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

Ecce iterum Crispinus!—Another Crispinus, by Jove! (a profligate at the court of Domitian). Juv.

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigour, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. J. S. Mill.

Eccentricity is sometimes found connected with genius, but it does not coalesce with true wisdom. Jay.

Ecce signum—Here is the proof.

Eccovi l'uom ch' è stato all'Inferno—See, there's 35 the man that has been in hell. It. (Said of Dante by the people of Verona.)

Echoes we: listen! / We cannot stay, / As dewdrops glisten, / Then fade away. Shelley.

Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror. Hawthorne.

[Greek: Echthros gar moi keinos, homôs Aïdao pylêsin, / Hos ch' heteron men keuthei eni phresin, allo de bazei]—Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is he who conceals one thing in his mind and utters another. Hom.

[Greek: Echthrôn adôra dôra]—An enemy's gifts are no gifts. Soph.

Eclaircissement—The clearing up of a thing. Fr. 40