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2801. Analysing humour is like analysing a frog: you can do it, but the frog tends to die in the process.

2802. Anarchy is better than no government at all.

2803. Anarchy may not be the best form of government, but it's better than no government at all.

2804. Anarchy, no rules, OK?

2805. Anarchyit's not the law, it's just a good idea.

2806. Anatomy is destiny.

2807. Anatomy is something every woman has, but on her it doesn't look so good.

2808. Ancient custom has the force of law. --Legal Maxim

2809. And above all, eschew obfuscation!

2810. And above all, get carried away not with the glow-tape, or thy stage will be like unto an airport.

2811. And all for love, and nothing for reward.

2812. And all the loveliest things there be come simply, so it seems to me. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay

2813. And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive - Math 21:22

2814. And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too. -- Alexander Pope

2815. And as for him who is covetous and desirous of riches, and denieth the Best, we will speed him onward to trouble; and his riches shall not avail him when he falleth down into Hell.

2816. And at length they announced that the Gods had ordered such things.

2817. And behind every man who's a failure there's a woman, too! --John Ruge

2818. And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.

2819. And by prudent flight and cunning save A life, which valour could not, from the grave. A better shield I can soon regain; But who can get another life again?

2820. And deluding the unwary Till the fatal bolt is shot! Fear always springs from ignorance.

2821. And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them - Math 25:2:3

2822. And future deeds crowded round us as the countless stars in the night.

2823. And gain is gain, however small.--Robert Browning

2824. And God created man in His image. 'It is this image which receives us first when we come into this World, it develops with us while we grow and accompanies us when we leave the earth. Its source is in heaven.

2825. And God said, Let there be light, and there was light.

2826. And hark! how blithe the thristle sings!

2827. And he by no uncommon lot Was famed for virtues he had not.

2828. And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained firm strength.

2829. And he would have shot him then and there, but pity stayed his hand. 'It's a pity I'm out of bullets...'

2830. And his commandments are not burdensome (1 John 5:3)

2831. And how many women, unknown and unpraised, are living days of constant devotion to high purpose! They are hidden in homes, they are persecuted by petty economies, that have given up tastes soul-deep and renounced ambitions dear as life, just to be faithful and loyal in the small corner where destiny has placed them. Crane

2832. And I hear from the outgoing ship in the bay The song of the sailors in glee: So I think of the luminous footprints that bore The comfort o'er dark Galilee, And wait for the signal to go to the shore, To the ship that is waiting for me.

2833. And I shall love thee still my dear, until my wife is wise.

2834. And I still onward haste to my last night; Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; So every day we live, a day we die.

2835. And if I drink oblivion of a day, So shorten I the stature of my soul. - George Meredith

2836. And if I loved you Wednesday, Well, what is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -So much is true.

2837. And if it comes, the living will envy the dead!

2838. And in the end the love you take, is equal to the love you make.

2839. And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. -Abraham Lincoln

2840. And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.

2841. And indeed there will be time To wonder, Do I dare? and, Do I dare? Time to turn back and descend the stair, With a bald spot in the middle of my hair. Do I dare disturb the universe?

2842. And life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. -- Grandma Moses

2843. And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.

2844. And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man

2845. And music lifted up the listening spirit Until it walked, exempt from mortal care, Godlike, o'er the clear billows of sweet sound.

2846. And my heart springs up anew, Bright and confident and true,And the old loves comes to meet me in the dawning and the dew.

2847. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

2848. And now the final scene, a global darkening...

2849. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

2850. And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not. --William Shakespeare

2851. And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betrays In deepest consequence.

2852. And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold, And far across the hills they went In that new world which is the old.

2853. And on the seventh day, He exited from append mode.

2854. And out of darkness came the hands That reach thro' nature, moulding men.

2855. And particularly they studied the genius of each city & country. placing it under its mental deity.

2856. And plenty makes us poor.

2857. And she will open wide before thee the portals of her secret chambers, lay bare before thy gaze the treasures hidden in the depths of her pure virgin bosom.

2858. And should we really care?

2859. And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale.

2860. And so to bed. - Samuel Pepys, Diary entry That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest. - Henry David Thoreau.

2861. And so we chant our measure, ---And beg nor praise nor dole, ---For herein lies our treasure- ---That song is of the soul; ---Then wrong us not, for lowly ---Although our music be, ---It still is something holy ---And passionate and free. ---(JOHN DRINKWATER).

2862. And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for youask what you can do for your country.

2863. And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head should carry all it knew.

2864. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

2865. And the day will come when hell be cold and dumb and roast for eternity ---Irish Curse

2866. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.

2867. And the night shall be filled with music And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.

2868. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

2869. And the still deeper secret of the secret: The land that is nowhere, that is the true home...

2870. And the story of the man who called his son Vendetta, because he always had it in for him...

2871. And the trouble with mankind is that, because the right place can be found only in transitory, cyclic moments, mankind is always hunting for, and finding, some other place.

2872. And the wind shall say: Here were decent godless people. Their only monument the asphalt road. And a thousand lost golf balls.

2873. And there is no greater disaster than greed.

2874. And this is good old Boston, The home of the bean and the cod, Where the Lowells talk only to Cabots, And the Cabots talk only to God.from On the Aristocracy of Harvard

2875. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.

2876. And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last. - Marcus Aurelius

2877. And though I have the gift of prophecy and know all mysteries and knowledge but have not love, I am nothing.

2878. And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. --Thomas Jefferson

2879. And turns once more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.

2880. And virtue, though in rags, will keep you warm.

2881. And walk not proudly on the earth: verily thou shalt never cleave the earth, nor reach to the mountains in height!

2882. And what after all is everlasting fame? All together vanity All fame is dangerous: Good, bringeth Envy; Bad, Shame.

2883. And what do military commanders have to do with statecraft and policy?' 'They die for it, my lord.'

2884. And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

2885. And what is Fame? the Meanest have their Day, The Greatest can but blaze, and pass away.

2886. And what is the Scientific Community doing about these problems, young people? THEY'RE CLONING SHEEP. Great! Just what we need! Sheep that look MORE ALIKE than they already do! Thanks a lot, Scientific Community!

2887. And what will you do when you grow up to be as big as me?asked the father of his little son. Diet.

2888. And whatever injures society at large, or any individual, in it - this is my measure of iniquity.

2889. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.

2890. And when the One Great Scorer comes---To write against your name;---He writes not that you won or lost,---But how you played the game. ---(GRANTLAND RICE).

2891. And when we think we lead, we are most led. -- Lord Byron

2892. And where two raging fires meet together, They do consume the thing that feeds their fury.

2893. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

2894. And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, Depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

2895. And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?

2896. And who are the greater criminals--those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them? --Robert Emmet Sherwood

2897. And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well! Barbara Bush, commencement address to Wellesley College

2898. And why it's no longer standing

2899. And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.

2900. And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but The truth in masquerade.


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