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FACTS : Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. (Laurence J. Peter, Canadian educator and author, as well as the creator of the Peter Principle, 1919-1990)

FACTS : We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them. (Unknown source)

FACTS : Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Unknown Source)

FACTS : Men are divided in opinion as to the facts. And even granting the facts, they explain them in different ways. (Edwin Abbott Abbott, English schoolmaster and theologian, 1838-1926)

FACTS : There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths. (Friedrich Nietsche, German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

FAILINGS : I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb. (Thomas Alva Edison, U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

FAILURE : This thing that we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down. (Mary Pickford, Canadian-American film actress and producer, 1892-1979)

FAILURE : Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success. (Charles F. Kettering, U.S. inventor, engineer, businessman, the holder of 186 patents, and founder of the Kettering Foundation for research, 1876-1958)

FAILURE : The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success. (Yogananda, Indian yogi and guru who introduced millions of westerners to the teaching of meditation and Kriya Yoga, 1893-1952)

FAILURE : Failure is sometimes a matter of not trying rather than not succeeding. (Sarah Blakely, U.S. billionaire businesswoman, Born 1971)

FAILURE : Failure is often the fire that forges the steel. (Paul Tudor Jones, financier and philanthropist, Born 1954)

FAILURE : Failure is a disappointment but not defeat. (Jeanne Robertson, U.S. humorist, born 1943)

FAILURE : Failure is not in losing, but in no longer believing that winning is worthwhile. (Unknown source)

FAILURE : Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital. (Daniel Webster, U.S. politician who served as Secretary of State, 1782-1852)

FAILURE : People fail forward to success. (Mary Kay Ash, U.S. businesswoman and founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics, 1918-2001)

FAILURE : We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring. (David Grayson, U.S. journalist and historian, 1870-1946)

FAILURE : Failure is something made only by those who fail to dare, not by those who dare to fail. (Louis Binstock, U.S. Rabbi, 1895-1974)

FAILURE : Failure is not sweet, but it need not be bitter. (Unknown source)

FAILURE : Try again, fail again. Fail better. (Samuel Butler, English author, 1835-1902)

FAIRNESS : All some folks want is their fair share and yours. (Arnold H. Glasow, U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)

FAIRY TALES : Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed. (G.K. Chesterton, English writer, philosopher, literary and art critic, known as the Prince of Paradox, 1874-1936)

FAITH : Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. (Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931)

FAITH : Faith is knowing there is an ocean when you can only see the stream. (Unknown source)

FAITH : Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. (Eric Hoffer, U.S. moral and social philosopher and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1983)

FAITH : The attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be. (Alan Watts, British philosopher, best known as an interpreter of Eastern philosophy, 1915-1973)

FAITH : To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly. (Benjamin Franklin, as one of the Founders of the U.S., he was a leading author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

FAITH : Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. (Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer and philosopher, 1694-1778)

FAITH : Faith is like radar that sees through the fog-the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see. (Corrie ten Boom, Dutch watchmaker who helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust, but who was arrested and sent to a Nazi concentration camp, 1892-1983)

FAITH : Faith is to believe what we do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what we believe. (St. Augustine, Roman African, early Christian theologian and whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy, 354-430 A.D.)

FAITH : Faith is a passionate intuition. (William Wordsworth, English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature, 1770-1850)

FAITH : Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light. (Unknown source)

FAITH : I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it. (Stanley Baldwin, British Conservative statesman who served as Prime Minister on three occasions, 1867-1947)

FAITH : Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us. (David Wolpe, U.S. Jewish rabbi Named the most influential rabbi in the U.S. by Newsweek Magazine and one of the 50 most influential Jews in the world by the Jerusalem Post, Born 1958)

FAKE NEWS : Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. (Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer and philosopher, 1694-1778)

FALSEHOODS : Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

FAME : Fame is very agreeable, but . . . it goes on 24 hours a day. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombian novelist, journalist, Nobel laureate, Born 1927)

FAMILIARITY : Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. (William Hazlitt, English essayist and literary critic, 1778-1830)

FAMILY : The family is a haven in a heartless world. (Christopher Lasch, U.S. history professor, moralist, and social critic, 1932-1994)

FAMILY : What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father. (Friedrich Nietsche, German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

FAMILY : Other things may change us, but we start and end with family. (Anthony J. Brandt, U.S. author, 1961-2013)

FAMILY : The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other. (Mario Puzo, Italian-American screenwriter, journalist, and novelist, most notably The Godfather, 1920-1999)

