FABLES : What is history but a fable that is agreed upon? (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821)

FABRICATION : We tell ourselves stories in order to live. (Joan Didion: U.S. writer and nominee for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography/Autobiography, Born 1934)

FACELIFT : Happiness is the best facelift. (Diana Krall: Canadian pianist and contralto vocalist, Born 1964)

FACTS : A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person. (Edgar W. Howe: U.S. novelist and newspaper and magazine editor 1853-1937)

FACTS : Everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not his own facts. (Daniel P. Moynihan: U.S. politician and sociologist, 1927-2003)

FACTS : Fact is richer than diction. (J.L. Austin: , British philosopher of language, 1911-1960)

FACTS : Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. (Laurence J. Peter: Canadian educator best known for the formulation of the 'Peter Principle- managers rise to the level of their incompetence,' 1919-1990)

FACTS : Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes . . . they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. (John Q. Adams: U.S. politician who served as the sixth President of the United States, 1767-1848)

FACTS : Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit. (G. K. Chesterton: English writer, philosopher, literary and art critic, known as the 'Prince of Paradox,' 1874-1936)

FACTS : Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. (Unknown Source: )

FACTS : Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Unknown Source: )

FACTS : It is a capital mistake to . . . twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. (Unknown Source: )

FACTS : Men are divided in opinion as to the facts. And even granting the facts, they explain them in different ways. (Edwin Abbott: English schoolmaster and theologian, 1838-1926)

FACTS : Principles become modified in practice by facts. (James F. Cooper: U.S. writer whose books focused on the history of the U.S. frontier and native-American life, 1789-1851)

FACTS : Science is built with facts as a house is with stones, but a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. (Jules H. Poincare: French polymath —mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science,1854-1912)

FACTS : The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly. (Ogden Nash: U.S. poet well known for his light and humorous verse,1902-1971)

FACTS : The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion. (Arnold H. Glasow: U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)

FACTS : The great tragedy of science—the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. (Thomas H. Huxley: English biologist and anthropologist specializing in comparative anatomy and was an advocate of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, 1825-1895)

FACTS : The reason facts don’t change most people’s opinions is because most people don’t use facts to form their opinion. They use their opinions to form their ‘facts’. (Neil Strauss: U.S. author, journalist, and ghost writer, Born 1969)

FACTS : There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

FACTS : To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact. (Charles Darwin: English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution, 1809-1882)

FACTS : 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)

FACTS : We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them. (Unknown Source: )

FACTS : When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith (Edith Hamilton: U.S. educator and internationally known author of her best-selling books on ancient Greek and Roman civilizations, 1867-1963)

FAILURE : A minute’s success pays the failure of years. (Robert Browning: English poet and playwright, 1812-1889)

FAILURE : As soon as I place the blame for my failure upon someone else, I limit my opportunities for growth. (Leo Buscaglia: U.S professor and a motivational speaker, 1924-1998)

FAILURE : 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)

FAILURE : Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. (Dale Carnegie: U.S. developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, public speaking, and interpersonal skills, 1888-1955)

FAILURE : Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once (Drew Houston: U.S. Internet entrepreneur, and the co-founder and CEO of Dropbox, Born 1983)

FAILURE : Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. (Samuel Beckett: Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator, 1906-1989)

FAILURE : 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)

FAILURE : Failure is a disappointment but not defeat. (Jeanne Robertson: U.S. humorist, born 1943)

FAILURE : Failure is an event, never a person. (Zip Ziglar: U.S. author, salesman, and motivational speaker, 1926-2012)

FAILURE : Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. John (John Dewey: U.S. philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, 1859-1952)

FAILURE : Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right. (Marian W. Edelman: U.S. activist for civil rights and children's rights, Born 1939)

FAILURE : Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital. (Daniel Webster: U.S. politician who served as U.S. Secretary of State, 1782-1852)

FAILURE : Failure is not in losing, but in no longer believing that winning is worthwhile. (Unknown Source: )

FAILURE : Failure is not sweet, but it need not be bitter. (Unknown Source: )

FAILURE : Failure is often the fire that forges the steel. (Paul T. Jones: U.S. financier and philanthropist, Born 1954)

FAILURE : Failure is part of being human. (Unknown Source: )

FAILURE : 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)

FAILURE : Failure is something made only by those who fail to dare, not by those who dare to fail. (Louis Binstock: U.S. Rabbi, 1895-1974)

FAILURE : Failure is sometimes a matter of not trying rather than not succeeding. (Sarah Blakely: U.S. billionaire businesswoman, Born 1971)

FAILURE : Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. (Truman Capote: U.S. novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor, 1924-1984)

FAILURE : Failure is the foundation of success, and the means by which it is achieved. (Lao Tzu: Chinese philosopher and writer who is the reputed founder of philosophical Taoism, 604—531 B.C.E.)

FAILURE : Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success. (Charles F. Kettering: U.S. inventor, engineer, businessman, the holder of 186 patents, and founder of the Kettering Foundation for research, 1876-1958)

FAILURE : Favor will come after many failures. (Unknown Source: )

FAILURE : Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. (William Saroyan: Award-winning Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer, 1908-1981)

FAILURE : I can accept failure. But I can’t accept not trying. (Michael Jordan: U.S. businessman and former professional basketball player, Born 2963)

FAILURE : I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time. (Herbert B. Swope, Jr.: U.S. producer of movies and plays, journalist, lecturer, and book reviewer. 1915-20008)

FAILURE : I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb. (Thomas A. Edison: U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

FAILURE : I failed my way to success. (Thomas A. Edison: U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

FAILURE : I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down. (Allen H. Neuharth: U.S. businessman, author, columnist, and founder of 'USA Today,' 1924-2013)

FAILURE : I really think a champion is defined not by their wins, but by how they can recover when they fall. (Serena Williams: U.S. professional award-winning tennis player, Born 1981)

FAILURE : I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating (Sophocles: Greek playwright who wrote over 120 plays, a few of which have survived, 496—406 B.C.E.)

FAILURE : If you're not failing, you're not trying anything. (Steve Allen: U.S. television host, musician, actor, comedian, and writer, 1921-2000)

FAILURE : Lack of will power has caused more failures than lack of intelligence or ability. (Flower A. Newhouse: U.S. Christian mystic and spiritual teacher, 1909-1994)

FAILURE : Let us not be needlessly bitter; certain failures are sometimes fruitful. (Emil M. Cioran: Romanian philosopher and essayist who published works in both Romanian and French, 1911-1995)

FAILURE : Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. (Thomas A. Edison: U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

FAILURE : Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. (Napoleon Hill: U.S. self-help author whose books focused on principles to achieve success, 1883-1970)

FAILURE : Most people don't plan to fail, they fail to plan. (John L. Beckley: U.S. athlete and writer, Born 1971)

FAILURE : Nothing succeeds like failure. (Rebecca West: British author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer, 1892-1983)

FAILURE : People fail forward to success. (Mary K. Ash: U.S. businesswoman and founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics, 1918-2001)

FAILURE : Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. (Edward Dowden: Irish critic, professor, and poet, 1843-19113)

FAILURE : Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall. (Muhammad Ali: U.S. professional boxer, activist, entertainer, poet, and philanthropist, 1942-2016)

FAILURE : Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965)

FAILURE : The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried. (Stephen McCrainie: U.S. writer and illustrator of an all-ages graphic novel series, Born 1987)

FAILURE : The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures. (Humphrey Davy: Cornish chemist and inventor, 1778-1829)

FAILURE : The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. (George Eliot: English novelist [pen name of Mary Ann Evans], poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, 1819-1880)

FAILURE : The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down. (Stephen Richards: British self-help author)

FAILURE : The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success. (Unknown Source: )

FAILURE : The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success. (John Wooden: U.S. basketball coach who at UCLA held an unprecedented record of NCAA national championships, 1910-2010)

FAILURE : There is no failure except in no longer trying. (Elbert Hubbard: U.S. leader of community arts, author, editor, printer, and philosopher, 1856-1915)

FAILURE : This thing that we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down. (Mary Pickford: Canadian-American film actress and producer, 1892-1979)

FAILURE : Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. (John F. Kennedy: U.S. politician who served as the 35th president of the United States in 1961 until his assassination, 1917-1963)

FAILURE : Those who try and fail are much wiser than those who never try for fear of failure. (Andre Bustanoby: French-American Visual Effects Supervisor and Design Engineer, Born 1064)

FAILURE : Try again, fail again. Fail better. (Samuel Butler: English author, 1835-1902)

FAILURE : We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring. (David Grayson: U.S. journalist and historian, 1870-1946)

FAILURE : You always pass failure on the way to success. (Mickey Rooney: U.S. actor, singer, and dancer, 1920-2014)

FAILURE : You have not failed until you quit trying. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

FAILURE : You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. (Beverly Sills: U.S. operatic soprano singer, 1929-2007)

FAILURES : A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result. (Gisela Richter: British-American classical archaeologist and art historian, 1882-1972)

FAILURES : Failure often occurs when a pioneer is facing new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression. (Eric Hoffer: U.S. moral and social philosopher and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1983)

FAILURES : Half the failures in life come from pulling one's horse in when he is leaping. (Augustus W. Hare: British writer who authored a history of Germany, 1792-1834)

FAILURES : Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes. (Pearl Buck: U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

FAILURES : The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures, but the one who turns failures to best account. (Richard R. Grant: U.S. Professor of Finance and Economics, 1939-2014)

FAIRNESS : All’s fair in love and war. (Francis Smedley: English novelist, 1818-1864)

FAIRNESS : Life guarantees a chance—not a fair shake. (Unknown Source: )

FAIRNESS : The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. (Groucho Marx: U.S. writer, comedian, stage, film and television star, 1890-1977)

FAIRWELL : Sweets to the sweet. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

FAIRY TALES : Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. (Neil Gaiman: British author and producer whose works include novels, comic books, and screenplays, Born 1960)

FAIRY TALES : Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed. (G. K. Chesterton: English writer, philosopher, literary and art critic, known as the 'Prince of Paradox,' 1874-1936)

FAITH : Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. (Eric Hoffer: U.S. moral and social philosopher and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1983)

FAITH : Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith. (Percy B. Shelley: English Romantic poet, who is regarded by some as among the finest lyric and philosophical poets in the English language, 1792-1822)

