A Quotes
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“A witch so bold would not flinch, no matter how harsh her punishment might be, though his wish was for her to feel every strike.”
Source: The Mark
“A witch who is bored might do ANYTHING. People said things like 'we had to make our own amusements in those days' as if this signified some kind of moral worth, and perhaps it did, but the last thing you wanted a witch to do was get bored and start making her own amusements, because witches sometimes had famously erratic ideas about what was amusing.”
“A witch works with the truth of the Earth itself.”
“A Witch's work is mind work and utilizes powerful metaphors, allegories, and images that unlock the powers of the mind.”
Source: Power of the Witch: The Earth, the Moon, and the Magical Path to Enlightenment
“A witch, a vampire, and a pixy walk into a bar, I thought as I led the way into the Squirrel’s End. It was early, and the sun had yet to set when the door swung shut behind Jenks, sealing us in the warm air smelling faintly of smoke. Immediately Nick yanked it open to come in behind us. And there’s the punch line.”
“A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures?”
Source: Fathers and Sons
“A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences.”
Source: Witness
“A witnessing consciousness lives in life but with tremendous non-attachment, with great non-possessiveness; it possesses nothing. It lives totally, it lives passionately, but still knowing that I don't possess anything.”
“A witty and informative professor posits that more authors do not choose titles borrowed from Shakespeare's sonnets and plays for the reason some people claim not to have partners: "All the good ones are taken."”
“A witty illustration or an apt story will accomplish more than columns of argument.”
Source: My Memories of Eighty Years
“A witty quote proves nothing.”
“A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention.”
“A witty saying proves nothing.”
“A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.”
“A witty vicar once said that a good marriage is like a pair of scissors with the couple inseparable joined, often moving in opposite directions, yet always destroying anyone who comes between them. The trick is for the blades to learn to work smoothly together, so as not to cut each other.”
Source: Promised Brides
“A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.”
“A witty writer is like a porcupine; his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe.”
“A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.”
“A (wo)men travels the world over in search of wht (s)he needs and returns home to find it”
Source: Recipes to Remember: My Epicurean Journey to Preserve My Mother's Italian Cooking from Memory Loss
“A wolf can be a wolfhound, son, but it can never be a lapdog.”
“A wolf can only curse a lion when surrounded by its peers.”
“A wolf can only mock a lion thousands of miles away.”
“A wolf disguised as a sheep can not be found because it is bleating badly but because of the shit it leaves behind”
“A wolf eats sheep but now and then, ten Thousands are devour'd by Men.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“A Wolf eats sheep but now and then; Ten thousands are devour'd by men. An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretend friend is worse.”
Source: The Fables of John Gay Illustrated
“A wolf in sheep's clothing really does exist. There are people that will charm you. Trust with boundaries, determine what you will do if someone does not honor your boundary.”
“A wolf is no less a wolf because he's dressed in sheepskin and the devil is no less the devil because he's dressed as an angel.”
“A wolf is not bad for eating and tearing apart something, if it's for survival. It doesn't do it to be menacing.”
“A wolf only attends a rabbit’s funeral to eat its young.”
“A wolf raised in a jungle is fiercer than a lion reared in a circus.”
“A wolf's sense of hearing is remarkably acute. A wolf can detect another's howl from as far as nineteen kilometres away.”
Source: Be My Wolff
“A wolf's thoughts are seldom far from its appetite.”
“A wolf searches the path for prey that has paused. Keep moving.”
“A wolf that rules a cave is better than a lion that rents a forest.”
“A wolf was no less a wolf because a whim of chance caused him to run with the watch-dogs.”
Source: Beyond the Black River
“A wolf will never be a pet.”
“A wolf with a lamb, he thought with disgust, remembering Aphrodite's warning. And how he wanted to... devour her.”
Source: Hades And Persephone: Curse Of The Golden Arrow
“A wolfe will never make war against another wolfe.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert: With life, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes
“A woman (Terri Schiavo) was healthy. There was brain damage, there was no question. But from a health point of view, she was not terminally ill.”
“A woman . . . always feels herself complimented by love, though it may be from a man incapable of winning her heart, or perhaps even her esteem.”
Source: Madame de Staël, a Study of Her Life and Times: The First Revolution and the First Empire
“A woman ... all beautiful and accomplished will, while her hand and heart are undisposed of, turn the heads and set the circle in which she moves on fire. Let her marry, and what is the consequence? The madness ceases and all is quiet again. Why? Not because there is any diminution in the charms of the lady, but because there is an end of hope.”
Source: Letters and Addresses,
“A woman / who loves a woman / is forever young.”
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
“A woman [shouldn't] have to give a man her body to get his heart.”
“A woman after my own heart. (Stryker) You’re absolutely right about that. Nothing would please me more than ripping that organ out of you and feasting on it. (Zephyra)”
Source: One Silent Night
“A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.”
“A woman always has her revenge ready.”
“A woman always has to prove her beauty.”
Source: The New Land
“A woman always remembers. Remember that.”
“A woman always wants to change her man but a man wants her to be unchanged.”
“A woman and a glasse are ever in danger.
[A woman and a glass are ever in danger.]”