F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Few men can afford to be angry.”
Source: Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America
“Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.”
Source: An Account of the Infancy, Religious, and Literary Life of Adam Clarke ...: Written by One who was Intimately Acquainted with Him from His Boyhood to the Sixtieth Year of His Age
“Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.”
Source: The Amateur Army
“Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.”
“Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.”
Source: Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure
“Few men have been admired of their familiars.”
Source: Essayes
“Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.”
Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims
“Few men have imagination enough for reality.”
“Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years' business career, from which I had retired.”
Source: Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public
“Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy.”
“Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.”
Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts
“Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.”
“Few men in their 70s looked as good as my father did. What was his secret? Genes, maybe, since he didn't exercise or diet, and he kept a candy drawer, drank a pot of black coffee every day, and read in the middle of the night. Still, he took such joy in being a dad - and in life in general - and his happiness showed.”
“Few men know all the ill they do.”
“Few men looked on her without becoming, in a certain fashion, her lovers. But it was the kind of love that made them not less true, but truer, to their own wives.”
“Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.”
Source: Table Talk: With a Biographical Pref. and Notes
“Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.”
Source: Tread softly, for you tread on my jokes
“Few men or women in our lifetimes have been so unjustly vilified in the popular media as the late Justice Antonin Scalia of the United States Supreme Court. If you are not a lawyer who read his opinions, if you know nothing about Justice Scalia other than what you have read in the popular press, you have surely been deceived into believing that this man was some sort of archconservative who could regularly be counted upon to side with the government and trample the constitutional liberties of the poor and the powerless. The truth is much more complicated than that. While Justice Scalia was, by his own admission, exceptionally stingy in refusing to accept arguments about constitutional rights that involved some aspect of general "liberty" that are not explicitly mentioned in the Constitution—rights like abortion, or same-sex marriage—when it came to the defense of constitutional liberties that are explicitly described in the Constitution, no other recent member of the Supreme Court was so uncompromisingly passionate and liberal in refusing to water down those protections.”
Source: You Have the Right to Remain Innocent
“Few men progress, except as they are pushed along by events.”
“Few men realize how much of their lives are lived in pursuit of the values our culture has traditionally associated with masculinity. These values – a primary focus on work, logical thinking and always being in emotional control – have many benefits to men and their families. When taken to extremes, the pursuit of traditional masculine values becomes a cage for feelings, a stranglehold on life itself.”
Source: Codependency & Men
“Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.”
Source: Joseph Conrad The Dover Reader
“Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.”
“Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.”
Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes
“Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favour, which an artful flatterer may gradually strengthen, till wishes for a particular qualification are improved to hopes of attainment, and hopes of attainment to belief of possession.”
Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752
“Few men think, yet all will have opinions.”
Source: Works, Including His Letters to Thomas Prior, Dean Gervais, Mr. Pope, &c. to which is Prefixed an Account of His Life
“Few men who have liberated themselves from the fear of God and the fear of death are yet able to liberate themselves from the fear of man.”
Source: The Importance of Living
“Few minds are sunlike, sources of light in themselves and to others: many more are moons that shine with a borrowed radiance. One may easily distinguish the two: the former are always full; the latter only now and then, when their suns are shining full upon them.”
Source: Guesses at Truth
“Few minds wear out; more rust out.”
“Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.”
“Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is concerting measures for a new undertaking.”
Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes..
“Few moments are so special that they should be recognized by special expressions.”
Source: One Bucket of Tears
“Few moments in life are more gratifying than those when the arrogant are exposed as the ignorant.”
“Few nations do more than the United States to assist their least fortunate citizens-to make certain that no child, no elderly or handicapped citizen, no family in any circumstances in any State, is left without the essential needs for a decent and healthy existence. In too few nations, I might add, are the people aware of the progressive strides this country has taken in demonstrating the humanitarian side of freedom. Our record is a proud one-and it sharply refutes those who accuse us of thinking only in the materialistic terms of cash registers and calculating machines.”
“Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.”
Source: The Gods, and Other Lectures
“Few nations match our rich resource of literature.”
“Few needs are more pressing, or more deserving of our attention, than taking care of the men and women of the U.S. armed forces.”
“Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.”
Source: Three Critics of the Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herder
“Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Few novels truly deserve the description 'rollicking' in the way Mary Novik's Conceit does. A hearty, boiling stew of a novel, served up in rich old-fashioned story-telling. Novik lures her readers into the streets of a bawdy seventeenth-century London with a nudge and a wink and keeps them there with her infectious love of detail and character. A raunchy, hugely entertaining read that will leave you at once satiated and hungry for more.”
“Few occasions are as joyous to small children as funerals, almost better than the big wedding blowouts that take place at night when it's hard to stay awake. A small boy will never be harshly criticized at a funeral; he is more treasured as death comes close and all his wickedness vanishes before the inescapable fact that thank God, he is healthy.”
Source: Timebends: A Life
“Few of Caesar's assassins outlived him by more than three years, or died in their beds.”
“Few of humanity's characteristics are more disconcerting than its ability to reduce world-events to its own level, wherever this may happen to be.”
“Few of the birds that Aemon had sent off had returned as yet. One reached Stannis, though. One found Dragonstone, and a king who still cared.”
Source: A Storm of Swords
“Few of the great creators have bland personalities. They are cantankerous egotists, the kind of men who are unwelcome in the modern corporation.”
Source: Confessions of an advertising man
“Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.”
“Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.”
Source: On the Art of Poetry
“Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.”
“Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.”
Source: What Ho!: The Best of Wodehouse
“Few of those who fill the world with books, have any pretensions to the hope either of pleasing or instructing. They have often no other task than to lay two books before them, out of which they compile a third, without any new material of their own, and with very little application of judgment to those which former authors have supplied.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes
“Few of us are as good as we think we are; none of us are as good as we can be.”