FAITH : Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

FAITH : Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

FAITH : Faith . . . acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence. (John H. Newman: Anglican priest, poet, theologian, and later a Catholic cardinal, 1801-1890)

FAITH : Faith and doubt both are needed, not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. (Lillian Smith: U.S. writer and social critic of the Southern United States, 1897-1066)

FAITH : Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed. (Unknown Source: )

FAITH : Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits. (Dan Barker: U.S. atheist but former preacher, musician, Born 1949)

FAITH : Faith is a fine invention / For gentlemen who see -- / But microscopes are prudent / In an emergency. (Emily Dickinson: U.S. poet, 1830-1886)

FAITH : Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

FAITH : Faith is a passionate intuition. (William Wordsworth: English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature, 1770-1850)

FAITH : Faith is knowing there is an ocean when you can only see the stream. (Unknown Source: )

FAITH : Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light. (Unknown Source: )

FAITH : Faith is like radar that sees through the fog—the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see. (Corrie Ten Boom: Dutch watchmaker who helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust and was sent to a Nazi concentration camp, but later was a Christian writer and public speaker,1892-1983)

FAITH : Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us. (David Wolpe: U.S. Jewish rabbi, named the most influential rabbi in the U.S. by 'Newsweek' magazine and identified as one of the 50 most influential Jews in the world by the 'Jerusalem Post,' Born 1958)

FAITH : Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see. (William N. Clark: U.S. Baptist theologian and professor, 1840-1912)

FAITH : Faith is to believe what we do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what we believe. (St. Augustine: Roman African, early Christian theologian and whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy, 354-430 A.D.)

FAITH : Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying. (Mason Cooley: U.S. aphorist, Born 1927)

FAITH : Faith sees best in the dark. (Soren, Kierkegaard: Danish philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher, 1813-1855)

FAITH : Fear is the absence of faith. (Paul Tillich: German-American Christian existentialist philosopher and Lutheran Protestant theologian who is widely regarded as one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century, 1886-1965)

FAITH : Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo, no one was there. (Unknown Source: )

FAITH : Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier. (Unknown Source: )

FAITH : I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it. (Stanley Baldwin: British Conservative statesman who served as Prime Minister on three occasions, 1867-1947)

FAITH : I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels. (Pearl Buck: U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

FAITH : If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology. (E. O. Wilson: U.S. biologist, researcher, and theorist, Born 1929)

FAITH : In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice. (Jerry Coyne: U.S. scientist and biology professor, known for his numerous publications on the theory of evolution, Born, 1949)

FAITH : It is the heart which experiences God, and not the reason. This, then, is faith in God felt by the heart, not by the reason. (Blaise Pascal: French mathematician, physicist, inventor, and writer who wrote in defense of the scientific method, 1623-1662)

FAITH : Prayer is the key, but faith unlocks the door. (Unknown Source: )

FAITH : Reason is the enemy of faith. (Martin Luther: German professor of theology, composer, priest, and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation, 1483-1546)

FAITH : The attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be. (Alan Watts: British philosopher who interpreted and popularized Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. 1915-1973)

FAITH : There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. (Alfred L. Tennyson: British poet who was the Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during most of Queen Victoria's reign, 1809-1892)

FAITH : 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)

FAITH : When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith (Edith Hamilton: U.S. educator and internationally known author of her best-selling books on ancient Greek and Roman civilizations, 1867-1963)

FAITH : You have to believe in gods to see them. (Hopi proverb: )

Faithfulness : A faithful friend is the medicine of life. (Apocrypha: Ancient biblical wrtings, 400 B.C.E.-1 A.D.)

FALSEHOODS : Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

FALSEHOODS : It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. (Thomas Paine: U.S. political activist, and as a revolutionary he was one of the Founders of the United States of America, 1737-1809)

FALSEHOODS : What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your tongue. (Jewish proverb: )

FAME : A pedestal is as much a prison as any small space. (Gloria Steinem: U.S. feminist, journalist, and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s, Born 1934)

FAME : Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows. (Michel de Montaigne: French philosopher and essayist, whose work contains some of the most influential essays ever written, 1533-1592)

FAME : Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds. (Socrates: Classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought, c. 470-399 B.C.E.)

FAME : Fame is very agreeable, but . . . it goes on 24 hours a day. (Gabriel G. Marquez: Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1927-2014)

FAME : If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. (Horace Mann: U.S. politician and educational reformer, 1796-1859)

FAME : The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong. (Karl Popper: Austrian-born British philosopher, academic, social commentator, and one of the 20th century's most influential philosophers of science, 1902-1994)

FAME : What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous. (Voltaire: French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)

FAMILIARITY : Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. (William Hazlitt: English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher, 1778-1830)

FAMILIARITY : We only start to value things that we have when we start losing them (Unknown Source: )

FAMILIES : The family with an old person in it possesses a jewel. (Chinese Proverb: )

FAMILIES : There are no illegitimate children—only illegitimate parents. (Leon R. Yankwich: U.S. Federal judge, 1888-1975)

FAMILY : 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)

FAMILY : As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them. (Josh Billings: U.S. columnist and humorist, 1818-1885)

FAMILY : Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. (George Washington: U.S. politician and soldier who served as the first President of the United States and was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, 1732-1799)

FAMILY : Blood is thicker than water. (German Proverb: )

FAMILY : Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. (Lewis Mumford: U.S. historian, literary critic, sociologist, and philosopher of technology, noted for his study of cities and urban architecture, 1895-1990)

FAMILY : Fortunate are the people whose roots are deep. (Agnes Meyer: U.S. journalist, philanthropist, civil rights activist, and art patron, 1887-1970)

FAMILY : Happiness is having a large, loving, close-knit family—in another city. (George Burns: U.S. comedian, actor, singer, and writer whose career successfully spanned vaudeville, radio, film, and television, 1896-1996)

FAMILY : He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin. (English proverb: )

FAMILY : I love being a great-grandparent, but what I hate is being the mother of a grandparent. (Janet Anderson: English Labour Party politician who was a Member of Parliament, Born 1949)

FAMILY : I think a dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it. (Mary Karr: U.S. poet, essayist, and memoirist, Born 1955)

FAMILY : Many children, many cares. No children, no felicity. (Christian Bovee: U.S. writer of aphorisms, 1820-1904)

FAMILY : None but a mule denies his family (Moroccan Proverb: )

FAMILY : Other things may change us, but we start and end with family. (Anthony J. Brandt: U.S. author, 1961-2013)

FAMILY : Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. (Unknown Source: )

FAMILY : Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up. (Unknown Source: )

FAMILY : The apple never falls far from the tree. (English proverb: )

FAMILY : The family is a haven in a heartless world. (Christopher Lasch: U.S. history professor, moralist, and social critic, 1932-1994)

FAMILY : The family is the building block for whatever solidarity there is in society. (Jill Ruckleshaus: U.S. former special White House assistant and head of the White House Office of Women's Programs and a feminist activist, Born 1937)

FAMILY : The Jewish man with parents still alive is a fifteen-year-old boy and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die. (Philip Roth: U.S. novelist and short story writer, 1933-2018)

FAMILY : The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. (Theodore Hesburgh: U.S. priest who served for 35 years as the president of the University of Notre Dame, 1917-2015)

FAMILY : The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. (Sam Levenson: U.S. humorist, television host, and journalist, 1911-1980)

FAMILY : The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other. (Mario Puzo: Italian-American screenwriter, journalist, and novelist, most notably "The Godfather," 1920-1999)

FAMILY : There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened, and maintained. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965)

FAMILY : Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million-dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla. (Jim Bishop: U.S. journalist and author, 1907-1987)

FAMILY : We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away. (Walter Percy: U.S. writer whose interests included philosophy and semiotics, 1916-1990)

FAMILY : What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak. George Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952) (George Santayana: U.S. philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, 1863-1952)

FAMILY : When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when his son gives to his father, both cry. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

FANATICISM : Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. (George Santayana: U.S. philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, 1863-1952)

FARMERS : A full belly to the labourer is, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only source of real public peace. (William Cobbett: British radical pamphleteer, journalist, and member of Parliament, 1763-1835)

FARMERS : When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization. (Daniel Webster: U.S. politician who served as U.S. Secretary of State, 1782-1852)

FASCISM : First, they fascinate the fools. Then they muzzle the intelligent. (Bertrand Russell: British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

FASCISM : Post-truth is pre-Fascism. (Timothy Snyder: U.S. professor of history at Yale University, Born 1969)

FASCISM (U.S.A.) : When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross. (Sinclair Lewis: U.S. novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and the first U.S. writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1885-1951)

FASHION : A love of fashion makes the economy go round (Liz Tilberis: British fashion magazine editor of Manx and English ancestry, 1947-1999)

FASHION : Every generation laughs at the old fashions but religiously follows the new. (Henry David Thoreau: U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

FASHION : Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess. (Edna W. Chase: U.S. editor-in-chief of 'Vogue' magazine for 38 years, 1877-1957)

FASHION : Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make oneself its slave. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821)

FASHION : Fashions change, but style is forever. (Unknown Source: )

FASHION : Fashions fade—style is eternal. (Yves Saint-Laurent: French business designer who is regarded as among the foremost fashion designers in the twentieth century, 1936-2008)

FASHION : Mutton dressed as a lamb (English proverb: )

FASHION : The fashion wears out more apparel than the man. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

FASHION : The lady declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility, which religion is powerless to bestow. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

FASHION : They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes. (Anthony Trollope: English novelist whose works revolve around political, social, and gender issues, 1815-1882)

FASTING : When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting. (St. Jerome: Dalmatian Roman Catholic priest best known for his translation of most of the "Bible" into Latin 347-420)

FATALISM : Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable. (Natalie C. Barney: U.S. writer who hosted a literary salon at her home in Paris that brought together French and international writers, 1876-1972)

FATE : Fate chooses our relatives; we choose our friends. (Jacques Delile: French poet, 1738-1813)

FATE : Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65)

FATE : Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

FATE : If you can't change your fate, change your attitude. (Amy Tan: U.S. writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships and the Chinese-American experience, Born 1952)

FATE : It is almost more important how a person takes his fate than what it is. (William v. Humboldt: Prussian philosopher and diplomat, 1767-1835)

FATE : It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.)

