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1702. A woman has an excuse redier than an apron!

1703. A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.

1704. A woman is always a mystery: one must not be fooled by her face and her hearts inspiration.

1705. A woman is an angel at ten, a saint at fifteen, a devil at forty, and a witch at fourscore.

1706. A woman is flax, man is fire, the devil comes and home.

1707. A woman is like a tea bag--you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

1708. A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dream world.

1709. A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a Smoke. - Rudyard Kipling

1710. A woman is to be from her house three times: when she is christened, married, and buried.

1711. A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea.

1712. A woman like a goat, a woman of rushing visits

1713. A woman like a goose, a sharp pecking woman

1714. A woman like a lamb, a quiet friendly woman

1715. A woman like a pig, a sleepy-headed woman

1716. A woman like a sheep, an affable friendly woman

1717. A woman like a sickle, a strong stubborn woman

1718. A woman makes a list of things she needs and then goes out to the store and buys these things. A man waits till the only items left in his fridge are half a lime and a beer. Then he goes grocery shopping. He buys everything that looks good. By the time a man reaches the checkout counter, his cart is packed tighter than the Clampett's car on Beverly Hillbillies. Of course, this will not stop him from going to the 10-items-or-less lane.

1719. A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

1720. A woman never forgets the men she could have had; a man, the women he couldn't.

1721. A woman of honor should not expect of others things she would not do herself. --Marguerite De Valois

1722. A woman tried to talk him into buying her a dress, and he talked her out of the one she was wearing.

1723. A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man. --Ed Howe

1724. A woman who dresses to kill probably cooks the same.

1725. A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

1726. A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self-indulgence.

1727. A woman will dress up to: go shopping, water the plants, empty the garbage, answer the phone, read a book, get the mail. A man will dressup for: weddings, funerals.

1728. A woman without is she who has neither pipe nor child

1729. A woman, a dog an ass, and a walnut tree, The more you beat them, the better they'll be.

1730. A woman, like a good piece of music, should have a solid end.

1731. A woman's advice is a poor thing, but he is a fool who does take it.

1732. A woman's ADVICE is no great thing, but he who won't take it is a fool.

1733. A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. --Rudyard Kipling

1734. A woman's heart is like a campfire; if you don't tend it often the flame will go out. (Willie M. Lawrence)

1735. A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them. --George Eliot

1736. A woman's life is a history of the affections. -- Washington Irving

1737. A womans love and her trust are written in dust - they will fail.

1738. A woman's mind and winter wind change oft.

1739. A woman's strength is in her tongue.

1740. A woman's sword is her tongue - that's why she takes care not to let it rust.

1741. A woman's tongue is the last thing about her that dies.

1742. A woman's work is never done.

1743. A women must have something on - or there's nothing to take off.

1744. A wonder lasts but nine days.

1745. A wonderful discovery--psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex. --Samuel N. Behrman

1746. A wonderful family is Stein; There's Gert and there's Ep and there's Ein. Gert's poetry's bunk, Ep's statues are junk, And nobody understands Ein. - Limerick, anon.

1747. A word aptly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.--Proverbs 25:11

1748. A word gets its meaning by the person who speaks it.

1749. A word is dead, When it is said; Some say. I say It just began to live that day. - Emily Dickinson

1750. A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used. --Oliver Wendell Holmes

1751. A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

1752. A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

1753. A word spoken is past recalling.

1754. A word to the wise ain't necessary--it's the stupid ones who need advice. --Bill Cosby, Fat Albert's Survival Kit,

1755. A word to the wise is enough.

1756. A work ill done must be done twice.

1757. A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive shortwave facilities scattered ;about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals. --Robert M. Hutchins

1758. A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words. --Thomas Huxley

1759. A wren in the hand is better than a crane to be caught.

1760. A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others. Leo Rosten

1761. A writer's problem does not change. It is always how to write truly and having found out what is true to project it in such a way that it becomes part of the experience of the person who reads it.

1762. A wrong-doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.

1763. A yawn is a silent shout.

1764. A year from now you may wish you had started today.

1765. A year of snow is a year of prosperity. "Year of ice, year of sorrow."

1766. A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

1767. A young and impressionable moth once set his heart on a certain star. He told his mother about this and she counseled him to set his heart on a bridge lamp instead. Stars aren't the thing to hang around, she said: lamps are the thing to hang around. You get somewhere that way, said the moth's father. You don't get anywhere chasing stars. But the moth would not heed the words of either parent. Every evening at dusk when the star came out he would start flying toward it and every morning at dawn he would crawl back home worn out with his vain endeavor. One day his father said to him, You haven't burned a wing in months, boy, and it looks to me as if you are never going to. All your brothers have been badly burned flying around street lamps and all your sisters have been terribly singed flying around house lamps. Come on, now, get out of here and get yourself scorched! A big strapping moth like you without a mark on him!

1768. A young Apollo, golden haired, Stands dreaming on the verge of strife, Magnificently unprepared For the long littleness of life.

1769. A young boy is a theory, an old man is a fact. --Ed Howe

1770. A young child is a noise with dirt on it.

1771. A young courtier, an old beggar.

1772. A young man lazy, an old man poor.

1773. A young man should not marry yet, an old man not at all.

1774. A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. --John Fitzgerald Kennedy

1775. A zygote is a gamete's way of producing more gametes. This may be the purpose of the universe.

1776. Abandon the crowd of distractions and confusions, and rest in the boundless state without grasping or disturbance; firm in two practices: visualization and complete, at this time of meditation, one-pointed, free from activity. Fall not into the power of confused emotions.

1777. Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy.

1778. Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

1779. Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.--John Henry Newman

1780. Ability is a poor man's wealth. M. Wren

1781. Ability is nothing without opportunity. Napoleon Bonaparte

1782. Ability is of little account without opportunity.--Napoleon Bonaparte

1783. Ability is what you're capable of doing..Motivation determines what you do..Attitude determines how well you do it.

1784. Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

1785. About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

1786. About empowerment: You are playing bring me a rock. The king says, 'Bring me a rock.' When the subject brings a rock, the king says, 'that is not good enough, bring me another rock.'

1787. About evening a man is known

1788. About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork. --Kin Hubbard

1789. About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

1790. Above all other things is justice. Success is a good thing; wealth is good also; honor is better, but justice excels them all.

1791. Above all things, reverence yourself.

1792. Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

1793. Abraham Lincoln became America's greatest Precedent.

1794. Abraham Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address while traveling from Washington to Gettysburg on the back of an envelope.

1795. Abruptness is an eloquence in parting, when spinning out the time is but the weaving of new sorrow.

1796. Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one- as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame. Maxims

1797. Absence and death are the same--only that in death there is no suffering. --Walter S. Landor

1798. Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. --François de la Rochefoucauld

1799. Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.

1800. Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and fans a bonfire.