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

Quackery has no friend like gullibility. Pr.

Quadrupedante putrem sonitu quatit ungula 5 campum—The hoof, in its four-footed galloping, shakes the crumbling plain. An onomatopoetic line from Virgil.

Quæ amissa salva—Things which have been lost are safe. M.

Quæ e longinquo magis placent—Things please the more the farther fetched. Pr.

Quæ fuerant vitia mores sunt—What were once vices are now the fashion of the day. Sen.

Quæ fuit durum pati / Meminisse dulce est—What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember. Sen.

Quæ infra nos nihil ad nos—The things that are 10 below us are nothing to us. Pr.

Quæ lucis miseris tam dira cupido?—How is it that the wretched have such an infatuated longing for life (lit. the light)? Virg.

Quæ peccamus juvenes ea luimus senes—We pay when old for the excesses of our youth. Pr.

Quæ regio in terris nostri non plena laboris?—What region of the earth is not full of the story of our calamities? Virg.