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1. A "no" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble. ---Mahatma Gandhi

2. A $1 placed at percent compounded quarterly for years will increase to more than $1,000,000- by which time it will be worth nothing.

3. A $100 placed at 7 percent compounded quarterly for 200 years will increase to more than $100,000,000- by which time it will be worth nothing.

4. A (1) If it should exist, it doesn't. (2) If it does exist, it's out of date. (3) Only documentation for useless programs transcends the first two laws.

5. A .44 magnum beats four aces.

6. A 2-1 is the vital point in the corner.

7. A 5 lines for extension in front of shimari -- Yang Yilun, 7 dan pro.

8. A am not old but mellow like good wine.--Stephen Phillips (1868-1915), Ulysses

9. A ASS in a lion's skin.

10. A baby is an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.

11. A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. --Carl Sandburg

12. A baby usually wakes up in the wee-wee hours of the morning.

13. A bachelor can only chase a girl until she catches him.

14. A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out of a divorce.

15. A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. --Helen Rowland

16. A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.

17. A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner. --Jean de La Bruyère

18. A back like a beam,

19. A bad arrangement is better than a process.

20. A bad beginning makes a bad ending.

21. A bad BEGINNING, a bad ending.

22. A bad bush is better than the open field.

23. A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men.--Thomas Paine

24. A bad conscience has a very good memory

25. A bad excuse is better than none

26. A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint. --Francis Bacon

27. A bad penny always comes back.

28. A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

29. A bad son gives a bad name to his mother.

30. A bad tradesman always blames his tools.

31. A bad woman (wife) drinks a lot of her own bad butter-milk

32. A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

33. A baker's wife may bite of a bun,

34. A bald head is soon shaven.

35. A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.

36. A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it rains. -- Robert Frost

37. A bank manager is someone who lends you an umbrella when the sun is shining, and whoasks for it back when it start to rain.

38. A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

39. A banker is a person who lends you an umbrella when it is dry and asks for it back when it starts raining.

40. A barber learns to shave by shaving fools.

41. A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth. --George D. Prentice

42. A bargain is a bargain.

43. A barking dog never bites

44. A barley-corn is better than a diamond to a cock.

45. A basic: Don't push too hard. -- jansteen.

46. A BEAN in liberty is better than a comfit in prison.

47. A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.

48. A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.

49. A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art. --Louis Nizer

50. A beggar can never be bankrupt.

51. A beggar's purse is always empty.

52. A beggar's purse is bottomless.

53. A beggar's scrip is never filled.

54. A Being breathing thoughtful breath, ---A traveller between life and death; ---The reason firm, the temperate will, ---Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill; ---A perfect woman, nobly planned, ---To warn, to comfort, and command; ---And yet a spirit still and bright ---With something of angelic light. ---(WORDSWORTH).

55. A believer is a bird in a cage, a free-thinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.

56. A belly full of gluttony will never study willingly.

57. A belly like a bream,

58. A BELLYFUL is a bellyful, whether it be meat or drink.

59. A bend in the road is not the end of the road -- unless you fail to make the turn.

60. A beneficient person is like a fountain watering the earth and spreading fertility: it is therefore more delightful and more honour-able to give than receive. ---(EPICURUS).

61. A best friend is someone who you trust one hundred percent, not ninety-nine percent, and who likes for who you are, not what you are.

62. A best man's speech should be like a mini-skirt; short enough to be interesting, but long enough to cover the bare essentials.

63. A best seller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well.

64. A big fish is caught with big bait.

65. A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

66. A bike rest on its leg because it is too tyred.

67. A billion here, a couple of billion there -- first thing you know it adds up to be real money.

68. A billion saved is a billion earned.

69. A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.

70. A bird in hand is safer than one overhead.

71. A bird in the hand is safer than one overhead.

72. A bird in the hand is worth a hundred flying.

73. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

74. A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring.

75. A bird in the hand shits on your wrist

76. A bird is known by his feathers.

77. A bit in the morning is better than nothing all day.

78. A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.

79. A Black Belt is a person who holds life and death in their hands - and can choose either.

80. A black hen lays a white egg.

81. A black plum is as sweet as a white.

82. A blade won't cut another blade; a cheat won't cheat another cheat.--Ethiopian proverb

83. A blank page is God's way of showing you how hard it is to be God.

84. A blate cat makes a proud mouse.

85. A blind man cannot judge colours.

86. A blind man has no need of a looking-glass.

87. A blind man may perchance catch the hare (crow).

88. A BLIND man may sometimes hit the mark.

89. A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass. --Thomas Fuller

90. A blizzard is when it snows sideways.

91. A blustering night, a fair day.

92. A boaster and a liar are all one.

93. A bodily disease may be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual past. --Nathaniel Hawthorne

94. A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.

95. A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.--Jack London

96. A bonny bride is soon dressed.

97. A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out. --G. C. Lichtenberg

98. A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. Chinese Proverb

99. A book is the only immortality. --Rufus Choate

100. A book might be written on the injustice of the just. --Anthony Hope


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