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Frederick William Faber (1814-1863) Love's secret is always to be doing things for God, and not to mind because they are such very little ones. --Frederick William Faber (1814-1863) We all go to our graves unknown, worlds of unsuspected greatness. Frederick W. Faber
Georg Fabricius Death comes to all We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare.And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made. -M.Facklam
Mary Fairchild Everything I've accomplished I've accomplished through the grace of God and pure stubbornness. -Mary Fairchild Fortunately, God suffers fools gladly, I think. It's part of His job, and it's the only explanation I can think of for my own survival. -- Mary Fairchild
Henry Fairlie Perhaps no one sins more outrageously in our age, or is more characteristic of the slackness we tolerate, than the priest and the theologian who reduce God to no more than a concept but insist that they believe enough to remain members of their church or temple. They are making it awkward to be an atheist. ...Why stand outside the doors of the church as an atheist, and think gravely of the falsehoods preached within that one feels compelled to combat, when all the time one could just step inside and in God's own house preach against them in His name? --Henry Fairlie, _The Seven Deadly Sins Today_
King Farouk The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left--the King of England, the King of Spades, The King of Clubs, the King of Hearts, and the King of Diamonds. - King Farouk of Egypt, 1948
F.W. Farrar No ages are worse, no places more corrupt, than those that draw the iridescent film of an intellectual culture over the deep stagnancy of moral degredation. F.W. Farrar (said of Tarsus) in Life & Work of Saint Paul, p.16
Walter Farrell The Devil does not shock a saint into alertness by suggesting whopping cri mes. He starts off with little, almost inoffensive things to which even the heart of a saint would make only mild protests.--Walter Farrell, _Companion to Summa_, 1941 Tolerance does not...do anything, embrace anyone, champion any issue. It wipes the notes off the score of life and replaces them with one long bar of rest. It does not attack error, it does not champion truth, it does not hate evil, it does not love good.--Walter Farrell, _The Looking Glass_, 1951 If the men of our time had their way, God would be on the carpet all the time offering soothing explanations to angry questions.--Walter Farrell, _The Looking Glass_, 1951
Frederick A. Farris Most people are just selfish and egocentric, wanting what they want, when they want it, without regard to the rest of society. The vast majority of people are cave-men in designer clothes, without morals or ethics. -- Frederick A. Farris, Las_Vegas_Sun (Thu 25 Apr 2002)
William Faulkner (1897 &endash; 1962) The past is never dead. It's not even past. William Faulkner:_Requiem For A Nun_. Only vegetables are happy.-William Faulkner
William Feather If you're naturally kind you attract a lot of people you don't like.-- William Feather
Federco Fellini There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.- Federco Fellini In life and in making films, it's really important to keep your innocence. Pull a little tail, and maybe there is an elephant at the end. It's important to preserve your innocence and your optimism, especially when it's not easy. It's wonderful, the look in the eyes of some dogs. Such innocence. Such sincerity. A dog does not know how to wag his tail insincerely. Such wonder. Such admiration for us, because we are bigger and seem to know what we are doing. It's an openness which I could almost envy if it did not involve such dependence. I Fellini, by Charlotte Chandler, p. 93 Taxi drivers are always asking me, "Federico, why don't you make pictures we can understand?" I answer them that it is because I tell the truth, and the truth is never clear, while lies are quickly understood by everyone. An honest man is contradictory, and contradictions are more difficult to understand.I Fellini, by Charlotte Chandler,, p.97
Francois de Fenelon (1651-1715) Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of bitterest pain, if our will remains firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence to, not in exemption from, suffering.-Francois de Fenelon_The Book of Positive Quotations_ The more vigour you need, the more gentleness and kindness you must combine with it. All stiff, harsh goodness is contrary to Jesus.... Francois Fenelon (1651-1715)
Sarah Ferguson When in doubt, go shopping.--Sarah Ferguson
Sinclair Ferguson The determining factor of my existence is no longer my past. It is Christ's past.-- Sinclair Ferguson
Peter Ferrara All of this illiberalism [of the campaigns to defund and exclude the Boy Scouts from public facilities] stems from a fundamental change in the gay rights movement. It began by arguing that adults should be free to do what they choose in the privacy of their own bedrooms, without government interference. But today, the movement advocates the very different proposition that the power of government should be used to force everyone to approve of homosexual conduct, morally and socially. That cannot be achieved by liberal means, because it is not a liberal goal.-- Peter Ferrara
Richard Feynman (1918 &endash; 1988) There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. -- Richard Feynman I think that it is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence than of the unknown rational efforts of extra-terrestrial intelligence. Richard Feynman I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy. -- Richard Feynmann
Henry Fielding (1707-1754) In reality, the world have payed too great a compliment
to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater
profundity than they really are. He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the latter. --Henry Fielding (1707-1754) Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason. Henry Fielding I have found it; I have discovered the cause of all the
misfortunes which befell him. A public school, Joseph, was
the cause of all the calamities which he afterwards
suffered. Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and
immorality.
