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

Old wounds soon bleed. Pr.

Olet lucernam—It smells of the lamp, or midnight study.

Oleum adde camino—Add fuel to the fire. Hor.

Oleum et operam perdidi—I have lost both the oil and my pains. Plaut.

Olla male fervet—It does not look hopeful; the 35 pot boils poorly. Pr.

Olim meminisse juvabit—It will delight us to recall these things some day hereafter. Virg.

Oliver Cromwell, dead two hundred years ago, does yet speak; nay, perhaps, now first begins to speak. Carlyle.

Omina sunt aliquid—There is something in omens. Ovid.

[Greek: omma gar domôn nomizô despotou parousian]—The presence of the master is, meseems, the eye of a house. Æschylus.

Omne actum ab agentis intentione judicandum—Every 40 act is to be judged of by the intention of the agent. L.