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1. "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

Aldous Huxley, "Music at Night"

categories: Art and Culture -:- Oration and Silence


2. "After the government takes enough to balance the budget, the taxpayer has the job of budgeting the balance."

Anon.

categories: Authority, Government -:- Richness and Money -:- Various


3. "After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood."

Fred Thompson

categories: Various


4. "Against logic there is no armor like ignorance."

Laurence J. Peter

categories: Intellect, Judgement -:- Knowledge, Ignorance


5. "Age appears to be best in four things - old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."

Francis Bacon

categories: Youth and Age


6. "Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to "that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress", and you find that you're the one in the green dress."

Lois Wyse, "Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother"

categories: Youth and Age


7. "Age considers; youth ventures."

Rabindranath Tagore

categories: Youth and Age


8. "Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."

Michel de Montaigne

categories: Youth and Age


9. "Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter."

Satchel Paige

categories: Youth and Age



10. "Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough."

Groucho Marx

categories: Youth and Age


11. "Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin."

Robert A. Heinlein

categories: Youth and Age


12. "Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese."

Luis Bunuel

categories: Youth and Age


13. "Age is the perfect extinguisher for the fire of youth."

Navjot Singh Sidhu

categories: Youth and Age


14. "Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age."

George Burns

categories: Work and Laziness -:- Youth and Age


15. "Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo."

Al Gore

categories: Various


16. "Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off."

Raymond Chandler, "The Long Goodbye"

categories: Health and Alcohol -:- Love


17. "Alcohol will preserve anything but a secret."

proverb

categories: Health and Alcohol -:- Trust


18. "Alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Letters and Social Aims"

categories: Health and Alcohol


19. "Alimony: a mistake by two people paid for by one."

Anon.

categories: Marriage


20. "Alimony: funds which allow a woman who lived unhappily married to live happily unmarried."

Anon.

categories: Marriage -:- Woman and Man


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Fantasy -:- Guitars -:- Jewelry -:- Breweriana


21. "All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs."

Denis Diderot

categories: Science and Technology


22. "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others."

George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

categories: Justice


23. "All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it."

Samuel Butler, "The Way of All Flesh"

categories: Life and Death -:- Nature and Animals


24. "All art is an imitation of nature."

Seneca the Younger

categories: Art and Culture -:- Nature and Animals


25. "All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography."

Federico Fellini

categories: Art and Culture


26. "All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies."

George Bernard Shaw

categories: Egoism -:- Truth and Falsity


27. "All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others."

Cyril Connolly, "Enemies of Promise"

categories: Manners and Ethics


28. "All diseases run into one: old age."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

categories: Health and Alcohol -:- Youth and Age


29. "All fantasy should have a solid base in reality."

Sir Max Beerbohm

categories: Reality and Imagination


30. "All fiction may be autobiography, but all autobiography is of course fiction."

Shirley Abbott

categories: Memory -:- Reality and Imagination


31. "All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so."

Joseph Joubert

categories: Beauty and Ugliness -:- Nature and Animals



32. "All gods and devils that have ever existed are within us."

Hermann Hesse, "Reflections"

categories: Human -:- Good and Evil


33. "All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, (letter to his daughter Frances)

categories: Art and Culture


34. "All great truths begin as blasphemies."

George Bernard Shaw

categories: Truth and Falsity


35. "All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

Lev Tolstoy, "Anna Karenina"

categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Happiness


36. "All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy."

Spike Milligan

categories: Happiness -:- Richness and Money


37. "All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

categories: God and Religion


38. "All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl."

Charlie Chaplin, "My Autobiography"

categories: Wit and Humor


39. "All I want is a little more than I'll ever get."

Ashleigh Brilliant

categories: Egoism


40. "All men make mistakes but married men find out about them sooner."

Red Skelton

categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Marriage


41. "All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the State."

Albert Camus, "The Rebel"

categories: Authority, Government


42. "All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing; yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty."

Ezra Pound

categories: Knowledge, Ignorance



43. "All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness."

Mark Kennedy

categories: Science and Technology -:- Work and Laziness


44. "All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."

Carl Sagan

categories: Science and Technology -:- Various -:- Knowledge, Ignorance


45. "All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason."

Immanuel Kant

categories: Knowledge, Ignorance


46. "All places are distant from heaven alike."

Robert Burton

categories: Happiness -:- Various


47. "All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies."

John Arbuthnot

categories: Politics and Diplomacy -:- Truth and Falsity


48. "All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom."

Albert Einstein

categories: Art and Culture -:- God and Religion -:- Science and Technology


49. "All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money."

Robert Collier

categories: Intellect, Judgement -:- Richness and Money


50. "All science is either physics or stamp collecting."

Ernest Rutherford

categories: Science and Technology

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