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

Una dies aperit, conficit una dies—In one day it opens its blossoms, in one day it decays. Auson. of the rose.

Una salus victis nullam sperare salutem—The only safety for the conquered is to hope for no safety. Virg.

Una voce—With one voice; unanimously.

Unbedingte Thätigkeit, von welcher Art sie 45 sei, macht zuletzt bankerott—Undisciplined activity in any line whatever ends at last in failure. Goethe.

Unbidden guests / Are often welcomest when they are gone. 1 Hen. VI., ii. 2.

Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, / Tempting each other in the victor's mind, / Alternately proclaim him good and great, / And make the hero and the man complete. Addison.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Congreve.

Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul, that can support despair, supports not thee. Mallet.

Unconsciousness belongs to pure unmixed life; consciousness, to a diseased mixture and conflict of life and death; unconsciousness is the sign of creation; consciousness, at best, that of manufacture. So deep, in this existence of ours, is the significance of mystery. Carlyle.

Unconsciousness is one of the most important conditions of a good style in speaking or in writing. R. S. White.