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