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~~ I am not the author of the following written material, and I lay no claim to be the author. ~~
3102. Applying computer technology is simply finding the right wrench to pound in the correct screw.--Anon.
3103. Appreciation is the memory of the heart. (Bill Beattie)
3104. Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.
3105. Approval Seeker's Law: Those whose approval you seek the most give you the least.
3106. Apres nous le deluge. - Madame Pompadour
3107. April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. from The Wasteland
3108. April rains for corn; May, for grass.
3109. APRIL rains for men; May, for beasts.
3110. April showers bring May flowers
3111. Aquadextrous, adj.: Possessing the ability to turn the bathtub faucet on and off with your toes.
3112. Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
3113. Architecture: music that stands still.
3114. Ardeat ipsa licet, tormentia gaudet amantis. Though she may herself burn, she delights in her lover's torment.
3115. Are cats lazy? Well, more power to them if they are. Which one of us has not entertained the dream of doing just as he likes, when and how he likes, and as much as he likes?
3116. Are tectonic plates dishwasher-safe?
3117. ARE WE HAVING A RELATIONSHIP -- Or just doing research on each other?
3118. Are we improving a world class effort or are we polishing a turd.
3119. Are we not brothers ? So man and man should be. ---(SHAKESPEARE).
3120. Are we thinking here, or is this just so much pointing and clicking?-- The New Yorker
3121. Are you angry that others disappoint you? Remember you cannot depend on yourself.
3122. Are you any relation to your brother Marv?Leon Wood, New Jersey Nets guard, toSteve Albert
3123. Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours. Dale Carnegie
3124. Are you frying Paris?
3125. Are you going to eat them?' 'Either that or go fishing for men with them. It's worth a shot.'
3126. Are you people dense?!' 'Purposely.'
3127. Are you the meaning of life, or is life the meaning of you ???
3128. Aren't you getting tired of the individuals and groups who claim to be politically correct, who preach tolerance, but fail to practise it. They believe that nobody can possibly disagree with them, even for the most honest reasons. What they're asking us to tolerate. of course, is their own intolerance.
3129. Argue for your limitations and sure enough they are yours. -- Richard Bach, from Illusions
3130. Arguements out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.
3131. Arguing with a person's faith is like chasing them around a big empty parking lot. You can keep backing them up, and backing them up--but you never actually corner them.--George Weilacher
3132. Arguing with her is like trying to read a newspaper in a high wind.
3133. Arguing with him is like trying to blow out an electric-light bulb.
3134. Argument is the worst sort of conversation. Jonathan Swift
3135. Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading. --Jonathan Swift
3136. Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.--Plato (427-347 BC)
3137. Arguments with furniture are rarely productive.
3138. Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them.
3139. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou her maid art far more fair than she: Be not her maid, since she is envious.
3140. Aristocracy is always cruel. --Wendell Phillips
3141. Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, That when they speak truth they are not believed.
3142. Aristotles had his good days, but Plato was a pretentious fraud.
3143. Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.
3144. Armadillo: to provide weapons to a Spanish pickle.
3145. Armament is an important factor in war, but not the decisive factor...Man, not material, forms the decisive factor.
3146. Armegeddon is here, like said in the past
3147. Army Axiom: Any order that can be misunderstood has been misunderstood.
3148. Arnold's Laws of Documentation: (1) If it should exist, it doesn't. (2) If it does exist, it's out of date. (3) Only documentation for useless programs transcends the first two laws.
3149. Aromatic plants bestow No spicy fragrance while they grow; But crush'd or trodden to the ground, Diffuse their balmy sweets around.
3150. Around a flowering tree, one finds many insects.
3151. Arouse the mind without resting it on anything. --Diamond Sutra
3152. Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, in discipline, rudeness, harshness and a self-assertive nature.
3153. Arrogance is too often the companion of celebrity.
3154. Arrogance means that one knows how to press forward but not how to draw back, that one knows existence but not annihilation, knows something about winning but nothing about losing.
3155. Arrogance, pride, anger, conceit, harshness and ignorance-these qualities belong to those of demonic nature.
3156. Ars est celare artem. Art lies in concealing art.
3157. Art and science have their meeting point in method.
3158. Art and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.
3159. Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manefestation of nature agree to find new shapes. Kahlil Gibran
3160. Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.--Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)
3161. Art comes to you posing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
3162. Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes it visible.
3163. ART has no enemy but ignorance.
3164. ART improves nature.
3165. Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. --André Gide
3166. Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created.
3167. Art is a form of catharsis. --Dorothy Parker
3168. Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.
3169. Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
3170. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth....The eternal vital power builds them in the likeness of older worlds, placing them on the Imperishable Centres.
3171. Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art. All art does but consist in the removal of surplusage. Art is not a thing; it is a way. A work of art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
3172. Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world. --André Maurois
3173. Art is difficult, transient is her reward.
3174. Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
3175. Art is life, so the bad artist tell you. The thing is of course that you can turn your back on art.
3176. Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
3177. Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.
3178. Art is limitation: the essence of every picture s the frame.--Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936),Orthodoxy, Chap. 3
3179. Art is living.
3180. ART is long and life is short.
3181. Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient.
3182. Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.
3183. Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child in whom we trace The features of the mother's face, Her aspect and her attitude.
3184. Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. --Amy Lowell
3185. Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect.... a first cause, eternal, all-wise, almighty and holy, is the origin and the centre of the whole universe, from whom gradually all beings emanated.
3186. Art is the great stimulus to life.
3187. Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. --Oscar Wilde
3188. Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. Art is more godlike than science. Science discovers; art creates.
3189. Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
3190. Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness.
3191. Art never expresses anything but itself.
3192. Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.
3193. Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience -- the union of life and peace. -- from The Life of Reason
3194. Art thou a mourner ? hast thou known ---The joy of innocent delights, ---Endearing days, for ever flown And tranquil nights ? ---O live! and deeply cherish still ---The sweet remembrance of the past; ---Rely on heaven's unchanging will ---For peace at last. ---(JAMES MONTGOMERY).
3195. Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
3196. Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. --Gilbert K. Chesterton
3197. Arteficial insemination is so reliable because it lessens the chance of a cock-up.
3198. Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
3199. Artificial Intelligence is the study of how to make real computers act like the ones in movies.
3200. Artificial Intelligence usually beats real stupidity.