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

Finge datos currus, quid agas?—Suppose the chariot (of the sun) committed to you, what would you do? Apollo to Phaethon in Ovid.

Fingers were made before forks, and hands 35 before knives. Swift.

Fingunt se medicos quivis idiota, sacerdos, Judæus, monachus, histrio, rasor, anus—Any untrained person, priest, Jew, monk, playactor, barber, or old wife is ready to prescribe for you in sickness. Pr.

Finis coronat opus—The end crowns the work, i.e., first enables us to determine its merits. Pr.

Fire and sword are but slow engines of destruction in comparison with the tongue of the babbler. Steele.

Fire and water are good servants but bad masters. Pr.

Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head. 40 Ger. Pr.

Fire is the best of servants; but what a master! Carlyle.

Fire maks an auld wife nimble. Sc. Pr.

Fire that's closest kept burns most of all. Two Gent. of Verona, i. 2.