only that is properly achieved which, like Minerva, springs full-grown and armed from the head of the inventor. Goethe.

In art, to express the infinite one should suggest 10 infinitely more than is expressed. Goethe.

In articulo mortis—At the point of death.

In audaces non est audacia tuta—Daring is not safe against daring men. Ovid.

In beato omnia beata—With the fortunate everything is fortunate. Hor.