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

Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio. Love's L. Lost, i. 2.

De vive voix—Verbally. Fr.

Devote each day to the object then in time, 20 and every evening will find something done. Goethe.

Devotion in distress is born, but vanishes in happiness. Dryden.

Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm (fanaticism). Addison.

De waarheid is eene dochter van den tijd—Truth is a daughter of Time. Dut. Pr.

Dewdrops are the gems of morning, but the tears of mournful eve. Coleridge.

De wereld wil betrogen zijn—The world likes 25 to be deceived. Dut. Pr.

Dexterity or experience no master can communicate to his disciple. Goethe.

Dextras dare—To give right hands to each other.