Action is the foundational key to all success.
Action is the proper fruit of knowledge.
Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Adult: A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle.
Adults should remember that they look like insane giants to children.
Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.
Advertising is legalized lying.
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than through grave teaching.
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Advice, n. The smallest current coin.
After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it.
After bread, education is the first need of the people.
After hearing two eyewitness accounts of the same accident, you begin to wonder about history.
After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
After the government takes enough to balance the budget, the taxpayer has the job of budgeting the balance.
After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
Age 4: "I love Mommy." Age 16: "I HATE HER." Age 20: "Mom was right" Age 57: "I wish my Mom was still here."
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.
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.
Age considers; youth ventures.
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter.
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin.
Age is not important unless you're a cheese.
Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.
Age is the perfect extinguisher for the fire of youth.
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.
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
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.
Alcohol will preserve anything but a secret.
Alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.
Alimony: a mistake by two people paid for by one.
Alimony: funds which allow a woman who lived unhappily married to live happily unmarried.
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
All art is an imitation of nature.
All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
