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

Verstand ist mechanischer, Witz ist chemischer, Genie organischer Geist—Understanding is a mechanically, wit a chemically, and genius an organically, acting spirit. Fr. Schlegel.

Verstellung ist der offnen Seele fremd—Dissimulation 15 is alien to the open soul. Schiller.

Verstellung, sagt man, sei ein grosses Laster, / Doch von Verstellung leben wir—Dissimulation they say is very wicked, yet we live by dissimulation. Goethe.

Vertere seria ludo—To turn from grave to gay. Hor.

Vertrauen erweckt Vertrauen—Confidence awakens confidence. Friedrich August II. von Sachsen.

Verum ubi plura nitent in carmine, non ego paucis / Offendar maculis—But where many beauties shine in a poem, I will not be offended at a few blots. Hor.

Verus amicus est is qui est tanquam alter idem—A 20 true friend is he who is, as it were, a second self. Cic.

Verwelkt, entblättert, zertreten sogar / Von rohen Schicksalsfüssen—/ Mein Freund, das ist auf Erden das Los / Von allem Schönen und Süssen—To wither away, be disleaved, be trodden to dust even by the rude feet of Fate, that, friend, is the lot on earth of everything that is beautiful and sweet. Heine.

Very few enjoy money, because they can't get enough. Amer. Pr.

Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it. Ward Beecher.