Fadiman, Clifton: A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial. (Clifton Fadiman: U.S. editor, critic, radio and television personality, 1904-1999) Categories: MEMORY, TRIVIA

Fadiman, Clifton: When you re-read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in yourself than there was before. (Clifton Fadiman: U.S. editor, critic, radio and television personality, 1904-1999) Categories: BOOKS, INSIGHT, SELF-AWARENESS

Fallows, James: Always write angry letters to your enemies, but never mail them. (James Fallows: U.S. writer, journalist, and a national correspondent for many journals and magazines, Born 1949) Categories: ANGER, LETTER-WRITING

Farley, Ken: How do you look for life that may not be life as we know it? (Ken Farley: U.S. geochemist and chair of the Division of Geological and Planetary sciences at the California Institute of Technology, Born 1964) Categories: IMAGINATION, LIFE, RESEARCH, ASTRONOMY

Farmer, Nancy: People's souls are like gardens. You can't turn your back on someone because his garden's full of weeds. You have to give him water and lots of sunshine. (Nancy Farmer: U.S. author of children’s and young adults' books, who has received several book awards, Born, 1941) Categories: COMPASSION, SUPPORT

Faulkner, William: A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others. (William Faulkner: U.S. novelist and Nobel Laureate, 1897-1962) Categories: AUTHORS, WRITING

Faulkner, William: Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. (William Faulkner: U.S. novelist and Nobel Laureate, 1897-1962) Categories: SELF-DETERMINATION, SELF-IMPROVEMENT

Faulkner, William: No battle is ever won . . . and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. (William Faulkner: U.S. novelist and Nobel Laureate, 1897-1962) Categories: BATTLES, VICTORY

Faulkner, William: The past is never dead—it is not even past. (William Faulkner: U.S. novelist and Nobel Laureate, 1897-1962) Categories: PAST, MEMORY

Fazli, Nida: Someone is Hindu, someone is Muslim, someone is Christian / Everyone is hell-bent on not becoming a human being. (Nida Fazli: Indian Hindi and Urdu poet, lyricist, and dialogue writer, 1938-2016) Categories: RELIGION

Feather, William: Work is the best method devised for killing time. (William Feather: U.S. publisher, printer, and author, 1889-1981) Categories: IDLENESS, WORK

Feit, Carl: I don't think that by studying science you will be forced to conclude that there must be a God. But if you have already found God, then you can say, from understanding science, "Ah, I see what God has done in the world." (Carl Feit: U.S. cancer biologist at Yeshiva University and a Talmudic scholar, Born 1946) Categories: GOD, RELIGION, SCIENCE

Fellini, Federico: A different language is a different vision of life. (Federico Fellini: Italian film director and screenwriter, 1920-1993) Categories: LANGUAGE

Fellini, Federico: I think that one can have luck if one creates an atmosphere of spontaneity. (Federico Fellini: Italian film director and screenwriter, 1920-1993) Categories: LUCK, SPONTANEITY

Feltham, Owen: By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man. (Owen Feltham: English writer, 1602-1668) Categories: GAMBLING, GAMING

Fenelon, Francois de: All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers . . . . Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born. (Francois de Fenelon: French Roman Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet, and writer, 1651-1715) Categories: HUMANKIND, WAR

Fenelon, Francois de: Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it. (Francois de Fenelon: French Roman Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet, and writer, 1651-1715) Categories: PRAYER

Ferber, Edna: Looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way. (Edna Ferber: U.S. novelist, short story writer, playwright, and Pulitzer Prize recipient, 1885-1968) Categories: MEMORY

Ferguson, Niall: The United States is an empire . . . an empire in denial. (Niall Ferguson: British-American historian and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, Born 1964) Categories: U.S.A.

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence: Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations. (Lawrence Ferlinghetti: U.S. poet and painter, 1919-2021) Categories: POETRY

Ferraro, Geraldine: Some leaders are born women. (Geraldine Ferraro: U.S. politician, diplomat, and attorney who served in the United States House of Representatives and was the the Democratic Party's nominee for vice-president, 1935-2011) Categories: LEADERSHIP, WOMEN

Ferroni, Nicholas: If you are okay with having Muslim, Jewish, and Hindu students sit through Christian prayer in public school, and not okay with having Christian students sit through a Muslim, Jewish, or Hindu prayer, then it’s NOT religious freedom — it’s religious oppression. (Nicholas Ferroni: U.S. award-winning, nationally recognized educator and activist) Categories: RELIGION, TEACHING

Feynman, Richard: If you want to master something, teach it! (Richard Feynman: U.S. theoretical physicist, 1918-1988) Categories: MASTERY

Feynman, Richard: Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry. (Richard Feynman: U.S. theoretical physicist, 1918-1988) Categories: NATURE

Ficke, Arthur D.: A man must learn to forgive himself. (Arthur D. Ficke: U.S. poet, playwright, and expert of Japanese art, 1883-1945) Categories: SELF-FORGIVENESS

Field, Joanna: It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them. (Joanna Field: British author and psychoanalyst, 1900-1998) Categories: GOALS, INACTION

Field, Joanna: The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line. (Joanna Field: British author and psychoanalyst, 1900-1998) Categories: MATURATION, SELF-UNDERSTANDING

Field, Rachel: Memory The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught. (Rachel Field: U.S. award-winning novelist, poet, and children's fiction writer, 1894-1942) Categories: FEAR, MEMORY

Fielding, Henry: Handsome is that handsome does. (Henry Fielding: English novelist, dramatist, London magistrate, and considered to be the founder of London's first police force, 1707-1754) Categories: APPEARANCE, PERSONALITY

