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Edward Abbey (10)
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
233 other wisdom & wit about being alone
Lascelles Abercrombie (3)
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
249 other wisdom & wit about aging
Ralph Abernathy (2)
Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.
175 sayings about change
John Quincy Adams (7)
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
233 quotes about being alone
Ansel Adams (13)
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
425 thoughts about art
James Truslow Adams (4)
Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline.
249 quotes about aging
Abigail Adams (5)
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
210 other quotes about education
Samuel Adams (2)
We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
198 more sayings about business
Henry Adams (22)
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
233 more sayings regarding being alone
John Adams (18)
Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
249 quotes about aging
Franklin P. Adams (8)
Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
249 quotes about aging
Joey Adams (7)
If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.
198 views regarding business
Jane Addams (2)
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
44 quotes about attitudes
Joseph Addison (24)
Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both.
249 sayings relating to aging
George Ade (4)
If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.
180 views about marriage
Alfred Adler (9)
Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
166 thoughts about the future
Felix Adler (4)
For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.
240 more quotes about faith
Stella Adler (2)
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
425 other wisdom & wit regarding art
Theodor Adorno (26)
In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.
249 thoughts about aging
Spiro T. Agnew (3)
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
184 thoughts regarding government
Shmuel Y. Agnon (2)
If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.
79 other quotes relating to food
Howard Aiken (2)
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
198 quotes regarding business
Alvin Ailey (3)
Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.
151 other thoughts about music
Anna Akhmatova (2)
Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.
161 wisdom & wit regarding courage
Amos Bronson Alcott (13)
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
249 quotes regarding aging
Louisa May Alcott (10)
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
240 quotes about faith
Sholom Aleichem (3)
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
427 sayings about life
Alexander Alekhine (3)
I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.
218 other sayings regarding beauty
Samuel Alexander (3)
Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
174 other thoughts about experience
Vittorio Alfieri (3)
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
161 quotes regarding courage
Horatio Alger (2)
No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.
345 more sayings regarding happiness
Nelson Algren (2)
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
41 quotes about the law
Dante Alighieri (13)
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
425 more quotes about art
Fred Allen (13)
An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
198 thoughts about business
Steve Allen (2)
Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.
80 more wisdom & wit about humor
Gracie Allen (3)
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
87 quotes about family
James Lane Allen (2)
He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.
142 quotes relating to failure
James Allen (12)
Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
161 more thoughts relating to courage
George Allen, Sr. (4)
Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day.
364 thoughts regarding best
Luther Allison (2)
I think I'm the most positive guy still going in my generation, and I'm out there to prove that.
32 views regarding positive
B. R. Ambedkar (6)
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
43 more wisdom & wit about equality
William Ames (2)
Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.
240 views regarding faith
Henri Frederic Amiel (24)
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
249 thoughts about aging
Hans Christian Andersen (3)
Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
199 quotes about freedom
Marian Anderson (3)
When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.
136 quotes regarding dreams
Ivo Andric (2)
If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.
278 other quotes about fear
Jean Anouilh (14)
Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.
425 other quotes about art
Mary Antin (2)
On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.
24 quotes about birthday
Antisthenes (5)
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
39 quotes about jealousy
Minna Antrim (4)
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
247 thoughts about religion
Thomas Aquinas (20)
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
161 quotes about courage
Hannah Arendt (9)
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
249 other quotes about aging
Pietro Aretino (2)
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
179 other views about friendship
Aristotle (75)
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
249 quotes about aging
Richard Armour (3)
Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.
218 quotes about beauty
Matthew Arnold (8)
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
249 wisdom & wit regarding aging
Roger Ascham (6)
By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.
174 other sayings about experience
Arthur Ashe (10)
The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
44 quotes regarding attitudes
Isaac Asimov (16)
It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.
198 thoughts about business
Mary Astell (7)
Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.
364 sayings relating to best
Nancy Astor (3)
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
175 quotes relating to change
John James Audubon (3)
To have been torn from the study would have been as death my time was entirely occupied with art.
323 quotes relating to death
Jane Austen (21)
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
364 more views about best
Alfred Austin (3)
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
29 more wisdom & wit about gardening