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

Venire facias—Cause to come. (Writ of a sheriff to summon a jury.) L.

Venit summa dies et ineluctabile tempus / Dardaniæ—The last day and inevitable hour of Troy is come. Virg.

Vent au visage rend un homme sage—Wind in the face (i.e. adversity) makes a man wise. Pr.

Ventis secundis—With a fair wind.

Ventre à terre—At full speed; with all one's 25 might. Fr.

Ventre affamé n'a point d'oreilles—A hungry belly has no ears. Fr. Pr.

Ventum ad supremum est—A crisis has come; we are at our last shift. Virg.

Ventum seminabant et turbinem metent—They were sowing the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. Vulgate.

Venus, if men at sea you save, / And rescue from the whirling wave, / Me too, a lover, I implore, / Save from worse shipwreck here on shore. Anon.

Venus is beautiful, no doubt; but the artist 30 that created her is more beautiful still. Ed.