Fielding, Henry: Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil. (Henry Fielding: English novelist, dramatist, London magistrate, and considered to be the founder of London's first police force, 1707-1754) Categories: MONEY

Fielding, Henry: Money is the fruit of evil as often as the root of it. (Henry Fielding: English novelist, dramatist, London magistrate, and considered to be the founder of London's first police force, 1707-1754) Categories: EVIL, MONEY

Fielding, Henry: Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason. (Henry Fielding: English novelist, dramatist, London magistrate, and considered to be the founder of London's first police force, 1707-1754) Categories: CLOSE-MINDEDNESS

Fields, Dorothy: No matter where I run, I meet myself there. (Dorothy Fields: U.S. librettist and lyricist who wrote over 400 songs for Broadway musicals and films, 1905-1974) Categories: CONSCIENCE

Fields, W.C.: It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to. (W.C. Fields: U.S. comedian, actor, juggler, and writer, 1880-1946) Categories: SELF-CONFIDENCE, SELF-IDENTITY

Fields, W.C.: It was a woman who drove me to drink — and, you know, I never thanked her for it. (W.C. Fields: U.S. comedian, actor, juggler, and writer, 1880-1946) Categories: WOMEN

Fierstein, Harvey: Accept no one’s definition of your life, define yourself. (Harvey Fierstein: U.S. actor, playwright, and screenwriter, Born 1952) Categories: SELF-CONFIDENCE, SELF-IDENTITY

Finck, Werner: Everybody wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes. (Werner Finck: German comedian, actor, and author, 1902-1978) Categories: POLITICS, SOCIETY

Finley, John: Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty. (John Finley: Canadian singer and songwriter, Born 1945) Categories: MATURITY, UNCERTAINTY

Finnish Proverb: Even a small star shines in the darkness. (Finnish Proverb: ) Categories: DARKNESS

Fischer, Stanley: A good example is worth a thousand theories. (Stanley Fischer: U.S. and Israeli economist, Born 1943) Categories: EXAMPLES, ROLE MODELS

Fisher, Suzanne W.: A man needs a woman to take of him so she can make him strong enough for her to lean on. (Suzanne W. Fisher: U.S. author) Categories:

Fitzgerald, F. S.: Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. (F. S. Fitzgerald: U.S. fiction writer who is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century, 1896-1940) Categories: DEFEAT, PERSEVERANCE

Fitzgerald, F. S.: One should . . . be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. (F. S. Fitzgerald: U.S. fiction writer who is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century, 1896-1940) Categories: DETERMINATION

Fitzgerald, F. S.: Vitality show in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. (F. S. Fitzgerald: U.S. fiction writer who is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century, 1896-1940) Categories: SUCCESS, VITALITY

Fitzgerald, F. S.: Writers aren't exactly people, they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person. (F. S. Fitzgerald: U.S. fiction writer who is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century, 1896-1940) Categories: WRITERS

Fitzgerald, Zelda: Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the human heart can hold. (Zelda Fitzgerald: U.S. socialite, novelist, and painter, 1900-1948) Categories: HEARTFULNESS

Flagg, Fannie: A heart can be broken, but it will keep beating just the same. (Fannie Flagg: U.S. comedian and author, Born 1944) Categories: HEART, LOVE

Flaubert, Gustave: Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work. (Gustave Flaubert: French novelist and author of "Madame Bovary," 1821-1880) Categories: EMPLOYMENT, LIFE, PRODUCTIVITY

Flaubert, Gustave: Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry. (Gustave Flaubert: French novelist and author of "Madame Bovary," 1821-1880) Categories: POETRY, INTERPRETATION

Flaubert, Gustave: What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in! (Gustave Flaubert: French novelist and author of "Madame Bovary," 1821-1880) Categories: IDEAS, WRITING

Fleming, Anne T.: A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time. (Anne T. Fleming: U.S. journalist, novelist, and television commentator, Born 1950) Categories: MARRIAGE

Flemish Proverb: Trees often transplanted seldom prosper. (Flemish Proverb: ) Categories: CHANGE, TREES, TRANSPLANTATION

Fletcher, Andrew: Were I able to make the ballads of a nation, I need not write its laws. Songs . . . of a period reflect what happened more accurately and honestly. (Andrew Fletcher: Scottish Lord of Saltoun, writer, judge, and politician who was an opponent of England’s incorporation of Scotland, 1655-1716) Categories: MUSIC, NATIIONHOOD

Fletcher, Arthur: A mind is a terrible thing to waste, but a wonderful thing to invest in. (Arthur Fletcher: U.S. government official, widely referred to as the 'Father of Affirmative Action,' 1924-2005) Categories: INTELLIGENCE, MIND

Florio, John: Night is the mother of thoughts. (John Florio: British linguist, lexicographer, and a royal language tutor at the Court of James I, 1553-1625) Categories: NIGHT, SLEEP, THOUGHTS

Florio, John: Praise the sea; on shore remain. (John Florio: British linguist, lexicographer, and a royal language tutor at the Court of James I, 1553-1625) Categories: CAUTION, SAFETY

Foley, Elizabeth: The most beautiful discovery that true friends can make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. (Elizabeth Foley: U.S legal theorist and professor of Law, Born 1965) Categories: FRIENDSHIP

Follett, Mary P.: It is not opposition but indifference which separates men (Mary P. Follett: U.S. social worker, pioneer in the fields of organizational theory, who has been called the 'Mother of Modern Management', 1868-1933) Categories: INDIFFERENCE, OPINIONS

Follett, Mary P.: That is always our problem, not how to get control of people, but how all together we can get control of a situation. (Mary P. Follett: U.S. social worker, pioneer in the fields of organizational theory, who has been called the 'Mother of Modern Management', 1868-1933) Categories: COMPROMISE, LEADERSHIP