FATE : Seize the day! (Carpe diem) (Horace: Roman lyric poet, 65 B.C.E.- 8 B.C.E)

FATE : The great soul surrenders itself to fate. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65)

FATE : Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life, and you will call it fate. (Carl Jung: Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, 1875-1961)

FATE : We make our fortunes and we call them fate. (Benjamin Disraeli: British writer and conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881)

FATE : Whatever limits us we call 'fate.' (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

FATE : When its time has come, the prey goes to the hunter. (Persian Proverb: )

FATHERHOOD : 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)

FATHERHOOD : Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young / Who loved thee so fondly as he / He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue / And joined in thy innocent glee. (Margaret Courtney: British poet and folklorist, 1822-1862)

FATHERHOOD : By the time a man realizes that his father was right, he has a son who thinks he's wrong. (Charles Wadsworth: U.S. classical pianist and musical promoter, born 1929)

FATHERHOOD : It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father. (Pope John XXIII: head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City State for five years before his death, 1881-1963)

FATHERHOOD : One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. (George Herbert: English aristocrat and financial backer of the search for and the excavation of Egyptian tombs, 1866-1923)

FATHERHOOD : One of the greatest things a father can do for his children is to love their mother. (Howard W. Hunter: U.S. lawyer and the 14th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1907-1995)

FATHERHOOD : When a newborn child squeezes for the first time with his tiny fist his father's finger, he has him trapped forever. (Gabriel G. Marquez: Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1927-2014)

FATHERHOOD : When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant . . . . But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

FATHERS : When my father didn't have my hand . . . he had my back. (Linda Poindexter: U.S. Episcopalian priest, author, and humorist, 1944-2023)

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

FATIGUE : The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821)

FAULTS : 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)

FAULTS : The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. (Thomas Carlyle: Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881)

FAULTS : To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it. (Publilus Syrus: Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 85—43 B.C.E.)

FEAR : A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. (Michel de Montaigne: French philosopher and essayist, whose work contains some of the most influential essays ever written, 1533-1592)

FEAR : A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war. (Henry Van Dyke: U.S. poet, 1852-1933)

FEAR : A real man is one who fears the death of his heart, not of his body. (Qavvim Al-Jawziyya: Medieval Islamic jurisconsult, Sunni theologian, and spiritual writer, 1292-1350)

FEAR : A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me. (Abraham Lincoln: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)

FEAR : Adults who are racked with death anxiety are . . . men and women whose family and culture have failed to knit the proper protective clothing for them to withstand the icy chill of mortality. (Irvin D. Yalom: U.S. psychiatrist and professor, Born 1931)

FEAR : All fear is bondage. (Bible: Hebrews 2:15: )

FEAR : Anger is fear’s bodyguard. (Celeste Ng: U.S. writer and novelist who has released many short stories that have been published in a variety of literary journals, Born 1980)

FEAR : As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery. (Norman Mailer: U.S. novelist, journalist, and liberal political activist, 1923-2007)

FEAR : Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. (Helen A. Keller: U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)

FEAR : Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. (William James: U.S. philosopher and psychologist whose influence led to his being known as the ‘Father of American Psychology,’ 1842-1910)

FEAR : Courage is fear ignored. (Kristin Hannah: U.S. writer, Born 1960)

FEAR : Danger is very real but fear is a choice. (Will Smith: U.S. actor, film producer, and rapper tho has received multiple accolades, including an Academy Aware, and four Grammy Awards, Born 1968)

FEAR : Death is not the enemy, living in constant fear of it is. (Norman Cousins: U.S. political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate, 1915-1990)

FEAR : Do one thing every day that scares you. (Eleanor Roosevelt: U.S. political figure, diplomat, and activist who served as the First Lady of the U.S. during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office, making her the longest serving U.S. First Lady, 1884-1962)

FEAR : Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

FEAR : Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it? (Caroline Myss: U.S. author about mysticism and wellness, Born 1952)

FEAR : Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid it will never begin. (Unknown Source: )

FEAR : Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher. (Ty Cobb: U.S. Major League Baseball outfielder who in 1936 received the most votes of any player on the inaugural Baseball Hall of Fame, 1886-1961)

FEAR : Everything you've ever wanted is sitting on the other side of fear. (George Addair: U.S. real estate developer, 1823-1899)

FEAR : Failure is something made only by those who fail to dare, not by those who dare to fail. (Louis Binstock: U.S. Rabbi, 1895-1974)

FEAR : Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. (Benedict Spinoza: Dutch Enlightenment philosopher of Portuguese Sephardi origin who was inspired by ground-breaking ideas of Rene Descartes, 1632-1677)

FEAR : Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power. (John Steinbeck: U.S. author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1968)

FEAR : Fear is only deep as the mind allows. (Japanese Proverb: )

FEAR : Fear is stronger than arms. (Unknown Source: )

FEAR : Fear is the absence of faith. (Paul Tillich: German-American Christian existentialist philosopher and Lutheran Protestant theologian who is widely regarded as one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century, 1886-1965)

FEAR : Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions. (Unknown Source: )

FEAR : Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance. (Arnold H. Glasow: U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)

FEAR : Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. (Bertrand Russell: British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

FEAR : Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt. (George Sewell: English actor, 1924-2007)

FEAR : Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo, no one was there. (Unknown Source: )

FEAR : Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. (German Proverb: )

FEAR : Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning. (John H. Newman: Anglican priest, poet, theologian, and later a Catholic cardinal, 1801-1890)

FEAR : Fear of death is worse than dying. (J.C.F Von Schiller: German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright, 1864-1937)

FEAR : Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. (George W. Carver: U.S. agricultural scientist, inventor, and professor, 1863-1941)

FEAR : Fear succeeds crime - it is its punishment. (Voltaire: French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)

FEAR : Fear succeeds crime—it is its punishment. (Unknown Source: )

FEAR : Fear to let fall a drop and you spill a lot. (Malayan Proverb: )

FEAR : Fear, desire, hope still push us on toward the future. (Michel de Montaigne: French philosopher and essayist, whose work contains some of the most influential essays ever written, 1533-1592)

FEAR : Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt. (James Northcote: English actor and producer, Born 1987)

FEAR : He that is afraid to shake the dice will never throw a six. (Unknown Source: )

FEAR : He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821)

FEAR : He who fears death cannot enjoy life. (Spanish Proverb: )

FEAR : He who fears he shall suffer already suffers what he fears. (Michel de Montaigne: French philosopher and essayist, whose work contains some of the most influential essays ever written, 1533-1592)

FEAR : He who fears something gives it power over him. (Moorish Proverb: )

FEAR : He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

FEAR : He who moves most fully into life feels most removed from death, and he who is least afraid of living is least afraid of dying. (Arthur Jersild: U.S. developmental psychologist at Columbia University, 1902-1994)

FEAR : How a minority / Reaching majority / Seizing authority / Hates a minority! (Leonard H. Robbins: U.S. writer, 1877-1947)

FEAR : How very little can be done under the spirit of fear. (Florence Nightingale: English social reformer, statistician, and the founder of modern nursing, 1820-1910)

FEAR : I fear the use of fear and security as the Damocles over the nation’s people. (Unknown Source: )

FEAR : I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. (Erica Jong: U.S. novelist, satirist, and poet, known for her novel, "Fear of Flying," that played a prominent role in the development of second-wave feminism, Born 1942)

FEAR : I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down. (Allen H. Neuharth: U.S. businessman, author, columnist, and founder of 'USA Today,' 1924-2013)

FEAR : If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it. (Erica Jong: U.S. novelist, satirist, and poet, known for her novel, "Fear of Flying," that played a prominent role in the development of second-wave feminism, Born 1942)

FEAR : If you are afraid for your future, you don't have a present. (James Petersen: U.S. anthropologist, archeologist, and researcher in Brazil, Born, 1954)

FEAR : If you are too careful, you are so preoccupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. (Gertrude Stein: U.S.-French novelist, poet, and playwright, 1874-1946)

FEAR : In grief we know the worst of what we feel, But who can tell the end of what we fear? (Hannah More: English poet, playwright, anti-slavery campaigner and one of the most influential female philanthropists of the Age of Revolution, 1745-1833)

FEAR : It is not death that a man should fear, but the fear of never beginning to live. (Marcus Aurelius: Roman stoic philosopher-emperor, known as the last of the so-called 'Five Good Emperors,' 121-180 A.D.)

FEAR : Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it. (Leonardo da Vinci: Italian Renaissance polymath whose interests were inventing, painting, sculpture, architecture, music, mathematics, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, history, and cartography, 1452-1519)

FEAR : Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer. (Anthony J. Robbins: U.S. entrepreneur and author of self-help books, Born 1960)

FEAR : Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. (John F. Kennedy: U.S. politician who served as the 35th president of the United States in 1961 until his assassination, 1917-1963)

FEAR : Man's loneliness is but his fear of life. (Eugene O'Neill: U.S. playwright and Nobel Laureate in Literature, 1888-1953)

FEAR : Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. (Brendan F. Behan: Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright who wrote in both English and Irish, 1923-1964)

FEAR : 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)

FEAR : Most of the fear that spoils our life comes from attacking difficulties before we get to them. (Frank Crane: U.S. clergyman and popular writer, 1861-1928)

FEAR : Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act. (Francis Quaries: English metaphysical poet, 1592-1644)

FEAR : Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game. (Babe Ruth: U.S. professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball spanned 22 seasons, 1895-1948)

FEAR : No passion so effectively robs the mind of its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. (Edmund Burke: Anglo-Irish statesman and political philosopher who served in the British parliament and in the House of Commons, 1729-1797)

FEAR : No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear. (Unknown Source: )

FEAR : Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves. (Benjamin Disraeli: British writer and conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881)

FEAR : Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. (Marie Curie: Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist, 1867-1934)

FEAR : Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. (Albert Camus: French philosopher, author, and journalist, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second youngest recipient in history, 1913-1960)

FEAR : Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. (Henry David Thoreau: U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

FEAR : Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most. (Cardinal de Retz: French churchman, writer of memoirs, and agitator in the French civil wars, 1613-1679)

FEAR : Only the self-deceived will claim perfect freedom from fear. (William G. Wilson: U.S. businessman who conceived and co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous, with fellow co-founder Bob Smith, 1895-1971)

FEAR : People living deeply have no fear of death. (Anais Nin: French-Cuban American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica, 1903-1977)

FEAR : Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make. (Sarah B. Breathnach: U.S. best-selling author, Born 1947)

FEAR : Some people approach every problem with an open mouth. (Adlai Stevenson II: U.S. lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 1900-1965)

FEAR : Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. (Henry Van Dyke: U.S. poet, 1852-1933)

FEAR : Sometimes what you fear the most is the very thing that will set you free. (Unknown Source: )

FEAR : The burnt child dreads the fire. (Ben Jonson: English playwright and poet, who is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, 1572-1637)

FEAR : The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. (Joseph Campbell: U.S. mythologist, writer, and lecturer, 1904-l987)

FEAR : The cave you rear to enter holds the treasure you seek. (Joseph Campbell: U.S. mythologist, writer, and lecturer, 1904-l987)

FEAR : The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. (George S. Patton Jr.: U.S. Army General who commanded the military in World War II, both in the Mediterranean and in France and Germany, 1885-1945)

FEAR : The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself. (Titus Livius: Roman historian, 59 B.C.E.-17 A.D.)

