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

Rather assume thy right in silence and de facto, than voice it with claims and challenges. Bacon.

Rather bear those ills we have / Than fly to others that we know not of. Ham., iii. 1.

Rather find what beauty is than anxiously inquire 25 what it is. Goethe.

Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt. Ben. Franklin.

Rather let my head stoop to the block than these knees bow to any save to the God of heaven. 2 Hen. VI., iv. 1.

Rather than be less, / Cared not to be at all. Milton.

Rather to do nothing than to do good is the lowest state of a degraded mind. Johnson.

Ratio decidendi—The reason for deciding. 30

Ratio et auctoritas, duo clarissima mundi lumina—Reason and authority, the two brightest luminaries of the world. Coke.

Ratio et consilium propriæ ducis artes—Thought and deliberation are the qualities proper to a general. Tac.