Chapter I (2)

=If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well / It were done quickly ... that but this blow / Might be the be all and the end all here.= _Macb._, i. 7.

=If it were not for hope, the heart would break.= _Pr._

=If it were not for respect to human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for the first time, whilst I would go five hundred leagues to talk with a man of genius whom I had not seen.= _Mme. de Staël._

=If Jack were better, Jill would not be so bad.= 15 _Pr._

=If ladies be but young and fair, / They have the gift to know it.= _As You Like It_, ii. 7.

=If life, like the olive, is a bitter fruit, then grasp both with the press and they will yield the sweetest oil.= _Jean Paul._

=If man had a higher idea of himself and his destiny, he would neither call his business amusement nor amuse himself instead of transacting business.= _Goethe._

=If man is not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.= _Bacon._

=If men duly felt the greatness of God, they= 20 =would be dumb, and for very veneration unwilling to name Him.= _Goethe._

=If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be made to possess wealth as that it may be said to possess him.= _Bacon._

=If money go before, all ways do lie open.= _Merry Wives_, ii. 2.

=If music be the food of love, play on; / Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, / The appetite may sicken, and so die.= _Twelfth Night_, i. 1.

=If my person be crooked, my verses shall be straight.= _Pope._

=If Nature is one and a living indivisible= 25 =whole, much more is mankind, the image that reflects and creates Nature, without which Nature were not.= _Carlyle._

=If new-got gold is said to burn the pockets till it be cast forth into circulation, much more may new truth.= _Carlyle._

=If, of all words of tongue and pen, / The saddest are, "It might have been," / More sad are these we daily see: "It is, but hadn't ought to be."= _Bret Harte._

=If once you find a woman gluttonous, expect from her very little virtue; her mind is enslaved to the lowest and grossest temptation.= _Johnson._

=If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.= _Thoreau._

=If one age believes too much, it is but a natural= 30 =reaction that another age should believe too little.= _Buckle._

=If one door shuts, another will open.= _Pr._

=If one sees one's fellow-creature following damnable error, by continuing in which the devil is sure to get him at last, are you to let him go towards such consummation, or are you not rather to use all means to save him?= _Carlyle._

=If one were to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still.= _Johnson._

=If our era is an era of unbelief, why murmur at it? Is there not a better coming--nay, come?= _Carlyle. See Matt._ v. 4.

=If people did not flatter one another, there= 35 =would be little society.= _Vauvenargues._

=If people take no care for the future, they will soon have sorrow for the present.= _Chinese Pr._

=If people were constant, it would surprise me. For see, is not everything in the world subject to change? Why then should our affections continue?= _Goethe._

=If people would whistle more and argue less, the world would be much happier and probably just as wise.= _Book of Wisdom._

=If poverty is the mother of crimes, want of sense is the father of them.= _La Bruyère._

=If poverty makes a man groan, he yawns in= 40 =opulence.= _Rivarol._

=If reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.= 1 _Hen. IV._, ii. 4.

=If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has.= _Colton._

=If she be not fit for me, / What care I for whom she be?= _G. Wither._

=If solid happiness we prize, / Within our breast this jewel lies, / And they are fools who roam. / The world has nothing to bestow; / From our own selves our joys must flow, / And that dear hut, our home.= _N. Cotton._

=If sorrow falls, / Take comfort still in deeming there may be / A way to peace on earth by woes of ours.= _Sir Edwin Arnold._

=If speculation tends to a terrific unity, in= 5 =which all things are absorbed, action tends directly backwards to diversity.= _Emerson._

=If that God give, the deil daurna reave= (bereave). _Sc. Pr._

=If that thy fame with every toy be posed, / 'Tis a thin web which poisonous fancies make; / But the great soldier's honour was composed / Of thicker stuff, which would endure a shake.= _George Herbert._

=If the Almighty waited six thousand years for a man to see what He has made, I may well wait two hundred for others to see what I have seen.= _Kepler. See Isa._ xxviii. 16 (_last clause_).

=If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken, we moderns are building houses for them.= _A. B. Alcott._

=If the beard were all, the goat might preach.= 10 _Dan. Pr._

=If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.= _Heb. Pr._

=If the cap fit, wear it.= _Pr._

=If the chaff-cutter had the making of us, we should all be straw, I reckon.= _George Eliot._

=If the counsel be good, no matter who gave it.= _Pr._

=If the deil were dead, folk would do little for= 15 =God's sake.= _Sc. Pr._

=If the devil takes a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as he was with them.= _Lowell._

=If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; if he kills, the earth hides it.= _Sc. Pr._

=If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.= _Emerson._

=If the eye were not of a sunny nature= (_sonnenhaft_), =how could it see the sun? If God's own power did not exist within us, how could the godlike delight us?= _Goethe._

=If the farmer cannot live who drives the plough,= 20 =how can he live who drives a fast-trotting mare?= _Pr._

=If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, / The mist is dispelled when a woman appears.= _Gay._

=If the hungry lion= (invited to a feast of chickenweed) =is to feast at all, it cannot be on the chickenweed, but only on the chickens.= _Carlyle._

=If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.= _Emerson._

="If the Lord tarry, yet wait for Him," for He "will surely come" and heal thee.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=If the mountain will not come to Mahomet,= 25 =Mahomet will go to the mountain.= _Mahomet._

=If the nose of Cleopatra had been a little shorter, it would have changed the history of the world.= _Pascal._

=If the paternal cottage still shuts us in, its roof still screens us; and with a father we have as yet a prophet, priest, and king, and an obedience that makes us free.= _Carlyle._

=If the pills were pleasant, they would not be gilded.= _Pr._

=If the poet have nothing to interpret and reveal, it is better that he remain silent.= _C. Fitzhugh._

=If the poor man cannot always get meat, the= 30 =rich man cannot always digest it.= _Henry Giles._