FEAR : The fearful are caught as often as the bold. (Helen A. Keller: U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)

FEAR : The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one. (John C. Maxwell: U.S. author, speaker, and pastor who has written many books, primarily focusing on leadership, Born 1947)

FEAR : The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one. (Elbert Hubbard: U.S. leader of community arts, author, editor, printer, and philosopher, 1856-1915)

FEAR : The key to change . . . is to let go of fear. (Rosanne Cash: U.S. singer-songwriter, author, and the eldest daughter of country musician Johnny Cash, Born 1955)

FEAR : The less we know the more we suspect. (H.W. Shaw: U.S. writer and humorist in the latter half of the 19th century, often compared to Mark Twain, 1818-1885)

FEAR : The more I travel, the more I realize that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. (Shirley MacLaine: U.S. film, television and theater actress, singer, dancer, activist, and author, Born 1934)

FEAR : The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. (Franklin D. Roosevelt: U.S. politician and statesman who served as the 32nd U.S. President, 1882-1945)

FEAR : The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man. (Carl Jung: Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, 1875-1961)

FEAR : The thing we fear we bring to pass. (Elbert Hubbard: U.S. leader of community arts, author, editor, printer, and philosopher, 1856-1915)

FEAR : There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything. (Vauvenargues: French writer of essays and aphorisms, 1715-1747)

FEAR : There is no greater illusion than fear. (Lao Tzu: Chinese philosopher and writer who is the reputed founder of philosophical Taoism, 604—531 B.C.E.)

FEAR : There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear. (John Wainwright: British columnist and crime novelist of 83 books [pen name of Jack Ripley], 1921-1995)

FEAR : There is nothing that fear or hope does not make men believe. (Unknown Source: )

FEAR : There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear. (Jawaharal Nehru: India's first Prime Minister as a secular democratic republic, one who was a central figure in Indian politics before and after independence, 1889-1964)

FEAR : They sicken of calm, who know the storm. (Dorothy Parker: U.S. writer, satirist, social critic, 1893-1967)

FEAR : Those who try and fail are much wiser than those who never try for fear of failure. (Andre Bustanoby: French-American Visual Effects Supervisor and Design Engineer, Born 1064)

FEAR : To learn the most important lessons of life, one must each day surmount a fear. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

FEAR : 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)

FEAR : We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy is when men are afraid of the light. (Plato: Greek philosopher, student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle, and founder of the Academy in Athens, c. 428/427 — 348/347 B.C.E.)

FEAR : We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow. (Fulton Oursler: U.S. journalist, playwright, editor, and writer, 1893-1952)

FEAR : We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring. (David Grayson: U.S. journalist and historian, 1870-1946)

FEAR : We fear the things we want most. (Robert Anthony: U.S. organizational theorist, and professor of management control at Harvard Business School, 1916-2006)

FEAR : We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

FEAR : We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld: French nobleman and author of maxims and memoirs, 1613-1680)

FEAR : We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes. (John F. Kennedy: U.S. politician who served as the 35th president of the United States in 1961 until his assassination, 1917-1963)

FEAR : We suffer more from imagination than reality. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65)

FEAR : When men realized that women bleed every month and don't die, they became fearful of women's power. (Unknown Source: )

FEAR : When one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. (Rosa Parks: U.S. activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott, 1913-2005)

FEAR : When thinking won't cure fear, action will. (W. C. Stone: U.S. businessman, philanthropist, and self-help book author, 1902-2002)

FEAR : Where your fear is, there is your task. (Carl Jung: Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, 1875-1961)

FEAR : Worry is a state of mind based on fear. (Napoleon Hill: U.S. self-help author whose books focused on principles to achieve success, 1883-1970)

FEAR : Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. (Arthur S. Roche: U.S. author of novels, short stories, and two plays, 1883-1935)

FEARLESSNESS : The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs, and never care how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall. (Unknown Source: )

FEARS : A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies. (William Wrigley: U.S. chewing gum industrialist who, in 1891, founded the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company .)

FEARS : 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)

FEARS : Fear is the most devastating of all human emotions. Man has no trouble like the paralyzing effects of fear. (Unknown Source: )

FEARS : If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65)

FEARS : Our doubts are traitors And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

FEARS : The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears. (Arthur C. Benson: English essayist, poet, author, academic, and the 28th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1862—1925)

FEARS : Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. (Les Brown: U.S. politician and motivational speaker who from 1977-1981 served as a member of the U.S. Ohio House of Representatives, Born 1945)

FEELINGS : All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling. (Blaise Pascal: French mathematician, physicist, inventor, and writer who wrote in defense of the scientific method, 1623-1662)

FEELINGS : Respect other people's feelings. It might mean nothing to you, but it could mean everything to them. (Roy T. Bennett: U.S. inspirational author, 1957-2018)

FEELINGS : The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. (John V. Chaney: U.S. poet, essayist, and librarian. 1848-11822)

FEELINGS : Wear your heart on your sleeve. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

FEELNG : This world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. (Horace Walpole: English novelist and art historian,1717-1797)

FEMALE EMPOWERMENT : When you lift up women, you lift up humanity. (Melinda Gates: U.S. philanthropist who with her husband, Bill Gates, co-founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — that at the time in 2015 was the world's largest private charitable organization, Born 1964)

FEMALES : Sports help girls and women to perceive their bodies as instruments, not just ornaments. (Gloria Steinem: U.S. feminist, journalist, and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s, Born 1934)

FEMINISM : A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. (Irina Dunn: Australian writer, social activist, and filmmaker, who served in the Australian Senate representing the Nuclear Disarmament Party, Born 1948)

FEMINISM : As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them. (Josh Billings: U.S. columnist and humorist, 1818-1885)

FEMINISM : I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or prostitute. (Rebecca West: British author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer, 1892-1983)

FEMINISM : No man is as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman. (Frank O'Connor: Irish writer of over 150 works, best known for his short stories and memoirs, 1903-1966)

FEMINISM : Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist—if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, good mother, good looking, good tempered, well-groomed, and unaggressive. (Leslie M. McIntyre: British writer, 1937-2005)

FEMINISM : Stop fixing your bodies and start fixing the world! (V (formerly Eve Ensler): U.S. playwright, author, performer, feminist, and activist, Born 1953)

FEMINISM : There will be no real content among American women unless they are . . . given equal opportunity with men. And American men will not be really happy until their women are. (Pearl Buck: U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

FENCES : 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)

FERVOR : Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. (Guy de Maupassant: French writer, remembered as a master of the short-story form, 1850-1893)

FEUDALISM : A form of governance in which resistance is “feudal.” (Unknown Source: )

FICTION : Fiction is the truth inside the lie. (Stephen King: U.S. author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, horror, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels, Born, 1947)

FICTION : If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction. (Scott Turow: author and lawyer, Born 1949)

FICTION : If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely. (Arthur Helps: English writer, 1813-1875)

FICTION : Journalism allows its readers to witness history. Fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it. (John Hersey: U.S. writer, journalist, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1914-1993)

FICTION : The only difference between fiction and non-fiction is that fiction should be completely believable. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

FIENDISHNESS : What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven. (Friedrich Holderlin: German lyric poet, 1770-1843)

FIGHTING : People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. (Abigail Van Buren: U.S. advice columnist and radio show host who began the 'Dear Abby' column in 1956, which became the most widely syndicated newspaper column in the world, 1918-2013)

FIGHTING : The time to win a fight is before it starts. (Frederick W. Lewis: U.S. gastroenterologist, 1958-1926)

FINANCES : I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election. (Warren Buffett: U.S. business magnate, investor, and philanthropist, Born 1930)

FINANCES : Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked. (Warren Buffett: U.S. business magnate, investor, and philanthropist, Born 1930)

FINANCIERS : The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

FINE PRINT : Nothing in fine print is ever good news. (Andy Rooney: U.S. radio and television writer and broadcaster, 1919-2011)

FISH : Now I can look at you in peace [while admiring fish in an aquarium]; I don't eat you anymore. (Franz Kafka: German language writer of novels and short stories, 1883-1924)

FLAGS : Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. (Arundhati Roy: Indian author and political activist in human rights and environmental causes, Born 1961)

FLATTERY : A rich man's joke is always funny. (Thomas E. Brown: British scholar, schoolmaster, poet, and theologian, 1830-1897)

FLATTERY : As the Greek said, "Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise." (Wendell Phillips: U.S. attorney, abolitionist, and advocate for Native Americans, 1811-1884)

FLATTERY : 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)

FLATTERY : Flattery won’t hurt you if you don’t swallow it. (Kin Hubbard: U.S. cartoonist, humorist, and journalist, 1868-1930)

FLATTERY : He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves. (Lord Stanhope: British statesman, diplomat, man of letters, and an acclaimed wit of his time, 1694-1773)

FLATTERY : Imitation is the sincerest (form) of flattery. (Walter Colton: U.S. naval chaplain, author, and co-publisher of California's first newspaper, 1797-1851)

FLATTERY : Imitation is the sincerest of flattery. (Charles C. Colton: English cleric, writer, and collector, well known for his eccentricities, 1780-1832)

FLATTERY : It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them. (Johann (Jean) P. Richter: German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories. 1763-1825)

