F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Few things are more agreeable to self-love than revenge, and yet no cause so effectually restrains us from revenge as self-love. And this paradox naturally suggests another; that the strength of the community is not unfrequently built upon the weakness of those individuals that compose it.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Few things are more beautiful to me than a bunch of thuggish, heavily tattooed line cooks moving around each other like ballerinas on a busy Saturday night. Seeing two guys who'd just as soon cut each other's throats in their off hours moving in unison with grace and ease can be as uplifting as any chemical stimulant or organized religion.”
“Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter.”
“Few things are more comforting to the soul than the voice of someone who loves us.”
“Few things are more commonly misunderstood than the nature and meaning of theocracy. It is commonly assumed to be a dictatorial rule by self-appointed men who claim to rule for God. In reality, theocracy in Biblical law is the closest thing to a radical libertarianism that can be had.”
“Few things are more damaging to our democracy than a military officer who doesn't have the moral courage to stand up for what's right or the moral fiber to step aside when circumstances dictate.”
“Few things are more dangerous to a person's integrity than having nothing to do and plenty of time in which to do it.”
Source: Wise Words and Quotes
“Few things are more deceptive than memories.”
Source: The Shadow Of The Wind
“Few things are more important at this time in history than for religious people to listen to the New Atheists as if these unbelievers were speaking with God's voice, because they are! The word "God" used to be identified with reality - indeed, ultimate reality. In all cultures and at all times, the divine was no mere person, but was a personification of reality.”
“Few things are more important than finding a home and working at it constantly to make it resonate with deep memories and fulfill deep longings.”
“Few things are more important than learning how to learn.”
“Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.”
“Few things are more laughably pitiable than authority once it has been successfully defied.”
Source: The Probability Broach
“Few things are more painful than watching one's parents grow old; witnessing the strength ebb from a person one once believed immortal, seeing it replaced by an irrevocable fragility.”
Source: The Mad Women's Ball
“Few things are more pleasant than a village graced with a good church, a good priest and a good pub.”
“Few things are more powerful than learning to trust that your path to a fulfilled life - and the glorious destiny that you are meant to share with the world - is part of your soul's blueprint.”
“few things are more rewarding than a child's open uncalculating devotion.”
“Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool.”
Source: The Choice: A Surprising New Message of Hope
“Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.”
“Few things are needful to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool; - and this is the reason why so many of mankind are miserable.”
“Few things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do it. "He who desires but acts not," wrote Blake with his accustomed vigor, "Breeds pestilence.”
Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience
“Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous.”
Source: The Day of the Locust
“Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion.”
“Few things are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice.”
Source: The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler
“Few things are strong enough to survive that deadly clash of mania and depression. Certainly not love. Love is far too fragile: it is a picture window, just begging to be shattered.”
“Few things are worth doing perfectly.”
“Few things build a person up like affirmation. According to Webster’s New World Dictionary, Third College Edition (Simon and Schuster, 1991), the word affirm comes from ad firmare, which means “to make firm.” So when you affirm people, you make firm within them the things you see about them. Do that often enough, and the belief that solidifies within them will become stronger than the doubts they have about themselves.”
Source: The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization
“Few things burned men as much as the cold side of a woman that was once warm.”
Source: A Happy Ghost
“Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.”
“Few things concentrate the mind more efficiently than the necessity of saying what you mean. It brings you face to face with what you are talking about, what you are actually proposing. It gets you away from the catch phrases that not merely substitute for thought but preclude it.”
“Few things feel as unbelievably great as working out hard.”
“Few things have done more harm than the belief on the part of individuals or groups (or tribes or states or nations or churches) that he or she or they are in sole possession of the truth: especially about how to live, what to be and do - and that those who differ from them are not merely mistaken, but wicked or mad: and need restraining or suppressing.”
“Few things have more impact than nutrition on a child's ability to survive, learn effectively and escape a life of poverty.”
“Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.”
“Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say”
Source: Middlemarch
“Few things, if anything, are more important than altruism.”
“Few things in Avonlea ever escaped Mrs. Lynde. It was only that morning Anne had said, "If you went to your own room at midnight, locked the door, pulled down the blind, and sneezed, Mrs. Lynde would ask you the next day how your cold was!”
Source: L. M. MONTGOMERY – Premium Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry & Autobiography (Including Anne Shirley Novels, Chronicles of Avonlea & The Story Girl Series): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, The Golden Road, Kilmeny of the Orchard, The Watchman, Songs of the Sea & many more
“Few things in cultural programming in the mass media are quite as disturbing as watching Charlie Rose leaning forward, craning out over his table, peering deeply, on the very precipice of an incisive question sure to reveal a real Idea, a slim, almost excited smile starting to form on his lips as he imagines the dawning joy of the intellectual life revealed for himself and his audience, and we move with the camera, oh-so-sincerely, to his guest and see that all this expectation and anticipation is addressed to . . . Lance Armstrong. Or Ron “Opie” Howard. Or Gary Shandling…..”
“Few things in life are certain except death and being taxed.”
Source: How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets
“Few things in life are less efficient than a group of people trying to write a sentence. The advantage of this method is that you end up with something for which you will not be personally blamed.”
“Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.”
“Few things in life are so certain. The million dollar bitcoin is one of those things.”
Source: One Coin. Two Coin. What Coin? Bitcoin: Crypto for Grownups Made as Easy as Child's Play
“Few things in life can be so appalling as the difference between a dry antiseptic statement of a principle by a well spoken man in a quiet office, and what happens to people when that principle is put into practice.”
“Few things in life match the thrill of a marathon.”
“Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push - a smile. A word of optimism and hope, a 'you can do it!' when things are tough”
“Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.”
“Few things in this world are more predictable than the reaction of conventional minds to unconventional ideas.”
“Few things in this world evoke scrotum-shriveling fear in a man like a group of frowning women, enraged to the point of atypical silence, ambling toward him with an obvious agenda.”
Source: Nature's Housekeeper
“Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear of poverty; and, indeed, it is a sore affliction; but, like all other ills that flesh is heir to, it has its antidote, its reliable remedy. The judicious application of industry, prudence and temperance is a certain cure.”
“Few things infuse a member of Congress with more courage than self-imposed term limits or an imminent retirement. The issues they choose to focus on in their final months say a great deal about what are really the most important issues in the country.”
Source: Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders