Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
All A Quotes
“An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.”
“An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.”
Source: Harbours of Memory
“An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.”
“An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.”
“An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.”
Source: The True Born Englishman. A Satire. A New Edition
Source: A future for English music, and other lectures
“An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.”
“An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.”
“An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.”
“An enlightened citizen is an indispensable ingredient of the infrastructure of democracy.”
Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.”
“An enlightened person does not ignore things and does not stick to things, not even to the truth.”
Source: Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai
“An enlightened person is someone who shifts from one plateau of knowledge to another.”
“An enlightened person knows what idea is worthy of living and dying for.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“An enlightened person raises the level of the consciousness of the entire community.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
Source: The Art of an Enlightened Woman: A Manifesto