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

Passions are the gales of life. Pope. 40

Passions are the vices or virtues in their highest powers. Goethe.

Passions existed before principles; they came into the world with us. Mrs. Jameson.

Passions may not unfitly be termed the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason. Wm. Penn.

Passions spin the plot; we are betrayed by what is false within. George Meredith.

Past and to come seem best, things present 45 worst. 2 Hen. IV., i. 2.

Pastime, like wine, is poison in the morning. Thomas Fuller.

Patch and long sit, / Build and soon flit. Pr.

Patch grief with proverbs. Much Ado, v. 1.

Pater familias—The father of a family.