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When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

- Clifton Fadiman

 

If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.

- Joseph Farrell

 

Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

- William Faulkner

 

If we don't discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

- William Feather

 

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

- William Feather

 

Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.

- Marilyn Ferguson

 

We are what we think; as we desire so do we become! By our thoughts, desires, and habits, we either ascend to the full divine dignity of our nature, or we descend to suffer and learn.

- J.Todd Ferrier

 

The most important thing in a relationship between a man and a woman is that one of them must be good at taking orders.

- Linda Festa

 

It takes a big man to admit when he's wrong, and an even bigger one to keep his mouth shut when he's right.

- Jim Fiebig

 

Ask five economists and you'll get five different explanations (six if one went to Harvard).

- Edgar R. Fiedler

 

We cannot glimpse the essential life of a caged animal, only the shadow of its former beauty.

- Julia Allen Field

 

Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil! If a man has acted right, he has done well, though alone; if wrong, the sanction of all mankind will not justify him.

- Henry Fielding

 

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damned fool about it.

- W. C. Fields

 

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.

- W. C. Fields

 

Once, during prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

- W. C. Fields

 

I like children. Properly cooked.

- W. C. Fields

 

Even a small star shines in the darkness.

- Finnish proverb

 

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

- Charles Fisher

 

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

- Martin H. Fischer

 

Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.

- Paul Fix

 

Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.

- Gustave Flaubert

 

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

- Gustave Flaubert

 

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

- Ferdinand Foch

 

A beautiful woman is the hell of the soul, the purgatory of the purse, and the paradise of the eyes.

- Fontenelle

 

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

- Malcolm S. Forbes

 

It's more fun to arrive at a conclusion than to justify it.

- Malcolm S. Forbes

 

People who never get carried away should be.

- Malcolm S. Forbes

 

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

- Malcolm S. Forbes

 

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.

- Henry Ford

 

Exercise is bunk; if you are healthy, you don't need it; if you are sick, you shouldn't take it.

- Henry Ford

 

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

- Henry Ford

 

Failure is the only opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.

- Henry Ford

 

I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country, and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

- E.M. Forster

 

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

 

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

- Henry Fosdick

 

Genius is the power of lighting one's own fire.

- John Foster

 

Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you...If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it.

- Emmet Fox

 

Human liberation will begin when we understand that our evolution and fulfilment are contingent on the recognition of animal rights and on a compassionate and responsible stewardship of nature.

- Dr Michael W.Fox

 

Health nuts are going to feel stupid one day, lying in the hospital, dying of nothing.

- Redd Foxx

 

It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

- Anatole France

 

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

- Anatole France

 

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

- Anatole France

 

The books that everybody admires are those nobody reads.

- Anatole France

 

I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

- Anatole France

 

Whoever is happy will make others happy, too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery.

- Anne Frank

 

The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes.

- Victor Frank

 

What is to give light must endure burning.

- Victor Frank

 

By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.

- Benjamin Franklin

 

A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

- Frederick the Great

 

All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.

- Edgar Z. Freidenberg

 

Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.

- Anna Freud

 

The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis.

- Sigmund Freud

 

The sense of inferiority and the sense of guilt are exceedingly difficult to distinguish.

- Sigmund Freud

 

...the first man to use abusive language instead of his fists was the founder of civilization.

- Sigmund Freud

 

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

- Milton Friedman

 

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

- Erich Fromm

 

The reason why worry kills more people than hard work is that more people worry than work.

- Robert Frost

 

The Brain is a wonderful organ. It starts the moment you get up and doesn't stop until you get into the office.

- Robert Frost

 

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.

- Robert Frost

 

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

- Robert Frost

 

A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it is all over.

- Robert Frost

 

Anything more than the truth would be too much.

- Robert Frost

 

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

- Robert Frost

 

Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

- Robert Frost

 

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

- Robert Frost

 

There is an inevitable divergence, attributable to the imperfections of the human mind, between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.

- J. William Fulbright

 

We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

- J. William Fulbright

 

Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are, something you give away.

- Robert Fulghum

 

Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.

- R. Buckminster Fuller

 

Either man is obsolete or war is.

- R. Buckminster Fuller

 

Better hazard once than always be in fear.

- Thomas Fuller

 

Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.

- Thomas Fuller

 

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

- Thomas Fuller

 

More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.

- Thomas Fuller

 

Tell me and I forget.
Show me and I remember.
Let me do and I understand.

- Kung Fu-Tse

 

Things that are done it is needless to speak about.... things that are past, it is needless to blame.

- Kung Fu-Tse

 

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it -- this is knowledge.

- Kung Fu-Tse