W. C. Fields (1880 &endash; 1946) I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. - W. C. Fields Madam, there's no such thing as a tough child -- if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender. -- W. C. Fields Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. W. C. Fields Lady Godiva put everything she had on a horse. Analyzing humour is like dissecting a frog. Few people
are interested and the frog dies of it. The first thing any comedian does on getting an
unscheduled laugh is to verify the state of his buttons. Start every day with a smile and get it over with. -- W C Fields Secretary: "It must be hard to lose your
mother-in-law." After two days in hospital, I took a turn for the nurse.-- W. C. Fields A man without a woman is like a neck without a pain. --W C Fields I was in love with a beautiful blonde once, dear. She
drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her
for. Take the bull by the tail and face the situation ~ W.C. Fields Sometimes a man just has to take the bull by the horns and face the situation. -W. C. Fields
Gianfranco Fini Europe's true heritage is its identity, and if by identity we mean above all our historic memory, then Christianity belongs fully to Europe. Even those who are not believers have to admit that a European constitution that failed to make any reference to our continent's Christian identity would be a disavowal of our origins. - Gianfranco Fini, Italian Deputy Prime Minister
Charles Finney I cannot believe that a person who has ever known the love of God can relish a secular novel. Charles Finney My brother, sister, friend - read, study, think, and read again. You were made to think. It will do you good to think; to develop your powers by study. God designed that religion should require thought, intense thought, and should thoroughly develop our powers of thought.-- Charles G. Finney
Carrie Fisher Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. Carrie Fisher
M. F. K. Fisher (1908 - 1992) ". . . word-sniffing . . . is an addiction, like glue -- or snow -- sniffing in a somewhat less destructive way, physically if not economically. . . . As an addict, I am almost guiltily interested in converts to my own illness . .M. F. K. Fisher (1908 - 1992) "Cook's and Diner's Dictionary," 1968
Martin H. Fischer (1879-1962) When there is no explanation, they give it a name, which immediately explains everything. --Martin H. Fischer (1879-1962) _Fischerisms_ Sure you can psychoanalyze, but, why bother to sort garbage. -- Martin H. Fischer
John Fiske The promulgation of Calvin's theology was one of the longest steps that mankind has taken toward personal liberty. -- John Fiske
Edward Fitzgerald 1809-1883 The Moving Finger writes: and having writ,
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 &endash; 1940) All things come to him who mates. F. Scott Fitzgerald The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Flanders and Swan The English, the English, the English are best The rottenest bits of these islands of ours The Scotsman is mean, as we're all well aware The English, the English, the English are best The Irishman now out contempt is beneath The English are noble, the English are nice, The Welshman's dishonest and cheats when he can And crossing the Channel, one cannot say much The English are moral, the English are good And all the world over, each nation's the same The English, the English, the English are best It's not that they're wicked or natuarally bad
Gustave Flaubert (1821 &endash; 1880) Exuberance is better than taste.-- Flaubert To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.-Gustave Flaubert
John Flavel When God intends to fill a soul, he first makes it empty. When he intends to enrich a soul, he first makes it poor. When he intends to exalt a soul, he first makes it sensible to its own miseries, wants, and nothingness. -- John Flavel on "Humility" Oh, that I might live to see that day when professors shall not walk in vain show; when they shall please themselves no more with a name to live, being spiritually dead; when they shall no more (as many of them now are) be a company of frothy, vain, and unserious persons, but the majestic beams of holiness shining from their heavenly and serious conversation shall awe the world, and command reverence from all who are about them; when they shall warm the hearts of those who come nigh them, so that men shall say, 'God is truly in these men! - JOHN FLAVEL Oh, study your hearts, watch your hearts, keep your hearts! Away with empty names and vain