FLAWS : The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. (Havelock Ellis: English physician, writer, and progressivesocial reformer who studied human sexuality, 1859-1939)

FLEXIBILITY : Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. (H. G. Wells: )

FLEXIBILITY : Arrange whatever pieces come your way. (Virginia Woolf: English writer, considered to be a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device, 1882-1941)

FLEXIBILITY : Bend, don't break with the wind. (Wayne W. Dyer: U.S. author and motivational speaker, 1940-2015)

FLEXIBILITY : I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to reach my destination. (Jimmy Dean: country music singer, television host, actor, and businessman, 1928-2010)

FLEXIBILITY : Learn how to bend and you'll never have to break. (Unknown Source: )

FLEXIBILITY : Learn how to bend, and you’ll never have to break. (Aesop Fable: )

FLEXIBILITY : Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind. (Bruce Lee: Hong Kong-American martial artist and actor whose career spanned Hong Kong and the United States, 1940-1973)

FLEXIBILITY : Some say it’s holding on that makes you strong. Sometimes it’s letting go. (Herman Hesse: German-born poet, painter, novelist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize In Literature, whose works include "Steppenwolf," and "Siddhartha," 1877-1962)

FLEXIBILITY : The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; but the realist adjusts the sails. (William A. Ward: U.S. writer of essays, maxims, and poems, 1921-1994)

FLEXIBILITY : The really happy man is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour. (Unknown Source: )

FLEXIBILITY : There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed. (Leo Tolstoy: Russian novelist and philosopher, 1828-1910)

FLEXIBILITY : We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. (Unknown Source: )

FLIRTATION : Flirtation is attention without intention. (Unknown Source: )

FLIRTATION : Perhaps if you . . . flatter and impress the lady politely, most politely, humbly beg and humbly sue, she may deign to look on you. (W. S. Gilbert: English dramatist, librettist, poet, and illustrator, 1836-1911)

FLIRTATION : The time I've lost in wooing / In watching and pursuing / The light that lies In woman's eyes / Has been my heart's undoing. (Unknown Source: )

FLOWERS : Earth laughs in flowers. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

FLOWERS : Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine to the soul. (Luther Burbank: U.S. botanist, horticulturist, and pioneer in agricultural science who developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants, 1849-1926)

FLOWERS : Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

FLOWERS : There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look. (Henri Matisse: French visual artist, known as a painter, print maker, and sculptor, 1869-1954)

FLOWERS : Where flowers bloom, so does hope. (Lady B. Johnson: U.S. socialite and the First Lady of the United States as the wife of the 36th President of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson, 1912-2007)

FOCUS : A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective. (Andre Gide: French author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1869-1951)

FOCUS : If architects want to strengthen an old arch, they put more weight on it. (Paul McCartney: British singer-songwriter, composer, bass player in the Beatles rock band, poet, and activist, Born 1942)

FOCUS : Modern humanity is sick with FOMO—Fear Of Missing Out— and though we have more choice than ever before, we have lost the ability to really pay attention to whatever we choose. (Juval Harari: )

FOCUS : No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him. (Marcus S. Seneca (the Elder): Roman orator and writer, 54 B.C.E.—c. A.D. 39))

FOCUS : Seize the day! (Carpe diem) (Horace: Roman lyric poet, 65 B.C.E.- 8 B.C.E)

FOCUS : Sometimes we can't find the thing that will make us happy, because we can't let go of the thing that was supposed to. (Robert Brault: U.S. operatic tenor, Born 1963)

FOCUS : The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything. (Lee Iacocca: U.S. automobile executive who first developed several cards for the Ford Motor Co. and then later revived the Chrysler Corp. as its CEO, 1924-2019)

FOCUS : The first law of success ... is concentration: to bend all the energies to one point, looking . . . neither to the right nor the left. (Unknown Source: )

FOCUS : The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket. (Andrew Carnegie: U.S. industrialist and philanthropist, 1835-1919)

FOES : A man may learn wisdom even from a foe. (Aristophanes: Ancient Greek poet and comic playwright; eleven of his forty plays have survived virtually complete, 427–386 B.C.E)

FOES : Don’t think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm. (Malayan Proverb: )

FOES : None but yourself who are your greatest foe. (Henry W. Longfellow: U.S. poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride," "The Song of Hiawatha," and "Evangeline," 1807-1882)

FOES : You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. (Joseph Conrad: Polish-British novelist, 1857-1924)

FOLLOW-THROUGH : If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. (Henry David Thoreau: U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

FOLLOWERS : He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader. (Aristotle: Greek philosopher and scientist who, along with Plato, is considered the ‘Father of Western Philosophy,’ 384-322 B.C.E.)

FOLLOWERS : The followership has a responsibility for creating good leadership. (Unknown Source: )

FOLLOWERS : When two bull elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. (Kenyan proverb: )

FOLLOWERSHIP : There can be no freedom without a flow between leadership and followership. (Unknown Source: )

FOLLOWERSHIP : To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead. (William Hazlitt: English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher, 1778-1830)

FOOD : An army marches on its stomach. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821)

FOOD : Bread is like the sun; it rises in the yeast and sets in the waist. (Unknown Source: )

FOOD : Bread is the staff of life. (Jonathan Swift: Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and cleric, 1667-1745)

FOOD : I don’t want to eat anything that has a mother. (Fred Rogers: U.S. television personality, musician, puppeteer, writer, and minister, 1928-1993)

FOOD : Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. (Doug Larson: U.S. newspaper columnist and editor, 1926-2017)

FOOD : The trouble with eating Italian food is that 5 or 6 days later you’re hungry again. (George Miller: Australian filmmaker best known for his Mad Max franchise, Born 1945)

FOOD : The U.S.A. is a country where half the money is spent buying food, and the other half is spent trying to lose weight. (Unknown Source: )

FOOD : There are many kinds of food—Music for the hearing, Painting for the seeing, Books for the soul, and Loving other people for the spirit. (Fred Rogers: U.S. television personality, musician, puppeteer, writer, and minister, 1928-1993)

FOOLISHNESS : 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)

FOOLISHNESS : It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

FOOLS : As a rule, man is a fool, When it's hot he wants it cool, When it's cool he wants it hot, Always wanting what is not. (Unknown Source: )

FOOLS : Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. (Alexander Pope: English poet who is considered the second most quoted writer in the English language after Shakespeare, 1688-1744)

FOOLS : Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them, the rest of us could not succeed. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

FOOTNOTES : Footnotes—the little dogs yapping at the heels of the text. (William James: U.S. philosopher and psychologist whose influence led to his being known as the ‘Father of American Psychology,’ 1842-1910)

FORCE : Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force. (Angela Merici: Italian religious educator who is honored as a saint by the Catholic Church. 1474-1540)

FORCE : Force without wisdom falls of its own weight. (Unknown Source: )

FORCE : Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. (Blaise Pascal: French mathematician, physicist, inventor, and writer who wrote in defense of the scientific method, 1623-1662)

FORCE : Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe. (John Milton: English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant who is best known for his epic poem, 'Paradise Lost,' 1608-1674)

FORCEFULNESS : Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, (Muhammad Ali: U.S. professional boxer, activist, entertainer, poet, and philanthropist, 1942-2016)

FORCEFULNESS : If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it — then I can achieve it (Muhammad Ali: U.S. professional boxer, activist, entertainer, poet, and philanthropist, 1942-2016)

FOREIGN AFFAIRS : Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. (Ronald Reagan: U.S. actor and politician who served as the 40th President of the United States, 1911-2004)

FOREIGN AFFAIRS : This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim. (James Reston: U.S. journalist, 1909-1995)

FOREIGNERS : A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet. (Pearl Buck: U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

FORESIGHT : Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight. (Napoleon: French general and statesman who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of military campaigns across Europe, 1769-1821)

FORESIGHT : If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand. (Unknown Source: )

FORESIGHT : The essence of leadership is being able to see the iceberg before it hits the Titanic. (Arianna Huffington: Greek- American author, columnist, and co-founder and chief editor of 'The Huffington Post,' Born 1950)

FORESIGHT : The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't (Kathryn Schulz: U.S. journalist and author won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing, Born 1974)

FORETHOUGHT : Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight. (Napoleon: French general and statesman who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of military campaigns across Europe, 1769-1821)

FOREVER : Forever is composed of nows. (Emily Dickinson: U.S. poet, 1830-1886)

FORGETFULNESS : And when he is out of sight, quickly also he is out of mind. (Thomas a. Kempis: German-Dutch clergyman and author of devotional books, 1380-1471)

FORGETFULNESS : Forgetfulness is a form of freedom. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

FORGETFULNESS : Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. (Sholem Asch: Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language, 1880-1957)

FORGETFULNESS : The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once. (E. Joseph Cossman: U.S. inventor, businessman, entrepreneur, and author, 1918-2002)

FORGETTING : Good, to forgive; Best, to forget. (Elizabeth B. Browning: English poet of the Victorian era, 1806-1861)

FORGETTING : The struggle against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. (Mian Kundera: Czech-born French writer, Born 1829)

FORGIVENESS : A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. (Robert Quillen: U.S. journalist and cartoonist, 1887-1948)

FORGIVENESS : All friendships of any length are based on a continual, mutual forgiveness; (David Whyte: English poet, Born 1955)

FORGIVENESS : Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

FORGIVENESS : For inner peace, the most important thing is to forgive, whether or not the other person accepts his fault or your forgiveness. (Dalai Lama: 14th Chinese spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, Born 1935)

FORGIVENESS : Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. (William A. Ward: U.S. writer of essays, maxims, and poems, 1921-1994)

FORGIVENESS : Forgiveness is a journey—in order not to become a hostage to hostility. (Unknown Source: )

FORGIVENESS : Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

FORGIVENESS : Forgiveness is not forgetting. Forgiveness is freedom from hate. (Valarie Kaur: U.S. activist, documentary filmmaker, lawyer, educator, and faith leader, Born 1981)

FORGIVENESS : Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. (Mahatma Gandhi: Indian leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India who employed nonviolent civil disobedience, and who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

FORGIVENESS : Forgiveness is the greatest 'magick' of all. Forgiveness makes all things new. (Barbara Davis: U.S. novelist)

FORGIVENESS : Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. (Hannah Arendt: German-born, U.S. political theorist who is widely considered one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century, 1906-1975)

