The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (175 page)

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Fry, Roger
1866–1934
1
Art is significant deformity.

Virginia Woolf
Roger Fry
(1940) ch. 8

Fulbright, J. William
1905–95
1
The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.

in
Observer
21 December 1958 "Sayings of the Year"

Fuller, R. Buckminster
1895–1983
1
God, to me, it seems,
is a verb
not a noun,
proper or improper.

No More Secondhand God
(1963) (untitled poem written in 1940).

2
Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
(1969) ch. 4

Fuller, Thomas
1608–61
1
But our captain counts the Image of God nevertheless his image, cut in ebony as if done in ivory.

The Holy State and the Profane State
(1642) bk. 2 "The Good Sea-Captain"

2
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

The Holy State and the Profane State
bk. 3 "Of Anger"

3
Light (God's eldest daughter) is a principal beauty in building.

The Holy State and the Profane State
bk. 3 "Of Building"

Fuller, Thomas
1654–1734
1
He that plants trees loves others beside himself.

Gnomologia
(1732) no. 2247

2
We are all Adam's children but silk makes the difference.

Gnomologia
(1732) no. 5425

Funke, Alfred
b. 1869
1
Gott strafe England!God punish England!

Schwert und Myrte
(1914)

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