| Author | Quote |
Topic |
|---|
| Fairbrother, Nan | "The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do. " | Love |
| Farmer, Hoosier | "Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots. " | Love |
| Farragut, David G. | "Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead! " | War |
| Farrell, Joseph | "As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are. " | Experience |
| Fasulo, Tom | "Surfing on the Internet is like sex; everyone boasts about doing more than they actually do. But in the case of the Internet, it's a lot more. " | Technology |
| Faulkner, William | "The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. " | Art |
| Faulkner, William | "All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. " | Dream |
| Feather, William | "A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it. " | Business |
| Feather, William | "Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. " | Success |
| Feiffer, Jules | "Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid. " | Art |
| Feirstein, Bruce | "The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. " | Science |
| Fellig, Arthur | "When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when you laugh and cry with their laughter and tears, you will know you are on the right track. " | Art |
| Fellini, Federico | "All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. " | Art |
| Fellini, Federico | "Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me. " | Movie |
| Fenelon, Francois | "All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. " | War |
| Ferraro, Geraldine A. | "You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace. " | Peace |
| Ferris, Bob | "Wolves are very resourceful. All they need to survive is for people not to shoot them. " | Nature |
| Ferry, Bryan | "Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off. " | Music |
| Ferry, Bryan | "You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed? " | Music |
| Feynman, Richard P. | "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. " | Technology |
| Fiedler, Edgar R. | "If you have to forecast, forecast often. " | Business |
| Fiedler, Edgar R. | "He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass. " | Business |
| Fiedler, Edgar R. | "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard). " | Business |
| Fiedler, Edgar R. | "The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers. " | Business |
| Fields, W. C. | "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it. " | Success |
| Fierstein, Harvey | "Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. " | Life |
| Finck, Werner | "Everybody wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes. " | Government |
| Finlason, Edward | "Even the Germans did not succeed in doing the damage you propose to do. " | History |
| Finley, James D. | "Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face. " | Imagination |
| Finley, Charlie | "Sweat plus sacrifice equals success. " | Success |
| Firkins, Oscar W. | "All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own. " | Peace |
| Fischer, John | "The thoughts of Plato and Machiavelli... don't seem quite enough armor for a world beset with splitting the atoms, urban guerrillas, nineteen varieties of psychotherapists, amplified guitars, napalm, computers, astronauts, and an atmosphere polluted simultaneously with auto exhaust and TV commercials. " | Society |
| Fischer, Martin Henry | "Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. " | Science |
| Fisher, Carrie | "There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap." " | Success |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott | "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. " | Intelligence |
| Fitzgerald, Zelda | "Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. " | Love |
| Flaubert, Gustave | "Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. " | Poetry |
| Flaubert, Gustave | "Of all lies, art is the least untrue. " | Art |
| Flexner, Abraham | "Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. " | Education |
| Flynt, Larry | "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper. " | Government |
| Foley, Elisabeth | "The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. " | Friendship |
| Fonda, Jane | "If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them. " | Business |
| Forbes, B.C. | "Real riches are the riches possessed inside. " | Business |
| Forbes, B.C. | "If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business." | Business |
| Forbes, B. C. | "He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly. " | Faith |
| Forbes, Malcolm S. | "Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. " | Education |
| Forbes, B. C. | "The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure. " | Success |
| Forbes, Malcolm S. | "Failure is success if we learn from it. " | Success |
| Ford, Gerald R. | "The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time? " | History |
| Ford, Henry | "History is more or less bunk. " | History |
| Ford, Henry | "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. " | Business |
| Ford, Henry | "A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. " | Business |
| Ford, Henry | "The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. " | Business |
| Forster, E. M. | "A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. " | Poetry |
| Forster, E. M. | "Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake. " | Art |
| Forster, E. M. | "To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. " | Art |
| Forster, E. M. | "Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. " | Faith |
| Forstmann, Theodore | "In a state-run society the government promises you security. But it's a false promise predicated on the idea that the opposite of security is risk. Nothing could be further from the truth. The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks. The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side. " | Government |
| Forsyth, Richard | "Many people, other than the authors, contribute to the making of a book, from the first person who had the bright idea of alphabetic writing through the inventor of movable type to the lumberjacks who felled the trees that were pulped for its printing. It is not customary to acknowledge the trees themselves, though their commitment is total. " | Nature |
| Forsyth, Adrian | "Evolutionary biology is now uttering and seeking those forces that link us with all those that have being. " | Science |
| Fosdick, Harry Emerson | "A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of Christ' - are actually transported into personal lives upon the other. " | Religion |
| Fosdick, Henry | "The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst. " | War |
| Fosdick, Harry Emerson | "Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. " | Business |
| Fowles, John | "In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me. " | Nature |
| France, Anatole | "To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all. " | Imagination |
| France, Anatole | "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 know and what you don't. " | Education |
| Frankel, Charles | "Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy. " | Government |
| Franken, Rose | "Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. " | Love |
| Frankfort, Ellen | "Choice has always been a privilege of those who could afford to pay for it. " | Society |
| Franklin, Benjamin | "Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. " | Government |
| Franklin, Benjamin | "He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees." | Peace |
| Franklin, Benjamin | "How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments. " | Religion |
| Franklin, Benjamin | "Even peace may be purchased at too high a price. " | Peace |
| Franklin, Benjamin | "He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. " | Business |
| Franklin, Benjamin | "In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes." | Business |
| Franklin, Benjamin | "There was never a good war or a bad peace. " | War |
| Franklin, Benjamin | "Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. " | Experience |
| Freud, Sigmund | "What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. " | Intelligence |
| Friedman, David | "The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. " | War |
| Friedman, Milton | "We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. " | Society |
| Friedman, Milton | "The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. " | Government |
| Frisch, Max | "Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. " | Technology |
| Fromm, Erich | "Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' " | Love |
| Fromm, Erich | "In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. " | Love |
| Fromm, Erich | "We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake. " | Dream |
| Fromm, Erich | "The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots. " | Society |
| Fromm, Erich | "Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. " | Life |
| Fromm, Erich | "Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? " | Education |
| Frontinus, Sextus Julius | "I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvements I see no further hope. " | War |
| Frost, Robert | "A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. " | Poetry |
| Frost, Robert | "Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out of favor. " | Society |
| Frost, Robert | "To be a poet is a condition, not a profession. " | Poetry |
| Frost, David | "Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. " | Success |
| Frost, Robert | "The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past. " | Poetry |
| Frost, Robert | "Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. " | Poetry |
| Frost, Robert | "Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. " | Love |
| Frost, Robert | "Poetry is what gets lost in translation. " | Poetry |
| Frost, Robert | "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. " | Life |
| Frost, Robert | "Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. " | Education |
| Frost, Robert | "By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. " | Business |
| Fuller, R. Buckminster | "Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. " | Technology |
| Fuller, R. Buckminster | "I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented. " | Technology |
| Fuller, Millard | "It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts. " | Life |
| Fuller, R. Buckminster | "Love is metaphysical gravity. " | Love |
| Fuller, R. Buckminster | "There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. " | Nature |
