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A.A. Milne
I suppose that everyone of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.
Abraham Lincoln
My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.
Alan Alda
The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
Albert Camus
Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.
Albert Camus, The Rebel, 1951
To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.
Albert Einstein
Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.
Albert Einstein
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That signifies nothing. For us believing physicists the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein, in The Saturday Evening Post, 26 October 1929
Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust - we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
Albert Pinkham Ryder
The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of a borrowed thought.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
House, n. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.
Andr? Gide
True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
Andr? Gide, The Counterfeiters, 1925
From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.
Andr? Gide, The Counterfeiters, 1926
The most decisive actions of our life... are most often unconsidered actions.
Andr? Maurois
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
Andy Warhol
I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
Arab Proverb
The sinning is the best part of repentance.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
Auguste Strindberg, Miss Julie, 1888
I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something.
Author Unknown
Conscience gets a lot of credit that belongs to cold feet.
Ben Jonson, To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of that Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison, 1640
In small proportions we just beauties see,And in short measures life may perfect be.
 
 
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