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3202. Artistic ventures highlighted. Rob a museum.

3203. Artists treat facts as stimuli for imagination, whereas scientists use imagination to coordinate facts.

3204. Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are formed and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing, as bears leisurely lick their cubs into form.

3205. As a bathing beauty, she's hardly worth wading for.

3206. As a blonde, she's chemistry's greatest contribution to the world.

3207. As a boss, he believes hire should be lower.

3208. As a camel beareth labor, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils.

3209. As a child I understood how to give, I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilised.

3210. As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing.

3211. As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

3212. As a cut-up, he missed his vocation. He should have been a barber.

3213. As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.

3214. As A general rule, people marry most hapily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age where they do not really know what their own kind is. Robertson Davies

3215. As a general rule, the freedom of any people can be judged by the volume of their laughter.

3216. As a grass-blade, if badly grasped, cuts the arm, badly-practised asceticism leads to hell.

3217. As a kid they called him Halfpint, but he grew up to be a full quart.

3218. As a man begins to live more seriously within; he begins to live more simply without.

3219. As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve his purpose.

3220. As a man is friended, so the law is ended.

3221. As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. --James Madison

3222. As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.

3223. As a plain garment best adorneth a beautiful woman, so a decent behaviour is the best ornament of inner wisdom.

3224. As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work.

3225. As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not.

3226. As a rule, a quitter isn't a very good beginner either.

3227. As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly. --Lew Wallace

3228. As a spider emits and draws in its thread, As plants arise on the earth, As the hairs of the head and body from a living person, So from The Eternal arises everything here.

3229. As a sportsman, I believe everyone should have a gun, --for fishing.

3230. As a swelled-up comer, he's a sure goner.

3231. As a tourist, your slogan is: Stop, Look, and Litter.

3232. As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.

3233. As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

3234. As above, so below. As the Eternal creates Being out of Non-Being, So man can weave the threads of the future. Visualization and belief in a pattern of reality, Activates the creative power of Realization.

3235. As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.

3236. As an enemy is made more fierce by our flight, so Pain grows proud to see us knuckle under it. She will surrender upon much better terms to those who make head against her.

3237. As an essayist I don't believe in the fiction of an anonymous observer. Rather than the sham of objectivity, I think you should put you perspective up front. That's only fair to the reader.--Ralph Wiley,

3238. As an executive, he delegates all the authority, shifts all the blame, and takes all the credit.

3239. As as drunk a wheelbarrow.

3240. As bald as a coot.

3241. As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize the winged good, it flies, And step by step, along the path of life, Allures our yearning spirits to the grave.

3242. As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense. --Jonathan Swift

3243. As Bokonon says: Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.

3244. As calm as a clock.

3245. As clean as a whistle.

3246. As close as wax.

3247. As cold as charity.

3248. As cross as a bear with a sore head.

3249. As cross as nine highways.

3250. As cross as two sticks.

3251. As dead as a door-nail.

3252. As dead as mutton.

3253. As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean Sweet flowers are springing no mortal can see, So deep in my soul the still prayer of devotion Unheard by the world, rises silent to Thee.

3254. As drunk as a lord.

3255. As drunk as a mouse.

3256. As dry as a bone.

3257. As dull (or dead) as ditchwater.

3258. As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.

3259. As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

3260. As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time.

3261. As far as possible, be on good terms with all persons.

3262. As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

3263. As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

3264. As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error.

3265. As fine as fivepence.

3266. As fire is covered by smoke, as a mirror is covered by dust, or as an embryo is covered by the womb, similarly the living entity is covered by different degrees of lust which veils real knowledge and is never satisfied.

3267. As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes.

3268. As fit as a fiddle.

3269. As flat as a pancake.

3270. As flies are to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport.

3271. As for conceit, what man will do any good who is not conceited ? Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a good opinion of himself. - Anthony Trollope (in Phineas Finn)

3272. As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.

3273. As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

3274. As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.

3275. As from a large heap of flowers many garlands and wreaths can be made, so by a mortal in this life there is much good work to be done.

3276. As fun as an egg is of meat.

3277. As God as my witness, I am innocent - but he won't be there at the committal proceedings.

3278. As good be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.

3279. As good be out of the world as out of the fashion.

3280. As good lost as found.

3281. As good love comes as goes.

3282. As good play for nought as work for nought.

3283. As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

3284. As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

3285. As I said before, I never repeat myself.

3286. As I was going up the stair I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I wish, I wish he'd stay away.

3287. As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. --Abraham Lincoln

3288. As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. --Henry David Thoreau

3289. As ill-luck would have it.

3290. As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.

3291. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

3292. As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so it is of small wits to talk much and say nothing.

3293. As jolly as a sandboy.

3294. As joy is not without its alloy of pain, so neither is sorrow without its portion of pleasure.

3295. As knowledge increases, wonder deepens. --Charles Morgan

3296. As large as life.

3297. As laws are necessary that good manners may be preserved, so there is need of good manners that laws may be maintained.

3298. As lazy as Ludlam's dog, that leaned his head against a wall to bark.

3299. As lean as a rake.

3300. As leaves on the trees, such is the life of man.