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While most of
you are aware of the famous quotations of worthy
INDIANS, especially our father and forefathers, here
is a sampling of some good ones from non-indians.
All
these are samples beginning with the alphabet “A”.
For the next one year, and every year thereafter, you can read such
quotes beginning with a new alphabet every fortnight
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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart
that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
Al Gore , U.S. Vice President
A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the
first time.
Alfred E. Wiggam
A baby is God's
opinion that the world should go on.
Carl Sandburg
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and
ask for it back when it begins to rain.
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
Adlai
Stevenson (1900-1965)
A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
Anonymous
A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about
real money.
Everett
Dirksen
A budget is just a method of worrying before you spend money, as well
as afterward.
Anonymous
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child
of five.Groucho
Marx (1895-1977)
A
conservative is a man who does not think that anything should be done for
the first time.
Frank
Vanderlip
A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to
run.
Elbert
Hubbard (1856-1915) - Epigrams
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has
never learned how to walk forward.
Franklin
Delano Roosevelt
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're
dead.
Leo
Rosten
A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.
Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
Marvin
Kitman
A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Anonymous
A deed without a name.
William
Shakespeare
A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
Will
Rogers (1879-1935)
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never
remembers her age.
Robert
Frost (1874-1963)
A
doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to
plant vines.
Frank
Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
John
Ciardi
A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off
you.
Francoise
Sagan
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the
subject.
Winston
Churchill, Sir (1874-1965)
A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into
the world of objective perception and thought.
Albert
Einstein (1879-1955)
A fly is as untamable as a hyena.
Ralph
Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is
but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
Samuel
Johnson
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William
Blake
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into
superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George
Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
Anonymous
A
friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think
aloud.
Ralph
Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Fr.
Jerome Cummings
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult
me.
Frederick
Douglas
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
Elsa
Schiapirelli
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he
gets to know something.
Wilson
Mizner (1876-1933)
A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.
Barbarella
A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right
person at the right time. The rest is trust.
Nanette
Newman , British Actress
A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it
really know what goes in it.
Anonymous
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel
de Montaigne
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells
us the truth about its author.
G.
K. Chesterton
A
good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.
George
S. Patton, General (1885-1945)
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
Sidney
Goff
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
James
Reston
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the
support of Paul.
George
Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he
is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
Frank
Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely
rearranging their prejudices.
William
James (1842-1910)
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be
one.
Kin
Hubbard
A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick
and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.
Ogden
Nash
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been
extracted.
Helen
Rowland (1876-1950)
A
joke is a very serious thing.
Winston
Churchill, Sir (1874-1965)
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better
lawyer.
Robert
Frost (1874-1963)
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing
whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.
Agnes
Repplier
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he
is a leader.
Harry
S. Truman
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
Robert
Frost (1874-1963)
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to
get its pants on.
Winston
Churchill, Sir (1874-1965)
A life without cause is a life without effect.
Barbarella
A
little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed
her mind. "What do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well,
she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with another."
Anonymous
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
H.
H. Munro 'Saki' (1870-1916)
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is
absolutely fatal.
Oscar
Wilde (1854-1900)
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial
appearance of being right
Thomas
Paine - Common Sense
A lot has been said about politics; some of it complimentary, but most
of it accurate.
Eric
Idle
A lot of senators are so worried about convention and how they look
that they wouldn't let their hair down if they had any.
Ben
Nighthorse Campbell, Senator
A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.
Michael
Garrett Marino
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar
Wilde (1854-1900)
A
man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has
good company.
Charles
Evans Hughes
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
Zsa
Zsa Gabor
A man is only as old as the woman he feels
Groucho
Marx (1895-1977)
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his
cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
Israel
Zangwill
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
John
F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want
some other man to take her off his hands.
Sacha
Guitry (1885-1957)
A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his
wife.
Edgar
Watson Howe
A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems shorter than a
minute. But tell that same man to sit on a hot stove for a minute, it is
longer than any hour. That's relativity.
Albert
Einstein (1879-1955)
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
Christopher
Morley
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same
fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
Elbert
Hubbard (1856-1915)
A
man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
Napoleon
Bonaparte (1769-1821)
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
Zadok
Rabinwitz
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy,
education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would
indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and
hope of reward after death.
Albert
Einstein (1879-1955)
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should
survey the world.
George
Santayana (1863-1952)
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
Ralph
Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into thereoms.
Paul
Erdos
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the
writer.
Dean
Acheson
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original
dimensions.
Anonymous
A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes
strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will
never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.
Fisher
Ames (1758-1808)
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another
woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Robert
Frost (1874-1963)
A
multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
George
H. Mead
A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.
Thomas
Beecham, Sir
A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
Gore
Vidal
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can
be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right
person's brow.