Follin, G. W.: I have found that it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life. (G. W. Follin: U.S. well-known video game music composer, 1966-2024) Categories: BEHAVIOR, SUCCESS

Fontaine, Jean de la: Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue. (Jean de la Fontaine: French fable writer and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century, 1621-1695) Categories: ABUSERS, POWER

Fontaine, Jean de la: Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them. (Jean de la Fontaine: French fable writer and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century, 1621-1695) Categories: COMMUNICATION, FLATTERY

Fontaine, Jean de la: From a distance it is something, and nearby it is nothing. (Jean de la Fontaine: French fable writer and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century, 1621-1695) Categories: PERCEPTION, ANALYSIS

Fontaine, Jean de la: Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. (Jean de la Fontaine: French fable writer and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century, 1621-1695) Categories: OPPORTUNITIES, PASSION, POSSIBILITIES

Fontaine, Jean de la: One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, whereas I should keep to the butcher's trade. (Jean de la Fontaine: French fable writer and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century, 1621-1695) Categories: CAREERS

Fontaine, Jean de la: Sadness flies away on the wings of time. (Jean de la Fontaine: French fable writer and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century, 1621-1695) Categories: SADNESS, TIME

Foote, Shelby: History is often overly informed by memory rather than by assessing the facts, telling the story, and rendering a judgment. (Shelby Foote: U.S. historian and novelist who wrote a three-volume history of the American Civil War, 1916-2005) Categories: HISTORY, MEMORY

Forbes, B. C.: Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion. (B. C. Forbes: Scottish-born American financial journalist and author who founded Forbes magazine, 1880-1954) Categories: DIFFICULTIES, MOTIVATION

Forbes, B. C.: The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck. (B. C. Forbes: Scottish-born American financial journalist and author who founded Forbes magazine, 1880-1954) Categories: LUCK

Forbes, B. C.: When worried, turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, (B. C. Forbes: Scottish-born American financial journalist and author who founded Forbes magazine, 1880-1954) Categories: WORRY

Forbes, Malcolm: Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs. (Malcolm Forbes: U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of 'Forbes' magazine, 1919-1990) Categories: PERSEVERANCE, DIAMONDS

Forbes, Malcolm: Diversity is the art of thinking independently together. (Malcolm Forbes: U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of 'Forbes' magazine, 1919-1990) Categories: COMMUNICATION, DIVERSITY

Forbes, Malcolm: Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. (Malcolm Forbes: U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of 'Forbes' magazine, 1919-1990) Categories: EDUCATION, LEARNING

Forbes, Malcolm: If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it. (Malcolm Forbes: U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of 'Forbes' magazine, 1919-1990) Categories: EXPECTATIONS

Forbes, Malcolm: If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job. (Malcolm Forbes: U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of 'Forbes' magazine, 1919-1990) Categories: WORK

Forbes, Malcolm: If you never budge, don't expect a push. (Malcolm Forbes: U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of 'Forbes' magazine, 1919-1990) Categories: OBSTINACY, STUBBORNNESS

Forbes, Malcolm: Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are. (Malcolm Forbes: U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of 'Forbes' magazine, 1919-1990) Categories: RETRIBUTION

Forbes, Malcolm: Let your children go if you want to keep them. (Malcolm Forbes: U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of 'Forbes' magazine, 1919-1990) Categories: PARENTHOOD

Forbes, Malcolm: Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same. (Malcolm Forbes: U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of 'Forbes' magazine, 1919-1990) Categories: BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT

Forbes, Malcolm: People who never get carried away should be. (Malcolm Forbes: U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of 'Forbes' magazine, 1919-1990) Categories: EMOTIONS, PASSIONLESS

Forbes, Malcolm: The best vision is insight. (Malcolm Forbes: U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of 'Forbes' magazine, 1919-1990) Categories: INSIGHT, VISION

Forbes, Malcolm: The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open mind. (Malcolm Forbes: U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of 'Forbes' magazine, 1919-1990) Categories: EDUCATION, OPEN-MINDEDNESS

Forbes, Malcolm: Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it. (Malcolm Forbes: U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of 'Forbes' magazine, 1919-1990) Categories: RESPONSIBILITY, LEADERSHIP, AUTHORITY

Forbes, Malcolm: To live your life in the fear of losing it is to lose the point of life. (Malcolm Forbes: U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of 'Forbes' magazine, 1919-1990) Categories: FEAR, LIFE

Forbes, Malcolm: Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat. (Malcolm Forbes: U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of 'Forbes' magazine, 1919-1990) Categories: DEFEAT, VICTORY

Ford, Henry: A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. (Henry Ford: U.S. industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsoring developer of the assembly line technique of mass production, 1863-1947) Categories: BUSINESS

Ford, Henry: Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. (Henry Ford: U.S. industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsoring developer of the assembly line technique of mass production, 1863-1947) Categories: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

Ford, Henry: Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. (Henry Ford: U.S. industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsoring developer of the assembly line technique of mass production, 1863-1947) Categories: TEAMWORK

Ford, Henry: Don't find fault. Find remedy. Anyone can complain. (Henry Ford: U.S. industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsoring developer of the assembly line technique of mass production, 1863-1947) Categories: SOLUTIONS

Ford, Henry: Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. (Henry Ford: U.S. industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsoring developer of the assembly line technique of mass production, 1863-1947) Categories: FAILURE, PERSEVERANCE

Ford, Henry: If Henry Ford had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. (Henry Ford: U.S. industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsoring developer of the assembly line technique of mass production, 1863-1947) Categories: INNOVATION, INVENTORS

Ford, Henry: It is not the employer who pays wages - he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages. (Henry Ford: U.S. industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsoring developer of the assembly line technique of mass production, 1863-1947) Categories: BUSINESS, WAGES

