Dictionary of Quotations

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Fa bene, e non guardare a chi—Do good, no matter to whom. It. Pr.

Faber suæ fortunæ—The maker of his own fortune. 30 Sall.

Fabricando fabri fimus—We become workmen by working. Pr.

Fabula, nec sentis, tota jactaris in urbe—You are the talk, though you don't know it, of the whole town. Ovid.

Faces are as legible as books, only they are read in much less time, and are much less likely to deceive us. Lavater.

Faces are as paper money, for which, on demand, there frequently proves to be no gold in the coffer. F. G. Trafford.

Faces are but a gallery of portraits. Bacon. 35

Faces which have charmed us the most escape us the soonest. Scott.

Fac et excusa—Do it and so justify yourself. Pr.

Facetiarum apud præpotentes in longum memoria est—It is long before men in power forget the jest they have been the subject of. Tac.

Fach—Department. Ger.

Facienda—Things to be done. 40

Facies non omnibus una, / Nec diversa tamen; qualem decet esse sororum—The features were not the same in them all, nor yet are they quite different, but such as we would expect in sisters. Ovid.

Facies tua computat annos—Your face records your age. Juv.

Facile est imperium in bonis—It is easy to rule over the good. Plaut.

Facile est inventis addere—It is easy to add to or improve on what has been already invented. Pr.

Facile largiri de alieno—It is easy to be generous 45 with what is another's. Pr.

Facile omnes cum valemus recta consilia / Ægrotis damus—We can all, when we are well, easily give good advice to the sick. Ter.

Facile princeps—The admitted chief; with ease at the top.

Facilis descensus Averno est, / Noctes atque dies patet atri janua Ditis; / Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, / Hoc opus, hic labor est—The descent to hell is easy; night and day the gate of gloomy Dis stands open; but to retrace your steps and escape to the upper air, this is a work, this is a toil. Virg.

Facilius crescit quam inchoatur dignitas—It is more easy to obtain an accession of dignity than to acquire it in the first instance. Laber.

Facilius sit Nili caput invenire—It would be 50 easier to discover the source of the Nile. Old Pr.

Facinus audax incipit, / Qui cum opulento pauper homine cœpit rem habere aut negotium—The poor man who enters into partnership with a rich makes a risky venture. Plaut.

Facinus majoris abollæ—A crime of a very deep dye (lit. one committed by a man who wears the garb of a philosopher). Juv.

Facinus quos inquinat æquat—Those whom guilt stains it equals, i.e., it puts on even terms. Lucan.

Facit indignatio versum—Indignation gives inspiration to verse.

Facito aliquid operis, ut semper te diabolus 5 inveniat occupatum—Keep doing something, so that the devil may always find you occupied. St. Jerome.

Faciunt næ intelligendo, ut nihil intelligant—They are so knowing that they know nothing. Ter.

Façon de parler—A manner of speaking. Fr.

Facsimile—An engraved resemblance of a man's handwriting; an exact copy of anything (lit. do the like).

Facta canam; sed erunt qui me finxisse loquantur—I am about to sing of facts; but some will say I have invented them. Ovid.

Facta ejus cum dictis discrepant—His actions 10 do not harmonise with his words. Cic.

Facta, non verba—Deeds, not words.

Fact is better than fiction, if only we could get it pure. Emerson.

Facts are apt to alarm us more than the most dangerous principles. Junius.

Facts are chiels that winna ding, / And downa be disputed. Burns.

Facts are stubborn things. Le Sage. 15

Facts are to the mind the same thing as food to the body. Burke.

Facts—historical facts, still more biographical—are sacred hierograms, for which the fewest have the key. Carlyle.

Factis ignoscite nostris / Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo—Forgive what I have done, since you know all evil intention was far from me. Ovid.

Factotum—A man of all work (lit. do everything).

Factum abiit; monumenta manent—The event 20 is an affair of the past; the memorial of it is still with us. Ovid.

Factum est—It is done. M.

Factum est illud; fieri infectum non potest—It is done and cannot be undone. Plaut.

Fader og Moder ere gode, end er Gud bedre—Father and mother are kind, but God is kinder. Dan. Pr.

Fæx populi—The dregs of the people.

Fagerhed uden Tugt, Rose uden Hugt—Beauty 25 without virtue is a rose without scent. Dan. Pr.

Fähigkeiten werden vorausgesetzt; sie sollen zu Fertigkeiten werden—Capacities are presupposed: they are meant to develop into capabilities, or skilled dexterities. Goethe.

Failures are with heroic minds the stepping-stones to success. Haliburton.

Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not; / I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not. Raleigh.

"Fain would I climb, but that I fear a fall." Raleigh on a pane of glass, to which Queen Elizabeth added, "If thy heart fail thee, then why climb at all?"

Fainéant—Do nothing. Fr. 30

Faint heart never won fair lady. Pr.

Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few and short. S. Rutherford.

Fair and softly goes far in a day. Pr.

Fair enough, if good enough. Pr.

Fair fa' guid drink, for it gars (makes) folk 35 speak as they think. Sc. Pr.

Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, / Great chieftain o' the puddin' race! / Abune them a' ye tak' your place, / Paunch, tripe, or thairm; / Weel are ye wordy o' a grace / As lang's my airm. Burns to a Haggis.

Fair flowers don't remain lying by the highway. Ger. Pr.

Fair folk are aye fusionless (pithless). Sc. Pr.

Fair is not fair, but that which pleaseth. Pr.

Fair maidens wear nae purses (the lads always 40 paying their share). Sc. Pr.

Fair play's a jewel. Pr.

Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, / And beauty draws us with a single hair. Pope.

Fair words butter no parsnips. Pr.

Faire bonne mine à mauvaise jeu—To put a good face on the matter. Fr.

Faire le chien couchant—To play the spaniel; to 45 cringe. Fr.

Faire le diable à quatre—To play the devil or deuce. Fr.

Faire le pendant—To be the fellow. Fr.

Faire mon devoir—To do my duty. Fr.

Faire patte de velours—To coax (lit. make a velvet paw). Fr.

Faire prose sans le savoir—To speak prose 50 without knowing it. Molière.

Faire sans dire—To act without talking. Fr.

Faire un trou pour en boucher un autre—To make one hole in order to stop another. Fr. Pr.

Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, / If better thou belong not to the dawn. Milton.

Fais ce que dois, advienne que pourra—Do your duty, come what may. Fr. Pr.

Fait accompli—A thing already done. Fr. 55

Faith affirms many things respecting which the senses are silent; but nothing that they deny. Pascal.

Faith always implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favour of a greater. A little mind often sees the unbelief, without seeing the belief, of large ones. Holmes.

Faith and joy are the ascensive forces of song. Stedman.

Faith builds a bridge across the gulf of death, / To break the shock blind Nature cannot shun, / And lands thought smoothly on the farther shore. Young.

Faith builds a bridge from the old world to the 60 next. Young.

Faith doth not lie dead in the breast, but is lovely and fruitful in bringing forth good works. Cranmer.

Faith, fanatic faith, once wedded fast, / To save dear falsehood, hugs it to the last. Moore.

Faith has given man an inward willingness, a world of strength wherewith to front a world of difficulty. Carlyle.

Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than religion. John Sterling.

Faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called weakest. Mme. de Staël.

Faith is letting down our nets into the untransparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall take. Faber.

Faith is like love; it does not admit of being forced. Schopenhauer.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration. 5 Channing.

Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero. Carlyle.

Faith is necessary to victory. Hazlitt.

Faith is nothing but spiritualised imagination. Ward Beecher.

Faith is nothing more than obedience. Voltaire.

Faith is not reason's labour, but repose. 10 Young.

Faith is not the beginning, but the end of all knowledge. Goethe.

Faith is our largest manufacturer of good works, and wherever her furnaces are blown out, morality suffers. Birrell.

Faith is required at thy hands, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect or inquiry into the deep mysteries of God. Thomas à Kempis.

Faith is taking God at His word. Evans.

Faith is that courage in the heart which trusts 15 for all good to God. Luther.

Faith is the creator of the Godhead; not that it creates anything in the Divine Eternal Being, but that it creates that Being in us. Luther.

Faith is the heroism of intellect. C. H. Parkhurst.

Faith is the soul of religion, and works the body. Colton.

Faith loves to lean on Time's destroying arm. Holmes.

Faith makes us, and not we it; and faith makes 20 its own forms. Emerson.

Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, / And looks to that alone; / Laughs at impossibilities, / And cries—"It shall be done." C. Wesley.

Faith opens a way for the understanding; unbelief closes it. St. Augustine.

Faith without works is like a bird without wings. J. Beaumont.

Faith's abode / Is mystery for evermore, / Its life, to worship and adore, / And meekly bow beneath the rod, / When the day is dark and the burden sore. Dr. Walter Smith.

Faiths that are different in their roots, / 25 Where the will is right and the heart is sound, / Are much the same in their fruits. J. B. Selkirk.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend. Bible.

Faithful found / Among the faithless; faithful only he. Milton.

Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things. Confucius.

Falla pouco, e bem, ter-te-haô por alguem—Speak little and well; they will take you for somebody. Port. Pr.

Fallacia / Alia aliam trudit—One falsehood 30 begets another (lit. thrusts aside another). Ter.

Fallacies we are apt to put upon ourselves by taking words for things. Locke.

Fallentis semita vitæ—The pathway of deceptive or unnoticed life. Hor.

Fallit enim vitium, specie virtutis et umbra, / Cum sit triste habitu, vultuque et veste severum—For vice deceives under an appearance and shadow of virtue when it is subdued in manner and severe in countenance and dress. Juv.

Fallitur, egregio quisquis sub principe credit / Servitium. Nunquam libertas gratior extat / Quam sub rege pio—Whoso thinks it slavery to serve under an eminent prince is mistaken. Liberty is never sweeter than under a pious king. Claud.

Falls have their risings, wanings have their 35 primes, / And desperate sorrows wait for better times. Quarles.

Falsch ist das Geschlecht der Menschen—False is the race of men. Schiller.

False as dicers' oaths. Ham., iii. 4.

False by degrees and exquisitely wrong. Canning.

False face must hide what the false heart doth know. Macb., i. 7.

False folk should hae mony witnesses. Sc. 40 Pr.

False freends are waur than bitter enemies. Sc. Pr.

False friends are like our shadow, close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade. Bovee.

False glory is the rock of vanity. La Bruyère.

False modesty is the masterpiece of vanity. La Bruyère.

False modesty is the most decent of all falsehood. 45 Chamfort.

False shame is the parent of many crimes. Fox.

Falsehood and death are synonymous. Bancroft.

Falsehood borders so closely upon truth, that a wise man should not trust himself too near the precipice. (?)

Falsehood is cowardice; truth is courage. H. Ballou.

Falsehood is easy, truth is difficult. George 50 Eliot.

Falsehood is folly. Hom.

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth. Colton.

Falsehood is our one enemy in this world. Carlyle.

Falsehood is so much the more commendable, by how much more it resembles truth, and is the more pleasing the more it is doubtful and possible. Cervantes.

Falsehood is the devil's daughter, and speaks 55 her father's tongue. Dan. Pr.

Falsehood is the essence of all sin. Carlyle.

Falsehood, like poison, will generally be rejected when administered alone; but when blended with wholesome ingredients may be swallowed unperceived. Whately.

