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It is the business of the future to be dangerous.
 Fadiman
Clifton
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
 Fadiman
Clifton
... but as records of courts and justice are admissible, it can easily be
proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a scourge
to mankind. The evidence (including confession) upon which certain women
were convicted of witch Fadiman
Clifton
When the sun shineth, make hay.
 Fadiman Clifton
The optimum committee has no members.
 Far Kilgore Trout
A violent man will die a violent death.
 Faulkner
William
A man said to the Universe:
"Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the Universe,
"the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation."
 Faulkner
William
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
 Fawcett-Majors
Farrah
Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would.
The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.
 Fee
Elizabeth
"Hi, I'm Preston A. Mantis, president of Consumers Retail Law Outlet. As you
can see by my suit and the fact that I have all these books of equal height
on the shelves behind me, I am a trained legal attorney. Do you have a car
or a job? Do you ever Feibleman James
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have
nothing whatever to do with it.
 Feiffer
J.
We are what we pretend to be.
 Feiffer
J.
Fortune Documents the Great Legal Decisions:
We think that we may take judicial notice of the fact that the term "bitch"
may imply some feeling of endearment when applied to a female of the canine
species but that it is seldom, if ever, so used whe Feirstein
Bruce
Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still
be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.
 Fenelon
Francois
Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
 Feodor Dostoevsky
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.
 Ferdinand Marechal Foch
Two heads are better than one.
 Fiebig
Jim
Men are superior to women.
 Fields
W.C.
Have you ever stopped to think what it would be like to have a woman President?
"I can't deal with the Russians today. Not now. I've got my period."
 Fields
W.C.
The truth of a thing is the feel of it, not the think of it.
 Fields
W.C.
When I have one foot in the grave I will tell the truth about women. I
shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me, and say, "Do
what you like now."
 Fields
W.C.
Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
 Finley J.H.
Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
 Finley Peter Dunne
Two wrongs are only the beginning.
 Fisher
John
The whole world is a scab. The point is to pick it constructively.
 Fishhawk
Prof. Cosmo
He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hopes for
the human condition is a fool.
 Fitch
G.
... Our second completely true news item was sent to me by Mr. H. Boyce
Connell Jr. of Atlanta, Ga., where he is involved in a law firm. One thing
I like about the South is, folks there care about tradition. If somebody
gets handed a name like "H.  Fitzgera F. Scott
Several years ago, some smart businessmen had an idea: Why not build a big
store where a do-it-yourselfer could get everything he needed at reasonable
prices? Then they decided, nah, the hell with that, let's build a home
center. And before long ho Fitzgera F. Scott
A committee takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts and dies, scattering the
seed from which other committees will bloom.
 Fitzgerald
F. Scott
America, I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.
 Flagg
Reuben
Imagine what we can imagine!
 Flaubert
Good salesmen and good repairmen will never go hungry.
 Florio
John
Time as he grows old teaches all things.
 Floyd Mengot
It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
 Flynn
Errol
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ...
in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent
to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who
have not yet reached their  Foote
Samuel
I'm going to raise an issue and stick it in your ear.
 Ford
Henry
But the greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison, who was a
brilliant inventor despite the fact that he had little formal education and
lived in New Jersey. Edison's first major invention in 1877, was the
phonograph, which could soo Foreman
John
A good name lost is seldom regained. When character is gone,
all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever.
 Forster
E.M.
Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.
 Forward R.L.
If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something
to do with a shortage of flowers.
 Fosdick
Harry Emerson
Nothing recedes like success.
 Fowler
Gene
To have died once is enough.
 Foxx
Redd
Littering is dumb.
 Frampton
Peter
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
 Fran Lebowitz
"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think
little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and
Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination."
 Fran Lebowitz
If you catch a man, throw him back.
 Fran Lebowitz
Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that
reckless generosity which is found only in men who are giving away
someone else's cash.
 France
Anatole
If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
 France
Anatole
Without adventure, civilization is in full decay.
 France
Anatole
"Well," Brahma said, "even after ten thousand explanations, a fool is no
wiser, but an intelligent man requires only two thousand five hundred."
 France
Anatole
I go on working for the same reason a hen goes on laying eggs.
 France
Anatole
Not to laugh, not to lament, not to curse, but to understand.
 France
Anatole
The world is your exercise-book, the pages on which you do your sums.
It is not reality, although you can express reality there if you wish.
You are also free to write nonsense, or lies, or to tear the pages.
 France
Anatole
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
 France
Anatole
If men are not afraid to die,
it is of no avail to threaten them with death.
If men live in constant fear of dying,
And if breaking the law means a man will be killed,
Who will dare to break the law?
There is always an official executioner.
If Franci KFOG San
One good turn asketh another.
 Francis
Brendan
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
 Francis
If I could reach, I'd never leave the house.
 Francis
Three o'clock in the afternoon is always just a little too late or a little
too early for anything you want to do.
 Francisc Colin Bowles San
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
 Frank
Ann
What one fool can do, another can.
