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

Via trita, via tuta—The beaten path is the safe path. L.

Viam qui nescit qua deveniat ad mare, / Eum 45 oportet amnem quærere comitem sibi—He who knows not his way straight to the sea should choose the river for his guide. Plaut.

Viamque insiste domandi, / Dum faciles animi juvenum, dum mobilis ætas—Enter upon the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliant, while they are at that period when the mind is docile. Virg.

Vice—In place of.

Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, / As to be hated needs but to be seen; / Yet seen too often, familiar with her face, / We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Pope.

Vice is its own punishment. Pr.

Vice is learned without a schoolmaster. Dan. 50 Pr.

Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness. Burke.

Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere. Hazlitt.

Vice versa—The terms being reversed; in reverse order.