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"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."
-- Ben Franklin
Experience allows you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
-- Franklin P. Jones
"The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but still 'tis nonsense."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwile."
-- Franklin P. Jones
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
-- Franklin P. Jones
"What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don't want to discourage it completely."
-- Franklin P. Jones
"Politics is the entertainment branch of industry."
-- Frank Zappa
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright
A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.
-- Frank Herbert (Dune)
All colors agree in the dark.
-- Francis Bacon
There is a superstition in avoiding superstition.
-- Francis Bacon
"All definitions, no matter the language, should be considered probationary."
-- Frank Herbert (Whipping Star)
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first.
-- David H. Comins
"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."
-- Frank Herbert
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines
-- Frank Lloyd Wright
"Censorship is an excuse to talk about sex."
-- Fran Lebowitz
"A book should serve as an axe to the ice inside us."
-- Franz Kafka
In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
-- Franz Kafka
Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
-- Fran Lebowitz
A great way for to lose weight is to eat naked in front of a mirror. Restaurants will almost always throw you out before you can eat too much.
-- Frank Varano
Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
-- Fran Lebowitz
"Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man."
-- Francais Bacon
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
-- Francis Bacon
One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.
-- Frank Zappa
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
-- Anatole France
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
-- Francis Bacon
"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."
The good critic is he who narrates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
-- Anatole France
The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
-- Fran Lebowitz ("Social Studies")