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

Parta tueri—Defend what you have won. M.

Partage de Montgomerie: tout d'un côté, rien de l'autre—A Montgomery division: everything on one side and nothing on the other. Fr. Pr.

Parthis mendacior—More mendacious than the Parthians. Hor.

Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity. Bovee.

Particeps criminis—A partaker in a crime; an accessory either before or after the fact.

Parties do not consider; they only feel. Ranke. 5

Parting day / Dies like a dolphin, whom each pang imbues / With a new colour as it gasps away, / The last still loveliest, till—'tis gone, and all is gray. Byron.

Parting is worse than death; it is death of love. Dryden.

Parting with a delusion makes one wiser than falling in with a truth. Börne.

Parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus—Mountains are in labour, a ridiculous mouse will be brought forth. Hor.