For the rain it raineth every day. Lear, iii. 2.
For there's nae luck aboot the hoose, / There's 20 nae luck ava', / There's little pleesure in the hoose / When oor guidman's awa'. W. J. Mickle.
For there was never yet philosopher / That could endure the toothache patiently. Much Ado, v. 1.
For the sake of one good action a hundred evil actions should be condoned. Chinese Pr.
For the son of man there is no noble crown, well-worn or even ill-worn, but is a crown of thorns. Carlyle.
For the true the price is paid before you enjoy it; for the false, after you enjoy it. John Foster.
For the world was built in order, / And the 25 atoms march in tune; / Rhyme the pipe, and the Time the warder, / The sun obeys them and the moon. Emerson.
For they can conquer who believe they can. Dryden.
For 'tis a truth well known to most, / That whatsoever thing is lost, / We seek it, ere it comes to light, / In every cranny but the right. Cowper.
For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich: / And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, / So honour peereth in the meanest habit. Tam. of Shrew, iv. 3.
For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion. Bible.
For to see and eek for to be seye. Chaucer. 30
For truth has such a face and such a mien, / As to be loved needs only to be seen. Dryden.
For truth is precious and divine, / Too rich a pearl for carnal swine. Butler.
For use almost can change the stamp of Nature, / And either curb the devil or throw him out / With wondrous potency. Ham., iii. 4.
For us, the winds do blow, / The earth doth rest, heaven move, and fountains flow; / Nothing we see but means our good, / As our delight, or as our treasure; / The whole is either our cupboard of food, / Or cabinet of pleasure. George Herbert.
For virtue's sake I am here; but if a man, 35 for his task, forgets and sacrifices all, why shouldst not thou? Jean Paul.
For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; / The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. Pope.
For want of a block a man will stumble at a straw. Swift.
For want of a nail the shoe was lost, for want of a shoe the horse was lost, and for want of a horse the rider was lost. Ben. Franklin.
For wealth is all things that conduce / To man's destruction or his use; / A standard both to buy and sell / All things from heaven down to hell. Butler.
For what are men who grasp at praise sublime, / 40 But bubbles on the rapid stream of time, / That rise and fall, that swell and are no more, / Born and forgot, ten thousand in an hour. Young.
For what are they all in their high conceit, / When man in the bush with God may meet? Emerson.
For what thou hast not, still thou striv'st to get, / And what thou hast, forgetst. Meas. for Meas., iii. 1.
For when disputes are wearied out, / 'Tis interest still resolves the doubt. Butler.
For where is any author in the world / Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye? Love's L. Lost, iv. 3.
For while a youth is lost in soaring thought, / 45 And while a mind grows sweet and beautiful, / And while a spring-tide coming lights the earth, / And while a child, and while a flower is born, / And while one wrong cries for redress and finds / A soul to answer, still the world is young. Lewis Morris.
For whom ill is fated, him it will strike. Gael. Pr.
For whom the heart of man shuts out, / Straightway the heart of God takes in, / And fences them all round about / With silence 'mid the world's loud din. Lowell.
For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, / This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, / Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, / Nor cast one longing lingering look behind? Gray.
For who would lose, / Though full of pain, this intellectual being, / Those thoughts that wander through eternity; / To perish rather, swallowed up and lost, / In the wide womb of uncreated night? Milton.
For wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it. 1 Henry IV., i. 2.
For youth no less becomes / The light and 5 careless livery that it wears, / Than settled age his sables and his weeds, / Importing health and graveness. Ham., iv. 7.
Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. 2 Hen. VI., iii. 3.
Forbearance is not acquittance. Ger. Pr.
Forbid a fool do a thing, and that he will do. Sc. Pr.
Forbidden fruit is sweetest. Pr.
Force and right rule everything in this world; 10 force till right is ready. Joubert. (?)
Force can never annul right. Berryer.
Force is no argument. John Bright.
Forced love does not last. Dut. Pr.
Forced prayers are no gude for the soul. Sc. Pr.
Force n'a pas droit—Might knows no right. 15 Fr. Pr.
Force rules the world, and not opinion, but opinion is that which makes use of force. Pascal.
Force without forecast is of little avail. Pr.
Foresight is indeed necessary in trusting, but still more necessary in distrusting. Cötvös.
Forewarned, forearmed. Cervantes.
Forget the hours of thy distress, but never 20 forget what they taught thee. Gessner.
