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

Aperte mala cum est mulier, tum demum est bona—A woman when she is openly bad, is at least honest.

Aperto vivere voto—To live with every wish avowed. Pers.

A pet lamb makes a cross ram. Pr.

Aphorisms are portable wisdom. W. R. Alger.

Apio opus est—There is need of parsley, i.e., 35 to strew on the grave, meaning that one is dying.

A pity that the eagle should be mew'd, / While kites and buzzards prey at liberty. Rich. III., i. 1.

A place for everything, and everything in its place. Pr.

A plague of sighing and grief; it blows a man up like a bladder. 1 Hen. IV., i. 4.

A plant often removed cannot thrive. Pr.

A pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation. 40 Bacon.