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~~ I am not the author of the following written material, and I lay no claim to be the author. ~~
802. A leader who does not hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
803. A lean agreement is better than a fat lawsuit. German Proverb
804. A learned County Court judge in a book of memoirs recently said that the overwhelming amount of his time on the bench was taken up with people who are persuaded by persons whom they do not know to enter into contracts that they do not understand to purchase goods that they do not want with money that they have not got.
805. A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool.
806. A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.
807. A leg of a lark is better than the body of a kite.
808. A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.--Miles Davis (1926-1991
809. A legless tramp is a low-down bum.
810. A leopard is a form of dotted lion.
811. A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
812. A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.
813. A liar needs a good memory. There's nothing so pathetic as a forgetful liar.
814. A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
815. A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
816. A liberal is a person whose inerests aren't at stake, at the moment.
817. A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.--James Baldwin
818. A lie begets a lie.
819. A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
820. A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.
821. A lie never lives to be old.
822. A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
823. A life of hope deferred too often is---A life of wasted opportunities;---A life of perished hope too often is---A life of all-lost opportunities:---Yet hope is but the flower and not the root,---And hope is still the flower and not the fruit;----Arise and sow and weed: a day shall come---When also thou shalt keep thy harvest home. ---(CHRISTINA ROSSETTI).
824. A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing under earth.
825. A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward. -- George Jean Nathan
826. A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
827. A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
828. A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses.
829. A lifetime in snooker my dearest, it's happened to you, so don't forget to chalk his cue and the first game you play make sure it's at the end of the day.
830. A lifetime of happiness! It would be hell on earth.
831. A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
832. A light purse makes a heavy heart.
833. A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who, by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved a coward.
834. A light-heeled mother makes a heavy-heeled daughter.
835. A lion may be beholden to a mouse.
836. A lion's skin is never cheap.
837. A lisping lass is good to kiss.
838. A list full of gain and a village full of shame
839. A little blurred never tells him when he's had enough.
840. A little body cloth often harbour a great soul.
841. A little BODY often harbours a great soul.
842. A little boy asked his mother why the minister got a month's vacation while his dad only got two weeks. The mother answered, "Well, son, if he's a good minister, he needs it. If he isn't, the congregation needs it."
843. A little boy came home and told his mother he had gotten first prize in an examination. The question had been How many legs does a horse have? He had answered, Three. When his mother asked how he had gotten the first prize, he replied that all the other children had said, Two,
844. A little child, beneath a tree,---Sat and chanted cheerily---A little song, a pleasant song,---Which was-she sang it all day long- ---"When the winds blow the blossoms fall,---But a good God reigns over all!" ---(CHARLES MACKAY).
845. A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
846. A little experience often upsets a lot of theory. --Cadman
847. A little FIRE burns up a great deal of corn.
848. A little good is soon spent.
849. A little help at the right time is better than a lot of help at the wrong time.
850. A little house well filled. A little land well tilled, And a little wife well willed.
851. A little ignorance can go a long way.
852. A little impatience...Big plans ruined.
853. A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.
854. A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
855. A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind.
856. A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
857. A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierean spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain And drinking largely sobers us again. - Alexander Pope (Essay - On Criticism)
858. A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take long before everyone knows. (C. S. Lewis)
859. A little madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.
860. center><font color="green"><LI></font>A little neglect may breed great mischief. --Benjamin Franklin
861. A little nonsense now and then is cherished by the wisest men.
862. A little of anything isn't worth a pin; but a wee bit of sense is worth a lot
863. A little of everything is nothing in the main.
864. A little pleases a poor man
865. A little pot boils easily. Dutch Proverb
866. A little pot is soon hot.
867. A little public scandal is good once in a while. It takes the tension out of the news. -- Beryl Pfizer
868. A little rain each day will fill the rivers to overflowing.
869. A little rebellion now and then ... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. --Thomas Jefferson
870. A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave.
871. A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
872. A little subtleness is better than a lot of force.
873. A little, often, leaves wrinkles in the purse.
874. A live dog is better than a dead lion
875. A living DOG is better than a dead lion.
876. A living hope, living in death itself. The world dares say no more for its device than whilst I breathe I hope; but the children of God can add, by virtue of this living hope, whilst I expire I hope. ---(ARCHBISHOP LEIGHTON).
877. A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.
878. A long dispute means both parties are wrong. --Voltaire
879. A long dispute means that both parties are wrong. --Voltaire
880. A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason. --Thomas Paine
881. A long tongue is a sign of a short hand. (Lavish promise is followed by poor performance.)
882. A long-forgotten loved one will appear soon. Buy the negatives at any price.
883. A loose tooth will not rest until it's pulled out.--Ethiopian proverb
884. A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
885. A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be, infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace. --Walter de la Mare
886. A lost property office is for people to return things they find and don't want.
887. A lot of bugs get past the tests.
888. A lot of men think that if they smile for a second, somebody will take advantage of them, and they are right. --Don Herold
889. A lot of people I know believe in positive thinking, and so do I. I believe everything positively stinks.
890. A love that defies all logic is sometimes the most logical thing in the world.
891. A lover fears all that he believes.
892. A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
893. A lover without indescretion is no lover at all.
894. A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
895. A low hedge is easily leaped over.
896. A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
897. A mackerel sky and mares' tails Make lofty ships carry low sails.
898. A mackerel sky is never long dry.
899. A maid oft seen, and a gown oft worn, Are disesteemed and held in scorn.
900. A maid that laughs is half taken.