shows; away with unprofitable discourse and bold censures of others. Turn in upon yourselves, get into your closets, and now resolve to dwell there. You have been strangers to this work too long; you have kept other vineyards too long; you have trifled about the borders of religion too long. Will you now resolve to look better to your hearts? Will you hate and come out of the crowds of business and clamors of the world and retire yourselves more than you have done? Oh, that this day you would resolve upon it! - JOHN FLAVEL Most men need patience to die, but a saint who understands what death admits him to should rather need patience to live. I think he should often look out and listen on a deathbed for his Lord's coming; and when he receives the news of his approaching change he should say, 'The voice of my beloved! behold, He cometh leaping over the mountains, skipping upon the hills' (Song of Solomon 2:8) -- JOHN FLAVEL A Christian in this world is but gold in the ore; at death the pure gold is melted out and separated and the dross cast away and consumed. -- Flavel As God did not at first choose you because you were high, so he will not forsake you because you are low.--JOHN FLAVEL Christ is the very essence of all delights and pleasures, the very soul and substance of them. As all the rivers are gathered into the ocean, which is the meeting-place of all the waters in the world, so Christ is that ocean in which all true delights and pleasures meet. -JOHN FLAVEL, Christ Altogether Lovely Love Him in all His offices. See the goodness of God in providing such a sacrifice for thee. Meat, drink, and air are not more necessary to maintain thy natural life than the death of Christ is to give and maintain thy spiritual life. Oh, then, with a deep sense of gratitude in thy heart, let thy lips say, 'Blessed be God for Jesus Christ.' John Flavel 'He spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all; how shall he not with him freely give us all things?' (Rom. 8:32). How is it imaginable that God should withhold, after this, spirituals or temporals, from his people? How shall he not call them effectually, justify them freely, sanctify them thoroughly, and glorify them eternally? How shall he not clothe them, feed them, protect and deliver them? Surely if he would not spare his own Son one stroke, one tear, one groan, one sigh, one circumstance of misery, it can never be imagined that ever he should, after this, deny or withhold from his people, for whose sakes all this was suffered, any mercies, any comforts, any privilege, spiritual or temporal, which is good for them.-- John Flavel Do our desires after Christ lead us to effort, to use all the means of grace to accomplish His will? He is revealed in His Word; do we read it? He is preached in the gospel; do we hear it? He will be found of those who seek Him: do we seek Him? Are our desires atter Christ permanent or only a sudden fit of emotion, fear and impulse? If our hearts and our longing for union with Him are a work of grace, we will only be satisfied when we awake with His likeness. Nothing that this world affords can possibly take us from this goal. Do our desires after Christ spring from a deep sense of our need of Christ? Has conviction opened our eyes to see our misery, to feel our burden of sin, to understand our inability and to make us sensible that the remedy lies only in the Lord Jesus Christ? Bread and wine are made necessary by hunger and thirst. Christ becomes precious to those who need Him.--John Flavel If therefore, in doubtful cases, you would discover God's will, govern yourselves in your search after it by these rules: 1. Get the true fear of God upon your hearts; be really afraid of offending Him. 2. Study the Word more, and the concerns and interests of the world less. 3. Reduce what you know into practice, and you shall know what is your duty to practice. 4. Pray for illumination and direction in the way that you should go. 5. And this being done, follow Providence as far as it agrees with the Word, and no farther.-- John Flavel By entertaining of strange persons, men sometimes
entertain angels unawares: but by entertaining of strange
doctrines, many have entertained devils unaware. We preach and pray, and you hear; but there is no motion Christ-ward until the Spirit of God blows upon them. --John Flavel What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for
us before they had us, as well as in our infancy when we
