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

Fit words are fine, but often fine words are 10 not fit. Pr.

Five great intellectual professions have hitherto existed in every civilised nation: the soldier's, to defend it; the pastor's, to teach it; the physician's, to keep it in health; the lawyer's, to enforce justice in it; and the merchant's, to provide for it; and the duty of all these men is, on due occasion, to die for it. Ruskin.

Five minutes of to-day are worth as much to me as five minutes in the next millennium. Emerson.

Fix'd to no spot is happiness sincere; / 'Tis nowhere to be found, or everywhere. Pope.

Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, / To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot. Pope.

Flagrante bello—During the war. 15

Flagrante delicto—In the very act.

Flames rise and sink by fits; at last they soar / In one bright flame, and then return no more. Dryden.

Flamma fumo est proxima—Where there is smoke there is fire (lit. flame is very close to smoke). Plaut.

Flatter not the rich; neither do thou appear willingly before the great. Thomas à Kempis.