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

Free-livers on a small scale, who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea. W. Irving.

Freends are like fiddle-strings; they maunna 30 be screwed ower tight. Sc. Pr.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all. Sterne.

Free will I be in thought and in poetry; in action the world hampers us enough. Goethe.

Freie Kirche im freien Staat—A free Church in a free State. Cavour.

Freilich erfahren wir erst im Alter, was uns in der Tugend begegnete—Not till we are old is it that we learn to know (lit. experience) what we met with when young. Goethe.

Frei muss ich denken, sprechen und atmen 35 Gottes Luft, / Und wer die drei mir raubet, der legt mich in die Gruft—Freely must I think, speak, and breathe what God inspires in me, and he who robs me of these three entombs me. Chamisso.

Freits (prognostications) follow those who look to them. Sc. Pr.

Frei von Tadel zu sein ist der niedrigste Grad und der höchste, / Denn nur die Ohnmacht führt oder die Grösse dazu—To be free from blame is to be of the lowest and highest grade, for only imbecility or greatness leads to it. Schiller.

Freiwillige Abhängigkeit ist der schönste Zustand, und wie wäre der möglich ohne Liebe?—Voluntary dependence is the noblest condition we can be in; and how were that possible without love? Goethe.