=If the profession you have chosen has some unexpected inconveniences, console yourself by reflecting that no profession is without them.= _Johnson._

=If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.= _Emerson._

=If the sun shines on me, what matters the moon?= _Pr._

=If the sky fall, we shall catch larks.= _Pr._

=If the time don't suit you, suit yourself to the= 35 =time.= _Turk. Pr._

=If the tongue had not been formed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.= _Emerson._

=If the true did not possess an objective value, human curiosity would have died out centuries ago.= _Renan._

=If the weather don't happen to be good for my work to-day, it's good for some other man's, and will come round to me to-morrow.= _Dickens._

=If the world were put into one scale and my mother into the other, the world would kick the beam.= _Lord Langdale._

=If the young knew, if the old could, there's= 40 =nothing but would be done.= _Pr._

=If there be / A devil in man, there is an angel too.= _Tennyson._

=If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.= _Pythagoras._

=If there be no enemy, no fight; if no fight, no victory; if no victory, no crown.= _Savanar._

=If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.= _Carlyle._

=If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy= 45 =the sun.= _Pr._

=If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt; if no doubt, no inquiry; and if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius.= _Landor._

=If there were no fools, there would be no knaves.= _Pr._

=If there were only one religion in the world, it would be haughtily and licentiously despotic.= _Frederick the Great._

=If there's a hole in a' your coats, / I rede ye tent it: / A chiel's amang you takin' notes, / And faith he'll prent it.= _Burns, of Capt. Grose._

=If they do these things in the green tree, what shall be done in the dry?= _Jesus._

=If they hear not Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead.= _Jesus._

=If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.= _Fuller._

=If them art rich, thou art poor; / For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, / Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, / And death unloads thee.= _Meas. for Meas._, iii. 1.

=If thou art wise, thou knowest thine own= 5 =ignorance; and thou art ignorant, if thou knowest not thyself.= _Luther._

=If thou be a severe, sour-complexioned man, then here I disallow thee to be a competent judge.= _Isaac Walton._

=If thou be master-gunner, spend not all / That thou canst speak at once, but husband it.= _George Herbert._

=If thou bear the cross cheerfully, it will bear thee.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=If thou canst let others alone in their matters, they likewise will not hinder thee in thine.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=If thou cast away one cross, without doubt= 10 =thou shalt find another, and that perhaps more heavy.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=If thou deniest to a laborious man and a deserving, thou killest a bee; if thou givest to other than such, thou preservest a drone.= _Quarles._

=If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted?= _Bible._

=If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.= _Bible._

=If thou hast fear of those who command thee, spare those who obey thee.= _Rabbi Ben Azai._

=If thou hast run with the footmen, and they= 15 =have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?= _Bible._

=If thou love learning, thou shalt be learned.= _Isocrates._

=If thou seest the oppression of the poor, ... marvel not at the matter; for He that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.= _Bible._

=If thou sustain injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.= _Democrates._

=If thou wouldst profit by thy reading, read humbly, simply, honestly, and not desiring to win a character for learning.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=If thou wouldst reap in love, / First sow in= 20 =holy fear; / So life a winter's morn may prove / To a bright endless year.= _Keble._

=If thy estate be good, match near home and at leisure; if weak, far off and quickly.= _Lord Burleigh._

=If thy son can make ten pound his measure, / Then all thou addest may be called his treasure.= _George Herbert._

=If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.= _Mer. of Ven._, i. 2.

=If truth be with thy friend, be with them both.= _George Herbert._

=If vain our toil, we ought to blame the culture,= 25 =not the soil.= _Pope._

=If virtue keep court within, honour will attend without.= _Pr._

=If we are not famous for goodness, we are practically infamous.= _Spurgeon._

=If we are rich with the riches which we neither give nor enjoy, we are rich with the riches which are buried in the caverns of the earth.= _Hitopadesa._

=If we are told a man is religious, we still ask what are his morals; but if we hear he has honest morals, we seldom think of the other question, whether he be religious.= _Shaftesbury._

=If we are wise, we may thank ourselves; if we= 30 =are great, we must thank fortune.= _Bulwer Lytton._

=If we bear what we must bear with murmuring and grudging, we do but gall our shoulders with the yoke, and render that a heavy unprofitable load which might be fruitful and glorious.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=If we ... / Cannot defend our own doors from the dog, / Let us be worried, and our nation lose / The name of hardiness and policy.= _Hen. V._, i. 2.

=If we cannot help committing errors, we must build none.= _Goethe._

=If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve happiness.= _Fichte._

=If we cast off one burden, we are immediately= 35 =pursued and oppressed by another.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=If we clear the metaphysical element out of modern literature, we shall find its bulk amazingly diminished, and the claims of the remaining writers, or of those whom we have thinned by this abstraction of their straw-stuffing, much more easily adjusted.= _Ruskin._

=If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification. Time takes away as much as it gives.= _Mme. de Sévigné._

=If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.= _Longfellow._

=If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?= _Goldsmith._

=If we do not now reckon a great man literally= 40 =divine, it is that our notions of the divine are ever rising higher; not altogether that our reverence for the divine, as manifested in our like, is getting lower.= _Carlyle._

=If we do well here, we shall do well there.= _J. Edwin._

=If we engage into a large acquaintance and various familiarities, we set open our gates to the invaders of most of our time.= _Cowley._

=If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.= _Pascal._

=If we fail to conquer smaller difficulties, what will become of us when assaulted by greater?= _Themas à Kempis._