Forget thyself to marble. Milton.
Forgetting of a wrong is a mild revenge. Pr.
Forgetting one's self, or knowing one's self, around these everything turns. Auerbach.
Forgiveness is better than revenge; for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge the sign of a savage nature. Epictetus.
Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not 25 ointment to the wound of an oppressor. Saadi.
Forgiveness is the divinest of victories. Schiller.
Forgiveness to the injured does belong, / But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong. Dryden.
Forgiveness is not forgotten. Ger. Pr.
Forgotten pains, when follow gains. Sc. Pr.
Forma bonum fragile est—Beauty is a fragile 30 good. Ovid.
Forma viros neglecta decet—Neglect of appearance becomes men. Ovid.
Formerly it was the fashion to preach the natural; now it is the ideal. Schlegel.
Formerly the richest countries were those in which Nature was most bountiful; now the richest countries are those in which man is most active. Buckle.
Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war. Bovee.
Formidabilior cervorum exercitus, duce leone, 35 quam leonum cervo—An army of stags would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than one of lions commanded by a stag. Pr.
Formosa facies muta commendatio est—A handsome face is a mute recommendation. Pub. Syr.
Formosos sæpe inveni pessimos, / Et turpi facie multos cognovi optimos—I have often found good-looking people to be very base, and I have known many ugly people most estimable. Phæd.
Forms which grow round a substance will be true, good; forms which are consciously put round a substance, bad. Carlyle.
Formulas are the very skin and muscular tissue of a man's life; and a most blessed indispensable thing, so long as they have vitality withal, and are a living skin and tissue to him. Carlyle.
Forsake not God till you find a better maister. 40 Sc. Pr.
Forsan et hæc olim meminisse juvabit; Durate, et vosmet rebus servate secundis—Perhaps it will be a delight to us some day to recall these misfortunes. Bear them, therefore, and reserve yourselves for better times. Virg.
Forsan miseros meliora sequentur—Perhaps a better fortune awaits the unhappy. Virg.
Fors et virtus miscentur in unum—Fortune and valour are blended into one. Virg.
Forte è l'aceto di vin dolce—Strong is vinegar from sweet wine. It. Pr.
Forte et fidele—Strong and loyal. M. 45
Fortem facit vicina libertas senem—The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave. Sen.
Fortem posce animum mortis terrore carentem, / Qui spatium vitæ extremum inter munera ponat / Naturæ—Pray for a strong soul free from the fear of death, which regards the final period of life among the gifts of Nature. Juv.
Fortes creantur fortibus et bonis: / Est in juvencis, est in equis patrum / Virtus, nec imbellem feroces / Progenerant aquilæ columbam—Brave men are generated by brave and good: there is in steers and in horses the virtue of their sires, nor does the fierce eagle beget the unwarlike dove. Hor.
Forte scutum salus ducum—The safety of leaders is a strong shield. M.
Fortes fortuna adjuvat—Fortune assists the 50 brave. Ter.
Fortes in fine assequendo et suaves in modo assequendi simus—Let us be resolute in prosecuting our purpose and mild in the manner of attaining it. Aquaviva.
Forti et fideli nihil difficile—To the brave and true nothing is difficult. M.
Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience. Sir P. Sidney.
Fortify yourself with moderation; for this is an impregnable fortress. Epictetus.
Fortior et potentior est dispositio legis quam hominis—The disposition of the law is stronger and more potent than that of man. L.
Fortis cadere, cedere non potest—A brave man may fall, but cannot yield. M.
Fortis et constantis animi est, non perturbari in rebus asperis—It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances. Cic.
Fortis sub forte fatiscet—A brave man will yield to a brave. M.
Fortiter et recte—Courageously and honourably. 5 M.
Fortiter ferendo vincitur malum quod evitari non potest—By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome. Pr.
Fortiter, fideliter, feliciter—Boldly, faithfully, successfully. M.
Fortiter geret crucem—He will bravely support the cross. M.
Fortiter in re, suaviter in modo—Vigorous and resolute in deed, gentle in manner.
Fortitude is the guard and support of the 10 other virtues. Locke.
Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armour of the will, and the fort of reason. Bacon.
Fortitude is to be seen in toils and dangers; temperance in the denial of sensual pleasures; prudence in the choice between good and evil; justice in awarding to every one his due. Cic.
Fortitude rises upon an opposition; and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped. Jeremy Collier.
