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

Ung roy, ung foy, ung loy—One king, one faith, one law. M.

Ungern entdeck' ich höheres Geheimniss—It is with reluctance I ever unveil a higher mystery. Goethe.

Unguibus et rostro—With nails and beak; with tooth and nail.

Unguis in ulcere—A nail in the wound. Cic.

Unhappy is the man for whom his own mother 20 has not made all mothers venerable. Jean Paul.

Unhappy lot of man! Hardly has the mind attained maturity, when the body begins to pine away. Montesquieu.

Unhappy state of kings! it is well the robe of majesty is gay, or who would put it on? Hannah More.

Unheedful vows may heedfully be broken; / And he wants wit that wants resolvèd will, / To learn his wit to exchange the bad for better. Two Gent. of Verona, ii. 6.

Uniformity must tire at last, though it be uniformity of excellence. We love to expect, and when expectation is disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting. Johnson.

Uni æquus virtuti, atque ejus amicis—Friendly 25 to virtue alone and to the friends of virtue. Hor.