=If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.= _Addison._

=If we live truly, we shall see truly.= _Emerson._

=If we love those we lose, can we altogether lose those we love?= _Thackeray._

=If we reflect on the number of men we have seen and know, and consider how little we have been to them and they to us, what must our feelings be?= (_wie wird uns da zu Muthe_). =We meet with the man of genius= (_Geistreich_) =without conversing with him, with the scholar without learning from him, with the traveller without gaining information from him, the amiable man without making ourselves agreeable to him. And this, alas! happens not merely with passing acquaintances; society and families conduct themselves similarly towards their dearest members, cities towards their worthiest citizens, peoples towards their most excellent princes, and nations towards their most eminent men.= _Goethe._

=If we saw all the things that really surround= 5 =us, we should be imprisoned and unable to move.= _Emerson._

=If we should all bring our misfortunes into one place, most of us would be glad to take our own home again rather than take a proportion out of the common stock.= _Solon._

=If we shut Nature out at the door, she will come in at the window.= _Sir R. L'Estrange._

=If we sit down sullen and inactive, in expectation that God should do all, we shall find ourselves miserably deceived.= _Rogers._

=If we will disbelieve everything because we cannot certainly know all things, we shall do much as wisely as he who would not use his legs, but sit still and perish because he had no wings.= _Locke._

=If we wish to do good to men, we must pity= 10 =and not despise them.= _Amiel._

=If we would amend the world, we should mend ourselves and teach our children what they should be.= _Wm. Penn._

=If we would endeavour like brave men to stand in the battle, surely we should feel the assistance from Heaven.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=If we would have a genuine torment, let us wish for too much time.= _Goethe._

=If we would put ourselves in the place of other people, the jealousy and dislike which we often feel towards them would depart, and if we put others in our place, our pride and self-conceit would very much decrease.= _Goethe._

=If what happens does not make us richer, we= 15 =must bid it welcome if it make us wiser.= _Johnson._

=If "wise memory" is ever to prevail, there is need of much "wise oblivion" first.= _Carlyle._

=If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.= _Thoreau._

=If women were humbler, men would be honester.= _Vanbrugh._

=If wrong our hearts, our heads are right in vain.= _Young._

=If ye believe a' ye hear, ye may eat a' ye see.= 20 _Sc. Pr._

=If ye gi'e a woman a' her will, / Guid faith, she'll soon o'ergang ye.= _Burns._

=If you agree to carry the calf, they'll make you carry the cow.= _Pr._

=If you anticipate your inheritance, you can at last inherit nothing.= _Johnson._

=If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.= _Johnson._

=If you cannot bite, never show your teeth.= 25 _Pr._

=If you cannot drive the engine, you can clear the road.= _Pr._

=If you cannot have the best, make the best of what you have.= _Pr._

=If you cannot make a man think as you do, make him do as you think.= _Amer. Pr._

=If you can't get a loaf, don't throw away a cake.= _Pr._

=If you can't heal the wound, don't tear it open.= 30 _Dan. Pr._

=If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. So you will have calm days, drowsy nights, and all the good business you have now, and none of the bad.= _Ruskin._

=If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.= _Pr._

=If you criticise a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and instead of the poet, are censuring your own caricature of him.= _Emerson._

=If you desire faith, then you've faith enough.= _Browning._

=If you desire to enjoy my light, you must supply= 35 =oil to my lamp.= _Pr._

=If you dinna see the bottom, don't wade= (_i.e._, don't venture, if you can't see your way). _Sc. Pr._

=If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.= _Bacon._

=If you do anything for the sake of the world, it will take good care that you shall not do it a second time.= _Goethe._

=If you do not err, you do not attain to understanding.= _Goethe._

=If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you= 40 =had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.= _Carlyle._

=If you don't do better to-day, you'll do worse to-morrow.= _Pr._

=If you don't touch the rope, you won't ring the bell.= _Pr._

=If you eat, eat a portion; do not eat all.= _Wit and Wisdom from West Africa._

=If you have a good seat, keep it.= _Pr._

=If you have a special weakness, do not expose= 45 =it by attempting to do things which will bring it out.= _Spurgeon._

=If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.= _Thoreau._

=If you have lived one day, you have seen all.= _Montaigne._

=If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 2.

=If you have time, don't wait for time.= _Ben. Franklin._

=If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.= _Ben. Franklin._

=If you lie upon roses when young, you will lie upon thorns when old.= _Pr._

=If you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols.= _Bacon._

=If you live among men, the heart must either break or turn to brass.= _Chamfort._

=If you make a law against dancing-masters= 5 =imitating the fine gentleman, you should with as much reason enact, that no fine gentleman shall imitate the dancing-master.= _Goldsmith._

=If you pity rogues, you are no great friend of honest men.= _Pr._

=If you pull one pig by the tail, all the rest will squeak.= _Dut. Pr._

=If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.= _Pr._

=If you raise one ghost, you will have the churchyard in motion.= _Pr._

=If you read the Bible with a predetermination to= 10 =pick out every text you approve of, on these terms you will find it entirely intelligible and wholly delightful; but if you read it with a real purpose of trying to understand it, and obey, and so read it all through steadily, you will find it, out and out, the crabbedest and most difficult book you ever tried.= _Ruskin._

=If you resolve to do right, you will soon do wisely; but resolve only to do wisely, and you will never do right.= _Ruskin._

=If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.= _Pr._

=If you say nothing, nobody will repeat it.= _Pr._

=If you seek warmth of affection from a similar motive to that from which cats and dogs and slothful persons hug the fire, you are on the downward road.= _Thoreau._

=If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too.= _Pr._ 15

=If you sit down a mere philosopher, you will rise almost an atheist.= _Anon._

=If you tell me all you see, you'll tell what will make you feel shame.= _Gael. Pr._

=If you throw all your money into the sea, yet count it before you let it go.= _Old saying._

=If you trust before you try, / You may repent before you die.= _Pr._

=If you want a pretence to whip a dog, say= 20 =that he ate the frying-pan.= _Pr._

