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

Effloresco—I flourish. M. 35

Effodiuntur opes, irritamenta malorum—Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth. Ovid.

Efforts, to be permanently useful, must be uniformly joyous,—a spirit all sunshine,—graceful from very gladness,—beautiful because bright. Carlyle.

Effugit mortem, quisquis contempserit: timidissimum quemque consequitur—Whoso despises death escapes it, while it overtakes him who is afraid of it. Curt.

E flamma cibum petere—To live by desperate means (lit. to seek food from the flames). Pr.

Efter en god Avler kommer en god Oder—After 40 an earner comes a waster. Dan. Pr.

Eftsoons they heard a most melodious sound. Spenser.

E fungis nati homines—Upstarts (lit. men born of mushrooms).

Egad! I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two. Sheridan.

[Greek: hê gar physis bebaion, ou ta chrêmata]—It is only the character of a man, not his wealth, that is stable. Arist.