Few, few shall part where many meet; The snow shall be their winding-sheet, And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre. Campbell. Few have all they need, none all they wish. R. Southwell. Few have borne unconsciously the spell of loveliness. Whittier. Few have the gift of discerning when to have done. Swift. 5 Few have wealth, but all must have a home. Emerson. Few love to hear the sins they love to act. Pericles, i. 1. Few may play with the devil and win. Pr. Few men are much worth loving in whom there is not something well worth laughing at. Hair. Few men have been admired by their domestics. Montaigne. 10 Few men dare show their thoughts of worst or best. Byron. Few men have any next; they live from hand to mouth without plan, and are ever at the end of their line. Emerson. Few men have imagination enough for the truth of reality. Goethe. Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. Washington. Few minds wear out; more rust out. Bovee. 15 Few mortals are so insensible that their affections cannot be gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect. Zimmerman. Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered, from the time of the seven sages of Greece to that of Poor Richard, have prevented a single foolish action. Macaulay. Few people know how to be old. La Roche. Few persons have courage to appear as good as they really are. Hair. Few spirits are made better by the pain and languor of sickness; as few great pilgrims become eminent saints. Thomas à Kempis. 20 Few take wives for God's sake, or for fair looks. Pr. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Johnson. Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is from want of application rather than want of means that men fail of success. La Roche. Few things are more unpleasant than the transaction of business with men who are above knowing or caring what they have to do. Johnson. Fiandeira, fiai manso, que me estorvais, que estou rezando-Spinner, spin quietly, so as not to disturb me; I am praying. Port. Pr. 25 Fiar de Dios sobre buena prenda-Trust in God upon good security. Sp. Pr. Fiat experimentum in corpore vili- Let the experiment be made on some worthless body. Fiat justitiam, pereat mundus-Let justice be done, and the world perish. Pr. Fiat justitia, ruat cœlum-Let justice be done, though the heavens should fall in. Pr. Fiat lux-Let there be light. Fickleness has its rise in the experience of the 30 deceptiveness of present pleasures, and in ignorance of the vanity of absent ones. Pascal. Ficta voluptatis causa sit proxima verisFictions meant to please should have as much resemblance as possible to truth. Hor. Fiction is a potent agent for good in the hands of the good. Mme. Necker. Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. Burke. Fiction, while the feigner of it knows that he is feigning, partakes, more than we suspect, of the nature of lying; and has ever an, in some degree, unsatisfactory character. Carlyle. Fictis meminerit nos jocari fabulis-Be it re- 35 membered that we are amusing you with tales of fiction. Phædr. Fidarsi è bene, ma non fidarsi è meglio-To trust one's self is good, but not to trust one's self is better. It. Pr. Fidati era un buon uomo, Nontifidare era meglio-Trust was a good man, Trust not was a better. It. Pr. Fide abrogata, omnis humana societas tollitur Fide et fiducia-By faith and confidence. M. Fide et literis-By faith and learning. M. 40 45 Fidelis et audax-Faithful and intrepid. M. Fidélité est de Dieu-Fidelity is of God. M. Fideliter et constanter-Faithfully and firmly. 50 M. Fidelity, diligence, decency, are good and indispensable; yet, without faculty, without light, they will not do the work. Carlyle. Fidelity is the sister of justice. Hor. Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy. Sen. Fidelius rident tiguria - The laughter of the cottage is more hearty and sincere than that of Pr. the court. Fides ut anima, unde abiit, eo nunquam redit -Honour, like life, when once it is lost, is never recovered. Pub. Syr. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament. A. B. Alcott. Fidus Achates-A faithful companion (of Æneas). Fine manners need the support of fine manners Virg. in others. Emerson. Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so 30 useful as common sense. Pope. Fine speeches are the instruments of knaves/ Or fools, that use them when they want good sense; Honesty needs no disguise or ornament. Otway. Fine words without deeds go not far. Dan. Pr. Finem respice-Have regard to the end. Finge datos currus, quid agas?-Suppose the chariot (of the sun) committed to you, what would you do? Apollo to Phaethon in Ovid. Fingers were made before forks, and hands 35 before knives. Swift. Fingunt se medicos quivis idiota, sacerdos, Judæus, monachus, histrio, rasor, anus-Any untrained person, priest, Jew, monk, playactor, barber, or old wife is ready to prescribe for you in sickness. Pr. Finis coronat opus-The end crowns the work, i.e., first enables us to determine its merits. Pr. Filius nullius-The son of no one; a bastard. Fire and sword are but slow engines of deL. Fille de chambre-A chambermaid. Fr. 15 Fin contre fin-Diamond cut diamond. Fr. Find earth where grows no weed, and you may find a heart where no error grows. Knowles. Find employment for the body, and the mind will find enjoyment for itself. Pr. Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible, and some time after the offence, rather than at the time. Sydney Smith. 20 Find mankind where thou wilt, thou findest it in living movement, in progress faster or slower; the phoenix soars aloft, hovers with outstretched wings, filling earth with her music; or, as now, she sinks, and with spheral swan-song immolates herself in flame, that she may soar the higher and sing the clearer. Carlyle. Find out men's wants and will, And meet them there. All worldly joys go less / To the one joy of doing kindnesses. Herbert. Finding your able man, and getting him invested with the symbols of ability, is the business, well or ill accomplished, of all social procedure whatsoever in this world. Carlyle. Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together; the head inferior to the heart, and the hand inferior to both heart and head. Ruskin. Fine by defect and delicately weak. Pope. 25 Fine by degrees and beautifully less. Prior. Fine feathers make fine birds. Pr. Fine feelings, without vigour of reason, are in the situation of the extreme feathers of a peacock's tail-dragging in the mud. John Foster. struction in comparison with the tongue of the babbler. Steele. Fire and water are good servants but bad masters. Pr. Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head. 40 Ger. Pr. Fire is the best of servants; but what a master! Carlyle. Fire maks an auld wife nimble. Sc. Pr. Fire trieth iron, and temptation a just man. Firmior quo paratior-The stronger the better 45 prepared. M. Firmness, both in sufferance and exertion, is a character I would wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and the cowardly feeble resolve. Burns. First assay To stuff thy mind with solid bravery;/ Then march on gallant: get substantial worth: / Boldness gilds finely, and will set it forth. George Herbert. First cast the beam out of thine own eye, and then thou shalt see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. Jesus. First catch your hare. Mrs. Glass's advice to the housewife. First come, first served. Pr. First deserve and then desire. Sc. Pr. First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea. Moore. First keep thyself in peace, and then thou shalt be able to keep peace among others. Thomas à Kempis. First must the dead letter of religion own itself dead, and drop piecemeal into dust, if the living spirit of religion, freed from its charnel-house, is to arise in us, new-born of heaven, and with new healing under its wings. Carlyle. 50 First resolutions are not always the wisest, but they are usually the most honest. Lessing. First worship God; he that forgets to pray / Bids not himself good-morrow nor good day. T. Randolph. Fishes live in the sea, . . . as men do on land-the great ones eat up the little ones. Pericles, ii. 1. Fit cito per multas præda petita manus-The spoil that is sought by many hands quickly accumulates. Ovid. 5 Fit erranti medicina confessio-Confession is as healing medicine to him who has erred. Fit fabricando faber-A smith becomes a smith by working at the forge. Pr. Fit in dominatu servitus, in servitute domi- Fit scelus indulgens per nubila sæcula virtus 10 Fit words are fine, but often fine words are not fit. Pr. Five great intellectual professions have hitherto existed in every civilised nation: the soldier's, to defend it; the pastor's, to teach it; the physician's, to keep it in health; the lawyer's, to enforce justice in it; and the merchant's, to provide for it; and the duty of all these men is, on due occasion, to die for it. Ruskin. Five minutes of to-day are worth as much to me as five minutes in the next millennium. Emerson. Fix'd to no spot is happiness sincere; / 'Tis nowhere to be found, or everywhere. Pope. Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, / To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot. Pope. 15 Flagrante bello-During the war. Flagrante delicto-In the very act. Flamma fumo est proxima-Where there is smoke there is fire (lit. flame is very close to smoke). Plaut. Flatter not the rich; neither do thou appear willingly before the great. Thomas à Kempis. 20 Flatterers are cats that lick before, and scratch behind. Ger. Pr. Flatterers are the bosom enemies of princes. South. Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors. Raleigh. Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity. Pr. Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver, and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings. Burke. The 25 Flattery is a base coin, to which only our vanity gives currency. La Roche. Flattery is the bellows blows up sin; thing the which is flattered, but a spark, To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing;/Whereas reproof, obedient and in order, Fits kings, as they are men, for they may err. Pericles, i. 2. Flattery is the destruction of all good fellowship. Disraeli. Flattery is the food of pride, and may be well assimilated to those cordials which hurt the constitution while they exhilarate the spirits. Arliss' Lit. Col. Flattery labours under the odious charge of servility. Tac. Flattery sits in the parlour when plain deal- 30 ing is kicked out of doors. Pr. Flattery's the turnpike road to Fortune's door. Walcot. Flebile ludibrium-A "tragic farce;" a farce to weep at. Flebit, et insignis tota cantabitur urbe- He shall rue it, and be a marked man and the talk of the whole town. Hor. Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo -If I cannot influence the gods, I will stir up Acheron. Virg. Flee sloth, for the indolence of the soul is the Flet victus, victor interiit-The conquered one Fr. Fleying (frightening) a bird is no the way to catch it. Sc. Pr. Flies are easier caught with honey than vinegar. Fr. Pr. 40 Fling away ambition; / By that sin fell the 45 angels; how can man, then, / The image of his Maker, hope to win by it? Hen. VIII., ili. 2. Flints may be melted, but an ungrateful heart Floriferis ut apes in saltibus omnia libant- Flour cannot be sown and seed-corn ought not Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of 50 Nature, by which she indicates how much she loves us. Goethe. Flowers are the pledges of fruit. Dan. Pr. Ward Fly idleness, which yet thou canst not fly By dressing, mistressing, and compliment. If these take up thy day, the sun will cry/ Against thee; for his light was only lent. George Herbert. Foedum inceptu, foedum exitu-Bad in the beginning, bad in the end. Livy. Fænum habet in cornu, longe fuge, dummodo risum / Excutiat sibi, non hic cuiquam parcit amico He has (like a wild bull) a wisp of hay on his horn: fly afar from him; if only he raise a laugh for himself, there is no friend he would spare. Hor. Foliis tantum ne carmina manda; / Ne turbata volent rapidis ludibria ventis-Only commit not thy oracles to leaves, lest they fly about dispersed, the sport of rushing winds. Virg. 5 Folk canna help a' their kin (relatives). Sc. Pr. Folk wi' lang noses aye tak' till themsels. Sc. Pr. Folks as have no mind to be o' use have always the luck to be out o' the road when there's anything to be done. George Eliot. Folks must put up with their own kin as they put up with their own noses. George Eliot. Folle est la brébis qui au loup se confesse-It is a silly sheep that makes the wolf her confessor. Fr. Pr. 10 Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee. Pr. Follow the copy though it fly out of the window. Printer's saying. Follow the customs or fly the country. Dan. 15 Follow the road, and you will come to an inn. Port. Pr. Follow the wise few rather than the vulgar many. It. Pr. Folly, as it grows in years, / The more extravagant appears. Butler. Folly ends where genuine hope begins. Cowper. Folly is its own burden. Sen. 20 Folly is the most incurable of maladies. Sp. Pr. Folly, letting down buckets into empty wells, and growing old with drawing nothing up. Cowper. Folly loves the martyrdom of fame. Byron. Fond fools/Promise themselves a name from building churches. Randolph. Fond gaillard-A basis of joy or gaiety. Fr. 25 Fons et origo mali-The source and origin of the mischief. Fons malorum-The origin of evil. Fons omnium viventium-The fountain of all living things. Fontes ipsi sitiunt-Even the fountains complain of thirst. Pr. Food can only be got out of the ground, or the air, or the sea. Ruskin. 30 Food fills the wame and keeps us livin'; / Though life's a gift no worth receivin', / When heavy dragg'd wi' pine and grievin'; / But oil'd by thee, the wheels o' life gae doonhill scrievin' / Wi' rattlin' glee. Burns, on Scotch drink. Food for powder. 1 Hen. IV., iv. 2. Fool not; for all may have, / If they dare try, Fool of fortune. King Lear, iv. 6. Foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which Saadi. 35 Fools and bairns shouldna see things half done. Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich. 40 Sc. Pr. Pr. Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters. Swift. Fools are aye fond o' flittin', and wise men o' sittin'. Sc. Pr. Fools for arguments use wagers. Butler. Fools grant whate'er ambition craves, men, once ignorant, are slaves. Pope. Fools grow of themselves without sowing or planting. Rus. Pr. Fools invent fashions and wise men follow Fools grow without watering. Pr. them. Fr. Pr. Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise Fools may our scorn, not envy raise, For envy is a kind of praise. Gay. Fools measure actions after they are done by the event; wise men beforehand, by the rules of reason and right. Bp. Hale. 55 Fools need no passport. Dan. Pr. Fools ravel and wise men redd (unravel). Sc. Pr. 60 Fools, to talking ever prone, Are sure to make their follies known. Gay. Fools with bookish knowledge are children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves and put others in pain. Zimmermann, Footpaths give a private, human touch to the landscape that roads do not. They are sacred to the human foot. They have the sentiment of domesticity, and suggest the way to cottage doors and to simple, primitive times. John Burroughs. Foppery is never cured; once a coxcomb, always a coxcomb. Johnson. For age, long age! / Nought else divides us from the fresh young days / Which men call ancient. Lewis Morris. For a genuine man it is no evil to be poor. Carlyle. For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again. Bible. 5 For a large conscience is all one, / And signi fies the same with none. Hudibras. For all a rhetorician's rules/ Teach nothing but to name his tools. Butler. For all he did he had a reason, / For all he said, a word in season; And ready ever was to quote / Authorities for what he wrote. Butler. For all men live and judge amiss/ Whose talents do not jump with his. Butler. For all right judgment of any man or thing it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad. Carlyle. 10 For all their luxury was doing good. L. Garth. For an honest man half his wits are enough; for a knave, the whole are too little. It. Pr. For an orator delivery is everything. Goethe. For a republic you must have men. Amiel. For as a fly that goes to bed/ Rests with his tail above his head, So, in this mongrel state of ours, The rabble are the supreme powers. Butler. 15 For as a ship without a helm is tossed to and fro by the waves, so the man who is careless and forsaketh his purpose is many ways tempted. Thomas à Kempis. For a' that, and a' that, / Our toils obscure, and a' that; / The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that. Burns. For a tint (lost) thing carena. Sc. Pr. For aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing. Mer. of V'en., i. 2. For aught that ever I could read, / Could ever hear by tale or history, / The course of true love never did run smooth. Mid. N.'s Dream, i. 1. 20 For a web begun God sends thread. Fr. and It. Pr. For behaviour, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another. Bacon. For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, / And though a late, a sure reward succeeds. Congreve. For Brutus is an honourable man, So are they all, all honourable men. Jul. Cæs., For dear to gods and men is sacred song. Pope. For ebbing resolution ne'er returns, / But falls still further from its former shore. Home. For emulation hath a thousand sons, / That one by one pursue; if you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, / Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, / And leave you hindmost. Troil. and Cres. iii. 3. For ever and a day. As You Like It, iv. 1. For ever is not a category that can establish itself in this world of time. Carlyle. For every dawn that breaks brings a new world, And every budding bosom a new life. Lewis Morris. For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly. Emerson. For every ten jokes thou hast got an hundred enemies. Sterne. 30 For everything you have missed, you have 35 gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something. Emerson. For fate has wove the thread of life with pain,/ And twins e'en from the birth are misery and man. Pope. For faith, and peace, and mighty love / That from the Godhead flow,/ Show'd them the life of heaven above / Springs from the earth below. Emerson. For fault o' wise men fools sit on binks (seats, For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. For forms of government let fools contest; /40 For Freedom's battle, once begun,/ Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son, / Though baffled oft, is ever won. Byron. For glances beget ogles, ogles sighs, Sighs wishes, wishes words, and words a letter ; / And then God knows what mischief may arise/ When love links two young people in one fetter. Byron. For gold the merchant ploughs the main, / The farmer ploughs the manor; But glory is the soldier's prize, / The soldier's wealth is honour. Burns. For good and evil must in our actions meet;/ Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet. Donne. For greatest scandal waits on greatest state. 45 Shakespeare. For grief indeed is love, and grief beside. Mrs. Browning. For he being dead, with him is beauty slain, / And, beauty dead, black chaos comes again. Shakespeare. For he, by geometric scale, / Could take the size of pots of ale. Butler. For he is but a bastard to the time That doth not smack of observation. King John, i. 1. For he lives twice who can at once employ / 50 The present well and e'en the past enjoy. Pope. For he that fights and runs away May live to fight another day; But he who is in battle slain, Can never rise and fight again, Goldsmith. |