Freebsd Fortunes 3

Factorials were someone's attempt to make math LOOK exciting.

Facts, apart from their relationships, are like labels on empty bottles.
                -- Sven Italla

Facts are the enemy of truth.
                -- Don Quixote

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
                -- Aldous Huxley

Failed Attempts To Break Records
        In September 1978 Mr. Terry Gripton, of Stafford, failed to break
the world shouting record by two and a half decibels.  "I am not surprised
he failed," his wife said afterwards.  "He's really a very quiet man and
doesn't even shout at me."
        In August of the same year Mr. Paul Anthony failed to break the
record for continuous organ playing by 387 hours.
        His attempt at the Golden Fish Fry Restaurant in Manchester ended
after 36 hours 10 minutes, when he was accused of disturbing the peace.
"People complained I was too noisy," he said.
        In January 1976 Mr. Barry McQueen failed to walk backwards across
the Menai Bridge playing the bagpipes.  "It was raining heavily and my
drone got waterlogged," he said.
        A TV cameraman thwarted Mr. Bob Specas' attempt to topple 100,000
dominoes at the Manhattan Center, New York on 9 June 1978.  97,500 dominoes
had been set up when he dropped his press badge and set them off.
                -- Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic Failures"

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
                -- Sir Walter Raleigh

Fairy tale:
        A horror story to prepare children for the newspapers.

Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.

Faith has never moved as much as a pin-head from the place it
ought to be according to tradition and the scriptures.  It is
the doubt that moved all the mountains.
                -- Poul Henningsen [1894-1967]