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

A la presse vont les fous—Fools go in crowds. 60 Fr. Pr.

Alas! the devil's sooner raised than laid. Sheridan.

A last judgment is necessary, because fools flourish. Wm. Blake.

A last judgment is not for making bad men better, but for hindering them from oppressing the good. Wm. Blake.

A latere—From the side of (sc. the Pope).

A lazy man is necessarily a bad man; an 65 idle, is necessarily a demoralised population. Draper.

Albæ gallinæ filius—The son of a white hen.

Album calculum addere—To give a white stone, i.e., to vote for, by putting a white stone into an urn, a black one indicating rejection.

Al corral con ello—Out of the window with it. Sp.

Alea belli—The hazard of war.