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1802. Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.

1803. Absence is a foe to love

1804. Absence is the death of love.

1805. Absence is to love what wind is to fire It extinguishes the small, It enkindles the great

1806. Absence makes the heart forget.

1807. Absence makes the heart go wander.

1808. Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

1809. Absence of occupation is not a rest; a mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

1810. Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. --William Cowper

1811. Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

1812. Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

1813. Absent, adj.: Exposed to the attacks of friends and acquaintances; defamed; slandered.

1814. Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. -- Henry Brooks Adams

1815. Absolute truth is indestructible. Being indestructible, it is eternal. Being eternal, it is self-existent. Being self-existent, it is infinite. Being infinite, it is vast and deep. Being vast and deep, it is transcendental and intelligent.

1816. Absolute zero is cool.

1817. Abstain from wine, women, and song; mostly song.

1818. Abstainer: A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

1819. Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket. --Horace Greeley

1820. Abstinace is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

1821. Abstinence is the thin end of the pledge.

1822. Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

1823. Abstract truth is the eye of reason.

1824. Abstruse questions must have abstruse answers.

1825. Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

1826. Absurdity: A statement of belief inconsistent with one's own opinion.

1827. Abundance, like want, ruins many. Romanian Proverb

1828. Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar. -- Samuel Griswold Goodrich

1829. Abused patience turns to fury.

1830. Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.

1831. Accept pain and disappointment as apart of life.

1832. Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. Marcus Aurelius

1833. Accept your genius and say what you think.

1834. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. (William James)

1835. Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion; rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.

1836. Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.

1837. Accident: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.

1838. Accidents cause History.

1839. Accidents will happen in the best-regulated families.

1840. According to my best recollection, I don't remember.

1841. According to real, exact knowledge, one force, or two forces, can never produce a phenomenon. The presence of a third force is necessary, for it is only with the help of a third force that the first two can produce what may be called a phenomenon, no matter in what sphere.

1842. According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.

1843. According to your faith be it unto you - Mat 9:29

1844. Accordion, n.: A bagpipe with pleats.

1845. Accountants are the witch doctors of the modern world.

1846. Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive. -- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)

1847. Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty. -- Charles Simmons

1848. Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction. -- Adlai E. Stevenson

1849. Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood. -- Tryon Edwards

1850. Accuracy, n.: The vice of being right

1851. Accursed thirst for gold! what dost thou not compel mortals to do?

1852. Acheson's Rule Of The Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to inform thereader, but to protect the writer.

1853. ACORNS were good till bread was found.

1854. Acorns were good until bread was found. --Francis Bacon

1855. Acquaint thyself with God, if thou would'st taste His works. Admitted once to his embrace, Thou shalt perceive that thou was blind before: Thine eye shall be instructed; and thine heart Made pure shall relish with divine delight Till then unfelt, what hands divine have wrought.

1856. Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

1857. Acquaintance: a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous. --Ambrose Bierce

1858. Acquaintance: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. --Ambrose Bierce

1859. Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound...Q.E.D.

1860. Act nothing in a furious passion.

1861. Act nothing in furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm. --Thomas Fuller

1862. Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

1863. Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience. --paul Newman

1864. Acting is happy agony. --Alec Guinness

1865. Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting. -- George Sanders

1866. Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion. --Kate Reid

1867. Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four. Katharine Hepburn

1868. Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch. -- Thomas Paine

1869. Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

1870. Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.

1871. Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

1872. Action is eloquence.

1873. Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author is. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the greater of these is the doing.

1874. Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

1875. Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

1876. Action is the product of the Qualities inherent in Nature.

1877. Action may not always be happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

1878. Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

1879. Action must be taken at the first signs of disruption or decay, otherwise disaster will follow as ice-bound water follows brief autumn frosts.

1880. Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

1881. Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends. -- Jawaharlal Nehru

1882. Action without study is fatal. Study without action is futile.

1883. Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

1884. Actions are the seed of Fate.

1885. Action's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

1886. Actions lie louder tha words. -- Carolyn Wells

1887. Actions speak louder than words.

1888. Actions...Keep your actions positive because your actions become your habits.

1889. Active natures are rarely melancholy.

1890. Activity and sadness are incompatible.

1891. Actor:I'm a smash hit. Why, yesterday during the last act, I had everyone glued in their seats! Critic: Wonderful! Wonderful! Clever of you to think of it!

1892. Actually, Homer was not written by Homer, but by another man of that name.

1893. Actually, I'm an overnight success. But it took twenty years.

1894. Adam and Eve had an ideal marriage. He didn't have to hear about all the men she could have married, and she didn't have to hear about the way his mother cooked. (Kimberley Broyles)

1895. Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething. -- Mark Twain

1896. Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. --Hungarian Proverb

1897. Adam met Eve and turned over a new leaf.

1898. Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation. -- Mahatma Gandhi

1899. Add life to your years, don't worry about adding years to your life.

1900. Add one stone, then sacrifice both.