FORGIVENESS : Forgiveness is the most tender part of love. (John Sheffield: English poet and statesman, 1648–1721)

FORGIVENESS : 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)

FORGIVENESS : Forgiveness means letting go of the past. (Gerald G. Jampolsky: U.S. and international authority in the fields of psychiatry, health, business, and education. Born 1925)

FORGIVENESS : Good, to forgive; Best, to forget. (Elizabeth B. Browning: English poet of the Victorian era, 1806-1861)

FORGIVENESS : I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge. (Gerald G. Jampolsky: U.S. and international authority in the fields of psychiatry, health, business, and education. Born 1925)

FORGIVENESS : I never forgive, but I always forget. (James Balfour: Scottish landowner and politician, 1775-1845)

FORGIVENESS : It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his estimation, and yours too. (Josh Billings: U.S. columnist and humorist, 1818-1885)

FORGIVENESS : It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend. (Dorathee DeLuzy: French actress, 1747-1830)

FORGIVENESS : It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. (St. Francis of Assisi: Italian Catholic deacon, preacher, and as a saint is one of the most venerated religious figures in history, 1181-1226)

FORGIVENESS : Life is an adventure in forgiveness. (Norman Cousins: U.S. political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate, 1915-1990)

FORGIVENESS : Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it. (Swedish Proverb: )

FORGIVENESS : Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. (Sholem Asch: Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language, 1880-1957)

FORGIVENESS : Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. (Marlene Dietrich: German-born U.S. actress, singer, and entertainer, 1901-1992)

FORGIVENESS : The heart of a mother is a deep abyss, at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. (Honore de Balzac: French novelist and playwright, 1799-1850)

FORGIVENESS : Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass. (Unknown Source: )

FORGIVENESS : To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. (Confucius: Chinese teacher, politician, and philosopher, 551–479 B.C.E.)

FORGIVENESS : To err is human, to forgive divine. (Alexander Pope: English poet who is considered the second most quoted writer in the English language after Shakespeare, 1688-1744)

FORGIVENESS : What power has love but forgiveness? (William C. Williams: Puerto Rican-American poet and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism, 1883-1963)

FORGIVENESS : Who understands much, forgives much. (Madame de Stael: French-Swiss woman of letters, historian, and author, 1766-1817)

FORGIVENESS : Without forgiveness life is governed . . . by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. (Robert Assaglioli: Italian psychiatrist and pioneer in the fields of humanistic and transpersonal psychology, 2888-1927)

FORGIVENESS : Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. (Lord Chesterfield: British statesman, diplomat, man of letters, and an acclaimed wit of his time, 1694-1773)

FORMALITIES : There are formalities between the closest of friends. (Japanese Proverb: )

FORTHRIGHTNESS : I don't give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it is hell. (Harry S. Truman: U.S. politician who served as the 33rd President of the United States, 1884-1972)

FORTHRIGHTNESS : If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. (George Orwell: English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic, known for his outspoken support of democratic socialism, 1903-1950)

FORTHRIGHTNESS : Know your truth and tell your truth. (Kent Matthies: U.S. psychotherapist)

FORTHRIGHTNESS : True friends stab you in the front. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

FORTITUDE : A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure. (Unknown Source: )

FORTITUDE : Patience and fortitude conquer all things. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

FORTITUDE : The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone. (William J. Boetcker: German-American religious leader and influential public speaker, 1873-1962)

FORTITUDE : The virtue of adversity is fortitude. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626)

FORTITUDE : Treasure the memories of past misfortunes; they constitute our bank of fortitude. (Eric Hoffer: U.S. moral and social philosopher and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1983)

FORTUNE : Behind every great fortune lies a great crime. (Honore de Balzac: French novelist and playwright, 1799-1850)

FORTUNE : Diligence is the mother of good fortune. (Miguel de Cervantes: Spanish writer whose novel, "Don Quixote," has been translated into over 140 languages and dialects-making it, after the "Bible," the most translated book in the world, 1547-1616)

FORTUNE : Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

FORTUNE : Fortune favors the bold. (Terence: Roman playwright during the Roman Republic, of Berber descent, c. 170—160 B.C.E.)

FORTUNE : Fortune is with you for an hour, and against you for ten! (Unknown Source: )

FORTUNE : The folly of one man is the fortune of another. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626)

FORTUNE : We make our fortunes and we call them fate. (Benjamin Disraeli: British writer and conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881)

FORTUNES : Action makes more fortunes than caution.- (Vauvenargues: French writer of essays and aphorisms, 1715-1747)

FOUNDATION : The beginning is the most important part of the work. (Plato: Greek philosopher, student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle, and founder of the Academy in Athens, c. 428/427 — 348/347 B.C.E.)

FRACTURES : There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. (Leonard Cohen: Canadian musician, poet, and novelist, 1934-2016)

FRANKNESS : All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness. (Tennessee Williams: U.S. playwright and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in Drama, 1911-1983)

FRANKNESS : If you can’t offend, you can’t be honest. (Thomas Paine: U.S. political activist, and as a revolutionary he was one of the Founders of the United States of America, 1737-1809)

FRAUDULENCE : The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them. (Turkish Proverb: )

FREE SPEECH : 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)

FREE SPEECH : Even the most stringent protection of free speech does not protect a man in falsely shouting ‘fire’ in a theatre and causing a panic. (Oliver W. Holmes, Jr.: U.S. jurist who served for 30 years as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1841-1935)

FREE SPEECH : If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise, we do not believe in it at all. (Noam Chomsky: U.S. linguist, cognitive scientist, social critic, and political activist. Born 1928)

FREE SPEECH : The 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects the right to speak, not to spend. (Byron White: U.S. lawyer who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1917-2002)

FREE SPEECH : We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. (Robert F. Kennedy: U.S. Senator, Attorney General, and civil rights activist, 1925-1968)

FREEDOM : America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. (Abraham Lincoln: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)

FREEDOM : An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc. (Henri Matisse: French visual artist, known as a painter, print maker, and sculptor, 1869-1954)

FREEDOM : Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. (Soren Kierkegaard: Danish existentialist philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic, and religious author, 1813-1855)

FREEDOM : As I walked toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison. (Nelson Mandela: South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as President of South Africa and received the Nobel Prize for promoting peace, 1918-2013)

FREEDOM : Enhancing the freedom of some usually means depriving the freedom of others. (Unknown Source: )

FREEDOM : 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)

FREEDOM : Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. (Hannah Arendt: German-born, U.S. political theorist who is widely considered one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century, 1906-1975)

FREEDOM : Freedom is a fragile thing, and it's never more than one generation away from extinction. (Ronald Reagan: U.S. actor and politician who served as the 40th President of the United States, 1911-2004)

FREEDOM : Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate. (Hubert Humphrey: U.S. senator who then served as Vice-President, 1911-1978)

FREEDOM : Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

FREEDOM : Freedom is on the other side of discipline. (Jake Gyllenhaal: U.S. actor, Born 1980)

FREEDOM : Freedom is the ability to all agree to arrange things in a different way. (David Graeber: U.S.-born British anthropologist and anti-anarchist, Born 1961)

FREEDOM : Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. (John-Paul Sartre: French philosopher, writer, and literary critic, 1905-1980)

FREEDOM : If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking . . . is freedom. (Dwight D. Eisenhower: U.S. politician and five-star Army general who served as the 34th president of the United States, 1890-1969)

FREEDOM : In a free country there is much clamor, with little suffering: in a despotic state there is little complaint but much suffering. (Lazare Carnot: French mathematician, physicist, military officer, and politician, 1753-1823)

FREEDOM : In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary. (Kathleen Norris: U.S. award-winning novelist and columnist, 1880-1966)

FREEDOM : Man is free the instant he wants to be. (Voltaire: French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)

FREEDOM : Men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom. (Pearl Buck: U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

FREEDOM : Money won’t create success; the freedom to make it will. (Nelson Mandela: South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as President of South Africa and received the Nobel Prize for promoting peace, 1918-2013)

FREEDOM : My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. (Adlai Stevenson II: U.S. lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 1900-1965)

FREEDOM : None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free. (Pearl Buck: U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

FREEDOM : Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom. (Alexis de Tocqueville: French diplomat, political scientist, and historian, 1805-1809)

FREEDOM : Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave. (Walt Disney: U.S. entrepreneur, animator, voice actor, and film producer who holds the record for most Academy Awards earned by an individual, having won 22 Oscars from 59 nominations, 1901-1966)

FREEDOM : The best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others. (Carlo Dossi: Italian author and diplomat, 1849-1910)

FREEDOM : The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. (Wole Soyinka: Nigerian playwright, poet, essayist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature — the first sub-Saharan to be honored in that category, Born 1934)

FREEDOM : The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom. (Georg W. Hegel: German philosopher whose canonical stature within Western philosophy is universally recognized, 1770-1831)

FREEDOM : The last, if not the greatest, of the human freedoms: to choose their own attitude in any given circumstance. (Bruno Bettelheim: Austrian-born American psychologist, scholar, public intellectual, and writer, 1903-1990)

FREEDOM : The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. (: )

FREEDOM : The road to democracy is not a freeway. It is a toll road on which we pay by accepting and carrying out our civic responsibilities. (Lucius D. Clay: U.S. senior Army officer, known for his administration of occupied Germany after World War II, 1898-1978)

FREEDOM : When nobody wakes you up in the morning, when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want, what do you call it, Freedom or Loneliness? (Charles Bukowski: German–American poet, novelist, and short story writer, 1920-1994)

FREEDOM : When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again. (Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Russian novelist, historian, short story writer, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and who was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union, 1918-2008)

FREEDOM : You can only protect your liberties . . . by protecting the other man’s freedom. (Clarence Darrow: U.S. leading member of the Civil Rights Union and attorney in the famous Leopold-Loeb trial, as well as the Scopes ‘Monkey’ trial, 1857-1938)

FREEDOM : 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)

FREEDOM (U.S.A.) : Much of the power of our Freedom Movement in the United States has come from this music, Jazz. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

FREEDOM (U.S.A.) : The essence of our America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between “to” and freedom “from.” (MARILYN V. SAVANT: U.S. columnist, author, and company executive who has the highest recorded intelligence quotient in the Guinness Book of Records, Born 1946)

FREEDOM (U.S.A.) : We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. (Robert F. Kennedy: U.S. Senator, Attorney General, and civil rights activist, 1925-1968)

FRICTION : The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. (Confucius: Chinese teacher, politician, and philosopher, 551–479 B.C.E.)

