Quotes A-E

"'Automatic' simply means that you can't repair it yourself."

- Mary H. Waldrip

"'It can't happen here' is Number 1 on the list of famous last words."

- David Crosby, rock singer and musician

"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain."

- Mark Twain, American Writer (1835-1910)

"A beautiful woman is the hell of the soul, the purgatory of the purse, and the paradise of the eyes."

- Fontenelle

"A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword."

- Robert Burton, English author and clergyman (1577-1640)

"A book may be compared to the life of your neighbor. If it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early."

- H. Brooke

"A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody has read."

- Mark Twain

"A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking."

- Arthur Block

"A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles

- Will Rogers

"A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch."

- Hermione Gingold, actress-comedienne (1897-1987)

"A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions. "

- Wilson Mizner

"A friend is one who warns you."

- Near East proverb

"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 great teacher never strives to explain his vision. He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself."

- Reverend R. Inman

"A hospital is no place to be sick."

- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant turned famous movie producer

"A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something."

- Frank Capra

"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."

- Robert Frost

"A large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple way."

- Donald O. Hebb

"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of."

- Jane Austen

"A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth."

- George Bernard Shaw

"A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B."

- "Fats" Domino

"A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants."

- Arthur Schoperhauer

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."

- Mark Twain

"A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier."

- Gustave Flaubert

"A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares."

- Elbert Hubbard

"A man lives by believing in something, not by debating and arguing about many things."

- Thomas Carlyle

"A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well."

- Francis Bacon

"A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society."

- Frederick the Great.

"A nation . . . is just a society for hating foreigners."

- Olaf Stapledon

"A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world."

- Edmond and Jules Goncourt

"A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way."

- John Tudor

"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic."

- Joseph Stalin

"A stitch in time would have confused Einstein."

- anonymous

"A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the Lies you can invent"

- William Blake, English poet, artist (1757-1827)

"A woman, especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can."

- Jane Austin

"A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke."

- Rudyard Kipling

"A young man with good health and a poor appetite can save up money."

- James Montgomery Bailey

"Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commision."

- Fred Allen, American humorist (1894-1956)

"Advice is like kissing. It costs nothing and is a pleasant thing to do."

- H. W. Shaw

"Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least."

- Earl of Chesterfield

"All men are equal; it is not birth, but virtue alone, that makes the difference."

- Voltaire

"All men naturally desire knowledge."

- Aristotle, Greek philospher (384-322)

"All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism."

- unknown

"All progress is based upon a universal innate desire of every organism to live beyond its means."

- Samuel Butler

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure."

- Mark Twain

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

- Mark Twain

"America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America."

- Jimmy Carter

"America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations."

- Napoleon

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."

- Oscar Wilde

"An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it."

- Paul Valéry

"An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them."

- Werner Heisenberg

"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."

- Soren Kierkegaard, Dansish Philospher (1813-1855)

"Any fool can tell the truth, but it requres a man of some sense to know how to lie well."

- Samuel Butler, English poet and satirist (1612-1680)

"Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearance of magic."

- Arthur C. Clarke

"Any time you have influence, try ordering around someone else's dog."

- The Cockle Bur

"Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined."

- Samuel Goldwyn

"Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones."

- C. C. Colton

"Art is the lie that makes us realize the truth."

- Pablo Picasso

"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

"As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take the course he will. He will be sure to repent."

- Socrates

"As you ramble on through life, brother, whatever be your goal: keep you eyes upon the donut, and not upon the hole!"

- Dr. Murray Banks

"Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he is buying."

- Fran Lebowitz

"Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you will cease to be so."

- John Stewart Mill

"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company."

- George Washington

"Astronomy compels the soul to look upward and leads us from this world to another."

- Plato

"Baloney is flattery so thick that it can not be true and blarney is flattery so thin that we like it."

- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

"Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."

- Wernher Von Braun.

"Be an optimist--at least until they start moving animals in pairs to Cape Kennedy"

- Current Comedy

"Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment."

- Iara Gassen

"Be happy. It is a way of being wise."

- Colette

"Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down."

- Wilson Mizner

"Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of Truth."

- Johann Georg Von Zimmermann

"Beauty is also to be found in a day's work"

- Mamie Sypert Burns

"Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was like eating an egg without salt."

- Rudyard Kipling

"Between two evils, I always like to take the one I've never tried before."

- Mae West

"Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details."

- William Feather, Sr.

"Beyond each corner new directions lie in wait."

- Stanislaw Lec

"Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think."

- Ambrose Bierce

"Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies."

- Honoré de Balzac

"Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have."

- Marva Collins

"Clear writers assume, with a pessimism born of experience, that whatever isn't plainly stated the reader will invariably misconstrue."

- John R. Trimble

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."

- Mark Twain, American Writer (1835-1910)

"Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum: I think that I think, therefore I think that I am"

- Ambrose Bierce

"College isn't the place to go for ideas."

- Hellen Keller

"Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious."

- Peter Ustinov

"Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is Genius."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Common-looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the lord makes so many of them."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof; it is a temporary expedient."

- James Russel Lowell, American editor (1819-1891)

"Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking."

- H. L. Mencken

"Conservative: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others."

- Ambrose Bierce, American author (1842-1914)

"'Contrariwise', continued Tweedledee, `If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'"

- Lewis Carroll

"Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training."

- Anna Freud

"Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth."

- Lillian Hellman

"Death and taxes may always be with us, but death at least doesn't get any worse."

- Los Angeles Times Syndicate

"Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes."

- Charles Bukowski

"Decay is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence."

- Buddha's last words

"Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it."

- Bovee

"Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed."

- Beecher

"Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."

- David Lloyd George.

"Don't be so humble. You're not that great."

- Golda Meir

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave."

- Henry Peter Brougham, Scottish statesman and historian (1778-1868)

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

- Will Rogers

"Everthing human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow."

- Mark Twain, American Writer (1835-1910)

"Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end."

- Joseph Conrad

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist after he grows up."

- Pablo Picasso

"Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Every sentence that I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question."

- Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (1885-1962)

"Every successful person has had failures, but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success"

- anonymous

"Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes."

- Edgard Varese

"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk."

- O'Malley

"Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first, and the lesson afterward."

- Anonymous

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