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

Quid obseratis auribus fundis preces?—Why do you pour prayers into ears that are stopped? Hor.

Quid pro quo—Equivalent; one thing instead of another.

Quid prodest, Pontice, longo / Sanguine censeri, 50 pictosque ostendere vultus / Majorum?—What boots it, Ponticus, to be accounted of a long line, and to display the painted busts of our ancestors? Juv.

Quid quisque vitet, nunquam homini satis / Cautum est in horas—What he should shun from hour to hour man is never sufficiently on his guard. Hor.

Quid Romæ faciam? mentiri nescio—What should I do at Rome? I know not how to lie. Juv.

Quid si nunc cœlum ruat?—What if the sky should now fall? Ter.

Quid sit futurum cras fuge quærere, et / Quem sors dierum cunque dabit, lucro / Appone—Shrink from asking what is to be to-morrow, and every day that fortune shall grant you set down as gain. Hor.

Quid te exempta juvat spinis de pluribus una?—What 5 better are you if you pluck out but one of many thorns? Hor.

Quid tibi cum pelago? Terra contenta fuisses—What have you to do with the sea? You should have been content with the land. Ovid.

Quid tristes querimoniæ / Si non supplicio culpa reciditur?—What do sad complaints avail if the offence is not cut down by punishment? Hor.