FRIEND : A faithful friend is the medicine of life. (Apocrypha: Ancient biblical wrtings, 400 B.C.E.-1 A.D.)

FRIEND : In a friend you find a second self. (Aristotle: Greek philosopher and scientist who, along with Plato, is considered the ‘Father of Western Philosophy,’ 384-322 B.C.E.)

FRIENDS : A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet. (Pearl Buck: U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

FRIENDS : A friend is a masterpiece of nature. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

FRIENDS : A friend is a present you give yourself. (Robert L. Stevenson: Scottish novelist and travel writer, 1850-1924)

FRIENDS : A friend is never known till a man has need. (Unknown Source: )

FRIENDS : A friend is one before whom I may think aloud. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

FRIENDS : A friend is someone who knows all about you, and loves you just the same. (Elbert Hubbard: U.S. leader of community arts, author, editor, printer, and philosopher, 1856-1915)

FRIENDS : A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. (Walter Winchell: U.S. syndicated newspaper columnist and radio news commentator, 1897-1972)

FRIENDS : Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. (George Washington: U.S. politician and soldier who served as the first President of the United States and was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, 1732-1799)

FRIENDS : Books are the quietest and most constant of friends. (Charles W. Eliot: U.S. academic who was the longest serving [50 years] president of Harvard University, 1834-1926)

FRIENDS : Fate chooses our relatives; we choose our friends. (Jacques Delile: French poet, 1738-1813)

FRIENDS : Friends are God’s apology for relations [relatives]. (Hugh Kingsmill: English biographer, literary critic, fiction-writer, and anthologist, 1889-1949)

FRIENDS : Friends are lifelines! (Unknown Source: )

FRIENDS : Friends are like the spine in your body. They hold you in one piece and help you stand on your legs. (Reidzio: Ukrainian refugee)

FRIENDS : Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. (Scottish Proverb: )

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

FRIENDS : Friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly. (Unknown Source: )

FRIENDS : Friends are relatives you make for yourself. (Eustache Deschamps: French poet, 1346-1406)

FRIENDS : Friends are the family we choose for ourselves. (Edna Buchanan: U.S. novelist, Born 1939)

FRIENDS : Friends are the family you get to choose for yourself. (Mia Sheridan: U.S. author of romance novels)

FRIENDS : Friends show their love - in times of trouble, not in happiness. (Euripides: One of the three ancient Greek tragedians, Aeschylus and Sophocles, who wrote over 120 plays, a few of which have survived, c.485—406 B.C.E.)

FRIENDS : Friends, though absent, are still present. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.)

FRIENDS : Friendship is honey, but don't eat it all (Moroccan Proverb: )

FRIENDS : God gave us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends. (Ethel Mumford: U.S. author, 1876-1940)

FRIENDS : Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. (Unknown Source: )

FRIENDS : How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

FRIENDS : I count myself in nothing else so happy/ As in a soul remembering my good friends. (Shakespeare FRIENDS (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

FRIENDS : I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings world. (Thomas A. Edison: U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

FRIENDS : If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends. (Merry Browne: U.S. professional tennis player and an amateur golfer, 1891-1971)

FRIENDS : In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. (John C. Collins: British literary critic, 1848-1908)

FRIENDS : It is better in times of need to have a friend rather than money. (Unknown Source: )

FRIENDS : It is easier to visit friends than to live with them. (Chinese Proverb: )

FRIENDS : It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to our friendship that we are not. (Mignon McLaughlin: U.S journalist and author, 1913-1983)

FRIENDS : Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart. (Eleanor Roosevelt: U.S. political figure, diplomat, and activist who served as the First Lady of the U.S. during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office, making her the longest serving U.S. First Lady, 1884-1962)

FRIENDS : Parents are friends that life gives us; friends are parents that the heart chooses. (Diane de Beausacq: French writer, 1829-1899)

FRIENDS : Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. (Publilus Syrus: Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 85—43 B.C.E.)

FRIENDS : Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies. (Luc de Clapiers: French writer and moralist, 1715-1747)

FRIENDS : Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them (Francesco Guicciardini: Italian historian and statesman, 1483-1540)

FRIENDS : Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. (Virginia Woolf: English writer, considered to be a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device, 1882-1941)

FRIENDS : Tell me who your friends are, and I will tell you who you are. (Russian Proverb: )

FRIENDS : The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear. (Maya Angelou: U.S. author, poet, dancer, actress, and singer, 1928-2014)

FRIENDS : The only way to have a friend is to be one. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

FRIENDS : The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

FRIENDS : The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.)

FRIENDS : There are formalities between the closest of friends. (Japanese Proverb: )

FRIENDS : There is no friend as loyal as a book. (Ernest Hemingway: U.S. novelist, short story writer, and journalist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1899-1961)

FRIENDS : We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away. (Walter Percy: U.S. writer whose interests included philosophy and semiotics, 1916-1990)

FRIENDS : We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young. (Letty C. Pogrebin: U.S. author, journalist, lecturer, social activist, and a founding editor of 'Ms.,' a liberal feminist magazine, Born 1939)

FRIENDS : We take on friends as we find them, not as we would make them. (Samuel Johnson: English poet, playwright, essayist, critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)

FRIENDS : Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless (Turkish Proverb: )

FRIENDS : With true friends . . . even water drunk together is sweet enough. (Chinese Proverb: )

FRIENDS : Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. (Aristotle: Greek philosopher and scientist who, along with Plato, is considered the ‘Father of Western Philosophy,’ 384-322 B.C.E.)

FRIENDS : Your wealth is where your friends are. (Titus M. Plautus: Roman playwright, 254 B.C.-184 .C.)

FRIENDSHIP : 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)

FRIENDSHIP : A friend is someone who know all about you and still loves you. (Elbert Hubbard: U.S. leader of community arts, author, editor, printer, and philosopher, 1856-1915)

FRIENDSHIP : A friend is someone who sees right through and likes the show. (Dorothy B. Satten: U.S. author and psychotherapist, 1932-2013)

FRIENDSHIP : A friend should bear his friend's infirmities. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

FRIENDSHIP : A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

FRIENDSHIP : A hedge between keeps friendships green. (German Proverb: )

FRIENDSHIP : A single rose can be in my garden . . . a single friend, my world. (Leo Buscaglia: U.S professor and a motivational speaker, 1924-1998)

FRIENDSHIP : A true friend is one who frequently fights you, gets mad at you, avoids you . . . but no matter what, always loves you. (Narayan B. Karna: Nepali artist and writer, considered the ‘Grandfather of Nepali Truck Literature'})

FRIENDSHIP : A true friend is the best possession.- (Unknown Source: )

FRIENDSHIP : A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld: French nobleman and author of maxims and memoirs, 1613-1680)

FRIENDSHIP : A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. (Arnold H. Glasow: U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)

FRIENDSHIP : Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship. (Soren Kierkegaard: Danish existentialist philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic, and religious author, 1813-1855)

FRIENDSHIP : All friendships of any length are based on a continual, mutual forgiveness; (David Whyte: English poet, Born 1955)

FRIENDSHIP : Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in continue firm and constant. (Socrates: Classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought, c. 470-399 B.C.E.)

FRIENDSHIP : Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival. (Carlos P. Romulo: Filipino diplomat, statesman, soldier, journalist, and author, 1899-1985)

FRIENDSHIP : Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. (Albert Camus: French philosopher, author, and journalist, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second youngest recipient in history, 1913-1960)

FRIENDSHIP : Friends can be said to fall in like with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love. (Letty C. Pogrebin: U.S. author, journalist, lecturer, social activist, and a founding editor of 'Ms.,' a liberal feminist magazine, Born 1939)

FRIENDSHIP : Friendship is a plant which must be often watered. (Unknown Source: )

FRIENDSHIP : Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. (Unknown Source: )

FRIENDSHIP : Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

FRIENDSHIP : Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. (Samuel Butler: English author, 1835-1902)

FRIENDSHIP : Friendship is one mind in two bodies. (Mencius: Chinese Confucian philosopher, 372 B.C.E.--289 B.C.E.)

FRIENDSHIP : Friendship is the bread of the heart. (Mary R. Mitford: English essayist, novelist, poet, and dramatist, 1787-1855)

FRIENDSHIP : Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. (Woodrow Wilson: U.S. politician and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States, 1856-1924)

FRIENDSHIP : Friendship isn’t a big thing; it’s a million little things. (Paulo Cuelho: Brazilian lyricist, novelist, and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, Born 1947)

FRIENDSHIP : Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity. (John Dryden: English poet, literary critic, translator, playwright, and England's first Poet Laureate, 1631-1700)

FRIENDSHIP : Friendships aren't perfect, and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release. (Letty C. Pogrebin: U.S. author, journalist, lecturer, social activist, and a founding editor of 'Ms.,' a liberal feminist magazine, Born 1939)

FRIENDSHIP : Go often to the house of your friend, for weeds choke up the unused path. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

FRIENDSHIP : Good friends are like quilts; they age with you, yet never lose their warmth. (Unknown Source: )

FRIENDSHIP : He who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.)

FRIENDSHIP : Hold a true friend with both hands. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

FRIENDSHIP : Hold a true friend with both your hands. (Nigerian Proverb: )

FRIENDSHIP : Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend. (Thomas C. Haliburton: Nova Scotian politician, member of the British Parliament, judge, author, and the first international best-selling author of fiction from what is now Canada, 1796-1865)

FRIENDSHIP : I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar (Robert Brault: U.S. operatic tenor, Born 1963)

FRIENDSHIP : In times of difficulty friendship is on trial. (Greek Proverb: )

FRIENDSHIP : It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help (Epicurus: Greek philosopher, sage, and prolific writer who founded a highly influential school of philosophy now called 'Epicureanism,' 341—270 B.C.E.)

