F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“French troops arrived in Afghanistan last week, and not a minute too soon. The French are acting as advisers to the Taliban, to teach them how to surrender properly.”
“French was my first language.”
“French was the only language we had in common, and even that was like a dialect we had picked up at a rummage sale, rusty and missing a lot of essential parts.”
“French wines may be said but to pickle meat in the stomach, but this is the wine that digests, and doth not only breed good blood, but it nutrifieth also, being a glutinous substantial liquor; of this wine, if of any other, may be verified that merry induction: That good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.”
Source: Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ: Familiar Letters Domestick and Foreign, Divided Into Four Books; Partly Historical, Political, Philosophical. Upon Emergent Occasions
“French women choose a scent when they’re girls and use it until they’re grandmothers. It becomes their trademark.
'Ah,' he murmurs in the dark theater, 'Giselle is here tonight!'
But I think that a woman usually outgrows a fragrance every decade or so.”
Source: My Way of Life
“French women don't eat Wonder Bread.”
Source: French Women Don't Get Fat
“French women don't have too many clothes - a few good pieces that last for a while and are classic and timeless.”
“French women eat and serve what's in season, for maximum flavor and value, and know availability does not equal quality.”
“French women have been made beautiful by the French people - they're very aware of their bodies, the way they move and speak, they're very confident of their sexuality. French society's made them like that”
“French women love bread and would never consider a life without carbs.”
“French women love to shop and prepare food. They love to talk about what they have bought and made. It's a deeply natural love, but one that is erased in many other cultures. Most French women learn it from their mothers, some from their fathers. But if your parents aren't French, you can still learn it yourself.”
“French women typically think about good things to eat. American women typically worry about bad things to eat.”
“French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation; my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real.”
“French, for example, is declining as an international language, but Spanish, Mandarin and Arabic are all languages of the future. Ethnic minority groups in the UK may well prove to be a major asset in this effort.”
“French: why does this language even exist? Everyone there speaks english anyway.”
Source: Royally Obsessed
“Frenchman: Germans with good food.”
“Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed!”
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions
“Frenchmen drink wine just like we used to drink water before Prohibition.”
“Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.”
“Frenchwomen could not dress like Englishwomen without conviction of sin.”
Source: Modes and Morals
“Frenchwomen just never look ungroomed, do they?”
Source: War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944
“Freneuse is an oddball, an idler, without any aim in life! If you ask me, he has smoked too much opium in the East, and that explains his somnolence, his morbid lethargies. It's the hazardous legacy of bad habits! He has been comprehensively undone; the heavy influence of poisonous opiates never ceases to oppress him. Besides which, his steel-blue eyes are surely the eyes of a smoker of opium. He carries the drunken burden of hemp in his veins. Opium is like syphilis' - le Mazel released the word carelessly - 'it is a thing which stays for years and years in the blood, because the body is unable to purge itself. It must be absorbed, in the long run, by iodide.”
Source: Monsieur de Phocas
“Frente a la escalinata de la Mansión, Camelia Blackburn parecía una reina salida de tiempos remotos. Llevaba un ceñido vestido negro que realzaba su figura y mostraba, al mismo tiempo, su permanente luto por el marido perdido. Al descender por la escalera, el viento acarició su cabello oscuro, que ondeó como una bandera en un campo de batalla.”
Source: Topacio y Cicuta
“Frente al amor y la muerte, no sirve de nada ser fuerte. Lala taught me about giving in to love, but she never explained how to give in to death.”
Source: Salty, Bitter, Sweet
“Frente al vacío de la repetición de la vida cotidiana se construye un espacio ficcional en el interior del cual la experiencia es posible. (...) El héroe de la novela es aquel que se construye un espacio alternativo para zafar de ese mundo donde, como dice Benjamin, la experiencia ha muerto y nadie tiene nada personal para contar. ¿Por qué? Porque todo lo que hay para contar es la información que los medios han puesto en el lugar de la propia experiencia con la realidad.”
Source: Las tres vanguardias: Saer, Puig, Walsh
“Frentzen is taking, er, reducing that gap between himself and Frentzen.”
“Frenzied activity is no gauge of spirituality”
“Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Frequency generators have been around for decades. Royal Rife was using frequencies in the 1920's and 1930's to cure cancer. Today there are several machines using frequencies to balance out a person's energy thus eliminating the energetic frequency of the imbalance or disease. When the frequency of the disease you have has been neutralized, the disease goes away. These machines absolutely, 100 percent allow the body to virtually cure all diseases.”