could not pray for ourselves! Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.- John Flavel Man's extremity is God's opportunity.-- John Flavel A hot iron, though blunt, will pierce sooner than a cold one, though sharper.- JOHN FLAVEL And is it well done, then, to repine and droop because your Father consults more the advantage of your souls than the pleasing of your humors? Because He will bring you a nearer way to heaven than you are willing to go? Is this a due requital of His love, who is pleased so much to concern Himself for your welfare? This is more than He will do for thousands in the world, upon whom He will not lay a rod or send an affliction for their good (Hosea 4:17; Matthew 15:14). But alas! We judge by sense, and reckon things good or evil according to what we, for the present, can taste and feel in them. - JOHN FLAVEL
Jerome P. Fleishman Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal. - Jerome P. Fleishman
Ian Fleming Goldfinger's flat hard stare didn't flicker....He said " Mr. Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time is enemy action.".-- Goldfinger to James Bond in Ian Fleming's "Goldfinger".(1959)
Grace Nies Fletcher 1965 youth, with casual flippancy, calls psychoanalysis
"the examination of the id by the odd."
Kay Fletcher Maybe life is a grindstone; whether it polishes you or wears you down depends on what you're made of. Kay Fletcher
Phineas Fletcher A saint abroad, at home a fiend. --Phineas Fletcher, _The Purple Island_ VII (1633)
B. C. Forbes (1880-1954) How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.-- B. C. Forbes (1880-1954) In "Reader's Digest," Jan 1991. History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. B. C. Forbes The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.-- B. C. Forbes (1880-1954) In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994.
Malcolm S. Forbes A man who enjoys responsibility usually gets it. A man who merely likes exercising authority usually loses it.~Malcolm S. Forbes Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections. Malcolm Forbes (1919 &endash; 1990)
Harrison Ford (1942-____) I don't feel good about taking the platform, merely on
account of my celebrity. I believe that the people I support
are in a position to make a better argument for the cause,
based on facts and their expertise, than I am on the
authority of my celebrity.
Henry Ford If you take all the experience and judgement of men over fifty out of the world, there wouldn't be enough left to run it.--Henry Ford Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right. -- Henry Ford
Francis Forro (1914-1974) Ah, yes, but they will make fine ancestors.
Theodore Forstmann We have entered an Orwellian era in which entitlement replaces responsibility, coercion is described as compassion, compulsory redistribution is called sharing, race quotas substitute for diversity, and suicide is prescribed as 'death with dignity.' Political discourse has become completely corrupted. The reason is that if you tell people directly that you want to raise their taxes, transfer their wealth, count them by skin color, or let doctors kill them, most will object. Statists know this and therefore are obliged to obfuscate. -- Theodore Forstmann
Peter Taylor Forsyth (1848-1921) If within us we find nothing over us we succumb to what is around us.- P T Forsyth, Positive Preaching and the Modern Mind, 1907 You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order to solve them. --Peter Taylor Forsyth (1848-1921)
Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969) No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969) "Living Under Tension." I would rather live in a world where life is surrounded by mystery, than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.- Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969) "Riverside Sermons." Humanism sucks the egg of personality's value and then tries to hatch a higher religion out of it. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick, _As I See Religion_, 1932 Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.- Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969) Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him. - Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969)
Charles de Foucauld Crosses release us from this world and by doing so bind us to God. -- Charles de Foucauld
Gene Fowler Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves Gene Fowler, "Skyline"
Charles James Fox Equality of opportunity and equality of result are
entirely alien to each other. Men are entitled to equal
rights - but to equal rights to unequal things.