 Frank Costello
I remember when legal used to mean lawful, now it means some
kind of loophole.
 Frank Costello
I BET WHAT HAPPENED was they discovered fire and invented the wheel on
the same day. Then that night, they burned the wheel.
 Frank Herbert
There is no cure for birth and death other than to enjoy the interval.
 Frank Herbert
"Life is too important to take seriously."
 Frank Herbert
If you're like most homeowners, you're afraid that many repairs
around your home are too difficult to tackle. So, when your furnace
explodes, you call in a so-called professional to fix it. The
"professional" arrives in a truck with lettering on t Frank Herbert
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
 Franklin
B.
Look, we trade every day out there with hustlers, deal-makers, shysters,
con-men. That's the way businesses get started. That's the way this
country was built.
 Franklin
B.
I love treason but hate a traitor.
 Franklin
B.
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do
the work.
 Franklin
B.
Do not use that foreign word "ideals". We have that excellent native
word "lies".
 Franklin
B.
Chance is perhaps the work of God when He did not want to sign.
 Franklin
B.
Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.
 Franklin
Ben
I just got off the phone with Sonny Barger [President of the Hell's Angels].
He wants me to appear as a character witness for him at his murder trial
and said he'd be glad to appear as a character witness on my behalf if I
ever needed one. Needless  Franklin
Ben
Flame on!
 Franklin
Ben
It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
 Franklin
Benjamin
Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.
 Franklin
Benjamin
Set the cart before the horse.
 Franklin
Benjamin
"The jig's up, Elman."
"Which jig?"
 Franklin
Benjamin
"I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very
reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment."
 Franklin
Benjamin
The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate.
 Franklin
Benjamin
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
 Franklin
Benjamin
Small is beautiful.
 Franklin
Benjamin
I didn't believe in reincarnation in any of my other lives. I don't see why
I should have to believe in it in this one.
 Franklin Benjamin
Any stone in your boot always migrates against the pressure gradient to
exactly the point of most pressure.
 Franklin Benjamin
True to our past we work with an inherited, observed, and accepted vision of
personal futility, and of the beauty of the world.
 Fratianno
Well begun is half done.
 Fratianno
"If a camel flies, no one laughs if it doesn't get very far."
 Fratianno
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
 Fred Allen
Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.
 Freud
Sigmund
What we need in this country, instead of Daylight Savings Time, which nobody
really understands anyway, is a new concept called Weekday Morning Time,
whereby at 7 a.m. every weekday we go into a space-launch-style "hold" for
two to three hours, durin Freud Sigmund
It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulse that
could give the name of the fair sex to that undersized, narrow-shouldered,
broad-hipped, and short-legged race.
 Friedman
Milton
"I'm dying," he croaked.
"My experiment was a success," the chemist retorted .
"You can't really train a beagle," he dogmatized.
"That's no beagle, it's a mongrel," she muttered.
"The fire is going out," he bellowed.
"Bad marksmanship," the h Friendman
Milton
Getting into trouble is easy.
 Friendman
Milton
A full belly makes a dull brain.
 Fright Nero Wolfe
It was the next morning that the armies of Twodor marched east
laden with long lances, sharp swords, and death-dealing hangovers. The
thousands were led by Arrowroot, who sat limply in his sidesaddle,
nursing a whopper. Goodgulf, Gimlet, and the r Fringe
Beyond the
When the going gets tough, everyone leaves.
 Fringe
Beyond the
I will make you shorter by the head.
 Fritzlar
Herbert von
Like, if I'm not for me, then fer shure, like who will be? And if, y'know,
if I'm not like fer anyone else, then hey, I mean, what am I? And if not
now, like I dunno, maybe like when? And if not Who, then I dunno, maybe
like the Rolling Stones?
 Frog
Kermit the
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it
were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
 Fromme
Squeaky
We all live in a state of ambitious poverty.
 Frost
Robert
The great question that has never been answered and which I have not
yet been able to answer despite my thirty years of research into the
feminine soul is: WHAT DOES A WOMAN WANT?
 Frost
Robert
Never appeal to a man's "better nature." He may not have one.
Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.
 Frost
Robert
Never buy from a rich salesman.
 Frost
Robert
What soon grows old? Gratitude.
 Frost
Robert
 Frost
Robert
A continuing flow of paper is sufficient to continue the flow of paper.
 Frost Robert
Turn the other cheek.
 Fry
Christopher
Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
 Fuldheim
Dorothy
The coast was clear.
 Fuller
Buckminster
A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles
in the road.
 Fuller
Buckminster
Let's say your wedding ring falls into your toaster, and when you stick
your hand in to retrieve it, you suffer Pain and Suffering as well as
Mental Anguish. You would sue:
* The toaster manufacturer, for failure to include, in the instructions
 Fuller
R. Buckminster
The major sin is the sin of being born.
 Fuller
R. Buckminster
A lie is an abomination unto the Lord and a very present help in time of
trouble.
 Fylstra
Dan
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