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