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1. "A man's silence is wonderful to listen to."
Thomas Hardy
categories: Oration and Silence
2. "A man's true character comes out when he's drunk."
Charlie Chaplin
categories: Health and Alcohol -:- Human
3. "A mathematical formula should never be "owned" by anybody! Mathematics belong to God."
Donald Knuth
categories: Science and Technology
4. "A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that doesn't exist."
Charles Darwin
categories: Science and Technology
5. "A mere fact will never stop an Englishman."
George Bernard Shaw
categories: History and Nations -:- Various
6. "A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it."
Rabindranath Tagore
categories: Intellect, Judgement
7. "A mind is like a parachute. It doesn`t work if it`s not open."
Frank Zappa
categories: Intellect, Judgement
8. "A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
categories: Intellect, Judgement
François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), "Philosophical Dictionary"
categories: Various
Lois Wyse, "Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother"
categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Youth and Age
11. "A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children."
Holbrook Jackson, "All Manner of Folk"
categories: Family and Loneliness
Robert Lee Frost
categories: Time and Passing -:- Woman and Man
Honoré De Balzac
categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Pain and Tears
14. "A mother-in-law and a daughter-in-law in one house are like two cats in a bag."
Jewish proverb
categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Marriage -:- Woman and Man
William Faulkner
categories: Work and Laziness -:- Nature and Animals
16. "A murderer is a robber who got interrupted."
Sacha Guitry
categories: Law and Crime
17. "A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it."
Sir Thomas Beecham
categories: Art and Culture
18. "A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it."
Mikhail Glinka
categories: Art and Culture -:- Patriotism
19. "A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone."
Francis Picabia
categories: Various -:- Wit and Humor
20. "A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier."
Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"
categories: Various -:- Knowledge, Ignorance
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21. "A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man."
William Hazlitt
categories: Good and Evil
22. "A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence."
Leopold Stokowski
categories: Art and Culture
23. "A paranoid-schizophrenic is a guy who just found out what's going on."
William S. Burroughs
categories: Health and Alcohol -:- Normality and Madness
24. "A peasant between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats."
Spanish proverb
categories: Law and Crime
25. "A penny will hide the biggest star in the universe if you hold it close enough to your eye."
Samuel Grafton
categories: Richness and Money
Martin Buber
categories: Human
27. "A person is only as big as the dream they dare to live."
Anon.
categories: Dreams and Desires
28. "A person is only as big as the things that make them angry."
Confucius
categories: Anger
29. "A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents."
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
categories: Wit and Humor
30. "A person who is untrustworthy is unlikely to trust others."
Dutch proverb
categories: Trust
31. "A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist."
Elbert Green Hubbard
categories: Optimism and Hope
32. "A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are."
Chauncey Depew
categories: Optimism and Hope -:- Woman and Man
33. "A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists."
Don Marquis
categories: Optimism and Hope
34. "A pessimist is one who burns bridges before the enemy gets to them."
Navjot Singh Sidhu
categories: Optimism and Hope
Harry S. Truman
categories: Optimism and Hope
Anon.
categories: Health and Alcohol -:- Optimism and Hope
37. "A piece of writing is the product of a series of explosions in the mind."
Ellen Gilchrist
categories: Art and Culture
38. "A poet can survive everything but a misprint."
Oscar Wilde
categories: Art and Culture
Iosip Aleksandrovich Brodsky, "Less Than One: Selected Essays"
categories: Art and Culture -:- Destiny and Fate
Percy Bysshe Shelley
categories: Art and Culture
41. "A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman."
Wallace Stevens
categories: Art and Culture -:- Woman and Man
42. "A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child."
Henry Louis Mencken
categories: Art and Culture -:- Youth and Age
Salman Rushdie
categories: Art and Culture
Bernard Mannes Baruch
categories: Politics and Diplomacy
Harry S. Truman
categories: Politics and Diplomacy -:- Authority, Government
46. "A poor man who takes a rich wife has a ruler, not a wife."
Greek proverb
categories: Marriage -:- Richness and Money -:- Authority, Government
Bertrand Russell
categories: Human -:- Nature and Animals
48. "A project is complete when it starts working for you, rather than you working for it."
Scott Allen
categories: Success and Fame -:- Work and Laziness
49. "A real patriot is someone who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works."
Anon.
categories: Patriotism
50. "A really good detective never gets married."
Raymond Chandler
categories: Marriage
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