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

Extended empire, like expanded gold, exchanges solid strength for feeble splendour. Johnson.

External manners of lament / Are merely shadows to the unseen grief / That swells with silence in the tortured soul. Rich. II., iv. 1.

Extinctus amabilis idem—He will be beloved when he is dead (who was envied when he was living). Hor.

Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science, as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules. Huxley.

Extra ecclesiam nulla salus—Outside the Church 60 there is no safety.

Extra lutum pedes habes—You have got your feet out of the mud. Pr.

Extra muros—Beyond the walls.

Extra telorum jactum—Beyond bow-shot.

Extrema gaudii luctus occupat—Grief treads on the confines of gladness. Pr.

Extrema manus nondum operibus ejus imposita est—The finishing hand has not yet been put to his works.