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

Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments. Montesquieu.

Politicians think that by stopping up the chimney they can stop its smoking. They try the experiment; they drive the smoke back, and there is more smoke than ever. Borne.

Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts. Emerson.

Politics is the science of exigencies. Theodore 15 Parker.

[Greek: polla metaxy pelei kylikos kai cheileos akrou]—Much may happen between the cup and the lip. Gr.

[Greek: polla ta deina kouden anthrôpou deinoteron pelei]—Many dread powers exist, and no one more so than man. Sophocles.

Pompa mortis magis terret quam mors ipsa—The solemnity associated with death awes us more than death itself.

[Greek: pompholox ho anthrôpos]—Man is an air-bubble. Gr. Pr.

Ponamus nimios gemitus; flagrantior æquo / 20 Non debet dolor esse viri, nec vulnere major—Let us dismiss excessive laments; a man's grief should not be immoderate, nor greater than the wound received. Juv.

Ponderanda sunt testimonia, non numeranda—Testimonies are to be weighed, not counted.