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

Res in cardine est—The affair is at a crisis (lit. on the hinge).

Res judicata—A case decided.

Res nolunt diu male administrari—Things refuse to be mismanaged long.

Res rustica—A rural affair. Cic. 25

Res severa est verum gaudium—True joy is an earnest thing.

Res sunt humanæ flebile ludibrium—Human affairs are a jest to be wept over.

Resembles ocean into tempest wrought, / To waft a feather or to drown a fly. Young.

Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it. Johnson.

Resentment, indeed, may remain, perhaps 30 cannot be quite extinguished in the noblest minds; but revenge never will harbour there. Pope.

Resentment seems to have been given us by Nature for defence, and for defence only; it is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence. Adam Smith.