=If you want learning, you must work for it.= _J. G. Holland._

=If you want to gain a reputation for eccentricity and to be universally dreaded, blurt out the plain truth on all occasions.= _Anon._

=If you want to know a man, make a solitary journey with him.= _Pr._

=If you want work done, go to the man who is already fully occupied.= _Pr._

=If you were as eager to discover good as evil,= 25 =and had the same delight in spreading the report of it; if good examples were made public as the bad ones always are, do you not think that the good would weigh down the balance? But gratitude speaks so low, and indignation so loudly, that you cannot hear but the last.= _Marmontel._

=If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.= _Goethe._

=If you wish to astonish the whole world, tell the simple truth.= _Rahel._

=If you would be a smith, begin with blowing the fire.= _Pr._

=If you would be pungent, be brief, for it is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.= _Saxe._

=If you would be well served, you must serve= 30 =yourself.= _Pr._

=If you would cease to dislike a man, try to get nearer his heart.= _J. M. Barrie._

=If you would create something, you must be something.= _Goethe._

=If you would ensure a peaceful old age, be careful of the acts of each day of your youth; for with youth the deeds thereof are not to be left behind.= _Isaac Disraeli._

=If you would eschew pain, eschew pleasure.= _The Cynics._

=If you would have a faithful servant and one= 35 =you like, serve yourself.= _Ben. Franklin._

=If you would have it well done, you must do it yourself; you must not leave it to others.= _Pr._

=If you would know and not be known, live in a city.= _Colton._

=If you would learn to write, it is the street you must learn it in.= _Emerson._

=If you would love mankind, you should not expect too much from them.= _Helvetius._

=If you would make Fortune your friend; when= 40 =people say money is to be got here and money is to be got there, take no notice; mind your own business; stay where you are; and secure all you can get, without stirring.= _Goldsmith._

=If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.= _Anon._

=If you would slip into a round hole, you must make a ball of yourself.= _George Eliot._

=If you would succeed, you must not be too good.= _It. Pr._

=If you would understand an author, you must understand his age.= _Goethe._

=If you would work any man, know his nature= 45 =and fashions, and so lead him.= _Bacon._

=If your mind and its affections be pure, and sincere, and moderate, nothing shall have the power to enslave you.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=If your wife is short, stoop to her.= _Pr._

=Ignavis semper feriæ sunt=--To the indolent every day is a holiday. _Pr._

=Ignavissimus quisque, et, ut res docuit, in periculo non ausurus, nimio verbis et lingua ferox=--Every recreant, who, as experience has proved, will fly in the hour of danger, is the most boastful in his words and language afterwards. _Tacit._

=Ignavum fucos pecus a præsepibus arcent=--They 50 (the bees) drive from their hives the drones, a lazy pack. _Virg._

=Ignem gladio scrutare modo=--Only stir the fire with a sword! _Hor._

=Ignem ne gladio fodito=--Do not stir the fire with a sword. _Pr._

=Ignis aurum probat, miseria fortes viros=--Fire tests gold; adversity strong men. _Sen._

=Ignis fatuus=--A deceiving light; a "Will-o'-the-wisp."

=Ignis sacer=--"St. Anthony's fire." _Pliny._

=Ignobile vulgus=--The base-born multitude.

=Ignoramus=--An ignorant person (_lit._ we are ignorant).

=Ignorance is a heavy burden.= _Gael. Pr._ 5

=Ignorance is a prolonged infancy, only deprived of its charm.= _De Boufflers._

=Ignorance is bold, and knowledge reserved.= _Thucydides._

=Ignorance is the curse of God, knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.= 2 _Hen. VI._, iv. 7.

=Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.= _Froude._

=Ignorance is the mother of devotion.= _Jeremy_ 10 _Taylor._

=Ignorance is the mother of impudence.= _Pr._

=Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.= _Confucius._

=Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.= _Cousin._

=Ignorance is preferable to error.= _Jefferson._

=Ignorance never settles a question.= _Disraeli._ 15

=Ignorance shuts its eyes and believes it is right.= _Punch._

=Ignorant of guilt, I fear not shame.= _Dryden._

=Ignorantia facti excusat=--Ignorance of the fact excuses. _L._

=Ignorantia legis excusat neminem=--Ignorance of the law excuses nobody. _L._

=Ignoratio elenchi=--Ignoring of the point at 20 issue.

=Ignoratione rerum bonarum et malarum, maxime hominum vita vexatur=--Through ignorance of the distinction between good and bad, the life of men is greatly harassed. _Cic._

=Ignorent populi, si non in morte probaris, / An scires adversa pati=--The world would not know, if you did not prove by your death, that you knew how to bear up against adverse circumstances. _Lucan, of Pompey._

=Ignoscas aliis multa, nil tibi=--You should pardon many things in others, nothing in yourself. _Auson._

=Ignoti nulla cupido=--There is no desire for what is unknown. _Pr._

=Ignotis errare locis, ignota videre / Flumina= 25 =gaudebat, studio minuente laborem=--He delighted to wander over unknown regions, to visit unknown rivers, the interest lessening the fatigue. _Ovid._

=Ignotum argenti pondus et auri=--An untold mass of silver and gold. _Virg._

=Ignotum per ignotius=--The unknown by the still more unknown.

