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For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

-- Clifton Fadiman

Head out toward Lake Nostalgia.... take Route 5 to Laughing Pines.... get off at Funway West... and drive into Springtime.

-- Donald Fagen, from the song "Springtime" on the Kamakiriad CD

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

-- William Faulkner

We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea at first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what you actually did in order to get to do the work.

-- Richard Feynman

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.

-- W. C. Fields

The nourishment is palatable.

-- Millard Fillmore, dying words

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

-- Edward Flaherty

There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."

-- Robert Flaherty

History is more or less bunk.

-- Henry Ford

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

-- Henry Ford

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

-- Henry Ford

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.

-- Henry Ford

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!

-- Henry Ford

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

-- Henry Ford

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

-- Henry Ford

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

-- Henry Ford

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.

-- Henry Ford

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

-- Henry Ford

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

-- Harry Emerson Fosdick

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

-- Anatole France

To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

-- Anatole France

When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

-- Anatole France

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

-- Anne Frank

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.

-- Rose Franken

I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.

-- Benjamin Franklin

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.

-- Benjamin Franklin

Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

-- Benjamin Franklin

There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

-- Benjamin Franklin

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

-- Benjamin Franklin

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

-- Benjamin Franklin

When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover, inches above the ground. With a giant buttered-cat array, a high-speed monorail could easily link New York with Chicago.

-- John Frazee

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

-- Paulo Freire

If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...

-- Dawn French

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

-- Sigmund Freud

Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coaching staff, the same rule applies. Tell her: "Kath, you just go right ahead and do what you feel is right." Unless you actually care for her, in which case you must see to it that she has no male contact whatsoever.

-- Bruce Jay Friedman

A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really_ attractive.

-- Bruce Friedman

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

-- Milton Friedman

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

-- Max Frisch

Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."

-- Erich Fromm

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

-- Robert Frost

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

-- Robert Frost

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

-- Robert Frost

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

-- Robert Frost

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.

-- Robert Frost

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office.

-- Robert Frost

You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

-- Robert Frost

Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.

-- Libbie Fudim

When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

-- Buckminster Fuller

Every child is born a genius.

-- R. Buckminster Fuller

Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.

-- Thomas Fuller, 1732

He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

-- Thomas Fuller, M.D.