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

Venus will not charm so much without her attendant Graces, as they will without her. Chesterfield.

Ver non semper viret—The spring does not always flourish. M.

Vera redit facies, dissimulata perit—Our natural countenance comes back, the assumed mask falls off. Petron.

Verachtung ist der wahre Tod—The true death is being treated with contempt. Schiller.

Verba dat omnis amans—Every lover makes fair 35 speeches. Ovid.

Verba facit mortuo—He talks to a dead man; he wastes words. Plaut.

Verba ligant homines, taurorum cornua funes—Words bind men, cords the horns of bulls.

Verba rebus aptare—To fit words to things, i.e., call a spade a spade.

Verba volant, scripta manent—What is spoken flies, what is written remains.

Verbaque provisam rem non invita sequentur—Words 40 will not fail when the matter is well considered. Hor.