=Ihr Kinder, lernet jetzt genug, / Ihr lernt nichts mehr in alten Zeiten=--Ye children, learn enough _now_, nothing more will you be able to learn ere long. _Pfeffel._

=Ihr sagt es sei nichts als Glück / Zu siegen ohne die Tacktick / Doch besser ohne Tacktick siegen / Als mit derselben unterliegen=--You say it is nothing but luck to gain a victory without tactics, yet it is better to conquer without them, than therewith to be beaten. _Tyrolese Pr._

=Ihr sucht die Menschen zu benennen, /= 30 =und glaubt am Namen sie zu kennen; / Wer tiefer sieht, gesteht sich frei, / Es ist das Anonymes dabei=--Ye seek to name men, and think that ye know them by name; he who sees deeper will freely confess there is something in them which there is no name for. _Goethe._

=Il a inventé l'histoire=--He has invented history. _Mme. du Deffand, of Voltaire._

=Il a la mer à boire=--He has the sea to drink up, _i.e._, has undertaken an impossible task. _Fr. Pr._

=Il a la tête près du bonnet=--He is of a passionate temper (_lit._ has his head near his cap). _Fr. Pr._

=Il a le diable au corps=--The deuce (_lit._ the devil) is in him. _Fr. Pr._

=Il a le verbe haut=--He assumes a high tone; he 35 has a loud voice. _Fr. Pr._

=Il a le vin mauvais=--He is quarrelsome over his wine. _Fr. Pr._

=Il a les yeux à fleur de tête=--He has prominent eyes. _Fr. Pr._

=Il a mangé son pain blanc le premier=--He has eaten the best first. _Fr. Pr._

=Il a plus que personne l'esprit que tout le monde a=--He has more than any other the mind which every one has. _Montesquieu._

=Il a travaillé pour le roi de Prusse=--He has 40 worked for the King of Prussia, _i.e._, laboured in vain. _Fr. Pr._

=Il a vu le loup=--He has seen the world. _Fr. Pr._

=Il aboye à tout le monde=--He barks at everybody. _Fr. Pr._

=Il arrive comme Mars en Carème=--He arrives opportunely (_lit._ like March in Lent). _Fr. Pr._

=Il attend, que les alouettes lui tombent toutes rôties=--He expects larks to rain down all ready roasted. _Hans Sachs._

=Il buon mercato vuota la borsa=--Great bargains 45 empty the purse. _It. Pr._

=Il buono è buono, ma il meglio vince=--Good is good, but better surpasses it. _It. Pr._

=Il can battuto dal bastone ha paura dell' ombra=--The dog that has been beaten with a stick is afraid of its shadow. _It. Pr._

=Il castigo puo differirsi ma non si toglie=--Punishment may be tardy, but it is sure to overtake the guilty. _It. Pr._

=Il conduit bien sa barque=--He manages his affairs well. _Fr. Pr._

=Il connaît l'univers et ne se connaît pas=--He 50 knows everything and does not know himself. _La Font._

=Il coûte peu à amasser beaucoup de richesse, et beaucoup à en amasser peu=--It costs little trouble to amass a great deal of wealth, but great labour to amass a little. _Fr. Pr._

=Il diavolo tenta tutti, ma l'ozioso tenta il diavolo=--The devil tempts all, but the idle man tempts the devil. _It. Pr._

=Il donne des entrailles à tous les mots=--He gives pathos to all his words. _Joubert, of Rousseau._

=Il en est d'un homme qui aime, comme d'un moineau, pris à la glu; plus il se débat, plus il s'embarrasse=--It is with a man in love, as with a sparrow caught in bird-lime; the more he struggles, the more he is entangled. _Fr. Pr._

=Il en fait ses choux gras=--He feathers his nest 55 with it. _Fr. Pr._

=Il est aisé d'ajouter aux inventions des autres=--It is easy to add to the inventions of others. _Fr. Pr._

=Il est aisé d'aller à pied, quand on tient son cheval par la bride=--It is easy to go afoot when one leads one's horse by the bridle. _Fr. Pr._

=Il est aux anges=--He is supremely happy (_lit._ with the angels).

=Il est avis à vieille vache qu'elle ne fût oncques veau=--The old cow persuades herself that she never was a calf. _Fr. Pr._

=Il est bien aisé à ceux qui se portent bien de= 5 =donner des avis aux malades=--It is very easy for those who are well to give advice to the sick. _Fr. Pr._

=Il est bien difficile de garder un trésor dont tous les hommes ont la clef=--It is very difficult to guard a treasure of which all men have the key. _Fr. Pr._

=Il est bien fou qui s'oublie=--He is a great fool who forgets himself. _Fr. Pr._

=Il est bon d'être ferme par tempérament et flexible par réflexion=--It is good to be firm by temperament and pliable by reflexion. _Vauvenargues._

=Il est bon d'être habile, mais non pas de le paraître=--It is good to be clever, but not to show it. _Fr. Pr._

=Il est comme l'oiseau sur la branche=--He is 10 unsettled or wavering (_lit._ like a bird on a branch). _Fr. Pr._

=Il est peu de distance de la roche Tarpéienne au Capitole=--It is but a short way from the Tarpeian rock to the Capitol. _Mirabeau._

=Il est plus aisé d'être sage pour les autres que pour soi-même=--It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. _La Roche._

=Il est plus honteux de se défier de ses amis que d'en être trompé=--It is more disgraceful to suspect our friends than to be deceived by them. _La Roche._

=Il est souvent plus court et plus utile de cadrer aux autres que de faire que les autres s'adjustent à nous=--It is often more easy and more convenient to conform to others than to make others conform to us. _La Bruyère._

=Il est temps d'être sage quand on a la barbe au= 15 =menton=--It is time to be wise when you have a beard on your chin. _Fr. Pr._

=Il est tout prêché qui n'a cure de bien faire=--He is past preaching to who does not care to do well. _Fr. Pr._

=Il est trop difficile de penser noblement, quand on ne pense que pour vivre=--It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only to get a livelihood. _Rousseau._

=Il faisoit de necessité vertu=--He made a virtue of necessity. _Rabelais._

=Il fallait un calculateur, ce fut un danseur qui l'obtint=--A financier was wanted, a dancing-master got the post. _Beaumarchais._

=Il faut attendre le boiteux=--We must wait for 20 the lame. _Fr. Pr._

=Il faut avaler bien de la fumée aux lampes avant que de devenir bon orateur=--A man must swallow a great deal of lamp-smoke before he can be a good orator. _Fr. Pr._

