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

Donna è mobile come piume in vento—Woman is as changeable as a feather in the wind. Verdi.

Donner de si mauvaise grâce qu'on n'a pas d'obligation—To give so ungraciously as to do away with any obligation. Fr.

Donner une chandelle à Dieu et une au diable—To 20 give one candle to God and another to the devil. Fr. Pr.

Donnez, mais, si vous pouvez, épargnez au pauvre, la honte de tendre la main—Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of holding out the hand. Diderot.

Dono dedit—Gave as a gift.

Do not allow your daughters to be taught letters by a man, though he be a St. Paul or a St Francis of Assisi. The saints are in heaven. Bp. Liguori.

Do not ask if a man has been through college. Ask if a college has been through him. Chapin.

Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, / Show 25 me the steep and thorny way to heaven, / Whilst, like a puffed and reckless libertine, / Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, / And recks not his own rede. Ham., i. 3.

Do not flatter your benefactors. Buddhist Pr.

Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose / That you resolv'd to effect. Tempest, iii. 2.