Falsehood, like the dry rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded. Whately.

Falso damnati crimine mortis—Condemned to die on a false charge. Virg.

Falsum in uno, falsum in omni—False in one thing, false in everything.

Falsus honor juvat, et mendax infamia terret / Quem nisi mendosum et medicandum—Undeserved honour delights, and lying calumny alarms no one but him who is full of falsehood and needs to be reformed. Hor.

Fama clamosa—A current scandal.

Fama crescit eundo—Rumour grows as it goes. 5 Virg.

Fama nihil est celerius—Nothing circulates more swiftly than scandal. Livy.

Famæ damna majora sunt, quam quæ æstimari possint—The loss of reputation is greater than can be possibly estimated. Livy.

Famæ laboranti non facile succurritur—It is not easy to repair a damaged character. Pr.

Famam extendere factis.—To extend one's fame by valiant feats. Virg.

Fame and censure with a tether / By fate are 10 always linked together. Swift.

Fame at its best is but a poor compensation for all the ills of existence. Mrs. Oliphant.

Fame comes only when deserved, and then it is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. Longfellow.

Fame is a fancied life in others' breath. Pope.

Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave. Colton.

Fame is a revenue payable only to our ghosts. 15 Mackenzie.

Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck only at one end of a room, it will soon fall to the floor. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends. Johnson.

Fame is but the breath of the people, and that often unwholesome. Pr.

Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil. Milton.

Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies. Dante.

Fame is the advantage of being known by 20 people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little. Stanislaus.

Fame is the breath of popular applause. Herrick.

Fame is the perfume of noble deeds. Socrates.

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, / (That last infirmity of noble minds,) / To scorn delights and live laborious days. Milton.

Fame may be compared to a scold; the best way to silence her is to let her alone, and she will at last be out of breath in blowing her own trumpet. Fuller.

Fame only reflects the estimate in which a 25 man is held in comparison with others. Schopenhauer.

Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing. Fuller.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else; very rarely to those who say to themselves, "Go to now, let us be a celebrated individual." Holmes.

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given; often it is but a false glare, dazzling the eyes of the vulgar, lending, by casual extrinsic splendour, the brightness and manifold glance of the diamond to pebbles of no value. Carlyle.

Fame with men, / Being but ampler means to serve mankind, / Should have small rest or pleasure in herself, / But work as vassal to the larger love, / That dwarfs the petty love of one to one. Tennyson.

Fames et mora bilem in nasum conciunt—Hunger 30 and delay stir up one's bile (lit. in the nostrils). Pr.

Fames, pestis, et bellum, populi sunt pernicies—Famine, pestilence, and war are the destruction of a people.

Familiare est hominibus omnia sibi ignoscere—It is common to man to pardon all his own faults.

Familiarity breeds contempt. Pr.

Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease. La Roche.

Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. 35 George Eliot.

Famine hath a sharp and meagre face. Dryden.

Fammi indovino, e ti farò ricco—Make me a prophet, and I will make you rich. It. Pr.

Fanaticism is a fire which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. Warburton.

Fanaticism is such an overwhelming impression of the ideas relating to the future world as disqualifies for the duties of this. R. Hall.

Fanaticism is to superstition what delirium is 40 to fever and rage to anger. Voltaire.

Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity. Gibbon.

Fanaticism, soberly defined, / Is the false fire of an o'erheated mind. Cowper.

Fancy is capricious; wit must not be searched for, and pleasantry will not come in at a call. Sterne.

Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Landor.

Fancy kills and fancy cures. Sc. Pr. 45

Fancy requires much, necessity but little. Ger. Pr.

Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain, which plays highest by diminishing the aperture. Goldsmith.

Fancy rules over two-thirds of the universe, the past and the future, while reality is confined to the present. Jean Paul.

Fancy runs most furiously when a guilty conscience drives it. Fuller.

Fancy surpasses beauty. Pr. 50

Fancy, when once brought into religion, knows not where to stop. Whately.

Fanfaronnade—Boasting. Fr.

Fanned fires and forced love ne'er did weel. Sc. Pr.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart, / How hard thy yoke! how cruel is thy dart! / Those 'scape thy anger who refuse thy sway, / And those are punished most who most obey. Prior.

Fantasy is of royal blood; the senses, of noble descent; and reason, of civic (bürgerlichen) origin. Feuerbach.

Fantasy is the true heaven-gate and hell-gate of man. Carlyle.

Far ahint maun follow the faster. Sc. Pr.

Far-awa fowls hae aye fair feathers. Sc. 5 Pr.

Far better it is to know everything of a little than a little of everything. Pickering.

Far frae court, far frae care. Sc. Pr.

Far from all resort of mirth / Save the cricket on the hearth. Milton.

Far from home is near to harm. Fris. Pr.

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, / 10 Their sober wishes never learned to stray; / Along the cool sequester'd vale of life / They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Gray.

Far greater numbers have been lost by hopes / Than all the magazines of daggers, ropes, / And other ammunitions of despair, / Were ever able to despatch by fear. Butler.

Far niente—A do-nothing.

Far-off cows have long horns. Gael. Pr.

Far-off fowls hae feathers fair, / And aye until ye try them; / Though they seem fair, still have a care, / They may prove waur than I am. Burns.

Far or forgot to me is near; / Shadow and 15 sunlight are the same; / The vanished gods to me appear; / And one to me are shame and fear. Emerson.

Fare, fac—Speak, do.

Fare thee well! and if for ever, / Still for ever fare thee well! / E'en though unforgiving, never / 'Gainst thee shall my heart rebel. Byron.

Fare you weel, auld Nickie-ben! / O wad ye tak' a thocht and men'! / Ye aiblins micht—I dinna ken—/ Still hae a stake: / I'm wae to think upo' yon den, / E'en for your sake. Burns.

Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness! / This is the state of man: to-day he puts forth / The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, / And bears his blushing honours thick upon him: / The third day comes a frost, a killing frost: / And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely / His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root / And then he falls, as I do. Hen. VIII., iii. 2.

Farewell! God knows when we shall meet 20 again. / I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins, / That almost freezes up the heat of life. Rom. and Jul., iv. 3.

Farewell, happy fields, / Where joy for ever dwells; hail, horror, hail! Milton.

Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! / Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars / That make ambition virtue! oh, farewell! / Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, / The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, / The royal banner, and all quality, / Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war! Othello, iii. 3.

Farewell to Lochaber, farewell to my Jean, / Where heartsome wi' thee I hae mony days been; / For Lochaber no more, Lochaber no more, / We'll maybe return to Lochaber no more. Allan Ramsay.

Fari quæ sentiat—To speak what he thinks. M.

Farmers are the founders of civilisation. 25 Daniel Webster.

Farrago libelli—The medley of that book of mine. Juv.

Fas est et ab hoste doceri—It is right to derive instruction even from an enemy. Ovid.

Fashionability is a kind of elevated vulgarity. G. Darley.

Fashion, a word which fools use, / Their knavery and folly to excuse. Churchill.

Fashion begins and ends in two things it 30 abhors most—singularity and vulgarity. Hazlitt.

Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting. Stedman.

Fashion is aristocratic-autocratic. J. G. Holland.

Fashion is, for the most part, nothing but the ostentation of riches. Locke.

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity, and afraid to be overtaken by it. It is a sign that the two things are not far asunder. Hazlitt.

Fashion is the great governor of the world. 35 Fielding.

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. Locke.

Fashion seldom interferes with Nature without diminishing her grace and efficiency. Tuckerman.

Fashion wears out more apparel than the man. Much Ado, iii. 3.

Fast and loose. Love's L. Lost, i. 1.

Fast bind, fast find. Pr. 40

Faster than his tongue / Did make offence, his eye did heal it up. As You Like It, iii. 5.

Fastidientis est stomachi multa degustare—Tasting so many dishes shows a dainty stomach. Sen.

Fasti et nefasti dies—Lucky and unlucky days.

Fat hens are aye ill layers. Sc. Pr.

Fat paunches make lean pates, and dainty 45 bits / Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits. Love's L. Lost, i. 1.

Fata obstant—The fates oppose it.

Fata volentem ducunt, nolentem trahunt—Fate leads the willing, and drags the unwilling.

Fate follows and limits power; power attends and antagonises fate; we must respect fate as natural history, but there is more than natural history. Emerson.

Fate hath no voice but the heart's impulses. Schiller.

Fate is a distinguished but an expensive tutor. 50 Goethe.

Fate is character. W. Winter.

Fate is ever better than design. Thos. Doubleday.

Fate is known to us as limitations. Emerson.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a former state of existence. Hindu saying.

Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad. W. R. Alger.

Fate is unpenetrated causes. Emerson.

Fate leads the willing, but drives the stubborn. Pr.

Fate made me what I am, may make me nothing; / But either that or nothing must I be; / I will not live degraded. Byron.

Fate steals along with silent tread, / Found 5 oftenest in what least we dread; / Frowns in the storm with angry brow, / But in the sunshine strikes the blow. Cowper.

Fatetur facinus is qui judicium fugit—He who shuns a trial confesses his guilt. L.

Father of all! in every age, / In every clime adored, / By saint, by savage, and by sage, / Jehovah, Jove, or Lord. Pope.

Fathers alone a father's heart can know, / What secret tides of sweet enjoyment flow / When brothers love! But if their hate succeeds, / They wage the war, but 'tis the father bleeds. Young.

Fathers first enter bonds to Nature's ends; / And are her sureties ere they are a friend's. George Herbert.

Fathers that wear rags / Do make their children 10 blind; / But fathers that wear bags / Do make their children kind. King Lear, ii. 4.

Fathers their children and themselves abuse / That wealth a husband for their daughters choose. Shirley.

Fatigatis humus cubile est—To the weary the bare ground is a bed. Curt.

Fatta la legge, trovata la malizia—As soon as a law is made its evasion is found out. It. Pr.

Faulheit ist der Schlüssel zur Armuth—Sloth is the key to poverty. Ger. Pr.

Faulheit ist Dummheit des Körpers, und 15 Dummheit Faulheit des Geistes—Sluggishness is stupidity of body, and stupidity sluggishness of spirit. Seume.

Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null. Tennyson.

Faults are beauties in lover's eyes. Theocritus.

Faults are thick when love is thin. Pr.

Faute de grives le diable mange des merles—For want of thrushes the devil eats blackbirds. Fr. Pr.

Faux pas—A false step. Fr. 20

Favete linguis—Favour with words of good omen (lit. by your tongues). Ovid.

Favourable chance is the god of all men who follow their own devices instead of obeying a law they believe in. George Eliot.

Favour and gifts disturb justice. Dan. Pr.

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Bible.

Favours, and especially pecuniary ones, are 25 generally fatal to friendship. Hor. Smith.

Favours unused are favours abused. Sc. Pr.

Fax mentis honestæ gloria—Glory is the torch of an honourable mind. M.

Fax mentis incendium gloriæ—The flame of glory is the torch of the mind. M.

Fay ce que voudras—Do as you please. M.

Fear always springs from ignorance. Emerson. 30

Fear and sorrow are the true characters and inseparable companions of most melancholy. Burton.

Fear can keep a man out of danger, but courage only can support him in it. Pr.

Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man. Bible.

Fear God; honour the king. St. Peter.

Fear guards the vineyard. It. Pr. 35

Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude. Goldsmith.