Emmet Fox Stop thinking about your difficulties, whatever they are, and start thinking about God instead.--- Emmet Fox
George Fox (1624-1691) it be a certain truth, that none can understand [the
prophets' and apostles'] writings aright, without the
same Spirit by which they were written. Christ it was who gave me hope, which is himself (and) revealed himself in me, and gave me his spirit and gave me his grace, which I found sufficient ... he it was that opened to me when I was shut up and had neither hope nor faith.-- George Fox &emdash; The Journal of George Fox. Nickalls ed. I2
Bruce Foyle Many years ago when an adored dog died a great friend, a bishop, said to me, "You must always remember that, as far as the Bible is concerned, God only threw the humans out of Paradise." Bruce Foyle "Pets and Their People"
Anatole France (1844-1924) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. -- Anatole France It is in the ability to deceive oneself that one shows the greatest talent.---Anatole France Intelligent women always marry fools ~Anatole France If 50 million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. -- Anatole France He who undertakes to guide men must never lose sight of
the fact that they are malicious monkeys.... The folly of
the revolution was in aiming to establish virtue on the
earth. When you want to make men good and wise, free,
moderate, generous, you are led inevitably to the desire of
killing them all. I freely acknowledge that it is almost impossible
systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has
no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe
that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her
indifference, makes no distinction between good and
evil. Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.-- Anatole France An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.-- Anatole France (1844-1924) In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software,1994. It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.~ Anatole France A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows. -- Anatole France Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labour by taking up another. -- Anatole France (1844-1924) "The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard." I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.~ Anatole France
Anne Frank I want to go on living even after my death! And therefore
I am grateful to God for giving me this gift...of expressing
all that is in me. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. -- Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952 I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains. -Anne Frank Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.--Anne Frank (1929 - 1945) German-Dutch diarist "The Diary of a Young Girl," 1947; tr. 1952 Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. - Anne Frank (1929-1945) "The Diary of a Young Girl," 1952.
Glenn Frank There is in me, as there is in men everwhere to-day, a hunger for a positive faith that will..."satisfy the soul of the saint without disgusting the intellect of the scholar". Though neither a saint nor a scholar, I have this hunger because I belong to this generation and this is the modern religious hunger. There is something in me that holds me fascinated at a street corner listening to a Salvation Army exhorter, despite my inner revolt against his inadequate conception of life and religion. --Glenn Frank, 1923
Felix Frankfurter Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling. Felix Frankfurter Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep. -- Felix Frankfurter
Victor Frankle The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances. -- Victor Frankle
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. -- Benjamin Franklin There are two passions which have a powerful influence on the affairs of men. These are ambition and avarice.--Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.&emdash;Benjamin Franklin Anger is never without a reason but seldom a good one. -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything
appears to promise that it will last; but in this world
nothing is certain but death and taxes. How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) To the discontented man no chair is easy.-- Benjamin Franklin Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor. --Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac, 1749 Any fool can criticise, condemn and complain and most fools do. --Benjamin Franklin Beer is proof that God loves us. --Benjamin Franklin Experience is the worst teacher. It always gives the test first and the instruction afterward. --Benjamin Franklin, _Poor Richard's Almanac_ They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a
little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor
safety. Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters. Benjamin Franklin Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Franklin (1706-1790) Don't you know, that all wives are in the right? It may be you don't, for you are yet a young husband. Benjamin Franklin I know not which lives more unnatural lives, Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanack 1738. Even peace may be purchased at too high a price. --Benjamin Franklin I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means.I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer. - Benjamin Franklin, in "The Encouragement of Idleness," 1766 Exactly a week before the final treaty with England was signed, Franklin saw Paris's first balloon ascension at the Champ-de-Mars... What good, some skeptic asked, could a balloon be? What good, Franklin replied, was a new-born baby? "Benjamin Franklin" by Carl van Doren The body of Benjamin Franklin, Printer (like the cover of
an old book, its contents torn out and stripped of its
lettering and gilding), lies here, food for worms; but the
work shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear
once more in a new and more elegant edition, revised and
corrected by the Author. There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond,
and to know one's self Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for
that's the stuff life is made of. Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask. Benjamin Franklin It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.-- Benjamin Franklin If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it?--Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.~ Benjamin Franklin Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.--Benjamin Franklin Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.~Benjamin Franklin Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion. -- Benjamin Franklin , from Ben Zoma. Bablylonian Talmud Shabbat 32a. History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion. . . and the excellency of the Christian religion above all others, ancient or modern. B Franklin, Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can arise without His aid?... I... believe that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel. We shall be divided by our little partial local interests; our projects will be confounded; and we ourselves shall become a reproach and byword down to future ages. And, what is worse, mankind may hereafter from this unfortunate instance despair of establishing governments by human wisdom and leave it to chance, war, and conquest. -- Benjamin Franklin, addressing the Constitutional Congress, quoted in _Benjamin Franklin_, Carl van Doren All the Constitution guarantees is the pursuit of happiness. You have to catch up with it by yourself. --Benjamin Franklin A good conscience is a continual Christmas. - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) _Poor Richard's Almanac [1733]_ In this world, nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes. -- Benjamin Franklin, letter to J.-B. LeRoy, Nov. 13, 1789 As all history informs us, there has been in every State & Kingdom a constant kind of warfare between the governing & governed: the one striving to obtain more for its support, and the other to pay less. And this has alone occasioned great convulsions, actual civil wars, ending either in dethroning of the Princes, or enslaving of the people. Generally indeed the ruling power carries its point, the revenues of princes constantly increasing, and we see that they are never satisfied, but always in want of more. The more the people are discontented with the oppression of taxes; the greater need the prince has of money to distribute among his partisans and pay the troops that are to suppress all resistance, and enable him to plunder at pleasure. here is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharaoh, get first all the peoples money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants for ever. --Ben Franklin Addressing the Constitutional Convention (June 2, 1787) Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.-Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)_Poor Richard's Almanac_ [1743], "December" Necessity never made a good bargain.--Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) _Poor Richard's Almanac_ [1735], "April"
Sir James George Frazer (1854 &endash; 1941) The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology. - Sir James George Frazer (1854 &endash; 1941)
Frederick the Great It is disgusting to note the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects and the amount of money that goes out of the country in consequence. Everybody is using coffee. If possible this must be prevented. My people must drink beer. - Frederick the Great By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes. -- Frederick the Great, at Prague, May 6, 1757.
