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

Quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus—Even the worthy Homer nods sometimes. Hor.

Quanta est gula, quæ sibi totos / Ponit apros, animal propter convivia natum—What a glutton is he who has whole boars served up for him, an animal created for banquets alone. Juv.

Quanti est sapere!—What a grand thing it is to 20 be clever, or to have sense. Ter.

Quanto la cosa è più perfetta, / Più senta il bene e cosi la doglienza—The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible of good and bad treatment. Dante.

Quanto piace al mondo è breve sogno—All the pleasure of the world is only a short dream. Petrarch.

Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit, / A Dis plura feret—The more a man denies himself, the more will he receive from the gods. Hor.

Quantum—Proper quantity or allowance (lit. how much).

Quantum est in rebus inane!—What emptiness 25 there is in human affairs! Pers.

Quantum meruit—As much as he deserved. L.

Quantum mutatus ab illo—How greatly changed from what he was! Virg.