Fortitudini—For bravery. M.
Fortuito quodam concursu atomorum—Certain 15 fortuitous concourse of atoms. Cic.
Fortunæ cætera mando—I commit the rest to fortune. Ovid.
Fortunæ filius—A child or favourite of fortune. Hor.
Fortunæ majoris honos, erectus et acer—An honour to his elevated station, upright and brave. Claud.
Fortuna favet fatuis—Fortune favours fools. Pr.
Fortuna favet fortibus—Fortune favours the 20 brave. Pr.
Fortuna magna magna domino est servitus—A great fortune is a great slavery to its owner. Pub. Syr.
Fortunam debet quisque manere suam—Every one ought to live within his means. Ovid.
Fortuna meliores sequitur—Fortune befriends the better man. Sall.
Fortuna miserrima tuta est—A very poor fortune is safe. Ovid.
Fortuna multis dat nimium, nulli satis—To 25 many fortune gives too much, to none enough. Mart.
Fortuna nimium quem fovet, stultum facit—Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much. Pub. Syr.
Fortuna non mutat genus—Fortune does not change nature. Hor.
Fortuna obesse nulli contenta est semel—Fortune is not content to do one an ill turn only once. Pub. Syr.
Fortuna opes auferre, non animum potest—Fortune may bereave us of wealth, but not of courage. Sen.
Fortuna parvis momentis magnas rerum commutationes 30 efficit—Fortune in brief moments works great changes in our affairs.
Fortuna sequatur—Let fortune follow. M.
Fortunato omne solum patria est—To a favourite of fortune every land is his country.
Fortunatas et ille deos qui novit agrestes—Happy the man who knows the rural gods. Virg.
Fortunatus' purse—A purse which supplies you with all you wish.
Fortuna vitrea est, tum cum splendet frangitur—Fortune 35 is like glass; while she shines she is broken. Pub. Syr.
Fortune brings in some boats that are ill-steered. Cymbeline, iv. 3.
Fortune can take from us nothing but what she gave. Pr.
Fortune does not change men; it only unmasks them. Mme. Riccoboni.
Fortune favours the brave, as the old proverb says, but forethought much more. Cic.
Fortune has rarely condescended to be the 40 companion of genius. Isaac Disraeli.
Fortune hath something of the nature of a woman, who, if she be too closely wooed, goes commonly the farther off. Charles V.
Fortune is like a mirror—it does not alter men; it only shows men just as they are. Billings.
Fortune is like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. Bacon.
Fortune is merry, and in this mood will give us anything. Jul. Cæs., iii. 2.
Fortune is not content to do a man one ill 45 turn. Bacon.
Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave. Lowell.
Fortune makes folly her peculiar care. Churchill.
Fortune makes him a fool whom she makes her darling. Bacon.
Fortune often knocks at the door, but the fool does not invite her in. Dan. Pr.
Fortune reigns in the gifts of the world, not in 50 the lineaments of nature. As You Like It, i. 2.
Fortune! There is no fortune; all is trial, or punishment, or recompense, or foresight. Voltaire.
Fortune turns round like a mill-wheel, and he that was yesterday at the top lies to-day at the bottom. Sp. Pr.
Forward, forward let us range, / Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Tennyson.
Forwardness spoils manners. Gael. Pr.
Foster the beautiful, and every hour thou 55 callest new flowers to birth. Schiller.
Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets; / But gold that's put to use, more gold begets. Shakespeare.
Foul deeds will rise, / Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes. Ham., i. 2.
Fou (full) o' courtesy, fou o' craft. Sc. Pr.
Four eyes see more than two. Pr.
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. Napoleon.
Foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head. Jesus.
Foy est tout—Faith is everything. M.
Foy pour devoir—Faith for duty. Old Fr.
Frae saving comes having. Sc. Pr. 5
Fragili quærens illidere dentem / Offendet solido—Trying to fix her tooth in some tender part, / Envy will strike against the solid. Hor.
Fraile que pide por Dios pide por dos—The friar who begs for God begs for two. Sp. Pr.
Frailty, thy name is woman. Ham., i. 2.
Frame your mind to mirth and merriment, / Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life. Tam. of Sh., Ind. 2.
Frangas, non flectes—You may break, but you 10 will not bend me.
Frappe fort—Strike hard. M.
Fraternité ou la Mort—Fraternity or death. The watchword of the first French Revolution. Fr.
