DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS. (continued 7)

Fluctus in simpulo exitare—To raise a tempest 55 in a teapot. Cic.

Fluvius cum mari certas—You but a river, and contending with the ocean. Pr.

Fly idleness, which yet thou canst not fly / By dressing, mistressing, and compliment. / If these take up thy day, the sun will cry / Against thee; for his light was only lent. George Herbert.

Fœdum inceptu, fœdum exitu—Bad in the beginning, bad in the end. Livy.

Fœnum habet in cornu, longe fuge, dummodo risum / Excutiat sibi, non hic cuiquam parcit amico—He has (like a wild bull) a wisp of hay on his horn: fly afar from him; if only he raise a laugh for himself, there is no friend he would spare. Hor.

Foliis tantum ne carmina manda; / Ne turbata volent rapidis ludibria ventis—Only commit not thy oracles to leaves, lest they fly about dispersed, the sport of rushing winds. Virg.

Folk canna help a' their kin (relatives). Sc. Pr. 5

Folk wi' lang noses aye tak' till themsels. Sc. Pr.

Folks as have no mind to be o' use have always the luck to be out o' the road when there's anything to be done. George Eliot.

Folks must put up with their own kin as they put up with their own noses. George Eliot.

Folle est la brébis qui au loup se confesse—It is a silly sheep that makes the wolf her confessor. Fr. Pr.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it 10 will follow thee. Pr.

Follow the copy though it fly out of the window. Printer's saying.

Follow the customs or fly the country. Dan. Pr.

Follow the devil faithfully, you are sure to go to the devil. Carlyle.

Follow the river, and you will get to the sea. Pr.

Follow the road, and you will come to an inn. 15 Port. Pr.

Follow the wise few rather than the vulgar many. It. Pr.

Folly, as it grows in years, / The more extravagant appears. Butler.

Folly ends where genuine hope begins. Cowper.

Folly is its own burden. Sen.

Folly is the most incurable of maladies. 20 Sp. Pr.

Folly, letting down buckets into empty wells, and growing old with drawing nothing up. Cowper.

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame. Byron.

Fond fools / Promise themselves a name from building churches. Randolph.

Fond gaillard—A basis of joy or gaiety. Fr.

Fons et origo mali—The source and origin of the 25 mischief.

Fons malorum—The origin of evil.

Fons omnium viventium—The fountain of all living things.

Fontes ipsi sitiunt—Even the fountains complain of thirst. Pr.

Food can only be got out of the ground, or the air, or the sea. Ruskin.

Food fills the wame and keeps us livin'; / 30 Though life's a gift no worth receivin', / When heavy dragg'd wi' pine and grievin'; / But oil'd by thee, the wheels o' life gae doonhill scrievin' / Wi' rattlin' glee. Burns, on Scotch drink.

Food for powder. 1 Hen. IV., iv. 2.

Fool before all is he who does not instantly seize the right moment; who has what he loves before his eyes, and yet swerves (schweift) aside. Platen.

Fool not; for all may have, / If they dare try, a glorious life or grave. George Herbert.

Fool, not to know that love endures no tie, / And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury. Dryden.

Fool of fortune. King Lear, iv. 6. 35

Fooled thou must be, though wisest of the wise; / Then be the fool of virtue, not of vice. Persian saying.

Foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting. Emerson.

Foolish people are a hundred times more averse to meet with wise people than wise people are to meet with foolish. Saadi.

Fools and bairns shouldna see things half done. Sc. Pr.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich. 40 Pr.

Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters. Swift.

Fools are aye fond o' flittin', and wise men o' sittin'. Sc. Pr.

Fools are aye seeing ferlies (wonderful things). Sc. Pr.

Fools are known by looking wise. Butler.

Fools are my theme; let satire be my song. 45 Byron.

Fools ask what's o'clock, but wise men know their time. Pr.

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them. Ger. Pr.

Fools can indeed find fault, but cannot act more wisely. Langbern.

Fools for arguments use wagers. Butler.

Fools grant whate'er ambition craves, / And 50 men, once ignorant, are slaves. Pope.

Fools grow of themselves without sowing or planting. Rus. Pr.

Fools grow without watering. Pr.

Fools invent fashions and wise men follow them. Fr. Pr.

Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men much from fools. Dut. Pr.

Fools make a mock at sin. Bible. 55

Fools mak' feasts, and wise men eat them. / Wise men mak' jests, and fools repeat them. Sc. Pr.

Fools may our scorn, not envy raise, / For envy is a kind of praise. Gay.

Fools measure actions after they are done by the event; wise men beforehand, by the rules of reason and right. Bp. Hale.

Fools need no passport. Dan. Pr.

Fools ravel and wise men redd (unravel). Sc. Pr. 60

Fools, to talking ever prone, / Are sure to make their follies known. Gay.

Fools with bookish knowledge are children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves and put others in pain. Zimmermann.

Footpaths give a private, human touch to the landscape that roads do not. They are sacred to the human foot. They have the sentiment of domesticity, and suggest the way to cottage doors and to simple, primitive times. John Burroughs.

Foppery is never cured; once a coxcomb, always a coxcomb. Johnson.

For age, long age! / Nought else divides us from the fresh young days / Which men call ancient. Lewis Morris.

For a genuine man it is no evil to be poor. Carlyle.

For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again. Bible.

For a large conscience is all one, / And signifies 5 the same with none. Hudibras.

For all a rhetorician's rules / Teach nothing but to name his tools. Butler.

For all he did he had a reason, / For all he said, a word in season; / And ready ever was to quote / Authorities for what he wrote. Butler.

For all men live and judge amiss / Whose talents do not jump with his. Butler.

For all right judgment of any man or thing it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad. Carlyle.

For all their luxury was doing good. L. 10 Garth.

For an honest man half his wits are enough; for a knave, the whole are too little. It. Pr.

For an orator delivery is everything. Goethe.

For a republic you must have men. Amiel.

For as a fly that goes to bed / Rests with his tail above his head, / So, in this mongrel state of ours, / The rabble are the supreme powers. Butler.

For as a ship without a helm is tossed to and 15 fro by the waves, so the man who is careless and forsaketh his purpose is many ways tempted. Thomas à Kempis.

For a' that, and a' that, / Our toils obscure, and a' that; / The rank is but the guinea's stamp, / The man's the gowd for a' that. Burns.

For a tint (lost) thing carena. Sc. Pr.

For aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing. Mer. of Ven., i. 2.

For aught that ever I could read, / Could ever hear by tale or history, / The course of true love never did run smooth. Mid. N.'s Dream, i. 1.

For a web begun God sends thread. Fr. and 20 It. Pr.

For behaviour, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another. Bacon.

For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, / And though a late, a sure reward succeeds. Congreve.

For Brutus is an honourable man, / So are they all, all honourable men. Jul. Cæs., iii. 2.

For captivity, perhaps your poor watchdog is as sorrowful a type as you will easily find. Ruskin.

For contemplation he and valour form'd, / For 25 softness she and sweet attractive grace; / He for God only, she for God in him, / His fair large front and eye sublime declared. Milton.

For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing but their fears. Bovee.

For dear to gods and men is sacred song. Pope.

For ebbing resolution ne'er returns, / But falls still further from its former shore. Home.

For emulation hath a thousand sons, / That one by one pursue; if you give way, / Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, / Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost. Troil. and Cres. iii. 3.

For ever and a day. As You Like It, iv. 1. 30

For ever is not a category that can establish itself in this world of time. Carlyle.

For every dawn that breaks brings a new world, / And every budding bosom a new life. Lewis Morris.

For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly. Emerson.

For every ten jokes thou hast got an hundred enemies. Sterne.

For everything you have missed, you have 35 gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something. Emerson.

For fate has wove the thread of life with pain, / And twins e'en from the birth are misery and man. Pope.

For faith, and peace, and mighty love / That from the Godhead flow, / Show'd them the life of heaven above / Springs from the earth below. Emerson.

For fault o' wise men fools sit on binks (seats, benches). Sc. Pr.

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Pope.

For forms of government let fools contest; / 40 Whate'er is best administered is best. Pope.

For Freedom's battle, once begun, / Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son, / Though baffled oft, is ever won. Byron.

For glances beget ogles, ogles sighs, / Sighs wishes, wishes words, and words a letter; / And then God knows what mischief may arise / When love links two young people in one fetter. Byron.

For gold the merchant ploughs the main, / The farmer ploughs the manor; / But glory is the soldier's prize, / The soldier's wealth is honour. Burns.

For good and evil must in our actions meet; / Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet. Donne.

For greatest scandal waits on greatest state. 45 Shakespeare.

For grief indeed is love, and grief beside. Mrs. Browning.

For he being dead, with him is beauty slain, / And, beauty dead, black chaos comes again. Shakespeare.

For he, by geometric scale, / Could take the size of pots of ale. Butler.

For he is but a bastard to the time / That doth not smack of observation. King John, i. 1.

For he lives twice who can at once employ / 50 The present well and e'en the past enjoy. Pope.

For he that fights and runs away / May live to fight another day; / But he who is in battle slain, / Can never rise and fight again. Goldsmith.

For he that worketh high and wise, / Nor pauses in his plan, / Will take the sun out of the skies / Ere freedom out of man. Emerson.

For his bounty, / There was no winter in't; an autumn 'twas, / That grew the more by reaping. Ant. and Cleop., v. 2.

For his chaste Muse employed her heaven-taught lyre / None but the noblest passions to inspire, / Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, / One line which, dying, he could wish to blot. Littleton on Thomson.

For hope is but the dream of those that wake. Prior.

For I am nothing if not critical. Othello, 5 ii. 1.

For I am full of spirit, and resolved / To meet all perils very constantly. Jul. Cæs., v. 1.

For I say this is death, and the sole death, / When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, / Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, / And lack of love from love made manifest. Browning.

