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


1601. A true jest is no jest.

1602. A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

1603. A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless. -- Charles de Gaulle

1604. A true love for a good woman is a great thing. It shapes many a rough fellow. ---(GEORGE ELIOT).

1605. A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others. -- Robert E. Lee

1606. A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.

1607. A truee friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else. (Len Wein)

1608. A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with anexcellency of heart.

1609. A truly pious mind receives a tem-poral blessing with gratitude, a spiritual one with ecstasy and transport.---(ROBERT SOUTH).

1610. A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn.

1611. A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

1612. A Truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the Lies you can invent from Auguries of Innocence

1613. A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.

1614. A turkey never voted for an early Christmas

1615. A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

1616. A tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.

1617. A tyrone woman will never buy a rabbit without a head for fear its a cat

1618. A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.

1619. A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning. --Benjamin Disraeli

1620. A useless life is an early death.

1621. A user will tell you anything you ask aboutnothing more.

1622. A vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work. --Morris Fishbein

1623. A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

1624. A vague sense of Nature's Unity, blended with a dim perception of an all-pervading Spiritual Essence, has been remarked among the earliest manifestations of the Human Mind. Everywhere it was the dim remembrance, uncertain and indefinite, of the original truth taught by God to the first men.

1625. A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself. --Jean de La Bruyère

1626. A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

1627. A verb has a hard enough time of it in this world when it is all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it a way over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German.

1628. A verbal agreement isn't worth the paper it's written on. - Sam Goldwyn

1629. A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

1630. A very little satisfies---An honest and a grateful heart---And who would more than will suffice,---Does covet more than is his part. ---(R. B. SHERIDAN).

1631. A vibration is a motion that can't make up its mind which way it wants to go.

1632. A virgin forest is a forest where the hand of man has never set foot.

1633. A vow is a snare for sin. --Samuel Johnson

1634. A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve. --Mahatma Gandhi

1635. A waist is a terrible thing to mind.

1636. A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. A war for commercial supremacy, upon some shallow pretext, is despicable, and more than aught else demonstrates to what immeasurable depths of baseness men and nations can descend.

1637. A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

1638. A watched kettle never boils

1639. A watched pot never boils.

1640. A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones. --Lord Chesterfield

1641. A wealthy man will always have followers.

1642. A wedding is a funeral where a man smells his own flowers.

1643. A wedding ring is like a tourniquet; it cuts off your circulation.

1644. A wedge from itself splits the oak tree

1645. A week is a long time in politics.

1646. A weeping suitor, a barefoot smith, a runaway horse and a stammering minister, who do you prefer?

1647. A welcome is a debtor's face

1648. A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

1649. A well written life is almost as rare as a well spent one.

1650. A well-adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

1651. A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time.

1652. A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty. --Seneca

1653. A well-prepared mind hopes in adversity and fears in prosperity.

1654. A well-trained memory is one that permits you to forget everything that isn't worth remembering.

1655. A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

1656. A wet Christmas, a fat churchyard.

1657. A whistling woman and a crowing hen Are neither fit for God nor men.

1658. A whistling woman and a crowing hen will bring no luck to the house they are in

1659. A white dog does not bite another white dog.

1660. A white wall is the fool's paper. French Proverb

1661. A wicked book cannot repent. --Old Proverb

1662. A wife brings but two good days, her wedding day and death day.

1663. A wife is a gift bestowed upon man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise. --Johann Wolfgang von Goetke

1664. A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ill-humor. --Charles Reade

1665. A Wight (strong) man never wanted a weapon.

1666. A wild goose never laid a tame egg.

1667. A wild goose never reared a tame gosling.

1668. A wilful man will have his way.

1669. A windy day is not the day for thatching

1670. A wink is an optical allusion

1671. A winner never quits -- a quitter never wins.

1672. A winner never whines.

1673. A wise (valiant) man esteems every place to be his own country.

1674. A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious in the former, and contemptible in the latter. -- George Greenville

1675. A wise head keeps a shut mouth

1676. A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool an from a mountain top.

1677. A Wise Man can see more from the bottom of a well than a Fool can see from the top of a mountain.

1678. A wise man cares not for what he cannot have. --Jack Herbert

1679. A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.

1680. A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. --Baltasar Gracian

1681. A wise man guides his own course of action; The fool follows another's direction, When an old dog barks, the others run, And this for no reason at all.

1682. A wise man is more powerful than a strong man, and a man of knowledge than a man of might.--Proverbs 24:5

1683. A wise man knows everything; a shrewd one, everybody.

1684. A wise man loses nothing, if he but saves himself.

1685. A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

1686. A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

1687. A wise man thinks all he says; a fool says all he thinks. -Anonymous

1688. A wise man who knows proverbs, reconciles difficulties.

1689. A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income. --Lord Chesterfield

1690. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. --Francis Bacon

1691. A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.

1692. A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him. --William Penn

1693. A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wise old bird? --Edward H. Richards

1694. A wise traveler never despises his own country.

1695. A 'wish' changes nothing. A 'decision' changes everything!

1696. A wish is a desire without an attempt.

1697. A witty saying proves nothing.

1698. A woman asks a man to water her plants while she is on vacation. The man waters the plants. The woman comes home five or six days later to an apartment full of dead plants. No one knows why this happens.

1699. A woman can beat the devil

1700. A woman conceals what she knows not.


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