A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Avalanches of evil begin with a single pebble of sin.”
“Avan was as religious as the next young dragon with his way to make in the world-which is to say that he held many traditional beliefs which he had never paused to examine, attended church because it would have seemed strange not to, rarely paid much attention when he was there, and found piety out of the pulpit thoroughly misplaced.”
Source: Tooth and Claw
“Avani rolled her eyes. “You read too many romance novels.”
“I read exactly the right number of romance novels,” Rani returned. “You’ll see. This family needs me.”
Source: Drizzle, Dreams, and Lovestruck Things
“Avant de dire quelque chose, il faut s'assurer que le silence ne soit pas plus important.”
“Avant de penser, il faut étudier. Seuls les philosophes pensent avant d'étudier.”
“Avant garde" has become a ubiquitous label, eclectically applied to any type of art that is anti-traditional in form. At its simplest, the term is sometimes taken to describe what is new at any given time: the leading edge of artistic experiment, which is continually outdated by the next step forward.”
Source: Avant Garde Theatre, 1892-1992
“Avant-guerre, elle les avait démasqués de loin, les petits ambitieux qui la trouvaient banale vue de face, mais très jolie vue de dot. Elle avait une manière aussi efficace que discrète de les éconduire.”
“Avant-garde architects have never been able to depend on the support of the establishment, since the customary patrons of this most conservative and slowly moving art form have historically been resistant to innovation and experiment.”
Source: Makers of Modern Architecture
“Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it.”
“Avant-garde is French for bullshit”
“Avant-garde is the one area of music that has never changed. It doesn't mean anything.”
“Avant-garde means never having to say you're sorry.”
“Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.”
“Avant-garde theatre, with its distrust of the individual (that bourgeois invention), tends to go beyond [character] and the psychological approach in search of a syntax of types and characters which are "deconstructed and post-individual.”
Source: Dictionary of the Theatre: Terms, Concepts, and Analysis
“Avant-garde, jazz, pop, classical, country and western, rock, free, straight-ahead, etc. are ultimately meaningless terms in the face of the music being discussed at best - at worst, those terms often serve as code words for what is in fact a cultural / political discussion more than a musical one.”
“Avante Plastic Surgery offer the best tummy tuck surgery for the body, breast, face to improve appearance to the boost for confidence . Experience to perfect results by creating to the natural features & nuances which characterize attractive to face and body.”
“Avante Plastic Surgery offers many options when it comes to paying for your surgery.”
“Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?”
“Avarice and injustice are always shortsighted, and they did not foresee how much this regulation must obstruct improvement, and thereby hurt in the long-run the real interest of the landlord.”
Source: Wealth of Nations (Abridged)
“Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.”
“Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good.”
“Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly.”
“Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust of accumulation.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.”
“Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.”
“Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however great his hunger.”
“Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied.”
Source: Selected poetry and prose
“Avarice is always poor.”
Source: The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...
“Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not.”
“avarice is especially, I suppose, a disease of the imagination.”
Source: Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge
“Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.”
“Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it”
Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752
“Avarice is insatiable, and is always pushing on for more.”
“Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.”
“Avarice is more opposite to economy than liberality.”
“Avarice is rarely the vice of youth.”
Source: The Recess: Or, A Tale of Other Times ...
“Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.”
Source: Essays: On self-love. On the conduct of life: or, Advice to a school-boy. On the fine arts. The fight. On want of money. On the feeling of immortality in youth. The main-chance. The opera. Of persons one would wish to have seen. My first acquaintance with poets. The shyness of scholors. The Vatican. On the spirit of monarchy
“Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive.”
Source: Essays on Men and Manners
“Avarice is the vice of declining years.”
Source: History of the United States: From the Discovery of the American Continent, to the End of the Late War
“Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals.”
“Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence to the prejudice of the future.”
“Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others mistake great future advantages for small present interests.”
“Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.”
Source: The Letters and Papers of Edmund Pendleton, 1734-1803
“Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.”
“Avarice, greed, concupiscence and so forth are all based on the mathematical truism that the more you get, the more you have. The remark of that it is more blessed to give than to receive is based on the human truth that the more you give away in love, the more you are. It is not just for the sake of other people that tells us to give rather than get, but for our own sakes too.”
“Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons.”
Source: Selected essays
“Avarice, the spur of industry, is so obstinate a passion, and works its way through so many real dangers and difficulties, that it is not likely to be scared by an imaginary danger, which is so small, that it scarcely admits of calculation. Commerce, therefore, in my opinion, is apt to decay in absolute governments, not because it is there less secure, but because it is less honourable.”
“Avarice, the spur of industry.”
“Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.”