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Keep in mind ... to a dog you are family  to a cat you are staff.
— Anonymous
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
— Michel Montaigne
None but a mule denies his family.
— Moroccan proverb
Fare thee well! and if for ever  Still for ever  fare thee well.
— Lord Byron
Sweets to the sweet  farewell!
— William Shakespeare
A farmer is always going to be rich next year.
— Philemon
Farming is a most senseless pursuit  a mere laboring in a circle. You sow that you may reap  and then you reap that you may sow. Nothing ever comes of it.
— Joannes Stobaeus
Some people tell us that there ain't no Hell  But they never farmed  so how can they tell?
— Anonymous
Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God  if He ever had a chosen people  whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.
— Thomas Jefferson
The farmer works the soil  The agriculturist works the farmer.
— Eugene F. Ware
Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins  other arts follow. The farmers  therefore  are the founders of civilization.
— Daniel Webster
A love of fashion makes the economy go round.
— Liz Tilberis
A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.
— Jean de la Bruyere
Every generation laughs at the old fashions but religiously follows the new.
— Henry David Thoreau
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
— Stendhal
"The tradition of the new." Yesterday's avant-gard-experiment is today's chic and tomorrow's cliche.
— Richard Hofstadter
Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion  on the other hand  produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
— Jean Cocteau
Be not the first by whom the new are tried  Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
— Alexander Pope
Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.
— Edna Woolman Chase
Fashion  which elevates the bad to the level of the good  subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.
— Eric Bentley
Even knowledge has to be in fashion and where it is not it is wise to affect ignorance.
— Baltasar Gracian
The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
— William Shakespeare
Fashions  after all  are only induced epidemics.
— George Bernard Shaw
When a man is once in fashion  all he does is right.
— Lord Chesterfield
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility  which religion is powerless to bestow.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fashion condemns us to many follies  the greatest is to make oneself its slave.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant-garde that the 'ins' and the 'outs' change places with the speed of mach 3.
— Igor Stravinsky
There goes a man made by the Lord Almighty and not by his tailor.
— Andrew Jackson
Fashions fade - style is eternal.
— Yves Saint Laurent
And by my grave you'd pray to have me back So I could see how well you look in black.
— Marco Carson
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting  two of architecture and poetry  and a hundred in dress.
— Joyce Carey
A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself.
— La Rochefoucauld
I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
— William Shakespeare
Certainty generally is illusion and repose is not the destiny of man.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man?
— Bob Dylan
Heaven is the place where the donkey finally catches up with his carrot: hell is the eternity while he waits for it.
— Russell Green
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
— Liane Cardes
That that is is.
— William Shakespeare
Everything passes  everything wears out  everything breaks.(Tout passe  tout lasse  tout casse.)
— French proverb
Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row  we are steered by fate.
— Samuel Butler
Whatever limits us we call Fate.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
— Marcus Aurelius
Certain signs precede certain events.
— Cicero
See how the Fates their gifts allot. For A is happy - B is not. Yet B is worthy  I dare say  Of more prosperity than A.
— W. S. Gilbert
Destiny  n: a tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
— Ambrose Bierce
Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.
— Seneca
He who does not desire or fear the uncertain day or capricious fate  is equal to the gods above and loftier than mortals.
— Justus Lipsius
The worst is not always certain but it's very likely.
— French proverb
It is a long road from conception to completion.
— Moliere
God keeps the wicked to give them time to repent.
— Sophie Rostopchine Sigur
Fortune is fickle and soon asks back what he has given.
— Latin proverb
Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.
— Henry Miller
That which God writes on thy forehead  thou wilt come to it.
— The Koran
When its time has come  the prey goes to the hunter.
— Persian proverb
The bow is bent  the arrow flies  The winged shaft of fate.
— Ira Aldridge
He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.
— Charles Dickens
'Tis Fate that flings the dice  And as she flings Of kings makes peasants  And of peasants kings.
— Anonymous
Thou must (in commanding and winning  or serving and losing  suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.
— Goethe
We make our fortunes and we call them fate.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Though men determine  the gods do dispose: and oft times many things fall out between the cup and the lip.
— Robert Greene
The Moving Finger writes  and having writ  Moves on  nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line  Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
— Omar Khayyam
The die is cast.
