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

Rex est major singulis, minor universis—The 40 king is greater than each singly, but less than all unitedly. Bracton.

Rex est qui metuit nihil; / Rex est qui cupit nihil—He is a king who fears nothing; he is a king who desires nothing. Sen.

Rex non potest fallere nec falli—The king cannot deceive or be deceived.

Rex non potest peccare—The king can do no wrong.

Rex nunquam moritur—The king never dies. L.

Rex regnat, sed non gubernat—The king reigns, 45 but does not govern. Jan Zamoiski.

Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order. Jeremy Collier.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men. Plato.

Rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in; it is the quackery of eloquence, and deals in nostrums, not in cures. Colton.

Rhyme that had no inward necessity to be rhymed; it ought to have told us plainly, without any jingle, what it was aiming at. Carlyle.