Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

Authors by Name: 'F':

Frederick William Faber (2)

They always win who side with God.

Clifton Paul Fadiman (3)

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

Cyril Falls (2)

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.

Michael Faraday (2)

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.

George Farquhar (4)

Those who know the least obey the best.

William Feather (22)

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Federico Fellini (4)

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

Francois Fenelon (3)

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

Edna Ferber (5)

Living the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

Alex Ferguson (2)

If I have my health I can carry on. There will be a point when I do quit but I have absolutely no idea when that is.

Enrico Fermi (2)

Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Richard P. Feynman (3)

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Henry Fielding (5)

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Sarah Fielding (2)

The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.

W. C. Fields (24)

Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.

Harvey S. Firestone (6)

I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.

Ernst Fischer (2)

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

M. F. K. Fisher (2)

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

Ella Fitzgerald (2)

The only thing better than singing is more singing.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (14)

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

Robert Fitzgerald (2)

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

Gustave Flaubert (30)

I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.

John Florio (3)

A good husband makes a good wife.

Errol Flynn (2)

My father was never anti-anything in our house.

Malcolm Forbes (12)

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

B. C. Forbes (10)

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Henry Ford (32)

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

George Foreman (2)

I get up in the morning looking for an adventure.

Nathan Bedford Forrest (2)

I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.

E. M. Forster (26)

History develops, art stands still.

Harry Emerson Fosdick (6)

Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.

Michel Foucault (2)

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

Gene Fowler (2)

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

Emmet Fox (4)

It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.

Redd Foxx (4)

A girl's legs are her best friends... but even the best of friends must part.

Anatole France (20)

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

Felix Frankfurter (6)

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Benjamin Franklin (96)

At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment.

Sigmund Freud (26)

If youth knew if age could.

Anna Freud (3)

We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.

Ford Frick (2)

Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.

Max Frisch (7)

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Charles Frohman (2)

Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.

Erich Fromm (16)

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

Robert Frost (50)

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

James Anthony Froude (7)

We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.

Du Fu (2)

This cream will help one's nature strengthen and grow, The diet gives support in my decline.

Thomas Fuller (45)

Better be alone than in bad company.

Margaret Fuller (9)

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

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