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

Par un prompt désespoir souvent on se marie, / Qu'on s'en repent après tout le temps de sa vie—We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after. Molière.

Paradise is always where love dwells. Jean 25 Paul.

Paradise is for those who control their anger. Koran.

Paradise is under the shadow of our swords. Mahomet.

Parasiticam cœnam quærit—He seeks the meal of a parasite or hanger-on.

Parce, puer, stimulis et fortius utere loris—Boy, spare the goad and more firmly grasp the reins. Ovid.

Parcere personis, dicere de vitiis—To spare persons, 30 to condemn crimes. Mart.

Parcere subjectis et debellare superbos—To spare the conquered, to subdue the haughty. Virg.

Parcite paucorum diffundere crimen in omnes—Forbear to lay the guilt of the few upon the many. Ovid.

Parcus Deorum cultor, et infrequens, / Insanientis dum sapientiæ / Consultus erro; nunc retrorsum / Vela dare, atque iterare cursus / Cogor relictos—A niggard and unfrequent worshipper of the gods, as long as I strayed from the way by senseless philosophy; I am now forced to turn my sail back, and to retrace the course I had deserted. Hor.