The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
- Edward Gibbon,Decline and Fall of Roman Empire -
There is great ability in knowing how to conceal one's ability.
- Rochefoucauld -
Ability is poor man's wealth.
- M.Wren-
To know how to hide one's ability is a great skill.
- Rochefoucauld -
Absence makes the heart grow founder. Isle of Beauty,Fare the well!
-Thomas H.Bayly,Isle of Beauty -
Absence from those we love is self from self-a deadly banishment.
-Shakespeare -
For there's nae luck about the house, There's nae luck at a': There's little pleasure in the house. When our gudeman's awa.'
- William Julius Mickle,The Mariner's Wife -
Love reckons for months,and days for years and every little absence in an age.
- Anon -
My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and death of kings.
- Thomas Baily Aldrich,Memory -
"The horror of that moment,"the King went on,"I shall never,never forget !" "You will, though" the Queen said,'if you don't make a memorandam of it."
- Lewis Carroll -
Your absence of mind we have borne,till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
- Charles Lamb,AmecusRedivivus -
It is the disease of not listening,the malady of not marking,that I am troubled withal.
- William Shakespeare -
Abstinence is as easy to me as teperance would be difficult. Aguse is often of service.
- Johonson -
Abise me as often as you will; it is often a benefit than anyinjury.
- E.Nott -
Accent is the soul of language;it gives to it both feeling and truth.
- Rousseao -
Accidents will occur in the best regulated families and in families not regulated by that persuading influence which sanctifies while it enhance_I would say,in short,by the influence of woman in the lofty character of wife.
- Dickens,David Copperfield -
Accident counts for much in companionship as in Marriage.
- Henry Brooks Adams,The Education Henry Adams -
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty, inaccuracy of dishone
- C.Simmons -
Death comes to all But great achievents raise a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
- Georgius Fabricus -
Have patience with the jealousies and petulances of actors,for their hour is their eternity.
- Richard Garnett,Ibid Preface -
As in a theatre,the eyes of men, After a well graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his rattle to be tedious. - William Shakespeare,Ibid On the stage he was natural,simple,affecting; "Twas only that when he was off he was acting.
- Oliver Goldsmith,Retaliation -
Every noble acquisition is attended with risks; he who fears to encounter the one,must not expect to obtain the other.
- Metastasio -
Sudden acquaintance brings repetance.
- Thomas Fuller -
If a man is worth knowing at all,he is worth knowing well.
- Alexander Smith -
Thing in the morning,act in the noon ,eat in the evening, sleep in the night.
- William Blake -
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
- Locke -
The actions of men are like the index to a book; they point out what is most remarkable in them.
- Thomas -
The great end of life is not knoledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley -
I wich to preach,not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life. - Theodore Roosevelt,Speech befor the Amiltion Club Chicago - Actios are our;their consequences belong to heven.
- Sir P.Francis -
Strong reasons make strong actions.
- Shakespeare,KingJohn -
Whilst Adam slept,Eve from his side arose; Strange his first sleep should be his last repose.
- Anon,The Consequences -
In Adam's fall We sinned all
- New England Printer -
Oh,Adam was a gardener,and God made him seed. The half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees.
- Rudyard Kipling,Ibid -
She gave me of the tree,and I did eat.
- John Milton -
So curses all Eve's daughters of what complexion soever.
- William Shakespeare,Ibid -
She gave me of the tree,and I did eat.
- John Milton -
There is no ancient gentleman but gardeners they hold up Adam's profession . - Brahma once asked of force,'Who is stronger than thou'?She replied,'Address".
- Victor Hugo -
Yet let not each gay turn the rapture move; For fools admire, but men of sense approve.
- Alexander Pope -
Administration is very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
- Addison The Spectator -
She named the inafant "Pearl" at being of great price purchased with all she had.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne,Ibid -
What men called gallantary,and gods adultery . Is much more common where the climate's sultry. - Byron,Don Juan,I It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare -
The ass will carry hisload, but not a double load: ride not a free horse to death.
- Miguel De Carvantes -
Advantage is a better soldier than rashness.
- Shakespeare,Henry V -
For when I gave you an inch,you look an ell.
- Johan Heywood,Ibid -
Advanture was his coronal. And all his wealth was wandering.