— Suetonius
The fathers have eaten sour grapes  and the children's teeth are set on edge.
— Bible
Call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father  which is in heaven.
— Matthew
A father is a banker provided by nature.
— French proverb
There is so much good in the worst of us  And so much bad in the best of us  That it ill behooves any of us To find fault with the rest of us.
— Anonymous
The greatest of faults  I should say  is to be conscious of none.
— Thomas Carlyle
The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
— Isaac D'Israeli
We keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults  until we at last come to look upon them as virtues.
— Heinrich Heine
A fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
— Aldous Huxley
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
— James A. Froude
We must travel in the direction of our fear.
— John Berryman
Once men are caught up in an event they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.
— Antoine de St. Exupery
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
— Marcel Proust
Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
— Neil Armstrong
So let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless  unreasoning  unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
— T. S. Eliot
Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a perennial loser.
— O. J. Simpson
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
— Albert Camus
Just as courage imperils life  fear protects it.
— Leonardo da Vinci
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain  whether of our worth or worthlessness  we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.
— Eric Hoffer
Where no hope is left  is left no fear.
— John Milton
The human race is a race of cowards  and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
— Mark Twain
Men hesitate less to injure a man who makes himself loved than to injure one who makes himself feared  for their love is held by a chain of obligation which  because of men's wickedness  is broken on every occasion for the sake of selfish profit  but their fear is secured by a dread of punishment.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
I  a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
— A. E. Housman
Fear has a smell  as Love does.
— Margaret Atwood
Fear can be headier than whisky  once man has acquired a taste for it.
— Donald Dowries
The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
— Oscar Wilde
How does one kill fear  I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart  slash off its spectral head  take it by the spectral throat?
— Joseph Conrad
In grief we know the worst of what we feel  But who can tell the end of what we fear?
— Hannah More
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
— Alfred Hitchcock
Horror is a feeling that cannot last long  human nature is incapable of supporting it.
— James de Mille
The horse does abominate the camel  the mighty elephant is afraid of a mouse  and they say that the lion  which scorneth to turn his back upon the stoutest animal  will tremble at the crowing of a cock.
— Increase Mather
The flocks fear the wolf  the crops the storm  and the trees the wind.
— Virgil
We all choke  and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell.
— Lee Trevino
A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything.
— Louis L'Amour
Only the self-deceived will claim perfect freedom from fear.
— Bill W.
Every day I wake up a little afraid. Only a fool is never afraid.
— Ron Meyer
This is the century of fear.
— Albert Camus
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
— Nancy Astor
Fear  true fear  is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable  it is surely the most cruel.
— Georges Bernanos
Fear is the fire that melts Icarian wings.
— Florence Earle Coates
There seemed to be endless obstacles-it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.
— Joanna Field
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
— Florence Nightingale
The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness  aggressiveness engenders hostility  hostility engenders fear-a disastrous circle.
— Dorothy Thompson
Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.
— Ursula K. LeGuin
Fear is the most devastating of all human emotions. Man has no trouble like the paralyzing effects of fear.
— Paul Parker
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
— Dorothy Thompson
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
— Bertrand Russell
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes  but its fears.
— Arthur Christopher Benson
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
— Edmund Burke
The thing I fear most is fear.
— Michel de Montaigne
Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.
— Henry David Thoreau
Nothing is terrible except fear itself.
— Francis Bacon
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-nameless  unreasoning  unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
— Franklin Delano Roosevelt
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
— Herodotus
There is no devil but fear.
— Elbert Hubbard
Men who look young  act young  and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young-but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution what would be excessive in their grandfathers-are the curses of the world.
— Robertson Davies
There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.
— Robert Frost
God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!
— Jean Anouilh
Of all the passions  fear weakens judgment most.
— Cardinal de Retz
All forms of fear produce fatigue.
— Bertrand Russell
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
— Shirley MacLaine
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts  perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
— John Steinbeck
When men are ruled by fear  they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
— Alan Paton
Fear  if allowed free rein  would reduce all of us to trembling shadows of men  for whom only death could bring release.
— John M. Wilson
When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair.
