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

Party honesty is party expediency. G. Cleveland. 10

Party is the madness of many for the gain of the few. Pope.

Party standards are shadows in which patriotism is buried. Bernardine de St. Pierre.

Parva leves capiunt animos—Little minds are caught with trifles. Ovid.

Parva sunt hæc; sed parva ista non contemnendo majores nostri maximam hanc rem fecerunt—These are small things; but it was by not despising these small things that our forefathers made the commonwealth so great. Livy.

Parvis componere magna—To compare great 15 things with small. Virg.

Parvula (nam exemplo est) magni formica laboris / Ore trahit quodcunque potest atque addit acervo, / Quem struit, haud ignara ac non incauta futuri—The ant, for instance, is a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth all it can, and adds to the heap it piles up, not ignorant or improvident of the future. Hor.

Parvula scintilla sæpe magnum suscitavit incendium—A very small spark has often kindled a great conflagration.

Parvum non parvæ amicitiæ pignus—A slight pledge of no small friendship. M.

Parvum parva decent—Him that is little little things become. Hor.