Ability
"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done"
Longfellow
"They are able because they think they are able"
Vergil-Aeneid
Absence
"Absence makes the heart grow fonder"
Thomas Haynes Bayly-Isle of Beauty
"Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent"
PropertiusElegiae
Acquaintance
"If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well"
Alexander SmithDream-Thorp
Admiration
"Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with it's object"
Addison-The Spectator
Adversity
"Constant success shows us but one side of the world: adversity brings out the reverse of the picture"
Colton
"There is no education like adversity"
Disraeli
"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it"
Hazlitt
Advice
"Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry"
Spanish Proverb
"Many receive advice, only the wise profit by it"
Syrus
"Admonish your firends privately, but praise them openly"
Syrus
Affectation
"We are never so ridiculous from the habits we have as from those we affect to have"
La Rhochefoucauld
"Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins"
Horace Mann
Affliction
"Be still, sad heart, and cease repining, Behind the clouds the sun is shining; The fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall, -Some days must be dark and dreary"
Longfellow
Age
"To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living"
Amiel
"Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret"
DisraeliConingsby
"If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old"
James A. Garfield
"The first forty years of life gives us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it"
Schopenhauer
"The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything"
Wilde
Ambition
"When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank"
Cicero-De Oratore
"Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions"
Longfellow-Drift-Wood
"Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven"
Milton-Paradise Lost
America
"Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live"
Douglas MacArthur
"American liberty is religion. It is a thing of the spirit. It is an aspiration on the part of the people for not only a free life but a better life"
Wendell L. Willkie-Speech 1941
Amusement
"You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water, -an inch deep, and then the mud!"
George MacDonald
"The real character of a man is found out by his amusements"
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Ancestry
"There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his"
Helen Keller-Story of My Life
"People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants"
Macaulay
Anger
"Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason"
W.R. Alger
"An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes"
Cato
"Never answer a letter while you are angry"
Chinese Proverb
"When angry, count four; when very angry, swear"
Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain)-Pudd'nhead Willson
"Beware the fury of a patient man"
DrydenAbsalom and Achitophel
"Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm"
Ingersoll
Animals
"Animals are such agreeable friends; they ask no questions, pass no criticisms"
George Eliot
"If't were not for my cat and dog, I think I could not live"
Ebenezer Elliott
Apology
"Apology is only egotism wrong side out"
Holmes
Appearance
"All that glisters is not gold"
Cervantes-Don Quixote
"By outward show let's not be cheated. An ass should like an ass be treated"
Gay-Fables
"Things are seldom what they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream"
W.S. Gilbert-H.M.S. Pinafore
"Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration"
Machiavelli
Argument
"Many can argue; not many converse"
Alcott
"Wise men argue causes, and fools decide them"
Anacharsis
"I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension"
Disraeli
"Srong and bitter words indicate a weak cause"
Victor Hugo
"Insolences is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice"
Ingersoll
"Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument"
Whately
"When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong"
Wilde-The Critic as an Artist
Art
"What is the good of prescribing to art the roads that it must follow. To do so is to doubt art, which develops noramally according to the laws of Nature, and must be exclusively occupied in responding to human needs"
Destoyevsky
"Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail"
Dreiser-Life, Art and America
Atheist
"I am an atheist, thank God!"
Anonymous
"I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose"
Clarence Darrow
Authroity
"Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority"
Huxley-Lay Sermons
Authorship
"The pen is the tongue of the mind"
Cervantes-Don Quixote
"The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children"
Disraeli
"An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts"
Juvenal-Satires
"He who writes prose builds his tmeple to fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite"
Bulwer-Lytton
"You do not publish your own verses, Laelius; you criticize mine. Pray cease to criticize mine or else publish your own."
Martial
"The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr"
Mohammed-Tributed to Reason
Avarice
"If you wish to remove avarice you must remove it's mother, luxury"
Cicero-De Oratore
"Avarice is gnerally the last passion of those lives in which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition"
Samuel Johnson
"The avaricious man is kind to no person, but he is most unkind to himself"
John Kyrle
"The lust of avarice has so totally seize upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth"
Pliny
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