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Back to TopA patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
- Edward Abbey
 
Back to TopPower tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
- Lord Acton
 
Back to TopRulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.
- Charles Adams
 
Back to TopIn the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry, and is generally considered to have been a bad move.
- Douglas Adams
 
Back to TopNote how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.
- George Adams
 
Back to TopNothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.
- Henry B. Adams
 
Back to TopA teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops.
- Henry B. Adams
 
Back to TopNo man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
- Henry B. Adams
 
Back to TopOne friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
- Henry B. Adams
 
Back to TopA psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
- Joey Adams
 
Back to TopThis would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religions in it.
- John Adams
 
Back to TopThe Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.
- John Adams
 
Back to TopMan is a game playing animal and a computer is another way to play games.
- Scott Adams
 
Back to TopKnowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
- Joseph Addison
 
Back to TopArguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.
- Joseph Addison
 
Back to TopThree grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
- Joseph Addison
 
Back to TopThe truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder with the truth.
- Alfred Adler
 
Back to TopIt is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
- Alfred Adler
 
Back to TopGood art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us.
- Roy Adzak
 
Back to TopAny excuse will serve a tyrant.
- Aesop
 
Back to TopSmooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
- African Proverb
 
Back to TopMuch silence makes a powerful noise.
- African Proverb
 
Back to TopIt isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.
- Alan Alda
 
Back to TopThe English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.
- James Agate
 
Back to TopDon't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
- Howard Aiken
 
Back to TopI had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.
- Emma Albani
 
Back to TopNever give a sucker an even break.
- Edward Albee
 
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
- Herm Albright
 
Back to TopThe price of power is responsibility for the public good.
- Winthrop W. Aldrich
 
Back to TopProverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.
- W. R. Alger
 
Back to TopFour things come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past, and the neglected opportunity.
- Omar Idn Al-Halif
 
Back to TopThe man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
- Muhammad Ali
 
Back to TopService to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
- Muhammad Ali
 
Back to TopMankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle of liberty is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds.
- Dante Alighieri
 
Back to Top...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so.
- Steve Allen
 
Back to TopImpartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless rarely or never actually flew. They would also be perplexed if they encountered in our seas, lakes, rivers, and ponds, creatures defined as swimmers that never did any swimming. But they would be even more surprised to encounter a species defined as a thinking animal if, in fact, the creature very rarely indulged in actual thinking.
- Steve Allen
 
Back to TopThere are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.
- Woody Allen
 
Back to TopThe difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.
- Woody Allen
 
Back to TopI'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
- Woody Allen
 
Back to TopI don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
- Woody Allen
 
Back to TopOn the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.
- Woody Allen
 
Back to TopThe difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
- Woody Allen
 
Back to TopNot only is there no God, but trying getting a plumber on weekends.
- Woody Allen
 
Back to TopThe shortest distance between two points is under construction.
- Noelie Altito
 
Back to TopDoing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
 
Back to TopLife is short and we never have enough time for gladdening the hearts of those who travel the way with us. Oh, be swift to love! Make haste to be kind.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
 
Back to TopLife is a series of experiences...of beginnings. You are always in training for a time yet to come.
- Wally Amos
 
Back to TopA man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
- Anacharsis
 
Back to TopTreat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children. We are more than the sum of our knowledge, we are the products of our imagination.
- Ancient Proverb
 
Back to TopOur lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
- Walter Anderson
 
Back to TopWe learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interests and our attention to something outside ourselves.
- Ethel Percy Andrus
 
Back to TopIf you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
- Maya Angelou
 
Back to TopIf you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
- Maya Angelou
 
Back to TopAnd in the long silence I wondered for a moment if my life was merely dreamt.
At Ten a Child
At Twenty Wild
At Thirty Tame, if ever
At Forty Good
At Fifty Rich
At Sixty Wise or NEVER.
 
No saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
 
Living is a sure way to die.
 
Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components - Love, Adventure, Power & Fame. Our personalities are shaped by how much of each component we seek.
 
You can't look like poor-white-trash around people that are scared of it.
 
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like there's nobody watching.
- Anonymous
 
Back to TopBeware of the man of one book.
- Thomas Aquinas
 
Back to TopThrow a lucky man in the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.
- Arabian Proverb
 
Back to TopAll mankind is divided into three classes: Those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
- Arabian Proverb
 
Back to TopWomen like silent men. They think they're listening.
- Marcel Archard
 
Back to TopThe will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like envy and greed, among the vices of the weak, and possibly even their most dangerous one. Power corrupts indeed when the weak band together in order to ruin the strong, but not before.
- Hannah Arendt
 
Back to TopThe most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
- Hannah Arendt
 
Back to TopEvil events from evil causes spring.
- Aristophanes
 
Back to TopBy words the mind is winged.
- Aristophanes
 
Back to TopAnyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not easy.
- Aristotle
 
Back to TopYou cannot get ahead while you are getting even.
- Dick Armey
 
Back to TopMan, if you gotta ask you'll never know.- ..when asked what Jazz is..
- Louis Armstrong
 
Back to TopThat's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
- Neil Armstrong
 
Back to TopIn dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
- Janos Arnay
 
Back to TopNever let your sense of morals prevent you from doing the right thing.
- Isaac Asimov
 
Back to TopThe most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not Eureka! (I found it!) but rather, 'hmm.... that's funny...'
- Isaac Asimov
 
Back to TopViolence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
- Isaac Asimov
 
Back to TopI do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
- Isaac Asimov
 
Back to TopA friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view.
- Wilma Askinas
 
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator; but among those whom I love, I can: all of them can make me laugh.
- W.H. Auden
 
Back to TopThe most important truths are likely to be those which...society at that time least wants to hear.
- W.H. Auden
 
Back to TopNo opera plot can be sensible, for in sensible situations people do not sing.
- W.H. Auden
 
Back to TopWe would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.
- W.H. Auden
 
Back to TopMusic washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
- Berthold Auerbach
 
Back to TopWhen it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
- Chief Aupumut, Mohican.
 
Back to TopAnd thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
- Marcus Aurelius
 
Back to TopThe happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
 
Back to TopAnything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself, and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.
- Marcus Aurelius
 
Back to TopNever esteem anything as of advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word or lose thy self-respect.
- Marcus Aurelius
 
Back to TopA large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
- Jane Austin
 
Back to TopEach of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.
- Kenny Ausubel
 
Back to TopNot all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.
- Myrtle Auvil
 
Back to TopThe danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.
- Bernard Avishai
 
Back to TopA reporter interviewing A.J. Muste, who during the Vietnam War stood in front of the White House night after night with a candle, one rainy night asked, "Mr. Muste, do you really think you are going to change the policies of this country by standing out here alone at night with a candle?" Muste replied, "Oh, I don't do it to change the country, I do it so the country won't change me."
- Andrea Ayvazian
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