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The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
Nan Fairbrother

He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity.
Nick Faldo

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
William Feather

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
Jules Feiffer

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
Federico Fellini

Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
Jim Fiebig

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
Edgar R. Fiedler

If you have to forecast, forecast often.
Edgar R. Fiedler

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
Edgar R. Fiedler

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.
Edgar R. Fiedler

I like children - fried.
W. C. Fields

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
W. C. Fields

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
W. C. Fields

I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.
W. C. Fields

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.
W. C. Fields

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald

So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
Calista Flockhart

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
Jane Fonda

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
B. C. Forbes

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
B. C. Forbes

I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.
Gerald R. Ford

I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.
Gerald R. Ford

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
Harrison Ford

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
Henry Ford

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
Henry Ford

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
Gene Fowler

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Benjamin Franklin

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
Benjamin Franklin

Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.
Frederick II

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Erich Fromm

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
Erich Fromm

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
Erich Fromm

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Robert Frost

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
Robert Frost

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
Stephen Fry

Love is metaphysical gravity.
R. Buckminster Fuller