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A. A. Attanasio
Silence is a text easy to misread.
A. A. Milne
I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.
A. A. Milne
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
A. A. Milne
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
A. A. Milne
"How long does getting thin take?" Pooh asked anxiously.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not
A. E. Housman
Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
A. E. Housman
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
A. E. Housman
And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man.
A. H. Weiler
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
A. J. Ayer
No moral system can rest solely on authority.
A. J. Liebling
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
A. J. Liebling
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.
A. L. Kitselman
The words 'I am...' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.
A. Lawrence Lowell
Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.
A. Sachs
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
A. Whitney Brown
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
A. Whitney Brown
I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.
Aaron Burr
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
Aaron Copland
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
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Quotes are sorted in alphabetical order by the authors first name.
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A. A. Attanasio
Silence is a text easy to misread.
A. A. Milne
I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.
A. A. Milne
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
A. A. Milne
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
A. A. Milne
"How long does getting thin take?" Pooh asked anxiously.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not
A. E. Housman
Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
A. E. Housman
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
A. E. Housman
And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man.
A. H. Weiler
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
A. J. Ayer
No moral system can rest solely on authority.
A. J. Liebling
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
A. J. Liebling
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.
A. L. Kitselman
The words 'I am...' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.
A. Lawrence Lowell
Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.
A. Sachs
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
A. Whitney Brown
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
A. Whitney Brown
I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.
Aaron Burr
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
Aaron Copland
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
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