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

Fabula, nec sentis, tota jactaris in urbe—You are the talk, though you don't know it, of the whole town. Ovid.

Faces are as legible as books, only they are read in much less time, and are much less likely to deceive us. Lavater.

Faces are as paper money, for which, on demand, there frequently proves to be no gold in the coffer. F. G. Trafford.

Faces are but a gallery of portraits. Bacon. 35

Faces which have charmed us the most escape us the soonest. Scott.

Fac et excusa—Do it and so justify yourself. Pr.

Facetiarum apud præpotentes in longum memoria est—It is long before men in power forget the jest they have been the subject of. Tac.

Fach—Department. Ger.

Facienda—Things to be done. 40

Facies non omnibus una, / Nec diversa tamen; qualem decet esse sororum—The features were not the same in them all, nor yet are they quite different, but such as we would expect in sisters. Ovid.