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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.
179 sayings relating to friendship
Cyril Falls (2)
Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.
56 other views about leadership
Michael Faraday (2)
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.
41 more quotes regarding 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 sayings relating to aging
Federico Fellini (4)
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
425 other quotes relating to 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 thoughts 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.
198 more thoughts regarding business
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 more 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.
175 wisdom & wit about change
Sarah Fielding (2)
The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.
178 other views about imagination
W. C. Fields (24)
Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.
364 other thoughts about best
Harvey S. Firestone (6)
I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.
198 sayings relating to business
Ernst Fischer (2)
I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
425 more wisdom & wit about art
M. F. K. Fisher (2)
Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
79 other sayings relating to food
Ella Fitzgerald (2)
The only thing better than singing is more singing.
24 quotes relating to birthday
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 more quotes about aging
Robert Fitzgerald (2)
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
231 thoughts 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 other wisdom & wit about anger
Nathan Bedford Forrest (2)
I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
112 more sayings regarding respect
Harry Emerson Fosdick (6)
Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.
233 other sayings regarding being alone
Michel Foucault (2)
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
199 other wisdom & wit about freedom
Gene Fowler (2)
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
249 views about aging
Emmet Fox (4)
It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.
79 quotes regarding food
Redd Foxx (4)
A girl's legs are her best friends... but even the best of friends must part.
364 quotes about best
Felix Frankfurter (6)
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
249 quotes about aging
Benjamin Franklin (96)
At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment.
249 views about aging
Anna Freud (3)
We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.
166 quotes relating to the future
Charles Frohman (2)
Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
278 other views relating to 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 quotes about aging
Robert Frost (50)
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
249 quotes about aging
James Anthony Froude (7)
We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.
233 quotes relating to being alone
Du Fu (2)
This cream will help one's nature strengthen and grow, The diet gives support in my decline.
19 quotes about diets
Margaret Fuller (9)
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
136 quotes about dreams