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~~ I am not the author of the following written material, and I lay no claim to be the author. ~~


1101. A meeting is an event where minutes are taken and hours wasted.

1102. A meijin needs no joseki.

1103. A meow massages the heart.

1104. A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

1105. A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.

1106. A metaphor is like a simile.

1107. A millisecond here, a millisecond there, and pretty soon, you're talking about real time!

1108. A mind is like a parachute: it only functions when it is open.

1109. A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. (louis L'Amour)

1110. A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich. --William Shenstone

1111. A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer --Joseph Addison

1112. A miss is as good as a mile.

1113. A mistake proves that someone at least tried. -Anonymous

1114. A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day. --Ancient Proverb

1115. A misty winter brings a pleasant spring, a pleasant winter a misty spring

1116. A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains. Thomas Fuller --Thomas Fuller

1117. A mob is the scum that rises upmost when the nation boils. --John Dryden

1118. A modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

1119. A modest man never talks of himself.

1120. A modesty in delivering our sentiments leaves us a liberty of changing them without blushing.

1121. A moment is a lifetime.....but only for a moment. -- Anonymous

1122. A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. --Oliver Wendell Holmes

1123. A moneyless man goes fast through the market.

1124. A monied aristocracy in our country ... has already set the government at defiance. --Thomas Jefferson

1125. A monsoon is a French gentleman.

1126. A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man, than this-that when the injury began on his part, the kindness should begin on ours. ---(TILLOTSON).

1127. A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. --Walt Whitman

1128. A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.

1129. A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field. --Robert Green Ingersoll

1130. A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary. --Dorothy Canfield Fisher

1131. A mother's love is best of all.

1132. A mother's love never ages.

1133. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera, ad nauseam, keep her from trying to drown them at birth.

1134. A motion to adjourn is always in order.

1135. A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches and thoughts... And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.

1136. A mountain landslide down upon you ---Irish Curse

1137. A mountain wears down a horse, anger wears down a man.

1138. A mouse in time may bite in two a cable.

1139. A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.

1140. A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be."--Abraham Maslow

1141. A mutation doesn't produce major new raw material. You don't make new species by mutating the species. That's a common idea people have; that evolution is due to random mutations. A mutation is NOT the cause of evolutionary change. Something else than natural selection brings about species at new levels, trends and direction.

1142. A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

1143. A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig.

1144. A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particulars of which it is composed.--Josiah Gilbert Holland

1145. A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character. --Otto Bauer

1146. A nation never falls but by suicide. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

1147. A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten. --Kemal Atatürk

1148. A nation without a language, is a nation without a soul.

1149. A nation, like a person, has a mind--a mind that must be kept informed and alert, that must know itself, that understands the hopes and needs of its neighbors--all the other nations that live within the narrowing circle of the world. --Franklin Delano Roosevelt

1150. A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner:

1151. A near NEIGHBOUR is better than a far-dwelling kinsman.

1152. A necessity is something you can get along without to buy something you simply must have.

1153. A neck like a drake,

1154. A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners.

1155. A new broom sweeps clean.

1156. A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

1157. A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life--what people are interested in. That's journalism. --Burton Rascoe

1158. A nice wife and a back door Do often make a rich man poor. (The wife spends and the servants steal.)

1159. A noble heart cloth teach a virtuous scorn- ---To scorn to owe a duty over long; ---To scorn to be fo. benefits forborne; ---To scorn to lie, to scorn to do a wrong; ---To scorn to bear an injury in mind; ---To scorn a free-born heart slave-liketo bind. ---(HOMAS CAREW).

1160. A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires. -- Henry Ward Beecher

1161. A noble soul is like a ship at sea, ---That sleeps at anchor when the ocean's calm; ---But when she rages, and the wind blows high, ---He cuts his way with skill and majesty. ---(BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER).

1162. A noble spirit disdaineth the malice of fortune; his greatness of Soul is not to be cast down.

1163. A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man. --Jebodiah Springfield

1164. A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool.

1165. A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse.

1166. A pacifist male is a contradiction in terms. Most self described pacifists are not pacific they simply assume false colours. When the wind changes, they hoist the Jolly Roger.

1167. A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then d raw him at every attitude, Ralph Waldo Emerson

1168. A panic is sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

1169. A part of you has grown in me. And so you see, it's you and me together forever and never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart.

1170. A partner in the business will not put an obstacle to it.--Ethiopian proverb

1171. A partner walks with you along life's path, knowing that no matter how

1172. A pat on the back is only a few centimeters from a kick in the behind.

1173. A pat on the back is only a few centimetres away from a kick in the bum.

1174. A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -- Edward Abbey

1175. A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

1176. A peace may be so wretched as not to be ill exchanged for war.

1177. A peck of March dust is worth a king's ransom.

1178. A peculiar proposition. Of no use to one, yet absolute bliss to two. The small boy gets it for nothing, the young man has to lie for it, and the old man has to buy it. The baby's right, the lover's privilege,and the hypocrite's mask. To a young girl, --V.P.I. Skipper

1179. A Peeping Tom reached in and pulled down her window shade.

1180. A pen can be pushed but a pencil is better when it is lead.

1181. A penitent's tear is an undeniable ambassador, and never returns from the throne of grace unsatisfied. ---(JOHN SPENCER).

1182. A PENNY at a pinch is worth a pound.

1183. A penny for your thoughts.

1184. A penny saved is a Congressional oversight.

1185. A penny saved is a penny earned."

1186. A penny saved is a penny gained (or got).

1187. A penny saved is a penny or got.

1188. A penny saved is just another damn thing for the cat to knock off of the dresser.

1189. A penny saved is ridiculous.

1190. A penny saved is two pence clear, A pin a day's a groat a year. --Benjamin Franklin

1191. A penny will hide the biggest star in the universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.

1192. A pennyweight of love is worth a pound of law.

1193. A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass. Sioux Proverb

1194. A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.

1195. A perfect wife is one who doesn't expect a perfect husband. (Anonymous)

1196. A period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need. --Anonymous

1197. A permanent set of teeth consists of eight canines, eight cuspids, two molars and eight cuspidors.

1198. A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

1199. A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.

1200. A person eating must make crumbs.


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