Quotations Page With 'F'
Saturday, 21 December 2024
Man is read in his face.
- Ben Johnson -
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A cheerrful face is merely as good for an invalid as health weather.
- Franklin -
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Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.
- Shakespeare -
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of the few.
- Pope, Miscellanious -
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Get your facts, and then you can distort them as you please.
- Mark Twain, Interview -
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And even his failings leaned to virtue's side.
- Goldsmith, Deserted Village -
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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
- Keats, Pref.to Edymion -
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But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honour and glosy and tears.
- Joaquim Miller -
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They went forth to battle, but they always fell.
- Macphfrson, Cath-loda -
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If you have faith in the cause and the means and in God, the hot sun will be cool for you.
- Mahatma Gandhi, The Epic of Travancore -
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Faith is the continuation of reason.
- William Adams -
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Work without faith is like an attempt to the bottomless pit.
- Mahatma Gandhi -
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The deepest hunger of a faithfull heart is faithfulness.
- Eliot, Spanish Gypsey -
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Dropped from the zenith like a fallen star.
- Milton -
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How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!
- Old Testament, Isaiah -
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How are the mighty fallen star.
- Old Testament, II Samuel -
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We are none of us infallible, not even youngest.
- W.H.Thompson -
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Passion for fame : a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
- Burke, Speech on American Taxation -
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Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
- Socrates -
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