Quotes 261 till 280 of 3899.
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A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee.
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A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
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A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found.
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A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
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A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.
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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
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A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
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A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
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A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.
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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
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A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
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A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.
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A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.
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A duped newspaper or magazine could contend that a fiction-spouting journalist obtained part of his salary via fraud, and use a criminal proceeding to try and recoup that money. Given the profession's notoriously low wages, however, it's probably not worth the publicity headache and legal fees. No news organization has ever pursued such a case.
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A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty.
Jasmine (2007) 12 -
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
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A father... knows exactly what those boys at the mall have in their depraved little minds because he once owned such a depraved little mind himself. In fact, if he thinks enough about the plans that he used to have for young girls, the father not only will support his wife in keeping their daughter home but he might even run over to the mall and have a few of those boys arrested.
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A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one.
Principles of Political Economy (1836) II, I, V -
A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.
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A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it.
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