Dives

Dives may refer to:

  • Dives, Oise, a French commune of the Oise département
  • Dives River, a river in Normandy
  • Dives-sur-Mer, a commune in Normandy
  • Dis Pater, Roman god of the underworld, contracted from Dives Pater ("Father of Riches")
  • Dives, 'the rich man' in the parable Lazarus and Dives
  • Marcus Licinius Crassus (c. 115–53 BC), a Roman politician, who was known as Dives, meaning "The Rich" or "Moneybags"
  • Dives (genus), a genus of New World blackbirds
  • Chrysophylax Dives, "Goldward the Rich," the dragon in Farmer Giles of Ham
  • Lewis Dives
  • SU Dives, a French association football club founded in 1929

Famous quotes containing the word dives:

    “Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “She had exactly the German way: whatever was in her mind to be delivered, whether a mere remark, or a sermon, or a cyclopedia, or the history of a war, she would get it into a single sentence or die. Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of the Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)