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

Dirt is not dirt, but only something in the wrong place. Palmerston.

Diruit, ædificat, mutat quadrata rotundis—He pulls down, he builds up, he changes square into round. Hor.

Dir war das Unglück eine strenge Schule—Misfortune 45 was for thee a hard school. Schiller.

Disappointment is often the salt of life. Theodore Parker.

Disasters, do the best we can, / Will reach both great and small; / And he is oft the wisest man / Who is not wise at all. Wordsworth.

Disce aut discede—Learn or leave.

Disce pati—Learn to endure.

Disce, puer, virtutem ex me, verumque laborem, 50 / Fortunam ex aliis—Learn, my son, valour and patient toil from me, good fortune from others. Virg.

Disciplined inaction. Sir J. Macintosh.

Discipulus est prioris posterior dies—Each succeeding day is the scholar of the preceding. Pub. Syr.