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 partibus infidelium—In unbelieving countries.

In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man / As modest stillness and humility; / But when the blast of war blows in our ears, / Then imitate the action of the tiger; / Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, / Disguise fair Nature with hard-favour'd rage, / Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; / Let it pry through the portage of the head / Like the brass cannons. Hen. V., iii. 1.

In peace, who is not wise? Hitopadesa.

In perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense. Rückert.

In perpetuam rei memoriam—In everlasting remembrance of a thing.

In pertusum ingerimus dicta dolium—We are pouring our words into a perforated cask, i.e., are throwing them away. Plaut.

In petto—Within the breast; in reserve. It.

In pios usus—For pious uses. 5

In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man. Macaulay.

In pleno—In full.