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

Lo que hace el loco á la derreria, hace el sabio 10 á la primeria—What the fool does at length the wise man does at the beginning. Sp. Pr.

Lo que no acaece en un año, acaece en un rato—A thing that may not happen in a year may happen in two minutes. Sp. Pr.

Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutor'd mind / Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind; / His soul proud science never taught to stray / Far as the solar walk or milky way; / Yet simple nature to his hope has given, / Behind the cloud-topt hills, a humbler heaven. Pope.

Loan oft loses both itself and friend. Ham., i. 3.

Loans and debts make worries and frets. Pr.

Loans should come laughing home. Pr. 15

Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud. Shakespeare.

Loaves put awry in the oven come out awry. Pr.

Loci communes—Topics.

Lock the stable before you lose the steed. Pr.