After hearing two eyewitness accounts of the same accident, you begin to wonder about history.
proverb
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1. " I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."
Publilius Syrus, "Sentences"
Categories: Oration and Silence -:- Sorrow and Nostalgia
2. ""My country, right or wrong" is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying "My mother, drunk or sober.""
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, "Defendant"
Categories: Patriotism
3. "A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men."
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Human
4. "A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase."
proverb
Categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Youth and Age
5. "A baby is God's opinion that life should go on."
Carl Sandburg
Categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Life and Death
6. "A baby sitter is a teenager acting like an adult while the adults are out acting like teenagers."
(?)
Categories: Youth and Age
7. "A bacteriologist is a man whose conversation always start with the germ of an idea."
Evan Esar
Categories: Science and Technology
8. "A bad agreement is better than a good lawyer."
Italian proverb
Categories: Law and Crime
9. "A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. "
Bob Hope
Categories: Richness and Money
10. "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
Categories: Richness and Money
11. "A bargain is something you don't need at a price you can't resist."
Franklin P. Jones
Categories: Various
12. "A bestseller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well."
Daniel J. Boorstin, "The Image"
Categories: Art and Culture -:- Success and Fame
13. "A blind man should not judge of colours."
Scottish proverb
Categories: Various
14. "A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog."
Jack London
Categories: Manners and Ethics -:- Various
15. "A book is a mirror: If an ape peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out."
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Categories: Art and Culture -:- Wisdom and Stupidity
16. "A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return."
Salman Rushdie
Categories: Art and Culture
17. "A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there."
George Bernard Shaw
Categories: Art and Culture -:- Family and Loneliness
18. "A book is simply the container of an idea—like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters."
Angela Carter, "Expletives Deleted"
Categories: Art and Culture
19. "A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting."
Helen Rowland, "A Guide to Men"
Categories: Marriage -:- Woman and Man
20. "A budget is just a method of worrying before you spend money, as well as afterward."
(?)
Categories: Richness and Money -:- Various
21. "A bureaucracy always tends to become a pedantocracy."
John Stuart Mill
Categories: Authority, Government
22. "A bus is a vehicle that runs twice as fast when you are after it as when you are in it."
(?)
Categories: Various
23. "A candidate is someone who gets money from the rich and votes from the poor to protect them from each other."
(?)
Categories: Politics and Diplomacy -:- Richness and Money
24. "A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain."
William James, "The Varieties of Religious Experience"
Categories: Life and Death
25. "A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise."
George Steiner
Categories: Talent and Genius
26. "A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong."
Thomas Szasz, "The Second Sin"
Categories: Various -:- Youth and Age
27. "A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Categories: Education
28. "A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark."
Chinese proverb
Categories: Youth and Age -:- Education
29. "A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco, wrapped in paper, fire at one end, fool at the other."
(?)
Categories: Health and Alcohol
30. "A city is a large community where people are lonesome together."
Herbert V. Prochnow
Categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Various
31. "A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again."
Carl Van Doren
Categories: Art and Culture
32. "A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it."
Albert Einstein
Categories: Wisdom and Stupidity -:- Question and Problem
33. "A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood."
Chinese proverb
Categories: Intellect, Judgement -:- Wisdom and Stupidity
34. "A comedian does funny things. A good comedian does things funny."
Buster Keaton
Categories: Wit and Humor
35. "A committee is an animal with four back legs."
John le Carré, "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy"
Categories: Various
36. "A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain."
Robert A. Heinlein
Categories: Various
37. "A compliment is a statement of an agreeable truth; flattery is the statement of an agreeable untruth."
Sir John Alexander Macdonald
Categories: Manners and Ethics -:- Truth and Falsity
38. "A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians."
Frank Zappa, "The Real Frank Zappa Book"
Categories: Art and Culture
39. "A computer is almost human - except that it does not blame its mistakes on another computer."
(?)
Categories: Human -:- Science and Technology
40. "A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else."
George Bernard Shaw, "John Bull’s Other Island"
Categories: Freedom and Servitude -:- History and Nations
41. "A conscience without God is like a court without a judge."
Alphonse de Lamartine
Categories: God and Religion -:- Sin and Conscience
42. "A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually."
Abba Eban
Categories: Politics and Diplomacy -:- Various
43. "A conservative is a politician who wants to keep what the liberals fought for a generation ago."
(?)
Categories: Politics and Diplomacy
44. "A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance."
Benjamin Disraeli
Categories: Destiny and Fate
45. "A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs."
German proverb
Categories: History and Nations -:- Wisdom and Stupidity
46. "A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory."
Giuseppe Mazzini
Categories: Patriotism
47. "A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave."
Mahatma Gandhi
Categories: Bravery and Fear -:- Love
48. "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car."
Kenneth Tynan
Categories: Art and Culture
49. "A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."
Henry Louis Mencken
Categories: Various
50. "A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, "The Everlasting Man"
Categories: Life and Death -:- Various
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