F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Few consider how much we are indebted to government, because few can represent how wretched mankind would be without it.”
“Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.”
“Few countries have produced such arrogance and snobbishness as America. Particularly is this true of the American woman of the middle class. She not only considers herself the equal of man, but his superior, especially in her purity, goodness, and morality. Small wonder that the American suffragist claims for her vote the most miraculous powers. In her exalted conceit she does not see how truly enslaved she is, not so much by man, as by her own silly notions and traditions. Suffrage can not ameliorate that sad fact; it can only accentuate it, as indeed it does.”
Source: Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926
“Few criminals die sensible of their crimes.”
“Few critical infrastructures need to expedite their cyber resiliency as desperately as the health sector, who repeatedly demonstrates lackadaisical cyber hygiene, finagled and Frankensteined networks, virtually unanimous absence of security operations teams and good ol’ boys club bureaucratic board members flexing little more than smoke and mirror, cyber security theatrics as their organizational defense.”
“Few cross over the river. Most are stranded on this side. On the riverbank they run up and down. But the wise man, following the way, Crosses over, beyond the reach of death. He leaves the dark way For the way of light.”
“Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.”
“Few cultures have not produced the idea that in some past era the world ran better than it does now.”
Source: Man's World Woman's Place
“Few Days Struggle
For a Lifetime Comfort,
Is A Great Trade.”
“Few deaths can match the refined agony of being the one left behind”
Source: In the Woods
“Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly.”
“Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.”
Source: The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more
“Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus - the epochally influential German art, architecture, crafts, and design school that was founded in Goethe's sleepy hometown of Weimar in 1919.”
“Few diseases have had an impact on human evolution, culture and society on par with malaria. It is one of the oldest documented infectious diseases. Indeed, it has been hypothesised that the protective effect bestowed by a heterozygous sickle cell allele explains its survival to the modern day. As such, malaria has left its footprint on human evolution in a profound way few other diseases have.
Yet its true origins were the matter of considerable controversy. The clue is in the name – the prevailing theory until Ross's discovery was that malaria resulted from 'mala aria', that is, 'bad air'.
It took the advent of modern evidence-based medical science to challenge this 'miasma theory'. Ross's elucidation of the role of mosquitoes in the lifecycle of malaria has opened up a new subject for epidemiological consideration: the vector-borne disease.”
Source: Computational Modeling of Infectious Disease: With Applications in Python
“Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable. It is no disparagement to the many skilled physicians who have put their cases upon record to say that, in fully one-half the diagnosis was made post mortem.”
“Few economic problems, if any, are difficult of solution. The difficulty, all but invariably, is in confronting them. We know what needs to be done; for reasons of inertia, pecuniary interest, passion or ignorance, we do not wish to say so.”
“Few endeavors, if any at all, I find to be inherently mature or inherently immature. Maturity is neither defined by one's particular preferences nor by one's particular activities; rather, it is defined by the strength of one's character.”
Source: Healology
“Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them.”
“Few enjoyments are given from the open and liberal hand of nature; but by art, labor and industry we can extract them in great abundance. Hence, the ideas of property become necessary in all civil society.”
Source: Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition
“Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.”
“Few ever lived to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.”
“Few ever see what is not already inside their heads.”
Source: The Volcano Lover
“Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know.”
“Few experiences are more satisfying than becoming someone we always imagined we could be.”
Source: Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road
“Few faithful friends are far better than many fake ones.”
“Few faithful friends makes a happy life.”
“Few fathers care much for their sons, or at least, most of them care more for their money. Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it.”
“Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words.”
Source: Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales
“Few fears are rational.”
Source: A Door Into Ocean
“Few find inner peace but this is not because they try and fail, it is because they do not try. . . When your life is governed by the divine nature instead of the self-centered nature you have found inner peace.”
“Few footprints of the great remain in the sand before the ever-flowing tide. Long ago it washed out Homer's. Curiosity follows him in vain; Greece and Asia perplex us with a rival Stratford-upon-Avon. The rank of Aristophanes is only conjectured from his gift to two poor players in Athens. The age made no sign when Shakespeare, its noblest son, passed away.”
“Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.”
Source: Perfect Companionship: Ellen Glasgow's Selected Correspondence with Women
“Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.”
“Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.”
“Few from your world believe,' Killian replied. 'And of those that do, fewer yet understand.”
Source: The Rise of Ethrundson: Quest of a Thousand Questions
“Few generals were as brilliant as Robert E. Lee and few battles as titanic -- and puzzling -- as Gettysburg. Why did Lee fail? In Lost Triumph, Tom Carhart offers a bold and provocative new assessment. Agree or disagree, it is sure to stimulate debate among even the most seasoned Civil War buffs.”
“Few get enough, ― enough is one ;
To that ethereal throng
Have not each one of us the right
To stealthily belong ?”
“Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.”
Source: An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror
“Few great men could pass personnel.”
“Few great men would have got past personnel.”
“Few gynecologists recommend to their heterosexual patients the most foolpoof of solutions, namely, misterectomy.”
“Few happen to make the clear conscious choice of venturing into self; most are catapulted on this inward orbit.”
“Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms; and he that will not condescend to recommend himself by external embellishments must submit to the fate of just sentiment meanly expressed, and be ridiculed and forgotten before he is understood.”
Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes..
“Few have all they need, none all they wish.”
“Few have attained to consummate wisdom in the perfection of philosophy: Solomon attained to it, and Aristotle in relation to his times, and in a later age Avicenna, and in our own days the recently deceased Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, and Adam Marsh.”
“Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.”
“Few have borne unconsciously the spell of loveliness.”
“Few have cared to appreciate that the job of a switchboard operator demanded a high level of communication skills and an exceptional grip over the English language, besides decent telephone manners. This is a major reason why switchboard operating was one of the first careers completely dominated by women. Yet, the lady telephone operator has been parodied, often in bad taste, in the media, in films and on television soaps. One important reason why women were preferred is because they talked in soft tones, sometimes in whispers and had excellent telephone manners. This has been a trait injected into the female of the species almost from the time she learns how to speak. Imposing silence on women is one of the most invisible forms of violence perpetrated on girls and women across the world.”
Source: The Female Gaze: Essays on Gender, Society and Media
“Few have failed to observe that the much vaunted cultural creativity expressed in Trinidad and Tobago has come principally from the ordinary African descended people at the bottom of the economic ladder.”
“Few have greater riches than the joy That comes to us in visions, In dreams which nobody can take away.”
Source: Euripides