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

Falla pouco, e bem, ter-te-haô por alguem—Speak little and well; they will take you for somebody. Port. Pr.

Fallacia / Alia aliam trudit—One falsehood 30 begets another (lit. thrusts aside another). Ter.

Fallacies we are apt to put upon ourselves by taking words for things. Locke.

Fallentis semita vitæ—The pathway of deceptive or unnoticed life. Hor.

Fallit enim vitium, specie virtutis et umbra, / Cum sit triste habitu, vultuque et veste severum—For vice deceives under an appearance and shadow of virtue when it is subdued in manner and severe in countenance and dress. Juv.

Fallitur, egregio quisquis sub principe credit / Servitium. Nunquam libertas gratior extat / Quam sub rege pio—Whoso thinks it slavery to serve under an eminent prince is mistaken. Liberty is never sweeter than under a pious king. Claud.

Falls have their risings, wanings have their 35 primes, / And desperate sorrows wait for better times. Quarles.

Falsch ist das Geschlecht der Menschen—False is the race of men. Schiller.

False as dicers' oaths. Ham., iii. 4.

False by degrees and exquisitely wrong. Canning.