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

Incedit in Scyllam qui vult vitare Charybdim—He 45 falls into Scylla in struggling to escape Charybdis. Pr.

Incendit omnem feminæ zelus domum—The jealousy of a woman sets a whole house in a flame. Pr.

Incense is a tribute for gods only but a poison for mortals. Goethe.

Inceptis gravibus plerumque et magna professis, / Purpureus, late qui splendeat, unus et alter / Adsuitur pannus—Oftentimes to lofty beginnings and such as promise great things, one or two purple patches are stitched on in order to make a brilliant display. Hor.

Incerta hæc si tu postules / Ratione certa facere, nihilo plus agas, / Quam si des operam ut cum ratione insanias—If you require reason to make that certain which is uncertain, you are simply attempting to go mad by the rules of reason. Ter.

Incerta pro nullis habetur—What is uncertain 50 is to be treated as non-extant. L.

Incerti sunt exitus belli—The results of war are uncertain. Cic.

Incertum est quo te loco mors expectet; itaque in omni loco illam expecta—It is uncertain in what place death awaits you; be ready for it therefore in every place. Sen.

Incessant scribbling is death to thought. Carlyle.

Incessu patuit Dea—By her gait the goddess stood revealed. Virg.