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

Après la mort le médecin—After death the doctor. Fr. Pr.

Après la pluie, le beau temps—After the rain, fair weather. Fr. Pr.

Après nous le déluge—After us the deluge! Mme. de Pompadour.

A primrose by a river's brim / A yellow primrose was to him, / And it was nothing more. Wordsworth.

A prince can mak' a belted knight, / A marquis, 65 duke, and a' that; / But an honest man's aboon his might, / Gude faith, he maunna fa' that. Burns.

A priori—From the cause to the effect; by deduction.

A progress of society on the one hand, a decline of souls on the other. Amiel.

A promise is a debt. Gael. Pr.

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

A prophet is not without honour, save in his 5 own country, and in his own house. Jesus.