— Saint Thomas Aquinas
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
— German proverb
One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
— Miguel de Cervantes
What begins in fear usually ends in folly.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Fear is the most damnable  damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
— William Faulkner
Fear is the main source of superstition  and one of the main sources of cruelty.
— Bertrand Russell
Fear is like fire. If controlled it will help you  if uncontrolled  it will rise up and destroy you. Men's actions depend to a great extent upon fear. We do things either because we enjoy doing them or because we are afraid not to do them.
— John F. Milburn
To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill... it is  in fact  the consuming illness of our time.
— Harry A. Overstreet
Fear is an acid which is pumped into one's atmosphere. It causes mental  moral and spiritual asphyxiation  and sometimes death  death to energy and all growth.
— Horace Fletcher
Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.
— Virgil
Fear is an insidious virus. Given a breeding place in our minds ... it will eat away our spirit and block the forward path of our endeavors.
— James F. Bell
A man who is afraid will do anything.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
Excessive fear is always powerless.
— Aeschylus
Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
— Shirley MacLaine
O  how vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base  uncomely things it makes men do.
— Samuel Johnson
No passion so effectively robs the mind of its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
— Edmund Burke
As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery.
— Norman Mailer
If a man harbors any sort of fear  it percolates through all his thinking  damages his personality  makes him landlord to a ghost.
— Lloyd C. Douglas
If you let fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct  then your life will be safe  expedient and thin.
— Katharine Butler Hathaway
There is nothing that fear or hope does not make men believe.
— Vauvenargues
Fear is the prison of the heart.
— Anonymous
I have come to realize that all my trouble with living has come from fear and smallness within me.
— Angela L. Wozniak
He who fears something gives it power over him.
— Moorish proverb
All fear is bondage.
— Anonymous
We promise according to our hopes  and perform according to our fears.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There seemed to be endless obstacles ... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.
— Joanna Field
No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.
— Cicero
Where fear is  happiness is not.
— Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
— Max Ehrmann
We're frightened of what makes us different.
— Anne Rice
Fear always springs from ignorance.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good  true  and serious.
— Brenda Ueland
The craven's fear is but selfishness  like his merriment.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
— Juvenal
Fear is secured by a dread of punishment.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one  fear of the dark  to another  of physical pain  to a third  of public ridicule  to a fourth  of poverty  to a fifth  of loneliness ... for all of us  our particular creature waits in ambush.
— Horace Walpole
If your desires be endless  your cares and fears will be so  too.
— Thomas Fuller
We are more often frightened than hurt  and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
— Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Fear  born of that stern matron  Responsibility.
— William McFee
Only your mind can produce fear.
— Anonymous
Fear follows crime  and is its punishment.
— Voltaire
All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.
— Carl Jung
There is nothing in the universe that I fear  but that I shall not know all my duty or fail to do it.
— Mary Lyon
I can stand what I know. It's what I don't know that frightens me.
— Frances Newton
I am never afraid of what I know.
— Anna Sewell
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain  whether of our worth or worthlessness  we are almost impervious to fear.
— William Congreve
Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.
— Muriel Rukeyser
We all fear what we don't know-it's natural.
— Leo Buscaglia
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
— F. D. Roosevelt
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.
— Bible
Why should we break up Our snug and pleasant party? Time was made for slaves  But never for us so hearty.
— John B. Buckstone
Let us have wine and woman  mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda-water the day after.
— Lord Byron
The feast of reason  and the flow of soul.
— Alexander Pope
Feast  and your halls are crowded  Fast  and the world goes by.
— Ella Wheeler Wilc
Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire.
— Horace
The burnt child dreads the fire.
— Ben Jonson
There can no great smoke arise  but there must be some fire.
— John Lyly
AH the fat's in the fire.
— John Marston
As lacking in privacy as a goldfish.
— Anonymous
She is neither fish  nor flesh  nor good red herring.
— John Heywood
Master  I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. Why  as men do a-land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
— Pericles
We have here other fish to fry.
— Francois Rabelais
There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.
— English proverb
To fish in troubled waters.
— Matthew Henry
You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
— George Edward Herbert
A fishing-rod was a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
— Samuel Johnson
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt.
— Izaak Walton
God never did make a more calm  quiet  innocent recreation than angling.
— Izaak Walton
Angling is an innocent cruelty.
