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~~ I am not the author of the following written material, and I lay no claim to be the author. ~~
2502. Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.
2503. Alymony is having an ex-husband you can bank on.
2504. Alymony: funds which allow a woman who lived unhappily married to live happily unmarried.
2505. Am I getting smart with you?....how would you know?
2506. Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? --Abraham Lincoln
2507. Ambition - A lust that is never quenched, grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
2508. Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds.
2509. Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
2510. Ambition can creep as well as soar.
2511. Ambition destroys its possessor.
2512. Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name! Ambition: An over mastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
2513. Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens. -- William Lilly
2514. Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment. -- Thomas Otway
2515. Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
2516. Ambition is a vice which often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
2517. Ambition is an idol, on whose wings Great minds are carried only to extreme; To be sublimely great or to be nothing.
2518. Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
2519. Ambition is not a vice of little people. -- Michel de Montaigne
2520. Ambition is not what man does...but what man would do.
2521. Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied. -- Niccolò Machiavelli
2522. Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. -- Thomas Dunn English
2523. Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
2524. Ambition is the last refuge of failure. -- Oscar Wilde
2525. Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. --Oscar Wilde
2526. Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth.
2527. Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices: so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. -- Jonathan Swift
2528. Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. -- William Shakespeare
2529. Ambition, a proud covetousness, or a dry thirst of honour, a great torture of the mind, composed of envy, pride, and covetousness, a gallant madness, one defines it a pleasant poison.
2530. Ambition's like a circle on the water, Which never ceases to enlarge itself, 'Till by broad spreading it disperses to nought.
2531. Amerely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
2532. America ... a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose. -- Herbert Hoover
2533. America and its demons; Europe and its ghosts. -- Le Monde
2534. America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America. from his Farewell Address 1981--Jimmy Carter, 39th US President
2535. America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. -- Louis D. Brandeis
2536. America has meant to the world a land in which the common man who means well and is willing to do his part has access to all the necessary means of a good life. -- Alvin Saunders Johnson
2537. America is a country of young men. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
2538. America is a country which produces citizens who will cross the ocean to fight for democracy but won't cross the street to vote.
2539. America is a land where citizens vote for Democrats but hope to live like Republicans.
2540. America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags it's tail it knocks over a chair.
2541. America is a willingness of the heart. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
2542. America is not fighting to win a war. We are fighting to give an application to an old Greek proverb, which is that the purpose of war is not to annihilate an enemy but to get him to mend his ways. And we are confident we can get the enemy to mend his. --Arthur J. Goldberg
2543. America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations. -- Lyndon Baines Johnson
2544. America is still a goverment for the naive, by the naive, and for the naive. He who does not know this, nor relish it, has no inkling of the nature of this country. - Christopher Morley
2545. America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks. -- John Barrymore
2546. America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences. -from The Last Puritan
2547. America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
2548. America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. - Georges Clemenceau
2549. America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.--Ralph Ellison,
2550. America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses. -- Woodrow Wilson
2551. America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet.--Dick Gregory, The Shadow that Scares Me,
2552. America, thou half-brother of the world; With something good and bad of every land. -- Philip James Bailey
2553. America.... It is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time. -- Thomas Wolfe
2554. America: The only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant. - Garry Trudeau
2555. American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet. --Charles G. Dawes
2556. American is a very difficult language mixed with English. -- Anonymous
2557. American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age. -- Marshall McLuhan
2558. Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich. -- Robert Frost
2559. Americans hardly ever retire from business: they are either carried out feet first or they jump from a window.
2560. Americans never quit. -- Douglas MacArthur
2561. Americans want to go to heaven without dying.--James Thurber
2562. Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic. -- Dan Rather
2563. Amid a multitude of projects, no plan is devised.
2564. Amnesia rules, O..um
2565. Amnesia used to be my favorite word, but then I forgot it.
2566. Amo, amas, I love a lass, As a cedar tall and slender; Sweet cowslip's grace Is her nominative case, And she's of the feminine gender.
2567. Among civilized nations reason has always been an occupational hazard.
2568. Among creatures some lead and some follow. Some blow hot and some blow cold. Some are strong and some are weak. Some may break and some may fall. Therefore the sage discards the extremes, the extravagant, and the excessive.
2569. Among economists, the real world is often a special case.
2570. Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet. --Abraham Lincoln
2571. Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.--Euripides
2572. Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.
2573. Among the runners finishing last was an older man wearing a T-shirt that proclaimed 'Abominably Slow Man.'
2574. Among these treasures of our land is water--fast becoming our most valuable, most prized, most critical resource. A blessing where properly used--but it can bring devastation and ruin when left uncontrolled. --Dwight D. Eisenhower
2575. among you must be a slave of all.
2576. Amongst all things, knowledge, they say, is truly the best thing; from its not being liable ever to be stolen, from its not being purchasable, and from its being imperishable.
2577. Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
2578. Amusement to an observing mind is study. -- Benjamin Disraeli
2579. An absolutely balanced person is a candidate for the freak farm.
2580. An acceptable level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job.
2581. An accountant is a person hired to explain that you didn't make the money you thought you did.
2582. An acorn is not an oak tree when it is sprouted. It must go through long summers and fierce winters; it has to endure all that frost and snow and side-striking winds can bring before it is a full grown oak. These are rough teachers; but rugged school masters make rugged pupils. So a man is not a man when he is created; he is only begun. His manhood must come with years.
2583. An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.
2584. An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation. Billy Wilder , american director
2585. An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.
2586. An admirer of Mae West said, Goodness, your diamonds are beautiful Mae West replied Goodness had nothing to do with it.
2587. An adolescent is a person who acts like a baby when they aren't treated like an adult.
2588. An adult is a deteriorated child.
2589. An adult is one who has ceased to grow vertically but not horizontally.
2590. An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
2591. An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.
2592. An ague in the spring is physic for a king.
2593. An alcoholic is a person who drinks more than his doctor does.
2594. An alcoholic is a person who drinks more than his own physician.
2595. An American is a man with two arms and four wheels.
2596. An American seeker: "If you follow any way, you will never get there; and if you do not follow any way, you will never get there. So one faces a dilemma." Hisamatsu: "Let that dilemma be your way." -- --Contemporary Mondo
2597. An American's a person who isn't afraid to criticize the President but is always polite to traffic cops.
2598. An ancient Buddha said mountains are mountains; waters are waters. These words do not mean mountains are mountains; they mean mountains are mountains.
2599. An ancient strategist has said: I dare not take the offensive but I take the defensive; I dare not advance an inch but I retreat a foot. This means: To march without formation, To stretch one's arm without showing it, To confront enemies without seeming to meet them, To hold weapons without seeming to have them. An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
2600. An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there. -- Edward Young