=Il faut avoir pitié des morts=--One must have pity on the dead. _Victor Hugo._

=Il faut avoir une âme=--It is indispensable that we should have a soul. _Tolstoi._

=Il faut de plus grandes vertus pour soutenir la bonne fortune que la mauvaise=--It requires greater moral strength to bear good fortune than bad. _La Roche._

=Il faut en affrontant l'orage / Penser, vivre et= 25 =mourir en roi=--I must in face of the storm think, live, and die as a king. _Frederick the Great._

=Il faut hurler avec les loups=--You must howl if you are among wolves. _Fr. Pr._

=Il faut laver son linge sale en famille=--One's filthy linen should be washed at home. _Fr. Pr._

=Il faut payer de sa vie=--One must pay with his life. _Fr. Pr._

=Il faut perdre un véron pour pêcher un saumon=--We must lose a minnow to catch a salmon. _Fr. Pr._

=Il faut qu'une porte soit ouverte ou fermée=--A 30 door must either be open or shut. _Brueys et Palaprat._

=Il faut savoir s'ennuyer=--One must accustom one's self to be bored. _Lady Bloomfield._

=Il faut sortir de la vie ainsi que d'un banquet, / Remerciant son hôte, et faisant son paquet=--One must quit life as one does a banquet, thanking the host and packing up one's belongings. _Voltaire._

=Il fuoco non s'estingue con fuoco=--Fire is not extinguished by fire. _It. Pr._

=Il fut historien pour rester orateur=--He turned historian that he might still play the orator.

=Il me faut du nouveau, n'en fût-il point au= 35 =monde=--I must have something new, even were there none in the world. _La Fontaine._

=Il meglio è l'inimico del bene=--Better is an enemy to well. _It. Pr._

=Il meurt connu de tous et ne se connaît pas=--He dies known by all and does not know himself. _Vauquelin des Yvetaux._

=Il mondo è di chi ha pazienza=--The world is his who has patience. _It. Pr._

=Il mondo è fatto a scale; / Chi le scende, e chi le sale=--The world is like a staircase; some are going up and some going down. _It. Pr._

=Il mondo sta con tre cose: fare, disfare, e dare= 40 =ad intendere=--The world gets along with three things: doing, undoing, and pretending. _It. Pr._

=Il monta sur ses grands chevaux=--He mounted his high horse. _Fr. Pr._

=Il nage entre deux eaux=--He keeps fair with both parties (_lit._ swims between two waters). _Fr. Pr._

=Il n'a ni bouche ni éperon=--He has neither wit nor go in him (_lit._ he has neither mouth nor spur). _Fr._

=Il n'a pas inventé la poudre=--He was not the inventor of gunpowder. _Fr. Pr._

=Il n'a pas l'air, mais la chanson=--He has not 45 the tune, but the song. _Fr. Pr._

=Il n'appartient qu'aux grands hommes, d'avoir de grands défauts=--It is only great men who can afford to have great defects. _La Roche._

=Il n'attache pas ses chiens avec des saucisses=--He does not chain his dogs together with sausages. _Fr. Pr._

=Il n'avait pas précisément des vices, mais il était rongé d'une vermine de petits défauts, dont on ne pouvait l'épurer=--He had not vices exactly, but he was the prey to a swarm of small faults of which there was no ridding him. _Fr._

=Il n'est d'heureux que qui croit l'être=--Only he is happy who thinks he is. _Fr. Pr._

=Il n'est orgueil que de pauvre enrichi=--There is no pride like that of a poor man who has become rich. _Fr. Pr._

=Il n'est pas d'homme nécessaire=--There is no man but can be dispensed with. _Fr. Pr._

=Il n'est pas échappé qui traîne son lien=--He is not escaped who still drags his chains. _Fr. Pr._

=Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens=--There 5 is nothing useless to people of sense. _La Fontaine._

=Il n'est sauce que d'appétit=--Hunger is the best sauce. _Fr. Pr._

=Il ne fait rien, et nuit à qui veut faire=--He produces nothing, and hinders those who would. _Fr._

=Il ne faut jamais se moquer des misérables, / Car qui peut s'assurer d'être toujours heureux?=--We must never laugh at the miserable, for who can be sure of being always happy? _La Fontaine._

=Il ne faut pas nous fâcher des choses passées=--We should not trouble ourselves (_Sc._ fash) about things that are past. _Napoleon._

=Il ne faut pas parler latin devant les Cordeliers=--It 10 doesn't do to talk Latin before the Grey Friars. _Fr. Pr._

=Il ne faut pas voler avant que d'avoir des ailes=--One must not fly before he develops wings. _Fr. Pr._

=Il ne faut point parler de corde dans la famille d'un pendu=--Never speak of a rope in the family of one who has been hanged. _Fr. Pr._

=Il ne sait plus de quel bois faire flèche=--He is put to his last shift (_lit._ knows of no wood to make his arrow). _Fr. Pr._

=Il ne sait sur quel pied danser=--He knows not on which foot to dance (_i.e._ he is at his wit's end).

