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

Quiconque est loup, agisse en loup—Whoever is a wolf acts as a wolf. La Fontaine.

Quiconque rougit est déjà coupable; la vraie innocence n'a honte de rien—Whoever blushes confesses guilt; true innocence feels no shame. Rousseau.

Quiconque s'imagine la pouvoir mieux écrire, 20 ne l'entend pas—Whoso fancies he can write it (the Life of Christ) better does not understand it. (?)

Quicquid agas, prudenter agas, et respice finem—Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view. Thomas à Kempis.

Quicquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira, voluptas, / Gaudia, discursus, nostri est farrago libelli—Whatever men are engaged in, their wishes and fear, anger, pleasures, joys, runnings to and fro, form the medley of my book. Juv.

Quicquid excessit modum / Pendet instabili loco—Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability. Sen.

Quicunque turpi fraude semel innotuit, / Etiamsi verum dicit, amittit fidem—Whoever has once been detected in a shameful fraud is not believed even if he speak the truth. Phædr.

Quid æternis minorem / Consiliis animum fatigas?—Why 25 harass with eternal purposes a mind too weak to grasp them? Hor.

Quid brevi fortes jaculamur ævo / Multa? quid terras alio calentes / Sole mutamus?—Why do we, whose life is so brief, aim at so many things? Why change we to lands warmed by another sun? Hor.

Quid cæco cum speculo?—What has a blind man to do with a mirror?