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2601. An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason. -- Publilius Syrus

2602. An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes. -- Cato

2603. An anthill increases by accumulation.

2604. An ANVIL fears no blows.

2605. An ape's an ape, a varlet's a varlet. Though they be clad in silk or scarlet.

2606. An apology is the superglue of life: it can repair just about anything.

2607. An appeal is when ye ask wan court to show its contempt for another court. -- Finley Peter Dunne

2608. An appeal is when you ask one court to show it's contempt for another court. -- Finley Peter Dunne

2609. An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run. --James Russell Lowell

2610. An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile--hoping it will eat him last. --Winston Churchill

2611. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

2612. An apple never falls far from the tree

2613. An apple, an egg, and a nut, you may eat after a slut.

2614. An archaeologist is a man whose career lies in ruins.

2615. An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

2616. An armed attack against one ... shall be deemed to be an armed attack against them all. - NATO treaty

2617. An armed society is a polite society.

2618. An army marches on its stomach.

2619. An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.

2620. An ARROW shot upright falls on the shooter's head.

2621. An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. --Jean Cocteau

2622. An artist lives everywhere.

2623. An artist only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

2624. An ass does not appreciate fruit compote.

2625. An ASS endures his burden, but not more than his burden.

2626. An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold. Romanian Proverb

2627. An ass loaded with gold climbs to the top of the castle.

2628. An ASS must be tied where the master will have him.

2629. An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. --Fulton J. Sheen

2630. An atheist is a person who has no visible means of support

2631. An atheist is one point beyond the devil.

2632. An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief. --Franklin P. Jones

2633. An athiest is a man with no invisible means of support. --John Buchan

2634. An authority is a person who can tell you more about something than you really care to know.

2635. An authority knows lots of things you don't care about.

2636. An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived. -- Herbert Samuel

2637. An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.

2638. An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. -- Alfred A. Knopf

2639. An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living. -- Nicholas Chamfort

2640. An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

2641. An editor is one who separates the wheat from the chaff and prints the chaff.

2642. An educated man is one who has finally discovered that there are some questions to which nobody has the answer.

2643. An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. --Anatole France

2644. An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life.

2645. An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible.

2646. An egg will be in three bellies in twenty-four hours.

2647. An egotist is someone who is always me-deep in conversation.

2648. An elderly woman died last month. Having never married, she requested no male pallbearers. In her handwritten instructions for her memorial service, she wrote, "They wouldn't take me out while I was alive, I don't want them to take me out when I'm dead.

2649. An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. --T.S. Eliot

2650. An election year is the time politicians want to help us out of all the trouble they got us into in the first place.

2651. An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.

2652. An elephant is a mouse with an operating system.

2653. An elephant is just a mouse, built to government specifications

2654. An elephant is only a mouse built to council specifications.

2655. An elephant will reach to the roof of the house.

2656. An elephant: A mouse built to government specifications.

2657. An ember burns where it falls.

2658. An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.

2659. An empty sack cannot stand upright.

2660. An empty stomach is not a good political advisor. --Albert Einstein

2661. An endurance test for some people is the pursuit of happiness.

2662. An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you. --Elbert Hubbard

2663. An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.

2664. An English summer, three hot days and a thunderstorm.

2665. An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.

2666. An Englishman is never happy but when he is miserable, a Scotchman never at home but when he is abroad, and an Irishman never at peace but when he is fighting.

2667. An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.

2668. An Englishman's house is his castle.

2669. An enterprise, when fairly once begun, should not be left till all that ought is won.

2670. An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors.

2671. An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that have been permanently discontinued. -- Irvin S. Cobb

2672. An error becomes a mistake when we refuse to admit it. (Marilyn vos Savant)

2673. An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. --Orlando A. Battista

2674. An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains. Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

2675. An error? Impossible! My modem is error correcting.

2676. An evil crow, an evil egg.

2677. An evil gain equals a loss.

2678. An excellent man, like precious metal, Is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, Is always varying, upwards and downwards.

2679. An excuse is nearer to a woman than her apron.

2680. An excuse is often substituted for reason.

2681. An expert has a great reason for guessing wrong.

2682. An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

2683. An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.

2684. An expert is one who has made every mistake possible -- in a very narrow field.

2685. An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

2686. An expert is someone who has made all the mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.

2687. An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.

2688. An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife. --Franklin P. Jones

2689. An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

2690. An eye for an eye . . .

2691. An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind

2692. An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

2693. An eye for an eye will make the whole world go blind. (Mahatma Gandhi)

2694. An EYE for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.

2695. An eye is blind in another man's corner

2696. An honest answer can get you into a lot of trouble.

2697. An honest God is the noblest work of man. -- Robert Green Ingersoll

2698. An honest man can never surrender an honest doubt.

2699. An honest man is always a child.

2700. An honest man nearly always thinks justly. --Jean Jacques Rousseau


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