ACCURACY:
Accuracy is the twin brother of Honesty, inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
-- C.Simmons.
ACHIEVEMENT:
Death comes to all
But great achievements raise a monument
Which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
-- Georgius Fabricus.
ADAM AND EVE:
In Adam's fall
We sinned all.
-- New England Primer.
So curses all Eve's daughters of what complexion soever.
-- William Shakespeare.
ADVICE:
When a man seeks your advice he generally wants your praise.
-- Chesterfield.
Ask a woman advice, and
Whatever she advice.
Do the very reverse and you're
Sure to be wise.
--Thomas Moore.
-Make a Good Politician.
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
-- W.R. Alger.
Advice seldom welcome, those who need it most like it least.
-- Johnson.
AGE:
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
-- Swift.
Crabbed age and youth cannot live together.
--Shakespeare.
-The Passionate Pilgrim.
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
-- Bacon.
APPEARANCE:
She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.
-- Swift - Polite Conversation.
All that glitters is not gold;
Gilded tombs do worms unfold.
-- Shakespeare - Merchant of Venice.
ARGUMENT:
Clear statement is argument.
-- W.G.T. Shedd.
Wise men argue cause; fools decide them.
-- Anacharsis.
ARMY:
Army is a good book in which to study human life.
-- De Vigny.
The best armour is to keep out of gunshot.
-- Bacon.
ARROGANCE:
Nothing is more hateful to a poor man than the purse-proud arrogance of rich.
-- Cumberland.
ART:
Art lies in concealing art.
-- Ovid - Art of Love.
Art hath an enemy called ignorance.
-- Ben Johnson.
All art is but imitation of nature.
-- Seneca - Epistle to Lucilius.
Art is long and time is fleeting.
-- Longfellow - A Psalm of life.
A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art and is full of true joy.
-- Mahatma Gandhi.
ASKING:
I am prejudiced in favour of him who, without imprudence, can ask boldly.
-- Lavater.
ASPIRATION:
They build too low who build beneath the skies.
-- Young - Night Thoughts.
Long is the way
And hard, that out of hell leads up to light.
-- John Milton - Paradise Lost.
Man can climb to the highest summits but he cannot dwell there long.
-- G.B. Shaw.
ASSOCIATE:
Tell me with whom thou art found, and I will tell thee who thou art.
-- Goethe.
ATTENTION:
Attention makes the genius; all learning, fancy, sincere, and skill depend upon it.
-- Wilmott.
AUTHORSHIP:
The author himslf is the best judge of his performance.
-- Gibbon. - Memories of my life and writings.
AUTUMN:
Season of mist and mellow fruitlessness.
-- Keats.
BABIES:
Babies do not want to hear about babies, they like to be told of giants and castles, and that which can stretch and simulate their little minds.
-- Samuel Johnson. - Miscellanies.
A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet unfolded.
-- Byron.
BEAUTY:
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever;
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness.
Beauty is truth's smile.
-- Keats.
Ay; beauty's princely majesty is such,
Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough.
-- Shakespeare - Henry VI.
When he beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-- Tagore - Fireflies.
Beauty is a short-lived reign.
-- Socrates.
BED:
Early to bed and early to rise,
Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
-- Franklin. - Poor Richard's Almanac for 1735.
To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb.
-- Nicholas Breton. - Court of Country.
BEGGAR:
Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
-- Burton. - Anatomy of Melancholy.
Borrowing is not much better than begging.
-- Lessing. - Nathan the wise.
BEHAVIOUR:
Do wrong to none.
-- Shakespeare. - All's Well That Ends Well.
Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country as the behaviour of the
country is most mockable at the court.
-- Shakespeare. - As You Like It.
BELIEF:
A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.
-- G.B. Shaw. - Devil's Disciple.
BIOGRAPHY:
Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all readig.
-- Carlyle.
BIRTH:
The pleasing punishment that women bear.
-- Shakespeare. - Comedy of Errors.
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? Is it because we are not the person concerned?
-- Mark Twain. - Pudd'nhead Wtlson's Calendar.
Lady, you are the cruellest alive,
If you will lead those graces to the grave
And leave the world no copy.
-- Shakespeare - Twelfth Night.
