A woman can look both moral and exciting - if she also looks as if it were quite a struggle. Edna Ferber on women
A time of disarray is also a moment of opportunity. Frederick Ferre on adversity
All human joys are swift of wing, for heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, you find you haven't got it. Eugene Field on joy
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive. St. Thomas Aquinas on war
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to criti Henry Fielding on art
If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about things. W.C. Fields on success
I know I'm going to get old and be one of those crazy women who sits on balconies and spits on people and screams, 'Get a haircut!' I know this, and I don't really fear it. I'd just like to move toward it with as much grace and dignity as possible. Carrie Fisher on age
People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater. Minnie Maddern Fiske on understanding
Success, as I see it, is a result, not a goal. George Flaubert on success
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost. Ferdinand Foch on failure
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. Marshal Foch on cowardice
Adolescence: a stage between infancy and adultery. Foolish Dictionary on age
When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always be worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad that they have to get better. Malcolm Forbes on inspiration
Reasoning is compared to understanding as movement is to rest, or acquisition to possession.... Since movement always proceeds from something immovable, and ends in something at rest, hence it is that human reasoning, in the order of inquiry and discovery, proceeds from certain things absolutely understood—namely, the first principles; and, again, in the order of judgment, returns by analysis to first principles, in the light of which it examines what it has found. Now it is clear that rest and movement are not to be referred to different powers, but to one and the same. Thomas Aquinas on understanding
If they try to rush me, I always say, I've only got one other speed and it's slower. Glenn Ford on ability
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history. Henry Ford on ability
None of our men are "experts." We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job. A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is. Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment one gets into the "expert" state of mind a great number of things become impossible. Henry Ford on change
You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year. Henry Ford on education
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success. Henry Ford on success