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

Val meglio piegarsi che rompersi—Better submit than be ruined. It. Pr.

Val più un asino vivo che un dottore morto—A living ass is better than a dead doctor. It. Pr.

Val più un' oncia di discrezione che una libra 10 di sapere—An ounce of discretion is worth more than a pound of knowledge. It. Pr.

Valeant mendacia vatum—Away with the fictions of poets! Ovid.

Valeat quantum valere potest—Let it pass for what it is worth.

Valeat res ludicra, si me / Palma negata macrum, donata reducit opimum—Farewell to the drama if the palm as it is granted or denied makes me happy or miserable. Hor.

Valet anchora virtus—Virtue is a sure anchor. M.

Valet ima summis / Mutare, et insignem attenuat 15 Deus, / Obscura promens—The Deity has power to supplant the highest by the lowest, and he dims the lustre of the exalted by bringing forth to the light things obscure. Hor.

Validius est naturæ testimonium quam doctrinæ argumentum—The testimony of nature is weightier than the arguments of the learned. St. Ambrose.

Valour consists in the power of self-recovery. Emerson.