FANCY

Related Subjects: Desire, Idea, Imagination

1. Exalted ideas of fancy require
   To be clothed in a suitable vesture of phrase.—ARISTOPHANES, The Frogs
   

2. Oh, fancies that might be, oh, facts that are!—BROWNING, Asolando
   

3. Most marvellous and enviable is that fecundity of fancy which can adorn whatever it touches, which can invest naked fact and dry reasoning with unlooked for beauty, make flowers bloom even on the brow of the precipice, and turn even the rock itself into moss and lichens. This faculty is most important for the vivid and attractive exhibition of truth to the minds of men.—THOMAS FULLER
   

4. Ever let the Fancy roam,
   Pleasure never is at home.—KEATS, Fancy
   

5. Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life. as though it were thy last.—MARCUS AURELIUS, Meditations
   

6. Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past and future, while reality is confined to the present.—J. P. RICHTER
   

7. Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.—SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It
   

8. Fancy and humor, early and constantly indulged, may expect an old age overrun with follies.—ISAAC WATTS