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1301. A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.

1302. A promiscuous person is someone who is getting more sex than you are. - Victor Lownes

1303. A promise is a debt

1304. A promise is most given when least said. -- George Chapman

1305. A promise made is a debt unpaid.

1306. A promise must never be broken. Alexander Hamilton

1307. A propagandist is a specialist in selling attitudes and opinions. --Hans Speier

1308. A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty. ---(HUME).

1309. A proper balance must be struck between indulgence and severity. However, severity, despite occasional mistakes, is preferable to a lack of discipline.

1310. A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

1311. A proud man hath many crosses.

1312. A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you. -- C. S. Lewis

1313. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. --Henry Ward Beecher

1314. A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. Miguel de Cervantes

1315. A proverb is a true word.--Yiddish proverb

1316. A proverb is the horse of conversation: when the conversation lags, a proverb will revive it.

1317. A proverb tells the truth. --Yiddish proverb

1318. A prudent man does not make the goat his gardener.

1319. A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

1320. A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. --Francis Bacon

1321. A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.

1322. A pun is the lowest form of humour - when you don't think of it first.

1323. A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor. --Seneca

1324. A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

1325. A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party: there is no battle unless there be two.

1326. A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.

1327. A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled super-fluity. ---(SIR JOHN SUCKLING).

1328. A quitter never wins, and a winner never quits

1329. A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air. --Franklin Delano Roosevelt

1330. A radical is one who speaks the truth. --Charles A. Lindbergh

1331. A ragged colt may make a good horse.

1332. A rainbow in the morning is the shepherd's warning; A rainbow at night is the shepherd's delight.

1333. A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. --W. H. Auden

1334. A real friend is one who walks in the door when the rest of the world walks out.

1335. A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.

1336. A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.

1337. A real person has two reasons for doing anything...a good reason and the real reason.

1338. A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.

1339. A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.--Ed Howe

1340. A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding for it, and you can't buy it with money. It just happens along.

1341. A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm. --Edgar Saltus

1342. A reasonable amount of fleas is good for a dog; it keeps him from brooding over being a dog.--E. N. Westcott

1343. A reasonable man adapts himself to suit his environment. An unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt his environment to suit himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - George Bernard Shaw

1344. A recent study has found that concentrating on difficult off-screen objects, such as the faces of loved ones, causes eye strain in computer scientists. Researchers into the phenomenon cite the added concentration needed to make sense of such unnatural three dimensional objects ...

1345. A red nail on the tongue that said it ---Irish Curse

1346. A red stone in your throat ---Irish Curse

1347. A reformer is a man who rides through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat. --James J. Walker

1348. A relationship is like sand in your hand. If held loosely in the palm of your hand it stays there, but as soon as you close your hand tightly it slips through your fingers.

1349. A relationship is like that held tenderly with respect for the other person it last, but once you close your hand to hold on tightly it slips through your fingers.

1350. A religion that is small enough for us to understand would not be large enough for our needs.

1351. A religion that requires persecution to sustain it is of the devil's propagation.

1352. A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn. --Madame de Sta'l

1353. A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was. --Joseph Hall

1354. A retentive memory is a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. --Elbert Hubbard

1355. A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness

1356. A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.

1357. A rich man has no need of character. Hebrew Proverb

1358. A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other. Portuguese Proverb

1359. A right act strikes a chord that extends through the whole universe, touches all moral intelligence, visits every world, vibrates along its whole extent, and conveys its vibrations to the very bosom of God! ---(THOMAS BINNEY).

1360. A right Englishman knows not when a thing is well.

1361. A right judgment draws us a profit from all things we see.

1362. A righteous man has regard for the life of his beast.

1363. A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning. --Richard M. Nixon

1364. A riot is the language of the unheard.--Martin Luther King, Jr.,

1365. A rising tide lifts all the boats in a harbour.

1366. A road map always tells you everything except how to refold it.

1367. A roaring lion kills no game.

1368. A rock offred by a friend is like an apple.

1369. A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

1370. A rolling eye, a roving heart.

1371. A rolling stone can gather no moss.

1372. A rolling stone gathers momentum.

1373. A rolling stone gathers no moss.

1374. A rolling stone gathers no moths.

1375. A room without books is like a body without a soul. --Cicero

1376. A rose is a rose is a rose. - Gertrude Stein

1377. A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs; The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays.

1378. A rumour without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.

1379. A runaway monk never praises his convent.

1380. A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn. --Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1381. A saint abroad and a devil at home.

1382. A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.

1383. A scald (scabby) head is soon broken.

1384. A scalded CAT fears cold water.

1385. p>A scalded DOG fears cold water.

1386. A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.--Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) All's Well That Ends Well IV.v

1387. A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

1388. A scholars ink lasts longer than a martyrs blood

1389. A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

1390. A scientist knows more & amp; more about less & less till he knows everything about nothing while a philosopher knows less & less about more & more till he knows nothing about everything.

1391. A scientist knows more & more about less & less till he knows everything about nothing while a philosopher knows less & less about more & more till he knows nothing about everything.

1392. A Scot, a rat and a Newcastle grindstone travel all the world over.

1393. A Scottish gift: It's nae use to me, ye're welcome to it.

1394. A Scottish man is wise behind the hand. (Afterwards).

1395. A Scottish mist will wet an Englishman to the skin.

1396. A scout obeys all to whom obedience is due and respects all duly constipated authorities. -

1397. A second class effort is a first class mistake.

1398. A secret FOE gives a sudden blow.

1399. A secret is a weapon and a friend

1400. A seminar on time travel will be held in two weeks ago.


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