A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it is written on.
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
A weapon is an enemy even to its owner.
A winner loses more often than losers.
A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.
A wise man sees as much as he should, not as much as he can.
A wise person has something to say, a fool has to say something.
A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her... but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.
A woman can only become a man's friend in three stages: first, she's an agreeable acquaintance, then a mistress, and only after that a friend.
A woman is a hunter without a forest.
A woman is four times as shy, six times as brave and eight times as lusty as a man.
A woman never shot a man while he was doing dishes.
A woman who runs off with her lover is not abandonning her husband: she is sparing him a disloyal wife.
A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
A woman's greatest power is her vulnerability.
A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
A word is elegy to what it signifies.
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the individual reader is important to me.
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
A young person knows the rules but the old person knows the exceptions.
Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Abortion is a skillfully marketed product sold to women at a crisis time in their life. If the product is defective, she can't return it for a refund.
About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind will blow out a candle, and fan a fire.
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.
Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life.... The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.
Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept.