For it so falls out, / That what we have we prize not to the worth / While we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, / Why, then we rack the value. Much Ado, iv. 1.

For it stirs the blood in an old man's heart, / And makes his pulses fly, / To catch the thrill of a happy voice / And the light of a pleasant eye. N. P. Willis.

For just experience tells, in every soil, / That 10 those that think must govern those that toil. Goldsmith.

For knowledge is a barren tree and bare, / Bereft of God, and duty but a word, / And strength but tyranny, and love, desire, / And purity a folly. Lewis Morris.

For knowledge is a steep which few may climb, / While duty is a path which all may tread. Lewis Morris.

For let our finger ache, and it endues / Our other healthful members ev'n to that sense / Of pain. Othello, iii. 4.

For loan oft loses both itself and friend. Ham., i. 3.

For love of grace, / Lay not the flattering 15 unction to your soul / That not your trespass but my madness speaks. Ham., iii. 4.

For lovers' eyes more sharply sighted be / Than other men's, and in dear love's delight / See more than any other eyes can see. Spenser.

For man's well-being faith is properly the one thing needful; with it, martyrs, otherwise weak, can cheerfully endure the shame and the cross; and without it, worldlings puke up their sick existence by suicide in the midst of luxury. Carlyle.

For man there is but one misfortune, when some idea lays hold of him which exerts no influence upon his active life, or still more, which withdraws him from it. Goethe.

For men are brought to worse diseases / By taking physic than diseases, / And therefore commonly recover / As soon as doctors give them over. Butler.

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.

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, / The 30 saddest were these: "It might have been." Whittier.

For of fortunes sharpe adversite, / The worst kind of infortune is this, / A man that hath been in prosperite, / And it remember when it passéd is. Chaucer.

For of the soul the body form doth take, / For soul is form, and doth the body make. Spenser.

For one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. Carlyle.

For one person who can think, there are at least a hundred who can observe. An accurate observer is, no doubt, rare; but an accurate thinker is far rarer. Buckle.

For one rich man that is content there are a 35 hundred who are not. Pr.

For one word a man is often deemed wise, and for one word he is often deemed foolish. Confucius.

For our pleasure, the lackeyed train, the slow parading pageant, with all the gravity of grandeur, moves in review; a single coat, or a single footman, answers all the purposes of the most indolent refinement as well; and those who have twenty, may be said to keep one for their own pleasure, and the other nineteen merely for ours. Goldsmith.

For pity is the virtue of the law, / And none but tyrants use it cruelly. Timon of Athens, iii. 5.

For pleasures past I do not grieve, / Nor perils gathering near; / My greatest grief is that I leave / Nothing that claims a tear. Byron.

For poems to have beauty of style is not 40 enough; they must have pathos also, and lead at will the hearer's soul. Hor.

For present grief there is always a remedy. However much thou sufferest, hope. The greatest happiness of man is hope. Leopold Schefer.

For rarely do we meet in one combined / A beauteous body and a virtuous mind. Juv.

For rhetoric, he could not ope / His mouth, but out there flew a trope. Butler.

For rhyme the rudder is of verses, / With which, like ships, they steer their courses. Butler.

For right is right, since God is God, / And right the day must win; / To doubt would be disloyalty, / To falter would be sin. F. W. Faber.

For sacred even to gods is misery. Pope.

For Satan finds some mischief still / For idle 5 hands to do. Watts.

For slander lives upon successión, / For ever housed where it gets possessión. Comedy of Errors, iii. 1.

For solitude sometimes is best society, / And short retirement urges sweet return. Milton.

For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. Mer. of Ven., i. 3.

For suffering and enduring there is no remedy but striving and doing. Carlyle.

For that fine madness still he did retain / 10 Which rightly should possess a poet's brain. Drayton.

For the apotheosis of Reason we have substituted that of Instinct; and we call everything instinct which we find in ourselves, and for which we cannot trace any rational foundation. J. S. Mill.

For the bow cannot possibly stand always bent, nor can human nature or human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. Cervantes.

For the buyer a hundred eyes are too few, for the seller one is enough. It. Pr.

For thee the family of man has no use; it rejects thee; thou art wholly as a dissevered limb: so be it; perhaps it is better so. Carlyle, or Teufelsdröckh rather, arrived at the "Centre of Indifference, through which whoso travels from the Negative Pole to the Positive must necessarily pass."

For the fashion of this world passeth away. 15 St. Paul.

For the gay beams of lightsome day / Gild but to flout the ruins grey. Scott.

For the greatest crime of man is that he was born. Calderon.

For the narrow mind, whatever he attempts, is still a trade; for the higher, an art; and the highest, in doing one thing does all; or, to speak less paradoxically, in the one thing which he does rightly, he sees the likeness of all that is done rightly. Goethe.

For the rain it raineth every day. Lear, iii. 2.

For there's nae luck aboot the hoose, / There's 20 nae luck ava', / There's little pleesure in the hoose / When oor guidman's awa'. W. J. Mickle.

For there was never yet philosopher / That could endure the toothache patiently. Much Ado, v. 1.

For the sake of one good action a hundred evil actions should be condoned. Chinese Pr.

For the son of man there is no noble crown, well-worn or even ill-worn, but is a crown of thorns. Carlyle.

For the true the price is paid before you enjoy it; for the false, after you enjoy it. John Foster.

For the world was built in order, / And the 25 atoms march in tune; / Rhyme the pipe, and the Time the warder, / The sun obeys them and the moon. Emerson.

For they can conquer who believe they can. Dryden.

For 'tis a truth well known to most, / That whatsoever thing is lost, / We seek it, ere it comes to light, / In every cranny but the right. Cowper.

For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich: / And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, / So honour peereth in the meanest habit. Tam. of Shrew, iv. 3.

For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion. Bible.

For to see and eek for to be seye. Chaucer. 30

For truth has such a face and such a mien, / As to be loved needs only to be seen. Dryden.

For truth is precious and divine, / Too rich a pearl for carnal swine. Butler.

For use almost can change the stamp of Nature, / And either curb the devil or throw him out / With wondrous potency. Ham., iii. 4.

For us, the winds do blow, / The earth doth rest, heaven move, and fountains flow; / Nothing we see but means our good, / As our delight, or as our treasure; / The whole is either our cupboard of food, / Or cabinet of pleasure. George Herbert.

For virtue's sake I am here; but if a man, 35 for his task, forgets and sacrifices all, why shouldst not thou? Jean Paul.

For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; / The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. Pope.

For want of a block a man will stumble at a straw. Swift.

For want of a nail the shoe was lost, for want of a shoe the horse was lost, and for want of a horse the rider was lost. Ben. Franklin.

For wealth is all things that conduce / To man's destruction or his use; / A standard both to buy and sell / All things from heaven down to hell. Butler.

For what are men who grasp at praise sublime, / 40 But bubbles on the rapid stream of time, / That rise and fall, that swell and are no more, / Born and forgot, ten thousand in an hour. Young.

For what are they all in their high conceit, / When man in the bush with God may meet? Emerson.

For what thou hast not, still thou striv'st to get, / And what thou hast, forgetst. Meas. for Meas., iii. 1.

For when disputes are wearied out, / 'Tis interest still resolves the doubt. Butler.

For where is any author in the world / Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye? Love's L. Lost, iv. 3.

For while a youth is lost in soaring thought, / 45 And while a mind grows sweet and beautiful, / And while a spring-tide coming lights the earth, / And while a child, and while a flower is born, / And while one wrong cries for redress and finds / A soul to answer, still the world is young. Lewis Morris.

For whom ill is fated, him it will strike. Gael. Pr.

For whom the heart of man shuts out, / Straightway the heart of God takes in, / And fences them all round about / With silence 'mid the world's loud din. Lowell.

For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, / This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, / Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, / Nor cast one longing lingering look behind? Gray.

For who would lose, / Though full of pain, this intellectual being, / Those thoughts that wander through eternity; / To perish rather, swallowed up and lost, / In the wide womb of uncreated night? Milton.

For wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it. 1 Henry IV., i. 2.

For youth no less becomes / The light and 5 careless livery that it wears, / Than settled age his sables and his weeds, / Importing health and graveness. Ham., iv. 7.

Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. 2 Hen. VI., iii. 3.

Forbearance is not acquittance. Ger. Pr.

Forbid a fool do a thing, and that he will do. Sc. Pr.

Forbidden fruit is sweetest. Pr.

Force and right rule everything in this world; 10 force till right is ready. Joubert. (?)

Force can never annul right. Berryer.

Force is no argument. John Bright.

Forced love does not last. Dut. Pr.

Forced prayers are no gude for the soul. Sc. Pr.

Force n'a pas droit—Might knows no right. 15 Fr. Pr.

Force rules the world, and not opinion, but opinion is that which makes use of force. Pascal.

Force without forecast is of little avail. Pr.

Foresight is indeed necessary in trusting, but still more necessary in distrusting. Cötvös.

Forewarned, forearmed. Cervantes.

Forget the hours of thy distress, but never 20 forget what they taught thee. Gessner.

Forget thyself to marble. Milton.

Forgetting of a wrong is a mild revenge. Pr.

Forgetting one's self, or knowing one's self, around these everything turns. Auerbach.

Forgiveness is better than revenge; for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge the sign of a savage nature. Epictetus.

Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not 25 ointment to the wound of an oppressor. Saadi.

Forgiveness is the divinest of victories. Schiller.

Forgiveness to the injured does belong, / But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong. Dryden.

Forgiveness is not forgotten. Ger. Pr.

Forgotten pains, when follow gains. Sc. Pr.

Forma bonum fragile est—Beauty is a fragile 30 good. Ovid.

Forma viros neglecta decet—Neglect of appearance becomes men. Ovid.

Formerly it was the fashion to preach the natural; now it is the ideal. Schlegel.

