Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
is the greatest bond in the world. Jeremy Taylor.
Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; the reality always remains far apart from the ideal. Joseph Roux.
Friendship is the marriage of the soul. Voltaire.
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, 35 which strengthens with the setting sun of life. La Fontaine.
Friendship is too pure a pleasure for a mind cankered with ambition or the lust of power and grandeur. Junius.
Friendship, like love, is but a name, / Unless to one you stint the flame. Gay.
Friendship, like love, is self-forgetful. H. Giles.
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. Emerson.
Friendship made in a moment is of no moment. 40 Pr.
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship—never. Colton.
Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Emerson.
Friendship, unlike love, which is weakened by fruition, grows up, thrives, and increases by enjoyment; and being of itself spiritual, the soul is reformed by the habit of it. Montaigne.
Friendships are discovered rather than made. Mrs. Stowe.
Friendship's as it's kept. Gael. Pr. 45
Friendship's full of dregs. Timon of Athens, i. 2.
Friendships that are disproportioned ever terminate in disgust. Goldsmith.
Friendship's the privilege / Of private men. N. Tate.
Friendship's the wine of life; but friendship new is neither strong nor pure. Young.
Friendships which are born in misfortune are 50 more firm and lasting than those which are formed in happiness. D'Urfey.
Frigidam aquam effundere—To throw cold water on a business.
Frisch gewagt ist halb gewonnen—Boldly ventured is half done (won). Ger. Pr.
From a bad paymaster get what you can. Pr.
From a closed door the devil turns away. Port. Pr.
From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, / The hum of either army stilly sounds, / That the fix'd sentinels almost receive / The secret whispers of each other's watch; / Fire answers fire, and through their paly flames / Each battle sees the other's umber'd face; / Steed threatens steed in high and boastful neighs, / Piercing the night's dull ear, and from the tents / The armourers, accomplishing the knights, / With busy hammers closing rivets up, / Give dreadful note of preparation. Hen. V., iv. (chorus).
From every moral death there is a new birth; / in this wondrous course of his, man may indeed linger, but cannot retrograde or stand still. Carlyle.
From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite. Amiel.
From grave to gay, from lively to severe. Pope.
From great folks great favours are to be 5 expected. Cervantes.
From hand to mouth will never make a worthy man. Gael. Pr.
From hearing comes wisdom, from speaking repentance. Pr.
From Helicon's harmonious springs / A thousand rills their mazy progress take. Gray.
From his cradle / He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; / Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading; / Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, / But to those men who sought him, sweet as summer; / And to add greater honours to his age / Than man could give; he died fearing God. Hen. VIII., iv. 2.
From ignorance our comfort flows; / The only 10 wretched are the wise. Prior.
From kings and priests and statesmen war arose, / Whose safety is man's deep embittered woe, / Whose grandeur his debasement. Shelley.
From labour health, from health contentment springs. Beattie.
From lowest place where virtuous things proceed, / The place is dignified by the doer's deed. As You Like It, ii. 3.
From obedience and submission spring all other virtues, as all sin does from self-opinion. Montaigne.
From our ancestors come our names, from our 15 virtues our honours. Pr.
From out the throng and stress of lies, / From out the painful noise of sighs, / One voice of comfort seems to rise, / It is the meaner part that dies. Lewis Morris.
From pillar to post—originally from whipping-post to pillory, i.e. from bad to worse. Pr.
From saying "No," however cleverly, no good can come. Goethe.
From seeming evil still educing good. Thomson.
From servants hasting to be gods. Pollock. 20
From small beginnings come great things. Dut. Pr.
From stratagem to stratagem we run, / And he knows most who latest is undone; / An honest man will take a knave's advice, / But idiots only will be cozened twice. Dryden.
From the beginning and to the end of time, Love reads without letters and counts without arithmetic. Ruskin.
From the deepest desire oftentimes ensues the deadliest hate. Socrates.
From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we 25 tend, / Path, motive, guide, original and end. Johnson.
"From the height of these pyramids forty centuries look down on you." Napoleon to his troops in Egypt.
From the lowest depth there is a path to the loftiest height. Carlyle.
From the low prayer of want and plaint of woe / O never, never turn away thine ear! / Forlorn is this bleak wilderness below, / Ah! what were man should heaven refuse to hear! Beattie.
From the same flower the bee extracts honey and the wasp gall. It. Pr.
From the summit of power men no longer turn 30 their eyes upward, but begin to look about them. Lowell.
From the sum / Of duty, blooms sweeter and more divine / The fair ideal of the race, than comes / From glittering gains of learning. Lewis Morris.
From time to time in history men are born a whole age too soon. Emerson.
From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all. Emerson.
From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: / They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; / They are the books, the arts, the academes, / That show, contain, and nourish all the world; / Else none at all in aught proves excellent. Love's L. Lost, iv. 3.
From yon blue heaven