=Il n'y a de nouveau que ce qui a vieilli=--There 15 is nothing new but what has become antiquated. _Fr. Pr._

=Il n'y a de nouveau que ce qui est oublié=--There is nothing new but what is forgotten. _Mdlle. Bertine._

=Il n'y a de sots si incommodes que ceux qui ont de l'esprit=--There are no fools so unsufferable as those who have wit. _La Roche._

=Il n'y a pas à dire=--There is no use saying anything; the thing is settled. _Fr. Pr._

=Il n'y a pas de cheval si bon qu'il ne bronche pas=--There is no horse so sure-footed as never to trip. _Fr. Pr._

=Il n'y a pas de gens plus affairés que ceux qui= 20 =n'ont rien à faire=--There are no people so busy as those who have nothing to do. _Fr. Pr._

=Il n'y a pas de petit ennemi=--There is no such thing as an insignificant enemy. _Fr. Pr._

=Il n'y a peut-être point de vérité qui ne soit à quelque esprit faux matière d'erreur=--There is, perhaps, no truth that is not to some false minds matter of error. _Vauvenargues._

=Il n'y a plus de Pyrénées=--There are no longer any Pyrenees. _Louis XIV., on the departure of the Duke of Anjou from Paris for Spain._

=Il n'y a point au monde un si pénible métier que celui de se faire un grand nom. La vie s'achève que l'on a à peine ébauché son ouvrage=--There is not a more laborious undertaking in the world than that of earning a great name; life comes to a close before one has well schemed out one's course. _La Bruyère._

=Il n'y a point de chemin trop long à qui marche= 25 =lentement et sans se presser, il n'y a point d'avantages trop éloignés à qui s'y prépare par la patience=--No road is too long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry, and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it. _La Bruyère._

=Il n'y a point de plus cruelle tyrannie que celle que l'on exerce à l'ombre des lois et avec les couleurs de la justice=--There is no crueller tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice. _Montesquieu._

=Il n'y a que la vérité qui blesse=--It is only the truth that offends (_lit._ wounds). _Fr. Pr._

=Il n'y a que le matin en toutes choses=--There is only the morning in all things. _Fr. Pr._

=Il n'y a que le premier pas qui coûte=--It is only the first step which costs. _Fr. Pr._

=Il n'y a que les honteux qui perdent=--It is only 30 the bashful who lose. _Fr. Pr._

=Il n'y a que les morts qui ne reviennent pas=--It is only the dead who do not return. _Barère._

=Il n'y a rien de si puissant qu'une république où l'on observe les lois, non pas par crainte, non pas par raison, mais par passion=--There is no commonwealth so powerful as one in which the laws are observed not from a principle of fear or reason, but passion. _Montesquieu._

=Il n'y a rien que la crainte et l'espérance ne persuadent aux hommes=--There is nothing that fear and hope does not persuade men to do. _Vauvenargues._

=Il paraît qu'on n'apprend pas à mourir en tuant les autres=--It does not appear that people learn how to die by taking away the lives of others. _Chateaubriand._

=Il passa par la gloire, il passa par le crime, et il= 35 =n'est arrivé qu'au malheur=--He passed through glory and through crime, and has landed only in misfortune. _Said of Napoleon III._

=Il penseroso=--The pensive man. _It._

=Il plaît à tout le monde et ne saurait se plaire=--He pleases all the world but cannot please himself. _Boileau, of Molière._

=Il porte le deuil de sa blanchisseuse=--He wears mourning for his laundress, _i.e._, his linen is dirty. _Fr. Pr._

=Il riso fa buon sangue=--Laughter makes good blood; puts one in good humour. _It. Pr._

=Il rit bien qui rit le dernier=--He laughs with 40 reason who laughs the last.

=Il sabio muda conscio, il nescio no=--A wise man changes his mind, a fool never. _Sp. Pr._

=Il se fait entendre, à force de se faire écouter=--He makes himself understood by compelling people to listen to him. _Villemain._

=Il se faut entr'aider; c'est la loi de nature=--We must assist one another; it is the law of Nature. _Fr. Pr._

=Il sent le fagot=--He is suspected of heresy (_lit._ he smells of the faggot). _Fr._

=Il tacer non fu mai scritto=--Silence was never 45 written down. _It. Pr._

=Il tempo è un galant 'uomo=--Time is a fine lord (or lady). _Mazarin._

=Il tempo buono viene una volta sola=--The good time comes but once. _It. Pr._

=Il tempo è una lima sorda=--Time is a file that emits no noise. _It. Pr._

=Il trouverait à tondre sur un œuf=--He would skin a flint (_lit._ find something to shave on an egg). _Fr. Pr._

=Il va du blanc au noir=--He runs to extremes (_lit._ from white to black). _Fr. Pr._

=Il vaut mieux avoir affaire à Dieu qu'à ses saints=--It is better to deal with God than with His saints. _Fr. Pr._

=Il vaut mieux être fou avec tous, que sage tout seul=--Better to be mad with everybody, than wise all alone. _Fr. Pr._

=Il vaut mieux être marteau qu'enclume=--It is 5 better to be hammer than anvil. _Fr. Pr._

=Il vaut mieux être singe perfectionné qu'un Adam dégénéré=--Better a perfect ape than a degenerate man. _Claparède._

=Il vaut mieux faire envie que pitié=--It is better to be envied than pitied. _Fr. Pr._

=Il vaut mieux tâcher d'oublier ses malheurs que d'en parler=--It is better to try and forget one's misfortunes than to speak of them. _Fr. Pr._

=Il vero punge, e la bugia unge=--Truth stings and falsehood salves over. _It. Pr._

=Il villano en su tierra, y el hidalgo donde quiera=--The 10 clown in his own country, the gentleman where he pleases. _Sp. Pr._

=Il volto sciolto, i pensieri stretti=--The countenance open, the thoughts reserved. _It. Pr._

=Il y a anguille sous roche=--There is a snake in the grass; a mystery in the affair. _Fr. Pr._

=Il y a bien des gens qu'on estime, parce qu'on ne les connaît point=--Many people are esteemed merely because they are not known. _Fr. Pr._

=Il y a dans la jalousie plus d'amour-propre que d'amour=--There is more self-love than love in jealousy. _La Roche._

=Il y a des gens à qui la vertu sied presque= 15 =aussi mal que le vice=--There are some men on whom virtue sits almost as awkwardly as vice. _Bouhours._

=Il y a des gens auxquels il faut trois cent ans pour commencer voir une absurdité=--There are people who take three hundred years before they begin to see an absurdity. _Fr._ (?)

