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

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep 55 silence. Alfieri.

Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself. Milton.

De ezels dragen de haver, en de paarden eten die—Asses fetch the oats and horses eat them. Dut. Pr.

De facto—In point of fact.

Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong. Ward Beecher.

Defeat is nothing but education, nothing but 60 the first step to something better. Wendell Phillips.

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perception. Emerson.

Defectio virium adolescentiæ vitiis efficitur sæpius quam senectutis—Loss of strength is more frequently due to the faults of youth than of old age. Cic.

Defendit numerus junctæque umbone phalanges—Their numbers protect them and their compact array. Juv.

Defend me, common sense, say I, / From reveries so airy, from the toil / Of dropping buckets into empty wells, / And growing old with drawing nothing up. Cowper.