A project is complete when it starts working for you, rather than you working for it.
A quitter never wins, and a winner never quits.
A real patriot is someone who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
A really good detective never gets married.
A retentative memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
A retired husband is a wife's full time job.
A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
A revolution is not the same as inviting people to dinner, or writing an essay, or painting a picture. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.
A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.
A riot is the language of the unheard.
A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won't come true.
A seafood diet is the best: whenever you see food, eat it.
A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference and a longer view and finds them incongruous. It dampens enthusiasm; it mocks hope; it pardons shortcomings; it consoles failure. It recommends moderation.
A sharp tongue and a dull mind are usually found in the same head.
A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services.
A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
A single thankful thought towards heaven is the most perfect of all prayers.
A smart husband buys his wife very fine china so she won't trust him to wash it.
A smile is a curve that sets things straight.
A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you're at home.
A smile is the lighting system of the face, the cooling system of the head and the heating system of the heart.
A smile on your face can be felt on anothers heart.
A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.
A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems than you have to.
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.
A stand can be made against invasion of an army; no stand can be made against invasion of an idea.
A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.
A statesman shears the sheep. A politician skins them.
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
A sweetheart is like a big rectifier - she turns AC of loneliness to DC of love.
A synonym is a word you use in place of one you can't spell.
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.
A Terrorist is a man with a bomb but no aircraft to drop it from.
A theory must be tempered with reality.
A thing is only completely our own when it is a thing of joy to us.
A thousand probabilities does not make one fact.
A tree never hits an automobile except in self-defense.
A true friend is someone who never get tired of listening your pointless dramas over and over again.
A true friend walks in when the world walks out.
A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.
A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.