BIRTH PLACE:
Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.
-- Johnson. - Letter 1770.
BITTERNESS:
But hushed be every thought that springs
From out the bitterness of things.
-- Wordsworth. - Elegiac.
BLINDNESS:
They be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
-- New Testament. - Mathew.
To live a life half dead a living death.
-- Milton. - Samson Agonistes.
BLOOD:
Blood is thicker than water.
-- John Ray. - English Proverb.
BLUNDERS:
It was worse than a crime; it was a blunder.
-- Fouche.
It is disgraceful to stumble twice against the same stone.
-- Greek Proverb.
BLUNTNESS:
The rudeness is a sense to his good wit,
Which gives men stomach to digest his words with better appetite.
-- Shakespeare. - Julius Caesar.
BLUSH:
Better a blush on the face than blot on the heart.
-- Cervantes.
Ablush is the colour of virtue.
-- Diogenes.
BLUSTERING:
A killing tongue, but a quite sword.
-- Shakespeare.
BOASTING:
Ah, this thou should'st have done,
And not have spoke on't;
-- Shakespeare. - Antony and Cleopatra.
Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
-- Young.
BODY:
A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul;
A sick body is a prison.
-- Bacon.
If anything is sacred the human body is sacred.
-- Walt Whitman. - I Sing the Body Electric.
BOLDNESS:
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
-- Pope.
I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more in none.
-- Shakespeare. - Macbeth.
BOOKS:
Dreams, books, are each a world, and books, we know.
-- Wordsworth. -- Personal Talk.
Books are the shrine, where the saint is, or is believed to be.
-- Bacon. - To Sir Bodely.
Laws die, Books never.
-- Bulwer. - Lytton.
Books without the knowledge of life are useless,
for what should books teach but the art of living?
-- Johnson.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed,
and some few to be chewed and digested.
-- Bacon. - Essays: of Studies.
A Good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit,
emblamed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
-- Milton. - Areopagitica.
BOOTS:
Boots-- boots-- boots-- boots-- movin' up and down again!
There's no discjarge in the war!
-- Kipling. - Boots.
BORE:
The secret of boring is the practice or saying everything.
-- Voltaire.
BORROWING:
The borrower is servant to the lender.
-- Proverb.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
-- Shakespeare.
BOY:
One of the best things in the world to be is a boy;
It requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one.
-- Charles Dudley Warner. - Being a Boy.
The smiles and tears of boyhood's years,
The words of love then spoken.
-- Thomas Moore. - Oft in the Stilly Night.
BRAVE:
The best hearts are ever the bravest.
-- Sterne.
BREAD:
O God! that bread should be so dear,
And flesh and blood so cheap!
-- Thomas Moore. - The Song of the Shirt.
Man shall not live by bread alone.
-- Mathew - Old Testament.
BREEDING:
Good breading is the blossom of good sense.
-- Young. - Love of Fame.
BRIBERY:
Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune,
He had not the method of making a fortune.
-- Gray. - On His Own Character.
Judges and senates have been bought for gold,
Esteem and love were never, to be sold.
-- Pope. - Essay on Man.
Every man has his price.
-- Sir Robert Walpole.
BRUTALITY:
The conviction of the justification of using even most brutal weapons is always dependent on the presence of a fanatical belief in the necessity of the victory of arevolutionary new order on this globe.
-- Adolf Hilter. Mein Kampf.
BUILD:
He builded better than he knew;
The conscious stone to beauty grew.
-- Emerson. - The Problem.
BULL FIGHT:
It is impossible to believe the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure, classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and a piece of scarlet serge draped over a stick.
-- Ernest Hemingway. - Death in the Afternoon.
BUSINESS:
Business to-day consists in persuading crowds.
-- Gerald Stanley Lee. - Crowds.
That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.
-- Izaak Walton. - The Complete Angler.
BUT:
The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies with a "but".
-- H.W. Beecher.
CAESAR:
Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay,
Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.
-- Shakespeare. - Hamlet V.
LOVE:
It's Love, that makes the world go round.
-- Anon.
Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.
-- Bulwer Lytton - Rienzi.
Love gives itself; it is not bought.
-- Longfellow.
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