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

Asinum sub fræno currere docere—To teach an ass to obey the rein, i.e., to labour in vain. Pr.

Asinus ad lyram—An ass at the lyre, i.e., one unsusceptible of music.

Asinus asino, et sus sui pulcher—An ass is beautiful to an ass, and a pig to a pig. Pr.

Asinus in tegulis—An ass on the house-tiles. 40

Asinus inter simias—An ass among apes, i.e., a fool among people who make a fool of him. Pr.

Asinus in unguento—An ass among perfumes, i.e., things he cannot appreciate.

As is the garden, such is the gardener. Heb. Pr.

As is the man, so is his God. Rückert, Goethe.

A sip is the most that mortals are permitted 45 from any goblet of delight. A. B. Alcott.

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you. Jesus.