— George Parker
If any one attempts to haul down the American flag  shoot him on the spot.
— John A. Dix
When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air  She tore the azure robe of night  And set the stars of glory there.
— Joseph Rodman Drake
Cheers for the sailors that fought on the wave for it  Cheers for the soldiers that always were brave for it  Tears for the men that went down to the grave for it  Here comes the Flag!
— Arthur Macy
The flag of our Union forever!
— George P. Morris
Oh! say  does that star-spangled banner yet wave  O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
— Francis Scott Key
Yes  we'll rally round the flag  boys  we'll rally once again  Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom  We will rally from the hillside  we'll gather from the plain  Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom.
— George F. Root
Your flag and my flag  And how it flies today In your land and my land And half a world away! Rose-red and blood-reed The stripes forever gleam  Snow-white and soul-white -  The good forefathers' dream  Sky-blue and true-blue  with stars to gleam aright -  The gloried guidon of the day  a shelter through the night.
— Wilbur D. Nesbit
"Shoot  if you must  this old gray head  But spare your country's flag " she said.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
Imitation is the sincerest (form) of flattery.
— Walter Colton
Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.
— Samuel Johnson
A man that flattereth his neighbor spreadeth a net for his feet.
— Bible
O  that men's ears should be To counsel deaf  but not to flattery!
— William Shakespeare
Their throat is an open sepulchre  they flatter with their tongue.
— Bible
It is easy to flatter  it is harder to praise.
— Jean Paul Richter
Flirtation  attention without intention.
— Max O'Neil
Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses.
— Dorothy Parker
It is the same in love as in war  a fortress that parleys is half taken.
— Marguerite de Valois
Flowers may beckon towards us  but they speak toward heaven and God.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Flowers are words Which even a babe may understand.
— Bishop Coxe
But ne'er the rose without the thorn.
— Robert Herrick
And I will make thee beds of roses  And a thousand fragrant posies.
— Christopher Marlowe
Consider the lilies of the field  how they grow  they toil not  neither do they spin.
— Matthew
Flowers of all hue  and without thorn the rose.
— John Milton
In Flanders' fields the poppies blow Between the crosses  row on row  That mark our place  and in the sky  The larks  still bravely singing  fly Scarce heard among the guns below.
— John McCrae
Tis the last rose of summer. Left blooming alone.
— George Moore
Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.
— Napoleon
"Of what are you afraid  my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh  sir! the flowers  they are wild " replied the timid creature.
— Peter Newell
If of thy mortal goods thoU art bereft  And from thy slender store two loaves alone to thee are left  Sell one  and with the dole Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.
— Sadi
Say it with flowers.
— Patrick F. O'Keefe
I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled  That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.
— Omar Khayyam
One thing is certain and the rest is lies  The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.
— Omar Khayyam
When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd  And the great star early droop'd in the western sky the night  I mourn'd - and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
— Walt Whitman
It is easier to catch flies with honey than with vinegar.
— English proverb
A fly sat on the chariot wheel And said "What a dust I raise."
— Jean de la Fontaine
Baby bye Here's a fly  Let us watch him  you and I. How he crawls Up the walls Yet he never falls.
— Theodore Tilton
The folly of one man is the fortune of another.
— Sir Francis Bacon
He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks.
— La Rochefoucauld
Answer a fool according to his folly.
— Bible
To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.
— Nicholas Murray Butler
To stumble twice against the same stone  is a proverbial disgrace.
— Cicero
At the end of every diet  the path curves back toward the trough.
— Mason Cooley
It's a very odd thing As odd as can be That whatever Miss T. eats Turns into Miss T.
— Walter de la Mare
Never eat more than you can lift.
— Miss Piggy
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
— George Bernard Shaw
Kissing don't last: cookery do.
— George Meredith
Hunger is not debatable.
— Harry Hopkins
To get the best results  you must talk to your vegetables.
— Charles, Prince of Wales
Toots Shore's restaurant is so crowded nobody goes there anymore.
— Yogi Berra
Dinner  a time when . . . one should eat wisely but not too well  and talk well but not too wisely.
— W. Somerset Maugham
There is no such thing as a little garlic.
— Anonymous
Even were a cook to cook a fly  he would keep the breast for himself.
— Polish proverb
No man is lonely while eating spaghetti - it requires so much attention.
