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1502. A step in the wrong direction us better than staying on the spot all your life. -- Maxwell Maltz

1503. A stern chase is a long chase.

1504. A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.

1505. A stick is quickly found to beat a dog with.

1506. A stiff hanging hasty suitable rope round the thin throttle of this thieving villain Torturing and hanging and shaking and trembling on a rope ---Irish Curse

1507. A still tongue is better than evil speaking.

1508. A stitch in time saves embarrassment.

1509. A stitch in time saves nine

1510. A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.

1511. A storm in a teacup.

1512. A story that three people hear is no secret.

1513. A story without an author is not worth listening to

1514. A straight stick is crooked in the water.

1515. A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows. --O. Henry

1516. A strawberry blossom will not sweeten dry bread.

1517. A strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery, imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant, whom we are to stand in awe of night and day.

1518. A strong man has but one weakness.the woman he loves.

1519. A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

1520. A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success. Dr Joyce Brothers

1521. A student who changes the course of history is probably taking an exam.

1522. A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year.

1523. A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

1524. A successful man continues to look for work after he has found a job.--Anon.

1525. A successful man is game he's everybody's game.

1526. A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

1527. A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. --André Maurois

1528. A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

1529. A successful tool is one that was used to do something undreamed of by its author

1530. A Sunday School teacher asked her class why Joseph and Mary took Jesuswith them to Jerusalem. A small child replied: "They couldn't get ababy-sitter."

1531. A sunset is not an ending .... but a pause before a new beginning

1532. A superintending power to maintain the Universe in its course and order.

1533. A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

1534. A swarm of bees in May is worth a load of hay, But a swarm in July is not worth a fly.

1535. A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.

1536. A sympathetic heart is like a spring of pure water bursting forth from the mountain side. --Anonymous

1537. A synonym is a word you use in place of one you can't spell.

1538. A synonym is the word you use when you can't spell the right one and therefore can't find it in the dictionary.

1539. A tail like a rat. (Points of a good greyhound).

1540. A tale never loses in the telling.

1541. A tale twice told is cabbage twice sold.

1542. A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. --Washington Irving

1543. A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself. --Jessamyn West

1544. A taxpayer is someone who doesn't have to take a public service exam to work for the government.

1545. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. --Henry Brooks Adams

1546. A teacher is someone who, in their youth, admired teachers.

1547. A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.

1548. A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.--Michael Winner (b. 1935)

1549. A tender thought expressed, a sweet flower given ---A little child's caressÄthese speak of Heaven. ---(FRANZISKA BROUGHTON).

1550. A termite can do nothing to a stone save lick it.

1551. A thankful heart is the parent of all virtues.

1552. A theory has only the alternative of being wrong. A model has a third possibilityit might be right but irrelevant.

1553. A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person. Edgar Watson Howe

1554. A theory must be tempered with reality. --Jawaharlal Nehru

1555. A thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf.

1556. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

1557. A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. --Oscar Wilde

1558. A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.--St. Augustine

1559. A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. - Denis Diderot

1560. A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common --William Nazlitt

1561. A thing is right if it tends to preserve the stability, integrity, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong if it tends otherwise.

1562. A thing of beauty is a joy forever, Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness.

1563. A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

1564. A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

1565. A thousand ages in Thy sight Are as an evening gone. - Isaac Watts

1566. A thousand creeds and battle cries, A thousand warring social schemes, A thousand new moralities And twenty thousand, thousand dreams.

1567. A thousand reasoned opinions are never equal to diving in and finding out.

1568. A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. --Henrik Ibsen

1569. A thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

1570. A threefold cord is not quickly broken. --Ecclesiastes :

1571. A thrill a day keeps the chill away.

1572. A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. --Jean Paul Richter

1573. A tiny leak will eventually sink a mighty ship.

1574. A toast to bread, for without bread, there could be no toast.

1575. A tocherless (dowerless) dame sits long at hame.

1576. A ton of regret never made an ounce of difference.

1577. A too modest man goes hungry.

1578. A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. He that invents a machine augments the power of man and the well-being of mankind. --Henry Ward Beecher

1579. A toom (empty) nurse makes a blase (shy) merchant.

1580. A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

1581. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

1582. A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an intellectual- find out how he feels about astrology.

1583. A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well. Dan Rather

1584. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.

1585. A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.

1586. A traveler must have the back of an ass to bear all, a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all, the mouth of a hog to eat what is set before him, the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing.

1587. A traveller may lie by authority.

1588. A traveller must have the back of an ass to bear all, a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all, the mouth of a hog to eat what is set before him, the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing.

1589. A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.

1590. A traveller! By my faith, you have great reason to be sad. I fear you have sold your own lands, to see other men's; then to have seen much, and to have nothing, is to have rich eyes and poor hands.

1591. A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

1592. A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. American Proverb

1593. A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth. A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet. -- Lao-Tzu B.C.

1594. A trifle consoles us because a trifle upsets us. -- Pascal.

1595. A trout in the pot is better than a salmon in the sea.

1596. A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

1597. A true friend is someone who cries with you; anyone likes to laugh with you.

1598. A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. -- Bernard Meltzer

1599. A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. (Arnold H. Glasow)

1600. A true friend walks in when the world walks out.