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

Qui invidet minor est—He who envies another is his inferior. M.

Qui jacet in terra non habet unde cadat—Who lies upon the ground cannot fall. Alain de Lille.

Qui jeune n'apprend, vieux ne saura—He will not know when he is old who learns not when he is young.

Qui jure suo utitur, neminem lædit—He who enjoys his own right injures no man. L.

Qui legitis flores et humi nascentia fragra, / 40 Frigidus, O pueri fugite hinc, latet anguis in herba—Ye youths that pluck flowers and strawberries on the ground, flee hence; a cold clammy snake lurks in the grass. Virg.

Qui mange du pape, en meurt—Who eats what comes from the pope dies of it.

Qui medice vivit, misere vivit—He who lives by medical prescription lives miserably. Pr.

Qui mentiri aut fallere insuevit patrem, / Tanto magis is audebit cæteros—He who has made it a practice to lie to or deceive his father, the more daring will he be in deceiving others. Ter.

Qui mores hominum multorum vidit et urbes—He who saw the manners of many men and cities. Hor., of Ulysses.

Qui n'a, ne peut—He who has not cannot. Fr. Pr.