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~~ I am not the author of the following written material, and I lay no claim to be the author. ~~


401. Fling dirt enough, and some will stick,

402. Flirtation...Attention without intention.

403. Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.

404. Flo Capp's Observation: The next best thing to doing something smart is not doing something stupid.

405. Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

406. Flon's Law: There is not now, and never will be, a language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad programs.

407. Flower Power rules, bouquet.

408. Flowers are the poetry of earth, as stars are the poetry of heaven.

409. Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.--Saint Francis De Sales Xenophanes

410. Flowing through all mens veins is the blood of his ancestors. But who are they those ancestors? God or mammal?

411. Flucard's Corollary: Anything dropped in the bathroom falls in the toilet.

412. Flugg's Law: When you need to knock on wood is when you realize that the world is composed of vinyl, naugahyde and aluminum.

413. Flying saucers are just an optical conclusion.

414. Focus on the positive and achieve your goals

415. Folks playing leapfrog must complete all jumps.

416. Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do.

417. Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you: Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of men?

418. Follow love and it will flee thee; flee love and it will follow thee.

419. Follow love and it will flee, Flee love and it will follow thee.

420. Follow me! I'll be right behind you

421. Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.

422. Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.

423. Follow the river and you'll get to the sea.

424. Follow your bliss, and doors will open where there were no doors before. -- Joseph Campbell

425. Following the Noble Path is like entering a dark room with a light in the hand; the darkness will all be cleared away, and the room will be filled with light.

426. FOLLY and learning often dwell together.

427. Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.

428. Folly is the cloke of knavery.

429. Folly is wisdom spun too fine.

430. Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame.

431. Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.-- Walt Kelly

432. Food is an important part of a balanced diet.--Fran Lebowitz

433. Food is no more important than wisdom The beginning of wisdom is the fear of God

434. Food is not better than sense.

435. Food, sleep, fear, propagation; each is the common property of men with brutes. Virtue is really their additional distinction; devoid of virtue, they are equal with brutes.

436. Fool me once, shame on you - Fool me twice, shame on me!

437. Fool, what is sleep but the likeness of icy death? The fates shall give us a long period of rest.

438. Foolish FEAR doubleth danger.

439. Foolish spending is the father of poverty.

440. Fools admire, but men of sense approve. -- Alexander Pope

441. Fools and bairns should not see half-done work.

442. Fools and madmen speak the truth.

443. Fools are fain of flittin. (=Fond of moving.)

444. FOOLS are wise as long as silent.

445. FOOLS ask questions that wise men cannot answer.

446. Fools build houses and wise men buy them.

447. Fools cut their fingers, but wise men cut their thumbs. (=The folly of wise men is greater.)

448. Fools grow without watering. --Thomas Fuller

449. Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.

450. Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

451. Fools may our scorn, not envy raise, for envy is a kind of praise.

452. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. --Alexander Pope

453. Fools rush in where fools have been before.

454. Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.

455. Fools tie knots and wise men loose them.

456. Foot: A politician's pacifier.

457. Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them.--Vince Lombardi

458. Football is a game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.New York Times,

459. Football is like life -- it requires perserverence, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

460. Footprints on the sands of time are never made by sitting down.

461. For a change of pace, here's a quote from a Harvard Business Review article as cited in the book *Doublespeak*. Maybe it should be thought of more as an "anti-quote," or how not to convey a message.

462. For a desperate disease a desperate cure.

463. For a flying enemy make a golden (or silver) bridge.

464. For a flying enemy make a silver bridge.

465. For a hill men would kill, why? They do not know

466. For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.

467. For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin--real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

468. For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition.

469. For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughed at, than that which he approves and than that which he approves and reveres.

470. For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

471. For a man to pretend to understand women is bad manners; for him really to understand them is bad morals.

472. For a man to truly understand rejection, he must first be ignored by a cat.

473. For a man who is contented with little, Wealth is inexhaustible. He who continually seeks and is never satisfied Will experience a constant rain of sorrow.

474. For a man's ways are in full view of the LORD, and he examines all his paths. The evil deeds of a wicked man ensnare him; the cords of his sin hold him fast. He will die for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly

475. For a morning rain leave not your journey.

476. For a ploy hatched in hell, don't expect angels for witnesses.--Robert Perry, Lawyer

477. For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.--Richard Feynman, from the Challenger disaster report

478. For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.--Jesse Owens, Jesse: The Man Who Outran Hitler,

479. For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

480. For Africa to me . . . is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.--Maya Angelou (1972)

481. For after all, the best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

482. For age and want, save while you may! No morning sun lasts a whole day.

483. For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

484. For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.

485. For all true love is grounded on esteem. Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.

486. For an idea to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.

487. For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice--no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service. --John Burroughs

488. For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. --John Burroughs

489. For Art is Nature made by man To Man the interpreter of God.

490. For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

491. For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

492. For at once he draws the string of the bow of life and death; he walks with naturel; and their paths are peace. Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death. A peace may be so wretched as not to be ill exchanged for war. He who does not attempt to make peace when small discords arise, Is like the bee's hive which leaks drops of honey- Soon, the whole hive collapses.

493. For best results: Wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good results: Drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.

494. For cheap money, dogs eat meat.

495. For Christ Our Lord, All Can Give Some... Some Will Give All.

496. For de little stealin', they puts you in jail. For de big stealin', they makes you Emperor. - Eugene O'Neill

497. For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

498. For dying, you always have time.--Yiddish Proverbs

499. For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

500. For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.


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