Fear has many eyes. Cervantes.

Fear hath torment. St. John.

Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions. It has boded, and mowed, and gibbered for ages over government and property. Emerson.

Fear is described by Spenser to ride in armour, 40 at the clashing whereof he looks afeared of himself. Peacham.

Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage. Sir P. Sidney.

Fear is the underminer of all determinations; and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws. Sir P. Sidney.

Fear is the virtue of slaves; but the heart that loveth is willing. Longfellow.

Fear is worse than fighting. Gael. Pr.

Fear not that tyrants shall rule for ever, / Or 45 the priests of the bloody faith; / They stand on the brink of that mighty river / Whose waves they have tainted with death. Shelley.

Fear not the confusion (Verwirrung) outside of thee, but that within thee; strive after unity, but seek it not in uniformity; strive after repose, but through the equipoise, not through the stagnation (Stillstand), of thy activity. Schiller.

Fear not the future; weep not for the past. Shelley.

Fear not, then, thou child infirm; / There's no god dare wrong a worm. Emerson.

Fear not where Heaven bids come; / Heaven's never deaf but when man's heart is dumb. Quarles.

Fear of change / Perplexes monarchs. Milton. 50

Fear oftentimes restraineth words, but makes not thought to cease. Lord Vaux.

Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground and fetters them from moving. Montaigne.

Fear to do base, unworthy things is valour; / If they be done to us, to suffer them / Is valour too. Ben Jonson.

Fear's a fine spur. Samuel Lover.

Fear's a large promiser; who subject live / 55 To that base passion, know not what they give. Dryden.

Fears of the brave and follies of the wise. Johnson.

Fearfully and wonderfully made. Bible.

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns. 3 Hen. VI., iv. 7.

Feasting makes no friendship. Pr.

Feast-won, fast-lost. Tim. of Athens, ii. 2. 60

Feather by feather the goose is plucked. Pr.

Fecisti enim nos ad te, et cor inquietum donec requiescat in te—Thou hast made us for Thee, and the heart knows no rest until it rests in Thee. St. Augustine.

Fecit—He did it.

Fecundi calices quem non fecere disertum?—Whom have not flowing cups made eloquent? Hor.

Fede ed innocenzia son reperte / Solo ne' pargoletti—Faith and innocence are only to be found in little children. Dante.

Feeble souls always set to work at the wrong time. Cardinal de Reiz.

Feebleness is sometimes the best security. 5 Pr.

Feed a cold and starve a fever. Pr.

Feed no man in his sins; for adulation / Doth make thee parcel-devil in damnation. George Herbert.

Feeling comes before reflection. H. R. Haweis.

Feeling should be stirred only when it can be sent to labour for worthy ends. Brooke.

Feelings are always purest and most glowing 10 in the hour of meeting and farewell; like the glaciers, which are transparent and rose-hued only at sunrise and sunset, but throughout the day grey and cold. Jean Paul.

Feelings are like chemicals; the more you analyse them, the worse they smell. Kingsley.

Feelings come and go like light troops following the victory of the present; but principles, like troops of the line, are undisturbed, and stand fast. Jean Paul.

Feelings, like flowers and butterflies, last longer the later they are delayed. Jean Paul.

Fehlst du, lass dich's nicht betrüben; Denn der Mangel führt zum Lieben; / Kannst dich nicht vom Fehl befrein, / Wirst du Andern gern verzeihn—Shouldst thou fail, let it not trouble thee, for failure (lit. defect) leads to love. If thou canst not free thyself from failure, thou wilt never forgive others. Goethe.

Feindlich ist die Welt / Und falsch gesinnt; 15 Es liebt ein jeder nur / Sich selbst—Hostile is the world, and falsely disposed. In it each one loves himself alone. Schiller.

Felices errore suo—Happy in their error. Lucan.

Felices ter et amplius / Quos irrupta tenet copula, nec, malis / Divulsus quærimoniis, / Suprema citius solvet amor die—Thrice happy they, and more than thrice, whom an unbroken link binds together, and whom love, unimpaired by evil rancour, will not sunder before their last day. Hor.

Felicitas nutrix est iracundiæ—Prosperity is the nurse of hasty temper. Pr.

Feliciter is sapit, qui periculo alieno sapit—He is happily wise who is wise at the expense of another. M.

Felicity lies much in fancy. Pr. 20

Felicity, not fluency, of language is a merit. Whipple.

Felix, heu nimium felix—Happy, alas! too happy! Virg.

Felix qui nihil debet—Happy is he who owes nothing.

Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas—Happy he who has succeeded in learning the causes of things. Virg.

Felix, qui quod amat, defendere fortiter andet—Happy 25 he who dares courageously to defend what he loves. Ovid.

Fell luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksands, poverty or chains. Hannah More.

Fell sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more / Than when it bites but lanceth not the sore. Rich. II., i. 3.

Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence. Burke.

Felo de se—A suicide. L.

Female friendships are of rapid growth. 30 Disraeli.

Feme covert—A married woman. L.

Feme sole—An unmarried woman. L.

Femme, argent et vin ont leur bien et leur venin—Women, money, and wine have their blessing and their bane. Fr. Pr.

Femme de chambre—A chambermaid. Fr.

Femme de charge—A housekeeper. Fr. 35

Femme rit quand elle peut, et pleure quand elle veut—A woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she likes. Fr. Pr.

Feræ naturæ—Of a wild nature.

Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt—Men in general are fain to believe that which they wish to be true. Cæs.

Feriis caret necessitas—Necessity knows no holiday.

Ferme fugiendo in media fata ruitur—How 40 often it happens that men fall into the very evils they are striving to avoid. Liv.

Ferme modèle—A model farm. Fr.

Fern von Menschen wachsen Grundsätze; unter ihnen Handlungen—Principles develop themselves far from men; conduct develops among them. Jean Paul.

Ferreus assiduo consumitur annulus usu—By constant use an iron ring is consumed. Ovid.

Ferro, non gladio—By iron, not by my sword. M.

Fervet olla, vivit amicitia—As long as the pot 45 boils, friendship lasts. Pr.

Fervet opus—The work goes on with spirit. Virg.

Festina lente—Hasten slowly. Pr.

Festinare nocet, nocet et cunctatio sæpe; / Tempore quæque suo qui facit, ille sapit—It is bad to hurry, and delay is often as bad; he is wise who does everything in its proper time. Ovid.

Festinatione nil tutius in discordiis civilibus—Nothing is safer than despatch in civil quarrels. Tac.

Festinatio tarda est—Haste is tardy. Pr. 50

Fetch a spray from the wood and place it on your mantel-shelf, and your household ornaments will seem plebeian beside its nobler fashion and bearing. It will wave superior there, as if used to a more refined and polished circle. It has a salute and response to all your enthusiasm and heroism. Thoreau.

Fête champêtre—A rural feast. Fr.

Fêtes des mœurs—Feasts of morals. Fr.

Fette Küche, magere Erbschaft—A fat kitchen, a lean legacy. Ger. Pr.

Feu de joie—Firing of guns in token of joy. 55 Fr.

Few are fit to be entrusted with themselves. Pr.

Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men to persuasion. Goethe.

Few, few shall part where many meet; The snow shall be their winding-sheet, / And every turf beneath their feet / Shall be a soldier's sepulchre. Campbell.

Few have all they need, none all they wish. R. Southwell.

Few have borne unconsciously the spell of loveliness. Whittier.

Few have the gift of discerning when to have done. Swift.

Few have wealth, but all must have a home. 5 Emerson.

Few love to hear the sins they love to act. Pericles, i. 1.

Few may play with the devil and win. Pr.

Few men are much worth loving in whom there is not something well worth laughing at. Hair.

Few men have been admired by their domestics. Montaigne.

Few men dare show their thoughts of worst or 10 best. Byron.

Few men have any next; they live from hand to mouth without plan, and are ever at the end of their line. Emerson.

Few men have imagination enough for the truth of reality. Goethe.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. Washington.

Few minds wear out; more rust out. Bovee.

Few mortals are so insensible that their affections 15 cannot be gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect. Zimmermann.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered, from the time of the seven sages of Greece to that of Poor Richard, have prevented a single foolish action. Macaulay.

Few people know how to be old. La Roche.

Few persons have courage to appear as good as they really are. Hair.

Few spirits are made better by the pain and languor of sickness; as few great pilgrims become eminent saints. Thomas à Kempis.

Few take wives for God's sake, or for fair 20 looks. Pr.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Johnson.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is from want of application rather than want of means that men fail of success. La Roche.

Few things are more unpleasant than the transaction of business with men who are above knowing or caring what they have to do. Johnson.

Fiandeira, fiai manso, que me estorvais, que estou rezando—Spinner, spin quietly, so as not to disturb me; I am praying. Port. Pr.

Fiar de Dios sobre buena prenda—Trust in God 25 upon good security. Sp. Pr.

Fiat experimentum in corpore vili—Let the experiment be made on some worthless body.

Fiat justitiam, pereat mundus—Let justice be done, and the world perish. Pr.

Fiat justitia, ruat cœlum—Let justice be done, though the heavens should fall in. Pr.

Fiat lux—Let there be light.

Fickleness has its rise in the experience of the 30 deceptiveness of present pleasures, and in ignorance of the vanity of absent ones. Pascal.

Ficta voluptatis causa sit proxima veris—Fictions meant to please should have as much resemblance as possible to truth. Hor.

Fiction is a potent agent for good in the hands of the good. Mme. Necker.

Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. Burke.

Fiction, while the feigner of it knows that he is feigning, partakes, more than we suspect, of the nature of lying; and has ever an, in some degree, unsatisfactory character. Carlyle.

Fictis meminerit nos jocari fabulis—Be it remembered 35 that we are amusing you with tales of fiction. Phædr.

Fidarsi è bene, ma non fidarsi è meglio—To trust one's self is good, but not to trust one's self is better. It. Pr.

Fidati era un buon uomo, Nontifidare era meglio—Trust was a good man, Trust not was a better. It. Pr.

Fide abrogata, omnis humana societas tollitur—If good faith be abolished, all human society is dissolved. Livy.

Fide et amore—By faith and love. M.

Fide et fiducia—By faith and confidence. M. 40

Fide et fortitudine—By faith and fortitude. M.

Fide et literis—By faith and learning. M.

Fide, non armis—By good faith, not by arms. M.

Fidei coticula crux—The cross is the touchstone of faith. M.

Fidei defensor—Defender of the faith. 45

Fideli certa merces—The faithful are certain of their reward. M.

Fidelis ad urnam—Faithful to death (lit. the ashes-urn). M.

Fidelis et audax—Faithful and intrepid. M.

Fidélité est de Dieu—Fidelity is of God. M.

Fideliter et constanter—Faithfully and firmly. 50 M.

Fidelity, diligence, decency, are good and indispensable; yet, without faculty, without light, they will not do the work. Carlyle.

Fidelity is the sister of justice. Hor.

Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy. Sen.

Fidelius rident tiguria—The laughter of the cottage is more hearty and sincere than that of the court. Pr.

Fidem qui perdit perdere ultra nil potest—He 55 who loses his honour has nothing else he can lose. Pub. Syr.

Fidem qui perdit, quo se servet relicuo?—Who loses his good name, with what can he support himself in future? Pub. Syr.

