Quotes 161 till 180 of 1240.
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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.
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A man who pretends to understand women is ad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
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A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what by makes, and what by four. For asking such questions metaphysicians are supported in oriental luxury in the universities, and respected as educated and intelligent men.
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A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service.
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A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
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A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man.
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A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.
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A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.
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A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
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A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.
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A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.
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