Quotations Page 'F'

What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous.

- Voltaire -

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I awoke one morning and found myself famous.

- Byron, Children Harold -

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Familiarity breeds contempt and children.Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

- Tolstoy, Anna Karenina -

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All happy families resemble one another : every unhappy family in its own way.

- Tolstoy, Anna Karenina -

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For ever, brother, hail and farewell.

- Catullus, Old -

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

- Byron, Fare Thee Well -

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All farmers fatten most when famine reigns.

- S.Garth, Dispensary -

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Slave of the wheel of labour, what to him.Are Plato and the swing of Pleiades.

- Edwin Markham, The Man with the Hoe -

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A farmer is always going to be rich next year.

- Philemon -

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He hath a smooth disposeTo be suspected; framed to make woman false.

- Shakespeare, Othello -

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National socialism does not harbour the slightest aggressive intent towards any European nation.

- Adolf Hitler, Nazi Congress 1939 -

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While the world lasts, fashion will continue to lead it by the nose.

- Cowper -

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I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

- Shakespeare -

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A fashionable woman is always in love with herself.

- La Rochefoucauld -

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Fastidiousness is the envelope of indelicacy.

- Haliburton -

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Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.

- Mahatma Gandhi -

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As killing as the canker to the rose.

- Milton, Lycidas -

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With patience bear, with prudence push, your fate.

- Virgil, Aeneid -

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Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star.

- Byron -

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