Frauen, richtet nur nie des Mannes einzelne Thaten; / Aber über den Mann sprechet das richtende Wort—Women, judge ye not the individual acts of the man; the word that pronounces judgment is above the man. Schiller.
Frauen und Jungfrauen soll man loben, es sei wahr oder erlogen—Truly or falsely, women and maidens must be praised. Ger. Pr.
Fraus est celare fraudem—It is a fraud to conceal 15 fraud. L.
Frau und Mond leuchten mit fremden Licht—Madame and the moon shine with borrowed light. Ger. Pr.
Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, the other of vice, and both are acts of the will. Epictetus.
Freedom and whisky gang thegither! / Tak' aff your dram. Burns.
Freedom consists not in refusing to recognise anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us. Goethe.
Freedom exists only with power. Schiller. 20
Freedom has a thousand charms to show, / That slaves, howe'er contented, never know. Cowper.
Freedom is a new religion—the religion of our time. Heine.
Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge. C. A. Bartol.
Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect. Ruskin.
Freedom is only in the land of dreams, and the 25 beautiful only blooms in song. Schiller.
Freedom is the eternal youth of nations. Gen. Foy.
Freedom's sun cannot set so long as smiths hammer iron. C. M. Arndt.
Free governments have committed more flagrant acts of tyranny than the most perfect despotic governments which we have ever known. Burke.
Free-livers on a small scale, who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea. W. Irving.
Freends are like fiddle-strings; they maunna 30 be screwed ower tight. Sc. Pr.
Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all. Sterne.
Free 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.
Friendship 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 above us bent, / The 35 grand old gardener and his wife / Smile at the claims of long descent. Tennyson.
Fromm, Klug, Weis, und Mild, gehört in des Adels Schild—The words pious, prudent, wise, and gentle are appropriately suitable on the shield of a noble. Ger. Pr.
Fromme Leute wohnen weit auseinander—Good people dwell far apart. Ger. Pr.
Frömmigkeit ist kein Zweck, sondern ein Mittel, um durch die reinste Gemüthsruhe zur höchsten Cultur zu gelangen—Piety is not an end, but a means to attain the highest culture through the purest peace of mind. Goethe.
Fronti nulla fides—There is no trusting external appearances (lit. features). Juv.
Frost and fraud both end in foul. Pr. 40
Frost is God's plough. Fuller.
Fructu non foliis arborem æstima—Judge of a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves. Phæd.
Frugality, and even avarice, in the lower orders of mankind are true ambition. These afford the only ladder for the poor to rise to preferment. Goldsmith.
Frugality is an estate. Pr.
Frugality is founded on the principle that all 45 riches have limits. Burke.
Frugality is good, if liberality be joined with it. Wm. Penn.
Frugality may be termed the daughter of prudence, the sister of temperance, and the parent of liberty. Johnson.
Fruges consumere nati—Born merely to consume the fruits of the earth. Hor.
Frühe Hochzeit, lange Liebe—Early marriage, long love. Ger. Pr.
Fruit is seed. Pr.
Frustra fit per plura, quod fieri potest per pauciora—It is vain to do by many agencies what may be done by few.
Frustra Herculi—In vain to speak against Hercules. 5 Pr.
Frustra laborat qui omnibus placere studet—He labours in vain who studies to please everybody. Pr.
Frustra retinacula tendens / Fertur equis auriga, neque audit currus habenas—In vain as he tugs at the reins is the charioteer borne along by the steeds, and the chariot heeds not the curb. Virg.
Frustra vitium vitaveris illud, / Si te alio pravus detorseris—In vain do you avoid one fault if you perversely turn aside into another. Hor.
Fugam fecit—He has taken to flight. L.
Fuge magna; licet sub paupere tecto / Reges 10 et regum vita præcurrere amicos—Shun grandeur; under a poor roof you may surpass even kings and the friends of kings in your life. Hor.
Fugere est triumphus—Flight (i.e., from temptation) is a triumph. Pr.
Fugit improbus, ac me / Sub cultro linquit—The wag runs away and leaves me with the knife at my throat, i.e., to be sacrificed. Hor.
Fugit irreparabile tempus—Time flies, never to be repaired. Virg.
Fühlst du dein Herz durch Hass von Menschen weggetrieben—/ Thu' ihnen Gutes! schnell wirst du sie wieder lieben—Shouldst thou feel thy heart repelled from men through hatred, do thou them good, soon shall thy love for them revive in thee. B. Paoli.
Fuimus—We have been. M. 15
Fuimus Troes, fuit Ilium, et ingens / Gloria Teucrorum—We Trojans are no more; Ilium is no more, and the great renown of the Teucri. Virg.
Fuit hæc sapientia quondam, / Publica privatis secernere, sacra profanis, / Concubitu prohibere vago, dare jura maritis, / Oppida moliri, leges incidere ligno—This of old was accounted wisdom, to separate public from private property, things sacred from profane, to restrain from vagrant concubinage, to ordain laws for married people, to build cities, to engrave laws on tablets. Hor.
Fuit Ilium—Troy was.
Fules are aye fond o' flittin'. Sc. Pr.
Fulgente trahit constrictos gloria curru, / Non 20 minus ignotos generosis—Glory draws all bound to her shining car, low-born and high-born alike. Hor.
Full little knowest thou that hast not tried / What hell it is in suing long to bide; / To lose good days that might be better spent, / To waste long nights in pensive discontent. Spenser.
Full many a day for ever is lost / By delaying its work till to-morrow; / The minutes of sloth have often cost / Long years of bootless sorrow. Eliza Cook.
Full many a gem of purest ray serene / The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear; / Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, / And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Gray.
Full many a stoic eye and aspect stern / Masks hearts where grief has little left to learn; / And many a withering thought lies hid, not lost, / In smiles that least befit who wears them most. Byron.
Full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing. 25 Macb., v. 5.
Full oft have letters caused the writers / To curse the day they were inditers. Butler.
Full of wise saws and modern instances. As You Like It, ii. 7.
Full seldom doth a man repent, or use / Both grace and will to pick the vicious quitch / Of blood and custom wholly out of him, / And make all clean, and plant himself afresh. Tennyson.
Full twenty times was Peter fear'd / For once that Peter was respected. Wordsworth.
Full vessels give the least sound. Pr. 30
Full wise is he that can himselven knowe. Chaucer.
Fully to possess and rule an object, one must first study it for its own sake. Goethe.
Fumos vendere—To sell smoke. Mart.
Fumum, et opes, strepitumque Romæ—The smoke, the wealth, and din of the town. Juv.
Functus officio—Having discharged his duties 35 and resigned.
Fundamentum est justitiæ fides—The foundation of justice is good faith. Cic.
Fungar vice cotis, acutum / Reddere quæ ferrum valet, exsors ipsa secandi—I will discharge the office of a whetstone, which can give an edge to iron, though it cannot cut itself. Hor.
Fürchterlich / Ist einer der nichts zu verlieren hat—Terrible is a man who has nothing to lose. Goethe.
Für den Dialektiker ist die Welt ein Begriff, für den Schöngeist ein Bild, für den Schwärmer ein Traum, für den Forscher Wahrheit—For the thinker the world is a thought; for the wit, an image; for the enthusiast, a dream; for the inquirer, truth. L. Büchner.
Für eine Nation ist nur das gut was aus ihrem 40 eignen Kern und ihrem eignen allgemeinen Bedürfniss hervorgegangen, ohne Nachäffung einer andern—Only that is good for a nation which issues from its own heart's core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another; since (it is added) what may to one people, at a certain stage, be wholesome nutriment, may perhaps prove a poison for another. Goethe.
Für einen Leichnam bin ich nicht zu Haus; / Mir geht es wie der Katze mit der Maus—For a dead one I am not at home; I am like the cat with the mouse. Goethe's Mephistopheles.
Für ewig ist ja nicht gestorben, was man für diese Welt begräbt—What is buried for this world is not for ever dead. K. v. Holtei.
Für Gerechte giebt es keine Gesetze—There are no laws for just men. Ger. Pr.
Furiosus absentis loco est—A madman is treated as one absent. Coke.
Furiosus furore suo punitur—A madman is punished 45 by his own madness. L.
Furor arma ministrat—Their rage finds them arms. Virg.
Furor fit læsa sæpius patientia—Patience, when outraged often, is converted into rage. Pr.
Furor iraque mentem præcipitant—Rage and anger hurry on the mind. Virg.
Furor loquendi—A rage for speaking.
Furor poëticus—The poet's frenzy.
Furor scribendi—A rage for writing.
Für seinen König muss das Volk sich opfern, / 5 Das ist das Schicksal und das Gesetz der Welt—For its chief must the clan sacrifice itself; that is the destiny and law of the world. Schiller.
