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Jules Feiffer
W.C. Fields
Janet Frame
Anatole France

Benjamin Franklin
Freaks and Geeks
Sigmund Freud
Edgar Z. Friedenberg



JULES FEIFFER

Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?

The big mistake that men make is that they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.

 

W.C. FIELDS

Women are like elephants to me: I like to look at them, but I wouldn't want to own one.

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.

 

JANET FRAME

'For your own good' is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.
- Faces in the Water

 

ANATOLE FRANCE

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Christianity has done love a great service by making it a sin.
- The Garden of Epicurus

 

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Many a long dispute between divines may thus be abridged: It is so. It is not so. It is so. It is not so.
- Poor Richard's Almanack

 

FREAKS AND GEEKS

We're all unhappy. That's the thing about life.

Everyone's a Democrat until they get a little money. Then they come to their senses!

 

SIGMUND FREUD

The credulity of love is the most fundamental source of authority.

Anatomy is destiny.

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

 

EDGAR Z. FRIEDENBERG

Romance, like alcohol, should be enjoyed, but should not be allowed to become necessary.