Dictionary of Foreign Terms

Dictionary of Foreign Terms
New York: Thomas V. Crowell Company, 1975

A compendium of short, pithy, thought-provoking statements.

Examples:
French: "Today, king, tomorrow nothing."

Latin, Ovid: "A good face is a good recommendation."

Latin, Horace: "Those who cross the sea change only their climate, not their mind."

These pithy truisms are half-truths. But they are half true. Here are some more:

German: We all grow old, but who grows wise?

Latin: Old men are twice children.

Horace, Latin: Anger is brief madness.

French: A wager is a fool's argument; betting marks the fool.

Latin: Art is long, life is short.

French: Criticism is easy and art is difficult.

Latin: Beauty is a flower, fame a breath.

German: Every beginning is cheerful. Goethe.

Latin: I believe it because it is absurd (or so unlikely).

Italian: There is no robber worse than a bad book.

Latin: Life without literature (or books) is death.

Latin: The brave man may fall, but cannot yield.

Latin, Seneca: Fire tests gold, misery tests brave men.

Latin: All things change and we change with them.

Spanish: Everyone is the product of his own deeds.