Fides facit fidem—Confidence awakens confidence. Pr.

Fides probata coronat—Approved faith confers a crown. M.

Fides Punica—Punic faith; treachery.

Fides servanda est—Faith must be kept. Plaut. 60

Fides sit penes auctorem—Credit this to the author.

Fides ut anima, unde abiit, eo nunquam redit—Honour, like life, when once it is lost, is never recovered. Pub. Syr.

Fidus Achates—A faithful companion (of Æneas). Virg.

Fidus et audax—Faithful and intrepid. M.

Fie! fie! how wayward is this foolish love, / That like a testy babe will scratch the nurse, / And presently, all humbled, kiss the rod. Two Gent. of Verona, i. 2.

Fiel pero desdichado—True though unfortunate. 5 Sp.

Fierce fiery warriors fought upon the clouds, / In ranks and squadrons, and right form of war, / Which drizzled blood upon the Capitol. Jul. Cæs., ii. 2.

Fieri facias—See it be done. A writ empowering a sheriff to levy the amount of a debt or damages.

Fight on, thou brave true heart, and falter not, through dark fortune and through bright, the cause thou fightest for, so far as it is true, is very sure of victory. Carlyle.

Fight the good fight. St. Paul.

Filii non plus possessionum quam morborum 10 hæredes sumus—We sons are heirs no less to diseases than to estates.

Filius nullius—The son of no one; a bastard. L.

Filius terræ—A son of the earth; one low-born.

Fille de chambre—A chambermaid. Fr.

Fille de joie—A woman of pleasure; a prostitute. Fr.

Fin contre fin—Diamond cut diamond. Fr. 15

Fin de siècle—Up to date. Fr.

Find earth where grows no weed, and you may find a heart where no error grows. Knowles.

Find employment for the body, and the mind will find enjoyment for itself. Pr.

Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible, and some time after the offence, rather than at the time. Sydney Smith.

Find mankind where thou wilt, thou findest it 20 in living movement, in progress faster or slower; the phœnix soars aloft, hovers with outstretched wings, filling earth with her music; or, as now, she sinks, and with spheral swan-song immolates herself in flame, that she may soar the higher and sing the clearer. Carlyle.

Find out men's wants and will, / And meet them there. All worldly joys go less / To the one joy of doing kindnesses. Herbert.

Finding your able man, and getting him invested with the symbols of ability, is the business, well or ill accomplished, of all social procedure whatsoever in this world. Carlyle.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together; the head inferior to the heart, and the hand inferior to both heart and head. Ruskin.

Fine by defect and delicately weak. Pope.

Fine by degrees and beautifully less. Prior. 25

Fine feathers make fine birds. Pr.

Fine feelings, without vigour of reason, are in the situation of the extreme feathers of a peacock's tail—dragging in the mud. John Foster.

Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament. A. B. Alcott.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others. Emerson.

Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so 30 useful as common sense. Pope.

Fine speeches are the instruments of knaves / Or fools, that use them when they want good sense; / Honesty needs no disguise or ornament. Otway.

Fine words without deeds go not far. Dan. Pr.

Finem respice—Have regard to the end.

Finge datos currus, quid agas?—Suppose the chariot (of the sun) committed to you, what would you do? Apollo to Phaethon in Ovid.

Fingers were made before forks, and hands 35 before knives. Swift.

Fingunt se medicos quivis idiota, sacerdos, Judæus, monachus, histrio, rasor, anus—Any untrained person, priest, Jew, monk, playactor, barber, or old wife is ready to prescribe for you in sickness. Pr.

Finis coronat opus—The end crowns the work, i.e., first enables us to determine its merits. Pr.

Fire and sword are but slow engines of destruction in comparison with the tongue of the babbler. Steele.

Fire and water are good servants but bad masters. Pr.

Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head. 40 Ger. Pr.

Fire is the best of servants; but what a master! Carlyle.

Fire maks an auld wife nimble. Sc. Pr.

Fire that's closest kept burns most of all. Two Gent. of Verona, i. 2.

Fire trieth iron, and temptation a just man. Thomas à Kempis.

Firmior quo paratior—The stronger the better 45 prepared. M.

Firmness, both in sufferance and exertion, is a character I would wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and the cowardly feeble resolve. Burns.

First assay / To stuff thy mind with solid bravery; / Then march on gallant: get substantial worth: / Boldness gilds finely, and will set it forth. George Herbert.

First cast the beam out of thine own eye, and then thou shalt see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. Jesus.

First catch your hare. Mrs. Glass's advice to the housewife.

First come, first served. Pr. 50

First deserve and then desire. Sc. Pr.

First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea. Moore.

First keep thyself in peace, and then thou shalt be able to keep peace among others. Thomas à Kempis.

First must the dead letter of religion own itself dead, and drop piecemeal into dust, if the living spirit of religion, freed from its charnel-house, is to arise in us, new-born of heaven, and with new healing under its wings. Carlyle.

First resolutions are not always the wisest, but they are usually the most honest. Lessing.

First worship God; he that forgets to pray / Bids not himself good-morrow nor good day. T. Randolph.

Fishes live in the sea,... as men do on land—the great ones eat up the little ones. Pericles, ii. 1.

Fit cito per multas præda petita manus—The spoil that is sought by many hands quickly accumulates. Ovid.

Fit erranti medicina confessio—Confession is as 5 healing medicine to him who has erred.

Fit fabricando faber—A smith becomes a smith by working at the forge. Pr.

Fit in dominatu servitus, in servitute dominatus—In the master there is the servant, and in the servant the master (lit. in masterhood is servanthood, in servanthood masterhood). Cic.

Fit scelus indulgens per nubila sæcula virtus—In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.

Fit the foot to the shoe, not the shoe to the foot. Port. Pr.

Fit words are fine, but often fine words are 10 not fit. Pr.

Five great intellectual professions have hitherto existed in every civilised nation: the soldier's, to defend it; the pastor's, to teach it; the physician's, to keep it in health; the lawyer's, to enforce justice in it; and the merchant's, to provide for it; and the duty of all these men is, on due occasion, to die for it. Ruskin.

Five minutes of to-day are worth as much to me as five minutes in the next millennium. Emerson.

Fix'd to no spot is happiness sincere; / 'Tis nowhere to be found, or everywhere. Pope.

Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, / To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot. Pope.

Flagrante bello—During the war. 15

Flagrante delicto—In the very act.

Flames rise and sink by fits; at last they soar / In one bright flame, and then return no more. Dryden.

Flamma fumo est proxima—Where there is smoke there is fire (lit. flame is very close to smoke). Plaut.

Flatter not the rich; neither do thou appear willingly before the great. Thomas à Kempis.

Flatterers are cats that lick before, and scratch 20 behind. Ger. Pr.

Flatterers are the bosom enemies of princes. South.

Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors. Raleigh.

Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity. Pr.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver, and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings. Burke.

Flattery is a base coin, to which only our 25 vanity gives currency. La Roche.

Flattery is the bellows blows up sin; / The thing the which is flattered, but a spark, / To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing; / Whereas reproof, obedient and in order, / Fits kings, as they are men, for they may err. Pericles, i. 2.

Flattery is the destruction of all good fellowship. Disraeli.

Flattery is the food of pride, and may be well assimilated to those cordials which hurt the constitution while they exhilarate the spirits. Arliss' Lit. Col.

Flattery labours under the odious charge of servility. Tac.

Flattery sits in the parlour when plain dealing 30 is kicked out of doors. Pr.

Flattery's the turnpike road to Fortune's door. Walcot.

Flebile ludibrium—A "tragic farce;" a farce to weep at.

Flebit, et insignis tota cantabitur urbe—He shall rue it, and be a marked man and the talk of the whole town. Hor.

Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo—If I cannot influence the gods, I will stir up Acheron. Virg.

Flecti, non frangi—To bend, not to break. M. 35

Flee sloth, for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body. Cato.

Flee you ne'er so fast, your fortune will be at your tail. Sc. Pr.

Flesh will warm in a man to his kin against his will. Gael. Pr.

Flet victus, victor interiit—The conquered one weeps, the conqueror is ruined.

Fleur d'eau—Level with the water. Fr. 40

Fleur de terre—Level with the land. Fr.

Fleurs-de-lis—Lilies. Fr.

Fleying (frightening) a bird is no the way to catch it. Sc. Pr.

Flies are easier caught with honey than vinegar. Fr. Pr.

Fling away ambition; / By that sin fell the 45 angels; how can man, then, / The image of his Maker, hope to win by it? Hen. VIII., iii. 2.

Flints may be melted, but an ungrateful heart cannot; no, not by the strongest and noblest flame. South.

Floriferis ut apes in saltibus omnia libant—As bees sip of everything in the flowery meads. Lucret.

Flour cannot be sown and seed-corn ought not to be ground. Goethe.

Flowers and fruits are always fit presents—flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of man. Emerson.

Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of 50 Nature, by which she indicates how much she loves us. Goethe.

Flowers are the pledges of fruit. Dan. Pr.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. Ward Beecher.

Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. Jean Paul.

Flowers of rhetoric in sermons and serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it. Pope.

Fluctus in simpulo exitare—To raise a tempest 55 in a teapot. Cic.

Fluvius cum mari certas—You but a river, and contending with the ocean. Pr.

Fly idleness, which yet thou canst not fly / By dressing, mistressing, and compliment. / If these take up thy day, the sun will cry / Against thee; for his light was only lent. George Herbert.

Fœdum inceptu, fœdum exitu—Bad in the beginning, bad in the end. Livy.

Fœnum habet in cornu, longe fuge, dummodo risum / Excutiat sibi, non hic cuiquam parcit amico—He has (like a wild bull) a wisp of hay on his horn: fly afar from him; if only he raise a laugh for himself, there is no friend he would spare. Hor.

Foliis tantum ne carmina manda; / Ne turbata volent rapidis ludibria ventis—Only commit not thy oracles to leaves, lest they fly about dispersed, the sport of rushing winds. Virg.

Folk canna help a' their kin (relatives). Sc. Pr. 5

Folk wi' lang noses aye tak' till themsels. Sc. Pr.

Folks as have no mind to be o' use have always the luck to be out o' the road when there's anything to be done. George Eliot.

Folks must put up with their own kin as they put up with their own noses. George Eliot.

Folle est la brébis qui au loup se confesse—It is a silly sheep that makes the wolf her confessor. Fr. Pr.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it 10 will follow thee. Pr.

Follow the copy though it fly out of the window. Printer's saying.

Follow the customs or fly the country. Dan. Pr.

Follow the devil faithfully, you are sure to go to the devil. Carlyle.

Follow the river, and you will get to the sea. Pr.

Follow the road, and you will come to an inn. 15 Port. Pr.

Follow the wise few rather than the vulgar many. It. Pr.

Folly, as it grows in years, / The more extravagant appears. Butler.

Folly ends where genuine hope begins. Cowper.

Folly is its own burden. Sen.

Folly is the most incurable of maladies. 20 Sp. Pr.

Folly, letting down buckets into empty wells, and growing old with drawing nothing up. Cowper.

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame. Byron.

Fond fools / Promise themselves a name from building churches. Randolph.

Fond gaillard—A basis of joy or gaiety. Fr.

Fons et origo mali—The source and origin of the 25 mischief.