Formerly the richest countries were those in which Nature was most bountiful; now the richest countries are those in which man is most active. Buckle.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war. Bovee.

Formidabilior cervorum exercitus, duce leone, 35 quam leonum cervo—An army of stags would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than one of lions commanded by a stag. Pr.

Formosa facies muta commendatio est—A handsome face is a mute recommendation. Pub. Syr.

Formosos sæpe inveni pessimos, / Et turpi facie multos cognovi optimos—I have often found good-looking people to be very base, and I have known many ugly people most estimable. Phæd.

Forms which grow round a substance will be true, good; forms which are consciously put round a substance, bad. Carlyle.

Formulas are the very skin and muscular tissue of a man's life; and a most blessed indispensable thing, so long as they have vitality withal, and are a living skin and tissue to him. Carlyle.

Forsake not God till you find a better maister. 40 Sc. Pr.

Forsan et hæc olim meminisse juvabit; Durate, et vosmet rebus servate secundis—Perhaps it will be a delight to us some day to recall these misfortunes. Bear them, therefore, and reserve yourselves for better times. Virg.

Forsan miseros meliora sequentur—Perhaps a better fortune awaits the unhappy. Virg.

Fors et virtus miscentur in unum—Fortune and valour are blended into one. Virg.

Forte è l'aceto di vin dolce—Strong is vinegar from sweet wine. It. Pr.

Forte et fidele—Strong and loyal. M. 45

Fortem facit vicina libertas senem—The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave. Sen.

Fortem posce animum mortis terrore carentem, / Qui spatium vitæ extremum inter munera ponat / Naturæ—Pray for a strong soul free from the fear of death, which regards the final period of life among the gifts of Nature. Juv.

Fortes creantur fortibus et bonis: / Est in juvencis, est in equis patrum / Virtus, nec imbellem feroces / Progenerant aquilæ columbam—Brave men are generated by brave and good: there is in steers and in horses the virtue of their sires, nor does the fierce eagle beget the unwarlike dove. Hor.

Forte scutum salus ducum—The safety of leaders is a strong shield. M.

Fortes fortuna adjuvat—Fortune assists the 50 brave. Ter.

Fortes in fine assequendo et suaves in modo assequendi simus—Let us be resolute in prosecuting our purpose and mild in the manner of attaining it. Aquaviva.

Forti et fideli nihil difficile—To the brave and true nothing is difficult. M.

Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience. Sir P. Sidney.

Fortify yourself with moderation; for this is an impregnable fortress. Epictetus.

Fortior et potentior est dispositio legis quam hominis—The disposition of the law is stronger and more potent than that of man. L.

Fortis cadere, cedere non potest—A brave man may fall, but cannot yield. M.

Fortis et constantis animi est, non perturbari in rebus asperis—It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances. Cic.

Fortis sub forte fatiscet—A brave man will yield to a brave. M.

Fortiter et recte—Courageously and honourably. 5 M.

Fortiter ferendo vincitur malum quod evitari non potest—By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome. Pr.

Fortiter, fideliter, feliciter—Boldly, faithfully, successfully. M.

Fortiter geret crucem—He will bravely support the cross. M.

Fortiter in re, suaviter in modo—Vigorous and resolute in deed, gentle in manner.

Fortitude is the guard and support of the 10 other virtues. Locke.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armour of the will, and the fort of reason. Bacon.

Fortitude is to be seen in toils and dangers; temperance in the denial of sensual pleasures; prudence in the choice between good and evil; justice in awarding to every one his due. Cic.

Fortitude rises upon an opposition; and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped. Jeremy Collier.

Fortitudini—For bravery. M.

Fortuito quodam concursu atomorum—Certain 15 fortuitous concourse of atoms. Cic.

Fortunæ cætera mando—I commit the rest to fortune. Ovid.

Fortunæ filius—A child or favourite of fortune. Hor.

Fortunæ majoris honos, erectus et acer—An honour to his elevated station, upright and brave. Claud.

Fortuna favet fatuis—Fortune favours fools. Pr.

Fortuna favet fortibus—Fortune favours the 20 brave. Pr.

Fortuna magna magna domino est servitus—A great fortune is a great slavery to its owner. Pub. Syr.

Fortunam debet quisque manere suam—Every one ought to live within his means. Ovid.

Fortuna meliores sequitur—Fortune befriends the better man. Sall.

Fortuna miserrima tuta est—A very poor fortune is safe. Ovid.

Fortuna multis dat nimium, nulli satis—To 25 many fortune gives too much, to none enough. Mart.

Fortuna nimium quem fovet, stultum facit—Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much. Pub. Syr.

Fortuna non mutat genus—Fortune does not change nature. Hor.

Fortuna obesse nulli contenta est semel—Fortune is not content to do one an ill turn only once. Pub. Syr.

Fortuna opes auferre, non animum potest—Fortune may bereave us of wealth, but not of courage. Sen.

Fortuna parvis momentis magnas rerum commutationes 30 efficit—Fortune in brief moments works great changes in our affairs.

Fortuna sequatur—Let fortune follow. M.

Fortunato omne solum patria est—To a favourite of fortune every land is his country.

Fortunatas et ille deos qui novit agrestes—Happy the man who knows the rural gods. Virg.

Fortunatus' purse—A purse which supplies you with all you wish.

Fortuna vitrea est, tum cum splendet frangitur—Fortune 35 is like glass; while she shines she is broken. Pub. Syr.

Fortune brings in some boats that are ill-steered. Cymbeline, iv. 3.

Fortune can take from us nothing but what she gave. Pr.

Fortune does not change men; it only unmasks them. Mme. Riccoboni.

Fortune favours the brave, as the old proverb says, but forethought much more. Cic.

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the 40 companion of genius. Isaac Disraeli.

Fortune hath something of the nature of a woman, who, if she be too closely wooed, goes commonly the farther off. Charles V.

Fortune is like a mirror—it does not alter men; it only shows men just as they are. Billings.

Fortune is like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. Bacon.

Fortune is merry, and in this mood will give us anything. Jul. Cæs., iii. 2.

Fortune is not content to do a man one ill 45 turn. Bacon.

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave. Lowell.

Fortune makes folly her peculiar care. Churchill.

Fortune makes him a fool whom she makes her darling. Bacon.

Fortune often knocks at the door, but the fool does not invite her in. Dan. Pr.

Fortune reigns in the gifts of the world, not in 50 the lineaments of nature. As You Like It, i. 2.

Fortune! There is no fortune; all is trial, or punishment, or recompense, or foresight. Voltaire.

Fortune turns round like a mill-wheel, and he that was yesterday at the top lies to-day at the bottom. Sp. Pr.

Forward, forward let us range, / Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Tennyson.

Forwardness spoils manners. Gael. Pr.

Foster the beautiful, and every hour thou 55 callest new flowers to birth. Schiller.

Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets; / But gold that's put to use, more gold begets. Shakespeare.

Foul deeds will rise, / Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes. Ham., i. 2.

Fou (full) o' courtesy, fou o' craft. Sc. Pr.

Four eyes see more than two. Pr.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. Napoleon.

Foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head. Jesus.

Foy est tout—Faith is everything. M.

Foy pour devoir—Faith for duty. Old Fr.

Frae saving comes having. Sc. Pr. 5

Fragili quærens illidere dentem / Offendet solido—Trying to fix her tooth in some tender part, / Envy will strike against the solid. Hor.

Fraile que pide por Dios pide por dos—The friar who begs for God begs for two. Sp. Pr.

Frailty, thy name is woman. Ham., i. 2.

Frame your mind to mirth and merriment, / Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life. Tam. of Sh., Ind. 2.

Frangas, non flectes—You may break, but you 10 will not bend me.

Frappe fort—Strike hard. M.

Fraternité ou la Mort—Fraternity or death. The watchword of the first French Revolution. Fr.

Frauen, richtet nur nie des Mannes einzelne Thaten; / Aber über den Mann sprechet das richtende Wort—Women, judge ye not the individual acts of the man; the word that pronounces judgment is above the man. Schiller.

Frauen und Jungfrauen soll man loben, es sei wahr oder erlogen—Truly or falsely, women and maidens must be praised. Ger. Pr.

Fraus est celare fraudem—It is a fraud to conceal 15 fraud. L.

Frau und Mond leuchten mit fremden Licht—Madame and the moon shine with borrowed light. Ger. Pr.

Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, the other of vice, and both are acts of the will. Epictetus.

Freedom and whisky gang thegither! / Tak' aff your dram. Burns.

Freedom consists not in refusing to recognise anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us. Goethe.

Freedom exists only with power. Schiller. 20

Freedom has a thousand charms to show, / That slaves, howe'er contented, never know. Cowper.

Freedom is a new religion—the religion of our time. Heine.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge. C. A. Bartol.

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect. Ruskin.

Freedom is only in the land of dreams, and the 25 beautiful only blooms in song. Schiller.

Freedom is the eternal youth of nations. Gen. Foy.

Freedom's sun cannot set so long as smiths hammer iron. C. M. Arndt.

Free governments have committed more flagrant acts of tyranny than the most perfect despotic governments which we have ever known. Burke.

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.

Fremde Kinder, wir lieben sie nie so sehr als die eignen; / Irrtum das eigne Kind, ist uns dem Herzen so nah—We never love the child of another so much as our own; for this reason error, which is our own child, is so near to our heart. Goethe.

Fremdes Pferd und eigene Sporen haben bald 40 den Wind verloren—Another's horse and our own spurs soon outstrip the wind. Ger. Pr.

Freno indorato non megliora il cavallo—A golden bit, no better a horse. It. Pr.

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill-manners. Chesterfield.

Fresh as a bridegroom, and his chin, new reap'd, / Show'd like a stubble-field at harvest-home; / He was perfuméd like a milliner, / And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held / A pouncet-box, which ever and anon / He gave his nose, and took 't away again. Hen. IV., i. 3.

Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun. Goethe.

Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither 45 be thou envious at the wicked; for there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out. Bible.

Fretting cares make grey hairs. Pr.

Freude hat mir Gott gegeben—God has to me given joy. Schiller.

Freud' muss Leid, Leid muss Freude haben—Joy must have sorrow; sorrow, joy. Goethe.

Freundschaft ist ein Knotenstock auf Reisen, / Lieb' ein Stäbchen zum Spazierengehn—Friendship is a sturdy stick to travel with; love a slender cane to promenade with. Chamisso.

Friar Modest never was prior. It. Pr. 50

Friend after friend departs; / Who hath not lost a friend? / There is no union here of hearts / That finds not here an end. J. Montgomery.

Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged, all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her darling, man? Carlyle.

Friend, however thou camest by this book, I will assure thee thou wert least in my thoughts when I writ it. Bunyan.

"Friend, I never gave thee any of my jewels!" "No, but you have let me look at them, and that is all the use you can make of them yourself; moreover, you have the trouble of watching them, and that is an employment I do not much desire." Goldsmith.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passports to fortune. Schopenhauer.

Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. Gael. Pr.

Friends are ourselves. Donne. 5

Friends are rare, for the good reason that men are not common. Joseph Roux.

Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs. A. B. Alcott.

Friends, like mushrooms, spring up in out-of-the-way places. Pr.

Friends may meet, / But mountains never greet. Pr.

Friends reveal to each other most clearly 10 exactly that upon which they are silent. Goethe.

Friends should associate friends in grief and woe. Tit. Andron., v. 3.

Friends should be weighed, not told. Coleridge.

Friends show me what I can do; foes teach me what I should do. Schiller.

Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables. Emerson.

Friends will be much apart. They will respect 15 more each other's privacy than their communion, for therein is the fulfilment of our high aims and the conclusion of our arguments.... The hours my friend devotes to me were snatched from a higher society. Thoreau.

Friendship can originate and acquire permanence only practically (pracktisch). Liking (Neigung), and even love, contribute nothing to friendship. True, active, productive friendship consists in this, that we keep the same pace (gleichen Schritt) in life, that my friend approves of my aims, as I of his, and that thus we go on steadfastly (unverrückt) together, whatever may be the difference otherwise between our ways of thinking and living. Goethe.

Friendship canna stand a' on ae side. Sc. Pr.

Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists; except in the cases of kindred or other legal affinity, it is in reality no longer expected or recognised as a virtue among men. Carlyle.

Friendship is a plant which one must water often. Ger. Pr.

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed 20 by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it never can be trusted after. Landor.

Friendship is but a name. Napoleon.

Friendship is communion. Arist.

Friendship is constant in all other things, / Save in the office and affairs of love; / Therefore, all hearts in love use their own tongues; / Let every eye negotiate for itself, / And trust no agent. Much Ado, ii. 1.

Friendship is infinitely better than kindness. Cic.

Friendship is like a debt of honour; the 25 moment it is talked of, it loses its real name, and assumes the more ungrateful form of obligation. Arliss' Lit. Col.

Friendship is love with understanding. Ger. Pr.

Friendship is love without its flowers or veil. Hare.

Friendship is love without its wings. Byron.

Friendship is no plant of hasty growth. Joanna Baillie.

Friendship is one soul in two bodies. Porphyry. 30

Friendship is stronger than kindred. Pub. Syr.

Friendship is the greatest bond in the world. Jeremy Taylor.

Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; the reality always remains far apart from the ideal. Joseph Roux.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul. Voltaire.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, 35 which strengthens with the setting sun of life. La Fontaine.

Friendship is too pure a pleasure for a mind cankered with ambition or the lust of power and grandeur. Junius.

Friendship, like love, is but a name, / Unless to one you stint the flame. Gay.

Friendship, like love, is self-forgetful. H. Giles.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. Emerson.

Friendship made in a moment is of no moment. 40 Pr.

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship—never. Colton.

Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Emerson.

Friendship, unlike love, which is weakened by fruition, grows up, thrives, and increases by enjoyment; and being of itself spiritual, the soul is reformed by the habit of it. Montaigne.

Friendships are discovered rather than made. Mrs. Stowe.

Friendship's as it's kept. Gael. Pr. 45

Friendship's full of dregs. Timon of Athens, i. 2.

Friendships that are disproportioned ever terminate in disgust. Goldsmith.

Friendship's the privilege / Of private men. N. Tate.

Friendship's the wine of life; but friendship new is neither strong nor pure. Young.

Friendships which are born in misfortune are 50 more firm and lasting than those which are formed in happiness. D'Urfey.

Frigidam aquam effundere—To throw cold water on a business.

Frisch gewagt ist halb gewonnen—Boldly ventured is half done (won). Ger. Pr.

From a bad paymaster get what you can. Pr.

From a closed door the devil turns away. Port. Pr.

From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, / The hum of either army stilly sounds, / That the fix'd sentinels almost receive / The secret whispers of each other's watch; / Fire answers fire, and through their paly flames / Each battle sees the other's umber'd face; / Steed threatens steed in high and boastful neighs, / Piercing the night's dull ear, and from the tents / The armourers, accomplishing the knights, / With busy hammers closing rivets up, / Give dreadful note of preparation. Hen. V., iv. (chorus).

From every moral death there is a new birth; / in this wondrous course of his, man may indeed linger, but cannot retrograde or stand still. Carlyle.

From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite. Amiel.

From grave to gay, from lively to severe. Pope.

From great folks great favours are to be 5 expected. Cervantes.

From hand to mouth will never make a worthy man. Gael. Pr.

From hearing comes wisdom, from speaking repentance. Pr.

From Helicon's harmonious springs / A thousand rills their mazy progress take. Gray.

From his cradle / He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; / Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading; / Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, / But to those men who sought him, sweet as summer; / And to add greater honours to his age / Than man could give; he died fearing God. Hen. VIII., iv. 2.

From ignorance our comfort flows; / The only 10 wretched are the wise. Prior.

From kings and priests and statesmen war arose, / Whose safety is man's deep embittered woe, / Whose grandeur his debasement. Shelley.

From labour health, from health contentment springs. Beattie.

From lowest place where virtuous things proceed, / The place is dignified by the doer's deed. As You Like It, ii. 3.

From obedience and submission spring all other virtues, as all sin does from self-opinion. Montaigne.

From our ancestors come our names, from our 15 virtues our honours. Pr.

From out the throng and stress of lies, / From out the painful noise of sighs, / One voice of comfort seems to rise, / It is the meaner part that dies. Lewis Morris.

From pillar to post—originally from whipping-post to pillory, i.e. from bad to worse. Pr.

From saying "No," however cleverly, no good can come. Goethe.

From seeming evil still educing good. Thomson.

From servants hasting to be gods. Pollock. 20

From small beginnings come great things. Dut. Pr.

From stratagem to stratagem we run, / And he knows most who latest is undone; / An honest man will take a knave's advice, / But idiots only will be cozened twice. Dryden.

From the beginning and to the end of time, Love reads without letters and counts without arithmetic. Ruskin.

From the deepest desire oftentimes ensues the deadliest hate. Socrates.

From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we 25 tend, / Path, motive, guide, original and end. Johnson.

"From the height of these pyramids forty centuries look down on you." Napoleon to his troops in Egypt.

From the lowest depth there is a path to the loftiest height. Carlyle.

From the low prayer of want and plaint of woe / O never, never turn away thine ear! / Forlorn is this bleak wilderness below, / Ah! what were man should heaven refuse to hear! Beattie.

From the same flower the bee extracts honey and the wasp gall. It. Pr.

From the summit of power men no longer turn 30 their eyes upward, but begin to look about them. Lowell.

From the sum / Of duty, blooms sweeter and more divine / The fair ideal of the race, than comes / From glittering gains of learning. Lewis Morris.

From time to time in history men are born a whole age too soon. Emerson.

From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all. Emerson.

From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: / They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; / They are the books, the arts, the academes, / That show, contain, and nourish all the world; / Else none at all in aught proves excellent. Love's L. Lost, iv. 3.

From yon blue heaven above us bent, / The 35 grand old gardener and his wife / Smile at the claims of long descent. Tennyson.

Fromm, Klug, Weis, und Mild, gehört in des Adels Schild—The words pious, prudent, wise, and gentle are appropriately suitable on the shield of a noble. Ger. Pr.

Fromme Leute wohnen weit auseinander—Good people dwell far apart. Ger. Pr.

Frömmigkeit ist kein Zweck, sondern ein Mittel, um durch die reinste Gemüthsruhe zur höchsten Cultur zu gelangen—Piety is not an end, but a means to attain the highest culture through the purest peace of mind. Goethe.

Fronti nulla fides—There is no trusting external appearances (lit. features). Juv.

Frost and fraud both end in foul. Pr. 40

Frost is God's plough. Fuller.

Fructu non foliis arborem æstima—Judge of a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves. Phæd.

Frugality, and even avarice, in the lower orders of mankind are true ambition. These afford the only ladder for the poor to rise to preferment. Goldsmith.

Frugality is an estate. Pr.

Frugality is founded on the principle that all 45 riches have limits. Burke.

Frugality is good, if liberality be joined with it. Wm. Penn.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of prudence, the sister of temperance, and the parent of liberty. Johnson.

Fruges consumere nati—Born merely to consume the fruits of the earth. Hor.

Frühe Hochzeit, lange Liebe—Early marriage, long love. Ger. Pr.

Fruit is seed. Pr.

Frustra fit per plura, quod fieri potest per pauciora—It is vain to do by many agencies what may be done by few.

Frustra Herculi—In vain to speak against Hercules. 5 Pr.

Frustra laborat qui omnibus placere studet—He labours in vain who studies to please everybody. Pr.

