A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“All things come alike to all; there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not.”
Source: Ecclesiastes or, The Preacher
“All things come to an end.
No, they go on forever.”
Source: In the Next Galaxy
“All things come to him who mates.”
“All things come to him who waits”
“All things come to him who waits - even justice.”
“All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for.”
“All things come to him who waits, and among them is that unpleasant sensation of a cold hand upon the portion of the body which lies behind the third waistcoat button.”
Source: The White Feather
“All things come to him who waits, but they are mostly leftovers from those who didn't wait.”
“All things come to pass
When they do, if they do
All things come to their end
When they do, as they do. . . .”
Source: If I could sing: selected poems
“All things come to those who go after them.”
“All things come to those who wait.”
Source: From Dawn to Noon: Poems
“All things considered, I can see no reason to adopt the afterlife hypothesis. I am sure I shall remain in a minority for a long time to come, especially among experiencers, but for me the evidence and the arguments are overwhelming ... We are biological organisms, evolved in fascinating ways for no purpose at all and with no end in mind. We are simply here and this is how it is. I have no self and "I" own nothing. There is no one to die. There is just this moment, and now this, and now this.”
“All things considered, I'd rather be in Philadelphia”
“All things considered, nothing is beautiful.”
“All things considered, the internet seems fairly environmentally benign to me. The last stats I saw showed you could do 1,000 Google searches for the gas it took to drive six-tenths of a mile. But the internet can't substitute for real connection and community.”
“All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.”
Source: Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King
“All things considered, there is only Matisse.”
Source: Picasso posters
“All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible.”
“All things deteriorate in time.”
“All things die not: while the soul lives, love lives: the song may be now gay, now plaintive, but it is deathless.”
Source: To Have and To Hold (Volume 2 of 2 ) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)
“All things die,' she told him. Such a truism, it was the trite utterance of any street-corner philosopher, but coming from Inaspe Raimm it sounded different. 'All things reach the end of their journey, be they trees, insects, people or even principalities. All things die so that others may take their place. To die is no tragedy. The tragedy is dying with a purpose unfulfilled.”
Source: Salute the Dark
“All things do go a-courting,
In earth, or sea, or air,
God hath made nothing single
But thee in His world so fair.”
Source: Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them
“All things do help the unhappy man to fall.”
Source: The Works of John Webster: With Some Account of the Author, and Notes
“All things (e.g. a camel's journey through
A needle's eye) are possible, it's true.
But picture how the camel feels, squeezed out
In one long bloody thread, from tail to snout.”
Source: Poems
“All things else being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our lives. In the long pull we only pray as well as we live.”
“All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.”
Source: Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.
“All things, even the deepest sorrow or the most profound happiness are all temporary. Hope is fuel for the soul, without hope, forward motion ceases.”
Source: First Night of Summer
“All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.”
“All things except reason and order are possible with a mob.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“All things fade and quickly turn to myth: quickly too utter oblivion drowns them. And I am talking of those who shone with some wonderful brilliance: the rest, once they have breathed their last, are immediately ‘beyond sigh, beyond knowledge’. But what in any case is everlasting memory? Utter emptiness.”
“All things fade and quickly turn to myth.”
Source: Meditations
“All things fade into the storied past, and in a little while are shrouded in oblivion.”
“All things fall and are built again,
And those that build them again are gay.”
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
“All things flourish, and each returns to its source.”
“All things from eternity are of like forms and come round in circle.”
Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion
“All things from the north are devilish.”
Source: The Amber Spyglass
“All things good come to those for whom the Good is all things.”
“All things great are wound up with all things little.”
Source: ANNE SHIRLEY Complete Series - ALL 14 Books in One Volume: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more: Including the Memoirs & Letters of Lucy Maud Montgomery
“All things happen by virtue of necessity.”
“All things happen for a purpose.”
Source: The Maze Runner Trilogy
“All things happen in their proper time. Everything in life happens in the time allocated for it. Don't waste energy worrying about end results. Worrying only distracts you from living day to day and enjoying life!”
“All things have blood in them because their mothers gave them their blood. We are all, man or woman, our mothers.”
Source: All Our Yesterdays
“All things have rest: why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things.”
“All things have their ends and cycles. And when they have reached their highest point, they are in their lowest ruin, for they cannot last for long in such a state. Such is the end for those who cannot moderate their fortune and prosperity with reason and temperance.”
“All things have their place, knew wee how to place them.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“All things here appear to me to trudge on in one and the same round: we rise in the morning that we may eat breakfast, dinner andsupper and to bed again that we may get up the next morning and do the same: so that you never saw two peas more alike than our yesterday and to-day.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, Anas, Writings 1760-1770
“All things human change.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)
“All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.”
“All things I do are in every woman. Every woman is Medea. Every woman is Jocasta. There comes a time when a woman is a mother to her husband. Clytemnestra is every woman when she kills.”
Source: Blood Memory
“All things I thought I knew; but now confess
The more I know, I know, I know the less.”