Fons malorum—The origin of evil.

Fons omnium viventium—The fountain of all living things.

Fontes ipsi sitiunt—Even the fountains complain of thirst. Pr.

Food can only be got out of the ground, or the air, or the sea. Ruskin.

Food fills the wame and keeps us livin'; / 30 Though life's a gift no worth receivin', / When heavy dragg'd wi' pine and grievin'; / But oil'd by thee, the wheels o' life gae doonhill scrievin' / Wi' rattlin' glee. Burns, on Scotch drink.

Food for powder. 1 Hen. IV., iv. 2.

Fool before all is he who does not instantly seize the right moment; who has what he loves before his eyes, and yet swerves (schweift) aside. Platen.

Fool not; for all may have, / If they dare try, a glorious life or grave. George Herbert.

Fool, not to know that love endures no tie, / And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury. Dryden.

Fool of fortune. King Lear, iv. 6. 35

Fooled thou must be, though wisest of the wise; / Then be the fool of virtue, not of vice. Persian saying.

Foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting. Emerson.

Foolish people are a hundred times more averse to meet with wise people than wise people are to meet with foolish. Saadi.

Fools and bairns shouldna see things half done. Sc. Pr.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich. 40 Pr.

Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters. Swift.

Fools are aye fond o' flittin', and wise men o' sittin'. Sc. Pr.

Fools are aye seeing ferlies (wonderful things). Sc. Pr.

Fools are known by looking wise. Butler.

Fools are my theme; let satire be my song. 45 Byron.

Fools ask what's o'clock, but wise men know their time. Pr.

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them. Ger. Pr.

Fools can indeed find fault, but cannot act more wisely. Langbern.

Fools for arguments use wagers. Butler.

Fools grant whate'er ambition craves, / And 50 men, once ignorant, are slaves. Pope.

Fools grow of themselves without sowing or planting. Rus. Pr.

Fools grow without watering. Pr.

Fools invent fashions and wise men follow them. Fr. Pr.

Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men much from fools. Dut. Pr.

Fools make a mock at sin. Bible. 55

Fools mak' feasts, and wise men eat them. / Wise men mak' jests, and fools repeat them. Sc. Pr.

Fools may our scorn, not envy raise, / For envy is a kind of praise. Gay.

Fools measure actions after they are done by the event; wise men beforehand, by the rules of reason and right. Bp. Hale.

Fools need no passport. Dan. Pr.

Fools ravel and wise men redd (unravel). Sc. Pr. 60

Fools, to talking ever prone, / Are sure to make their follies known. Gay.

Fools with bookish knowledge are children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves and put others in pain. Zimmermann.

Footpaths give a private, human touch to the landscape that roads do not. They are sacred to the human foot. They have the sentiment of domesticity, and suggest the way to cottage doors and to simple, primitive times. John Burroughs.

Foppery is never cured; once a coxcomb, always a coxcomb. Johnson.

For age, long age! / Nought else divides us from the fresh young days / Which men call ancient. Lewis Morris.

For a genuine man it is no evil to be poor. Carlyle.

For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again. Bible.

For a large conscience is all one, / And signifies 5 the same with none. Hudibras.

For all a rhetorician's rules / Teach nothing but to name his tools. Butler.

For all he did he had a reason, / For all he said, a word in season; / And ready ever was to quote / Authorities for what he wrote. Butler.

For all men live and judge amiss / Whose talents do not jump with his. Butler.

For all right judgment of any man or thing it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad. Carlyle.

For all their luxury was doing good. L. 10 Garth.

For an honest man half his wits are enough; for a knave, the whole are too little. It. Pr.

For an orator delivery is everything. Goethe.

For a republic you must have men. Amiel.

For as a fly that goes to bed / Rests with his tail above his head, / So, in this mongrel state of ours, / The rabble are the supreme powers. Butler.

For as a ship without a helm is tossed to and 15 fro by the waves, so the man who is careless and forsaketh his purpose is many ways tempted. Thomas à Kempis.

For a' that, and a' that, / Our toils obscure, and a' that; / The rank is but the guinea's stamp, / The man's the gowd for a' that. Burns.

For a tint (lost) thing carena. Sc. Pr.

For aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing. Mer. of Ven., i. 2.

For aught that ever I could read, / Could ever hear by tale or history, / The course of true love never did run smooth. Mid. N.'s Dream, i. 1.

For a web begun God sends thread. Fr. and 20 It. Pr.

For behaviour, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another. Bacon.

For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, / And though a late, a sure reward succeeds. Congreve.

For Brutus is an honourable man, / So are they all, all honourable men. Jul. Cæs., iii. 2.

For captivity, perhaps your poor watchdog is as sorrowful a type as you will easily find. Ruskin.

For contemplation he and valour form'd, / For 25 softness she and sweet attractive grace; / He for God only, she for God in him, / His fair large front and eye sublime declared. Milton.

For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing but their fears. Bovee.

For dear to gods and men is sacred song. Pope.

For ebbing resolution ne'er returns, / But falls still further from its former shore. Home.

For emulation hath a thousand sons, / That one by one pursue; if you give way, / Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, / Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost. Troil. and Cres. iii. 3.

For ever and a day. As You Like It, iv. 1. 30

For ever is not a category that can establish itself in this world of time. Carlyle.

For every dawn that breaks brings a new world, / And every budding bosom a new life. Lewis Morris.

For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly. Emerson.

For every ten jokes thou hast got an hundred enemies. Sterne.

For everything you have missed, you have 35 gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something. Emerson.

For fate has wove the thread of life with pain, / And twins e'en from the birth are misery and man. Pope.

For faith, and peace, and mighty love / That from the Godhead flow, / Show'd them the life of heaven above / Springs from the earth below. Emerson.

For fault o' wise men fools sit on binks (seats, benches). Sc. Pr.

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Pope.

For forms of government let fools contest; / 40 Whate'er is best administered is best. Pope.

For Freedom's battle, once begun, / Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son, / Though baffled oft, is ever won. Byron.

For glances beget ogles, ogles sighs, / Sighs wishes, wishes words, and words a letter; / And then God knows what mischief may arise / When love links two young people in one fetter. Byron.

For gold the merchant ploughs the main, / The farmer ploughs the manor; / But glory is the soldier's prize, / The soldier's wealth is honour. Burns.

For good and evil must in our actions meet; / Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet. Donne.

For greatest scandal waits on greatest state. 45 Shakespeare.

For grief indeed is love, and grief beside. Mrs. Browning.

For he being dead, with him is beauty slain, / And, beauty dead, black chaos comes again. Shakespeare.

For he, by geometric scale, / Could take the size of pots of ale. Butler.

For he is but a bastard to the time / That doth not smack of observation. King John, i. 1.

For he lives twice who can at once employ / 50 The present well and e'en the past enjoy. Pope.

For he that fights and runs away / May live to fight another day; / But he who is in battle slain, / Can never rise and fight again. Goldsmith.

For he that worketh high and wise, / Nor pauses in his plan, / Will take the sun out of the skies / Ere freedom out of man. Emerson.

For his bounty, / There was no winter in't; an autumn 'twas, / That grew the more by reaping. Ant. and Cleop., v. 2.

For his chaste Muse employed her heaven-taught lyre / None but the noblest passions to inspire, / Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, / One line which, dying, he could wish to blot. Littleton on Thomson.

For hope is but the dream of those that wake. Prior.

For I am nothing if not critical. Othello, 5 ii. 1.

For I am full of spirit, and resolved / To meet all perils very constantly. Jul. Cæs., v. 1.

For I say this is death, and the sole death, / When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, / Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, / And lack of love from love made manifest. Browning.

For it so falls out, / That what we have we prize not to the worth / While we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, / Why, then we rack the value. Much Ado, iv. 1.

For it stirs the blood in an old man's heart, / And makes his pulses fly, / To catch the thrill of a happy voice / And the light of a pleasant eye. N. P. Willis.

For just experience tells, in every soil, / That 10 those that think must govern those that toil. Goldsmith.

For knowledge is a barren tree and bare, / Bereft of God, and duty but a word, / And strength but tyranny, and love, desire, / And purity a folly. Lewis Morris.

For knowledge is a steep which few may climb, / While duty is a path which all may tread. Lewis Morris.

For let our finger ache, and it endues / Our other healthful members ev'n to that sense / Of pain. Othello, iii. 4.

For loan oft loses both itself and friend. Ham., i. 3.

For love of grace, / Lay not the flattering 15 unction to your soul / That not your trespass but my madness speaks. Ham., iii. 4.

For lovers' eyes more sharply sighted be / Than other men's, and in dear love's delight / See more than any other eyes can see. Spenser.

For man's well-being faith is properly the one thing needful; with it, martyrs, otherwise weak, can cheerfully endure the shame and the cross; and without it, worldlings puke up their sick existence by suicide in the midst of luxury. Carlyle.

For man there is but one misfortune, when some idea lays hold of him which exerts no influence upon his active life, or still more, which withdraws him from it. Goethe.

For men are brought to worse diseases / By taking physic than diseases, / And therefore commonly recover / As soon as doctors give them over. Butler.

For men at most differ as heaven and earth, / 20 But women, worst and best, as heaven and hell. Tennyson.

For men cherish love, for gods reverence. Grillparzer.

For men may come and men may go, / But I go on for ever. Tennyson.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; / His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. Pope.

For murder, though it hath no tongue, will speak / With most miraculous organ. Ham., ii. 2.

For my means, I'll husband them so well, / 25 They shall go far with little. Ham., iv. 5.

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to the next ages. Bacon.

For nought so vile that on the earth doth live, / But to the earth some special good doth give; / Nor aught so good, but strain'd from that fair use, / Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse. Rom. and Jul., ii. 3.

For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face. St. Paul.

For oaths are straws, men's faith are wafer cakes, / And holdfast is the only dog, my duck. Hen. V., ii. 3.

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, / The 30 saddest were these: "It might have been." Whittier.

For of fortunes sharpe adversite, / The worst kind of infortune is this, / A man that hath been in prosperite, / And it remember when it passéd is. Chaucer.

For of the soul the body form doth take, / For soul is form, and doth the body make. Spenser.

For one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. Carlyle.

For one person who can think, there are at least a hundred who can observe. An accurate observer is, no doubt, rare; but an accurate thinker is far rarer. Buckle.

For one rich man that is content there are a 35 hundred who are not. Pr.

For one word a man is often deemed wise, and for one word he is often deemed foolish. Confucius.

For our pleasure, the lackeyed train, the slow parading pageant, with all the gravity of grandeur, moves in review; a single coat, or a single footman, answers all the purposes of the most indolent refinement as well; and those who have twenty, may be said to keep one for their own pleasure, and the other nineteen merely for ours. Goldsmith.

For pity is the virtue of the law, / And none but tyrants use it cruelly. Timon of Athens, iii. 5.

For pleasures past I do not grieve, / Nor perils gathering near; / My greatest grief is that I leave / Nothing that claims a tear. Byron.

For poems to have beauty of style is not 40 enough; they must have pathos also, and lead at will the hearer's soul. Hor.

For present grief there is always a remedy. However much thou sufferest, hope. The greatest happiness of man is hope. Leopold Schefer.

For rarely do we meet in one combined / A beauteous body and a virtuous mind. Juv.

For rhetoric, he could not ope / His mouth, but out there flew a trope. Butler.

