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

Ab igne ignem—Fire from fire.

Abiit, excessit, evasit, erupit—He has left, gone 30 off, escaped, broken away. Cic. of Catiline's flight.

Ability to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, is the characteristic of intelligence. Swedenborg.

Ab incunabilis—From the cradle.

Ab initio—From the beginning.

Ab inopia ad virtutem obsepta est via—The way from poverty to virtue is an obstructed one. Pr.

Ab intra—From within. 35

Ab irato—In a fit of passion.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Pr.

A bis et à blanc—By fits and starts. Fr.