Ford, Henry: It is well enough that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. (Henry Ford: U.S. industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsoring developer of the assembly line technique of mass production, 1863-1947) Categories: MONEY, BANKING

Ford, Henry: Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. (Henry Ford: U.S. industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsoring developer of the assembly line technique of mass production, 1863-1947) Categories: GOALS, OBSTACLES

Ford, Henry: Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. (Henry Ford: U.S. industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsoring developer of the assembly line technique of mass production, 1863-1947) Categories: GOALS, OBSTACLES

Ford, Henry: Think you can, think you can't; either way, you'll be right. (Henry Ford: U.S. industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsoring developer of the assembly line technique of mass production, 1863-1947) Categories: ATTITUDE, NEGATIVISM, POSITIVISM

Ford, Henry: When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. (Henry Ford: U.S. industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsoring developer of the assembly line technique of mass production, 1863-1947) Categories: ADVERSITY, CHALLENGES

Forster, E. M.: How can I know what I think till I see what I say? (E. M. Forster: English novelist, short story writer, essayist, librettist, and sixteen-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1879-1970) Categories: WRITING

Fosdick, Henry E.: Liberty is always dangerous—but it is the safest thing we have. (Henry E. Fosdick: U.S. prominent liberal minister of the early 20th century, 1878-1969) Categories: LIBERTY

Fowler, Gene: Men are not against women; they are merely for themselves. (Gene Fowler: U.S. journalist and author, 1890-1960) Categories: GENDER, MEN, SELF-AWARENESS, WOMEN

Fowley-Doyle, Moira: Do no harm, but take no shit. (Moira Fowley-Doyle: French-Irish author and artist) Categories: BEHAVIOR, CIVILITY

Fox, Margait: Obituaries have next to nothing to do with death and absolutely everything to do with life. (Margait Fox: U.S. writer, Born 1961) Categories: LIFE, OBITUARIES

France, Anatole: A dictionary is the universe in alphabetical order. (Anatole France: French poet, journalist, novelist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1844-1924) Categories: DICTIONARIES

France, Anatole: I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. (Anatole France: French poet, journalist, novelist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1844-1924) Categories: WISDOM, ENTHUSIASM

France, Anatole: If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. (Anatole France: French poet, journalist, novelist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1844-1924) Categories: FOOLISHNESS

France, Anatole: It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel. (Anatole France: French poet, journalist, novelist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1844-1924) Categories: CERTAINTY

France, Anatole: Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. (Anatole France: French poet, journalist, novelist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1844-1924) Categories: LABOR, RELAXATION

France, Anatole: Never lend books—nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me. (Anatole France: French poet, journalist, novelist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1844-1924) Categories: BOOKS, LOANS

France, Anatole: People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them. (Anatole France: French poet, journalist, novelist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1844-1924) Categories: WEAKNESS

France, Anatole: Simple style is like white light. It is complex, but its complexity is not obvious. (Anatole France: French poet, journalist, novelist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1844-1924) Categories: COMPLEXITY, SIMPLICITY

France, Anatole: To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. (Anatole France: French poet, journalist, novelist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1844-1924) Categories: GOALS

Francis, Brendan: Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day. (Brendan Francis: Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright who wrote in both English and Irish, 1923-1964) Categories: ASPIRATIONS, FEARS

Francis, Brendan: Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time. (Brendan Francis: Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright who wrote in both English and Irish, 1923-1964) Categories: FAILURE, TIMING

Francis, Brendan: The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. (Brendan Francis: Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright who wrote in both English and Irish, 1923-1964) Categories: SEX

Frank, Anne: I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn. (Anne Frank: German-born diarist and Jewish victim of the Holocaust, 1929-1945) Categories: WRITING

Frank, Anne: In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit. (Anne Frank: German-born diarist and Jewish victim of the Holocaust, 1929-1945) Categories: GIVINGNESS, KINDNESS

Frank, Anne: Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness. (Anne Frank: German-born diarist and Jewish victim of the Holocaust, 1929-1945) Categories: EDUCATION, ILLUMINATION, LEARNING

Frank, Anne: No one has ever become poor by giving. (Anne Frank: German-born diarist and Jewish victim of the Holocaust, 1929-1945) Categories: GIVING, PHILANTHROPY

Frank, Anne: What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it from happening again. (Anne Frank: German-born diarist and Jewish victim of the Holocaust, 1929-1945) Categories: PLANNING, NEW BEGINNINGS

Frank, Anne: What one Christian does is his own responsibility; what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews. (Anne Frank: German-born diarist and Jewish victim of the Holocaust, 1929-1945) Categories: PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY, STEREOTYPE

Frank, Barney: Anti-abortionists believe that "Life begins at conception and ends at birth." (Barney Frank: U.S. politician who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for 32 years, Born 1940) Categories: ANTI-ABORTION

Frankenberg, Lloyd: The apparent serenity of the past is an oil spread by time. (Lloyd Frankenberg: U.S. poet critic, anthologist, and Guggenheim Fellow in the Creative Arts, 1907-1970) Categories: HISTORY, PAST

Frankfurter, Felix: A free society depends on free universities. (Felix Frankfurter: Austrian-American professor and lawyer who served as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1882-1965) Categories: FREE SPEECH, SOCIETY (U.S.A.), UNIVERSITIES (U.S.A.)

