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

Urbem lateritiam invenit, marmoream reliquit—He found a city of brick, and left it one of marble. Suet. of the Rome of Cæsar Augustus.

Urbem quam dicunt Romam, Melibœe, putavi, / Stultus ego, huic nostræ similem—The city, Melibœus, which they call Rome, I foolishly imagined to be like this town of ours. Virg.

Urbem venalem et mature perituram, si emptorem 25 invenerit—A city for sale and ripe for ruin, once it finds a purchaser. Sall. of Rome.

Urbes constituit ætas: hora dissolvit. Momento fit cinis, diu sylva—It takes an age to build a city, but an hour involves it in ruin. A forest is long in growing, but in a moment it may be reduced to ashes. Sen.

Urbi et orbi—For Rome (lit. the city) and the world.

Urit enim fulgore suo, qui prægravat artes / Infra se positas: exstinctus amabitur idem—He who depresses the merits of those beneath him blasts them by his very splendour; but when his light is extinguished, he will be admired. Hor.

Ursprünglich eignen Sinn lass dir nicht rauben! / Woran die Menge glaubt, ist leicht zu glauben—Let no one conjure you out of your own native sense of things; what the multitude believe in is easy to believe. Goethe.

Urticæ proxima sæpe rosa est—The nettle is 30 often next to the rose. Ovid.

Use almost can change the stamp of nature, / And either curb the devil or throw him out. Ham., iii. 4.

Use doth breed a habit in a man. Two Gent. of Verona, v. 4.