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

Omnia inconsulti impetus cœpta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt—All enterprises which are entered on with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigour at first, but are sure to collapse in the end. Tac.

Omnia jam fient, fieri quæ posse negabam: / Et nihil est de quo non sit habenda fides—All things will now come to pass which I used to think impossible; and there is nothing which we may not hope to see take place. Ovid.

Omnia mala exempla bonis principiis orta sunt—All 15 bad precedents have had their rise in good beginnings.

Omnia mea mecum porto—All that belongs to me I carry with me. Bias.

Omnia mutantur, nihil interit—All things but change, nothing perishes. Ovid.

Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis—All things change, and we ourselves change along with them. Borbonius.

Omnia non pariter rerum sunt omnibus apta—All things are not alike fit for all men. Propert.

Omnia orta occident—All things that rise also 20 set. Sall.

Omnia perdidimus, tantummodo vita relicta est—We have lost everything, only life is left. Ovid.

Omnia perversas possunt corrumpere mentes—All things tend to corrupt perverted minds. Ovid.