- Henry Hervert Knibbs -
The day shall not be up so soon as I. To try the fair adventure of tomorrow.
- William Shakespeare,Ibid -
Sweet are the uses of adversity. Which,like the toad,ugly and venomous. Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
- William Shakespeare,As you Like it -
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
- Francis Bacon -
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- avon -
Affliction may one daysmile again,sit thee down,sorrow!
- William Shakespeare -
Prosperaity is no just scale;adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
- Proverb -
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
- Douglas,South Wind -
Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.
- Stuart Chase -
Good wine needs neither bush nor preface. To make it welcome.
- Sir Ealter Scott,Peveril of the peak -
Never Trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
- Aesop,The Fox and the Goat -
When a man seeks your advice,he generally wants your praise.
- Chesterfield -
And with my advice,faith you'd take me. Samual Lover,Window Machree - Ask a woman advice,and Whatever she advice. Do the very reverse and you're Sure to be wise.
- Thomas Moore,Make a Good Politician -
To accept good advice is but to Increase one's ability.
- Goethe -
We give advice by the bucket,but take it by the grain.
- W.R.Alger -
Advice is seldom welcome, those who need it most like it least.
- Johnson -
We have been,let us say,to hear the latest Pole Transmit the preludes,through his hair and fingertips.
- Thomas Stearns Eliot,Portrait of a Lady -
Affection is a greater enemy to the face than the smallpox.
- St.Evermond -
Ah! If you only knew the peace,there is in an accepted sorrow.
- Madame Guion -
The lord gets his best Soldiers out of the high-land of affliction.
- Spurgeon -
I have lived long enough;my way of life, Is fall's into sear,the yellow leaf.
- Shakespeare,Macbeath -
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
- Swift -
Grabbed age and youth cannot live together.
- Shakespeare,The Passionate Pilgrim -
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
- Bacon -
Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience to a nation to mould its laws.
- Sir Robert Peel -
I do not want people to be very agreeable,as it saves the trouble of linking them a great deal.
- Jone Austen -
He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still .
- Samuel Butller -
We hardly find any person of good sense save those who agree with us.
- Rochefoucauld -
And seem to walk on wings and trend in air.
- Alexander Pope -
Holla your name to the reverberate hills, And make the habbling gossip of the air. Cry out.
- William Shakespeare -
Where they (birds)most breed and haunt, I have observed. The air is delicate.
- William Shakespeare -
Dost thou think,because thou are virtuous, ther shall be no more cakes and ale ?
- William Shakespeare,Twelfth Night -
Back and side go bare, go bare; Both foot and hand go cold; But belly,God send thee good ale enough, Whether it be new or old.
- John Still,Grammer Gurto i's Needle -
Then to the spicy nut-brown ale
- John Milton -
I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety.
- William Shakespeare -
All-powerful Ale ! whose sorrow - seething sweets.
Oft I reapt in vacant afternoon.
- Thomas Warton -
Praise be to Allah,the Lord of creation, The merciful,the Compassionate. Ruler of the Day of judgement Help usm,lead us in the path.
- Mohamed,Koran -
Allegories are fine ornaments and good illustrations,but no proof.
- Luther -
Peace commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliance with one.
- Jefferson,First Inaugural Address -
Of all the girls that are so smart, There's none like pretty Sally, She is the darling of my heart, And she lives in our alley.
- Henry Carey -
Begot by butchers, beggars bred. Howe high his Honour hold his haughty head.
- Anon -
He never errs who sacrifices self.
- Lord Lyntton : New Timon -
An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie and intrigue aborad for the benifit of his country.
- Sir H.Wotton -
Cromwell,I charge thee ,fling away ambition ; By that sin fell the angels.
- Shakespeare : Henry VIll -
Valuting ambition which overleaps itself
- Shakespeare -
Desire of greatness is a godlike in.
- dryden : Absalom andAchitophel -
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and suc and success.
- Madame Swetchine -
Amusement to an observing mind in study.
- Disraeli -
Anarchy is hatred of human authority, atheism of adevine authority - two sides of the same whole.
- Macphetron -
The man who has not anything to bost of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato - the only good belonging to him is underground.
- Sir Thomas Overbury,Characters -
Breed is stronger pasture.