Frustra retinacula tendens / Fertur equis auriga, neque audit currus habenas—In vain as he tugs at the reins is the charioteer borne along by the steeds, and the chariot heeds not the curb. Virg.

Frustra vitium vitaveris illud, / Si te alio pravus detorseris—In vain do you avoid one fault if you perversely turn aside into another. Hor.

Fugam fecit—He has taken to flight. L.

Fuge magna; licet sub paupere tecto / Reges 10 et regum vita præcurrere amicos—Shun grandeur; under a poor roof you may surpass even kings and the friends of kings in your life. Hor.

Fugere est triumphus—Flight (i.e., from temptation) is a triumph. Pr.

Fugit improbus, ac me / Sub cultro linquit—The wag runs away and leaves me with the knife at my throat, i.e., to be sacrificed. Hor.

Fugit irreparabile tempus—Time flies, never to be repaired. Virg.

Fühlst du dein Herz durch Hass von Menschen weggetrieben—/ Thu' ihnen Gutes! schnell wirst du sie wieder lieben—Shouldst thou feel thy heart repelled from men through hatred, do thou them good, soon shall thy love for them revive in thee. B. Paoli.

Fuimus—We have been. M. 15

Fuimus Troes, fuit Ilium, et ingens / Gloria Teucrorum—We Trojans are no more; Ilium is no more, and the great renown of the Teucri. Virg.

Fuit hæc sapientia quondam, / Publica privatis secernere, sacra profanis, / Concubitu prohibere vago, dare jura maritis, / Oppida moliri, leges incidere ligno—This of old was accounted wisdom, to separate public from private property, things sacred from profane, to restrain from vagrant concubinage, to ordain laws for married people, to build cities, to engrave laws on tablets. Hor.

Fuit Ilium—Troy was.

Fules are aye fond o' flittin'. Sc. Pr.

Fulgente trahit constrictos gloria curru, / Non 20 minus ignotos generosis—Glory draws all bound to her shining car, low-born and high-born alike. Hor.

Full little knowest thou that hast not tried / What hell it is in suing long to bide; / To lose good days that might be better spent, / To waste long nights in pensive discontent. Spenser.

Full many a day for ever is lost / By delaying its work till to-morrow; / The minutes of sloth have often cost / Long years of bootless sorrow. Eliza Cook.

Full many a gem of purest ray serene / The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear; / Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, / And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Gray.

Full many a stoic eye and aspect stern / Masks hearts where grief has little left to learn; / And many a withering thought lies hid, not lost, / In smiles that least befit who wears them most. Byron.

Full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing. 25 Macb., v. 5.

Full oft have letters caused the writers / To curse the day they were inditers. Butler.

Full of wise saws and modern instances. As You Like It, ii. 7.

Full seldom doth a man repent, or use / Both grace and will to pick the vicious quitch / Of blood and custom wholly out of him, / And make all clean, and plant himself afresh. Tennyson.

Full twenty times was Peter fear'd / For once that Peter was respected. Wordsworth.

Full vessels give the least sound. Pr. 30

Full wise is he that can himselven knowe. Chaucer.

Fully to possess and rule an object, one must first study it for its own sake. Goethe.

Fumos vendere—To sell smoke. Mart.

Fumum, et opes, strepitumque Romæ—The smoke, the wealth, and din of the town. Juv.

Functus officio—Having discharged his duties 35 and resigned.

Fundamentum est justitiæ fides—The foundation of justice is good faith. Cic.

Fungar vice cotis, acutum / Reddere quæ ferrum valet, exsors ipsa secandi—I will discharge the office of a whetstone, which can give an edge to iron, though it cannot cut itself. Hor.

Fürchterlich / Ist einer der nichts zu verlieren hat—Terrible is a man who has nothing to lose. Goethe.

Für den Dialektiker ist die Welt ein Begriff, für den Schöngeist ein Bild, für den Schwärmer ein Traum, für den Forscher Wahrheit—For the thinker the world is a thought; for the wit, an image; for the enthusiast, a dream; for the inquirer, truth. L. Büchner.

Für eine Nation ist nur das gut was aus ihrem 40 eignen Kern und ihrem eignen allgemeinen Bedürfniss hervorgegangen, ohne Nachäffung einer andern—Only that is good for a nation which issues from its own heart's core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another; since (it is added) what may to one people, at a certain stage, be wholesome nutriment, may perhaps prove a poison for another. Goethe.

Für einen Leichnam bin ich nicht zu Haus; / Mir geht es wie der Katze mit der Maus—For a dead one I am not at home; I am like the cat with the mouse. Goethe's Mephistopheles.

Für ewig ist ja nicht gestorben, was man für diese Welt begräbt—What is buried for this world is not for ever dead. K. v. Holtei.

Für Gerechte giebt es keine Gesetze—There are no laws for just men. Ger. Pr.

Furiosus absentis loco est—A madman is treated as one absent. Coke.

Furiosus furore suo punitur—A madman is punished 45 by his own madness. L.

Furor arma ministrat—Their rage finds them arms. Virg.

Furor fit læsa sæpius patientia—Patience, when outraged often, is converted into rage. Pr.

Furor iraque mentem præcipitant—Rage and anger hurry on the mind. Virg.

Furor loquendi—A rage for speaking.

Furor poëticus—The poet's frenzy.

Furor scribendi—A rage for writing.

Für seinen König muss das Volk sich opfern, / 5 Das ist das Schicksal und das Gesetz der Welt—For its chief must the clan sacrifice itself; that is the destiny and law of the world. Schiller.

Fürst Bismarck glaubt uns zu haben, und wir haben ihn—Prince Bismarck thinks he has us, and we have him. Socialist organ.

Fürsten haben lange Hände und viele Ohren—Princes have long hands and many ears. Ger. Pr.

Further I will not flatter you, / That all I see in you is worthy love, / Than this; that nothing do I see in you / That should merit hate. King John, ii. 2.

Fury wasteth, as patience lasteth. Pr.

Futurity is impregnable to mortal kin; no 10 prayer pierces through heaven's adamantine walls. Schiller.

Futurity is the great concern of mankind. Burke.

Futurity still shortens, and time present sucks in time to come. Sir Thomas Browne.

Fuyez les procès sur toutes les choses, la conscience s'y intéresse, la santé s'y altère, les biens s'y dissipent—Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. La Bruyère.

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Gäb es keine Narren, so gäb es keine Weisen—Were there no fools, there would be no wise men. Ger. Pr.

Gaieté de cœur—Gaiety of heart. Fr. 15

Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair. Chapin.

Gaiety is the soul's health; sadness is its poison. Stanislaus.

Gaiety overpowers weak spirits; good-humour recreates and revives them. Johnson.

Gaiety pleases more when we are assured that it does not cover carelessness. Mme. de Staël.

Gain at the expense of reputation should be 20 called loss. Pub. Syr.

'Gainst the tooth of time / And rasure of oblivion. Meas. for Meas., v. 1.

Galea spes salutis—Hope is the helmet of salvation. M.

Galeatum sero duelli pœnitet—After donning the helmet it is too late to repent of war, i.e., after enlistment. Juv.

Gallantry thrives most in a court atmosphere. Mme. Necker.

Gallicè—In French. 25

Gallus in sterquilinio suo plurimum potest—The cock is proudest on his own dunghill. Pr.

Gambling is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality. Colton.

Gambling with cards, or dice, or stocks, is all one thing; it is getting money without giving an equivalent for it. Ward Beecher.

Game is a civil gunpowder, in peace / Blowing up houses with their whole increase. Herbert.

[Greek: Gamein ho mellôn eis metanoian erchetai]—He 30 who is about to marry is on the way to repentance. Gr. Pr.

Games of chance are traps to catch school-boy novices and gaping country squires, who begin with a guinea and end with a mortgage. Cumberland.

Gaming finds a man a cully and leaves him a knave. T. Hughes.

Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui; it is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment, but, like other stimuli, it produces indirect debility. Colton.

Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady her modesty. Marchioness d'Alembert.

Gammel Mands Sagn er sielden usand—An 35 old man's sayings are rarely untrue. Dan. Pr.

[Greek: Gamos gar anthrôpoisin euktaion kakon]—Marriage is an evil men are eager to embrace. Men.

Gang to bed wi' the lamb and rise wi' the laverock (lark). Sc. Pr.

Garçon—A boy; a waiter. Fr.

Garde à cheval—Horse-guards; mounted guard. Fr.

Garde à pied—Foot-guards. Fr. 40

Garde à vous—Attention. Fr.

Garde-chasse—Gamekeeper. Fr.

Garde du corps—A bodyguard. Fr.

Garde-feu—A fire-guard. Fr.

Garde-fou—A hand-rail. Fr. 45

Gardez—Keep it. Fr.

Gardez bien—Take care. Fr.

Gardez cela pour la bonne bouche—Keep that for a tit-bit. Fr. Pr.

Gardez la foi—Guard the faith. M.

Garments that have once a rent in them are 50 subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is a good man's name once tainted with just reproach. Bp. Hall.

Garrit aniles / Ex re fabellas—He relates old women's tales very apropos. Hor.

Gar Vieles lernt man, um es wieder zu vergessen; / Um an den Ziel zu stehen, muss man die Bahn durchmessen—Much we learn only to forget it again; to stand by the goal, we must traverse all the way to it. Rückert.

Gâteau et mauvaise coutume se doivent rompre—A cake and a bad custom are fated to be broken. Fr. Pr.

Gâter une chandelle pour trouver une épingle—To waste a candle to find a pin. Fr. Pr.

Gather gear by every wile that's justified by 55 honour; / Not for to hide it in a hedge, nor for a train attendant; / But for the glorious privilege of being independent. Burns.

Gather the rosebuds while ye may, / Old Time is still a-flying, / And this same flower that smiles to-day, / To-morrow will be dying. Herrick.

Gathering gear (wealth) is pleasant pain. Sc. Pr.

