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

Danger for danger's sake is senseless. Victor Hugo.

Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available. B. R. Haydon.

Danger levels man and brute, / And all are fellows in their need. Byron.

Danger past, God forgotten. Pr. 5

Dannosa è il dono che toglie la libertà—Injurious is the gift that takes away our liberty. It. Pr.

Dans l'adversité de nos meilleurs amis, nous trouvons toujours quelque chose qui ne nous déplait pas—In the misfortune of our best friends we find always something which does not displease us. La Roche.

Dans la morale, comme l'art, dire n'est rien, faire est tout—In morals as in art, talking is nothing, doing is all. Renan.

Dans l'art d'intéresser consiste l'art d'écrire—The art of writing consists in the art of interesting. Fr.

Dans le nombre de quarante ne fait-il pas un 10 zéro?—In the number forty is there not bound to be a cipher? Fr.

Dans les conseils d'un état, il ne faut pas tant regarder ce qu'on doit faire, que ce qu'on peut faire—In the councils of a state, the question is not so much what ought to be done, as what can be done. Fr.