FAMILY : Happiness is having a large, loving, close-knit family â€” in another city. (George Burns, U.S. comedian, actor, singer, and writer whose career successfully spanned vaudeville, radio, film and television, 1896-1996)

FAMILY : Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. (Welsh proverb)

FAMILY : The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. (Sam Levenson, U.S. humorist, television host, and journalist, 1911-1980)

FAMILY : I think a dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it. (Mary Karr, U.S. poet, essayist, and memoirist, Born 1955)

FAMILY : Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million-dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla. (Jim Bishop, U.S. journalist and author, 1907-1987)

FARMERS : Farmers . . . are the founders of civilization. (Daniel Webster, U.S. politician who served as Secretary of State, 1782-1852)

FASCISM : When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross. (Sinclair Lewis, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and the first U.S. writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1885-1951)

FASHION : Every generation laughs at the old fashions but religiously follows the new. (Henry David Thoreau, U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

FASHION : Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess. (Edna Woolman Chase, U.S. editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine for 38 years, 1877-1957)

FASHION : The fashion wears out more apparel than the man. (William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

FASHION : Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make oneself its slave. (Napoleon Bonaparte, French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821)

FASHION : The lady declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility, which religion is powerless to bestow. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

FASHION : Fashions fade - style is eternal. (Yves Saint Laurent, French business designer who is regarded as among the foremost fashion designers in the twentieth century, 1936-2008)

FATE : Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life, and you will call it fate. (Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1875-1961)

FATE : It is almost more important how a person takes his fate than what it is. (William von Humboldt, Prussian philosopher and diplomat, 1767-1835)

FATE : Whatever limits us we call Fate. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

FATE : Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order. (Seneca, Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 BCEâ€“AD 65)

FATE : When its time has come, the prey goes to the hunter. (Persian proverb)

FATE : We make our fortunes and we call them fate. (Benjamin Disraeli, British politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881)

FATHERS : When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

FATIGUE : Fatigue is the best pillow. (Hindu proverb)

FEAR : How very little can be done under the spirit of fear. (Florence Nightingale, English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing, 1820-1910)

FEAR : We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears. (Francois de la La Rochefoucauld, French nobleman and author of maxims and memoirs, 1613-1680)

FEAR : The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. (Franklin D. Roosevelt, U.S. politician and statesman who served as the 32nd U.S. President, 1882-1945)

FEAR : I fear the use of fear and security as the Damocles over the nation’s people. (Unknown source)

FEAR : Sometimes what you fear the most is the very thing that will set you free. (Robert Tew)

FEAR : Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

FEAR : If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it. (Erica Jong, U.S. novelist, satirist, and poet, known for her novel, Fear of Flying, that played a prominent role in the development of second-wave feminism, Born 1942)

FEAR : From a distance it is something, and nearby it is nothing. (Jean de la Fontaine, French poet, know above all for his widely read fables, 1621-1695)

FEAR : He that is afraid to shake the dice will never throw a six. (Chinese proverb)

FEAR : Many of our fears are tissue paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. (Brendan Behan, Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright who wrote in both English and Irish, 1923-1964)

FEAR : Fear to let fall a drop and you spill a lot. (Malaysian proverb)

FEAR : When thinking won't cure fear, action will. (W. Clement Stone, U.S. businessman, philanthropist and New Thought self-help book author, 1902-1002)

FEAR : To live your life in the fear of losing it is to lose the point of life. (Malcolm Forbes, U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of Forbes magazine, 1919-1990)

FEAR : Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo, no one was there. (Unknown source)

FEAR : Fear is faith that it won't work out. (Unknown source)

FEAR : Fear is the absence of faith. (Paul Tillich, German-American Christian existentialist philosopher and Lutheran Protestant theologian who is widely regarded as one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century, 1886-1965)

FEAR : Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. (Marie Curie, Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist, 1867-1934)

FEAR : The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. (Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of modern Western art, 1853-1890)

FEAR : Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And LOW, no one was there! (Unknown source)

FEAR : Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions. (Unknown Source)

FEAR : To learn the most important lessons of life, one must each day surmount a fear. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

FEAR : Fear to let fall a drop, and you spill a lot. (Malay proverb)

FEAR : Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. (Albert Camus, French Nobel prize-winning writer and philosopher, 1913-1960)

FEAR : Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. (German proverb)

FEAR : Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. (Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

FEAR : As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery. (Norman Mailer, U.S. novelist, journalist, and liberal political activist, 1923-2007)

FEAR - GUILT : Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt. (George Sewell, English actor, 1924-2007)

FEAR - GUILT : Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt. (Unknown Source)

