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

Lust of gain, in the spirit of Cain, is it better 5 or worse / Than the heart of the citizen hissing in war on his own hearthstone? Tennyson.

Lust und Liebe sind die Fittiche / Zu grossen Thaten—Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds. Goethe.

Lust yielded to is a pleasant madness, but it is a desperate madness when opposed. Bp. Hall.

Lusus naturæ—A freak of nature.

Luther's shoes don't fit every country parson. Ger. Pr.

Luther's words are half battles. Jean Paul. 10

Luxuriæ desunt multa, avaritiæ omnia—Luxury is in want of many things; avarice, of everything. Pub. Syr.

Luxuriant animi rebus plerumque secundis; / Nec facile est æqua commoda mente pati—The feelings generally run riot in prosperity; and to bear good fortune with evenness of mind is no easy task. Ovid.

Luxury is a nice master, hard to be pleased. Sir G. Mackenzie.

Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail. Victor Hugo.