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A feverish display of over-zeal, At the first outset, is an obstacle To all success; water, however cold, Will penetrate the ground by slow degrees. – The Hitopadesa
A few broken bones won't matter; you are not made of bones but of your will power, wisdom and willingness to keep fighting. – Rahul Katragadda
A few years ago I made a New Years Resolution never to make another New Years Resolution again and so far it's the only one that I have actually kept. – Tom Zegan
A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. – Stanley Kubrick
A filthy mouth will not utter decent language. – Chinese Proverb
A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination. – Arthur Wing Pinero
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool. – Joseph Roux
A finished person is a boring person. – Anna Quindlen
A firewall cant stop an idea – BaDBoY-ALbania
A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles. – B. B. Warfield
A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other. – Samuel Johnson
A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so. – Aristotle
A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies. – Jeanne-Marie Roland
A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it. – Katharine Whitehorn
A fool and his money are soon parted. – Thomas Tusser
A fool and water will go the way they are diverted. – African Proverb
A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig. – Robert A. Heinlein
A fool judges people by the presents they give him. – Chinese Proverb
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. – George Bernard Shaw
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. – R.W. Emerson, Self-Reliance
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
A foolish husband fears his wife; a prudent wife obeys her husband. – Chinese
A foolish man in wealth and authority is like a weak-timbered house with a too-ponderous roof. – R Chamberlain
A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters Dear Sir (or Madame) You may be right. – Henry Louis Mencken

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