Charles
Brower
A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.
Anne
Morrow Lindbergh
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses
both.
Dwight
D. Eisenhower
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Albert
Einstein (1879-1955)
A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason
and the real reason.
Thomas
Carlyle
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one
part of his body - the wishbone.
Anonymous
A
pessimist is someone who has had to listen to too many optimists.
Anonymous
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees
the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston
Churchill, Sir (1874-1965)
A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.
George
S. Patton, General (1885-1945)
A political war is one in which everyone shoots from the lip.
Raymond
Moley
A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both
ears to the ground.
Henry
Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
A politicians willingness to listen to good advice rises in inverse
proportion to how badly he thinks he is doing.
Pat
Caddell , former pollster
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
Anonymous
A prudent question is one half of wisdom.
Francis
Bacon
A
psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey
Adams
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks
out.
Walter
Winchell
A reasoning, self-sufficing thing, An intellectual all-in-all!
William
Wordsworth
A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and
then says them about other people.
Peter
McArthur
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a
scholar.
Lao-Tzu
(570?-490? B.C.)
A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can
go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.
Max
Gluckman
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
John
A. Shedd
A ship is always referred to as "she" because it costs so
much to keep one in paint and powder.
Chester
Nimitz
A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his
name.
Evan
Esar
A silent majority and government by the people is incompatible.
Tom
Hayden
A
single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph
Stalin
A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led.
Alexander
Cannon
A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school
after.
Bill
Vaughan
A student by definition doesn't know what he or she doesn't know.
Michael
Gorman
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
Lana
Turner
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the
bricks that others throw at him or her.
David
Brinkley
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil
conscience of their parents.
Henry
Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
Baudelaire
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence
stops.
Henry
Brooks Adams
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
Thomas
Carruthers
A
timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a
courageous person afterward.
Jean
Paul Richter
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your
successes.
Doug
Larson
A true friend is someone who is there for you when they would rather
be someplace else.
Len
Wein
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest
in students.
John
Ciardi
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked
what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to
give an A+ to a student who answered: I don't know and I don't care.
Richard
Pratt , Pacific Computer Weekly, 20 July 1990
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
Meat
Loaf , from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album
Bat Out of Hell II
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
Michel
de Montaigne
A wise man's question contains half the answer.
Solomon
Ibn Gabriel
A witty saying proves nothing.
Voltaire
(1694-1778)
A
woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for
a good one.
Mae
West (1892-1980)
A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.
Groucho
Marx (1895-1977)
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to
endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Friedrich
Nietzsche (1844-1900)
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
Joseph
Addison (1672-1719)
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
Gloria
Steinem
A word is dead when it is said, some say, I say it just begins to live
that day.
Emily
Dickinson
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe
in God.
Alan
J. Perlis - Epigrams of Programming
About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
Herbert
Hoover
Absence
diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the
candle and blows up the bonfire.
Francois
de La Rouchefoucauld
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it
enkindles the great.
Comte
DeBussy-Rabutin
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to
the utterly bewildered.
Al
Capp
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and
chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
John
Adams
Academy: A modern school where football is taught.
Ambrose
Bierce (1842-1914) - The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with
whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Marcus
Aurelius
Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to
your regular duties.
Doug
Larson
Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.
Kate
Reid
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without
action.
Benjamin
Disraeli
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for
responsibility.
Dietrich
Bonhoeffer
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and
17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.
Anonymous
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human
intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Stephen
Leacock
Advice from your friends is like the weather, some of it is good, some
of it is bad.
Anonymous
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we
didn't.
Erica
Jong
After all, all we have done
is to string together a
lot of old, well-known quotations.
Arun
Chokhani, on “famous quotations” on chokhani.net
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than
why I have one.
Cato
the Elder (234-149 B.C.)
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects
you from age.
Jeanne
Moreau
Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.
Daniel
Francois Esprit Auber
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
Victor
Borge
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp -- or what's a heaven
for?
Robert
Browning
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
Oscar
Wilde (1854-1900) , Last words
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport
photo.
Al
Gore , U.S. Vice President
All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others.
George
Orwell - Animal Farm
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
John
Stuart Mill
All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is
difficult.
Anonymous
All of the animals except man know that the principal business of life
is to enjoy it.
Anonymous
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than
animals that know nothing.
Maurice
Maeterlinck
All power corrupts, but we need electricity.
Haythum
R. Khalid
All
right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
Casey
Stengel
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect.
Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the
consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control future events.
Laurence
J. Peter
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
E.
Rutherford
All television is children's television.
Richard
P. Adler
All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They.
Rudyard
Kipling (1865-1936)
All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the
perils of battle and the sea behind them.
Homer
, The Odyssey, line 1
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Thomas
Fuller , M.D.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second,
it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur
Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man
does. That is his.
