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

Like the hand which ends a dream, / Death, with the might of his sunbeam, / Touches the flesh and the soul awakes. Browning.

Like two single gentlemen rolled into one. G. Colman.

Likely tumbles in the fire, / When unlikely rises higher. Pr.

Limæ labor et mora—The labour and tediousness 10 of polishing as with a file. Hor.

Limit your wants by your wealth. Pr.

Limitations refine as the soul purifies, but the ring of necessity is always perched at the top. Emerson.

Limiting of one's life always conduces to happiness. Schopenhauer.

Lingua mali loquax malæ mentis est indicium—An evil tongue is the proof of an evil mind. Pub. Syr.

Lingua mali pars pessima servi—His tongue is 15 the worst part of a bad servant. Juv.

Lingua melior, sed frigida bello / Dextera—Excels in speech, but of a right hand slow to war. Virg.