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

Fiar de Dios sobre buena prenda—Trust in God 25 upon good security. Sp. Pr.

Fiat experimentum in corpore vili—Let the experiment be made on some worthless body.

Fiat justitiam, pereat mundus—Let justice be done, and the world perish. Pr.

Fiat justitia, ruat cœlum—Let justice be done, though the heavens should fall in. Pr.

Fiat lux—Let there be light.

Fickleness has its rise in the experience of the 30 deceptiveness of present pleasures, and in ignorance of the vanity of absent ones. Pascal.

Ficta voluptatis causa sit proxima veris—Fictions meant to please should have as much resemblance as possible to truth. Hor.

Fiction is a potent agent for good in the hands of the good. Mme. Necker.

Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. Burke.

Fiction, while the feigner of it knows that he is feigning, partakes, more than we suspect, of the nature of lying; and has ever an, in some degree, unsatisfactory character. Carlyle.