Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

The family is the proper province for private women to shine in. Addison.

The family virtues are indispensable to the proper continuance of a society. Renan.

The fashion doth wear out more apparel than the man. Much Ado, iii. 3.

The fashion of this world passeth away. St. 15 Paul.

The fatal man, is he not always the unthinking, the man who cannot think and see? Carlyle.

The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors. A contemporary author has well spoken of "the deep slumber of a decided opinion." J. S. Mill.

The fatal trait (of the times) is the divorce between religion and morality. Emerson.

The fate of a man of feeling is, like that of a tuft of flowers, twofold; he may either mount upon the head of all, or go to decay in the wilderness. Hitopadesa.

The fate of empires depends upon the education 20 of youth. Arist.

The fated will happen. Gael. Pr.