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 fittest place where man can die / Is where 45 he dies for man. M. J. Barry.

The flesh-bound volume is the only revelation (of God) that is, that was, or that can be. In that is the image of God painted; in that is the law of God written; in that is the promise of God revealed. Ruskin.

The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, / Unless the deed go with it. Macb., iv. 1.

The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche. John Burroughs.

The flower is the proper object of the seed, not the seed of the flower. Ruskin.

The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly. Wordsworth.

The flower of youth never appears more beautiful than when it bends towards the Sun of Righteousness. Matthew Henry.

The flute is sweet / To gods and men, but sweeter the lyre / And voice of a true singer. Lewis Morris.

The follies of modern Liberalism are practically summed up in the denial or neglect of the quality and intrinsic value of things. Ruskin.

The folly of all follies / Is to be love-sick for 5 a shadow. Tennyson.