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2702. An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

2703. An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

2704. An horrid stillness first invades the ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.

2705. An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.

2706. An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

2707. An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.

2708. An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. --Elbert Hubbard

2709. An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.

2710. An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. --Sidney J. Harris

2711. An idealist is a man who helps other people to be prosperous.

2712. An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it is also more nourishing. --H. L. Mencken

2713. An idle brain is the devil's workshop. --English Proverb

2714. An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.

2715. An idle youth, a needy age.

2716. An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.

2717. An ill stake standeth longest.

2718. An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.

2719. An immoderate desire of riches is a poison lodged in the mind.

2720. An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. --Walter Bagehot

2721. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path, But he has the humanity, fore warned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.

2722. An inch in a miss is as good as an elf.

2723. An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

2724. An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.

2725. An individual should hold an awareness of God and His love all the time. He should not separate his consciousness from the Divine while he journeys on the way, nor when he lies down nor when he rises up.

2726. An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of inprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.--Martin Luther King, Jr.,

2727. An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. -- Washington Irving

2728. An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

2729. An infinite number of monkeys at an infinite number of keyboards could produce something like Usenet.

2730. An infinite universe is at each moment opened to our view. And this universe is the sign and symbol of Infinite Power, Intelligence, Purity, Bliss, and Love. --William Ellery Channing

2731. An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

2732. An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

2733. An intelligence test often shows how smart one would have been not to take it.

2734. An intelligent enemy is better than a stupid friend.

2735. An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery, which are due to contact with material senses. Such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them.

2736. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin

2737. An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

2738. An inward cheerfulness is an implicit praise and thanksgiving to Providence under all its dispensations. It is a kind of acquiescence in the state wherein we are placed, and a secret approbation of the Divine Will in his conduct towards man. ---(ADDISON).

2739. An iron hand in a velvet glove.

2740. An oak is not felled at one stroke.

2741. An oak tree is just a nut that held its ground.

2742. An object at rest will be in the wrong place.

2743. An object in motion will be heading in the wrong direction.

2744. An object will fall so as to do the most damage.

2745. An officer directing an army unit to its position prior to the Victory march in Sydney, prefaced a reprimand to rowdy troops with the words Gentlemen, gentlemen... An unidentified Lance-corporal said ... Gentlemen ! Now I KNOW the war is over.

2746. An old axiom: Do not argue with your wife while she is packing your parachute.

2747. An old broom knows the dirty corners best

2748. An old cat laps as much as a young kitten.

2749. An old cat sports not with her prey.

2750. An old DOG barks not in vain.

2751. An old dog bites sore.

2752. An old ENSIGN is a captain's honour.

2753. An old FOX is not easily snared.

2754. An old fox needs learn no craft.

2755. An old fox needs no craft.

2756. An old head on young shoulders.

2757. An old knave is no babe.

2758. An old man is a bed full of bones.

2759. An old man living in a destitute and barren town buried all of his money at the base of a tree in his back yard. Each night, he would lift the cover on his treasure and delight upon his possession of it. One brightly lit eve, a thief happened upon the old man as he gloated to himself about his great riches. After the miser had gone to sleep, the thief removed the cover and took all of the old man's treasure. The next night the old man, finding his treasure gone, cursed and spat and shook with rage. A curious neighbor came by to inquire what had upset the aged one so, and upon hearing the story, said Since you did not spend this money anyway, you have not really lost anything. Go each night and pretend that the money is still there, and you will be as well off as ever. Moral: The value in money is not in having it, but in using it wisely.

2760. An old man never wants a tale to tell.

2761. An old OX makes a straight furrow.

2762. An old physician and a young lawyer. (Are best.)

2763. An old poacher makes the best keeper.

2764. An old soldier, an old fool.

2765. An old young man, will be a young old man.

2766. An open door may tempt a saint.

2767. An open foe may prove a curse, But a pretended friend is worse.

2768. An open mind, like an open window, should be screened to keep the bugs out. --Virginia Hutchinson

2769. An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters. --Henry Clay

2770. An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed.

2771. An optimist is a man who has never had much experience. --Don Marquis

2772. An optimist is one who believes that a fly is looking for a way to get out.

2773. An optimist is one who thinks the future is uncertain.

2774. An optimist is someone who tells you to cheer up when things are going his way.

2775. An optimist laughs to forget... a pessimist forgets to laugh.

2776. An oral contract isn't worth the paper it's printed on.

2777. An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old boy.

2778. An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. --Joseph Addison

2779. An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of learning.

2780. An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.

2781. An ounce of fortune is worth a pound of forecast.

2782. An ounce of good fortune is worth a pound of discretion.

2783. An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.

2784. An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

2785. An ounce of mother is worth a pound of priests. Spanish Proverb

2786. An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.

2787. An ounce of mother-wit is worth a pound of clergy (learning).

2788. An ounce of PRACTICE is worth a pound of precept.

2789. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

2790. An ounce of wit that's bought is worth a pound that's taught.

2791. An over-protected eye gets the speck (Being overly careful invites misfortunes).

2792. An ox is taken by the horns, and a man by the tongue.

2793. An ugly baby is a very nasty object, and the prettiest is frightful when undressed. -- Queen Victoria

2794. An unbidden guest knows not where to sit.

2795. An unbreakable toy is good for breaking other toys.

2796. An unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys.

2797. An unemployed court jester is nobody's fool.

2798. An unfortunate man would be drowned in a tea-cup.

2799. An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

2800. An unjust peace is better than a just war.