Frankfurter, Felix: It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people. (Felix Frankfurter: Austrian-American professor and lawyer who served as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1882-1965) Categories: HISTORY

Frankfurter, Felix: It simply is not true that war never settles anything. (Felix Frankfurter: Austrian-American professor and lawyer who served as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1882-1965) Categories: WAR

Frankfurter, Felix: To some lawyers, all facts are created equal. (Felix Frankfurter: Austrian-American professor and lawyer who served as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1882-1965) Categories: FACTS, LAWYERS

Frankl, Viktor: Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances. (Viktor Frankl: Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, as well as a Holocaust survivor, 1905-1997) Categories: ATTITUDES, FREEDOM, SELF-DETERMINATION

Frankl, Viktor: It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness. (Viktor Frankl: Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, as well as a Holocaust survivor, 1905-1997) Categories: HAPPINESS

Frankl, Viktor: Never compare suffering. Everyone has their own Auschwitz. (Viktor Frankl: Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, as well as a Holocaust survivor, 1905-1997) Categories:

Frankl, Viktor: Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake. (Viktor Frankl: Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, as well as a Holocaust survivor, 1905-1997) Categories: SOCIETY, SUFFERING, WAR

Frankl, Viktor: When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. (Viktor Frankl: Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, as well as a Holocaust survivor, 1905-1997) Categories: BEHAVIOR, CHALLENGE, CHANGE, SELF-DETERMINATION, SELF-RELIANCE

Franklin, Benjamin: A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: BROTHERS, FRIENDSHIP

Franklin, Benjamin: A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: SELF-RELIANCE

Franklin, Benjamin: A penny saved is a penny earned. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: SAVINGS

Franklin, Benjamin: A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: WORK, STATUS

Franklin, Benjamin: A small leak will sink a great ship. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: VULNERABILITY

Franklin, Benjamin: All would live long, but none would be old. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: AGING

Franklin, Benjamin: An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: EDUCATION, INVESTMENT, KNOWLEDGE

Franklin, Benjamin: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: HEALTH, PREVENTION, CURE

Franklin, Benjamin: An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: WIVES

Franklin, Benjamin: Better to be well done than well said (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: ACCOMPLISHMENTS, ACTION

Franklin, Benjamin: Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: EXPENSES, BUDGETING

Franklin, Benjamin: By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: FAILURE, PLANNING

Franklin, Benjamin: Critics are our friends. They show us our faults. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: CRITICS

Franklin, Benjamin: Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: DEMOCRACY, POLITICS

Franklin, Benjamin: Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: INVOLVEMENT, TIME

Franklin, Benjamin: Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: HEALTH, SLEEP

Franklin, Benjamin: Energy and persistence conquer all things. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: ENERGY, PERSISTENCE, SUCCESS

Franklin, Benjamin: Even peace may be purchased at too high a price. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: PEACE-MAKING, COMPROMISES, SACRIFICES

Franklin, Benjamin: Fatigue is the best pillow. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: FATIGUE

Franklin, Benjamin: God helps them that help themselves. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: SELF-RESPONSIBILITY

Franklin, Benjamin: Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: GUESTS, HOSPITALITY

Franklin, Benjamin: Half the truth is often a great lie. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: AUTHENTICITY, DECEPTION, LIES

Franklin, Benjamin: He that can have patience can have what he will. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: PATIENCE

Franklin, Benjamin: He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: SELF-LOVE

Franklin, Benjamin: I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: RELIGION

Franklin, Benjamin: If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: EDUCATION, TRAINING

Franklin, Benjamin: If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: AGREEABLENESS, CONFORMITY

Franklin, Benjamin: If people empty their purse into their heads, no one can take it away from them, for an investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: EDUCATION, KNOWLEDGE, LEARNING

Franklin, Benjamin: If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: CAUTION, CONSEQUENCES, DECISIONS, IMMORALITY

Franklin, Benjamin: Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: BUSINESS, PERSEVERANCE

Franklin, Benjamin: Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: MARRIAGE

Franklin, Benjamin: Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: LAW

Franklin, Benjamin: Little boats should keep near shore. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: CAUTION

Franklin, Benjamin: Lost time is never found again. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: TIME

Franklin, Benjamin: Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: ENEMIES, SELF-IMPROVEMENT, FAULTS

Franklin, Benjamin: Mine is better than ours. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: OWNERSHIP, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY

Franklin, Benjamin: Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: PROCRASTINATION, TODAY, TOMORROW

Franklin, Benjamin: Perform without fail what you resolve. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: CONVICTIONS, RESOLUTIONS

Franklin, Benjamin: Praise to the undeserving is severe satire. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: PRAISE

Franklin, Benjamin: Reckless youth makes rueful age. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: YOUTH, AGING

Franklin, Benjamin: Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: COMMUNICATION

Franklin, Benjamin: Tell me and I will forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I will understand. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: COMMUNICATION, LEARNING, TEACHING

Franklin, Benjamin: The cat in gloves catches no mice. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: CAUTIOUSNESS, RISK

Franklin, Benjamin: The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: CIVIL RIGHTS, HAPPINESS, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY

Franklin, Benjamin: The good we can do together surpasses the good we can do alone. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: COMMUNICATION, COMMUNITY, VOLUNTEERISM

Franklin, Benjamin: The way to be safe is never to be secure. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: SECURITY, RISK

Franklin, Benjamin: There are no gains without pains. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: COMPENSATION

Franklin, Benjamin: There never was a good war or a bad peace. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: PEACE, WAR

Franklin, Benjamin: Those things that hurt, instruct. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: ADVICE, INFORMATION, HURT

Franklin, Benjamin: Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: SECRECY

Franklin, Benjamin: Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: SECRECY

Franklin, Benjamin: To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: FAITH

Franklin, Benjamin: Today is yesterday's pupil. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: EXPERIENCE, LEARNING

Franklin, Benjamin: We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: IGNORANCE, STUPIDITY

Franklin, Benjamin: We must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: UNITY, DIVERSITY

