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

Fames, pestis, et bellum, populi sunt pernicies—Famine, pestilence, and war are the destruction of a people.

Familiare est hominibus omnia sibi ignoscere—It is common to man to pardon all his own faults.

Familiarity breeds contempt. Pr.

Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease. La Roche.

Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. 35 George Eliot.

Famine hath a sharp and meagre face. Dryden.

Fammi indovino, e ti farò ricco—Make me a prophet, and I will make you rich. It. Pr.

Fanaticism is a fire which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. Warburton.

Fanaticism is such an overwhelming impression of the ideas relating to the future world as disqualifies for the duties of this. R. Hall.

Fanaticism is to superstition what delirium is 40 to fever and rage to anger. Voltaire.