F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Few scientists would treat their cars as badly as they treat their conceptual schemes.”
Source: Beast and Man: The Roots of Human Nature
“Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good.”
“Few see beyond the outward appearance
And recognize the true worth of a human soul.
When they do, miracles occur.”
“Few seem to be able to eat a turkey leg at Disneyland without splattering tsunami scale grease, so grab plenty of napkins or wear a bib, tablecloth or scuba suit.”
Source: The Disneyland Book of Secrets 2014 - Disneyland: One Local's Unauthorized, Rapturous and Indispensable Guide to the Happiest Place on Earth
“Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process--it is, after all, black magic.”
Source: Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee
“Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.”
Source: On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life: Part II of Thoughts Out of Season
“Few sights in science are sadder than astronomers standing in the rain.”
“Few situations - no matter how greatly they appear to demand it - can be bettered by us going beserk.”
Source: The Language of Letting Go
“Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors
“Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.”
Source: The odyssey
“Few sons are like their fathers - many are worse, few better.”
“Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace.”
Source: The Iliad ...
“Few souls understand what God would effect in them if they should give themselves entirely into his hands and allow his grace to act.”
“Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.”
“Few spirits are made better by the pain and languor of sickness; as few great pilgrims become eminent saints.”
“Few sports has as great a disparity between the time committed in practice and time actually spent in game or race conditions.”
Source: The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal
“Few stories are written about what happens to the princess after the wedding. Reading between the lines of other stories, we can sketch out her "happily ever after": The princess gets pregnant and hopes for sons. As long as she is faithful and bears sons, she is considered to be a good wife. We don't hear whether or not she's a good mother, unless something goes wrong with her children.... All of history has been written about the subsequent adventures in the chapters of his life.”
Source: Mother daughter revolution: from betrayal to power
“Few suffer more than those who refuse to forgive themselves.”
“Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.”
Source: Guesses at Truth
“Few take up the burden of their own victory; most give up their dreams when these become impossible.”
“Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.”
“Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. The housewife wears herself out marking time: she makes nothing, simply perpetuates the present … Eating, sleeping, cleaning – the years no longer rise up towards heaven, they lie spread out ahead, grey and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won.”
“Few teams sometimes fails miserably because team members wish to work in the team but they want to be recognized individualy.”
“Few tears are just the memoirs of indication, what you will go through in near future...”
“Few tears will be shed over the demise of the East German army, but what about East Germany’s eighty symphony orchestras, bound to lose some subsidies? Or the whole East German system, which covered everyone in a security blanket from day care to health care, from housing to education? Some people are beginning to express, if ever so slightly, nostalgia for that Berlin Wall.”
“Few there were who could change his courses by counsel. None by force.”
“Few things a doctor does are more important than relieving pain. . . pain is soul destroying. No patient should have to endure intense pain unnecessarily. The quality of mercy is essential to the practice of medicine; here, of all places, it should not be strained.”
“Few things accelerate the peace process as much as humbly admitting our own wrongdoing and asking forgiveness.”
Source: God's Outrageous Claims: Discover What They Mean for You
“few things are a more satisfying substitute for the presence of other people than writing, which at the same time provides an excuse for one's antisocial behaviour, for everyone knows that someone who writes has a great need for solitude.”
Source: Summer
“Few things are as antithetical to sex as thought.
Sex is instinctive, unreflexive and spontaneous,
while thought is careful, uninvolved, and
judgemental. To think during sex is to violate a
fundamental law of intercourse.”
Source: On Love
“Few things are as bad as a guilty conscience.”
Source: The Joys of Motherhood
“Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm.”
“Few things are as encouraging as the realization that things can be different and that we have a role in making them so.”
“Few things are as essential as education.”
“Few things are as foolish as hoping old behaviors will somehow present new results.”
“Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by whichthey have once won office.”
“Few things are as psychologically brutal as chess.”
Source: How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom
“Few things are as stimulating as other people's calamities observed from a safe distance.”
Source: The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts
“Few things are better in the world than a room full of librarians. I consider them literary heroes. The keepers and defenders of the written word.”
“Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.”
“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.”
“Few things are hidden from a quiet child with good eyesight.”
Source: The Wee Free Men: (Discworld Novel 30)
“Few things are impossible in themselves: application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means.”
“Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton: Illustrations, and Critical and Explanatory Remarks, by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers ... and Others; to which are Added, Now First Published, Some Original Letters, with Additional Observations, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author
“Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than
means, that men fail of success.”
“Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.”
“Few things are less comforting than a tiger who's up too late.”
“Few things are more absurd than wise saws originally designed to inculcate or maintain the social needs of a society long past - when they are applied to today.”
Source: Reflections
“Few things are more aggravating than to be forgiven when one has done no wrong.”
“Few things are more agreeable than the spectacle of a man who loses his temper; we should be grateful to such people for providing us with moments of often unsullied delight.”
Source: Good Behavior: Being a Study of Certain Types of Civility