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