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501. For every benefit you receive a tax is levied. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

502. For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

503. For every credibility gap, there is a gullibility fill.

504. For every disease that doctors cure with medicine, they produce ten in healthy people by inoculating them with that virus which is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.

505. For every evil under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none; If there be one, try and find it, If there is none, never mind it.

506. For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them.

507. For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.

508. For every person who climbs the ladder of success, there are a dozen waiting for the elevator.

509. For every problem, there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong.

510. For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. --John W. Gardner

511. For everything you have missed you have gained something. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

512. For everything you have missed, you have gained something else. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

513. For fast acting relief, try slowing down. Lily Tomlin

514. For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!

515. For Father's Day, June 1996:

516. For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her. -- Charles de Gaulle

517. For God is not against us because of our sin. He is with us; against our sin.

518. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

519. For God's sake, give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself. --Robert Louis Stevenson

520. For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let the people look into your mind. (Bruce Barton)

521. For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love - this is an old rule.

522. For he who speaks untruth withers like a tree to the roots.

523. For him who has conquered the mind, the mind is the best of friends; but for one who has failed to do so, his mind will be the greatest enemy.

524. For him, especially, someone should invent a Sucker Fountain Pen-one that runs dry when it comes to signing on the dotted line.

525. For his heart was in his work, and the heart Giveth grace unto every Art.

526. For hope is but the dream of those that wake.Solomon on the Vanity of the World

527. For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

528. For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and big words Bother me.Winnie the Pooh

529. For I never have seen, and never shall see, that the cessation of the evidence of existence is necessarily evidence of the cessation of existence.

530. For I say, this is death and the sole death, When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest.

531. For I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty. -- Alben W. Barkley

532. For if a man live many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember that the days of darkness will be many. All that comes is vanity.

533. For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for man's allegiance in a world at peace, I would look to the future with ever increasing confidence. --John Fitzgerald Kennedy

534. For in and out, above, about, below, 'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow - show, Play'd in a Box whose Candle is the Sun, Round which we Phantom Figures come and go.

535. For in that word, that fatal word, however we promise, hope, believe, there breathes despair.

536. For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together.

537. For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

538. For life is the mirror of king and slave, 'Tis just what we are and do; Then give to the world the best you have, And the best will come back to you.

539. For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle dove is heard in our land. Yet Ah, that Spring should vanish with the Rose. That Youth's sweet-scented manuscript should close! The Nightingale that in the branches sang Ah whence and whither flown again, who knows? As when the golden sun salutes the morn, And, having gilt the ocean with his beams, Gallops the zodiac in his glistening coach, And overlooks the highest-peering hills.

540. For love is ever the beginning of Knowledge, as fire is of light.

541. For love nothing is too hard. Love never speaks of sacrifice.

542. For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake. - Alfred Hitchcock

543. For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in Marble: and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust. - Sir Thomas Moore

544. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

545. For money you would sell your soul.from Antigone

546. For morning dreams, as poets tell, are true.

547. For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news.

548. For most men life is a search for the proper manilla envelope in which to get themselves filed.

549. For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

550. For my part, I believe that the vainglorious and the violent will not inherit the earth... In pursuance of that faith my friends and I take the hands of the dying in our hands. And some of us travel to the Pentagon, and others live in the Bowery and serve there, and others speak unpopularly and plainly of the fate of the unborn and of convicted criminals. It is all one.--Daniel Berrigan

551. For myself I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

552. For now you've got some company.

553. For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!"--John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) Maud Muller [1856]

554. For once, somebody may call me "Sir" without adding, "...you're making a scene."

555. For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof; the work for which all other work is but preparation.

556. For one who has been honored, dishonor is worse than death.

557. For people who like peace and quiet; a phoneless cord.

558. For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.

559. For privileges shall have an end, but the people is forever. - Compte de Mirabeau

560. For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

561. For rectangular six in the corner, dame is necessary.

562. For riches roll like the wheels of a chariot, turning from one to another.

563. For Satan finds some mischief still, For idle hands to do. - Isaac Watts

564. For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.--Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), The Knight's Tomb

565. For some reason a glaze passes over people's faces when you say "Canada". Maybe we should invade North Dakota or something.-- Sandra Gotlieb, wife of the Canadian Ambassador to the U.S.A.

566. For stern as death is love, relentless as the nether world is devotion; its flames are a blazing fire. Deep waters cannot quench love, nor floods sweep it away.--Song of Songs 8:6

567. For successful propaganda you need proper geese.

568. For that one should love another, is all the God requireth of us; and therefore, if we desire spiritual gifts, he teacheth these gifts to be desired that help our neighbours.

569. For the American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity. -- Will Rogers

570. For the cause that lacks The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do.

571. For the comb formation in the corner, dame is necessary.

572. For the first time in history a nation has gun control. This will make our streets safer, our police more effective, and the world will follow our lead into the future.

573. For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years. 1979--Jimmy Carter, 39th US President

574. For the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth.

575. For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.

576. For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.--Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963.

577. For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.

578. For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame. --Charles Simmons

579. For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that we use it so little.

580. For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack. --Rudyard Kipling

581. For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast.

582. For the want of a nail the shoe was lost, For the want of a shoe the horse was lost, For the want of a horse the rider was lost, For the want of a rider the battle was lost, For the want of a battle the kingdom was lost, And all for the want of a horse-shoe nail. --Benjamin Franklin

583. For the world was built in order And the atoms march in tune; Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun obeys them, and the moon.

584. For them, the absent ones, I supplicate, and bid you rally here, and scorn to fly.

585. For there are deeds Which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.

586. For there is something about a national convention that makes it as fascinating as a revival or hanging. It is vulgar, it us ugly, it is stupid, it is useless. It is hard upon both the higher cerebral centers and the gluteus maximus, and yet it is somehow charming... Herein, indeed, lies the chief merit of democracy, when all is said and done... it may be swinish, it may be unutterably incompetent and dishonest but it is never dismal--its processes, when they irritate, never actually bore.

587. For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently.

588. For they conquer who believe they can.--John Dryden

589. For they say, if money go before, all ways do lie open.

590. For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that's sleeping in the unplowed ground. -- Lyndon Baines Johnson

591. For those to whom much is given, much is required. Jan ,

592. For those who have been lost in the contemplation of the divine immanence, God reveals his transcendence. And for those who are lost in the contemplation of God's transcendence, God reveals his immanence.

593. For those who intend to discover and to understand, not to indulge in conjectures and soothsaying, and rather than contrive imitation and fabulous worlds plan to look deep into the nature of the real world and to dissect it -- for them everything must be sought in things themselves.

594. For those who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they like.

595. For those who love.time is eternity.

596. For those who loved should always feel that their love given, was love well taken.

597. For three things there is no remedy: Poverty associated with laziness, sickness coupled with old age, and enmity mixed with envy.

598. For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

599. For truth is precious and divine; Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

600. For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.


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