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

Usefulness comes by labour, wit by ease. George Herbert.

Usque ad aras—To the very altars; to the last extremity.

Usque ad nauseam—Till one is utterly sick of it.

Usque adeone mori miserum est?—Is it then so 5 very dreadful to die? Virg.

Usque adeone / Scire tuum nihil est, nisi te scire hoc sciat alter?—Is then your knowledge to pass for nothing unless others know of it?

Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad. Swift.

Usury is a "concessum propter duritiam cordis" (a concession on account of hardness of heart); for, since there must be borrowing and lending, and men are so hard of heart as they will not lend freely, usury must be permitted. Bacon.

Usus est tyrannus—Custom is a tyrant. Pr.

Usus promptum facit—Practice makes perfect. 10 Pr.

Ut ager, quamvis fertilis, sine cultura fructuosus esse non potest, sic sine doctrina animus—As a field, however fertile, can yield no fruit without culture, so neither can the mind of man without education. Sen.