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

Factum est illud; fieri infectum non potest—It is done and cannot be undone. Plaut.

Fader og Moder ere gode, end er Gud bedre—Father and mother are kind, but God is kinder. Dan. Pr.

Fæx populi—The dregs of the people.

Fagerhed uden Tugt, Rose uden Hugt—Beauty 25 without virtue is a rose without scent. Dan. Pr.

Fähigkeiten werden vorausgesetzt; sie sollen zu Fertigkeiten werden—Capacities are presupposed: they are meant to develop into capabilities, or skilled dexterities. Goethe.

Failures are with heroic minds the stepping-stones to success. Haliburton.

Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not; / I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not. Raleigh.

"Fain would I climb, but that I fear a fall." Raleigh on a pane of glass, to which Queen Elizabeth added, "If thy heart fail thee, then why climb at all?"

Fainéant—Do nothing. Fr. 30

Faint heart never won fair lady. Pr.