The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (173 page)

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Frere, John Hookham
1769–1846
1
The feathered race with pinions skim the air—
Not so the mackerel, and still less the bear!

"The Progress of Man" (1798) canto 1, l. 34

Freud, Sigmund
1856–1939
1
Anatomy is destiny.

Collected Writings
(1924) vol. 5

2
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
often misquoted as, "Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious"

The Interpretation of Dreams
(2nd ed., 1909) ch. 7, sect. E

3
All that matters is love and work.

attributed

4
Frozen anger.
his definition of depression

attributed

Friedan, Betty
1921–
1
The problem that has no name.
being the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities

The Feminine Mystique
(1963) ch. 14

Friedman, Milton
1912–
1
There is an invisible hand in politics that operates in the opposite direction to the invisible hand in the market. In politics, individuals who seek to promote only the public good are led by an invisible hand to promote special interests that it was no part of their intention to promote.

Bright Promises, Dismal Performance: An Economist's Protest
(1983)

Friel, Brian
1929–
1
Do you want the whole countryside to be laughing at us?—women of our years?—mature women,
dancing
?

Dancing at Lughnasa
(1990)

Frisch, Max
1911–91
1
Technology…the knack of so arranging the world that we need not experience it.

Homo Faber
(1957) pt. 2

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