Chriswell Freeman Quotations help us remember the simple yet profound truths that give life perspective and meaning. When it comes to life's most important lessons, we can all use gentle reminders.--Chriswell Freeman
Robert Freeman Character is not made in a crisis--it is only exhibited. --Robert Freeman When accusing the West of imperialism, Muslims are obsessed with the Christian Crusades but have forgotten their own, much grander Jihad. In fact, they often denounce the Crusades as the cause and starting point of the antagonism between Christianity and Islam. They are putting the cart before the horse. The Jihad is more than four hundred years older than the Crusades.-- Paul Fregosi, _Jihad in the West: Muslim Conquests from the 7th to the 21st Centuries_
Paul Fregosi We must accept what our ancestors, Christian or Muslim, did. It was done and nothing can change that now. We must know our past and accept it. It is all part of the immense mosaic of mankind, whosehistory is a complex picture of good and bad. Let us keep it in the past where it belongs. [...But, i]t needs to be said: Islam considers itself doctrinally a religion whose destiny it is to dominate and to rule the world. In the spiritual sphere it believes that it has taken over from the older Jewish and Christian religions. It considers them outdated and itself therefore entitled to the recognition of its true and superior status, and to their deference. Politically others see Islam and it sees itself as the would-be successors of the Russians and now, strangely enough, of the Americans. Let us never forget the ideological dimension of Islam. -- Paul Fregosi, _Jihad in the West: Muslim Conquests from the 7th to the 21st Centuries_, 1998 When accusing the West of imperialism, Muslims are obsessed with the Christian Crusades but have forgotten their own, much grander Jihad. In fact, they often denounce the Crusades as the cause and starting point of the antagonism between Christianity and Islam. They are putting the cart before the horse. The Jihad is more than four hundred years older than the Crusades. -- Paul Fregosi, _Jihad in the West: Muslim Conquests from the 7th to the 21st Centuries_
James French How about this for a headline for tomorrow's paper? French fries. ~James French- electrocuted in Oklahoma 1966
Sigmund Freud (1856 &endash; 1939) 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?'-- Sigmund Freud, Letter to Marie Bonaparte This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever. -- Sigmund Freud (about the Irish) Anatomy is destiny-- Sigmund Freud The game replaces sexual enjoyment by pleasure in movement- Freud
David Friedman The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations. --David Friedman
Milton Friedman (1912-____) The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is
comparison of prediction with experience. The long-range sloution to high unemployment is to
increase the incentive for ordinary people to save, invest,
work, and employ others. We make it costly for employers to
employ people; we subsidize people not to go to work We have
a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes
nonwork. The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. -Milton Friedman (1912-____) In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994. Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.-Milton Friedman (1912-____) - In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software,1994.
Robert Fripp (1946 &endash; ) Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. - Robert Fripp (1946 &endash; )
Erich Fromm Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much. -Erich Fromm Men are born equal but they are also born different. ~Erich Fromm
David Frost He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable.Now he's miserable and depressed.- David Frost Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.~David Frost
Robert Frost (1874-1963) The woods are lovely, dark and deep, Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, Then took the other, as just as fair, And both that morning equally lay I shall be telling this with a sigh Home is the place where, when you have to go there, The only way round is through.-- Robert Frost (1874-1963) In "Barnes & Noble Book of Quotations," by Robert I. Fitzhenry, 1987. How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint? Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.--Robert Frost (1874-1963) In "The Peter Pyramid," by Laurence J. Peter. By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.--Attributed to Robert Frost (1874-1963) Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self confidence. - Robert Frost
Robert Lee Frost Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.--- Robert Lee Frost
J. A. Froude (1818-1894) Toleration is a good thing in its place; but you cannot tolerate what will not tolerate you, and is trying to cut your throat. J. A. Froude The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of
faith.
David Frum [By the end of the '70s, many people] hungered for religion's sweets, but rejected religion's discipline; wanted its help in trouble, but not he strictures that might have kept them out of trouble; expected its ecstasy, but rejected its ethics; demanded salvation, but rejected the harsh, antique dichotomy of right and wrong. --David Frum, _How We Got Here: The 70s--The Decade That Brought You Modern Life, For Better or Worse_
Elizabeth Fry Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone. - Elizabeth Fry
