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

Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be such as a worthy mind can fully delight in. Johnson.

Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave. Duganne. 45

Pleasures are like poppies spread, / You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; / Or, like the snowflake in the river, / A moment white, then melts for ever. Burns.

Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem; / There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground / But holds some joy of silence or of sound, / Some sprite begotten of a summer dream. Blanchard.

Pleasures waste the spirits more than pains. Zimmermann.

Pledges taken of faithless minds, / I hold them but as the idle winds / Heard and forgot. Dr. W. Smith.

Plenty, and peace, breeds cowards; hardness 50 ever of hardiness is mother. Cymbeline, iii. 6.

Plenty makes dainty. Sc. Pr.

[Greek: pleon hêmisy pantos]—The half (i.e. well used) is more than the whole (i.e. abused). Hesiod.

Plerique enim lacrimas fundunt ut ostendant; et toties siccos oculos habent, quoties spectator definit—Many shed tears merely for show; and have their eyes quite dry whenever there is no one to observe them. Sen.