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

Logic works; metaphysic contemplates. Joubert. 30

Loin de la cour, loin du souci—Far from court, far from care. Fr. Pr.

Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labours in vain. Johnson.

Long experience made him sage. Gay.

Long lent is not given. Pr.

Long talk makes short work. Pr. 35

Long talking begets short hearing, for people go away. Jean Paul.

Longa est injuria, longæ / Ambages—Long is the story of her wrongs, tedious the details. Virg.

Longa mora est, quantum noxæ sit ubique repertum / Enumerare: minor fuit ipsa infamia vero—It would take long to enumerate how great an amount of crime was everywhere perpetrated; even the report itself came short of the truth. Ovid.

Longe aberrat scopo—He is wide of the mark; has gone quite out of his sphere.