— Christopher Morley
A hungry man is not a free man.
— Adlai Stevenson
A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.
— Seneca
I feel a recipe is only a theme  which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation.
— Madame Benoit
All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
— John Gunther
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
— Clifton Fadiman
A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.
— Philip W. Haberman
Vegetarianism is harmless enough  though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
— Sir Robert Hutchinson
If you wish to grow thinner  diminish your dinner.
— H. S. Leigh
To a man with an empty stomach  food is god.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Hunger is the best sauce.
— Proverbs
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table  than when his wife talks Greek.
— Samuel Johnson
If you ask the hungry man how much is two and two  he replies four loaves.
— Hindu proverb
A good meal makes a man feel more charitable toward the whole world than any sermon.
— Arthur Pendenys
More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
— J. K. Galbraith
A good meal ought to begin with hunger.
— French proverb
It is a hard matter  my fellow citizens  to argue with the belly  since it has no ears.
— Plutarch
The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.
— Cyril Connolly
A smiling face is half the meal.
— Latvian proverb
There is no such thing as a pretty good omelette.
— French proverb
Fish  to taste right  must swim three times - in water  in butter and in wine.
— Polish proverb
A fool's head never whitens.
— Old saying
For ye suffer fools gladly  seeing ye yourselves are wise.
— Bible
Many have been the wise speeches of fools  though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.
— Thomas Fuller
Men trip not on mountains  they stumble on stones.
— Old saying
There are bearded fools.
— Old saying
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day  wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
— Elbert Hubbard
Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.
— St. Francis de Sales
If fifty million people say a foolish thing  it is still a foolish thing.
— Anatole France
There are two kinds of fools: one says  'This is old  therefore it is good'  the other says  'This is new  therefore it is better.'
— Dean William R. Inge
A fool must now and then be right by chance.
— William Cowper
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
— Mark Twain
Here cometh April again  and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
— Charles Lamb
A busy fool is fitter to be shut up than a downright madman.
— George, Lord Halifax
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
— Friedrich von Schiller
There are some people that if they don't know  you can't tell 'em.
— Louis Armstrong
A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.
— Wilson Mizner
Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
— Karl Kraus
Every inch that is not fool is rogue.
— John Dryden
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
— Anonymous
He who lives without folly is not as wise as he thinks.
— La Rochefoucauld
The poor schlemiel is a man who falls on his back and breaks his nose.
— Jewish proverb
None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
— Samuel Johnson
Nature never makes any blunders  when she makes a fool she means it.
— Josh Billings
Set a beggar on horseback  and he will ride a gallop.
— Robert Burton
It is said that a wise man who stands firm is a statesman  and a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
— Adlai Stevenson
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
— Voltaire
Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority for any town?
— Mark Twain
For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Who loves not women  wine and song  Remains a fool his whole life long.
— Martin Luther
What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do.
— George Bernard Shaw
There is no chance for old fools.
— Cree Indian proverb
A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.
— Nicolas Boileau
You men think old men are fools  but old men know young men are the fools.
— George Chapman
Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?
— S. L. Clemens
A fool and his money are soon parted.
— English proverb
A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool.
— Moliere
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
— Alexander Pope
Even a fool  when he holdeth his peace  is counted wise.
— Bible
The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human  It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman.
— James Russell Lowell
It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.
— Goethe
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking-glass.
— Francois Rabelais
The fool doth think he is wise  but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
— William Shakespeare
A fool's bolt is soon shot.
— William Shakespeare
Lord  what fools these mortals be!
— William Shakespeare
He who thinks himself wise  O heavens! is a great fool.
— Voltaire
The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.
— Louis Kossuth
Force is all-conquering  but its victories are short-lived.
— Abraham Lincoln
Force and not opinion is the queen of the world  but it is opinion that uses the force.
— Pascal
In life  as in chess  forethought wins.
— Charles Buxton
If a man take no thought about what is distant  he will find sorrow near at hand.
— Confucius
Forethought we may have  undoubtedly  but not foresight.
— Napoleon
Look ere thou leap  see ere thou go.
— Thomas Tusser
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
— Bible
And when he is out of sight  quickly also he is out of mind.
— Thomas a Kempis
The world forgetting  by the world forgot.