Fürst Bismarck glaubt uns zu haben, und wir haben ihn—Prince Bismarck thinks he has us, and we have him. Socialist organ.
Fürsten haben lange Hände und viele Ohren—Princes have long hands and many ears. Ger. Pr.
Further I will not flatter you, / That all I see in you is worthy love, / Than this; that nothing do I see in you / That should merit hate. King John, ii. 2.
Fury wasteth, as patience lasteth. Pr.
Futurity is impregnable to mortal kin; no 10 prayer pierces through heaven's adamantine walls. Schiller.
Futurity is the great concern of mankind. Burke.
Futurity still shortens, and time present sucks in time to come. Sir Thomas Browne.
Fuyez les procès sur toutes les choses, la conscience s'y intéresse, la santé s'y altère, les biens s'y dissipent—Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. La Bruyère.
Gäb es keine Narren, so gäb es keine Weisen—Were there no fools, there would be no wise men. Ger. Pr.
Gaieté de cœur—Gaiety of heart. Fr. 15
Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair. Chapin.
Gaiety is the soul's health; sadness is its poison. Stanislaus.
Gaiety overpowers weak spirits; good-humour recreates and revives them. Johnson.
Gaiety pleases more when we are assured that it does not cover carelessness. Mme. de Staël.
Gain at the expense of reputation should be 20 called loss. Pub. Syr.
'Gainst the tooth of time / And rasure of oblivion. Meas. for Meas., v. 1.
Galea spes salutis—Hope is the helmet of salvation. M.
Galeatum sero duelli pœnitet—After donning the helmet it is too late to repent of war, i.e., after enlistment. Juv.
Gallantry thrives most in a court atmosphere. Mme. Necker.
Gallicè—In French. 25
Gallus in sterquilinio suo plurimum potest—The cock is proudest on his own dunghill. Pr.
Gambling is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality. Colton.
Gambling with cards, or dice, or stocks, is all one thing; it is getting money without giving an equivalent for it. Ward Beecher.
Game is a civil gunpowder, in peace / Blowing up houses with their whole increase. Herbert.
[Greek: Gamein ho mellôn eis metanoian erchetai]—He 30 who is about to marry is on the way to repentance. Gr. Pr.
Games of chance are traps to catch school-boy novices and gaping country squires, who begin with a guinea and end with a mortgage. Cumberland.
Gaming finds a man a cully and leaves him a knave. T. Hughes.
Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui; it is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment, but, like other stimuli, it produces indirect debility. Colton.
Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady her modesty. Marchioness d'Alembert.
Gammel Mands Sagn er sielden usand—An 35 old man's sayings are rarely untrue. Dan. Pr.
[Greek: Gamos gar anthrôpoisin euktaion kakon]—Marriage is an evil men are eager to embrace. Men.
Gang to bed wi' the lamb and rise wi' the laverock (lark). Sc. Pr.
Garçon—A boy; a waiter. Fr.
Garde à cheval—Horse-guards; mounted guard. Fr.
Garde à pied—Foot-guards. Fr. 40
Garde à vous—Attention. Fr.
Garde-chasse—Gamekeeper. Fr.
Garde du corps—A bodyguard. Fr.
Garde-feu—A fire-guard. Fr.
Garde-fou—A hand-rail. Fr. 45
Gardez—Keep it. Fr.
Gardez bien—Take care. Fr.
Gardez cela pour la bonne bouche—Keep that for a tit-bit. Fr. Pr.
Gardez la foi—Guard the faith. M.
Garments that have once a rent in them are 50 subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is a good man's name once tainted with just reproach. Bp. Hall.
Garrit aniles / Ex re fabellas—He relates old women's tales very apropos. Hor.
Gar Vieles lernt man, um es wieder zu vergessen; / Um an den Ziel zu stehen, muss man die Bahn durchmessen—Much we learn only to forget it again; to stand by the goal, we must traverse all the way to it. Rückert.
Gâteau et mauvaise coutume se doivent rompre—A cake and a bad custom are fated to be broken. Fr. Pr.
Gâter une chandelle pour trouver une épingle—To waste a candle to find a pin. Fr. Pr.
Gather gear by every wile that's justified by 55 honour; / Not for to hide it in a hedge, nor for a train attendant; / But for the glorious privilege of being independent. Burns.
