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

Perjuria ridet amantum Jupiter—Jupiter laughs at the perjuries of lovers. Ovid.

Perjurii pœna divina exitium, humana dedecus—The punishment of perjury at the hands of the gods is perdition; at the hands of man, is disgrace. One of the laws of the Twelve Tables.

Perlen bedeuten Thränen—Pearls mean tears. Lessing.

Permanence is what I advocate in all human relations; nomadism, continual change, is prohibitory of any good whatsoever. Carlyle.

Permanence, perseverance, persistence in spite 30 of hindrances, discouragements, and "impossibilities:" it is this that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak; the civilised burgher from the nomadic savage—the species Man from the genus Ape. Carlyle.

Permanence, persistence, is the first condition of all fruitfulness in the ways of men. Carlyle.

Permissu superiorum—By permission of the superiors.

Permitte divis cætera—Commit the rest to the gods. Hor.

Perpetual solitude, in a place where you see nothing to raise your spirits, at length wears them out, and conversation falls into dull and insipid. Lady Montagu.

Perpetuus nulli datur usus, et hæres / Hæredem 35 alterius, velut unda supervenit undam—Perpetual possession is allowed to none, and one heir succeeds another, as wave follows wave. Hor.