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

Rude am I in my speech, / And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace. Othello, i. 3.

Rudis indigestaque moles—A rude and unarranged mass. Ovid.

Ruh kommt aus Unruh, und wieder Unruh aus Ruh—Rest comes from unrest, and unrest again from rest. Ger. Pr.

Ruhe ist die erste Bürgerpflicht—Peace is the first duty of a citizen. Count Schulenburg-Kehnert after the battle of Jena.

Rühre die Laute nicht, wenn ringums Trommeln 25 erschallen; / Führen Narren das Wort, schweiget der Weisere still—Touch not the lute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent. Herder.

Ruin is most fatal when it begins from the bottom. Goldsmith.

Ruins are mile-stones on the road of time. Chamfort.

Ruins are the broken eggshell of a civilisation which time has hatched and devoured. Julia W. Howe.

Rule, Britannia, Britannia rules the waves; / Britons never shall be slaves. Thomson.

Rule youth weel and age will rule itsel'. Sc. Pr. 30