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101. Fame is the penalty of success.

102. Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

103. Fame is the thirst of youth.

104. Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character. --Horace Greeley

105. Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give.

106. Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes Us feel that we have grasp'd an immortality.

107. Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else. --Oliver Wendell Holmes

108. Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

109. Fame, they tell you, is air; but without air there is no life for any; without fame there is none for the best.

110. Fame, we may understand is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property of a man.

111. Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright. --H. L. Mencken

112. Familiar acts are beautiful through love. --Percy Bysshe Shelley

113. Familiarity breeds attempt.

114. Familiarity breeds contempt.

115. Familiarity breeds contempt--and children. --Mark Twain

116. Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness. --Ouida

117. Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the intensest hatreds. --Antoine Rivarol

118. Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other. --Ed Howe

119. Family and friends are hidden treasures, seek them and enjoy their riches.--Wanda Hope Carter

120. Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice. --Reinhold Niebuhr

121. FAMINE.. Your body it has torn through, withered in every place

122. Famous dead people make excellent commentators on current events.

123. Famous Last Words: I JUST DRANK WHAT!!??

124. Famous quotes need famous mouths.

125. Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.--Simeon Strunsky

126. Fanatacism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. George Santayana

127. Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

128. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

129. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor ;spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.--Theodore Roosevelt

130. Far fowls have fair feathers.

131. Far from eye, far from heart.

132. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.--Thomas Gray

133. Far more important to me is, that I should be loyal to what I regard as the law of my political life, which is this: a belief that that country is best governed, which is least governed ...-- George Hoadly

134. Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea...

135. Far too many people spend their lives reading the menu instead of enjoying the banquet.

136. Fare thee well! and if for ever, Still for ever, fare thee well.

137. Farewell! farewell ! but this I tell To thee, thou wedding guest, He prayeth well who loveth well Both man and bird and beast He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all. ---(S. T. COLERIDGE).

138. Far-fetched and dear bought is good for ladies.

139. Farmers are just plain folks.

140. Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the cornfield.- from an address at Peoria, IL

141. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -- Oscar Wilde

142. Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting. --E. C. Stedman

143. Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.

144. Fast bind, fast find.

145. Faster and faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.

146. Fat generally tends to make a man a better husband. His wife is happy in the knowledge she is not married to a woman chaser. Few fat men chase girls, because they get winded too easily. --Hal Boyle

147. Fat is not to be had without labour

148. Fat paunches have lean pates.

149. Fat people are harder to kidnap.

150. Fat sorrow is better than lean sorrow. (=Better be rich and miserable than poor and miserable.)

151. Fate chooses our relationships; we choose our friends.

152. Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

153. Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.

154. Fate leads the willing but drives the stubborn.

155. Fate mystified. Hell Forever more

156. Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread; Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow.

157. FATE: A PARAPHRASE. ---Two shall be born, one toward the setting sun, ---One toward the rising; one where snow-clad pines ---O'erlook a grey and sullen sea, and one ---Where groves of palm trees wave and fiercely shines ---The sun on Southern seas; nor shall they know --- Aught of each other, nor in wildest dreams ---Have seen the other's face-yet these shall go ---Across mad seas, where every danger seems ---Death-fraught, and each, unknowing and unknown, ---Unconsciously shall turn their erring feet ---By devious paths and trackless deserts lone ---With none to guide, until at last they meet, ---Becoming one, and find 'mid sweetest tears ---Of joy completion in each other's kiss, ---With fruitful love and passion through all years, ---And shall at last be satisfied-and this ---Is Fate. ---(W.AUGUSTUS ADAM).

158. Father! no prophet's laws I seek,- Thy laws in Nature's works appear;- I own myself corrupt and weak, Yet will I pray, for thou wilt hear.

159. Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

160. Father-Mother spin a web whose upper end is fastened to spirit - the light of the one darkness - and the lower one to its shadowy end, matter; and this web is the universe spun out of the two substances made in one... The decade of existence out of nothing has its end linked to its beginning and its beginning linked to its end, just as the flame is wedded to the live coal; because the Lord is one and there is not a second one, and before one what wilt thou could? In wisdom and understanding we have the archetypal Positive and Negative, the primordial Maleness and Femaleness, established while countenance beheld not countenance and manifestation was incipient.

161. Fatigue is the best pillow. --Benjamin Franklin

162. Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more. --Alfred, Lord Tennyson

163. Faults are thick where love is thin.

164. Favorite Animal: steak. - Fran Lebowitz

165. Favour and disgrace are like fear.

166. FAVOUR is deceitful, and beauty is vain.

167. Favour is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place.

168. Fear and Wisdom are Brothers.--Yiddish Proverbs

169. Fear at my heart, as at a cup, My life-blood seemed to sip! Oh, fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know ere long, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.

170. Fear can, though it is not God, create something from nothing.

171. Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

172. Fear doesn't overwhelm you; you let fear overwhelm you.

173. Fear follows crime, and is its punishment. --Voltaire

174. FEAR gives wings.

175. Fear has its use but cowardice has none.--Mahatma Gandhi

176. FEAR hath a quick ear.

177. Fear is a darkroom for developing negatives. -- Anonymous

178. Fear is an illusion.

179. Fear is as weak as you are strong.

180. Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it.

181. Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty. In extreme danger fear feels no pity.

182. Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

183. Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things under ground, and much more in the skies.

184. Fear is stronger than love.

185. Fear is the chief activator of all my character defects.

186. Fear is the greatest rival. It is also the greatest ally.

187. Fear is the mother of foresight. Good men have the fewest fears.

188. Fear is the mother of morality.

189. Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt. -- George Sewell

190. FEAR keeps and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner.

191. Fear keeps the garden better than the gardener.

192. Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered and no one was there.

193. Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, hate less, love more, and all good things will be yours. Swedish proverb

194. Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours. -- Anonymous

195. Fear makes men believe the worst. Worry, the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

196. Fear not a jest. If one throws salt at you, you will not be harmed unless you have sore places.Latin Proverb

197. Fear not to swear; the winds carry the perjuries of lovers without effect over land and sea, thanks to Jupiter. The father of the gods himself has denied effect to what foolish lovers in their eagerness have sworn.

198. Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.

199. Fear of DEATH is worse than death itself.

200. Fear takes molehills for mountains.


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