— Alexander Pope
There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate  nor pain which death does not terminate.
— Miguel de Cervantes
If I forget thee  O Jerusalem  let my right hand forget her cunning.
— Bible
Who is the Forgotten Man? He is the clean  quiet  virtuous  domestic citizen  who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of out of his little circle.
— William Graham Sumner
How we remember  what we remember  and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
— Christina Baldwin
Reconciliation is more beautiful than victory.
— Violeta Barrios de Chamorro
The stupid neither forgive nor forget  the naive forgive and forget  the wise forgive  but do not forget.
— Thomas Szasz
Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully.
— Zoe Akins
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
— Hannah Arendt
"I can forgive  but I cannot forget" is only another way of saying  "I will not forgive." Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note-torn in two and burned up so that it never can be shown against one.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong.
— Charlotte Bronte
Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words.
— Dr. Joyce Brothers
Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
— Gerald Jampolsky
I know now that patriotism is not enough  I must have no hatred and bitterness toward anyone.
— Edith Cavell
Stretch out your hand! Let no human soul wait for a benediction.
— Marie Corelli
Nobody ever forgets where he buried a hatchet.
— Kin Hubbard
Anger as soon as fed is dead  'tis starving makes it fat.
— Emily Dickinson
Once a woman has forgiven a man  she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
— Marlene Dietrich
There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.
— Sydney J. Harris
As long as you don't forgive  who and whatever it is will occupy a rent-free space in your mind.
— Isabelle Holland
Courage and clemency are equal virtues.
— Mary Delariviere Manley
One may have been a fool  but there's no foolishness like being bitter.
— Kathleen Norris
Not the power to remember  but its very opposite  the power to forget  is a necessary condition for our existence.
— Sholem Asch
Keeping score of old scores and scars  getting even and one-upping  always make you less than you are.
— Malcolm Forbes
Forgiveness is all-powerful. Forgiveness heals all ills.
— Catherine Ponder
The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.
— Catherine Porter
Forgiveness is an act of the will  and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
— Corrie ten Boom
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
— Confucius
Who understands much  forgives much.
— Madame de Stael
Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people.
— Christina Baldwin
Grace fills empty spaces  but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it  and it is grace itself which makes this void.
— Simone Weil
Know all and you will pardon all.
— Thomas a Kempis
People are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives.
— Helen Prejean
The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
— George Bernard Shaw
Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
Nothing's easier than believing we understand experiences we've never had.
— Gwen Bristow
The heart has always the pardoning power.
— Anne-Sophie Swetchine
To understand is to forgive  even oneself.
— Alexander Chase
To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.
— Dr. Alexis Carrel
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
— Mohandas Gandhi
Only the brave know how to forgive. ... A coward never forgave  it is not in his nature.
— Laurence Sterne
Any man can seek revenge  it takes a king or prince to grant a pardon.
— Arthur J. Rehrat
To be angry about trifles is mean and childish  to rage and be furious is brutish  and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils  but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious  is manly and divine.
— Isaac Watts
Hatred is a death wish for the hated  not a life wish for anything else.
— Audre Lorde
Hatred is a passion requiring one hundred times the energy of love. Keep it for a cause  not an individual. Keep it for intolerance  injustice  stupidity. For hatred is the strength of the sensitive. Its power and its greatness depend on the selflessness of its use.
— Olive Moore
Resentment is the "number one" offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else. From it stem all forms of spiritual disease  for we have been not only mentally and physically ill  we have been spiritually sick.
— Alcoholics Anonymous
Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.
— Shirley MacLaine
To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.
— William H. Walton
Resentments are burdens we don't need to carry.
— Anonymous
The enslaver is enslaved  the hater  harmed.
— Marianne Moore
By putting his hand around my neck  he slowly strangled himself.
— Minako Ohba
The one who deals the mortal blow receives the mortal wound.
— Maude Parker
Without forgiveness life is governed ... by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.
— Robert Assaglioli
Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.
— Marcus Annaeus Seneca
I tell you  there is no such thing as creative hate!
— Willa Cather
Reject hatred without hating.
— Mary Baker Eddy
Hate would destroy him who hated.
— Louis L'Amour
In hatred as in love  we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe  we graft into our very soul.