“Frequency; not frequently. Vibrate to migrate... mind-states.”
“Frequent action increases predictability.”
“Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall.”
Source: The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more
“Frequent comparative ranking can only reinforce a short-term investment perspective. It is understandably difficult to maintain a long-term view when, faced with the penalties for poor short-term performance, the long-term view may well be from the unemployment line ... Relative-performance-oriented investors really act as speculators. Rather than making sensible judgments about the attractiveness of specific stocks and bonds, they try to guess what others are going to do and then do it first.”
“Frequent consumption (more than once a day) of soy milk was associated with 70 per cent reduction of the risk of prostate cancer (relative risk=0.3, 95 percent confidence interval 0.1-1.0, p-value for linear trend=0.03).
Jacobsen, B. K., Knutsen, S. F., & Fraser, G. E. (1998).”
“Frequent discontent must proceed from frequent hardships.”
Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes
“Frequent elections are unquestionably the only policy by which this dependence and sympathy can be effectually secured. But what particular degree of frequency may be absolutely necessary for the purpose, does not appear to be susceptible of any precise calculation; and must depend on a variety of circumstances with which it may be connected. Let us consult experience, the guide that ought always to be followed, whenever it can be found.”
Source: The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution
“Frequent friction when love becomes political.”
“Frequent mobs, seditions, and at last civil wars, became common, while a few leading men on whom the masses were dependent, affected supreme power under the seemly pretence of seeking the good of senate and people; citizens were judged good or bad, without reference to their loyalty to the republic (for all were equally corrupt); but the wealthy and dangerously powerful were esteemed good citizens, because they maintained the existing state of things.”
“Frequent not the company of immodest persons, especially if they be also impudent, as is generally the case; ...these corrupted souls and infected hearts scarcely speak to any, either of the same or a different sex, without causing them to fall in some degree from purity; they have poison in their eyes and in their breath, like basilisks. On the contrary, keep company with the chaste and virtuous; often meditate upon and read holy things; for the word of God is chaste, and makes those also chaste that delight in it.”
“Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.”
“Frequent reflection on this subject, moreover, inclines me to the belief that this reluctance to exchange the darkness of the womb for the light of day is connected to my extraordinary gift and passion for sleep.”
“Frequent risk-takers have had their fair shares of failures and successes, hence, being confident in reaching their goals, they will usually seem insensitive to whether or not they look foolish or cool to other people.”
Source: Killosophy
“Frequent the company of your betters.”
Source: The English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of Lectures
“Frequent visits to doctors is a potentially hazardous activity to engage in.”
“Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to community organizations, especially those concerned with young people, health, arts and leisure, neighborhood and civic groups and professional associations.”
“Frequentemente me perguntam: "Você acredita que existe inteligência exraterrestre?" Respondo com os argumentos padrões - há muitos lugares no espaço, as moléculas da vida estão por toda parte, emprego a palavra bilhões, e assim por diante. Depois digo que ficaria espantado senão houvesse inteligência extraterrestre, mas que ainda não há absolutamente nenhuma evidência convincente de que ela existe.
Muitas vezes me perguntam a seguir:
-O que você realmente acha?
Respondo:
-Acabei de lhe dizer o que realmente acho.
-Sim, mas qual é a sua opinião visceral?
Mas eu tento não pensar com as minhas vísceras. Se levo a sério minha tentativa de compreender o mundo, pensar com algum órgão que não seja o cérebro, por mais tentador que possa ser, provavelmente complicará a minha vida. Na verdade, é correto guardar a opinião para quando houver evidências.”
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“Frequently a big advantage can be gained by knowing how to give in at the right moment.”
“Frequently, and not only in the popular usage, sadomasochism is confounded with love. Masochistic phenomena, especially, are looked upon as expressions of love. An attitude of complete self-denial for the sake of another person and the surrender of one's own rights and claims to another person have been praised as examples of "great love". It seems that there is no better proof for "love" than sacrifice and the readiness to give oneself up for the sake of the beloved person. Actually, in these cases, "love" is essentially a masochistic yearning and rooted in the symbiotic need of the person involved.”
Source: Escape from Freedom
“Frequently avoidance of the present leads to idealization of the future... When an event does not live up to your expectations you can get out of the depression by idealizing again. Do not let this vicious circle become your life-style. Interrupt it now with some strategic present-moment fulfillment.”
Source: Your erroneous zones