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

Rien ne s'anéantit; non, rien, et la matière, / Comme un fleuve éternel, roule toujours entière—Nothing is annihilated, no, nothing; matter, like an ever-flowing stream, still rolls on undiminished. Boucher.

Rien ne s'arrête pour nous—Nothing anchors itself fast for us. Pascal.

Rien ne sert de courir: il faut partir à point—It's no use running; only setting out betimes. La Fontaine.

Rien ne vaut poulain s'il ne rompt son lien—A 10 colt is nothing worth if it does not break its halter. Fr. Pr.

Rien que s'entendre—Nothing but good understanding. Said of friendship.

Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past. T. Edwards.

Right ethics are central, and go from the soul outward. Gift is contrary to the law of the universe. Emerson.

Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom. Emerson.

Right is right, since God is God. Faber. 15

Right wrongs no man. Pr.