A Quotes
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“A well-read fool is the most pestilent of blockheads; his learning is a flail which he knows not how to handle, and with which he breaks his neighbor's shins as well as his own. Keep a fellow of this description at arm's length, as you value the integrity of your bones.”
Source: Moral reflections, sentences and maxims of Francis, duc de la Rochefoucauld
“A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.”
Source: A Wallflower Christmas: A Novel
“A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge is to be found; and though he may not himself excel in invention, his ingenuity may compose one of those agreeable books, the deliciæ of literature, that will out-last the fading meteors of his day.”
“A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
Source: The Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787: Which Framed the Constitution of the United States of America
“A well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous to liberty; and that in all cases the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.”
“A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot.”
“A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.”
“A well-spent day brings happy sleep.”
“A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.”
Source: Childhood’s End
“A well-tailored suit is important - and I don't like wearing belts with mine - it should be tailored to your body.”
“A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.”
“A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.”
Source: Oscar Wilde on Dress (ebook): Including –The Philosophy of Dress– by Oscar Wilde
“A well-told lie can heal. Otherwise, what's fiction?”
“A well-trained cat doesn't exist because a cat remains a cat.”
“A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.”
Source: The Rosemary Tree
“A well-trained man knows how to answer questions; an educated man knows what questions are worth asking.”
Source: Judgment and Sensibility: Religion and Stratification
“A well-trained mind has less difficulty in submitting to than in guiding an ill-trained mind.”
“A well-trained, sensible doctor is one of the most valuable assets of a community.”
Source: Aequanimitas
“A well-understood and testable hypothesis like sexual selection surely trumps an untestable appeal to the inscrutable caprices of a creator.”
Source: Why Evolution Is True
“A well-worn adage advises those who set out upon a great enterprise to count the cost, yet some of the greatest enterprises have succeeded because the people who undertook them did not count the cost.”
“A well-wrapped statistic is better than Hitler's 'big lie'; it misleads, yet it cannot be pinned on you.”
“A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.”
“A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds.”
“A werewolf tossed me against a giant packing crate while I was trying to rescue a frightened young girl who'd been kidnapped by an evil witch and a drug lord.”
Source: Moon Called
“A western buckaroo, I share his scorn for people who go camping by the book, relying on the authority of some half-assed assistant scoutmaster whose total experience outdoors probably consists of two overnight hikes and a weekend in the Catskills. But we have just had that confrontation. The one who goes by Pritchard's book is Sid's wife, and I am wary. It is not my expedition. I am a guest here.”
“A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.”
“A Western would be good. I'd love to do a Western.”
“A Western writer came up to me and said, how come nobody at this demonstration spoke of German unity? I told him, because it isn't on the agenda. People were interested in having another, better GDR, another, better socialism.”
“A wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss.”
“A wet dog is lovingest.”
“A wet dream in the mind of New York.”
Source: how to save your own life
“A wet eyed preacher will never preach dry sermons”
“A wetness touched Elliott’s bare feet, as if the ocean licked her toes and swam beneath the arches of each foot. Except this wasn’t seawater; it was a torrent of her mother’s tears.”
Source: Balloon Days
“A whale is as unique as a cactus. But don't ask a whale to survive Death Valley. We all have special gifts. Where we use them and how determines whether we actually complete something.”
Source: Leadership is an Art
“A whale out of water is over-run by ants.”
“A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.”
“A. What are you mooning about?
B. I am in love.
A. With whom?
B. A virgin.
A. Is she good looking?
B. Perfectly exquisite.
A. Where did you meet her?
B. At a dinner party. I found her lying on the same couch with me.
A. You think you'll get in?
B. Yes, yes, my friend, but I don't wish to broadcast it. Actually I want it to be nice and discrete.
A. You mean you want to avoid marriage.
B. My friend, I found out she isn't worth a dime.
A. You know this already. You are not in love, dear friend. You are lying. How can your heart be madly in love when it calculates so well?”
“A what? (Fang) Badass demon with a superiority complex who picks his teeth with bones of infants. Let’s just keep it simple and say he’s a demon I want out of the human realm. ASAP. (Thorn)”
Source: Bad Moon Rising
“A wheat belly represents the accumulation of fat that results from years of consuming foods that trigger insulin, the hormone of fat storage.”
Source: Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health
“A wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not a part of the mechanism.”
Source: Philosophical Investigations
“A where's honest”
Source: Unholy Magic
“A whetstone is no carving instrument, And yet it maketh sharp the carving tool; And if you see my efforts wrongly spent, Eschew that course and learn out of my school; For thus the wise may profit by the fool, And edge his wit, and grow more keen and wary, For wisdom shines opposed to its contrary.”
Source: Troilus and Cressida
“A whetstone, though it cannot cut, may sharpen a knife that will.”
“A whiff of fresh mint
that tastes like strawberry pie.
Your kisses tempt me.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“a whiff of orange underneath a musky cinnamon, faint hints of lemon and cedar. Like the end of summer drifting into fall.”
Source: Sushi and Sea Lions
“A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.”
“A while after I was old enough to understand this story, I pointed out how backwards it was to have fled to the nation that had driven them out of theirs, but they never copped to the irony of it. They needed to believe they'd done the right thing and that it made sense.”
Source: The Book of Unknown Americans
“A while ago?” Anaxantis asked. “Yes, he raped me a while ago. Exactly nine months and two days ago. What's that? Nine months or nine minutes. It's the same. And it is in the past, you say? Then why is it still happening, every day, every time I close my eyes? Every time I hear someone behind me, and I don't know who it is? How is it that I get an almost irresistible urge to kill anyone who happens to touch me unexpectedly? Tell me, Hemarchidas, how do I forgive, let alone forget, something that is still happening, that keeps happening over and over? How? How do I do that?”
Source: The Invisible Chains - Part 1: Bonds of Hate
“A while ago
I stopped asking myself
“What is the meaning of life?” And instead I began to ask,
“How can I add meaning to it?”
“A while ago, I went to a food festival in South London, where-- in a smoky, concrete atrium between two runs of railway arches-- about a dozen barbecue stalls were set up. You can find barbecue and grill cooking easily enough in Peckham. There is suya, South African braii, skewers of chicken kofte, all of which use direct heat in a way that Britain hasn't done properly since the suckling-pig era. The barbecue festival was different. Instead of barbecuing-- a verb, a way of cooking-- it felt like people were doing barbecue, in the same way that your uncle will do Sean Connery when he's taking impression requests.
Of the dozen or so vendors, most were doing nonspecific, seemingly American-inspired barbecue: slow-cooked brisket piled into burgers, burnt ends, actually burnt ends, cheeseburger wings, beef sliders, ribs and ribs and ribs, Texas-inspired massaman curry. Even when the flavors were global, the foundations cleaved to certain barbecue methods, and the basic units of North American culinary vocab. 'Cherry smoked char siu glazed kurobuta pork belly taco.' 'House brined & cherry smoked short rib pastrami slider.' 'Hickory smoked brisket.' 'Crack pork'-- in a pork-crackling 'taco.”
Source: All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now