=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._