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

Est multi fabula plena joci—It is a story full of 15 fun. Ovid.

Est natura hominum novitatis avida—It is the nature of man to hunt after novelty. Pliny.

Estne Dei sedes nisi terra, et pontus, et aër, / Et cœlum, et virtus? Superos quid quærimus ultra? / Jupiter est, quodcunque vides, quodcunque moveris—Has God a dwelling other than earth and sea and air and heaven and virtue? Why seek we the gods beyond? Whatsoever you see, wheresoever you go, there is Jupiter. Luc.

Est nobis voluisse satis—To have willed suffices us. Tibull.

Esto perpetua—Let it be perpetual.

Esto quod es; quod sunt alii, sine quemlibet 20 esse: / Quod non es, nolis; quod potes esse, velis—Be what you are; let whoso will be what others are. Don't be what you are not, but resolutely be what you can.

Esto quod esse videris—Be what you seem to be.

Esto, ut nunc multi, dives tibi, pauper amicis—Be, as many now are, rich to yourself, poor to your friends. Juv.

Est pater ille quem nuptiæ demonstrant—He is the father whom the marriage-rites point to as such. L.

Est profecto Deus, qui quæ nos gerimus auditque et videt—There is certainly a God who both hears and sees the things which we do. Plaut.