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