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

O miseri quorum gaudia crimen habent!—O 25 wretched ye whose joys are tainted with guilt! Pseudo-Gallus.

O most lame and impotent conclusion! Othello, ii. 1.

O munera nondum / Intellecta Deum—Oh, that the gifts of the gods should not yet be understood. Lucan.

O my prophetic soul! mine uncle. Ham., i. 5.

O Nature! Ha! why do I not name thee God? Art thou not the "living garment of God?" O Heavens! is it, in very deed, He then that ever speaks through thee; that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? Carlyle.

O never / Shall sun that morrow see. Macb., i. 5. 30

O nimium nimiumque oblite tuorum—Too, too forgetful of thy kin. Ovid.

O nimm der Stunde wahr, eh' sie entschlüpft. / So selten kommt der Augenblick im Leben / Der wahrhaft wichtig ist und gross—Take note of the hour ere it slips past; so seldom does the moment come which is truly fateful and great. Schiller.

O noctes cœnæque deum!—Oh, nights and suppers of the gods! Hor.

O passi graviora!—Oh, ye who have suffered greater misfortunes than these! Virg.