A Quotes
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“An old novel has a history of its own.”
Source: Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country
“An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth.”
Source: Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
“An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.'”
“An old poet ought never to be caught with his technique showing.”
Source: Conversations with Stanley Kunitz
“An old pop music producer once said that there are really only four kinds of song a person can write: "I love you/I hate you/go away/come back!" That's a funny observation.”
“An old psychiatrist friend of mine already said "the problem is not to go crazy, but to stop going crazy in this obscenity called modern life.”
“An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“An old Russian woman goes into Kremlin, gets an audience with Mikhail Gorbachev and says, In America anyone can go to the White House, walk up to Reagan's desk and say, 'I don't like the way you are running the country.' Gorbachev replied, You can do the same thing in the Soviet Union. You can go into the Kremlin, walk up to my desk and say 'I don't like the way Reagan is running his country.'”
“An old, secret pain welled up in him, begging for healing.”
“An old sergeant said, if you want to get to France in a hurry, then join the ambulance service, the French are big for ambulance service.”
“An old silent pond...
A frog jumps into the pond,
splash! Silence again.”
“An old stomach reforms more whiskey drinkers than a new resolve.”
Source: The lives and times of Archy and Mehitabel
“An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.”
Source: Notes on the Cinematograph
“An old, tired man. That is what I am. What became of the old fire, drive, ambition? There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a patronising wonder at the naivete of the youth who dreamed them.”
“An old trailer flashed by, the round sort that had always looked to her like a thermos bottle, as if the people inside needed protection against rot.”
Source: Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry
“an old villa surrounded by a garden looked to them like the image of a comforting home, the dream of an idyll long past.”
Source: Ignorance
“An old walrus-faced waiter attended to me; he had the knack of pouring the coffee and the hot milk from two jugs, held high in the air, and I found this entrancing, as if he were a child's magician. One day he said to me - he had some English - "Why are you sad?"
"I'm not sad," I said, and began to cry. Sympathy from strangers can be ruinous.
"You should not be sad," he said, gazing at me with his melancholy, leathery walrus eyes. "It must be the love. But you are young and pretty, you will have time to be sad later." The French are connoisseurs of sadness, they know all the kinds. This is why they have bidets. "It is criminal, the love," he said, patting my shoulder. "But none is worse.”
Source: The Blind Assassin
“An old warrior is never in haste to strike the blow.”
“An old wealthy man tells a teenager "would you like to exchange! You give me your age and I will give all that I have". What the old man meant was "give me your time (age) and I will give you all that I have (wealth). He wanted to buy the teenager’s age (time) in exchange for all he has. This means that age is time and therefore time equals wealth (all he has). We all are wealthy if we have time. Be very careful of your own time. Mange it successfully. If you do not know how to do this, learn. No matter how much time you have left, but if you know how to manage it right, you will accomplish more of what you think. Even if you have a few of this time left.”
Source: The Herok
“An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“an old woman ... is a person who has no sense of decency; if once she takes to living, the devil himself can't get rid of her.”
Source: Cecilia, Or Memoirs of an Heiress
“An old woman I loved very much when I was young - the wife of Jean Villard - she's just reciting poetry all the time, which is beautiful because it means she went back to the world of poetry that she loved when she was young. That's all she does - she almost doesn't recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We're the ones who are suffering. She's not.”
“An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb”
“An Old World revolution is only a movement around a motionless center; it never breaks out of the circle. Firm in the center is belief in Authority.”
“An old young man, will be a young old man.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“An old Zen rule of thumb is not to answer until one has been asked three times.”
“An old-growth forest, a mountain range or a river valley is more important and certainly more loveable than any country will ever be.”
“An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.”
“An old-timer is someone who can remember when a naughty child was taken to the woodshed instead of to a psychiatrist.”
“An older child, one who possesses a conscience, will be troubled with self-reproaches and feelings of shame for his naughtiness, even if he is not discovered. But our two-year-olds and our three-year- olds experience guilt feelings only when they feel or anticipate disapproval from the outside. In doing this, they have taken the first steps toward the goal of conscience, but there is a long way ahead before the policeman outside becomes the policeman inside.”
“An older friend once told me, "Life didn't ask for your opinion," which I liked.”
“An older guy, he's going to show you things that a young man can't show you. He's going to show you how to stay alive. He's going to show you how to turn corners where your young friends will show you how to turn right into that wall, you know what I'm saying?”
“An older man who seems to be the leader of the Jesus Tshirt group says that the Bible forbids abortion in its commandment “Thou shall not kill.”
But being in the Bible Belt, people really know their Bible, and an older woman cites Exodus 21:22–23, a passage that says a man who causes a pregnant woman to miscarry must pay a fine but is not charged with murder, not unless the woman herself dies.
Thus the Bible is making clear, that a dependent life is not the same as an independent life.”
Source: My Life on the Road
“An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.”
“An older witch once told me about this French saying – vous tombez bien.”
“What does that mean?” Alec asked.
“You’ve fallen well.”
Source: Stone Cursed: Zodiac Shifters: Taurus
“An older woman begs me to tell her if all the men are kept alive as labourers. She knows that she is going to her death. Still, she will be happy if her son, who came with her, remains alive. I calm her with my answer and she thanks me.”
Source: The Last Jew of Treblinka
“An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information.”
Source: The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It
“An olive tree is like an iceberg,
he tells us,
the roots run so deep
what we can see above the ground
is nothing compared to
what lies beneath.”
Source: Water & Salt
“An Olympic medal is the greatest achievement and honor that can be received by an athlete. I would swap any World Title to have won gold at the Olympics.”
“An Olympic medal won't define my whole life, although it might look like it to onlookers. When I look back, I should have been able to get an Olympic medal.”
“An Olympic pursuit really takes a full three to four years of Olympic preparation.”
“An ombre ball gown, its colour deepening from white near my throat, through palest blue to deepest indigo at my feet. Over that is stitched the stark outlines of trees, the way I see them from my window as dusk is falling. The seamstress has even sewn on little crystal beads to represent stars.
This is a dress I could never have imagined, one so perfect that for a moment, looking at it, I can think of nothing but its beauty.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.”
“An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.”
“An ongoing challenge for Australia is ensuring equity of access to technology. Since the decline in federal funding, many schools are reverting to bring Your Own Device (BYOD) programs and this puts the onus back on families to fund devices.”
“An ongoing relationship with God through His Word is essential to the Christian's consistent victory!”
Source: Believing God
“An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.”
“An online job search seems cheaper. But what HR is doing is turning away valuable candidates. They're experiencing false negatives. That means the right person applies for the job electronically but the algorithm kicks them out so they lose that individual.”
“An online tax program is only as good as the information the person enters into it and the understanding of what is being asked by the program.”
Source: Now What? I Got a Tax Notice from the IRS. Help!: Defining and deconstructing the scary and confusing letters that land in your mailbox.
“An only child is never twelve.”
Source: Four Plays