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

Letters that are warmly sealed are often coldly opened. Jean Paul.

Letters without virtue are like pearls in a dunghill. Cervantes.

Letting down buckets into empty wells, and growing old with drawing nothing up. Cowper.

Lettres de cachet—Warrants of imprisonment 25 under royal seal, liberally issued in France before the Revolution.

Leuk twice or ye loup ance, i.e., look twice before you leap once. Sc. Pr.

Leve æs alienum debitorem facit, grave inimicum—A small debt makes a man your debtor, a large one your enemy. Sen.

Leve fit quod bene fertur onus—The burden which is cheerfully borne becomes light. Ovid.

Leve incommodum tolerandum est—A slight inconvenience must be endured. M.

Leve (trust) none better than thyself. Hazlitt's 30 Poems.

Level roads run out from music to every side. Goethe.