Gather the rosebuds while ye may, / Old Time is still a-flying, / And this same flower that smiles to-day, / To-morrow will be dying. Herrick.
Gathering gear (wealth) is pleasant pain. Sc. Pr.
Gathering her brows like gathering storm, / Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. Burns.
Gato maullador nunca buen cazador—A mewing cat is never a good mouser. Sp. Pr.
Gaude, Maria Virgo—Rejoice, Virgin Mary.
Gaudeamus—Let us have a joyful time.
Gaudent prænomine molles / Auriculæ—His delicate ears are delighted with a title. Hor.
Gaudet equis, canibusque, et aprici gramine 5 campi—He delights in horses, and dogs, and the grass of the sunny plain. Hor.
Gaudet tentamine virtus—Virtue rejoices in being put to the test.
Gaudetque viam fecisse ruina—He rejoices at having made his way by ruin. Lucan, of Julius Cæsar.
Gave / His body to that pleasant country's earth, / And his pure soul unto his captain Christ, / Under whose colours he had fought so long. Rich. II., iv. 1.
Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, / Less pleasing when possest; / The tear forgot as soon as shed, / The sunshine of the breast. Gray.
Gear is easier gained than guided. Pr. 10
Geben ist Sache des Reichen—Giving is the business of the rich. Goethe.
Gebrade duijven vliegen niet door de lucht—Roasted pigeons don't fly through the air. Dut. Pr.
Gebratene Tauben, die einem im Maul fliegen?—Do pigeons fly ready-roasted into one's mouth? Ger. Pr.
Gebraucht der Zeit, sie geht so schnell von hinnen, / Doch Ordnung lehrt euch Zeit gewinnen—Make the most of time, it glides away so fast; but order teaches you to gain time. Goethe.
Gebt ihr ein Stück, so gebt es gleich in Stücken—If 15 your aim is to give a piece, be sure you give it in pieces. Goethe.
Gedanken sind zollfrei, aber nicht höllenfrei—Thoughts are toll-free, but not hell-free. Ger. Pr.
Gedenke zu leben—Think of living. Goethe.
Gedichte sind gemalde Fensterscheiben—Poems are painted window-panes, i.e., when genuine, they transmit heaven's light through a contracted medium coloured by human feeling and fantasy. Goethe.
Gedult gaat boven geleerdheid—Patience excels learning. Dut. Pr.
Gedwongen liefde vergaat haast—Love that is 20 forced does not last. Dut. Pr.
Geese are plucked as long as they have any feathers. Dut. Pr.
Gefährlich ist's, den Leu zu wecken, / Verderblich ist des Tigers Zahn; / Jedoch der schrecklichste der Schrecken, / Das ist der Mensch in seinem Wahn—Dangerous it is to rouse the lion, fatal is the tiger's tooth, but the most frightful of terrors is man in his self-delusion. Schiller.
Gefährlich ist's ein Mordgewehr zu tragen / Und auf den Schützen springt der Pfeil zurück—It is dangerous to carry a murderous weapon, and the arrow rebounds on the archer. Schiller.
Gefährlich ist's mit Geistern sich gesellen—To fraternise with spirits is a dangerous game. Goethe.
Gefährte munter kürzt die Meilen—Lively 25 companionship shortens the miles. Ger. Pr.
Gefühl ist alles; / Name ist Schall und Rauch / Umnebelnd Himmelsglut—Feeling is all; name is sound and smoke veiling heaven's splendour. Goethe.
Gegen grosse Vorzüge eines andern giebt es kein Rettungsmittel als die Liebe—To countervail the inequalities arising from the great superiority of one over another there is no specific but love. Goethe.
Gegner glauben uns widerlegen, wenn sie ihre Meinung wieder holen und auf die unsrige nicht achten—Our adversaries think they confuse us by repeating their own opinion and paying no heed to ours. Goethe.
Geheimnissvoll am lichten Tag / Lässt sich Natur des Schleiers nicht berauben, / Und was sie deinem Geist nicht offenbaren mag, / Das zwingst du ihr nicht ab mit Hebeln und mit Schrauben—In broad daylight inscrutable, Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws. Goethe.
Geld beheert de wereld.—Money rules the 30 world. Dut. Pr.
Geld ist der Mann—Money makes (lit. is) the man. Ger. Pr.
Geld im Beutel vertreibt die Schwermuth—Money in the purse drives away melancholy. Ger. Pr.
