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Definition of Fond

Fond

imp. of Find. Found.

Foolish; silly; simple; weak.

Foolishly tender and loving; weakly indulgent; over-affectionate.

Affectionate; loving; tender; -- in a good sense; as, a fond mother or wife.

Loving; much pleased; affectionately regardful, indulgent, or desirous; longing or yearning; -- followed by of (formerly also by on).

Doted on; regarded with affection.

Trifling; valued by folly; trivial.

To caress; to fondle.

To be fond; to dote.

Foundation; bottom; groundwork;

The ground.

The broth or juice from braised flesh or fish, usually served as a sauce.

Fund, stock, or store.

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Fond Quotations

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Winston Churchill

The gods too are fond of a joke.
Aristotle

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.
Voltaire

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
Jane Austen

It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.
Robert E. Lee

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.
Frank Sinatra

People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.
Ogden Nash

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
Jonathan Swift

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
Honore de Balzac

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.
Lord Acton

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.
John Gay

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.
Marguerite Duras

I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not male parts, but male brains that I prefer.
Sarah Bernhardt

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.
Richard Wagner

And I agreed with that, and I couldn't wait to change my name anyway, because I'm not too fond of the name of Reginald. It's a very kind of '50s English name.
Elton John

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
E. M. Forster

I'm very fond of drugs.
Grace Slick

I'm very fond of doing movies where men fight over me. I don't get to do enough.
Anjelica Huston

During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.
Al Sharpton

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
Alfred North Whitehead

I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.
Alfred North Whitehead

Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
Thomas More

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
Charles Caleb Colton

Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.
Douglas William Jerrold

I have visited Australia several times, and I always try to make a point of going to Melbourne because it's almost my favorite city there, Melbourne and Sydney. But I shouldn't say that because I haven't been everywhere-and I'm very fond of Perth too!
Jackie Collins

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
John Berger

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Fond Translations

fond in Swedish is tycka om

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