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

Quod licet Jovi, non licet bovi—What is allowed 10 to Jupiter is not allowed to the ox.

Quod medicorum est / Promittunt medici, tractant fabrilia fabri / Scribimus indocti doctique poemata passim—Doctors practise what belongs to doctors, workmen handle the tools they have been trained to, but all of us everywhere, trained and untrained, alike write verses. Hor.

Quod nimis miseri volunt, hoc facile credunt—Whatever the wretched anxiously wish for, they are ready to believe. Sen.

Quod non opus est, asse carum est—What you don't need is dear at a doit. Cato.

Quod non vetat lex, hoc vetat fieri pudor—Modesty forbids what the law does not. Sen.

Quod nunc ratio est, impetus ante fuit—What 15 is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct. Ovid.

Quod potui perfeci—What I could I have done. M.

Quod satis est cui contingit, nihil amplius optet—Let him who for his share has enough wish for nothing more. Hor.

Quod scripsi, scripsi—What I have written, I have written.

Quod semper, quod ubique, et quod ab omnibus—What has been always, been everywhere, and been by all believed.