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

Felix, heu nimium felix—Happy, alas! too happy! Virg.

Felix qui nihil debet—Happy is he who owes nothing.

Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas—Happy he who has succeeded in learning the causes of things. Virg.

Felix, qui quod amat, defendere fortiter andet—Happy 25 he who dares courageously to defend what he loves. Ovid.

Fell luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksands, poverty or chains. Hannah More.

Fell sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more / Than when it bites but lanceth not the sore. Rich. II., i. 3.

Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence. Burke.

Felo de se—A suicide. L.

Female friendships are of rapid growth. 30 Disraeli.

Feme covert—A married woman. L.