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1. "... the great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and the power to enjoy physical pleasures, even of the finer kind."

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

categories: Authority, Government -:- Human -:- Life and Death


2. "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


3. "A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase."

proverb

categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Youth and Age


4. "A baby is God's opinion that life should go on."

Carl Sandburg

categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Life and Death


5. "A baby sitter is a teenager acting like an adult while the adults are out acting like teenagers."

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categories: Youth and Age


6. "A bacteriologist is a man whose conversation always start with the germ of an idea."

Evan Esar

categories: Science and Technology


7. "A bad agreement is better than a good lawyer."

Italian proverb

categories: Law and Crime


8. "A BAD day's fishing still beats a GOOD day at work!"

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categories: Work and Laziness -:- Wit and Humor


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 bartender is just a chemist with a limited inventory."

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categories: Various


13. "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


14. "A blind man should not judge of colours."

Scottish proverb

categories: Various


15. "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


16. "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


17. "A book is a present you can open again and again!"

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categories: Art and Culture


18. "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


19. "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


20. "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


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21. "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you."

Bert Leston Taylor, "The So-Called Human Race"

categories: Various


22. "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


23. "A budget is just a method of worrying before you spend money, as well as afterward."

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categories: Richness and Money -:- Various


24. "A bureaucracy always tends to become a pedantocracy."

John Stuart Mill

categories: Authority, Government


25. "A bus is a vehicle that runs twice as fast when you are after it as when you are in it."

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categories: Various


26. "A business is too big when it takes a week for gossip to go from one end of the office to the other."

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categories: Various


27. "A butterfly is a self-propelled flower."

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categories: Nature and Animals


28. "A Camel is a horse designed by a committee."

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categories: Nature and Animals -:- Various


29. "A candidate is someone who gets money from the rich and votes from the poor to protect them from each other."

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categories: Politics and Diplomacy -:- Richness and Money


30. "A candy a day gives the dentist his pay."

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categories: Health and Alcohol


31. "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



32. "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


33. "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


34. "A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

categories: Education


35. "A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark."

Chinese proverb

categories: Youth and Age -:- Education


36. "A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco, wrapped in paper, fire at one end, fool at the other."

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categories: Health and Alcohol


37. "A city is a large community where people are lonesome together."

Herbert V. Prochnow

categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Various


38. "A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again."

Carl Van Doren

categories: Art and Culture


39. "A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it."

Albert Einstein

categories: Wisdom and Stupidity -:- Question and Problem


40. "A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood."

Chinese proverb

categories: Intellect, Judgement -:- Wisdom and Stupidity


41. "A comedian does funny things. A good comedian does things funny."

Buster Keaton

categories: Wit and Humor


42. "A committee is an animal with four back legs."

John le Carré, "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy"

categories: Various



43. "A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain."

Robert A. Heinlein

categories: Various


44. "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


45. "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


46. "A computer is almost human - except that it does not blame its mistakes on another computer."

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categories: Human -:- Science and Technology


47. "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


48. "A conscience does not prevent sin. It only prevents you from enjoying it."

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categories: Joy and Sadness -:- Sin and Conscience


49. "A conscience without God is like a court without a judge."

Alphonse de Lamartine

categories: God and Religion -:- Sin and Conscience


50. "A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually."

Abba Eban

categories: Politics and Diplomacy -:- Various

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