For rhyme the rudder is of verses, / With which, like ships, they steer their courses. Butler.

For right is right, since God is God, / And right the day must win; / To doubt would be disloyalty, / To falter would be sin. F. W. Faber.

For sacred even to gods is misery. Pope.

For Satan finds some mischief still / For idle 5 hands to do. Watts.

For slander lives upon successión, / For ever housed where it gets possessión. Comedy of Errors, iii. 1.

For solitude sometimes is best society, / And short retirement urges sweet return. Milton.

For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. Mer. of Ven., i. 3.

For suffering and enduring there is no remedy but striving and doing. Carlyle.

For that fine madness still he did retain / 10 Which rightly should possess a poet's brain. Drayton.

For the apotheosis of Reason we have substituted that of Instinct; and we call everything instinct which we find in ourselves, and for which we cannot trace any rational foundation. J. S. Mill.

For the bow cannot possibly stand always bent, nor can human nature or human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. Cervantes.

For the buyer a hundred eyes are too few, for the seller one is enough. It. Pr.

For thee the family of man has no use; it rejects thee; thou art wholly as a dissevered limb: so be it; perhaps it is better so. Carlyle, or Teufelsdröckh rather, arrived at the "Centre of Indifference, through which whoso travels from the Negative Pole to the Positive must necessarily pass."

For the fashion of this world passeth away. 15 St. Paul.

For the gay beams of lightsome day / Gild but to flout the ruins grey. Scott.

For the greatest crime of man is that he was born. Calderon.

For the narrow mind, whatever he attempts, is still a trade; for the higher, an art; and the highest, in doing one thing does all; or, to speak less paradoxically, in the one thing which he does rightly, he sees the likeness of all that is done rightly. Goethe.

For the rain it raineth every day. Lear, iii. 2.

For there's nae luck aboot the hoose, / There's 20 nae luck ava', / There's little pleesure in the hoose / When oor guidman's awa'. W. J. Mickle.

For there was never yet philosopher / That could endure the toothache patiently. Much Ado, v. 1.

For the sake of one good action a hundred evil actions should be condoned. Chinese Pr.

For the son of man there is no noble crown, well-worn or even ill-worn, but is a crown of thorns. Carlyle.

For the true the price is paid before you enjoy it; for the false, after you enjoy it. John Foster.

For the world was built in order, / And the 25 atoms march in tune; / Rhyme the pipe, and the Time the warder, / The sun obeys them and the moon. Emerson.

For they can conquer who believe they can. Dryden.

For 'tis a truth well known to most, / That whatsoever thing is lost, / We seek it, ere it comes to light, / In every cranny but the right. Cowper.

For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich: / And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, / So honour peereth in the meanest habit. Tam. of Shrew, iv. 3.

For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion. Bible.

For to see and eek for to be seye. Chaucer. 30

For truth has such a face and such a mien, / As to be loved needs only to be seen. Dryden.

For truth is precious and divine, / Too rich a pearl for carnal swine. Butler.

For use almost can change the stamp of Nature, / And either curb the devil or throw him out / With wondrous potency. Ham., iii. 4.

For us, the winds do blow, / The earth doth rest, heaven move, and fountains flow; / Nothing we see but means our good, / As our delight, or as our treasure; / The whole is either our cupboard of food, / Or cabinet of pleasure. George Herbert.

For virtue's sake I am here; but if a man, 35 for his task, forgets and sacrifices all, why shouldst not thou? Jean Paul.

For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; / The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. Pope.

For want of a block a man will stumble at a straw. Swift.

For want of a nail the shoe was lost, for want of a shoe the horse was lost, and for want of a horse the rider was lost. Ben. Franklin.

For wealth is all things that conduce / To man's destruction or his use; / A standard both to buy and sell / All things from heaven down to hell. Butler.

For what are men who grasp at praise sublime, / 40 But bubbles on the rapid stream of time, / That rise and fall, that swell and are no more, / Born and forgot, ten thousand in an hour. Young.

For what are they all in their high conceit, / When man in the bush with God may meet? Emerson.

For what thou hast not, still thou striv'st to get, / And what thou hast, forgetst. Meas. for Meas., iii. 1.

For when disputes are wearied out, / 'Tis interest still resolves the doubt. Butler.

For where is any author in the world / Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye? Love's L. Lost, iv. 3.

For while a youth is lost in soaring thought, / 45 And while a mind grows sweet and beautiful, / And while a spring-tide coming lights the earth, / And while a child, and while a flower is born, / And while one wrong cries for redress and finds / A soul to answer, still the world is young. Lewis Morris.

For whom ill is fated, him it will strike. Gael. Pr.

For whom the heart of man shuts out, / Straightway the heart of God takes in, / And fences them all round about / With silence 'mid the world's loud din. Lowell.

For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, / This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, / Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, / Nor cast one longing lingering look behind? Gray.

For who would lose, / Though full of pain, this intellectual being, / Those thoughts that wander through eternity; / To perish rather, swallowed up and lost, / In the wide womb of uncreated night? Milton.

For wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it. 1 Henry IV., i. 2.

For youth no less becomes / The light and 5 careless livery that it wears, / Than settled age his sables and his weeds, / Importing health and graveness. Ham., iv. 7.

Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. 2 Hen. VI., iii. 3.

Forbearance is not acquittance. Ger. Pr.

Forbid a fool do a thing, and that he will do. Sc. Pr.

Forbidden fruit is sweetest. Pr.

Force and right rule everything in this world; 10 force till right is ready. Joubert. (?)

Force can never annul right. Berryer.

Force is no argument. John Bright.

Forced love does not last. Dut. Pr.

Forced prayers are no gude for the soul. Sc. Pr.

Force n'a pas droit—Might knows no right. 15 Fr. Pr.

Force rules the world, and not opinion, but opinion is that which makes use of force. Pascal.

Force without forecast is of little avail. Pr.

Foresight is indeed necessary in trusting, but still more necessary in distrusting. Cötvös.

Forewarned, forearmed. Cervantes.

Forget the hours of thy distress, but never 20 forget what they taught thee. Gessner.

Forget thyself to marble. Milton.

Forgetting of a wrong is a mild revenge. Pr.

Forgetting one's self, or knowing one's self, around these everything turns. Auerbach.

Forgiveness is better than revenge; for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge the sign of a savage nature. Epictetus.

Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not 25 ointment to the wound of an oppressor. Saadi.

Forgiveness is the divinest of victories. Schiller.

Forgiveness to the injured does belong, / But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong. Dryden.

Forgiveness is not forgotten. Ger. Pr.

Forgotten pains, when follow gains. Sc. Pr.

Forma bonum fragile est—Beauty is a fragile 30 good. Ovid.

Forma viros neglecta decet—Neglect of appearance becomes men. Ovid.

Formerly it was the fashion to preach the natural; now it is the ideal. Schlegel.

Formerly the richest countries were those in which Nature was most bountiful; now the richest countries are those in which man is most active. Buckle.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war. Bovee.

Formidabilior cervorum exercitus, duce leone, 35 quam leonum cervo—An army of stags would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than one of lions commanded by a stag. Pr.

Formosa facies muta commendatio est—A handsome face is a mute recommendation. Pub. Syr.

Formosos sæpe inveni pessimos, / Et turpi facie multos cognovi optimos—I have often found good-looking people to be very base, and I have known many ugly people most estimable. Phæd.

Forms which grow round a substance will be true, good; forms which are consciously put round a substance, bad. Carlyle.

Formulas are the very skin and muscular tissue of a man's life; and a most blessed indispensable thing, so long as they have vitality withal, and are a living skin and tissue to him. Carlyle.

Forsake not God till you find a better maister. 40 Sc. Pr.

Forsan et hæc olim meminisse juvabit; Durate, et vosmet rebus servate secundis—Perhaps it will be a delight to us some day to recall these misfortunes. Bear them, therefore, and reserve yourselves for better times. Virg.

Forsan miseros meliora sequentur—Perhaps a better fortune awaits the unhappy. Virg.

Fors et virtus miscentur in unum—Fortune and valour are blended into one. Virg.

Forte è l'aceto di vin dolce—Strong is vinegar from sweet wine. It. Pr.

Forte et fidele—Strong and loyal. M. 45

Fortem facit vicina libertas senem—The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave. Sen.

Fortem posce animum mortis terrore carentem, / Qui spatium vitæ extremum inter munera ponat / Naturæ—Pray for a strong soul free from the fear of death, which regards the final period of life among the gifts of Nature. Juv.

Fortes creantur fortibus et bonis: / Est in juvencis, est in equis patrum / Virtus, nec imbellem feroces / Progenerant aquilæ columbam—Brave men are generated by brave and good: there is in steers and in horses the virtue of their sires, nor does the fierce eagle beget the unwarlike dove. Hor.

Forte scutum salus ducum—The safety of leaders is a strong shield. M.

Fortes fortuna adjuvat—Fortune assists the 50 brave. Ter.

Fortes in fine assequendo et suaves in modo assequendi simus—Let us be resolute in prosecuting our purpose and mild in the manner of attaining it. Aquaviva.

Forti et fideli nihil difficile—To the brave and true nothing is difficult. M.

Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience. Sir P. Sidney.

Fortify yourself with moderation; for this is an impregnable fortress. Epictetus.

Fortior et potentior est dispositio legis quam hominis—The disposition of the law is stronger and more potent than that of man. L.

Fortis cadere, cedere non potest—A brave man may fall, but cannot yield. M.

Fortis et constantis animi est, non perturbari in rebus asperis—It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances. Cic.

Fortis sub forte fatiscet—A brave man will yield to a brave. M.

Fortiter et recte—Courageously and honourably. 5 M.

Fortiter ferendo vincitur malum quod evitari non potest—By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome. Pr.

Fortiter, fideliter, feliciter—Boldly, faithfully, successfully. M.

Fortiter geret crucem—He will bravely support the cross. M.

Fortiter in re, suaviter in modo—Vigorous and resolute in deed, gentle in manner.

Fortitude is the guard and support of the 10 other virtues. Locke.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armour of the will, and the fort of reason. Bacon.

Fortitude is to be seen in toils and dangers; temperance in the denial of sensual pleasures; prudence in the choice between good and evil; justice in awarding to every one his due. Cic.

Fortitude rises upon an opposition; and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped. Jeremy Collier.

Fortitudini—For bravery. M.

Fortuito quodam concursu atomorum—Certain 15 fortuitous concourse of atoms. Cic.

Fortunæ cætera mando—I commit the rest to fortune. Ovid.

Fortunæ filius—A child or favourite of fortune. Hor.

Fortunæ majoris honos, erectus et acer—An honour to his elevated station, upright and brave. Claud.

Fortuna favet fatuis—Fortune favours fools. Pr.

Fortuna favet fortibus—Fortune favours the 20 brave. Pr.

Fortuna magna magna domino est servitus—A great fortune is a great slavery to its owner. Pub. Syr.

Fortunam debet quisque manere suam—Every one ought to live within his means. Ovid.

Fortuna meliores sequitur—Fortune befriends the better man. Sall.

Fortuna miserrima tuta est—A very poor fortune is safe. Ovid.

Fortuna multis dat nimium, nulli satis—To 25 many fortune gives too much, to none enough. Mart.

