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

Cede Deo—Yield to God. Virg.

Cede nullis—Yield to none. M.

Cede repugnanti; cedendo victor abibis—Yield to your opponent; by so doing you will come off victor in the end. Ovid.

Cedite, Romani scriptores; cedite, Graii—Give 35 place, ye Roman writers; give place, ye Greeks (ironically applied to a pretentious author). Prop.

Cedunt grammatici; vincuntur rhetores; / Turba tacet—The grammarians give way; the rhetoricians are beaten off; all the assemblage is silent. Juv.

Cela fera comme un coup d'épée dans l'eau—It will be all lost labour (lit. like a sword-stroke in the water). Fr. Pr.

Cela m'échauffe la bile—That stirs up my bile. Fr.

Cela n'est pas de mon ressort—That is not in my department, or line of things. Fr.

Cela saute aux yeux—That is quite evident 40 (lit. leaps to the eyes). Fr. Pr.

Cela va sans dire—That is a matter of course. Fr.