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401. A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.

402. A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. --Ogden Nash

403. A famine in England begins at the horse-manger.

404. A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

405. A far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error.

406. A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

407. A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.

408. A father is a banker provided by nature.--Anonymous, French source.

409. A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

410. A fault confessed is half redressed.

411. A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry; but money answereth all things.

412. A feather in hand is better than a bird in the air.

413. A feature is a bug with seniority.

414. A feeling of sadness and longing, that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.

415. A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind! ---(DAVID GARRICK).

416. A fellow invited her into the woods to hear a nightingale, and it fumed out to be a lark.

417. A fellow offered her a couple of drinks in his apartment and she reclined.

418. A fellow told her she'd teem to love him in time, so she's keeping his picture in her watch.

419. A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it. --Jean Rostand

420. A few hours ago I discharged my last duty as King & Emperor. - Edward, Duke of York formerly Edward VIII of England

421. A few months in the laboratory can save a few hours in the library.

422. A few observations and much reasoning leads to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

423. A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

424. A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

425. A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. Orson Welles

426. A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination. -- Arthur Wing Pinero

427. A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.

428. A fish or a mountain to scale

429. A fish starts smelling from the head.

430. A fishmonger's wife may feed of a conger, But a servingman's wife may starve for hunger.

431. A five finger discount on my soul is not exactly the same thing as my signing it away.

432. A flashlight is a case for holding dead batteries.

433. A FLATTERER's throat is an open sepulchre.

434. A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it. --Dogen

435. A FLY follows the honey.

436. A flying saucer results when a nudist spills his coffee.

437. A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.

438. A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him. -- Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

439. A fool and his money are soon parted.

440. A fool and his money are soon partying.

441. A fool and his words are soon parted; a man of genius and his money.

442. A fool and water will go the way they are diverted

443. A FOOL believes everything.

444. A fool can ask more questions than the wisest can answer.

445. A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears. --William Makepeace Thackeray

446. A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offen seat everything.

447. A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing his own opinions. Miscellaneous Proverb

448. A fool finds pleasure in evil conduct, but a man of understanding delights in wisdom. Miscellaneous Proverb

449. A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control Miscellaneous Proverb

450. A fool gives, a wise man takes. --Yiddish proverb

451. A fool knows more in his own house than a wise man in another's.

452. A fool looks for dung where the cow never browsed.

453. A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.

454. A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry without object; putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends.

455. A fool may give a wise man counsel.

456. A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose.

457. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

458. A FOOL may throw a stone into a well, which a hundred wise men cannot pull out.

459. A fool must now and then be right by chance.

460. A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult. Miscellaneous Proverb

461. A fool will learn nothing from a wise man, but a wise man will learn much from a fool.

462. A fool will not give his bauble for the Tower of London

463. A fool will pair an ox with an elephant!

464. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

465. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

466. A foolish man proclaimeth his qualifications; A wise man keepeth them secret within himself; A straw floateth on the surface of water, But a precious gem placed upon it sinketh.

467. A foolish woman knows a foolish man's faults

468. A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.

469. A fool's bolt is soon shot.

470. A FOOL's tongue is long enough to cut his own throat.

471. A foot like a cat.

472. A forced kindness deserves no thanks.

473. A formal briefing is like an avalanche. A high level snow job of massive and overwhelming proportions.

474. A foul morn may turn to a fair day.

475. A fox barks not when he would steal the lamb.

476. A fox being chased by some hunters came upon a man chopping wood. He begged the man to shelter him, and the man offered the fox refuge in his cabin. Shortly, the hunters arrived and asked the man if he had seen the fox. The wood cutter stated that he had not, but as he did so he pointed to his cabin with a wink. The hunters, confused by this, went off. As soon as they were out of sight, the fox bounded in the other direction. So, this is how you thank me for sheltering you, my friend? the woodsman called to the fox. Hah! If you had spoken with your fingers as you did with your tongue, I would not have left without thanking you properly! Friend? Indeed! Hah! Moral: Actions speak louder than words.

477. A fox is not taken twice in the same snare.

478. A fox on you fishing hook ---Irish Curse

479. A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial. --Thomas Fuller

480. A free agent is anything but.

481. A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.

482. A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

483. A friend by thee is better than a brother far off.

484. A FRIEND in a way is better than a penny in the purse.

485. A friend in court is better than a penny in purse.

486. A friend in need is a friend indeed.

487. A friend in need is a friend to be avoided.

488. A friend in need is a pest indeed.

489. A friend in the market is better than money in the chest.

490. A friend is a gift you give yourself. -Robert Louis Stevenson

491. A friend is a person that knows everything about you and still likes you.

492. A friend is a present you give yourself.

493. A friend is like a shining star, coming out where ever you are. When the darkness is all there is to greet you, your star will be there to always lead you. Shining the way for you to see, the path you need forever to be. So when the darkness falls before your eyes, your shining star is there, just look toward the skies.

494. A friend is never known till a man have need.

495. A friend is never known till needed.

496. A friend is one who knows all about you and likes you anyway. Christi Mary Warner

497. A friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

498. A friend is someone that won't begin to talk behind your back when you leave the room.

499. A friend is someone who can see through you and still enjoys the show. (Farmer's Almanac)

500. A friend is someone who knows all about you and still likes you.


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