Fortuna nimium quem fovet, stultum facit—Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much. Pub. Syr.

Fortuna non mutat genus—Fortune does not change nature. Hor.

Fortuna obesse nulli contenta est semel—Fortune is not content to do one an ill turn only once. Pub. Syr.

Fortuna opes auferre, non animum potest—Fortune may bereave us of wealth, but not of courage. Sen.

Fortuna parvis momentis magnas rerum commutationes 30 efficit—Fortune in brief moments works great changes in our affairs.

Fortuna sequatur—Let fortune follow. M.

Fortunato omne solum patria est—To a favourite of fortune every land is his country.

Fortunatas et ille deos qui novit agrestes—Happy the man who knows the rural gods. Virg.

Fortunatus' purse—A purse which supplies you with all you wish.

Fortuna vitrea est, tum cum splendet frangitur—Fortune 35 is like glass; while she shines she is broken. Pub. Syr.

Fortune brings in some boats that are ill-steered. Cymbeline, iv. 3.

Fortune can take from us nothing but what she gave. Pr.

Fortune does not change men; it only unmasks them. Mme. Riccoboni.

Fortune favours the brave, as the old proverb says, but forethought much more. Cic.

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the 40 companion of genius. Isaac Disraeli.

Fortune hath something of the nature of a woman, who, if she be too closely wooed, goes commonly the farther off. Charles V.

Fortune is like a mirror—it does not alter men; it only shows men just as they are. Billings.

Fortune is like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. Bacon.

Fortune is merry, and in this mood will give us anything. Jul. Cæs., iii. 2.

Fortune is not content to do a man one ill 45 turn. Bacon.

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave. Lowell.

Fortune makes folly her peculiar care. Churchill.

Fortune makes him a fool whom she makes her darling. Bacon.

Fortune often knocks at the door, but the fool does not invite her in. Dan. Pr.

Fortune reigns in the gifts of the world, not in 50 the lineaments of nature. As You Like It, i. 2.

Fortune! There is no fortune; all is trial, or punishment, or recompense, or foresight. Voltaire.

Fortune turns round like a mill-wheel, and he that was yesterday at the top lies to-day at the bottom. Sp. Pr.

Forward, forward let us range, / Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Tennyson.

Forwardness spoils manners. Gael. Pr.

Foster the beautiful, and every hour thou 55 callest new flowers to birth. Schiller.

Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets; / But gold that's put to use, more gold begets. Shakespeare.

Foul deeds will rise, / Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes. Ham., i. 2.

Fou (full) o' courtesy, fou o' craft. Sc. Pr.

Four eyes see more than two. Pr.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. Napoleon.

Foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head. Jesus.

Foy est tout—Faith is everything. M.

Foy pour devoir—Faith for duty. Old Fr.

Frae saving comes having. Sc. Pr. 5

Fragili quærens illidere dentem / Offendet solido—Trying to fix her tooth in some tender part, / Envy will strike against the solid. Hor.

Fraile que pide por Dios pide por dos—The friar who begs for God begs for two. Sp. Pr.

Frailty, thy name is woman. Ham., i. 2.

Frame your mind to mirth and merriment, / Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life. Tam. of Sh., Ind. 2.

Frangas, non flectes—You may break, but you 10 will not bend me.

Frappe fort—Strike hard. M.

Fraternité ou la Mort—Fraternity or death. The watchword of the first French Revolution. Fr.

Frauen, richtet nur nie des Mannes einzelne Thaten; / Aber über den Mann sprechet das richtende Wort—Women, judge ye not the individual acts of the man; the word that pronounces judgment is above the man. Schiller.

Frauen und Jungfrauen soll man loben, es sei wahr oder erlogen—Truly or falsely, women and maidens must be praised. Ger. Pr.

Fraus est celare fraudem—It is a fraud to conceal 15 fraud. L.

Frau und Mond leuchten mit fremden Licht—Madame and the moon shine with borrowed light. Ger. Pr.

Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, the other of vice, and both are acts of the will. Epictetus.

Freedom and whisky gang thegither! / Tak' aff your dram. Burns.

Freedom consists not in refusing to recognise anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us. Goethe.

Freedom exists only with power. Schiller. 20

Freedom has a thousand charms to show, / That slaves, howe'er contented, never know. Cowper.

Freedom is a new religion—the religion of our time. Heine.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge. C. A. Bartol.

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect. Ruskin.

Freedom is only in the land of dreams, and the 25 beautiful only blooms in song. Schiller.

Freedom is the eternal youth of nations. Gen. Foy.

Freedom's sun cannot set so long as smiths hammer iron. C. M. Arndt.

Free governments have committed more flagrant acts of tyranny than the most perfect despotic governments which we have ever known. Burke.

Free-livers on a small scale, who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea. W. Irving.

Freends are like fiddle-strings; they maunna 30 be screwed ower tight. Sc. Pr.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all. Sterne.

Free will I be in thought and in poetry; in action the world hampers us enough. Goethe.

Freie Kirche im freien Staat—A free Church in a free State. Cavour.

Freilich erfahren wir erst im Alter, was uns in der Tugend begegnete—Not till we are old is it that we learn to know (lit. experience) what we met with when young. Goethe.

Frei muss ich denken, sprechen und atmen 35 Gottes Luft, / Und wer die drei mir raubet, der legt mich in die Gruft—Freely must I think, speak, and breathe what God inspires in me, and he who robs me of these three entombs me. Chamisso.

Freits (prognostications) follow those who look to them. Sc. Pr.

Frei von Tadel zu sein ist der niedrigste Grad und der höchste, / Denn nur die Ohnmacht führt oder die Grösse dazu—To be free from blame is to be of the lowest and highest grade, for only imbecility or greatness leads to it. Schiller.

Freiwillige Abhängigkeit ist der schönste Zustand, und wie wäre der möglich ohne Liebe?—Voluntary dependence is the noblest condition we can be in; and how were that possible without love? Goethe.

Fremde Kinder, wir lieben sie nie so sehr als die eignen; / Irrtum das eigne Kind, ist uns dem Herzen so nah—We never love the child of another so much as our own; for this reason error, which is our own child, is so near to our heart. Goethe.

Fremdes Pferd und eigene Sporen haben bald 40 den Wind verloren—Another's horse and our own spurs soon outstrip the wind. Ger. Pr.

Freno indorato non megliora il cavallo—A golden bit, no better a horse. It. Pr.

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill-manners. Chesterfield.

Fresh as a bridegroom, and his chin, new reap'd, / Show'd like a stubble-field at harvest-home; / He was perfuméd like a milliner, / And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held / A pouncet-box, which ever and anon / He gave his nose, and took 't away again. Hen. IV., i. 3.

Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun. Goethe.

Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither 45 be thou envious at the wicked; for there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out. Bible.

Fretting cares make grey hairs. Pr.

Freude hat mir Gott gegeben—God has to me given joy. Schiller.

Freud' muss Leid, Leid muss Freude haben—Joy must have sorrow; sorrow, joy. Goethe.

Freundschaft ist ein Knotenstock auf Reisen, / Lieb' ein Stäbchen zum Spazierengehn—Friendship is a sturdy stick to travel with; love a slender cane to promenade with. Chamisso.

Friar Modest never was prior. It. Pr. 50

Friend after friend departs; / Who hath not lost a friend? / There is no union here of hearts / That finds not here an end. J. Montgomery.

Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged, all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her darling, man? Carlyle.

Friend, however thou camest by this book, I will assure thee thou wert least in my thoughts when I writ it. Bunyan.

"Friend, I never gave thee any of my jewels!" "No, but you have let me look at them, and that is all the use you can make of them yourself; moreover, you have the trouble of watching them, and that is an employment I do not much desire." Goldsmith.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passports to fortune. Schopenhauer.

Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. Gael. Pr.

Friends are ourselves. Donne. 5

Friends are rare, for the good reason that men are not common. Joseph Roux.

Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs. A. B. Alcott.

Friends, like mushrooms, spring up in out-of-the-way places. Pr.

Friends may meet, / But mountains never greet. Pr.

Friends reveal to each other most clearly 10 exactly that upon which they are silent. Goethe.

Friends should associate friends in grief and woe. Tit. Andron., v. 3.

Friends should be weighed, not told. Coleridge.

Friends show me what I can do; foes teach me what I should do. Schiller.

Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables. Emerson.

Friends will be much apart. They will respect 15 more each other's privacy than their communion, for therein is the fulfilment of our high aims and the conclusion of our arguments.... The hours my friend devotes to me were snatched from a higher society. Thoreau.

Friendship can originate and acquire permanence only practically (pracktisch). Liking (Neigung), and even love, contribute nothing to friendship. True, active, productive friendship consists in this, that we keep the same pace (gleichen Schritt) in life, that my friend approves of my aims, as I of his, and that thus we go on steadfastly (unverrückt) together, whatever may be the difference otherwise between our ways of thinking and living. Goethe.

Friendship canna stand a' on ae side. Sc. Pr.

Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists; except in the cases of kindred or other legal affinity, it is in reality no longer expected or recognised as a virtue among men. Carlyle.

Friendship is a plant which one must water often. Ger. Pr.

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed 20 by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it never can be trusted after. Landor.

Friendship is but a name. Napoleon.

Friendship is communion. Arist.

Friendship is constant in all other things, / Save in the office and affairs of love; / Therefore, all hearts in love use their own tongues; / Let every eye negotiate for itself, / And trust no agent. Much Ado, ii. 1.

Friendship is infinitely better than kindness. Cic.

Friendship is like a debt of honour; the 25 moment it is talked of, it loses its real name, and assumes the more ungrateful form of obligation. Arliss' Lit. Col.

Friendship is love with understanding. Ger. Pr.

Friendship is love without its flowers or veil. Hare.

Friendship is love without its wings. Byron.

Friendship is no plant of hasty growth. Joanna Baillie.

Friendship is one soul in two bodies. Porphyry. 30

Friendship is stronger than kindred. Pub. Syr.

Friendship is the greatest bond in the world. Jeremy Taylor.

Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; the reality always remains far apart from the ideal. Joseph Roux.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul. Voltaire.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, 35 which strengthens with the setting sun of life. La Fontaine.

Friendship is too pure a pleasure for a mind cankered with ambition or the lust of power and grandeur. Junius.

Friendship, like love, is but a name, / Unless to one you stint the flame. Gay.

Friendship, like love, is self-forgetful. H. Giles.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. Emerson.

Friendship made in a moment is of no moment. 40 Pr.

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship—never. Colton.

Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Emerson.

Friendship, unlike love, which is weakened by fruition, grows up, thrives, and increases by enjoyment; and being of itself spiritual, the soul is reformed by the habit of it. Montaigne.

Friendships are discovered rather than made. Mrs. Stowe.

Friendship's as it's kept. Gael. Pr. 45

Friendship's full of dregs. Timon of Athens, i. 2.

Friendships that are disproportioned ever terminate in disgust. Goldsmith.

Friendship's the privilege / Of private men. N. Tate.

Friendship's the wine of life; but friendship new is neither strong nor pure. Young.

Friendships which are born in misfortune are 50 more firm and lasting than those which are formed in happiness. D'Urfey.

Frigidam aquam effundere—To throw cold water on a business.

Frisch gewagt ist halb gewonnen—Boldly ventured is half done (won). Ger. Pr.

