Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
apportions impartially to high and low alike. Hor.
Æquam memento rebus in arduis / Servare mentem, non secus in bonis / Ab insolenti temperatam / Lætitiâ—Be sure to preserve an unruffled mind in adversity, as well as one restrained from immoderate joy in prosperity. Hor.
Æquam servare mentem—To preserve an even temper. M.
Æquanimiter—With equanimity. M. 15
Æqua tellus / Pauperi recluditur / Regumque pueris—The impartial earth opens alike for the child of the pauper and of the king. Hor.
Æquo animo—With an even or equable mind. M.
Æquum est / Peccatis veniam poscentem reddere rursus—It is fair that he who begs to be forgiven should in turn forgive. Hor.
Ære perennius—More enduring than brass. Hor.
Ærugo animi, rubigo ingenii—Rust, viz., idleness, 20 of mind is the blight of genius, i.e., natural capability of every kind.
Æs debitorem leve, gravius inimicum facit—A slight debt makes a man your debtor; a heavier one, your enemy. Laber.
Ætatem non tegunt tempora—Our temples do not conceal our age.
Æternum inter se discordant—They are eternally at variance with each other. Ter.
Ævo rarissima nostro simplicitas—Simplicity a very rare thing now-a-days. Ovid.
A fact is a great thing: a sentence printed, 25 if not by God, then at least by the Devil. Carlyle.
A fact in our lives is valuable, not so far as it is true, but as it is significant. Goethe.
A facto ad jus non datur consequentia—Inference from the fact to the law is not legitimate. L. Max.
"A fair day's wages for a fair day's work," is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing; yet in what corner of this planet was that ever realised? Carlyle.
A fair face may hide a foul heart. Pr.
A faithful friend is a true image of the Deity. 30 Napoleon.
A fault confessed is half redressed. Pr.
A favour does not consist in the service done, but in the spirit of the man who confers it. Sen.
A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind. Garrick.
A fellow who speculates is like an animal on a barren heath, driven round and round by an evil spirit, while there extends on all sides of him a beautiful green meadow-pasture. Goethe.
"A few strong instincts and a few plain rules" 35 suffice us. Emerson, from Wordsworth.
Affaire d'amour—A love affair. Fr.
Affaire d'honneur—An affair of honour; a duel. Fr.
Affaire du cœur—An affair of the heart. Fr.
Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed. Guicciardini.
Affection lights a brighter flame / Than ever 40 blazed by art. Cowper.
Affirmatim—In the affirmative.
Afflavit Deus et dissipantur—God sent forth his breath, and they are scattered. Inscription on medal struck to commemorate the destruction of the Spanish Armada.
Afflictions are blessings in disguise. Pr.
A fiery soul, which, working out its way / Fretted the pigmy body to decay. Dryden.
A fin—To the end. 45
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool. J. Roux.
A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism. Victor Hugo.
A flute lay side by side with Frederick the Great's baton of command. Jean Paul.
A fly is as untamable as a hyena. Emerson.
A fog cannot be dispelled with a fan. Japan. Pr. 50
A fond—Thoroughly (lit. to the bottom).
A fonte puro pura defluit aqua—From a pure spring pure water flows. Pr.
A fortiori—With stronger reason.
A fool always accuses other people; a partially wise man, himself; a wholly wise man, neither himself nor others. Herder.
A fool always finds a greater fool to admire 55 him. Boileau.
A fool and his money are soon parted. Pr.
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. Bulwer.
A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible. Colton.
A fool is wise in his own conceit. Pr.
A fool knows more in his own house than a 60 wise man in another's. Pr.
A fool may give a wise man counsel. Pr.
A fool may make money, but it takes a wise man to spend it. Pr.
A fool may sometimes have talent, but he never has judgment. La Roche.
A fool may speer (ask) mair questions than a wise man can answer. Sc. Pr.
A fool resents good counsel, but a wise man 65 lays it to heart. Confucius.
A fool's bolt is soon shot. Hen. V., iii. 7.
A fool's bolt may sometimes hit the mark. Pr.
A fool when he is silent is counted wise. Pr.
A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like a hack-horse setting out to gallop. Chamfort.
A fop is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool, and his own foe. Lavater.
A force de mal aller tout ira bien—By dint of going wrong all will go right. Fr. Pr.
A force de peindre le diable sur les murs, il finit par apparaître en personne—If you keep painting the devil on the walls, he will by and by appear to you in person. Fr. Pr.
A friend in court makes the process short. Pr. 5
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Emerson.
A friend is never known till needed. Pr.
A friend loveth at all times. Bible.
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature. Emerson.
A friend's eye is a good looking-glass. Gael. Pr. 10
A friendship will be young at the