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Clifton Paul Fadiman (3)
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
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Cyril Falls (2)
Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.
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Michael Faraday (2)
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.
40 wisdom & wit about communication
William Feather (22)
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
249 quotes regarding aging
Federico Fellini (4)
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
424 sayings regarding art
Francois Fenelon (3)
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
364 quotes about best
Edna Ferber (5)
Living the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
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Alex Ferguson (2)
If I have my health I can carry on. There will be a point when I do quit but I have absolutely no idea when that is.
91 quotes regarding health
Richard P. Feynman (3)
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
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Sarah Fielding (2)
The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.
178 more wisdom & wit about imagination
W. C. Fields (24)
Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.
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Harvey S. Firestone (6)
I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.
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M. F. K. Fisher (2)
Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
78 quotes regarding food
Ella Fitzgerald (2)
The only thing better than singing is more singing.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald (14)
Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
249 quotes regarding aging
Robert Fitzgerald (2)
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
231 more wisdom & wit about poetry
Gustave Flaubert (30)
I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.
233 quotes about being alone
B. C. Forbes (10)
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
58 thoughts about anger
Henry Ford (32)
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
364 quotes relating to best
Nathan Bedford Forrest (2)
I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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Harry Emerson Fosdick (6)
Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.
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Michel Foucault (2)
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
199 quotes regarding freedom
Gene Fowler (2)
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
249 other views about aging
Emmet Fox (4)
It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.
78 wisdom & wit regarding food
Redd Foxx (4)
A girl's legs are her best friends... but even the best of friends must part.
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Felix Frankfurter (6)
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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Benjamin Franklin (96)
At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment.
249 quotes about aging
Anna Freud (3)
We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.
165 wisdom & wit regarding the future
Ford Frick (2)
Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.
58 views relating to anger
Charles Frohman (2)
Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
277 quotes about fear
Erich Fromm (16)
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
249 other views relating to aging
Robert Frost (50)
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
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James Anthony Froude (7)
We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.
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Du Fu (2)
This cream will help one's nature strengthen and grow, The diet gives support in my decline.
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Thomas Fuller (45)
Better be alone than in bad company.
233 other wisdom & wit regarding being alone
Margaret Fuller (9)
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
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