From a bad paymaster get what you can. Pr.

From a closed door the devil turns away. Port. Pr.

From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, / The hum of either army stilly sounds, / That the fix'd sentinels almost receive / The secret whispers of each other's watch; / Fire answers fire, and through their paly flames / Each battle sees the other's umber'd face; / Steed threatens steed in high and boastful neighs, / Piercing the night's dull ear, and from the tents / The armourers, accomplishing the knights, / With busy hammers closing rivets up, / Give dreadful note of preparation. Hen. V., iv. (chorus).

From every moral death there is a new birth; / in this wondrous course of his, man may indeed linger, but cannot retrograde or stand still. Carlyle.

From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite. Amiel.

From grave to gay, from lively to severe. Pope.

From great folks great favours are to be 5 expected. Cervantes.

From hand to mouth will never make a worthy man. Gael. Pr.

From hearing comes wisdom, from speaking repentance. Pr.

From Helicon's harmonious springs / A thousand rills their mazy progress take. Gray.

From his cradle / He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; / Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading; / Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, / But to those men who sought him, sweet as summer; / And to add greater honours to his age / Than man could give; he died fearing God. Hen. VIII., iv. 2.

From ignorance our comfort flows; / The only 10 wretched are the wise. Prior.

From kings and priests and statesmen war arose, / Whose safety is man's deep embittered woe, / Whose grandeur his debasement. Shelley.

From labour health, from health contentment springs. Beattie.

From lowest place where virtuous things proceed, / The place is dignified by the doer's deed. As You Like It, ii. 3.

From obedience and submission spring all other virtues, as all sin does from self-opinion. Montaigne.

From our ancestors come our names, from our 15 virtues our honours. Pr.

From out the throng and stress of lies, / From out the painful noise of sighs, / One voice of comfort seems to rise, / It is the meaner part that dies. Lewis Morris.

From pillar to post—originally from whipping-post to pillory, i.e. from bad to worse. Pr.

From saying "No," however cleverly, no good can come. Goethe.

From seeming evil still educing good. Thomson.

From servants hasting to be gods. Pollock. 20

From small beginnings come great things. Dut. Pr.

From stratagem to stratagem we run, / And he knows most who latest is undone; / An honest man will take a knave's advice, / But idiots only will be cozened twice. Dryden.

From the beginning and to the end of time, Love reads without letters and counts without arithmetic. Ruskin.

From the deepest desire oftentimes ensues the deadliest hate. Socrates.

From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we 25 tend, / Path, motive, guide, original and end. Johnson.

"From the height of these pyramids forty centuries look down on you." Napoleon to his troops in Egypt.

From the lowest depth there is a path to the loftiest height. Carlyle.

From the low prayer of want and plaint of woe / O never, never turn away thine ear! / Forlorn is this bleak wilderness below, / Ah! what were man should heaven refuse to hear! Beattie.

From the same flower the bee extracts honey and the wasp gall. It. Pr.

From the summit of power men no longer turn 30 their eyes upward, but begin to look about them. Lowell.

From the sum / Of duty, blooms sweeter and more divine / The fair ideal of the race, than comes / From glittering gains of learning. Lewis Morris.

From time to time in history men are born a whole age too soon. Emerson.

From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all. Emerson.

From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: / They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; / They are the books, the arts, the academes, / That show, contain, and nourish all the world; / Else none at all in aught proves excellent. Love's L. Lost, iv. 3.

From yon blue heaven above us bent, / The 35 grand old gardener and his wife / Smile at the claims of long descent. Tennyson.

Fromm, Klug, Weis, und Mild, gehört in des Adels Schild—The words pious, prudent, wise, and gentle are appropriately suitable on the shield of a noble. Ger. Pr.

Fromme Leute wohnen weit auseinander—Good people dwell far apart. Ger. Pr.

Frömmigkeit ist kein Zweck, sondern ein Mittel, um durch die reinste Gemüthsruhe zur höchsten Cultur zu gelangen—Piety is not an end, but a means to attain the highest culture through the purest peace of mind. Goethe.

Fronti nulla fides—There is no trusting external appearances (lit. features). Juv.

Frost and fraud both end in foul. Pr. 40

Frost is God's plough. Fuller.

Fructu non foliis arborem æstima—Judge of a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves. Phæd.

Frugality, and even avarice, in the lower orders of mankind are true ambition. These afford the only ladder for the poor to rise to preferment. Goldsmith.

Frugality is an estate. Pr.

Frugality is founded on the principle that all 45 riches have limits. Burke.

Frugality is good, if liberality be joined with it. Wm. Penn.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of prudence, the sister of temperance, and the parent of liberty. Johnson.

Fruges consumere nati—Born merely to consume the fruits of the earth. Hor.

Frühe Hochzeit, lange Liebe—Early marriage, long love. Ger. Pr.

Fruit is seed. Pr.

Frustra fit per plura, quod fieri potest per pauciora—It is vain to do by many agencies what may be done by few.

Frustra Herculi—In vain to speak against Hercules. 5 Pr.

Frustra laborat qui omnibus placere studet—He labours in vain who studies to please everybody. Pr.

Frustra retinacula tendens / Fertur equis auriga, neque audit currus habenas—In vain as he tugs at the reins is the charioteer borne along by the steeds, and the chariot heeds not the curb. Virg.

Frustra vitium vitaveris illud, / Si te alio pravus detorseris—In vain do you avoid one fault if you perversely turn aside into another. Hor.

Fugam fecit—He has taken to flight. L.

Fuge magna; licet sub paupere tecto / Reges 10 et regum vita præcurrere amicos—Shun grandeur; under a poor roof you may surpass even kings and the friends of kings in your life. Hor.

Fugere est triumphus—Flight (i.e., from temptation) is a triumph. Pr.

Fugit improbus, ac me / Sub cultro linquit—The wag runs away and leaves me with the knife at my throat, i.e., to be sacrificed. Hor.

Fugit irreparabile tempus—Time flies, never to be repaired. Virg.

Fühlst du dein Herz durch Hass von Menschen weggetrieben—/ Thu' ihnen Gutes! schnell wirst du sie wieder lieben—Shouldst thou feel thy heart repelled from men through hatred, do thou them good, soon shall thy love for them revive in thee. B. Paoli.

Fuimus—We have been. M. 15

Fuimus Troes, fuit Ilium, et ingens / Gloria Teucrorum—We Trojans are no more; Ilium is no more, and the great renown of the Teucri. Virg.

Fuit hæc sapientia quondam, / Publica privatis secernere, sacra profanis, / Concubitu prohibere vago, dare jura maritis, / Oppida moliri, leges incidere ligno—This of old was accounted wisdom, to separate public from private property, things sacred from profane, to restrain from vagrant concubinage, to ordain laws for married people, to build cities, to engrave laws on tablets. Hor.

Fuit Ilium—Troy was.

Fules are aye fond o' flittin'. Sc. Pr.

Fulgente trahit constrictos gloria curru, / Non 20 minus ignotos generosis—Glory draws all bound to her shining car, low-born and high-born alike. Hor.

Full little knowest thou that hast not tried / What hell it is in suing long to bide; / To lose good days that might be better spent, / To waste long nights in pensive discontent. Spenser.

Full many a day for ever is lost / By delaying its work till to-morrow; / The minutes of sloth have often cost / Long years of bootless sorrow. Eliza Cook.

Full many a gem of purest ray serene / The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear; / Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, / And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Gray.

Full many a stoic eye and aspect stern / Masks hearts where grief has little left to learn; / And many a withering thought lies hid, not lost, / In smiles that least befit who wears them most. Byron.

Full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing. 25 Macb., v. 5.

Full oft have letters caused the writers / To curse the day they were inditers. Butler.

Full of wise saws and modern instances. As You Like It, ii. 7.

Full seldom doth a man repent, or use / Both grace and will to pick the vicious quitch / Of blood and custom wholly out of him, / And make all clean, and plant himself afresh. Tennyson.

Full twenty times was Peter fear'd / For once that Peter was respected. Wordsworth.

Full vessels give the least sound. Pr. 30

Full wise is he that can himselven knowe. Chaucer.

Fully to possess and rule an object, one must first study it for its own sake. Goethe.

Fumos vendere—To sell smoke. Mart.

Fumum, et opes, strepitumque Romæ—The smoke, the wealth, and din of the town. Juv.

Functus officio—Having discharged his duties 35 and resigned.

Fundamentum est justitiæ fides—The foundation of justice is good faith. Cic.

Fungar vice cotis, acutum / Reddere quæ ferrum valet, exsors ipsa secandi—I will discharge the office of a whetstone, which can give an edge to iron, though it cannot cut itself. Hor.

Fürchterlich / Ist einer der nichts zu verlieren hat—Terrible is a man who has nothing to lose. Goethe.

Für den Dialektiker ist die Welt ein Begriff, für den Schöngeist ein Bild, für den Schwärmer ein Traum, für den Forscher Wahrheit—For the thinker the world is a thought; for the wit, an image; for the enthusiast, a dream; for the inquirer, truth. L. Büchner.

Für eine Nation ist nur das gut was aus ihrem 40 eignen Kern und ihrem eignen allgemeinen Bedürfniss hervorgegangen, ohne Nachäffung einer andern—Only that is good for a nation which issues from its own heart's core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another; since (it is added) what may to one people, at a certain stage, be wholesome nutriment, may perhaps prove a poison for another. Goethe.

Für einen Leichnam bin ich nicht zu Haus; / Mir geht es wie der Katze mit der Maus—For a dead one I am not at home; I am like the cat with the mouse. Goethe's Mephistopheles.

Für ewig ist ja nicht gestorben, was man für diese Welt begräbt—What is buried for this world is not for ever dead. K. v. Holtei.

Für Gerechte giebt es keine Gesetze—There are no laws for just men. Ger. Pr.

Furiosus absentis loco est—A madman is treated as one absent. Coke.

Furiosus furore suo punitur—A madman is punished 45 by his own madness. L.

Furor arma ministrat—Their rage finds them arms. Virg.

Furor fit læsa sæpius patientia—Patience, when outraged often, is converted into rage. Pr.

Furor iraque mentem præcipitant—Rage and anger hurry on the mind. Virg.

Furor loquendi—A rage for speaking.

Furor poëticus—The poet's frenzy.

Furor scribendi—A rage for writing.

Für seinen König muss das Volk sich opfern, / 5 Das ist das Schicksal und das Gesetz der Welt—For its chief must the clan sacrifice itself; that is the destiny and law of the world. Schiller.

Fürst Bismarck glaubt uns zu haben, und wir haben ihn—Prince Bismarck thinks he has us, and we have him. Socialist organ.

Fürsten haben lange Hände und viele Ohren—Princes have long hands and many ears. Ger. Pr.

Further I will not flatter you, / That all I see in you is worthy love, / Than this; that nothing do I see in you / That should merit hate. King John, ii. 2.

Fury wasteth, as patience lasteth. Pr.

Futurity is impregnable to mortal kin; no 10 prayer pierces through heaven's adamantine walls. Schiller.

Futurity is the great concern of mankind. Burke.

Futurity still shortens, and time present sucks in time to come. Sir Thomas Browne.

Fuyez les procès sur toutes les choses, la conscience s'y intéresse, la santé s'y altère, les biens s'y dissipent—Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. La Bruyère.