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302. Finagling Factor: That quantity which, when multiplied by, divided by, added to, or subtracted from the answer you get, gives you the answer you should have gotten.

303. Finally, in conclusion, let me say just this.

304. Finally, the colonists won the War and no longer had to pay for taxis.

305. Financial sense is knowing that certain men will promise to do certain things, and fail. --Ed Howe

306. Financially, he's as flat as a rubber door mat.

307. Find a job that you like, and you don't have to work for the rest of your life.

308. Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare. --George Bernard Shaw

309. Find expression for a sorrow and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.

310. Find out what whiskey he drinks and send all of my generals a case, if it will get the same results.in reply to comments about General Grant's drinking problems

311. Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.--Katherine Whitehorn

312. Find what scares you and do it.

313. Finding's keeping.

314. Fine feathers make fine birds. Fine words butter no parsnips.

315. Fine furniture at reasonable prices: antique, colonial, and temporary.Leo Rosten

316. Fine sense and exalted sense are no. half so useful as commonsense. There are forty men of wit to one man of sense,..and he that will carry nothing about him but gold will be every day at a loss for want of readier change. ---(POPE).

317. Fine words do not produce food.

318. Finis coronat opus.-The end crowns the work.

319. Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

320. Finite to fail, but infinite to venture. --Emily Dickinson

321. FIR is not fair, but that which pleases.

322. Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together.

323. Fire cannot be hidden in flax.

324. Fire is a good servant but a bad master.

325. Fire is never satisfied with fuel, nor the ocean with rivers, nor death with all creatures, nor bright-eyed women with men.

326. Fire is the most perfect and unadulterated reflection, in Heaven as on Earth, of the ONE FLAME. It is Life and Death, the origin and the end of every material thing. It is divine Substance.

327. FIRE is the test of gold; adversity of friendship.

328. Fire that is closest kept burns most of all.

329. Firelight will not let you read fine stories but its warm and you won't see the dust on the floor.

330. Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

331. Fires that shook me once, but now to silent ashes fall'n away, Cold upon the dead volcano sleeps the gleam of dying day.

332. Firewood alone will not start a fire.

333. Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies. --Lord Chesterfield

334. First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

335. First catch your hare. (Misquotation from a cookery-book.)

336. First century: We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing. And what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.

337. First come, first served.

338. First creep and then go (=walk).

339. First deserve, and then desire. English Proverb

340. First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.

341. First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others -- Thomas Kempis

342. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou inflexible in the path of them.

343. First Law of Advice:The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired.

344. First Law of Bicycling: No matter where you're going, it's uphill and against the wind.

345. First Law of Communication: The purpose of the communication is to advance the communicator.

346. First Law of Innovation Management: Change is the status quo.

347. First Law of Procrastination: Procrastination shortens the job and places the responsibility for its termination on someone else (i.e., the authority who imposed the deadline).

348. First Law of Socio-Genetics: Celibacy is not hereditary.

349. First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack.

350. First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it. -- George Bernard Shaw

351. First make peace with yourself so that when you have become peaceful you may bring peace to others. -Pope Paul VI

352. First of all, a man does not call it a relationship -- he refers to it as "that time when me and Suzie were doing it on a semi-regular basis".

353. First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.

354. First Rule of History: History doesn't repeat itself -- historians merely repeat each other.

355. First say to yourself what you would be, then do what you have to do. -- Epictetus

356. First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

357. First secure an independent income, then practice virtue. Greek Proverb

358. First the grub, then the morals.

359. First thing in the morning she brushes her teeth and sharpens her tongue.

360. First things first, but not necessarily in that order.

361. First things first.

362. First things she looks for on entering a department store are the complaint and exchange counters.

363. First think and then speak.

364. First thrive and then wive.

365. First was manifested from the Deep (Chaos) cold luminous fire (gaseous light?) which formed the curds in Space. (Irresolvable nebulae, perhaps?)...These fought, and a great heat was developed by the encountering and colision, which produced rotation.

366. First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down.

367. First you must learn to control your /self/. The rest follows. Blessed is he who knows himself and commands himself, for the world is his and love and happiness and peace walk with him wherever he goes.--Valentine Michael Smith in Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A Heinlein

368. First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

369. First, he drinks when he's pooped to make a new man out of himself, then he drinks to the new man.

370. First, learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak. Epictetus

371. First, to be able to love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.

372. Firstly, gradualness. About this most important condition of fruitful scientific work I can never speak without emotion. Gradualness, gradualness, gradualness.

373. Fish and company stink in three days.

374. Fish are supposed to be brain food, and yet people eat it on Friday and then do the silliest things over the weekend.

375. Fish begins to stink at the head.

376. Fish is cast away that is cast in dry pools.

377. FISH must swim thrice.

378. Fish must swim thrice-once in the water, a second time in the sauce, and a third time in wine in the stomach.

379. Fish or cut bait. American Proverb

380. Fish, to taste good, must swim three times: in water, in butter, and in wine. Polish Proverb

381. Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

382. Fishing gives you a sense of where you fit in the sceme of thingsYour place in the universe...I, mean, here I am, one small guy with a fishing pole on this vast beach and out there in the blue expanse of ocean are these hundreds of millions of fish...laughing at me.

383. Fishing is a pleasure of retirement, yet the angler has the power to let the fish live or die. Chess playing is an enjoyable pastime, yet the players are motivated by the idea of war.

384. Fist-fights don't result un bruises.

385. Fitzgerald: The rich are different from us. Hemingway: Yes, they have more money.

386. Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: viz., avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. --Petrarch

387. Five groups might live but the sixth will die.

388. Five hours sleepeth a traveller, seven a scholar, eight a merchant, and eleven every knave.

389. Five liberties for tactical stability.

390. Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.

391. Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

392. Flappity, floppity, flip, The mouse on the mobius strip; The strip revolved, The mouse dissolved In a chronodimensional skip.

393. Flash before my eyes, now it's time to die

394. Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency. --François de La Rochefoucauld

395. Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out. --Dale Carnegie

396. Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed. --Josh Billings

397. Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog. --Anonymous

398. Flee sloth, for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.

399. Flies spread disease, so keep yours shut!

400. Fling away ambition; by that sin fell the angels: how can man then, the image of his Maker, hope to win by it? Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest.