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

Punctuality is the soul of business. Pr.

Punishment follows hard upon crime. Pr.

Punishment is justice for the unjust. St. 45 Augustine.

Punishment is the last and the worst instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. Ruskin.

Punishment of a miser—to pay the drafts of his heir in his tomb. Hawthorne.

[Greek: pyr machaira mê skaleuein]—Don't stir fire with sword. Pythagoras.

Puras Deus non plenas adspicit manus—God looks to clean hands, not to full ones. (?)

Purchase the next world with this; thus shalt 5 thou win both. Arab. Pr.

Pure enjoyment and true usefulness can only be reciprocal. Goethe.

Pure love cannot merely do all, but is all. Jean Paul.