Quotes 381 till 400 of 1714.
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Father and son are natural enemies and each is happier and more secure in keeping it that way.
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Fear is the foundation of most governments.
Thoughts on Government, Apr. 1776 -
Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.
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Fear of change perplexes monarchs.
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Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?
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Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.
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Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.
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Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.
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Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.
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Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
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Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
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For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren't able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment.
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For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
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For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
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For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do - they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.
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For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.
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For of those to whom much is given, much is required.
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For present joys are more to flesh and blood than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good.
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