#wit

Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them. ↗

— Charles James Fox

#cannot #govern #kings #only #popular

It almost hurts me to walk down a road and have people grab my hand and ask for my autograph and not sit and talk. When I'm finished I'm not going to be on the front page, but I'm going to be just as happy without the publicity. ↗

— Terry Fox

#ask #autograph #down #finished #front

From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth. ↗

— Janet Frame

#darkness #direction #down #fact #first

For what the lover would, that would the beloved; what she would ask of him that should he go before to grant. Without accord such as this, love is but a bond and a constraint. ↗

— Marie de France

#ask #before #beloved #bond #constraint

Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within. ↗

— Caspar David Friedrich

#bodily #bring #close #darkness #effect

We played some gigs in Switzerland a couple of weeks ago and it was the first time I really felt the group was really a band in the sense of something I could write for. ↗

— Fred Frith

#band #could #couple #felt #first

Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#frame #only #reference #sanity #thought

Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing you can do for yourself. ↗

— John Frusciante

#like #outwit #protect #something #thing

I love social media and the ability to connect to new people through Twitter and Facebook and share my real time experiences with my mommy network. ↗

— Soleil Moon Frye

#connect #experiences #facebook #i #i love

In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading. ↗

— J. F. C. Fuller

#army #battalion #boxes #chain #commander