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

Vivre n'est pas respirer; c'est agir—Living is not breathing; it is acting. Rousseau.

Vivunt in Venerem frondes, etiam nemus omne per altum / Felix arbor amat; nutant ad mutua palmæ / Fœdera, populeo suspirat populus ictu, / Et platani platanis, alnoque assibilat alnus—The leaves live to love, and over the whole lofty grove each happy tree loves; palm nods to palm in mutual pledge of love; the poplar sighs for the poplar's embrace; plane whispers to plane, and alder to alder. Claud., in anticipation of the sexual system of Linnæus.

Vix a te videor posse tenere manus—I feel hardly able to keep my hands off you. Ovid.

Vix decimus quisque est, qui ipse sese noverit—Hardly 5 one man in ten knows himself. Plaut.

Vix ea nostra voco—I scarcely call these things our own. M.

Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona / Multi; sed omnes illacrymabiles / Urgentur, ignotique longa / Nocte, carent quia vate sacro—Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all of them, unwept and unknown, are o'erwhelmed in endless night, because no sacred bard was there to sing their praises. Hor.

Vixi dubius, anxius morior, nescio quo vado—I have lived in doubt, I die in anxiety, and I know not whither I go. Ascribed to a Pope of Rome.

Voce d'uno, voce di niuno—Voice of one, voice of none. It. Pr.

Vogue la galère!—Come what may! Fr. 10

Voilà le soleil d'Austerlitz—That is the sun of Austerlitz. Napoleon.