Roger Fry Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian. -- Roger Fry
Stephen Fry I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself. --Stephen Fry, _Paperweight_, 1992
Robert Fulghum The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be. Robert Fulghum
Daniel Fuller We may sum up the relationship between God's love and wrath with the statement, so vital for understanding His plan in redemptive history, that God's kindness...is His free, ultimate work in which His soul finally and fully delights, whereas God's wrath in punishment is His necessary, penultimate work. Though He finds no pleasure in punishing the wicked, He nevertheless does it as somehting He must do, so that without devaluing His glory, He can fully rejoice in being merciful to the penitent. DANIEL FULLER
Margaret Fuller Melancholy attends the best joys of an ideal life. --Margaret Fuller
Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) He that fears not the future may enjoy the present-- Thomas Fuller The devil gets up to the belfry by the vicar's skirts. --Thomas Fuller Fools grow without watering. -- Thomas Fuller He that returns good for evil obtains the victory. --Thomas Fuller He that knows nothing will believe anything.--THOMAS FULLER He that knows least commonly presumes most. -Thomas Fuller We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed. --Thomas Fuller, M.D. (1654-1734) For a wife take the daughter of a good mother. --Thomas Fuller Lean liberty is better than fat slavery.--Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty wins the heart. -- Thomas Fuller The Glutton digs his grave with his owne teeth. Thomas Fuller--A Glasse for Gluttons Prayer...the key of the day and the lock of the night- Thomas Fuller Better hazard once than always be in fear.... Thomas Fuller The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir. - Thomas Fuller If afflictions refine some, they consume others. --Thomas Fuller, M.D. (1654-1734) _Gnomologia_ [1732] Enquire not what boils in another's pot. - Thomas Fuller If a friend tell thee a fault, imagine always that he telleth thee not the whole. --Thomas Fuller (I), _Introductio ad Prudentium_, 1731 If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him. --Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
Frank Furedi Gluttons no longer gorge themselves; they are simply suffering from one of a variety of eating disorders.- Frank Furedi, "Making a virtue of vice" The Spectator 12 Jan 2002 To be honest, as a humanist I don't much like the idea of sin. But given the choice of being powerless in the face of God or an impotent client of a therapist, I side with the Church. Therapeutic definitions of addiction elevate the sense of human powerlessness to a level unimaginable in mediaeval times. From the standpoint of our therapeutic culture, powerlessness becomes not merely an episode in one's biography but its defining condition. From this fatalistic perspective, treatment acquires a passive, even fatalistic, character. Addicts are told that they will never be completely cured. We have recovering sex addicts, recovering religious addicts and recovering alcoholics. No one ever really changes. That's why I say bring back the idea of transcendence. Frank Furedi, "Making a virtue of vice" The Spectator 12 Jan 2002 Of all the seven deadly sins, pride is the only one that has been completely rehabilitated. That is why pride is never diagnosed as a disease. The American sociologist Joel Best has observed that it is the absence of pride that constitutes a serious psychological problem. These days virtually every social and psychological problem is blamed on low self-esteem. The solution to poor educational performance, teenage pregnancy, anorexia, crime or homelessness is to raise the self-esteem of the victim. In our self-oriented world, society continually incites people to take themselves far too seriously. That is why pride has become one of the prime virtues of our time. - Frank Furedi, "Making a virtue of vice" The Spectator 12 Jan 2002 It should be noted that the therapeutic imperative alters the concept not only of sin but also of virtue. In the Middle Ages, practising the seven contrary virtues &emdash; humility, kindness, abstinence, chastity, patience, liberality, diligence &emdash; was believed to protect one against temptation towards the seven deadly sins. Today, people who practise some of these virtues are just as liable to be offered counselling as those who are tempted by sin. Kindness? Too much kindness may lead to compassion-fatigue. Diligence is sometimes dismissed as the act of someone suffering from a 'perfectionist complex'. Humble people lack self-esteem, and chastity is just another sexual dysfunction. Virtue is not so much its own reward as a condition requiring therapeutic intervention. - Frank Furedi, "Making a virtue of vice" The Spectator 12 Jan 2002 Once upon a time there were seven deadly sins. They were
called deadly because they led to spiritual death and
therefore to damnation. The seven sins were (and are): lust,
gluttony, avarice, sloth, anger, envy and pride.Now all of
them, with the exception of pride, have become medical
conditions. Pride has become a virtue. There are no longer sinners, only addictive personalities. Take lust. Those who would have previously been called lustful are now described as 'addicted' to sex and in need of therapy. - Frank Furedi, "Making a virtue of vice" The Spectator 12 Jan 2002 |
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