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

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when bequeathed by those who, when alive, would part with nothing. Colton.

Postulata—Things admitted; postulates. 25

Pot! don't call the kettle black. Pr.

Potatoes don't grow by the side of the pot. Pr.

Potentissimus est, qui se habet in potestate—He is the most powerful who has himself in his power. Sen.

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and poor man has a grudge against poor man, and poet against poet. Hesiod.

[Greek: pou stô]—Where I may stand, and plant my lever. 30 Archimedes.

Pound an almond, and the clear white colour will be altered into a dirty one, and the sweet taste into an oily one. Locke.

Pour avoir du goût, il faut avoir de l'âme—To have taste, one must have some soul. Vauvenargues.

Pour bien connaître un homme il faut avoir mangé un boisseau de sel avec lui—To know a man well, one must have eaten a bushel of salt with him. Fr. Pr.