A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
A mind is like a parachute. It doesn`t work if it`s not open.
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.
A miracle is the violation of mathematical, divine, immutable, eternal laws. By this very statement, a miracle is a contradiction in terms. A law cannot be immutable and violable at the same time.
A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.
A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.
A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.
A mother-in-law and a daughter-in-law in one house are like two cats in a bag.
A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
A murderer is a robber who got interrupted.
A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it.
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.
A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man.
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
A painting is not about an experience. It is an experience.
A paranoid-schizophrenic is a guy who just found out what's going on.
A peasant between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
A penny will hide the biggest star in the universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.
A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
A person is only as big as the dream they dare to live.
A person is only as big as the things that make them angry.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
A person who is untrustworthy is unlikely to trust others.
A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
A pessimist is one who burns bridges before the enemy gets to them.
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
A pessimist is someone who looks at the land of milk and honey and sees only calories and cholesterol.
A planned life is a dead life.
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the latter. The sensation of this takeover is responsible for timbre; the realization of it, for destiny.
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman.
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.
A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.
A poor man who takes a rich wife has a ruler, not a wife.
A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.