— Mary Renault
Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
— Barbara Sher
Hate is a prolonged form of suicide.
— Douglas V. Steere
Hatred is like fire-it makes even light rubbish deadly.
— George Eliot
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
— Indira Gandhi
Hate is all a lie  there is no truth in hate.
— Kathleen Norris
Hate is not a good counselor.
— Victoria Wolff
Bitterness imprisons life  love releases it.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
If the will remains in protest  it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.
— Rollo May
Hate smolders and eventually destroys  not the hated but the hater.
— Dorothy Thompson
It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself.
— Abigail Van Buren
If you hate a person  you hate something in him that is part of yourself.
— Hermann Hesse
Fire destroys that which feeds it.
— Simone Weil
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
— Oprah Winfrey
Whom they have injured  they also hate.
— Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Rage and bitterness do not foster femininity. They harden the heart and make the body sick.
— Marion Woodman
I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.
— Helen Alfredsson
Anger is a short madness.
— Horace
My mother used to say  "He who angers you conquers you."
— Elizabeth Kenny
The angry people are those people who are most afraid.
— Dr. Robert Anthony
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
— Albert Einstein
Anger and worry are the enemies of clear thought.
— Madeleine Brent
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else  you are the one who gets burned.
— Buddha
Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers  for each rage leaves him less than he had been before-it takes something from him.
— Louis L'Amour
Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time  as aromatic wine it seemed  on swallowing  warm and racy  its after-flavor  metallic and corroding  gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.
— Charlotte Bronte
Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.
— Louis L'Amour
Revenge may not be a particularly high consciousness-oriented activity.
— Carrie Fisher
The human heart in its perversity finds it hard to escape hatred and revenge.
— Moses Luzzatto
A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge  and it ain't worth it.
— Louis L'Amour
The whole human race loses by every act of personal vengeance.
— Rae Foley
Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.
— Isaac Friedmann
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
One is as one is  and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.
— Marya Mannes
The days are too short even for love  how can there be enough time for quarreling?
— Margaret Gatty
Forgiveness is the most tender part of love.
— John Sheffield
The best proof of love is trust.
— Dr. Joyce Brothers
We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry  or because they remain intrigued with each other  because of many kindnesses  because of luck. ... But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.
— Ellen Goodman
For me it's not possible to forget  and I don't understand people who  when the love is ended  can bury the other person in hatred or oblivion. For me  a man I have loved becomes a kind of brother.
— Jeanne Moreau
Today I forgive all those who have ever offended me. I give my love to all thirsty hearts  both to those who love me and to those who do not love me.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.
— Judy Collins
We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.
— Elbert Hubbard
Forgiveness is God's command.
— Martin Luther
God will forgive me  that is His business.
— Heinrich Heine
God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me  even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee  O God!
— Heinrich Heine
Let all bitterness  and wrath  and anger  and clamour  and evil speaking  be put away from you  with all malice  and be ye kind to one another  tenderhearted  forgiving one another  even as God  for Christ's sake  hath forgiven you.
— Bible
I have looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God recognizes I will do this and forgives me.
— Jimmy Carter
How Forgiveness Helps Us Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again  what is soiled is again made clean.
— Dag Hammarskjold
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
— Buddha
I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.
— Gerald Jampolsky
Judge not  that ye be not judged.
— Bible
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
— Saint Francis of Assisi
Forgiving those who hurt us is the key to personal peace.
— G. Weatherly
Forgive all who have offended you  not for them  but for yourself.
— Harriet Uts Nelson
To forgive is the highest  most beautiful form of love. In return  you will receive untold peace and happiness.
— Robert Muller
Forgiveness is the way to true health and happiness.
— Gerald Jampolsky
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness  or else forgiving another.
— Jean Paul Richter
Those who can't forget are worse off than those who can't remember.
— Anonymous
Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost  and was found  is saved from being lost again.
— Saint Augustine
I can pardon everybody's mistakes except my own.
— Marcus Porcius Cato
If you haven't forgiven yourself something  how can you forgive others?
— Dolores Huerta
The moment an individual can accept and forgive himself  even a little  is the moment in which he becomes to some degree lovable.
— Eugene Kennedy
They may not deserve forgiveness  but I do.
