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

Ridicule, while it often checks what is absurd, fully as often smothers that which is noble. Scott.

Ridiculous modes, invented by ignorance and adopted by folly. Smollett.

Ridiculum acri / Fortius ac melius magnas plerumque secat res—Ridicule often settles matters of importance better and more effectually than severity. Hor.

Ridiculus æque nullus est, quam quando esurit—No man is so facetious as when he is hungry. Plaut.

Rien de plus éloquent que l'argent comptant—Nothing 45 is more eloquent than ready money. Fr. Pr.

Rien de plus hautain qu'un homme médiocre devenu puissant—Nothing is more haughty than a common-place man raised to power. Fr. Pr.

Rien n'a qui assez n'a—Who has nothing has not enough. Fr. Pr.

Rien n'arrive pour rien—Nothing happens for nothing. Fr. Pr.

Rien n'empêche tant d'être naturel que l'envie de la paraître—Nothing so much prevents one from being natural as the desire to appear so. La Roche.

Rien n'est beau que le vrai; le vrai seul est 50 aimable—Nothing is beautiful but the true; the true alone is lovely. Boileau.