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2901. And, lo, I say to you, it would be easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it was well greased first.

2902. Andrea's Admonition: Never bestow profanity upon a driver who has wronged you. If you think his window is closed and he can't hear you, it isn't and he can.

2903. Angels we have heard on High Tell us to go out and Buy.

2904. Anger and haste hinder good counsel.

2905. Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding. -- Mahatma Gandhi

2906. Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance. -- H. G. Bohn

2907. Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. Robert Ingersoll

2908. ANGER cannot stand without a strong hand.

2909. Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

2910. Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. -- Horace

2911. ANGER is a short madness.

2912. Anger is a wind, which blows out the lamp of the mind.

2913. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. -- Malabar Proverb

2914. Anger is certainly a kind of base-ness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in when it reigns, children, women, old folks, sick folks. ---(BACON).

2915. Anger is momentary madness.

2916. Anger is never without a reason but seldom a good one. Benjamin Franklin

2917. Anger is never without reason, but seldom with a good one.

2918. Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

2919. Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one. -- Lord Halifax

2920. Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

2921. Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.

2922. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

2923. Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind.

2924. Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

2925. Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance.

2926. Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke.

2927. Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

2928. Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to. Alfred A. Montapert

2929. Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. George Eliot

2930. Animals feed; man eats. Only the man of intellect and judgment knows how to eat. --Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

2931. Animals have these advantages over man: They have no theologians to instruct them, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

2932. Animals in different countries have different expressions just as the people in different countries differ in expression.

2933. Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

2934. Another good night not to sleep in a eucalyptus tree.

2935. Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody's reach, And it is much more interesting than any other form of speech.

2936. Another of our highly prized virtues is fidelity. We are immensely pleased with ourselves when we are faithful. --Ida Ross Wylie

2937. Another tale tells of William Tell, who shot an arrow through an apple while standing on his son's head.

2938. Another tea-time, another day older. --from One Brown Mouse

2939. Another's bread costs dear.

2940. Answer the keima with a kosumi.

2941. Answer them [critics] with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument.

2942. Anteaters are generally found at picnics

2943. Anthony's Law of Force: Don't force it, get a larger hammer.

2944. Anthony's Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, will roll into the least accessible corner of the workshop.

2945. Anticipate the good so that you may enjoy it.

2946. Anticipation is often better than the real thing.

2947. Anticipatory Gratitude List of keywords for search engines Integrated Circuit Resistor Color Code CAD Computer Aided Design Test Design Testing 987 stars heptangle septagram Lycos Netscape Mosaic network internet NIC interNIC information Communication Wireless Global superhighway telephone television newsgroup Stanford Berkeley California University 	

2948. Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.

2949. Antonym: The opposite of the word you're trying to think of.

2950. Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrasment...They do everything but watch television. -- Lewis Thomas

2951. Ants do not bend their ways to empty barns, so no friend will visit the place of departed wealth.

2952. Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

2953. Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

2954. Anxiety is fear of one's self.

2955. Anxiety is interest paid on trouble before it is due.

2956. Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes one feel as you might when a drowning person holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you in his panic.

2957. Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

2958. Any man who hates children and loves whiskey can't be all bad. - W.C.Fields

2959. Any atheist organization is sure to be non-prophet making.

2960. Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. Dame Rebecca West

2961. Any boss who sacks anybody for not turning up today is a bum !. - Bob Hawke, Australian Prime Minister The Day Aust won the America's Cup.

2962. Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

2963. Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.-

2964. Any colourso long as it's black.

2965. Any conditioned cat-hater can be won over by any cat who chooses to make the effort.

2966. Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

2967. Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

2968. Any excust will serve a tyrant.

2969. Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.

2970. Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments. --Nathaniel Emmons

2971. Any fool can criticise, and many of them do.

2972. Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do. (Dale Carnegie)

2973. Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it. --Henry David Thoreau

2974. Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. -- Samuel Butler

2975. Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a person of some sense to know how to lie well.

2976. Any given program will expand to fit all available memory.

2977. Any given program, when running, is obsolete.

2978. Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure good government; it simply insures that it will work. But such governments are rare- most people want to run things but want no part of the blame. THis used to be called the backseat-driver syndrome.

2979. Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true.

2980. Any great work of art revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that worldthe extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.

2981. Any healthy man can go without food for two daysbut now without poetry.

2982. Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

2983. Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

2984. Any jackass can kick down a barn but it takes a good carpenter to build one.--Lyndon B Johnson

2985. Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life. -- Henry Ward Beecher

2986. Any man can lose his hat in a fairy- wind.

2987. Any man can take another's blood. But he can't take another's spirit.

2988. Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

2989. Any man more right than his neighbors, constitutes a majority of one. --Henry David Thoreau

2990. Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

2991. Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

2992. Any man who laughs at women's clothes has never paid the bill for them.

2993. Any man who strives to do his best Whether his work be great or small Is considered to be doing the work of a lion.

2994. Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

2995. Any member introducing a dog into the Society's premises shall be liable to a fine of one pound. Any animal leading a blind person shall be deemed to be a cat.

2996. Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.

2997. Any other questions?' 'Yeah, what's the weather like on your planet?'

2998. Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought. --Dwight W. Morrow

2999. Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and force a new one that suits them better. --Abraham Lincoln

3000. Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.


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