Gelegenheit macht den Dieb—Opportunity makes the thief. Ger. Pr.
Gelehrte Dummkopf—A learned blockhead; dryasdust.
[Greek: Gelôs akairos en brotois deinon kakon]—Ill-timed 35 laughter in men is a grievous evil. Men.
Gemeen goed, geen goed—Common goods, no goods. Dut. Pr.
Gemsen steigen hoch und werden doch gefangen—The chamois climb high, and yet are caught. Ger. Pr.
General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it man is blind; it is the eye of reason. Rousseau.
General infidelity is the hardest soil which the propagators of a new religion can have to work upon. Paley.
General suffering is the fruit of general misbehaviour, 40 general dishonesty. Carlyle.
General truths are seldom applied to particular occasions. Johnson.
Generally all warlike people are a little idle, and love danger better than travail. Bacon.
Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character. Goethe.
Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind; death and birth are the vesper and the matin bells that summon mankind to sleep, and to rise refreshed for new advancement. Carlyle.
Generosity during life is a very different thing 45 from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. Horace Mann.
Generosity is catching: and if so many escape it, it is somewhat for the same reason that countrymen escape the small-pox—because they meet with no one to give it to them. Lord Greville.
Generosity is the flower of justice. Hawthorne.
Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the vulgar. Goldsmith.
Generosity should never exceed ability. Cic.
Generosity, wrong placed, becomes a vice. 5 A princely mind will undo a private family. Fuller.
Generous souls are still most subject to credulity. Sir W. Davenant.
Geniesse, wenn du kannst, und leide, wenn du musst, / Vergiss den Schmerz, erfrische das Vergnügen—Enjoy if thou canst, endure if thou must; / forget the pain and revive the pleasure. Goethe.
Genius and virtue, like diamonds, are best plain set. Emerson.
Genius always gives its best at first, prudence at last. Lavater.
Genius begins great works, labour alone finishes 10 them. Joubert.
Genius believes its faintest presentiment against the testimony of all history, for it knows that facts are not ultimates, but that a state of mind is the ancestor of everything. Emerson.
Genius borrows nobly. Emerson.
Genius can never despise labour. Abel Stevens.
Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting. Ouida.
Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere 15 of freedom. J. S. Mill.
Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Emerson.
Genius does not need a special language; it newly uses whatever tongue it finds. Stedman.
Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can. Owen Meredith.
Genius easily hews out its figure from the block, but the sleepless chisel gives it life. Willmott.
Genius, even as it is the greatest good, is the 20 greatest harm. Emerson.
Genius ever stands with nature in solemn union, and what the one foretells the other will fulfil. Schiller.
Genius finds its own road and carries its own lamp. Willmott.
Genius grafted on womanhood is like to overgrow it and break its stem. Holmes.
Genius has privileges of its own; it selects an orbit for itself; and be this never so eccentric, if it is indeed a celestial orbit, we mere star-gazers must at last compose ourselves, must cease to cavil at it, and begin to observe it and calculate its laws. Carlyle.
Genius in poverty is never feared, because 25 Nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another. B. R. Haydon.
Genius invents fine manners, which the baron and the baroness copy very fast, and, by the advantage of a palace, better the instruction. They stereotype the lesson they have learned into a mode. Emerson.
Genius is always ascetic, and piety and love. Emerson.
Genius is always a surprise, but it is born with great advantages when the stock from which it springs has been long under cultivation. Holmes.
Genius is always consistent when most audacious. Stedman.
Genius is always impatient of its harness; its 30 wild blood makes it hard to train. Holmes.
Genius is always more suggestive than expressive. Abel Stevens.
Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over-influence. Emerson.
Genius is a nervous disease. De Tours.
Genius is ever a secret to itself. Carlyle.
Genius is ever the greatest mystery to itself. 35 Schiller.
Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please. I. M. Wise.
Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilises a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and whole, while most men remain partial and fragmentary. H. W. Mabie.
Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it. T. W. Higginson.
Genius is mainly an affair of energy. Matthew Arnold.
Genius is not a single power, but a combination 40 of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not judgment; imagines, but it is not imagination; it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all. Whipple.
Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience. Buffon.
Genius is nothing but labour and diligence. Hogarth.
Genius is nothing more than our common faculties refined to a greater intensity. Haydon.
Genius is nothing more than the effort of the idea to assume a definite form. Fichte.
Genius is nourished from within and without. 45 Willmott.