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

For men at most differ as heaven and earth, / 20 But women, worst and best, as heaven and hell. Tennyson.

For men cherish love, for gods reverence. Grillparzer.

For men may come and men may go, / But I go on for ever. Tennyson.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; / His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. Pope.

For murder, though it hath no tongue, will speak / With most miraculous organ. Ham., ii. 2.

For my means, I'll husband them so well, / 25 They shall go far with little. Ham., iv. 5.

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to the next ages. Bacon.

For nought so vile that on the earth doth live, / But to the earth some special good doth give; / Nor aught so good, but strain'd from that fair use, / Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse. Rom. and Jul., ii. 3.

For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face. St. Paul.

For oaths are straws, men's faith are wafer cakes, / And holdfast is the only dog, my duck. Hen. V., ii. 3.