Gathering her brows like gathering storm, / Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. Burns.

Gato maullador nunca buen cazador—A mewing cat is never a good mouser. Sp. Pr.

Gaude, Maria Virgo—Rejoice, Virgin Mary.

Gaudeamus—Let us have a joyful time.

Gaudent prænomine molles / Auriculæ—His delicate ears are delighted with a title. Hor.

Gaudet equis, canibusque, et aprici gramine 5 campi—He delights in horses, and dogs, and the grass of the sunny plain. Hor.

Gaudet tentamine virtus—Virtue rejoices in being put to the test.

Gaudetque viam fecisse ruina—He rejoices at having made his way by ruin. Lucan, of Julius Cæsar.

Gave / His body to that pleasant country's earth, / And his pure soul unto his captain Christ, / Under whose colours he had fought so long. Rich. II., iv. 1.

Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, / Less pleasing when possest; / The tear forgot as soon as shed, / The sunshine of the breast. Gray.

Gear is easier gained than guided. Pr. 10

Geben ist Sache des Reichen—Giving is the business of the rich. Goethe.

Gebrade duijven vliegen niet door de lucht—Roasted pigeons don't fly through the air. Dut. Pr.

Gebratene Tauben, die einem im Maul fliegen?—Do pigeons fly ready-roasted into one's mouth? Ger. Pr.

Gebraucht der Zeit, sie geht so schnell von hinnen, / Doch Ordnung lehrt euch Zeit gewinnen—Make the most of time, it glides away so fast; but order teaches you to gain time. Goethe.

Gebt ihr ein Stück, so gebt es gleich in Stücken—If 15 your aim is to give a piece, be sure you give it in pieces. Goethe.

Gedanken sind zollfrei, aber nicht höllenfrei—Thoughts are toll-free, but not hell-free. Ger. Pr.

Gedenke zu leben—Think of living. Goethe.

Gedichte sind gemalde Fensterscheiben—Poems are painted window-panes, i.e., when genuine, they transmit heaven's light through a contracted medium coloured by human feeling and fantasy. Goethe.

Gedult gaat boven geleerdheid—Patience excels learning. Dut. Pr.

Gedwongen liefde vergaat haast—Love that is 20 forced does not last. Dut. Pr.

Geese are plucked as long as they have any feathers. Dut. Pr.

Gefährlich ist's, den Leu zu wecken, / Verderblich ist des Tigers Zahn; / Jedoch der schrecklichste der Schrecken, / Das ist der Mensch in seinem Wahn—Dangerous it is to rouse the lion, fatal is the tiger's tooth, but the most frightful of terrors is man in his self-delusion. Schiller.

Gefährlich ist's ein Mordgewehr zu tragen / Und auf den Schützen springt der Pfeil zurück—It is dangerous to carry a murderous weapon, and the arrow rebounds on the archer. Schiller.

Gefährlich ist's mit Geistern sich gesellen—To fraternise with spirits is a dangerous game. Goethe.

Gefährte munter kürzt die Meilen—Lively 25 companionship shortens the miles. Ger. Pr.

Gefühl ist alles; / Name ist Schall und Rauch / Umnebelnd Himmelsglut—Feeling is all; name is sound and smoke veiling heaven's splendour. Goethe.

Gegen grosse Vorzüge eines andern giebt es kein Rettungsmittel als die Liebe—To countervail the inequalities arising from the great superiority of one over another there is no specific but love. Goethe.

Gegner glauben uns widerlegen, wenn sie ihre Meinung wieder holen und auf die unsrige nicht achten—Our adversaries think they confuse us by repeating their own opinion and paying no heed to ours. Goethe.

Geheimnissvoll am lichten Tag / Lässt sich Natur des Schleiers nicht berauben, / Und was sie deinem Geist nicht offenbaren mag, / Das zwingst du ihr nicht ab mit Hebeln und mit Schrauben—In broad daylight inscrutable, Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws. Goethe.

Geld beheert de wereld.—Money rules the 30 world. Dut. Pr.

Geld ist der Mann—Money makes (lit. is) the man. Ger. Pr.

Geld im Beutel vertreibt die Schwermuth—Money in the purse drives away melancholy. Ger. Pr.

Gelegenheit macht den Dieb—Opportunity makes the thief. Ger. Pr.

Gelehrte Dummkopf—A learned blockhead; dryasdust.

[Greek: Gelôs akairos en brotois deinon kakon]—Ill-timed 35 laughter in men is a grievous evil. Men.

Gemeen goed, geen goed—Common goods, no goods. Dut. Pr.

Gemsen steigen hoch und werden doch gefangen—The chamois climb high, and yet are caught. Ger. Pr.

General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it man is blind; it is the eye of reason. Rousseau.

General infidelity is the hardest soil which the propagators of a new religion can have to work upon. Paley.

General suffering is the fruit of general misbehaviour, 40 general dishonesty. Carlyle.

General truths are seldom applied to particular occasions. Johnson.

Generally all warlike people are a little idle, and love danger better than travail. Bacon.

Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character. Goethe.

Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind; death and birth are the vesper and the matin bells that summon mankind to sleep, and to rise refreshed for new advancement. Carlyle.

Generosity during life is a very different thing 45 from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. Horace Mann.

Generosity is catching: and if so many escape it, it is somewhat for the same reason that countrymen escape the small-pox—because they meet with no one to give it to them. Lord Greville.

Generosity is the flower of justice. Hawthorne.

Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the vulgar. Goldsmith.

Generosity should never exceed ability. Cic.

Generosity, wrong placed, becomes a vice. 5 A princely mind will undo a private family. Fuller.

Generous souls are still most subject to credulity. Sir W. Davenant.

Geniesse, wenn du kannst, und leide, wenn du musst, / Vergiss den Schmerz, erfrische das Vergnügen—Enjoy if thou canst, endure if thou must; / forget the pain and revive the pleasure. Goethe.

Genius and virtue, like diamonds, are best plain set. Emerson.

Genius always gives its best at first, prudence at last. Lavater.

Genius begins great works, labour alone finishes 10 them. Joubert.

Genius believes its faintest presentiment against the testimony of all history, for it knows that facts are not ultimates, but that a state of mind is the ancestor of everything. Emerson.

Genius borrows nobly. Emerson.

Genius can never despise labour. Abel Stevens.

Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting. Ouida.

Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere 15 of freedom. J. S. Mill.

Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Emerson.

Genius does not need a special language; it newly uses whatever tongue it finds. Stedman.

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can. Owen Meredith.

Genius easily hews out its figure from the block, but the sleepless chisel gives it life. Willmott.

Genius, even as it is the greatest good, is the 20 greatest harm. Emerson.

Genius ever stands with nature in solemn union, and what the one foretells the other will fulfil. Schiller.

Genius finds its own road and carries its own lamp. Willmott.

Genius grafted on womanhood is like to overgrow it and break its stem. Holmes.

Genius has privileges of its own; it selects an orbit for itself; and be this never so eccentric, if it is indeed a celestial orbit, we mere star-gazers must at last compose ourselves, must cease to cavil at it, and begin to observe it and calculate its laws. Carlyle.

Genius in poverty is never feared, because 25 Nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another. B. R. Haydon.

Genius invents fine manners, which the baron and the baroness copy very fast, and, by the advantage of a palace, better the instruction. They stereotype the lesson they have learned into a mode. Emerson.

Genius is always ascetic, and piety and love. Emerson.

Genius is always a surprise, but it is born with great advantages when the stock from which it springs has been long under cultivation. Holmes.

Genius is always consistent when most audacious. Stedman.

Genius is always impatient of its harness; its 30 wild blood makes it hard to train. Holmes.

Genius is always more suggestive than expressive. Abel Stevens.

Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over-influence. Emerson.

Genius is a nervous disease. De Tours.

Genius is ever a secret to itself. Carlyle.

Genius is ever the greatest mystery to itself. 35 Schiller.

Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please. I. M. Wise.

Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilises a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and whole, while most men remain partial and fragmentary. H. W. Mabie.

Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it. T. W. Higginson.

Genius is mainly an affair of energy. Matthew Arnold.

Genius is not a single power, but a combination 40 of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not judgment; imagines, but it is not imagination; it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all. Whipple.

Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience. Buffon.

Genius is nothing but labour and diligence. Hogarth.

Genius is nothing more than our common faculties refined to a greater intensity. Haydon.

Genius is nothing more than the effort of the idea to assume a definite form. Fichte.

Genius is nourished from within and without. 45 Willmott.

Genius is only as rich as it is generous. Thoreau.

Genius is religious. Emerson.

Genius is that in whose power a man is. Lowell.

Genius is that power of man which by its deeds and actions gives laws and rules; and it does not, as used to be thought, manifest itself only by over-stepping existing laws, breaking established rules, and declaring itself above all restraint. Goethe.

Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the 50 miner who works and brings it out. Lady Blessington.

Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood. Coleridge.

Genius is the transcendent capacity of taking trouble first of all. Carlyle.

Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes. Simms.

Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light. Schopenhauer.

Genius loci—The presiding genius of the place.

Genius makes its observations in shorthand; talent writes them out at length. Bovee.

Genius may at times want the spur, but it stands as often in need of the curb. Longinus.

Genius melts many ages into one.... A work 5 of genius is but the newspaper of a century, or perchance of a hundred centuries. Hawthorne.

Genius must be born, and never can be taught. Dryden.

Genius of a kind is necessary to make a fortune, and especially a large one. La Bruyère.

Genius only commands recognition when it has created the taste which is to appreciate it. Froude.

Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength. Hazlitt.

Genius should be the child of genius, and every 10 child should be inspired. Emerson.

Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull. Bulwer Lytton.

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. Beecher.

Genius will reconcile men to much. Carlyle.

Genius works in sport, and goodness smiles to the last. Emerson.

