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| A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid
trouble. Mahatma Gandhi |
| A baby is an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end, and no
responsibility at the other. |
| A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.
French
proverb |
| A bachelor gets tangled up with a lot of women in order to avoid
getting tied up to one. Helen Rowland |
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A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty
and a boy forever. Helen Rowland |
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A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women and yet has
the art to remain a bachelor. Helen Rowland |
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A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men.
Thomas
Paine |
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A bad compromise is better than a good battle.
Russian proverb |
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A bad habit never disappears miraculously; it's an undo-it-yourself
project. Abigail VanBuren [Universal Press Syndicate] |
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A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that.
Ambrose Bierce |
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A bald head is soon shaven.
English proverb |
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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.
George D.
Prentice |
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A beard well-lathered is half-shaved; a woman well-flattered is half-won.
Italian proverb |
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A beautiful woman is paradise for the eyes, hell for the soul, and
purgatory for the purse. Nicholas Chamfort |
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A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any
slower. Frank M. ("Kin") Hubbard |
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A belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone
are quite capable of every wickedness. Joseph Conrad |
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A Bill of Rights against the encroachment of an elective legislature,
that is, against our own encroachments on ourselves, is a curiosity in
government. Noah Webster |
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A billion here, a billion there - pretty soon it adds up to real
money! Everett Dirkson |
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A bird in hand is better than one overhead. |
| A bird in hand is worth two in the bush. Miguel de Cervantes |
| A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring. |
| A bird in the hand makes it awfully hard to blow your nose. |
| A blind man who sees is better than a seeing man who is blind. Persian
proverb |
| A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass. Thomas Fuller,
M.D. |
A blunder at the right moment is better
than cleverness at the wrong
time.Carolyn Wells |
A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread -
and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness -
Oh, Wilderness were
Paradise enow!XII, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (5th Ed.) |
| A bore is a man who spends so much time talking about himself that you
can't talk about yourself. Melville Landon |
| A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have
enlightened him with ours. |
| A borrowed cloak does not keep one warm. Arabian proverb |
| A boss with no humor is like a job that's no fun. |
| A boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage. Plato |
| A boy's will is the wind's will, and the thoughts of youth are long,
long thoughts. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| A bribe in hand betrays mischief at heart. Aesop [The Thief and the
Dog] |
| A British lawyer would like to think of himself as part of that
mysterious entity called The Law; an American lawyer would like a
swimming pool and two houses. Simon Hoggart |
| A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. Persian proverb |
| A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands. James Thurber |
A canner, exceedingly canny,
One morning remarked to his granny:
"A
canner can can
Anything that he can,
But can a canner can't can a can,
can he?Carolyn Wells |
| A capacity for self-pity is one of the last things that any woman
surrenders. Irvin S. Cobb |
| A casual walk through a lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove
anything. Friedrich W. Nietzsche |
| A cat may look on a king. John Heywood |
| A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become known,
then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. Fred Allen |
| A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy but
won't cross the street to vote in a national election. Bill Vaughan |
| A clash of doctrine is not a disaster - it is an opportunity. |
A classic is something that everybody wants
to have read, and nobody
wants to read.Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) |
| A clean glove often hides a dirty hand. English proverb |
| A clean, neat, and orderly work place is a sure sign of a sick mind. |
| A clear conscience laughs at false accusations. Thomas Fuller, M.D. |
| A clear conscience makes the most comfortable bed. Italian proverb |
| A clear conscience protects an honest man, but it is better to have a
witness. Italian proverb |
| A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies,
but a handsome fool is irresistible. William M. Thackeray |
| A cloak is not made for a single shower of rain. Italian proverb |
| A closed mouth gathers no feet. |
A co-ed protestor named Lil
Cried, "Those C.I.A. squares make me ill!
First they bugged our martinis,
Our bras and bikinis,
And now they
are bugging The Pill."Ogden Nash |
| A cock has great influence over his own dunghill. Publilius Syrus |
| A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea. Jules Renard |
| A cold is both positive and negative; sometimes the Eyes have it and
sometimes the Nose. William L. Phelps |
| A college education shows a man how little other people know. Thomas
C. Haliburton |
| A committee is a group that keeps the minutes and loses hours. Milton
Berle |
| A company is known by the people it employs. |
| A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking. |
| A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do
nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. Fred Allen |
| A conservative government is an organized hypocricy. Benjamin Disraeli |
| A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. Woodrow
Wilson |
| A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has
never learned to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| A conservative is one who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to
run. Elbert Hubbard |
| A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars. Charles M.
de Talleyrand |
| A creed is an ossified metaphor. Elbert Hubbard |
| A critic is a legless man who teaches running. Channing Pollock |
| A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil
necessity. Carolyn Wells |
| A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of
nothing. Oscar Wilde |
| A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's
eye. Carolyn Wells |
| A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, look around for a
coffin. H.L. Mencken |
| A danger foreseen is half avoided. Thomas Fuller, M.D. |
| A definition is the enclosing of a wilderness of ideas within a wall of
words. Samuel Butler |
| A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the
mouth. George D. Prentice |
| A diamond is just a lump of coal that made good under pressure. |
| A dinner lubricates business. William Scott |
| A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that
you will look forward to the trip. |
| A disease known is half cured. Thomas Fuller, M.D. |
| A dish around which I see too many people doesn't tempt me. Julien
Green |
| A doctor gets no pleasure out of the health of his friends. Michel E.