Franklin, Benjamin: Well done is better than well said. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: ACTION, COMMUNICATION

Franklin, Benjamin: Whatever is born in anger ends in shame. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: ANGER

Franklin, Benjamin: When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: LOSS

Franklin, Benjamin: Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790) Categories: LOVE, MARRIAGE, INFIDELITY

Frazer, James: The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux. (James Frazer: Scottish social anthropologist and folklorist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion, 1854-1941) Categories: CHANGE

Frazier, Charles: Grandparents and grandchildren so often get along very well. Remove one generation—twenty-five years at least—and the anger in both directions dissipates. (Charles Frazier: U.S. novelist who won the 1997 National Book Award for Fiction, Born 1950) Categories: GENERATIONS

Frazier, Charles: The you that you are with others is not you. To be lonesome is to be who you most fully are. (Charles Frazier: U.S. novelist who won the 1997 National Book Award for Fiction, Born 1950) Categories: LONESOMENESS

Frazier, Charles: You'll find that as you grow old, you stop bothering to hide the self you've been all along. (Charles Frazier: U.S. novelist who won the 1997 National Book Award for Fiction, Born 1950) Categories: AGING, SELF-IDENTITY

Freire, Paulo: Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful. (Paulo Freire: Brazilian educator and philosopher who authored "Pedagogy of the Oppressed," 1921-1997) Categories: INDIFFERENCE, POWER, SILENCE

French, Marilyn: Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stones (Marilyn French: U.S. radical feminist author, 1929-2009) Categories: GOALS, OBSTACLES

French Proverb: A bad workman blames his tools. (French Proverb: ) Categories: BLAME, JOBHOLDER

French Proverb: Better an old man'd darling than a young man's slave. (French Proverb: ) Categories: GENDER

French Proverb: Friends are lost by calling too often and by not calling often enough. (French Proverb: ) Categories: COMMUNICATION, FRIENDS

French Proverb: He who steals an egg would steal a cow. (French Proverb: ) Categories: MORALITY, THIEVERY

French Proverb: Ill-gotten gains seldom prosper. (French Proverb: ) Categories: DISHONESTY

French Proverb: Love has no age. (French Proverb: ) Categories: AGING, LOVE

French Proverb: Love is friendship set on fire. (French Proverb: ) Categories: LOVE

French Proverb: Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. (French Proverb: ) Categories: LOVE

French Proverb: No rose without a thorn. (French Proverb: ) Categories: ACCEPTANCE

French Proverb: One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to void it. (French Proverb: ) Categories: DESTINY, AVOIDANCE

French Proverb: Only he who does nothing makes no mistakes. (French Proverb: ) Categories: LIFE, MISTAKES

French Proverb: The price spoils the pleasure. (French Proverb: ) Categories: PLEASURE, PRICE

French Proverb: There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. (French Proverb: ) Categories: CONSCIENCE

French Proverb: Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it. (French Proverb: ) Categories: CRIME, GUILT

Freud, Anna: Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. (Anna Freud: Austrian-British psychoanalyst, 1895-1982) Categories: CREATIVITY, TRAINING, INSTRUCTION

Freud, Sigmund: A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror. (Sigmund Freud: Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, 1856-1939) Categories: SONS

Freud, Sigmund: Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. (Sigmund Freud: Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, 1856-1939) Categories: SELF-AWARENESS, INTROSPECTION

Freud, Sigmund: Hatred of Judaism is at bottom hatred of Christianity (Sigmund Freud: Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, 1856-1939) Categories: CHRISTIANITY, RELIGION, JUDAISM

Freud, Sigmund: In the small matters, trust the mind; in the large ones, the heart. (Sigmund Freud: Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, 1856-1939) Categories: HEART

Freud, Sigmund: No mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore. (Sigmund Freud: Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, 1856-1939) Categories: SECRECY

Freud, Sigmund: One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. (Sigmund Freud: Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, 1856-1939) Categories: MEMORIES, STRUGGLES

Freud, Sigmund: What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. (Sigmund Freud: Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, 1856-1939) Categories: BOOK-BANNING, BOOKS, CENSORSHIP

Freud, Sigmund: When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life. (Sigmund Freud: Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, 1856-1939) Categories: RELIGION

Friedan, Betty: It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself. (Betty Friedan: U.S. writer, activist, and feminist who is credited with sparking the second wave of U.S. feminism, 1963-2006) Categories: SELF-IDENTITY

Friedman, Michael: Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it. (Michael Friedman: U.S. composer and lyricist, l975-2017) Categories: CONCENTRATION, GOALS, PREPARATION

Friedman, Milton: Inflation is one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation. (Milton Friedman: U.S. economist who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, 1912-2006) Categories: INFLATION, ECONOMICS

Friedman, Thomas L.: Today, our social media experiences are designed in a way that favors broadcasting over engagements, posts over discussions, and shallow comments over deep conversations. (Thomas L. Friedman: U.S. author, foreign affairs columnist, and Pulitzer Prize winner, Born 1953) Categories: COMMUNICATION, SOCIAL MEDIA

Friedman, Thomas L.: We live in a world of continuous partial attention. (Thomas L. Friedman: U.S. author, foreign affairs columnist, and Pulitzer Prize winner, Born 1953) Categories: DISTRACTIONS, MULTI-TASKING

Friedmann, Jerome I.: Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge. (Jerome I. Friedmann: U.S. Physicist Professor Emeritus at Michigan Institute of Technology who won a Nobel Prize for the discovery of quarks, Born, 1930) Categories: FORGIVENESS, REVENGE

Frisch, Max: I feel fairly certain that my hatred harms me more than the people whom I hate. (Max Frisch: Swiss architect, playwright, and novelist, 1911-1991) Categories: HATRED

