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

Distressed valour challenges great respect, even from enemies. Plutarch.

Distringas—You may distrain. L.

Distrust and darkness of a future state / 50 Make poor mankind so fearful of their fate, / Death in itself is nothing; but we fear / To be we know not what, we know not where. Dryden.

Dites-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es—Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. Brillat-Savarin.

Ditissimus agris—An extensive landed proprietor.

Di tutte le arti maestro è amore—Love is master of all arts. It. Pr.

Diversité, c'est ma devise—Variety, that is my motto. La Fontaine.

Dives agris, dives positis in fœnore nummis—Rich 55 in lands, rich in money laid out at interest. Hor.

Dives aut iniquus est aut iniqui hæres—A rich man is an unjust man, or the heir of one. Pr.

Dives est, cui tanta possessio est, ut nihil optet amplius—He is rich who wishes no more than he has. Cic.