FEELINGS : Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. (Abraham Lincoln, U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)

FEMINISM : Men are not against you [women]; they are merely for themselves. (Gene Fowler, U.S. journalist and author, 1890-1960)

FEMINISM : I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or prostitute. (Rebecca West, U.S. author and journalist, 1892-1983)

FEMINISM : A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. (Patricia Irina Dunn, Australian writer, social activist, and filmmaker, Born1948)

FEMINISM : I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. (Rebecca West, U.S. author and journalist, 1892-1983)

FEMINISM : I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. (Rebecca West, U.S. author and journalist, 1892-1983)

FEMINISM : I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. (Rebecca West, U.S. author and journalist, 1892-1983)

FEMINISM : As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them. (Josh Billings, U.S. columnist and humorist, 1818-1885)

FEMINISM : There will be no real content among American women unless they are . . . given equal opportunity with menâ€¦.. And American men will not be really happy until their women are. (Pearl Buck, U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

FEUDALISM : A form of governance in which resistance is “feudal.” (Unknown source)

FEUDALISM : A form of governance in which resistance is feudal. (Unknown source)

FIGHTING : The time to win a fight is before it starts. (Unknown source)

FIGHTING : People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. (Abigail Van Buren, U.S. advice columnist and radio show host who began the Dear Abby column in 1956 which became the most widely syndicated newspaper column in the world, 1918-2013)

FINANCES : Live below your means but within your needs. (Suze Orman, U.S. financial planner, television host, and author, Born 1951)

FINANCES : Live below your means but within your needs. (Unknown Source)

FISHING : Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. Why, as men do â€” do the great ones eat up the little ones? (Pericles, Greek statesman and orator, 495-429 BCE)

FISHING : Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. (Henry David Thoreau, U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

FLAG WAVERS : It seems like the less a statesman amounts to, the more he adores the flag. (U.S. journalist and humorist, 1868-1930)

FLATTERY : It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them. (Jean Paul Richter, German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories. 1763-1825)

FLATTERY : He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves. (Phillip Dormer Starhope [4th Earl of Chesterfield], British statesman, man of letters and wit, 1694-1773)

FLEXIBILITY : We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. (Unknown source)

FLIRTATION : Flirtation is attention without intention. (Max Oâ€™Neil)

FLOWERS : Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine to the soul. (Luther Burbank, U.S. botanist, horticulturist, and pioneer in agricultural science who developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants, 1849-1926)

FOLLOWERS : The followership has a responsibility for creating good leadership. (Unknown source)

FOOLISHNESS : If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. (Anatole France, French novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate, 1844-1924)

FOOLS : Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

FORCE : Force without wisdom falls of its own weight. (Horace, Roman lyric poet and satirist, 65 to 8 BCE)

FOREIGN AFFAIRS : This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim. (James Reston, U.S. journalist, 1909-1995)

FORESIGHT : If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand. (Confucius, Chinese philosopher and teacher, c. 551-478 BCE)

FORGETFULNESS : Forgetfulness is a form of freedom. (Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931)

FORGETFULNESS : And when he is out of sight, quickly also he is out of mind. (Thomas a Kempis, German-Dutch clergyman and author of devotional books, 1380-1471)

FORGIVENESS : Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are. (Malcolm Forbes, U.S. entrepreneur most prominently known as the publisher of Forbes magazine, 1919-1990)

FORGIVENESS : To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. (Confucius, Chinese philosopher and teacher, c. 551-478 BCE)

FORGIVENESS : Forgiveness means letting go of the past. (Gerald Jampolsky, U.S. and international authority in the fields of psychiatry, health, business, and education. Born 1925)

FORGIVENESS : I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge. (Gerald Jampolsky, U.S. and international authority in the fields of psychiatry, health, business, and education. Born 1925)

FORGIVENESS : Good, to forgive; Best, to forget. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet of the Victorian era, 1806-1861)

FORGIVENESS : It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend. (Unknown source)

FORGIVENESS : The trouble with the times is that the future just isn't what it used to be! (Paul Valery, French poet, essayist and philosopher, 1871-1945)

FORGIVENESS : Life is an adventure in forgiveness. (Norman Cousins, U.S. political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate, 1915-1990)

FORGIVENESS : Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass. (Confucius, Chinese philosopher and teacher, c. 551-478 BCE)

FORGIVENESS : Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

FORGIVENESS : Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass. (Unknown Source)

FORGIVENESS : Life is an adventure in forgiveness. (Unknown Source)

FORTITUDE : A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure. (Anonymous)

FORTUNE : The folly of one man is the fortune of another. (Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626)

FORTUNE : Fortune sides with him who dares. (Virgil, Roman poet who wrote three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid, 70--19 B.C.E.)

