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1902. Adler's Distinction: Language is all that separates us from the lower animals, and from the bureaucrats.

1903. Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. -- Joseph Addison

1904. Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. -- Benjamin Franklin

1905. Admiration, n.: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

1906. Admiration, noun. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. - Ambroise Beirce

1907. Admit your mistakes.

1908. Admonish your FRIENDS in private, praise them in public.

1909. Adolescence, n.: The stage between puberty and adultery.

1910. Adopt the new philosophy.

1911. Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

1912. Adoration is an activity of the loving, but still separate, individuality. Contemplation is the state of union with the divine Ground of all being. The highest prayer is the most passive... For the less there is of self, the more there is of God.

1913. Adore, v.: To venerate expectantly.

1914. Adult: A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle.

1915. Adults are obsolete children.

1916. Adventure is not outside a man; it is within. -- David Grayson

1917. Adventure is worthwhile in itself. Amelia Earhart

1918. Adversity breaks the inferior man's will but only bends the superior man's spirit. Outward influence is denied the great man, who accordingly uses words sparingly but retains his central position.

1919. Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records.

1920. Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, then especially, being free from flatterers.

1921. Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in properous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

1922. Adversity introduces a man to himself. -- Anonymous

1923. Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

1924. Adversity is the first path to truth. -- Lord Byron

1925. Adversity is the measure of the man.

1926. Adversity is the seed of well-doing: it is the nurse of heroism and boldness; who that hath enough, will endanger himself to have more? who that is at ease, will set his life on the hazard?

1927. Adversity makes a man wise, not rich. Romanian Proverb

1928. Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. -- Victor Hugo

1929. Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

1930. Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

1931. Advertising is % confusion and % commission. -- Fred Allen

1932. Advertising is a racket--its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

1933. Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, especially if they are worthless. -- Sinclair Lewis

1934. Advertising is like learning -- a little is a dangerous thing.

1935. Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our economy surging forward. -- Robert W. Sarnoff

1936. Advertising is the life of trade. -- Calvin Coolidge

1937. Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

1938. Advertising promotes that divine discontent which makes people strive to improve their economic status. -- Ralph S. Butler

1939. Advertising Rule: In writing a patent-medicine advertisement, first convince the reader that he has the disease he is reading about; secondly, that it is curable.

1940. Advice is least heeded when most needed. English Proverb

1941. Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take. -- Josh Billings

1942. Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1943. Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.--Chesterfield.

1944. Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. Erica Jong

1945. Advice to submariners: If torpedo overheats, load tube, go deep and eject.

1946. Advice to the new bride: Never trust a husband too far or a bachelor too near.

1947. Advice to the new bride: You can't be treated like a doormat if you don't line down.

1948. Advice to worms: Sleep late.

1949. Advice would be more acceptable if it didn't always conflict with our plans. -- Anonymous

1950. Advice: the smallest current coin. -- Ambrose Bierce

1951. Advise and counsel him; if he does not listen, let adversity teach him.

1952. Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway. Mary Kay Ash

1953. Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,-I mean good nature,-are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life. ---(DRYDEN).

1954. Affection blinds reason.

1955. Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. (C.S. Lewis)

1956. Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope. -- Leigh Hunt

1957. Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. -- Henry Ward Beecher

1958. Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites. -- Christian Nestell Bovee

1959. Affliction's sons are brothers in distress, ---A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! ---(BURNS).

1960. Afraid of his own shadow.

1961. After a foolish deed comes remorse.

1962. After a great GETTER comes a great spender.

1963. After a moment of quite repose, It's tum to tum and toes to toes, After a moment of sheer delight, It's back to back for the rest of the night.

1964. After a night on the town, he feels his oats; and his corm.

1965. After a spirit of discernment the next rarest things in the world are diamonds and pearls.

1966. After a storm comes a calm.

1967. After a thrifty FATHER, a prodigal son.

1968. After all is said and done, a lot more has been said than done.

1969. After all is said and done, a lot more is usually said than done.

1970. After all is said and done, more is said than done.

1971. After all is said and done, sit down.

1972. After all is said and done, usually more is said then done.

1973. After all there is but one race - humanity.

1974. After all, tomorrow is another day.

1975. After all, what is your hosts' purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.

1976. After all, why be good? How many will actually believe it of us?

1977. After an access cover has been secured byhold-down screws, it will be discovered that the gasket has been omitted.

1978. After an instrument has been assembled, extra components will be found on the bench.

1979. After being shot, there is always enough time to escape.

1980. After black CLOUDS, clear weather.

1981. After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

1982. After dark all cats are leopards. Native American Proverb Zuni

1983. After death, the doctor. (Too late).

1984. After dinner rest a while; after supper walk a mile.

1985. After dinner sit awhile; after supper walk a mile.

1986. After dinner, rest; after dinner walk a mile. Arab Proverb

1987. After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.

1988. After joy comes sorrow

1989. After keening you infant ---Irish Curse

1990. After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together.

1991. After meat, mustard. (When it is of no use).

1992. After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

1993. After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. --Aldous Huxley

1994. After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

1995. After the battle the auditors are the ones who go out and stab the wounded.

1996. After the boys look her over, they overlook her.

1997. After the doctor gives him a blood test, he demands his blood sample back.

1998. After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. Italian Proverb

1999. After the gathering comes the scattering

2000. After the government takes enough to balance the budget, the taxpayer has the job of budgeting the balance.