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Abe Lemons
Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
Abraham Maslow
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Al McGuire
Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
Al Oliver
There's no such thing as bragging. You're either lying or telling the truth.
Albert Einstein
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute - and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
Alexander Pope, in Swift, Miscellanies
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
Ambrose Bierce
Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
Saint, n. A dead sinner revised and edited.
Ana?s Nin
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Anatole France
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
Andre Gide
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
Andrew Carnegie
All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.
Andy Rooney
When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper.
Anton Chekov
If you cry Forward, you must make plain in what direction to go.
Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.
Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.
Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.
Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out.
Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
The chains that bind us most closely are the ones we have broken.
Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
The shadows: some hide, others reveal.
 
 
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