- George Eliot -
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
- Moliere -
Look homeward,Angle,now,and melt with truth.
- Milton Lycidas -
And flights of angels sing thee to the rest.
- Shakespeare,Hamlet -
We are like angels till our passion dies.
- Decker -
Anger is short madness.
- Horace Epistles -
To be angry is revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
- Pope -
Anger makes dull men witty,but it keeps them poor.
- Bacon -
Anger is one of the sinews of soul.
- Fuller -
To be furious Is to be frightened out of fear,and in that mood,the dove will peck the estridge.
- Shakespeare,Antony and Cleopatra -
He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over.
- Porteous -
Nothing is good as it seems beforehand.
- George eliot -
Those we call the ancients were really new in everything..
- Pascal -
It's a melancholy indeed that our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxiities,and that an increase of our passions is but an inlet to new disquitetudes.
- Goldsmith,The Good Natured Man -
Do not anticipate trouble,of worry about what may never happen.Keep in the sunlight.
- Franklin -
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Holmes -
Apologies only account for the evil which they cannot alter.
- Disraeli -
Costly the habit as the purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy;rich not gaudy; Fpr the apparel oft proclaims the man.
- Swift,Hamlet -
She looks as if butter would not melt in her mouth.
- Swift,Polite Conversation -
All that giltters is not gold; Gilded tombs do worms unfold.
- Shakespeare,Marchant of Venice -
Foolish men mistake transitory semblances for eternal fact,and go astray more and more.
- Carlyle -
Now good digestion wait on appettite, and health on both.
- Shakespeare -
In the Vain Laughter of folly wisdom bears half applause.
- George Eliot,Romola -
Oh,to be in England Now that April's there.
- R. Browning,Home Thought Aborad -
A Gothic church is petrified religion. - Coleridge He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
- Shakespeare,Love'sLabour Lost -
Clear statement is argument.
- W.G.T.Shedd -
Wise men argue cause:fools decide them.
- Anacharsis -
The best armour is to keep out of gunshot.
- Bacon -
Army is a good book in which to study human life.
- De Vigny -
Nothing is more heteful to a poor man than the purseproud arrogance of rich.
- Cumberland -
Art is long and time is fleeting.
- Longfellow,A Psalm of life -
A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art and is full of true joy.
- Mahatma Gandhi -
Art lies in concealing art.
- Ovid,Art of Lover -
Art hath in enemy called ignorance.
- Bern Johnson -
All art is but imitation of nature.
- Seneca,Epistle of Lucllius -
I am prejudiced in favour of him who, without imprudence, can ask boldly.
- Lavater -
Long is the way And hard,that out of hell leads up to light.
- John Milton,Paradise Lost -
They build too low who build beneath the skys. Young,Night Thoughts - Man can climb to the highest summits but he cannot dwell there long.
- G.B.Shaw -
Assertion,unsupported by fact,is nugatory.
- Junius -
Tell me with whom thou art found,and I will tell thee who thou art.
- Goethe -
There is no man who hath not some iteresting association.
- Alison -
No undevout astronomer is mad.
- Young,Essays on Atheism -
Atheism is rather in the lip thanin the heart of man.
- Bacon,Essays on Atheism -
By night an atheist shall belive in God.
- Young -
The fool hath said in his heart,there is no God.
- Old Testament,Psalms -
Attention makes the genius:all leatning, fancy sincere,and skill depend upon it.
- Wilmon -
Authority forgets a dying king.
- Tennyson,The Passingn Arthur -
Though authrity be stubborn bear,yet he is oft led by the nose with gold.
- Shakespeare,Winte's Tail -
The highest duty is to respect authority.
- Pope Leo xii -
No man but ablockhead ever wrote except for money.
- Johnson,Remark -
The chief glory of every people arise from its authors.
- Johnson -
The author himself is the best judge for his performance.
- Gibbon,Memories of My Life andWritings -
When chill November's surely blast. Made fields and mellow fruitlessness.
- Robert Burns,Man was made to Mourn -
Season of mist and mellow fruitlessness.
- Keats -
Avarice is the vice of declining years.
- Bencroft -
Avarice,the spur of industry.
- Thomas Hughes,Essays of Civil Liberty -
In aronnatics one finds new things only by looking for them.
- Clerve -
