Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
know nothing, and for whom you care as little. Stanislaus.
Fame is the breath of popular applause. Herrick.
Fame is the perfume of noble deeds. Socrates.
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, / (That last infirmity of noble minds,) / To scorn delights and live laborious days. Milton.
Fame may be compared to a scold; the best way to silence her is to let her alone, and she will at last be out of breath in blowing her own trumpet. Fuller.
Fame only reflects the estimate in which a 25 man is held in comparison with others. Schopenhauer.
Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing. Fuller.
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else; very rarely to those who say to themselves, "Go to now, let us be a celebrated individual." Holmes.
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given; often it is but a false glare, dazzling the eyes of the vulgar, lending, by casual extrinsic splendour, the brightness and manifold glance of the diamond to pebbles of no value. Carlyle.
Fame with men, / Being but ampler means to serve mankind, / Should have small rest or pleasure in herself, / But work as vassal to the larger love, / That dwarfs the petty love of one to one. Tennyson.
Fames et mora bilem in nasum conciunt—Hunger 30 and delay stir up one's bile (lit. in the nostrils). Pr.
Fames, pestis, et bellum, populi sunt pernicies—Famine, pestilence, and war are the destruction of a people.
Familiare est hominibus omnia sibi ignoscere—It is common to man to pardon all his own faults.
Familiarity breeds contempt. Pr.
Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease. La Roche.
Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. 35 George Eliot.
Famine hath a sharp and meagre face. Dryden.
Fammi indovino, e ti farò ricco—Make me a prophet, and I will make you rich. It. Pr.
Fanaticism is a fire which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. Warburton.
Fanaticism is such an overwhelming impression of the ideas relating to the future world as disqualifies for the duties of this. R. Hall.
Fanaticism is to superstition what delirium is 40 to fever and rage to anger. Voltaire.
Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity. Gibbon.
Fanaticism, soberly defined, / Is the false fire of an o'erheated mind. Cowper.
Fancy is capricious; wit must not be searched for, and pleasantry will not come in at a call. Sterne.
Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Landor.
Fancy kills and fancy cures. Sc. Pr. 45
Fancy requires much, necessity but little. Ger. Pr.
Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain, which plays highest by diminishing the aperture. Goldsmith.
Fancy rules over two-thirds of the universe, the past and the future, while reality is confined to the present. Jean Paul.
Fancy runs most furiously when a guilty conscience drives it. Fuller.
Fancy surpasses beauty. Pr. 50
Fancy, when once brought into religion, knows not where to stop. Whately.
Fanfaronnade—Boasting. Fr.
Fanned fires and forced love ne'er did weel. Sc. Pr.
Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart, / How hard thy yoke! how cruel is thy dart! / Those 'scape thy anger who refuse thy sway, / And those are punished most who most obey. Prior.
Fantasy is of royal blood; the senses, of noble descent; and reason, of civic (bürgerlichen) origin. Feuerbach.
Fantasy is the true heaven-gate and hell-gate of man. Carlyle.
Far ahint maun follow the faster. Sc. Pr.
Far-awa fowls hae aye fair feathers. Sc. 5 Pr.
Far better it is to know everything of a little than a little of everything. Pickering.
Far frae court, far frae care. Sc. Pr.
Far from all resort of mirth / Save the cricket on the hearth. Milton.
Far from home is near to harm. Fris. Pr.
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, / 10 Their sober wishes never learned to stray; / Along the cool sequester'd vale of life / They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Gray.
Far greater numbers have been lost by hopes / Than all the magazines of daggers, ropes, / And other ammunitions of despair, / Were ever able to despatch by fear. Butler.
Far niente—A do-nothing.
Far-off cows have long horns. Gael. Pr.
Far-off fowls hae feathers fair, / And aye until ye try them; / Though they seem fair, still have a care, / They may prove waur than I am. Burns.
Far or forgot to me is near; / Shadow and 15 sunlight are the same; / The vanished gods to me appear; / And one to me are shame and fear. Emerson.
Fare, fac—Speak, do.
Fare thee well! and if for ever, / Still for ever fare thee well! / E'en though unforgiving, never / 'Gainst thee shall my heart rebel. Byron.
Fare you weel, auld Nickie-ben! / O wad ye tak' a thocht and men'! / Ye aiblins micht—I dinna ken—/ Still hae a stake: / I'm wae to think upo' yon den, / E'en for your sake. Burns.
Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness! / This is the state of man: to-day he puts forth / The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, / And bears his blushing honours thick upon him: / The third day comes a frost, a killing frost: / And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely / His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root / And then he falls, as I do. Hen. VIII., iii. 2.
Farewell! God knows when we shall meet 20 again. / I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins, / That almost freezes up the heat of life. Rom. and Jul., iv. 3.
Farewell, happy fields, / Where joy for ever dwells; hail, horror, hail! Milton.
Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! / Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars / That make ambition virtue! oh, farewell! / Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, / The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, / The royal banner, and all quality, / Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!