Gens d'armes—Armed police. Fr. 15

Gens de bureau—Officials in a government office. Fr.

Gens de condition—People of rank. Fr.

Gens d'église—Churchmen. Fr.

Gens de guerre—Soldiers. Fr.

Gens de langues—Linguists. Fr. 20

Gens de lettres—Literary people. Fr.

Gens de lois—Lawyers. Fr.

Gens de même famille—Birds of a feather. Fr.

Gens de peu—The lower classes. Fr.

Gens togata—The nation with the toga, i.e., the 25 Roman.

Gentility is nothing else but ancient riches. Lord Burleigh.

Gentility without ability is waur (worse) than plain begging. Sc. Pr.

Gentle passions brighten the horizon of our existence, move without wearying, warm without consuming, and are the badges of true strength. Feuchtersleben.

Gentle words, quiet words, are, after all, the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing. W. Gladden.

Gentleman, in its primal, literal, and perpetual 30 meaning, is a man of pure race. Ruskin.

Gentleman is a term which does not apply to any station, but to the mind and the feelings in every station. Talfourd.

Gentlemanliness is just another word for intense humanity. Ruskin.

Gentlemen have to learn that it is no part of their duty or privilege to live on other people's toil; that there is no degradation in the hardest manual or the humblest servile labour, when it is honest. Ruskin.

"Gentlemen of the jury, you will now consider your verdict." Lord Tenterden's last words.

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in 35 our manners. Blair.

Gentleness! more powerful than Hercules. Ninon de l'Enclos.

Gentleness, when it weds with manhood, makes a man. Tennyson.

Gently comes the world to those / That are cast in gentle mould. Tennyson.

Gently didst thou ramble round the little circle of thy pleasures, jostling no creature in thy way: for each one's sorrows thou hadst a tear; for each man's need thou hadst a shilling. Sterne's Uncle Toby.

Gently, gently touch a nettle, / And it stings 40 you for your pains; / Grasp it like a man of mettle, / And it soft as silk remains. Aaron Hill.

Genug ist über einer Sackvoll—Enough excels a sackful. Ger. Pr.

Genuine morality depends on no religion, though every one sanctions it and thereby guarantees to it its support. Schopenhauer.

Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion. Bovee.

Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle. Burke.

Genus et proavos et quæ non fecimus ipsi, / 45 Vix ea nostra voco—Birth, ancestry, and what we have ourselves not done, I would hardly call our own. Ovid.

Genus humanum superavit—He surpassed the human race in natural ability. Lucret.

Genus immortale manet, multosque per annos / Stat fortuna domus, et avi numerantur avorum—The race continues immortal, and through many years the fortune of the house stands steadfast, and it numbers grandsires of grandsires. Virg.

Genus irritabile vatum—The sensitive tribe of poets.

[Greek: Gêraskô d' aei polla didaskomenos]—Always learning many things the older I grow. Solon.

Gerechtigkeit ist mehr die männliche, Menschenliebe 50 mehr die weibliche Tugend—Justice is properly the virtue of the man, charity of the woman. Schopenhauer.

Geredt ist geredt, man kann es mit keinem Schwamme abwischen—What is said is said; there is no sponge that can wipe it out. Ger. Pr.

Germanicè—In German.

Gescheite Leute sind immer das beste Konversationslexikon—Clever people are always the best Conversations-lexicon. Goethe.

Geschichte ist eigentlich nichts anderes, als eine Satire auf die Menschheit—History is properly nothing else but a satire on humanity. C. J. Weber.

Geschrei macht den Wolf grösser als er ist—Fear 55 makes the wolf bigger than he is. Ger. Pr.

Gesellschaft ist die Grossmutter der Menschheit durch ihre Töchter, die Erfindungen—Society is the grandmother of humanity through her daughters, the inventions. C. J. Weber.

Gesetz ist mächtig, mächtiger ist die Noth—Law is powerful; necessity is more so. Goethe.

Gesetzlose Gewalt ist die furchbarste Schwäche—Lawless power is the most frightful weakness. Herder.

Gespenster sind für solche Leute nur / Die sehn sie wollen—Ghosts visit only those who look for them. Holtei.

Get a good name and go to sleep. Pr.

Get money, honestly if you can, but get money. Pr.

Get once into the secret of any Christian act, and you get practically into the secret of Christianity itself. Ed.

Get on the crupper of a good stout hypothesis, 5 and you may ride round the world. Sterne.

Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; / If not, by any means get wealth and place. Pope.

Get spindle and distaff ready, and God will send the flax. Pr.

Get thee to a nunnery! Ham., iii. 1.

Get to live; / Then live and use it; else it is not true / That thou hast gotten. Herbert.

Get what ye can and keep what ye hae. Sc. 10 Pr.

Get your enemies to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you. Pope.

Geteilte Freud' ist doppelt Freude—Joy shared is joy doubled. Goethe.

Gewalt ist die beste Beredsamkeit—Power is the most persuasive rhetoric. Schiller.

Gewinnen ist leichter als Erhalten—Getting is easier than keeping. Ger. Pr.

Gewöhne dich, da stets der Tod dir dräut, / 15 Dankbar zu nehmen, was das Leben beut—Accustom thyself, since death ever threatens thee, to accept with a thankful heart whatever life offers thee. Bodenstedt.

Gewöhnlich glaubt Mensch, wenn er nur Worte hört, / Es müsse sich dabei doch auch was denken lassen—Men generally believe, when they hear only words, that there must be something in it. Goethe.

Ghosts! There are nigh a thousand million walking the earth openly at noontide; some half-hundred have vanished from it, some half-hundred have arisen in it, ere thy watch ticks once. Carlyle.

Giant Antæus in the fable acquired new strength every time he touched the earth; so some brave minds gain fresh energy from that which depresses and crushes others. Murphy.

Gibier de potence—A gallows-bird. Fr.

Gie a bairn his will and a whelp his fill, an' 20 neither will do well. Sc. Pr.

Gie a beggar a bed, and he'll pay you with a louse. Sc. Pr.

Gie him tow enough and he'll hang himsel', i.e., give him enough of his own way. Sc. Pr.

Gie me a canny hour at e'en, / My arms about my dearie, O, / An' warl'ly cares an' warl'ly men / May a' gang tapsalteerie, O. Burns.

Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire! / That's a' the learning I desire; / Then though I drudge through dub and mire, / At pleugh or cart, / My Muse, though hamely in attire, / May touch the heart. Burns.

Gie me a peck o' oaten strae, / An' sell your wind 25 for siller. The cow to the piper who put her off with piping to her.

Gie the deil his due, an' ye'll gang till him. Sc. Pr.

Gie the greedy dog a muckle bane. Sc. Pr.

Gie wealth to some be-ledger'd cit, / In cent. per cent.; / But gie me real, sterling wit, / And I'm content. Burns.

Gie your heart to God and your awms (alms) to the poor. Sc. Pr.

Gie your tongue mair holidays than your head. 30 Sc. Pr.

Giebt es Krieg, so macht der Teufel die Hölle weiter—When war falls out, the devil enlarges hell. Ger. Pr.

Giebt's schönre Pflichten für ein edles Herz / Als ein Verteidiger der Unschuld sein, / Das Recht der unterdrückten zu beschirmen?—What nobler task is there for a noble heart than to take up the defence of innocence and protect the rights of the oppressed? Schiller.

Gierigheid is niet verzadigd voor zij den mond vol aarde heeft—Greed is never satisfied till its mouth is filled with earth. Dut. Pr.

Giff-gaff maks gude friends, i.e., mutual giving. Sc. Pr.

Gift of prophecy has been wisely denied to 35 man. Did a man foresee his life, and not merely hope it and grope it, and so by necessity and free-will make and fabricate it into a reality, he were no man, but some other kind of creature, superhuman or subterhuman. Carlyle.

Gifts are as gold that adorns the temple; grace is like the temple that sanctifies the gold. Burkett.

Gifts are often losses. It. Pr.

Gifts come from on high in their own peculiar forms. Goethe.

Gifts from the hand are silver and gold, but the heart gives that which neither silver nor gold can buy. Ward Beecher.

Gifts make their way through stone walls. 40 Pr.

Gifts weigh like mountains on a sensitive heart. Mme. Fee.

Gigni pariter cum corpore, et una / Crescere sentimus pariterque senescere mentem—We see that the mind is born with the body, that it grows with it, and also ages with it. Lucret.

Gin (if) ye hadna been among the craws, ye wadna hae been shot. Sc. Pr.

Giovine santo, diavolo vecchio—A young saint, an old devil. It. Pr.

Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, / Suffering 45 yet hoping all things. Mrs. Hemans.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be. Goethe.

Give a boy address and accomplishments, and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes. Emerson.

Give a dog an ill name and hang him. Pr.

Give a hint to a man of sense and consider the thing done. Pr.

Give alms, that thy children may not ask 50 them. Dan. Pr.

Give a man luck and throw him into the sea. Pr.

Give ample room and verge enough. Gray.

Give an ass oats, and it runs after thistles. Dut. Pr.

Give, and it shall be given to you. Jesus.

Give and spend, / And God will send. Pr. 55

Give and take. Pr.

Give a rogue rope enough, and he will hang himself. Pr.

Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging. Diderot.

Give every flying minute / Something to keep in store. Walker.

Give every man his due. Pr.

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; / 5 Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Ham., i. 3.

Give from below what ye get from above, / Light for the heaven-light, love for its love, / A holy soul for the Holy Dove. Dr. Walter Smith.

Give God the margin of eternity to justify Himself in. Haweis.

Give him an inch and he'll take an ell. Pr.

Give him a present! give him a halter. Mer. of Ven., ii. 2.

Give me again my hollow tree, / A crust of 10 bread, and liberty. Pope.

Give me a look, give me a face, / That makes simplicity a grace, / Robes loosely flowing, hair as free; / Such sweet neglect more taketh me, / Than all the adulteries of art; / They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. Ben Jonson.

