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

Fact is better than fiction, if only we could get it pure. Emerson.

Facts are apt to alarm us more than the most dangerous principles. Junius.

Facts are chiels that winna ding, / And downa be disputed. Burns.

Facts are stubborn things. Le Sage. 15

Facts are to the mind the same thing as food to the body. Burke.

Facts—historical facts, still more biographical—are sacred hierograms, for which the fewest have the key. Carlyle.

Factis ignoscite nostris / Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo—Forgive what I have done, since you know all evil intention was far from me. Ovid.

Factotum—A man of all work (lit. do everything).

Factum abiit; monumenta manent—The event 20 is an affair of the past; the memorial of it is still with us. Ovid.

Factum est—It is done. M.