=Il y a des gens dégoûtants avec du mérite, et d'autres qui plaisent avec des défauts=--There are people who disgust us in spite of their merits, and others who please us in spite of their faults. _La Roche._

=Il y a des gens qui ressemblent aux vaudevilles, qu'on ne chante qu'un certain temps=--Some men are like the ballads that are sung only for a certain time. _La Roche._

=Il y a des reproches qui louent, et des louanges qui médisent=--There are censures which are commendations, and commendations which are censures. _La Roche._

=Il y a des vérités qui ne sont pas pour tous= 20 =les hommes et pour tous les temps=--There are truths which are not for every man and for every occasion. _Fr._ (?)

=Il y a encore de quoi glaner=--There are still other fields to glean from; the subject is not exhausted. _Fr. Pr._

=Il y a fagots et fagots=--There is a difference between one faggot and another. _Molière._

=Il y a plus de quarante ans que je dis de la prose sans que j'en susse rien=--I have been speaking prose forty years without knowing it. _Molière._

=Il y a plus fous acheteurs que de fous vendeurs=--There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers. _Fr. Pr._

=Il y a quelque chose dans les malheurs de nos= 25 =meilleurs amis qui ne nous déplaît pas=--There is something in the misfortunes of our best friends which does not displease us. _Fr. Pr._

=Il y a souvent de l'illusion, de la mode, du caprice dans le jugement des hommes=--In the judgments of people there is often little more than self-deception, fashion, and whim. _Voltaire._

=Il y a une espèce de honte d'être heureux à la vue de certaines misères=--It is a kind of shame to feel happy with certain miseries before our eyes. _Fr._

=Il y en a peu qui gagnent à être approfondis=--Few men rise in our esteem on a closer scrutiny. _Fr. Pr._

=Il y va de la vie=--Life depends on it; it is a matter of life or death.

=Iliacos intra muros peccatur et extra=--Sin is 30 committed as well within the walls of Troy as without, _i.e._, both sides were to blame. _Hor._

=Ilicet infandum cuncti contra omina bellum / Contra fata deum, perverso numine poscunt=--Forthwith, against the omens and against the oracles of the gods, all to a man, under an adverse influence, clamour for unholy war. _Virg._

=Ilka= (every) =blade o' grass keps= (catches) =it ain drap o' dew.= _Sc. Pr._

=Ilka dog has his day.= _Sc. Pr._

=Ilk happing bird, wee, helpless thing, / That, in the merry months of spring, / Delighted me to hear thee sing, / What comes o' thee? / Where wilt thou cower thy chittering wing, an' close thy e'e?= _Burns, "A Winter Night."_

=Ill bairns are best heard at hame.= _Sc. Pr._ 35

=Ill begun, ill done.= _Dut. Pr._

=Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.= _Spenser._

=Ill comes upon war's back.= _Pr._

=Ill-doers are ill thinkers.= _Pr._

=Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, /= 40 =Where wealth accumulates and men decay.= _Goldsmith._

=Ill fortune never crushes that man whom good fortune deceived not.= _Ben Jonson._

=Ill got, ill spent.= _Pr._

=Ill-gotten wealth seldom descends to the third generation.= _Pr._

=Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, / As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.= _Dryden._

=Ill hearing mak's ill rehearsing.= _Sc. Pr._ 45

=Ill-humour is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves.= _Goethe._

=Ill luck comes by pounds and goes away by ounces.= _It. Pr._

=Ill news comes apace.= _Pr._

=Ill weeds are not hurt by frost.= _Sp. and Port. Pr._

=Ill weeds grow apace.= _Pr._ 50

=Illa dolet vere quæ sine teste dolet=--She grieves sincerely who grieves when unseen. _Mart._

=Illa est agricolæ messis iniqua suo=--That is a harvest which ill repays its husbandman. _Ovid._

=Illa laus est, magno in genere et in divitiis maximis, / Liberos hominem educare, generi monumentum et sibi=--It is a merit in a man of high birth and large fortune to train up his children so as to be a credit to his family and himself. _Plaut._

=Illa placet tellus in qua res parva beatum / Me facit, et tenues luxuriantur opes=--That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance. _Mart._

=Illa victoria viam ad pacem patefecit=--By that victory he opened the way to peace.

=Illæso lumine solem=--[To gaze] on the sun with undazzled eye. _M._

=Illam, quicquid agit, quoque vestigia flectit, /= 5 =Componit furtim, subsequiturque decor=--In whatever she does, wherever she turns, grace steals into her movements and attends her steps. _Tibull._

=Ille crucem sceleris pretium tulit, hic diadema=--That one man has found a cross the reward of his guilt; this one, a diadem. _Juv._

=Ille igitur nunquam direxit brachia contra / Torrentem; nec civis erat qui libera posset / Verba animi proferre, et vitam impendere vero=--He never exerted his arms against the torrent, nor was he a citizen who would frankly utter the sentiments of his mind, and stake his life for the truth. _Juv._

=Ille per extentum funem mihi posse videtur / Ire poeta, meum qui pectus inaniter angit / Irritat mulcet falsis terroribus implet / Ut magus: et modo me Thebis, modo ponit Athenis=--That man seems to me able to do anything (_lit._ walk on the tight-rope) who, as a poet, tenures my breast with fictions, can rouse me, then soothe me, fill me with unreal terrors like a magician, set me down either at Thebes or Athens. _Hor._

=Ille potens sui / Lætusque degit, cui licet in diem / Dixisse, Vixi: cras vel atra / Nube polum pater occupato / Vel sole puro=--The man lives master of himself and cheerful, who can say day after day, "I have lived; to-morrow let the Father above overspread the sky either with cloud or with clear sunshine." _Hor._