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  • James T. Farrell
    • America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.
    (topic: America)

  • Jules Feiffer
    • I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me deprived was a bad image, I was underprivileged. Then they told me underprivileged was overused, I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I sure have a great vocabulary.
    (topic: poverty)

  • Fanny Fern
    • The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
    (topic: food)

  • Henry Fielding
    • Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humoured, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich--that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.
    (topic: money)

    Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
    (topic: jealousy)

  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
    • Forgotten is forgiven.
    (topic: forgiveness)

    It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
    (topic: friendship)

    Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.
    (topic: gossip)

    By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
    (topic: maturity)

    Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
    (topic: perseverance)

    The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.
    (topic: weekend)

    An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the school-masters of ever afterward.
    (topic: writing)

    Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
    (topic: family)

    A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
    (topic: fame)

    Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
    (topic: genius)

    However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is--in other words, not a thing, but a think.
    (topic: perception)

  • Flaubert
    • Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
    (topic: success)

    The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
    (topic: doubt)

  • Fontenelle
    • A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.
    (topic: happiness)

  • B. C. Forbes
    • There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
    (topic: excellence)

  • John Ford
    • Revenge proves its own executioner.
    (topic: revenge)

  • E. M. Forster
    • I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
    (topic: books)

    We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
    (topic: poverty)

  • Muriel Fox
    • Total commitment to family and total commitment to career is possible, but fatiguing.
    (topic: business)

  • Benjamin Franklin
    • Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
    (topic: marriage)

    You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
    (topic: marriage)

    Dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
    (topic: time)

    Remember that time is money.
    (topic: business)

    Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so. It is not so. It is so. It is not so.
    (topic: arguing)

    I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.
    (topic: vanity)

  • French Proverb
    • Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.
    (topic: punctuality)

  • Sigmund Freud
    • America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
    (topic: America)

    I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
    (topic: fathers)

    What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
    (topic: happiness)

    He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
    (topic: secrets)

    Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
    (topic: religion)

  • Edgar Z. Friedenberg
    • Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence.
    (topic: age)

  • Erich Fromm
    • To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
    (topic: hope)

    Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
    (topic: love)

    There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
    (topic: love)

    The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
    (topic: mothers)

  • Robert Frost
    • You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular.
    (topic: fathers)

    Never ask of money spent
    Where the spender thinks it went.
    Nobody was ever meant
    To remember or invent
    What he did with every cent.
    (topic: money)

  • J. A. Froude
    • Fear is the parent of cruelty.
    (topic: cruelty)

  • Carlos Fuentes
    • What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.
    (topic: America)

  • Margaret Fuller
    • Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
    (topic: dreams)

    No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
    (topic: happiness)

    If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
    (topic: hope)

    Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.
    (topic: kindness)

    Better be alone than in bad company.
    (topic: solitude-loneliness)

    Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
    (topic: marriage)

    More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
    (topic: marriage)

    Abused patience turns to fury.
    (topic: patience)

    All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
    (topic: patience)

    Scalded cats fear even cold water.
    (topic: experience)

    Better a tooth out than always aching.
    (topic: divorce)

    He that hopes no good fears no ill.
    (topic: pessimism)

    Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.
    (topic: revenge)