Man is read in his face.
- Ben Johnson -
A cheerrful face is merely as good for an invalidas health weather.
- Franklin -
Your face is a book,where men may read strange matters.
- Shakespeare -
Party is the madness of many for the gain of the few.
- Pope,Miscellanious -
Get your facts,and then you can distort them as youplease.
- Mark Twain,Interview -
And even his failings leaned to virtue's side.
- Goldsmith,Deserted Village -
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
- Keats,Pref.to Edymion -
But to him who tries and fails and dies,I givegreat honour and glosy and tears.
- Joaquim Miller -
They went forth to battle, but they always fell.
- Macphfrson,Cath-loda -
If you have faith in the cause and the means andin God, the hot sun will be cool for you.
- Mahatma Gandhi,The Epic of Travancor -
Faith is the continuation of reason.
- William Adams -
Work without faith is like an attempt to thebottomless pit.
- Mahatma Gandhi -
The deepest hunger of a faithfull heart isfaithfulness.
- Eliot,Spanish Gypsey -
Dropped from the zenith like a fallen star.
- Milton -
How art thou fallen from heaven,O Lucifer,son of the morning!
- Old Testament,Isaiah -
How are the mighty fallen star.
- Old Testament,II Samuel -
We are none of us infallible,not even youngest.
- W.H.Thompson -
Passion for fame: a passion which is the instinctof all great souls.
- Burke,Speech on American Taxation -
Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
- Socrates -
What a heavy burden is a name that hasbecome famous.
- Voltaire -
I awake one morning and found myself famous.
- Byron,Children Harold -
Familiarity breeds contempt and children.Familiarity is a magician that is cruelto beauty but kind to ugliness.All happy families resemble one another:every unhappy family in its own way.
- Tolstoy,Anna Karenina -
For ever,brother,hail and farewell.
- Catullus,Old -
Fare thee well and if for ever.Still for ever,fare thee well.
- Byron,Fare Thee Well -
All farmers fatten most when famine reigns.
- S.Garth,Dispensary -
Slave of the wheel of labour,what to him.Are Plato and the swing of Pleiades.
- Edwin Markham,The Man with the Hoe -
A farmer is always going to be richnext year.
- Philemon -
He hath a smooth disposeTo be suspected;framed to make woman false.
- Shakespeare,Othello -
National socialism does not harbour theslightest aggressive intent towards anyEuropean nation.
- Adolf Hitler,Nazi Congress 1939 -
While the world lasts,fashion will continueto lead it by the nose.
- Cowper -
I see that the fashion wears out moreapparel than the man.
- Shakespeare -
A fashionable woman is always in love withherself.
- La Rochefoucauld -
Fastidiousness is the envelope of indelicacy.
- Haliburton -
Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied byan incessant longing for self-restraint.
- Mahatma Gandhi -
As killing as the canker to the rose
- Milton,Lycidas -
With patience bear,with prudence push,your fate.
- Virgil,Aneid -
Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star.
- Byron -
We make our fortunes and we call them fate.
- Disraeli -
Father: to Go Himself we cannot give.A holier name.
- Wordsworth,Lord Ullin's Daughter -
A fault confessed is half redressed.
- H.G.Bohn -
The greatest of fault, I should say,is to be conscoius of none.
- Carlyle,Heroes and Hero-Worship -
Extreme eagerness to return an obligationis a kind of ingratitude.
- Roche Foucauld -
Let us fear God and we shall cease to fear man.
- Mahatmqa Gandhi,Speeches and Writings -
In time we hate which often fear.
- Shakespeare -
Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
- Burke -
The true essential of a feast are only fun and feed.
- O.W.Holmas,Nux Postvoenatics -
He who feasts every day, feasts no day.
- C.Simmon -
Write me as one that loves his fellow men.
- Leigh Hunt, Abou Ben Adhem -
If he be not fellow with the best king.Thou shall find the best King of good fellows.
- Shakespeare,Henry V -
There for some feelings time cannot be numb.
- Byron,Child Harold -
He who has felt nothing dose not knowhow to learn anything.
- Rousseau,Juliet -
If money goes before,always doors lie open.
- Shakespeare,Merry Wives of Windsor -
No wild enthusiast ever yet could rest,Till half mankind were like himself possessed.
- Cowper,Progress of Error -
The uncertain glory of an April day.
- Shakespeare -
Liteture is luxury,fiction is a necessity.
- G.K.Chesterton,The Defendent -
Man is a poetical animal and delights in fiction.
- Hozlitt -
Fidelity is the sister of justice.
- Horace -
I will follow theeTo the last gasp with truth and loyalty.Shakespeare,As you Like It -I have not yet begun to fight.
- John Paul Jones -
There is such thing as a man being tooproud to fight.
- President Wilson,Speech 1915 -
For a fighter the fight itself is victoryfor he takes delight in it alone.
- Mahatma Gandhi,Satyagraha in South Africa -
The fact is,the moment financial stabilityis assured,spiritual bankruptcy is also assured.
- MahatmaGandhi,70th.Birthday Volume -
What's is done is done
- Shakespeare,hamlet -
Public credit means the contracting ofdebts which a nation never can pay.
