Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
to Lochaber, farewell to my Jean, / Where heartsome wi' thee I hae mony days been; / For Lochaber no more, Lochaber no more, / We'll maybe return to Lochaber no more. Allan Ramsay.
Fari quæ sentiat—To speak what he thinks. M.
Farmers are the founders of civilisation. 25 Daniel Webster.
Farrago libelli—The medley of that book of mine. Juv.
Fas est et ab hoste doceri—It is right to derive instruction even from an enemy. Ovid.
Fashionability is a kind of elevated vulgarity. G. Darley.
Fashion, a word which fools use, / Their knavery and folly to excuse. Churchill.
Fashion begins and ends in two things it 30 abhors most—singularity and vulgarity. Hazlitt.
Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting. Stedman.
Fashion is aristocratic-autocratic. J. G. Holland.
Fashion is, for the most part, nothing but the ostentation of riches. Locke.
Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity, and afraid to be overtaken by it. It is a sign that the two things are not far asunder. Hazlitt.
Fashion is the great governor of the world. 35 Fielding.
Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. Locke.
Fashion seldom interferes with Nature without diminishing her grace and efficiency. Tuckerman.
Fashion wears out more apparel than the man. Much Ado, iii. 3.
Fast and loose. Love's L. Lost, i. 1.
Fast bind, fast find. Pr. 40
Faster than his tongue / Did make offence, his eye did heal it up. As You Like It, iii. 5.
Fastidientis est stomachi multa degustare—Tasting so many dishes shows a dainty stomach. Sen.
Fasti et nefasti dies—Lucky and unlucky days.
Fat hens are aye ill layers. Sc. Pr.
Fat paunches make lean pates, and dainty 45 bits / Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits. Love's L. Lost, i. 1.
Fata obstant—The fates oppose it.
Fata volentem ducunt, nolentem trahunt—Fate leads the willing, and drags the unwilling.
Fate follows and limits power; power attends and antagonises fate; we must respect fate as natural history, but there is more than natural history. Emerson.
Fate hath no voice but the heart's impulses. Schiller.
Fate is a distinguished but an expensive tutor. 50 Goethe.
Fate is character. W. Winter.
Fate is ever better than design. Thos. Doubleday.
Fate is known to us as limitations. Emerson.
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a former state of existence. Hindu saying.
Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad. W. R. Alger.
Fate is unpenetrated causes. Emerson.
Fate leads the willing, but drives the stubborn. Pr.
Fate made me what I am, may make me nothing; / But either that or nothing must I be; / I will not live degraded. Byron.
Fate steals along with silent tread, / Found 5 oftenest in what least we dread; / Frowns in the storm with angry brow, / But in the sunshine strikes the blow. Cowper.
Fatetur facinus is qui judicium fugit—He who shuns a trial confesses his guilt. L.
Father of all! in every age, / In every clime adored, / By saint, by savage, and by sage, / Jehovah, Jove, or Lord. Pope.
Fathers alone a father's heart can know, / What secret tides of sweet enjoyment flow / When brothers love! But if their hate succeeds, / They wage the war, but 'tis the father bleeds. Young.
Fathers first enter bonds to Nature's ends; / And are her sureties ere they are a friend's. George Herbert.
Fathers that wear rags / Do make their children 10 blind; / But fathers that wear bags / Do make their children kind. King Lear, ii. 4.
Fathers their children and themselves abuse / That wealth a husband for their daughters choose. Shirley.
Fatigatis humus cubile est—To the weary the bare ground is a bed. Curt.
Fatta la legge, trovata la malizia—As soon as a law is made its evasion is found out. It. Pr.
Faulheit ist der Schlüssel zur Armuth—Sloth is the key to poverty. Ger. Pr.
Faulheit ist Dummheit des Körpers, und 15 Dummheit Faulheit des Geistes—Sluggishness is stupidity of body, and stupidity sluggishness of spirit. Seume.
Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null. Tennyson.
Faults are beauties in lover's eyes. Theocritus.
Faults are thick when love is thin. Pr.
Faute de grives le diable mange des merles—For want of thrushes the devil eats blackbirds. Fr. Pr.
Faux pas—A false step. Fr. 20
Favete linguis—Favour with words of good omen (lit. by your tongues). Ovid.
Favourable chance is the god of all men who follow their own devices instead of obeying a law they believe in. George Eliot.
Favour and gifts disturb justice. Dan. Pr.
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Bible.
Favours, and especially pecuniary ones, are 25 generally fatal to friendship. Hor. Smith.
Favours unused are favours abused. Sc. Pr.
Fax mentis honestæ gloria—Glory is the torch of an honourable mind. M.
Fax mentis incendium gloriæ—The flame of glory is the torch of the mind. M.
Fay ce que voudras—Do as you please. M.
Fear always springs from ignorance. Emerson. 30
Fear and sorrow are the true characters and inseparable companions of most melancholy. Burton.
Fear can keep a man out of danger, but courage only can support him in it. Pr.
Fear God