FRIENDSHIP : It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. (Unknown Source: )

FRIENDSHIP : It is not the talking that counts between friends, it is the never needing to say what counts. (Unknown Source: )

FRIENDSHIP : It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him, that determines the quality of your friendship. (Mary D. Thayer: U.S. author, 1855-1944)

FRIENDSHIP : It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. (J. K. Rowling: British novelist who is best known for writing the 'Harry Potter' fantasy series., Born 1965)

FRIENDSHIP : It takes a long time to grow an old friend. (John Leonard: U.S. literary, television, film, and cultural critic, 1939-2008)

FRIENDSHIP : It’s not how many friends you can count, it’s how many of those you can count on. (Anthony Liccione: U.S. Poet and National Guardsman, Born 1968)

FRIENDSHIP : Life without a friend is death without a witness. (Spanish Proverb: )

FRIENDSHIP : Love is friendship on fire. (Jeremy Taylor: British cleric in the Church of England who is frequently cited as one of the greatest prose writers in the English language, 1613-1667)

FRIENDSHIP : Man's best support is a very dear friend. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.)

FRIENDSHIP : Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor. (Ogden Nash: U.S. poet well known for his light and humorous verse,1902-1971)

FRIENDSHIP : Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. (Epicurus: Greek philosopher, sage, and prolific writer who founded a highly influential school of philosophy now called 'Epicureanism,' 341—270 B.C.E.)

FRIENDSHIP : One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. (Euripides: One of the three ancient Greek tragedians, Aeschylus and Sophocles, who wrote over 120 plays, a few of which have survived, c.485—406 B.C.E.)

FRIENDSHIP : One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. (Unknown Source: )

FRIENDSHIP : Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends. (Euripides: One of the three ancient Greek tragedians, Aeschylus and Sophocles, who wrote over 120 plays, a few of which have survived, c.485—406 B.C.E.)

FRIENDSHIP : The best mirror is an old friend. (George Herbert: English aristocrat and financial backer of the search for and the excavation of Egyptian tombs, 1866-1923)

FRIENDSHIP : The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact. (Walter Scott: Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright, and historian, 1771-1832)

FRIENDSHIP : The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. (Joseph Addison: English essayist, poet, playwright, politician, and co-founder of 'The Spectator' magazine, 1672-1719)

FRIENDSHIP : The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two. (Anne-Sophie Swetchine: Russian mystic, famous for her salon in Paris, 1782-1857)

FRIENDSHIP : 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)

FRIENDSHIP : The rich know not who is his friend. (Unknown Source: )

FRIENDSHIP : There is no physician like a true friend. (Unknown Source: )

FRIENDSHIP : Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected. (Charles Lamb: English poet and essayist, 1775-1834)

FRIENDSHIP : To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing (Baltasar Gracian: Spanish Jesuit prose writer and philosopher, 1601-1658)

FRIENDSHIP : True friends stab you in the front. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

FRIENDSHIP : True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. (Dave T. Gentry: U.S. author, motivational speaker, philanthropist, and advocate for individuals and families affected by spinal cord injuries, Born 1985)

FRIENDSHIP : Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. (Helen A. Keller: U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)

FRIENDSHIP : What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65)

FRIENDSHIP : What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. (Aristotle: Greek philosopher and scientist who, along with Plato, is considered the ‘Father of Western Philosophy,’ 384-322 B.C.E.)

FRIENDSHIP : When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile. (Joseph Joubert: French moralist and essayist, 1754-1824)

FRIENDSHIP : Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless. (Turkish Proverb: )

FRIENDSHIP : Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit. (Unknown Source: )

FRIENDSHIPS : A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

FRIENDSHIPS : As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.)

FRIENDSHIPS : Give and take makes good friends. (Scottish Proverb: )

FRIENDSHIPS : People come into your life for a reason, for a season, or for a lifetime. (Unknown Source: )

FRIENDSHIPS : Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. (George Eliot: English novelist [pen name of Mary Ann Evans], poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, 1819-1880)

FRIENDSHIPS : The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame. (Charles C. Colton: English cleric, writer, and collector, well known for his eccentricities, 1780-1832)

FRIENDSHIPS : There are no strangers here; only friends you haven't yet met. (William Butler Yeats: Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature, 1865-1939)

FRUGALITY : He who buys what he doesn’t need steals from himself. (Swedish Proverb: )

FRUGALITY : Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left. (English proverb: )

FRUSTRATION : Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. (Laura Schlessinger: U.S. talk radio host, author, and an inductee to the National Radio Hall of Fame in Chicago, Born 1947)

FRUSTRATION : Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. (Richard Bach: U.S. author who has written numerous works of fiction and also non-fiction flight-related titles, Born 1936)

FRUSTRATION : To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to invite frustration. (Unknown Source: )

FULFILLMENT : You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. (Mae West: U.S. actress, singer, playwright, screenwriter, comedian, and sex symbol, 1893-1980)

FUN : I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun. (Katharine Hepburn: U.S. Academy award-winning actress, 1907-2003)

FUN : Work is much more fun than fun. (Noel Coward: English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer, 1899-1973)

FUTILITY : It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. (Unknown Source: )

FUTILITY : It’s but little good you’ll do a-watering the last year’s crops. (George Eliot: English novelist [pen name of Mary Ann Evans], poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, 1819-1880)

FUTILITY : Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error. (George Eliot: English novelist [pen name of Mary Ann Evans], poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, 1819-1880)

FUTURE : "The good old days." The only good days are ahead. (Alice Childress: U.S. novelist, playwright, actress, stage producer, and off-Broadway union organizer, 1916-1994)

FUTURE : Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. (John F. Kennedy: U.S. politician who served as the 35th president of the United States in 1961 until his assassination, 1917-1963)

FUTURE : Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65)

FUTURE : Fear, desire, hope still push us on toward the future. (Michel de Montaigne: French philosopher and essayist, whose work contains some of the most influential essays ever written, 1533-1592)

FUTURE : I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate. (Arthur W. Pinero: English actor, dramatist, and stage director, 1855-1934)

FUTURE : I know of no way of judging the future but by the past. (Patrick Henry: U.S. attorney, planter, orator, and one of the Founders of the United States of America, 1736-1799)

FUTURE : I like the dreams for the future better than the history of the past. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

FUTURE : If you are afraid for your future, you don't have a present. (James Petersen: U.S. anthropologist, archeologist, and researcher in Brazil, Born, 1954)

FUTURE : In reflecting on your past, don't obscure the future. (Stacy Keach: U.S. actor and narrator, Born 1941)

FUTURE : Knowing exactly how much of the future can be introduced into the present is the secret of great government. (Victor Hugo: French poet, novelist, and dramatist whose works include "Les Miserables" and "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame," 1802-1885)

FUTURE : Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality. (Malaya Yousafzai: Pakistani activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Born 1997)

FUTURE : Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. (Marcus Aurelius: Roman stoic philosopher-emperor, known as the last of the so-called 'Five Good Emperors,' 121-180 A.D.)

FUTURE : Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. (Corrie Ten Boom: Dutch watchmaker who helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust and was sent to a Nazi concentration camp, but later was a Christian writer and public speaker,1892-1983)

FUTURE : No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is but also the world as it will be. (Isaac Asimov: U.S. professor of biochemistry and science-fiction writer, 1920-1992)

FUTURE : One faces the future with one's past. (Pearl Buck: U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

FUTURE : One must care about a world one will not see. (Bertrand Russell: British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

FUTURE : So many worlds / so much to do / So little done / such things to be. (Alfred L. Tennyson: British poet who was the Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during most of Queen Victoria's reign, 1809-1892)

FUTURE : Some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom of the future. (Dale Turner: U.S. singer-songwriter and rock musician, noted for his sophisticated song-craft)

FUTURE : The best way to predict the future is to create it. (Peter Drucker: Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author, 1909-2005)

FUTURE : The best way to predict the future is to invent it. (Alan Kay: U.S. computer scientist and an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Born 1940)

FUTURE : The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965)

FUTURE : The future begins to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. (Eleanor Roosevelt: U.S. political figure, diplomat, and activist who served as the First Lady of the U.S. during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office, making her the longest serving U.S. First Lady, 1884-1962)

FUTURE : The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. (Malcolm X: U.S. African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement. 1925-1965)

FUTURE : The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. (Dennis Gabor: Hungarian-British electrical engineer and physicist, most notable for inventing holography, for which he later received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics, 1900-1979)

FUTURE : The future is a moving target, and you have to keep aiming at it. (Gary Sklar: U.S. attorney)

FUTURE : The future is already here; it's just not evenly distributed. (William Gibson: U.S.-Canadian speculative fiction writer who is widely credited with pioneering modern science fiction by exploring the effects of technology, cybernetics, and computer networks on humans, Born 1948)

FUTURE : The future is purchased by the present. (Samuel Johnson: English poet, playwright, essayist, critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)

FUTURE : The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965)

FUTURE : The future outwits all our certitudes. (Arthur Schlesinger Jr.: U.S. historian, social critic, public intellectual, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, 1917-2007)

FUTURE : The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it. (Aeschylus: Ancient Greek tragedian who is often described as the ‘Father of Tragedy,' 525—456 B.C.E.)

FUTURE : The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be. (Paul Valery: French poet, essayist, and philosopher, 1871-1945)

FUTURE : The longer you live in the past, the less future you have to enjoy. (Unknown Source: )

FUTURE : The most important discoveries will provide answers to questions that we do not yet know how to ask and will concern objects we have not yet imagined. (John N. Bahcall: U.S. astrophysicist, best known for his contributions to the solar neutrino problem and the development of the Hubble Space Telescope, 1935-2005)

FUTURE : The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. (Bertrand Russell: British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

FUTURE : The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past. (Robertson Davies: Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor, 1913-1995)

FUTURE : There is nothing like a dream to create the future. (Victor Hugo: French poet, novelist, and dramatist whose works include "Les Miserables" and "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame," 1802-1885)

FUTURE : We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves. (John Buchan: Scottish poet, novelist, historian, and politician, 1875-1940)

FUTURE : We have only to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet. (Stephen Hawking: English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Born 1942)

FUTURE : When all else is lost, the future still remains. (Christian Bovee: U.S. writer of aphorisms, 1820-1904)

FUTURE : When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness. (Alexis de Tocqueville: French diplomat, political scientist, and historian, 1805-1809)

FUTURE : Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. (George Orwell: English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic, known for his outspoken support of democratic socialism, 1903-1950)

FUTURE : Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. (Lyndon B. Johnson: U.S. politician who served as the 36th President of the United States, 1908-1973)