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

Lost time is never found again. Pr.

Lotis manibus—With clean-washen hands.

Loud clamour is always more or less insane. Carlyle.

Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true wit or good sense never excited a laugh since the creation of the world. Chesterfield.

Loudness is a foe to melody. Pr. 35

Louer les princes des vertus qu'ils n'ont pas, c'est leur dire impunément des injures—To praise princes for virtues which they do not possess, is to insult them with impunity. La Roche.

Louis ne sut qu'aimer, pardonner et mourir; / Il aurait su régner s'il avait su punir—Louis (XVI.) knew only how to love, pardon, and die; had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign. Tilly.

Love abounds in honey and poison. Sp. Pr.

Love accomplishes all things. Petrarch.

Love all, trust a few, / Do wrong to none; be 40 able for thine enemy / Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend / Under thy own life's key; be checked for silence, / But never tax'd for speech. All's Well, i. 1.