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FAILURE

No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.
Groucho Marx

FAITH

Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Ambrose Bierce

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

FAMILY

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.
Peter De Vries

The family is a court of justice that never shuts down for a night or day.
Malcolm De Chazal

Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
Martin Mull

FEMINISTS

I don't understand guys who call themselves feminists. That's like the time Hubert Humphrey, running for president, told a black audience he was a soul brother.
Roy Blount, Jr.

FILM

If my film makes one more person miserable, I've done my job.
Woody Allen

FISHING

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
Don Marquis

Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime.
Jimmy Cannon

A fidhing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
Samuel Johnson

FORGIVENESS

Always forgive your enemies- nothing anoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde

FRANCE

France is the only country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
Billy Wilder

What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country.
Samuel Johnson

FREEDOM

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving any excuse.
Jules Renard

You are free and that is why you are lost.
Franz Kafka

There is no free lunch.
Milton Friedman

FRIENDSHIP

Think twice before you speak to a friend in need.
Ambrose Bierce

May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my ememies.
Voltaire

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to bring the news to you.
Mark Twain

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
Arnold Bennett

We cherise our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.
Evelyn Waugh

FUNERAL

I did not attend his funeral, but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it.
Mark Twain

What bereaved people need is a little comic relief, and this is why funerals are so farcical.
George Bernard Shaw

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