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To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having. - [Proverbs] To have slaved so many years for nothing! - [Proverbial Phrases] To keep up as good a cuisine as your father. - [Proverbial Phrases] To lay down one's life for the truth. - [Proverbial Phrases] To live with the show of a greater income than you have. - [Proverbial Phrases] To snore with wakeful nose. [To pretend to be asleep.] - [Proverbial Phrases] To vex the eyes with forced tears. [Crocodile's tears.] - [Proverbial Phrases] Trust me no tortures which the poets feign Can match the fierce unutterable pain He feels, who night and day devoid of rest Carries his own accuser in his breast. - (Gifford's translation) [Conscience] Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue. - [Vice] Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue. - [Proverbs] We are worthless fowl, hatched from unlucky eggs. - [Proverbs] We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune. - [Fortune] We plough the sand on the sea shore. - [Proverbs] When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large. - [Proverbs] When the mischief is done the door is shut. - [Proverbs] When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat. - [Proverbs] Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime? - [Crime] Who thinks anything of goitre on the Alps? - [Proverbs] Who's to look after the keepers? - [Proverbs] Wisdom is the winner over good luck. - [Wisdom] Wisdom triumphs over chance. - [Proverbs] You kiss away her tears. - [Proverbs] You may safely leave that matter to take care of itself. - [Proverbs] Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion. [Lat., Noli Barbam vellere mortuo leoni.] - Epigrams (bk. X, 90) [Lions] Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display; yet take this truth from me-- Virtue alone is true nobility! - Satire VIII (l. 29), (Gifford's translation) [Nobility] Displaying page 7 of 11 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 [7] 8 9 10 11
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