de Montaigne |
| A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned. George Bernard
Shaw |
| A drunkard is like a whiskey bottle, all neck and belly and no
head. Austin O'Malley |
| A dyspeptic is a man that can eat his cake and have it too. Austin
O'Malley |
| A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the
subject. Finley P. Dunne |
| A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts. Saint Jerome (Sophronius
Eusebius Hieronymus) |
| A father is a banker provided by nature. French proverb |
| A fault recognized is half corrected.A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination. Arthur W. Pinero |
| A fish should swim twice: in water and in wine. Italian proverb |
| A fool and her money are soon courted. Helen Rowland |
| A fool must now and then be right by chance. William Cowper |
| A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by
little statemen and philosophers and divines. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| A forewarned man is worth two. Spanish proverb |
| A friend in court is as good as a penny in pocket. Thomas Fuller, M.D. |
A friend in court,
Makes the process short.Thomas Fuller, M.D. |
| A friend is better than a dollar. |
| A friend that ain't in need is a friend indeed. Frank M. ("Kin")
Hubbard |
| A friend to all is a friend to none. Thomas Fuller, M.D. |
| A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing. Spanish proverb |
| A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on
friendship. John D. Rockefeller |
| A frog would leap from a throne of gold into a puddle. Publilius Syrus |
| A full belly makes for an empty head. Italian proverb |
| A generation which ignores history has no past - and no future. |
| A generous confession disarms slander. Thomas Fuller, M.D. |
| A gentleman is one who never strikes a woman without provocation. H.L.
Mencken |
| A gigolo is a fee-male. Isaac Goldberg |
| A girl's best friend is her mutter. Dorothy Parker |
| A good beginning makes a good ending. English proverb |
| A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of
humus. E.B. White |
| A good folly is worth whatever you pay for it. George Ade |
| A good horse should be seldom spurred. Thomas Fuller, M.D. |
| A good lawyer is a bad neighbor. Benjamin Franklin |
| A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of
his solitude. Rainer M. Rilke |
| A good memory does not equal pale ink. |
| A good name keeps its lustre in the dark. English proverb |
| A good name smells sweeter than the finest ointment. Bible,
Ecclesiastes 7:1 |
| A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. General
Patton |
| A good reputation is more valuable than money. Publius Syrus |
| A good salad may be the prologue to a bad supper. Thomas Fuller, M.D. |
| A great city - a great solitude. English proverb |
| A great idea needs landing gear, not just wings. |
| A guilty conscience is the mother of invention. Carolyn Wells |
| A guilty conscience needs no accuser. English proverb |
| A guilty conscience never thinketh itself safe. Thomas Fuller, M.D. |
| A hair in the head is worth two in the brush. Oliver Herford |
A Hair, they say, divides the False and True;
Yes; and a single Alif
were the clue -
Could you but find it, to the Treasure-house,
And
peradventure to THE MASTER too.LI, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (2nd Ed.) |
| A half hour of planning is worth eight hours of unguided effort. |
| A hammer sometimes misses its mark - a bouquet never. |
| A handful of friends is worth more than a wagon of gold. |
| A handsome man is never really poor. Italian proverb |
| A hangover: the wrath of grapes. |
| A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation. Publilius Syrus |
| A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his
own weight in other people's patience. John Updike |
| A hedge between keeps friendship green. German proverb |
| A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. Samuel Butler |
| A hermit is a deserter from the army of humanity. |
| A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes
longer. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence. Brander
Matthews |
| A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of
Picasso. Alan P. Herbert |
| A homely wench becomes lovely by lamplight. Italian proverb |
| A human being is an ingenious assembly of portable
plumbing. Christopher Morley |
| A husband is a man who two minutes after his head hits the pillow is
snoring like an overloaded omnibus. Ogden Nash |
| A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been
extracted. Helen Rowland |
| A jealous ear hears all things. Apocrypha, Wisdom of Solomon 1:10 |
| A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will
remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die. Philip Roth [Portnoy's
Complaint) |
| A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. H.L.
Mencken |
| A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better
lawyer. Robert Frost |
| A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance. Herbert
Spencer |
| A jury never looks at a defendant it has convicted. Harper Lee |
| A king's castle is his home. |
| A lack of leadership is no substitute for inaction. |
| A lawsuit is like an ill-managed dispute, in which the first object is
soon out of sight, and the parties end upon a matter wholly foreign to
that on which they began. Edmund Burke |
| A lawyer is a learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your
enemies and keeps it himself. Henry Brougham |
| A leader is a dealer in hope. Napoleon Bonaparte |
| A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit. George Herbert |
| A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. George Bernard
Shaw |
| A liar should have a good memory. Quintilian (Marcus Fabius
Quintilianus) |
| A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. Aesop [The
Shepherd's Boy] |
| A liberal is someone too poor to be a capitalist and too rich to be a
communist. |
| A lie begets a lie. Thomas Fuller, M.D. |
| A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings. Thomas Fuller, M.D. |
| A lie in time saves nine. Addison Mizner |
| A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most
profitable. Finley P. Dunne |
| A life of ease is a difficult pursuit. William Cowper |