Give me but / Something whereunto I may bind my heart; / Something to love, to rest upon, to clasp / Affection's tendrils round. Mrs. Hemans.

Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. Emerson.

Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds.... This idea has inspired the genius of Goldsmith, Burns, Cowper, and, in a newer time, of Goethe, Wordsworth, and Carlyle. Their writing is blood-warm. Emerson.

Give me my Romeo: and, when he shall die, / 15 Take him and cut him out in little stars, / And he will make the face of heaven so fine / That all the world will be in love with night, / And pay no homage to the garish sun. Rom. and Jul., iii. 2.

Give me that man / Who is not passion's slave, and I will wear him / In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of hearts. Ham., iii. 2.

Give me the avow'd, th' erect, the manly foe, / Bold I can meet, perhaps may turn, his blow; / But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, / Save, save, oh! save me from the candid friend. Canning.

Give me the eloquent cheek, where blushes burn and die. Mrs. Osgood.

Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe, and to utter freely, according to conscience, above all other liberties. Milton.

Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked 20 for it. Pr.

Give not that which is holy to the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine. Jesus.

Give only so much to one that you may have to give to another. Dan. Pr.

Give orders, but no more, and nothing will be done. Sp. and Port. Pr.

Give pleasure to the few; to please many is vain. Schiller.

Give ruffles to a man who wants a shirt. Fr. 25 Pr. (?)

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak, / Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break. Macbeth, iv. 3.

Give the devil his due. 1 Hen. IV., i. 2.

Give the devil rope enough and he will hang himself. Pr.

Give thy need, thine honour, and thy friend his due. Herbert.

Give thy thoughts no tongue, / Nor any unproportioned 30 thought his act. / Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. / The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, / Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; / But do not dull thy palm with entertainment / Of each new-hatch'd unfledged comrade. Ham., i. 3.

Give to a gracious message / An host of tongues; but let ill tidings tell / Themselves when they be felt. Ant. and Cleo., ii. 5.

Give to him that asketh of thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away. Jesus.

Give to the masses nothing to do, and they will topple down thrones and cut throats; give them the government here, and they will make pulpits useless, and colleges an impertinence. Wendell Phillips.

Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom. Sir P. Sidney.

Give unto me, made lowly wise, / The spirit of 35 self-sacrifice; / The confidence of reason give; / And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live. Wordsworth.

Give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he will be equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time; he will do it better; he will persevere longer. Carlyle.

Give way to your betters. Pr.

Give you a reason on compulsion? If reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion. 1 Hen. IV., ii. 4.

Give your tongue more holiday than your hands or eyes. Rabbi Ben Azai.

Given a living man, there will be found clothes 40 for him; he will find himself clothes; but the suit of clothes pretending that it is both clothes and man— Carlyle.

Given a world of knaves, to educe an Honesty from their united action, is a problem that is becoming to all men a palpably hopeless one. Carlyle.

Given the men a people choose, the people itself, in its exact worth and worthlessness, is given. Carlyle.

Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade / To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, / Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy / To kings that fear their subjects' treachery. 3 Hen. VI., ii. 5.

Giving alms never lessens the purse. Sp. Pr.

Giving away is the instrument for accumulated 45 treasures; it is like a bucket for the distribution of the waters deposited in the bowels of a well. Hitopadesa.

Giving to the poor increaseth a man's store. Sc. Pr.

Gladiator in arena consilium capit—The gladiator is taking advice when he is already in the lists. Pr.

Glänzendes Elend—Shining misery. Goethe.

Glasses and lasses are brittle ware. Sc. Pr.

Glaube nur, du hast viel gethan / Wenn dir Geduld gewöhnest an—Assure yourself you have accomplished no small feat if only you have learned patience. Goethe.

[Greek: Glauk' Athênaze]—Owls to Athens.

Glebæ ascriptus—Attached to the soil. 5

Gleiches Blut, gleiches Gut, und gleiche Jahre machen die besten Heirathspaare—Like blood, like estate, and like age make the happiest wedded pair. Ger. Pr.

Gleich sei keiner dem andern; doch gleich sei jeder dem Höchsten. Wie das zu machen? Es sei jeder vollendet in sich—Let no one be like another, yet every one like the Highest. How is this to be done? Be each one perfect in himself. Goethe.

Gleich und Gleich gesellt sich gern, sprach der Teufel zum Köhler—Like will to like, as the devil said to the charcoal-burner. Ger. Pr.

Gleichheit est immer das festeste Band der Liebe—Equality is the firmest bond of love. Lessing.

Gleichheit ist das heilige Gesetz der Menschheit—Equality 10 is the holy law of humanity. Schiller.

Gli alberi grandi fanno più ombra che frutto—Large trees yield more shade than fruit. It. Pr.

Gli amici legano la borsa con un filo di ragnatelo—Friends tie their purses with a spider's thread. It. Pr.

Gli uomini alla moderna, e gli asini all' antica—After the modern stamp men, and after the ancient, asses. It. Pr.

Gli uomini fanno la roba, e le donne la conservano—Men make the wealth and women husband it. It. Pr.

Gli uomini hanno gli anni che sentono, e le 15 donne quelli che mostrano—Men are as old as they feel, and women as they look. It. Pr.

Gli uomini hanno men rispetto di offendere uno che si facci amare che uno che si facci temere—Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear. Machiavelli.

Gloria in excelsis Deo—Glory to God in the highest.

Gloria vana florece, y no grana—Glory which is not real may flower, but will never fructify. Sp. Pr.

Gloria virtutis umbra—Glory is the shadow (i.e., the attendant) of virtue.

Gloriæ et famæ jactura facienda est, publicæ 20 utilitatis causa—A surrender of glory and fame must be made for the public advantage. Cic.

Gloriam qui spreverit, veram habet—He who despises glory will have true glory. Livy.

Glories, like glow-worms, afar-off shine bright, / But looked at near, have neither heat nor light. Webster.

Glorious men are the scorn of wise men, the admiration of fools, the idols of parasites, and the slaves of their own vaunts. Bacon.

Glory and gain the industrious tribe provoke; / And gentle dulness ever loves a joke. Pope.

Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a 25 beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and fruits. Vauvenargues.

Glory grows guilty of detested crimes. Love's L. Lost, iv. 1.

Glory is like a circle in the water, / Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, / Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught. 1 Hen. VI., i. 2.

Glory is safe when it is deserved; not so popularity; the one lasts like mosaic, the other is effaced like a crayon drawing. Boufflers.

Glory is so enchanting that we love whatever we associate with it, even though it be death. Pascal.

Glory is the fair child of peril. Smollett. 30

Glory is the unanimous praise of good men. Cic.

Glory long has made the sages smile, / 'Tis something, nothing, words, illusion, wind, / Depending more upon the historian's style / Than on the name a person leaves behind. Byron.

Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts—both to an extreme. Shenstone.

Glück auf dem Weg—Good luck by the way. Ger. Pr.

Glück macht Mut—Luck inspires pluck. Goethe. 35

Glück und Weiber haben die Narren lieb—Fortune and women have a liking for fools. Ger. Pr.

Glücklich, glücklich nenn' ich den / Dem des Daseins letzte Stunde / Schlägt in seiner Kinder Mitte—Happy! happy call I him the last hour of whose life strikes in the midst of his children. Grillparzer.

Glücklich wer jung in jungen Tagen, / Glücklich wer mit Zeit gestählt, Gelernt des Lebens Ernst zu tragen—Happy he who is young in youth, happy who is hardened as steel with time, has learned to bear life's earnestness. Puschkin.

Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart as well as the pocket. Marcus Antoninus.

Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities 40 and the fountain of all our diseases. As a lamp is choked by a superabundance of oil, a fire extinguished by an excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by intemperate diet. Burton.

Gluttony kills more than the sword. Pr.

Gluttony, where it prevails, is more violent, and certainly more despicable, than avarice itself. Johnson.

Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite / The man that mocks at it and sets it light. Rich. II., i. 3.

Gnats are unnoticed whereso'er they fly, / But eagles gazed upon by every eye. Shakespeare.

[Greek: Gnôthi seauton]—Know thyself. 45

Go deep enough, there is music everywhere. Carlyle.

Go down the ladder when thou marriest a wife; go up when thou choosest a friend. Rabbi Ben Azai.

Go, miser, go; for lucre sell thy soul; / Truck wares for wares, and trudge from pole to pole. / That men may say, when thou art dead and gone: / "See what a vast estate he left his son!" Dryden.

Go, poor devil, get thee gone; why should I hurt thee? This world, surely, is wide enough to hold both thee and me. Uncle Toby to the fly that had tormented him, as he let it out by the window.

Go to Jericho and let your beards grow. See 2 Sam. x. 5.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. Bible.

Go to your bosom; / Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know / That's like my brother's fault; if it confess / A natural guiltiness, such as his is, / Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue / Against my brother's life. Meas. for Meas., ii. 2.

Go where you may, you still find yourself in 5 a conditional world. Goethe.

Go whither thou wilt, thou shalt find no rest but in humble subjection to the government of a superior. Thomas à Kempis.

Go, wondrous creature, mount where science guides. / Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides; / Instruct the planets in what orbs to run, / Correct old Time, and regulate the sun; / Go, teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule, / Then drop into thyself and be a fool. Pope.

Go you and try a democracy in your own house. Lycurgus, to one who asked why he had not instituted a democracy.

Go, you may call it madness, folly; / You shall not chase my gloom away; / There's such a charm in melancholy, / I would not, if I could, be gay. Rogers.

Gobe-mouches—A fly-catcher; one easily gulled. 10 Fr.

God alone can properly bind up a bleeding heart. J. Roux.

God alone is true; God alone is great; alone is God. Laboulaye.

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, / And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, / A gauntlet with a gift in it. Mrs. Browning.