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

Paint costs nothing. Dut. Pr.

"Paint me as I am." (?)

Painters draw their nymphs in thin and airy habits, but the weight of gold and of embroideries is reserved for queens and goddesses. Dryden.

Painting does not proceed so much by intelligence 50 as by sight and feeling and invention. Hamerton.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry speaking painting. Simonides.

Painting is the intermediate between a thought and a thing. Coleridge.

Palabra de boca, piedra de honda—A word from the mouth is as a stone from a sling. Sp. Pr.

Palabra y piedra suelta no tiene vuelta—A word and a stone once launched cannot be recalled. Sp. Pr.

Palam mutire plebeio piaculum est—For a common man to mutter what he thinks is a risky venture.

Palinodiam canere—To recant.