FRACTURES : There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. (Leonard Cohen, Canadian musician, poet and novelist, 1934-2016)

FRANKNESS : All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness. (Tennessee Williams, U.S. playwright, 1911-1983)

FREE SPEECH : The liberty of discussion is the chief safeguard of all other liberties. (Thomas Macaulay, British historian, author, and politician, 1800-1859)

FREE SPEECH : The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. (Lord Acton, English historian, politician, and writer, 1834-1902)

FREE SPEECH : If I had to choose between a government without newspapers and newspapers without a government, I would unhesitatingly choose the latter. (Thomas Jefferson, one of the U.S. Founders who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

FREEDOM : Freedom is the ability to all agree to arrange things in a different way. (David Graeber, U.S.-born British anthropologist and anti-anarchist, Born 1961)

FREEDOM : Freedom is the ability to all agree to arrange things in a different way. (Unknown source)

FREEDOM : You have freedom when you're easy in your harness. (Robert Frost, U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer prizes and was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for his poetic works, 1874-1963)

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FREEDOM : The best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others. (Carlo Dossi, Italian author and diplomat, 1849-1910)

FREEDOM : In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary. (Kathleen Norris, U.S. novelist and columnist, 1880-1966)

FREEDOM : The best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others. (Carlo Dossi, Italian author and diplomat, 1849-1910)

FREEDOM : Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom. (Alexis de Tocqueville, French diplomat, political scientist, and historian, 1805-1809)

FREEDOM : A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular. (Adlai Stevenson, U.S. governor, ambassador, 1900-1965Perception: Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. (Laura Ingalls Wilder, U.S. novelist, 1867-1957Royalty: The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

FREEDOM : Nothing about human life is more precious than that we can define our own purpose and shape our own destiny. (Unknown source)

FREEDOM : The most certain test by which we can judge whether a country is really free is the amount of securitenjoyed by minorities. (Lord Dalberg-Acton, English politician and historian, 1834-1902)

FREEDOM : Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way. (Viktor Frankl, Austrian author, neurologist, psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor, 1905-1997)

FREEDOM : Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. (Jean Paul Sartre, French writer and philosopher, 1905-1980)

FREEDOM : My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. (Adlai Stevenson, U.S. lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 1900-1965)

FREEDOM : Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. (Thomas Paine, U.S. philosopher and writer, 1737-1809)

FREEDOM : When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again. (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist, historian, short story writer, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1918-2008)

FREEDOM : The most certain test by which we can judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. (Lord Dalberg-Acton, English politician and historian, 1834-1902)

FREEDOM : As I walked toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison. (Nelson Mandela, South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as President of South Africa, 1918-2013)

FREEDOM : Freedom is the ability to all agree to arrange things in a different way. (David Graeber, U.S.-born British anthropologist and anti-anarchist, Born 1961)

FREEDOM : The most certain test by which we can judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. (Sir John Dalberg-Acton, English historian and politician, 1834-1902)

FREEDOM : Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. (Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. 1929-1968)

FREEDOM : Enhancing the freedom of some usually means depriving the freedom of others. (Unknown Source)

FREEDOM : The best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others. (Carlo Dossi, Italian author and diplomat, 1849-1910Prayer -Religion: If you pray for rain long enough, it eventually does fall. If you pray for floodwaters to abate, they eventually do. The same happens in the absence of prayers. (Steve Allen, U.S. television host, musician, actor, comedian, and writer, 1921-2000)

FREEDOM : The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. (Lord Acton, English historian, politician, and writer, 1834-1902)

FRIENDS : A friend is one before whom I may think aloud. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

FRIENDS : Friends are relatives you make for yourself. (Eustache Deschamps, French poet, 1346-1406)

FRIENDS : The rich know not who is his friend. (Unknown source)

FRIENDS : It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend. (Madame Dorothee Deluzy, French actress, 1747-1830)

FRIENDS : The only way to have a friend is to be one. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

FRIENDS : Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. (Aristotle, ancient Greek philosopher, scientist,and a member of Plato's Academy, 384-322 BCE)

FRIENDS : In life it is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best. (Unknown source)

FRIENDS : When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile. (Joseph Joubert, French moralist and essayist, 1754-1824)

FRIENDS : It is better in times of need to have a friend rather than money. (Greek proverb)

FRIENDS : With true friends . . . even water drunk together is sweet enough. (Chinese proverb)