Frisch, Max: Technology . . . the knack of so arranging the world so that we don’t have to experience it. (Max Frisch: Swiss architect, playwright, and novelist, 1911-1991) Categories: TECHNOLOGY

Frohman, Charles: Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life. (Charles Frohman: U.S. theater manager and producer who discovered and promoted many stars of the American stage, 1856-1915) Categories: DEATH

Fromm, Erich: Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties (Erich Fromm: German-American psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, and humanistic philosopher, 1900-1980) Categories: CERTAINTY, CREATIVITY

Fromm, Erich: Free man is by necessity insecure; thinking man by necessity, uncertain. (Erich Fromm: German-American psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, and humanistic philosopher, 1900-1980) Categories: UNCERTAINTY

Fromm, Erich: If I am what I have, and if I lose what I have, who then am I? (Erich Fromm: German-American psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, and humanistic philosopher, 1900-1980) Categories: POSSESSIONS, SELF-IDENTITY

Fromm, Erich: Immature love says 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' (Erich Fromm: German-American psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, and humanistic philosopher, 1900-1980) Categories: LOVE

Fromm, Erich: Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity. (Erich Fromm: German-American psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, and humanistic philosopher, 1900-1980) Categories: HONESTY, INTEGRITY, SELF-IDENTITY

Fromm, Erich: Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. (Erich Fromm: German-American psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, and humanistic philosopher, 1900-1980) Categories: LIFE, LOVE

Fromm, Erich: Man is the only animal that can be bored. (Erich Fromm: German-American psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, and humanistic philosopher, 1900-1980) Categories: BOREDOM

Fromm, Erich: One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. (Erich Fromm: German-American psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, and humanistic philosopher, 1900-1980) Categories: SADNESS, SOCIETY

Fromm, Erich: The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. (Erich Fromm: German-American psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, and humanistic philosopher, 1900-1980) Categories: REBELLION

Fromm, Erich: The ultimate choices for a man . . . are to create or destroy, to love or to hate. (Erich Fromm: German-American psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, and humanistic philosopher, 1900-1980) Categories: CHOICES

Fromm, Erich: Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers. (Erich Fromm: German-American psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, and humanistic philosopher, 1900-1980) Categories: POSSIBILITIES, UNCERTAINTY

Frost, Robert: 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: U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963) Categories: BANKING

Frost, Robert: A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. (Robert Frost: U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963) Categories: POETRY

Frost, Robert: A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. (Robert Frost: U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963) Categories: JURIES, LAWYERS

Frost, Robert: All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you brings up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew. (Robert Frost: U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963) Categories: THINKING

Frost, Robert: Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich. (Robert Frost: U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963) Categories: FATHERHOOD, U.S.A., PARENTING

Frost, Robert: By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day. (Robert Frost: U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963) Categories: CAREERS, WORK

Frost, Robert: Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire. (Robert Frost: U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963) Categories: DANCING, ROMANCE

Frost, Robert: Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. (Robert Frost: U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963) Categories: CIRCUMSTANCES, DECISIONS

Frost, Robert: Ends and beginnings — there are no such things. There are only middles. (Robert Frost: U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963) Categories: TRANSITIONS

Frost, Robert: Good fences make good neighbors. (Robert Frost: U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963) Categories: NEIGHBORS, FENCES

Frost, Robert: Home is the place where, when you have to go there / They have to take you in. (Robert Frost: U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963) Categories: HOME

Frost, Robert: In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. (Robert Frost: U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963) Categories: LIFE

Frost, Robert: No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. (Robert Frost: U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963) Categories: EMOTIONS, WRITERS

Frost, Robert: The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected. (Robert Frost: U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963) Categories: AGING, LIFE

Frost, Robert: The best way out is always through. (Robert Frost: U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963) Categories: CHALLENGES, DECISIONS, PROBLEM-SOLVING

Frost, Robert: The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. (Robert Frost: U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963) Categories: WORRY

Frost, Robert: Two roads diverged in the wood and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. (Robert Frost: U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963) Categories: CHOICES, INDEPENDENCE

Frost, Robert: Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. (Robert Frost: U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963) Categories: POETRY

Frost, Robert: You have freedom when you're easy in your harness. (Robert Frost: U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963) Categories: FREEDOM, SELF-AWARENESS

Froude, James A.: Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal. (James A. Froude: English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor, 1818-1894) Categories: HUMANKIND

Froude, James A.: Mistakes are often the best teachers. (James A. Froude: English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor, 1818-1894) Categories: LEARNING, MISTAKES

Froude, James A.: Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous. (James A. Froude: English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor, 1818-1894) Categories: INSINCERITY

Froude, James A.: The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies. (James A. Froude: English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor, 1818-1894) Categories: HISTORIANS, ACCURACY

Froude, James A.: You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge one for yourself. (James A. Froude: English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor, 1818-1894) Categories: SELF-INITIATIVE

Frye, Northrop: Literature encourages tolerance -- bigots and fanatics seldom have any use for the arts. (Northrop Frye: Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of the most influential of the 20th century, 1912-1991) Categories: ARTS, LITERATURE

Frye, Northrop: The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book. (Northrop Frye: Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of the most influential of the 20th century, 1912-1991) Categories: BOOKS

Fuentes, Carlos: The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century. (Carlos Fuentes: Mexican novelist, essayist, and diplomat, 1928-2012) Categories: JOURNALISM, MEDIA, PHOTOGRAPHY

Fuentes, Carlos: The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian, and Caribbean history of the United States. (Carlos Fuentes: Mexican novelist, essayist, and diplomat, 1928-2012) Categories: DIVERSITY, EDUCATION, HISTORY, PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY, U.S.A.

