All Quotes and Proverbs

"Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week."

George Bernard Shaw

Intellect, Judgement

Various

Rating: 6.86 (Number of Voters: 7)

"Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record."

Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl Rosebery "The Life of William Pitt"

Oration and Silence

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Few things are as painful as the truth realized too late."

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Sorrow and Nostalgia

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example."

Mark Twain

Anger

Various

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own."

Doug Larson

Family and Loneliness

Youth and Age

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us."

Paul Theroux

Destiny and Fate

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 1.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality."

Jean Baudrillard "Utopia Achieved"

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 6.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."

Stephen King

Reality and Imagination

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Fidelity to roots does not mean a mechanical copying of the patterns of the past. Fidelity to roots is always creative, ready to descend into the depths, open to new challenges."

John Paul II

Loyalty and Betrayal

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Fight the enemy with the weapons he lacks."

Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov

Friendship and Hostility

Peace and War

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera."

Godard-Jean-Luc

Art and Culture

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Film music is like small lamp that you place below the screen to warm it."

Aaron Copland

Art and Culture

Various

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears."

Robert W. Sarnoff

Richness and Money

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it."

Katharine Whitehorn

Work and Laziness

Rating: 6.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Find purpose, the means will follow."

Mahatma Gandhi

Dreams and Desires

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Finding your passion is about connecting the dots between your head and your heart."

Maria Marsala

Dreams and Desires

Various

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Fire and water have no mercy."

Various Proverbs

Nature and Animals

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"First Law of Cooking: A Hot pot looks exactly the same as a cold pot."

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Various

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

Epictetus

Success and Fame

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me."

Steve Martin

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you."

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines."

John Brunner

Freedom and Servitude

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Fish begins to stink at the head."

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Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Fish, to taste good, must swim three times: in water, in butter, and in wine."

Polish Proverbs

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers."

Herbert Hoover

Human

Nature and Animals

Rating: 6.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Five out of four people have problems with fractions."

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Education

Question and Problem

Science and Technology

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver."

Edmund Burke

Law and Crime

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed."

Josh Billings

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies."

Spanish Proverbs

Friendship and Hostility

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into."

Henry Ward Beecher "Life Thoughts"

God and Religion

Nature and Animals

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems."

Anthony J. D`Angelo "The College Blue Book"

Question and Problem

Work and Laziness

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Folks who never do any more than they are paid for will never get paid for any more than they do."

Elbert Green Hubbard

Richness and Money

Work and Laziness

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Follow the fellow who follows a dream."

E.Y. Harburg "Finian's Rainbow"

Dreams and Desires

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Food first, then morality."

Bertolt Brecht "The Threepenny Opera"

Life and Death

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Food is an important part of a balanced diet."

Fran Lebowitz

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?"

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me."

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Manners and Ethics

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 3.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Fools learn nothing from wise men; but wise men learn much from fools."

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 1.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity."

George Orwell "Inside the Whale and Other Essays"

Art and Culture

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros."

Ethel Barrymore

Success and Fame

Rating: 2.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"For every joy there is a price to be paid."

Egyptian Proverbs (from ancient temple)

Joy and Sadness

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 6)

"For God is not against us because of our sin. He is with us; against our sin."

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God and Religion

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"For good, return good. For evil, return justice."

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Good and Evil

Justice

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do-they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities."

John Updike

Manners and Ethics

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"For myself, I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else."

Winston Churchill

Optimism and Hope

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great."

Jose Ortega y Gasset "Meditations on Quixote"

Various

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?"

Jane Austen "Pride and Prejudice"

Joy and Sadness

Life and Death

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"For, I ask, what is man in Nature? A cypher compared with the Infinite, an All compared with Nothing, a mean between nothing and all."

Blaise Pascal "Pensées"

Human

Nature and Animals

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 1)