Philosophy, Academia, Stagnation, Service

PHILOSOPHY

John Robert Fowles
An answer is always a form of death.

ACADEMIA

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

STAGNATION

Lowell Fillmore
When we hear somebody complaining that he has not enough, we may know that he has not expressed enough appreciation for what he already has.

SERVICE

Napoleon Hill
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Nature, Work, Results, Pets

NATURE

William Ralph Inge
The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.

WORK

Fernando Flores
Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

RESULTS

Mark Victor Hansen
Big goals get big results. No goals gets no results or somebody else’s results.

PETS

Aldous Leonard Huxley
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

Metaphysics, Wealth, Regret, Men

METAPHYSICS

Charles W. Ferguson
The essence of tragedy is to know the end.

WEALTH

Anatole France
In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.

REGRET

Brendan Francis
Most people perform essentially meaningless work. When they retire that truth is borne in upon them.

MEN

Edgar Watson Howe
It isn’t the sissy men who help women most, but the rough, capable ones who can be caught and trained.

Knowledge, War, Cost of Success, Marriage

KNOWLEDGE

Benjamin Franklin
To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.

WAR

Fridtjof Hansen
War will cease when men refuse to fight.

COST OF SUCCESS

Jean Rostand
Merit envies success, and success takes itself for merit.

MARRIAGE

Anne Fogarty
If you adore her, you must adorn her. There lies the secret of a happy marriage.

Ideas, Tribal, Problems, Manners

IDEAS

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beware when the great God lets loose a great thinker on the planet.

TRIBAL

Maori Proverb
The God of evil and the God of fear are good friends.

PROBLEMS

Raymond E. Feist
Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution.

MANNERS

Solomon Ibn Gabirol
The test of good manners is to be patient with bad ones.

Humor, The System, Opportunity, Lying

HUMOR

Oliver Herford
Lisp: To call a spade a thpade.

THE SYSTEM

Donald M. Fraser
Under current law, it is a crime for a private citizen to lie to a government official, but not for the government official to lie to the people.

OPPORTUNITY

Thomas Alva Edison
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

LYING

James Hall
Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.

Health, Society, Leadership, Love

HEALTH

Matt Furey
If you’ve got the guts to conquer your body, you’ve got the guts to conquer any area of life you choose.

SOCIETY

Robert Lee Frost
There’s nothing I’m afraid of like scared people.

LEADERSHIP

Max DePree
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

LOVE

Linda Festa
The most important thing in a relationship between a man and a woman is that one of them be good at taking orders.

Happiness, Socialism, Ignorance, Life Style

HAPPINESS

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
When we are what we want to be, that’s happiness.

SOCIALISM

French Graffito
Socialism without liberty is the barracks.

IGNORANCE

Anatole France
Ignorance is the necessary condition of life itself. If we knew everything, we could not endure existence for a single hour.

LIFE STYLE

Mark Fisher and Marc Allen
To be a genius simply means to do what you enjoy doing. That is the true genius of life.

Gratitude, Religion, Goals, Leisure

GRATITUDE

Meister Eckhart
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is “Thank you,” it will be enough.

RELIGION

Benjamin Franklin
Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it.

GOALS

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

LEISURE

Sydney J. Harris
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s leisure.

Death, Media, Go For It, Interactions

DEATH

Andre Paul Guillaume Gide
The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements – death.

MEDIA

George Faludy
Most American television stations reproduce all night long what only a Roman could have seen in the Coliseum during the reign of Nero.

GO FOR IT

Guy Finley
Never hesitate to put yourself in a position where you don’t know what to do.

INTERACTIONS

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.

Creativity, Government, Fear, Friends

CREATIVITY

Anna Freud
Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.

GOVERNMENT

Frederick the Great
If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.

FEAR

Marilyn Ferguson
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.

FRIENDS

Moulton Farnham
Our friends are those who know their own faults well enough to forgive us ours.

Cognition, Freedom, Failure, Fools

COGNITION

Paul Fix
The reason some people get lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar territory.

FREEDOM

Immanuel Hermann Fichte
Being free is nothing. Becoming free is everything.

FAILURE

Henry Ford
Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.

FOOLS

Frank A. Garbutt
The man who questions opinion is wise; the man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Belief, Education, Expectations, Drink

BELIEF

Werner Erhard
The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

EDUCATION

Anatole France
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

EXPECTATIONS

Erich Fromm
Love is nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

DRINK

Clifton Fadiman
To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.