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

Pallida mors æquo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas, / Regumque turres—Pale Death with impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of kings. Hor.

Palma non sine pulvere—The palm, but not 5 without a struggle. M.

Palma virtuti—The palm to virtue. M.

Palmam qui meruit ferat—Let him bear the palm that deserves it. M.

Panem et circenses—Bread and the games of the circus (what the Roman plebs took sole interest in). Juv.

Paper and leather and ink, / All are but trash / If I find not the thought / Which the writer can think. Dr. Walter Smith.

Par bene comparatum—A pair well matched. 10

Par droit de conquète et par droit de naissance—By right of conquest and by right of birth. Henry IV. of France.

Par excellence—Pre-eminently. Fr.

Par l'écoulement du temps—By the lapse of time. Fr.