- w.Cobbett,Advice to Young Men -
A burnt child dreads the fire.
- Ben Johnson -
Better a little fire that warms thana big one that that burns.
- John Ray -
It is only those who possess firmnesswho can possess true gentleness.
- Law Rochefoucauld,Maxim -
When firmness is sufficient,rashnessis unnecessary.
- Napolean -
The imperial ensign,which full highadvanced,Shone like a meteor streamingto the wind.
- Milton,Paradise Lost -
Flattery corrupts both the receiverand the giver.
- Burke,Reflections on the Revolution -
One catches more flies with a spoonfulof honey with twenty casks of vinegar.
- Henry IV of France -
It is easy to flatter, it harder to praise.
- John Paul Richter -
The word,the flesh, and the devil.
- Book of Common Prayer -
The spirit indeed is willing,but theflesh is weak.
- New Testa ment,Mathew -
What we find the least of in flirtationis love.
- Milton,Paradise Lost -
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
- Gray -
Let us crown ourselves with rosebundsbefore they be withered.
- Wisdom of Soloman -
But I will woo the dainty rose, the queen of every one.
- Hood,Flower -
The fly sat upon the axle-tee to the chariotwheel,said,"What a dust do I raise !"The wanton body that kills a fly,Shall feel the spider's enmity.
- Blake -
There is a foolish corner even in thebrain of a sage.
- Aristotle -
He who lives without folly is not sowise as he imagines.
- Rochefoucauld -
None but a fool is always right.
- J.C.Hare,Guesses of Truth -
My flower,seek not thy paradise in a fool'sbottonhole.
- Tagore,Fireflies -
Let a fool be made serviceable accordingto his folly.
- Joseph Conrad,Under Western Eyes -
What fools these mortals be!
- Shakespeare,A Midsummer Night's Dream -
Into a Limbo large and broad,Since call'd.The Paradise of Fools,to few unknown.
- Milton,Paradise Lost -
Her feet beneath petticoat.Like little mice,stole in and out,As if they feared the light.
- Sucking,Bullad upon a Wedding -
Everyday preserves in its state in its stateof rest or uniform motion in a straight line,except in so far as it is compleed by the changethat state by impressed forces.
- Issac Newton,Principia -
What is readily yielded to courtesy isnever yielded to forces.
- Mahatma gandhi -
Force is rugged way of making love.
- S.Butler,Cat and Pus -
Knowing how Nature threatens ere she springs.
- R.Buchanam,Meg Blane -
O that man mightknow.The end of this day's business are it come!
- Shakespeare,Troilus -
In life,as in chess forethought wins.
- Buxton -
Fore-warned fore armed.
- Miguel De Cervantes -
Forgiveness adorns a soldier.
- Mahatma Gandhi,Young India -
Forgive us our debts where he buried hatchet.
- Kin Hubbard,Abe Martin's Broadcast -
In general,the more completely cased withformulas a man may be safer,happier it isfor him.
- Carlyle,Past and Present -
Fortune never seems to blind as to thoseupon whom she has bestowed no favours.
- La Rochefoucauld,Maxims -
Every man is the architect of his own fotune.
- Mme Dorothy Keluzy -
We make our own fortunes,and call them fate.
- Alroy -
I succeed him;no one could replace him.
- Thomas Jefferson, On Being Made Envoy to France -
There is no wisdom like franknes.
- Disraeli,Sytil -
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
- Bailey -
None can love freedom heartily but good men;the rest love not freedom,but licence.
- Milton,Tenure of Kings -
We gain freedom when we have paid the fullprice for our right to live.
- Tagore,Fireflies -
A man who is made for freedom has got totake tremendous risk and take everything.
- Mahatma Gandhi -
The cause of freedom is the cause of God.
- Samuel Bowles -
Sufficient to have stood,though free to all.
- Milton,Paradise Last -
Love is only chatterFriends all that matter.
- Gelet Burgess,Willy and the Lady -
Change your pleasure,but do not change your friends.
- Voltaire,La Depositaire -
Most friendship is freigning,most lovingmere folly.
- Shakespeare,As You Like It -
There are three faithfull friends:an old wife,an old dog and ready money.
- Franklin -
Adversity is the crucible in which friendshipis tested.
- Mahatma Gandhi,Young India -
Full well the busy whisper,circling round,conveyed the dismal tiding when he frowned.
- Goldsmith,Deserted Village -
By Sowing frugality we reap librty,a goldenharvest.
- Agesilasus -
Overjoyed was he to find,That though she was on pleasure,bentShe had a frugal mind.
- Cowper,John Cilpin -
Though to her things grow fair against the sun,Yet fruits that blossom first be ripe.
- Shakespeare,Othello -
Beware the fury of a patient man.
- Dryden,Absalom and Achitophet -
I never thing of the future.It comes soon enough.
- Albertn Einstein,Interview 1939 -
Ignorance of future ills is a more usefullthing than knowledge.
- Cicero,De Div -
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
- Bovee -
The highest wisdom is never to worry aboutthe future but to reign ourselves entirelyto His will.
- Mahatma Gandhi ,Harijan -
