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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 about friendship
Cyril Falls (2)
Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.
56 quotes regarding leadership
Michael Faraday (2)
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.
40 views 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 other quotes about aging
Federico Fellini (4)
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
424 quotes about 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 relating to 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.
197 quotes 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 views about health
Richard P. Feynman (3)
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
175 views regarding 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 quotes 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 wisdom & wit relating to best
Harvey S. Firestone (6)
I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.
197 other views about business
M. F. K. Fisher (2)
Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
78 quotes about food
Ella Fitzgerald (2)
The only thing better than singing is more singing.
24 thoughts regarding 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 quotes relating to aging
Robert Fitzgerald (2)
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
231 views about poetry
Gustave Flaubert (30)
I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.
233 other quotes about being alone
Errol Flynn (2)
My father was never anti-anything in our house.
38 other sayings relating to fatherhood
B. C. Forbes (10)
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
58 views about anger
George Foreman (2)
I get up in the morning looking for an adventure.
84 more thoughts regarding morning
Nathan Bedford Forrest (2)
I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
112 quotes about respect
Harry Emerson Fosdick (6)
Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.
233 quotes about being alone
Michel Foucault (2)
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
199 other quotes regarding freedom
Gene Fowler (2)
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
249 thoughts regarding aging
Emmet Fox (4)
It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.
78 quotes relating to 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 sayings relating to 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.
165 other thoughts regarding the future
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 quotes relating to 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 thoughts about being alone
Du Fu (2)
This cream will help one's nature strengthen and grow, The diet gives support in my decline.
19 other thoughts 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