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

Péché avoué est à moitié pardonné—A sin confessed is half forgiven. Fr. Pr.

Pectus est quod disertos facit—It is the heart which inspires eloquence. Quinct.

Pecuniam in loco negligere / Interdum maximum est lucrum—To despise money on proper occasions is sometimes a very great gain. Ter.

Pecuniam perdidisti: fortasse illa te perderet manens—You have lost your money; perhaps, if you had kept it, it would have lost you.

Pedanterie setzt ganz nothwendig Leere—Pedantry 25 quite necessarily presupposes vacancy. Rahel.

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber, and takes out our brains to make room for it. Colton.

Pedantry is properly overrating any kind of knowledge we pretend to. Swift.

Pedibus timor addidit alas—Fear gave wings to his feet.

Peevishness covers with its dark fog even the most distant horizon. Jean Paul.

Pegasus im Joche—Pegasus in harness. Schiller. 30