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

Eternity, depending on an hour. Young.

Eternity looks grander and kinder if Time grow meaner and more hostile. Carlyle.

Eternity of being and well-being simply for 5 being and well-being's sake, is an ideal belonging to appetite alone, and which only the struggle of mere animalism (Thierheit), longing to be infinite gives rise to. Schiller.

Et facere et pati fortiter Romanum est—Bravery and endurance make a man a Roman. Liv.

Et genus et formam regina pecunia donat—Money, like a queen, confers both rank and beauty. Hor.

Et genus et proavos, et quæ non fecimus ipsi, / Vix ea nostra voco—We can scarcely call birth and ancestry and what we have not ourselves done, our own. Ovid.

Et genus et virtus, nisi cum re, vilior alga est—Without money both birth and virtue are as worthless as seaweed. Hor.

Ethics makes man's soul mannerly and wise, 10 but logic is the armoury of reason, furnished with all offensive and defensive weapons. Fuller.

Et hoc genus omne—And everything of this kind.

Etiam celeritas in desiderio, mora est—When we long for a thing, even despatch is delay. Pub. Syr.