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

Reckoners without their host must reckon 30 twice. Pr.

Recommending secrecy where a dozen of people are acquainted with the circumstance to be concealed, is only putting the truth in masquerade, for the story will be circulated under twenty different shapes. Scott.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness. Confucius.

Recompense to no man evil for evil. St. Paul.

Recta actio non erit, nisi recta fuit voluntas, ab hac enim est actio. Rursus, voluntas non erit recta, nisi habitus animi rectus fuerit, ab hoc enim est voluntas—An action will not be right unless the intention is right, for from it comes the action. Again, the intention will not be right unless the state of the mind has been right, for from it proceeds the intention. Sen.

Recte et suaviter—Uprightly and mildly. M. 35

Rectius vives, Licini, neque altum / Semper urgendo, neque, dum procellas / Cautus horrescis, nimium premendo / Littus iniquum—You will live more prudently, Licinius, by neither always keeping out at sea, nor, while you warily shrink from storms, hugging too closely the treacherous shore. Hor.

Rectus in curia—Upright in the court, i.e., having come out of it with clean hands. L.

Reculer pour mieux sauter—To step back in order to leap better. Fr.

Red as a roost-cock. S. Devon Pr.