Oscar
Wilde (1854-1900)
Although
prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
Winston
Churchill, Sir (1874-1965)
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate
version of somebody else.
Judy
Garland
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones
who will be writing about you.
Cyril
Connolly
Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but
paddle like the devil underneath.
Jacob
Braude
Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark
Twain (1835-1910)
Always do what you are afraid to do.
Ralph
Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar
Wilde (1854-1900)
Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to
yours.
Yogi
Berra
Am I lightheaded because I'm not dead or because I'm still alive?
Heidi
Sandige
Am
I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Charlie
McCarthy
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
Michel
de Montaigne
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
William
Shakespeare - Julius Caesar
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it
wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
Arnold
Toynbee
America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for
one dollar, and use it up in two weeks.
Anonymous
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence
without civilization in between.
Oscar
Wilde (1854-1900)
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone
directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of
civilization.
George
Clemenceau
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator,
but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
W.
H. Auden
An
act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act
of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
Harold
Loukes
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one
side of the case. God has written all the books.
Samuel
Butler
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she
gets the more interested he is in her.
Agatha
Christie
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board,
and a wrecking bar at the site
Frank
Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
An asylum for the sane would be empty in any
country.
Anonymous
( as modified by Arun Chokhani)
An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they
don't win many accuracy contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
Anonymous
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the
incomprehensible.
Alfred
A. Knopf
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he
predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
Laurence
J. Peter
An egotist is a person of low taste--more interested in himself than
in me.
Ambrose
Bierce (1842-1914) - The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
An event has happened, upon which it is
difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
Arun Chokhani ……. On the launching of Chokhani.net
An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides
correctly, but he always decides.
John
H. Patterson
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in
a narrow field.
Niels
Bohr (1885-1962)
An expert is a man who has stopped thinking - he knows!
Frank
Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
Nicholas
Murray Butler
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
Margaret
Atwood
An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.
Simon
Cameron
An idea is salvation by imagination
Frank
Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just
as charming as if she weren't.
Sacha
Guitry (1885-1957)
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has
come.
Victor
Hugo
An
optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
Donald
R. Perry Marquis
An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.
John
Junor
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
Robert
A. Humphrey
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you;
ask what you can do for your country.
John
F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
And though hard be the task, 'Keep a stiff upper lip'.
Phoebe
Cary
Annual
income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness.
Charles
Dickens (1812-1870)
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of
immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
Edith
Warton
Any clod can have the facts; having opinions is an art.
Charles
McCabe
Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a
competent historian.
Lee
Simonson
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Dale
Carnegie
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a person of some sense to
know how to lie well.
Anonymous
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more
violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in
the opposite direction.
Albert
Einstein (1879-1955)
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes
into it, deserves all the consequences.
Isadora
Duncan
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any
man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.
Winston
Churchill, Sir (1874-1965)
Any
party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents
blame it for the drought.
Dwight
Morrow
Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.
Erik
Pepke
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
Rose
Franken
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's
supposed to be doing at the moment.
Robert
Benchley
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor
doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
Alvin
Toffler
Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
Al
Capp
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using
his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
Leonardo
Da Vinci
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits
is, of course, in a state of sin.
John
von Neumann (1903-1957)
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in
jeopardy.
John
Dewey
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert
Einstein (1879-1955)
Anyone
who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.
Edward
R. Murrow
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes
are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured
exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
Karl
Marx
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
Voltaire
(1694-1778)
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of
society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test
people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and
love of power.
P.
J. O'Rourke
ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
Ambrose
Bierce (1842-1914) - The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours.
Richard
Bach
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
Edward
Bulwer-Lytton
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture
is the frame.
G.
K. Chesterton
Art is a collaboration between God an the artist, and the less the
artist does the better.
Andre
Gide
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Paul
Guaguin
Art
is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has
experienced.
Leo
Tolstoy (1828-1910)
As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so
modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
Jonathan
Swift
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert
Einstein (1879-1955)
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies
within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through
trials which may lie ahead.
Andre
Norton
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot
possibly admire them.
Oscar
Wilde (1854-1900)
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable
to dispense it.
Dick
Cavett
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it
as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
Albert
Schweitzer
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action
arise, human science is at a loss.
Noam
Chomsky
Ask
a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him,
however, why, and vagueness is all.
Bernard
Levin
Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one
went to Harvard).
Edgar
R. Fiedler
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.
John
Stuart Mill
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a
lamppost how it feels about dogs.
Christopher
Hampton
Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking
rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural.
Bob
Beckel , on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
George
Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Bette
Davis
Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
Plato
(427-347 B.C.)
Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have
lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations to come.
Montesquieu
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your
position falls, your ego goes with it.
Colin
Powell
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