Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
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