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

List his discourse of war, and you shall hear / A fearful battle render'd you in music; / Turn him to any cause of policy, / The Gordian Knot of it he will unloose, / Familiar as his garter. Hen. V., i. 1.

Listen at a hole, and ye'll hear news o' yoursel'. Sc. Pr.

Listeners never hear good of themselves. Sp. Pr.

Lite pendente—During the lawsuit. 30

Litem parit lis, noxa item noxam parit—Strife begets strife, and injury likewise begets injury. Pr.

Litera canina—The canine letter (the letter R).

Litera occidit, spiritus autem vivificat—The letter killeth, but the spirit quickeneth. Vulgate.

Litera scripta manet, verbum ut inane perit—Written testimony remains, but oral perishes.

Literæ Bellerophontis—A Bellerophon's letter, 35 i.e., a letter requesting that the bearer should be dealt with in some summary way for an offence.

Literæ humaniores—Polite literature; arts in a university.