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

Luck is everything in promotion. Cervantes.

Luck is the idol of the idle. Pr.

Luck, mere luck, may make even madness 40 wisdom. Douglas Jerrold.

Luck seeks those who flee, and flees those who seek it. Ger. Pr.

Lucri bonus est odor ex re / Qualibet—The smell of gain is good, from whatever it proceeds. Juv.

Luctantem Icariis fluctibus Africum / Mercator metuens, otium et oppidi / Laudat rura sui: mox reficit rates / Quassas, indocilis pauperiem pati—The merchant, dreading the south-west wind wrestling with the Icarian waves, praises retirement and the rural life of his native town, but soon he repairs his shattered bark, incapable of being taught to endure poverty. Hor.

Ludere cum sacris—To trifle with sacred things.

Ludit in humanis divina potestas rebus, / Et 45 certam præsens vix habet hora fidem—The divine power sports with human affairs so much that we can scarcely be sure of the passing hour. Ovid.

Lugete o Veneres Cupidinesque—Weep, all ye Venuses and Cupids. Cat.

Lull'd in the countless chambers of the brain, / Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; / Awake but one, and lo! what myriads rise! / Each stamps its image as the other flies. Rogers.