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

Debts make the cheeks black. Arab. Pr. 25

De calceo sollicitus, at pedem nihil curans—Anxious about the shoe, but careless about the foot. L. Pr.

Deceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences they may for a time promise or produce, are, in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness. Johnson.

Deceit is a game played only by small minds. Corneille.

Decency is the least of all laws, yet it is the one which is the most strictly observed. La Roche.

Deceptio visus—Optical illusion. 30

Decet affectus animi neque se nimium erigere nec subjicere serviliter—We ought to allow the affections of the mind to be neither too much elated nor abjectly depressed. Cic.

Decet imperatorem stantem mori—An emperor ought to die at his post (lit. standing). Vespasian.

Decet patriam nobis cariorem esse quam nosmetipsos—Our country ought to be dearer to us than ourselves. Cic.

Decet verecundum esse adolescentem—It becomes a young man to be modest. Plaut.