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- Clifton Fadiman The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do. - Nan Fairbrother If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs. - Eilliam Feather Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. - William Feather Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing. - William Feather Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them? - Jules Feiffer Bok like a chicken sometimes, it helps. - Jackie Feihle Computer : a million morons working at the speed of light. - David Ferrier It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant. - Richard J. Ferris, president of United Airlines I'm hard-nosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and then one day somebody gives you a job, you can say, Gee, I was lucky I happened to go up there today. But, dammit, I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost make your own fortune. - Jerry Della Femina What did you ask at school today? - Richard Fenyman I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally. - W.C. Fields If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then give up. No use being a damned fool about it. - W.C. Fields Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. - W.C. Fields Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself. - Harvey Fierstein The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. - F. Scott Fitzgerald Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind. - F. Scott Fitzgerald It takes a genius to whine appealingly. - F. Scott Fitzgerald If you sit down and don't see a fish at the table, the fish is you. - Ken Flaton It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper. - Errol Flynn Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. - Malcolm S. Forbes I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done. - Henry Ford (1863-1947) Asking 'who ought to be the boss' is like asking 'who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor. - Henry Ford It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages. - Henry Ford Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it. - Henry Ford Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently. - Henry Ford You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do. - Henry Ford Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. - Henry Ford Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. - Henry Ford Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable. - Eugene Forsey The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. - Harry Emerson Fosdick Quality is never an accident. - Willa A. Foster And the seasons turn and the years go by, but the dark continues on. - Foxglove An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. - Anatole France Make yourself familiar with the angels, and behold them frequently in spirit; for without being seen, they are present with you. - Saint Francis de Sales If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. - St. Francis of Assisi I am responsible only to God and history. - Francisco Franco We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire. - Francois I can't imagine how anyone can say, "I'm lazy," and then remain so. - Anne Frank I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again. - Anne Frank It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. - Anne Frank Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other. - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Well done is better than well said. - Benjamin Franklin Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. - Benjamin Franklin Hide not your talents; they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade? - Benjamin Franklin You find the key to success under the alarm clock. - Benjamin Franklin The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? - Benjamin Franklin They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. - Benjamin Franklin In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes. - Benjamin Franklin The secret of success is constancy to purpose. - Benjamin Franklin Genius without education is like silver in the mine. - Benjamin Franklin Diligence is the mother of good luck. - Benjamin Franklin He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. - Benjamin Franklin If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin Being entirely honest with oneslef is a good exercise. - Sigmund Freud Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. - Sigmund Freud It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is not to make the attempt. - Suellen Fried I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal. - Milton Friedman The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time. - Milton Friedman History suggests that Capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. - Milton Friedman The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap - and they know it. - Fred Friendly The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. - Erich Fromm Modern man thinks he loses something; time; when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains; except kill it. - Erich Fromm A liberal is man too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel. - Robert Frost (1874-1963) Two roads diverged in a wood. I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference. - Robert Frost The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. - Robert Frost Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self confidence. - Robert Frost A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. - Robert Frost A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. - Robert Frost Hell is a half-filled auditorium. - Robert Frost A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. - Robert Frost The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. - Robert Frost We compound our suffering by victimizing each other. - Athol Fugard The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. - R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. - R. Buckminster Fuller I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth. - R. Buckminster Fuller By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions. - R. Buckminster Fuller It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts. - Millard Fuller |