FRIENDS : Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. (Publilius Syrus, Syrian Latin writer, 85-43 BCE)

FRIENDS : It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. (Epicurus, ancient Greek philosopher who founded the school of philosophy called Epicureanism, c. 341-270 BCE)

FRIENDS : Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. (Virginia Wolff, English modernist writer, 1882-1941)

FRIENDS : Parents are friends that life gives us; friends are parents that the heart chooses. (Diane de Beausacq, French writer, 1829-1899)

FRIENDS : Give and take makes good friends. (Scottish proverb)

FRIENDS : The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear. (Maya Angelou, U.S. author, poet, dancer, actress, and singer, 1928-2014)

FRIENDS : It is easier to visit friends than to live with them. (Chinese proverb)

FRIENDS : Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet. (Chinese proverb)

FRIENDS : In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. (John Churton Collins, British literary critic, 1848-1908)

FRIENDS : Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit. (Aristotle, ancient Greek philosopher, scientist,and a member of Plato's Academy, 384-322 BCE)

FRIENDS : Friends are the family we choose for ourselves. (Edna Buchanan, U.S. novelist, Born 1939)

FRIENDS : A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. (Arnold H. Glasow, U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)

FRIENDS : A friend is a masterpiece of nature. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

FRIENDS : Friends are lifelines! (Unknown source)

FRIENDS : Friends can be said to fall in like with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love. (Letty Cottin Pogrebin, U.S. author, journalist, lecturer, social activist, and a founding editor of Ms. Magazine, Born 1939)

FRIENDS : Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart. (Unknown source)

FRIENDS : True friends stab you in the front. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

FRIENDS : A friend is someone who knows all about you, and loves you just the same. (H.G. Bohn, British publisher and founder of Bohns Libraries, 1796-1884)

FRIENDS : A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet. (Pearl Buck, U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

FRIENDSHIP : The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two. (Anne-Sophie Swetchine, Russian mystic, famous for her salon in Paris, 1782-1857)

FRIENDSHIPS : Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. (Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931)

FRIENDSHIPS : All friendships of any length are based on a continual, mutual forgiveness; without tolerance and mercy, all friendships die. (David Whyte, English poet, Born 1955)

FRIENDSHIPS : A friend is someone who sees right through and likes the show. (Dorothy Baldwin Satten, U.S. author and psychotherapist, 1932-2013)

FRIENDSHIPS : It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. (J. K. Rowling, British novelist who is best known for writing the Harry Potter fantasy series., Born 1965)

FRIENDSHIPS : Friends are the family you get to choose for yourself. (Mia Sheridan, U.S. author)

FRIENDSHIPS : Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. (Unknown Source)

FRIENDSHIPS : A true friend never gets In your way unless you happen to be going down. (Arnold H. Glasow, U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)

FRIENDSHIPS : Good company upon the road is the shortest cut. (Unknown source)

FRIENDSHIPS : Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. (Helen Keller, U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)

FRIENDSHIPS : Good friends are like quilts; they age with you, yet never lose their warmth. (Unknown source)

FRIENDSHIPS : One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. (Seneca, Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 BCEâ€“AD 65)

FRIENDSHIPS : Friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly. (Unknown source)

FRIENDSHIPS : Friendships aren't perfect, and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release. (Letty Cottin Pogrebin, U.S. author, journalist, lecturer, social activist, and a founding editor of Ms., a liberal feminist magazine, Born 1939)

FRIENDSHIPS : The most beautiful discovery that true friends can make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. (Elizabeth Foley, U.S legal theorist and professor of Law, Born 1965)

FRIENDSHIPS : Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. (Woodrow Wilson, U.S. politician and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States, 1856-1924)

FRIENDSHIPS : Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. (Aristotle, ancient Greek philosopher, scientist,and a member of Plato's Academy, 384-322 BCE)

FUN : I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun. (Katharine Hepburn, U.S. Academy award-winning actress, 1907-2003)

FUTURE : One faces the future with one's past. (Pearl Buck, U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

FUTURE : When all else is lost, the future still remains. (Christian Bovee, U.S. writer, 1820-1904)

FUTURE : The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope. (Winston Churchill, British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965)

FUTURE : I know of no way of judging the future but by the past. (Patrick Henry, attorney, planter, orator, and one of the Founders of the United States of America, 1736-1799)

FUTURE : I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate. (Arthur Wing Pinero, English actor, dramatist, and stage director 1855-1934)

FUTURE : The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be. (Paul Valery, French poet, essayist and philosopher, 1871-1945)