— Anonymous
I forgive myself for having believed for so long that... I was never good enough to have  get  be what I wanted.
— Ceanne DeRohan
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
— Publilius Syrus
I learned that true forgiveness includes total self-acceptance. And out of acceptance wounds are healed and happiness is possible again.
— Catharine Marshall
Every man treats himself as society treats the criminal.
— Harvey Fergusson
Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts  as we forgive our debtors.
— Bible
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself  for every man has need to be forgiven.
— Thomas Fuller
Always forgive your enemies  nothing annoys them so much.
— Oscar Wilde
Forgiveness is the noblest vengeance.
— H. G. Bohn
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
— Josh Billings
Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties came prepared to forgive  neither party came prepared to be forgiven.
— Charles William
Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement.
— Horace Bushnell
Abandon your animosities and make your sons Americans!
— Robert E. Lee
Her breasts and arms ached with the beauty of her own forgiveness.
— Meridel Le Sueur
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
— Norman Cousins
The cut worm forgives the plow.
— William Blake
Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.
— Joseph Jacobs
The fragrance of the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
— Mark Twain
How shall I love the sin  yet keep the sense  And love the offender  yet detest the offence?
— Alexander Pope
Forgiveness is the giving  and so the receiving  of life.
— George Macdonald
Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or compassion?
— Joseph Conrad
O friends  I pray tonight  Keep not your kisses for my dead cold brow. The way is lonely  let me feel them now. Think gently of me  I am travel-worn  My faltering feet are pierced with many a thorn. Forgive! O hearts estranged  forgive  I plead! When ceaseless bliss is mine I shall not need The tenderness for which I long tonight.
— Belle Eugenia Smith
Let us forget and forgive injuries.
— Miguel de Cervantes
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.
— Madame Dorothee Deluzy
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes  it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
— Jessamyn West
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable  faith means believing the unbelievable  and hoping means to hope when things are hopeless.
— G. K. Chesterton
To err is human  to forgive  divine.
— Alexander Pope
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies  but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and  as the magnet finds the iron  so it will find  in every hour  some heavenly blessings!
— Henry Ward Beecher
Good heavens  of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed ... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower  and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.
— James Russell Lowell
Be on the lookout for mercies. The more we look for them  the more of them we will see.... Better to loose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.
— Maltbie D. Babcock
The man who thinks his wife  his baby  his house  his horse  his dog  and himself severely unequalled  is almost sure to be a good-humored person.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
Every dog has its day  but it's not every dog that knows when he's having it.
— Winifred Gordon
We must give ourselves more earnestly and intelligently and generously than we have to the happy duty of appreciation.
— Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer
I thank You God for this most amazing day  for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky  and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes.
— e. e. cummings
My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.
— Jane Rule
Yes  there is a Nirvanah: it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture  and in putting your child to sleep  and in writing the last line of your poem.
— Kahlil Gibran
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
— Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
That daily life is really good one appreciates when one wakes from a horrible dream  or when one takes the first outing after a sickness. Why not realize it now?
— William Lyon Phelps
Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done  whether you like it or not.
— Charles Kingsley
When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world  I thank God I am alive.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.
— Ruth Ann Schabacker
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money  and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth  and for the great benefits of our being  our life  health  and reason  we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
— Marcus Annaeus Seneca
When something does not insist on being noticed  when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event  we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
— Cynthia Ozick
Why do some people always see beautiful skies and grass and lovely flowers and incredible human beings  while others are hard-pressed to find anything or any place that is beautiful?
— Leo Buscaglia
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
— Aldous Huxley
My country ... gave me schooling  independence of action and opportunity for service. ... I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay.
— Herbert Hoover
Dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect... and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances.
— Abraham Tucker
We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.
— Honore de Balzac
The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils  light in your eyes  flowers at your feet  duties at your hand  the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars  but do life's plain  common work as it comes  certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Looking for Silver Linings Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains  losses and disappointments.
— Joseph Addison
Most of my major disappointments have turned out to be blessings in disguise. So whenever anything bad does happen to me  I kind of sit back and feel  well  if I give this enough time  it'll turn out that this was good  so I shan't worry about it too much.
— William Gaines
Sometimes the best deals are the ones you don't make.
— Bill Veeck