Fulbright, William: International education turns nations into people. (William Fulbright: U.S. senator who supported the creation of the United Nations, 1905-1995) Categories: INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION

Fulghum, Robert: Do not worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. (Robert Fulghum: U.S. author and Unitarian Universalist minister, Born 1937) Categories: PARENTING

Fulghum, Robert: Infinite possibility in all things is a certainty. (Robert Fulghum: U.S. author and Unitarian Universalist minister, Born 1937) Categories: CERTAINTY, POSSIBILITIES

Fulghum, Robert: Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief. (Robert Fulghum: U.S. author and Unitarian Universalist minister, Born 1937) Categories: ADVERSITY, GRIEF, LOVE

Fulghum, Robert: When I think of the sorrows and regrets of my life, not one of them is associated with the times I’ve stopped working and took time off to play. (Robert Fulghum: U.S. author and Unitarian Universalist minister, Born 1937) Categories: PLAY, WORK

Fuller, Buckminster: Dare to be naive. (Buckminster Fuller: U.S. architect, designer, and inventor, 1895-1983) Categories: NAIVETE

Fuller, Buckminster: Either war is obsolete, or men are. (Buckminster Fuller: U.S. architect, designer, and inventor, 1895-1983) Categories: WAR

Fuller, Buckminster: I call intuition cosmic fishing. You feel a nibble, then you've got to hook the fish. (Buckminster Fuller: U.S. architect, designer, and inventor, 1895-1983) Categories: INTUITION

Fuller, Buckminster: People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching. (Buckminster Fuller: U.S. architect, designer, and inventor, 1895-1983) Categories: DANGER, SECURITY, RESCUE

Fuller, Buckminster: The most important fact about Spaceship Earth: an instruction book didn't come with it. (Buckminster Fuller: U.S. architect, designer, and inventor, 1895-1983) Categories: ENVIRONMENT, EARTH

Fuller, Buckminster: We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody. (Buckminster Fuller: U.S. architect, designer, and inventor, 1895-1983) Categories: CIVILIZATION, PEACE-MAKING

Fuller, Buckminster: You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. (Buckminster Fuller: U.S. architect, designer, and inventor, 1895-1983) Categories: CHANGE, INNOVATION

Fuller, Margaret: A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. (Margaret Fuller: U.S. author, critic, and women's rights advocate, 1810-1850) Categories: FAMILY, HOME, PARENTHOOD

Fuller, Margaret: If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. (Margaret Fuller: U.S. author, critic, and women's rights advocate, 1810-1850) Categories: KNOWLEDGE, TEACHING

Fuller, Thomas: A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661) Categories: JUSTICE, LAW, PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY

Fuller, Thomas: A good life is the only religion. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661) Categories: RELIGION

Fuller, Thomas: A stumble may prevent a fall. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661) Categories: WARNING, MISSTEPS

Fuller, Thomas: Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661) Categories: BLAME, CRITICISM, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY

Fuller, Thomas: All things are difficult before they are easy. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661) Categories: CHALLENGES, MASTERY, PERSISTENCE, PRACTICE

Fuller, Thomas: Better give a shilling than lend and lose half a crown. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661) Categories: CHARITY, LENDING

Fuller, Thomas: Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661) Categories: COMMITMENT, POWER

Fuller, Thomas: Good is not good, where better is expected. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661) Categories: EXPECTATIONS, PERFORMANCE

Fuller, Thomas: Great and good are seldom the same man. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661) Categories: GREATNESS

Fuller, Thomas: He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661) Categories: COMMUNICATION, MARRIAGE

Fuller, Thomas: He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661) Categories: SELF-IMAGE

Fuller, Thomas: He that knows little often repeats it. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661) Categories: IGNORANCE

Fuller, Thomas: He that knows little, often repeats it. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661) Categories: IGNORANCE

Fuller, Thomas: He that plants trees loves others besides himself. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661) Categories: ENVIRONMENT

Fuller, Thomas: He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661) Categories: RISK

Fuller, Thomas: He that would have fruit must climb the tree. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661) Categories: ASPIRATIONS, CHALLENGES, GOALS, INITIATIVE

Fuller, Thomas: If you pay not a servant his wages, he will pay himself. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661) Categories: CONSEQUENCES, COMPENSATION

Fuller, Thomas: In fair weather prepare for foul. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661) Categories: PREPAREDNESS

Fuller, Thomas: It is better to have a hen tomorrow than an egg today. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661) Categories: PLANNING

Fuller, Thomas: It’s always darkest just before dawn. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661) Categories: HOPE

Fuller, Thomas: Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage; and half shut afterward. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661) Categories: MARRIAGE

Fuller, Thomas: Nothing is easy to the unwilling. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661) Categories: UNWILLINGNESS

Fuller, Thomas: One may miss the mark by aiming too high, as too low. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661) Categories: ESTIMATION

Fuller, Thomas: Pride had rather go out of the way than go behind. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661) Categories: PRIDE, SELF-WORTH

Fuller, Thomas: Prospect is often better than possession. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661) Categories: GOALS

Fuller, Thomas: Riches enlarge, rather than satisfy appetites. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661) Categories: WEALTH

Fuller, Thomas: That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661) Categories: MEMORY

Fuller, Thomas: The pleasures of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661) Categories: INEQUITY, POVERTY, WEALTH

Fuller, Thomas: The real difference between men is energy. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661) Categories: ENERGY, VOLITION

Fuller, Thomas: What a day may bring a day may take away. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661) Categories: UNPREDICTABILITY

Fussell, Paul Jr.: Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it. (Paul Fussell Jr.: U.S. cultural and literary historian, author, and professor, 1924-2012) Categories: SOCIETY, WAR