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Money
More
A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
- A. A. Milne
Racing
Clients
A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.
- A. J. P. Taylor
Success
Needs
Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Through
Chest
The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
- Aaron Allston
Ignorance
His ignorance is encyclopedic.
- Abba Eban
Generosity
Colour
Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
- Abdus Salam
Failure
Servant
Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Necessary
Himself
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow
Remember
Rest
A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.
- Abraham Polonsky
Blessings
Expect
If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.
- Abu Bakr
God
Helps
God blesses him who helps his brother.
- Abu Bakr
Interest
Muslim
He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest.
- Abu Bakr
Law
Size
A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
- Adam Clayton
Animal
Qualified
Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
- Adam Ferguson
Money
Everybody
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
- Adlai E. Stevenson
Grateful
Through
I'm grateful to God that I'm able to praise his glory through my music.
- Adnan Sami
See
Reconciled
See the hand of God in all events, and thereby become reconciled to His dispensations.
- Adoniram Judson
Must
Ended
We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.
- Aeschylus
Pain
Gods
Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?
- Aeschylus
Resolve
Bravest
His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be.
- Aeschylus
Children
Death
For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.
- Aeschylus
Counsel
Suffers
It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.
- Aeschylus
Wealth
Altar
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
- Aeschylus
Always
Having
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
- Aesop
Pleasure
Lives
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
- Agnes Repplier
Other
Contract
I came close to signing Elvis Presley. I offered $25,000 for his contract and they asked for $45,000 and I just didn't have the other $20,000.
- Ahmet Ertegun
Mom
Dad
My dad was a dentist; my mom managed his office.
- Aileen Lee
Research
Textbooks
I learned many things from Professor Brown, including his philosophy toward research, but there is one thing he said that I recall with particular clarity: 'Do research that will be in the textbooks.' It is not easy to do such work, but this has remained my motto.
- Akira Suzuki
Important
Actor
I believe, for an actor, both the success of his film and awards are equally important.
- Akkineni Nagarjuna
Leadership
Admire
I admire Modi's leadership and his ideology.
- Akkineni Nagarjuna
Want
Cut
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
- Al Bernstein
Money
Lot
A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.
- Al Bernstein
Alone
Lot
The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you.
- Al Lopez
Coat
Going
When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
- Al McGuire
Son
Deal
We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
- Al Sharpton
Loved
Always
I always loved Sid Caesar and all the people on his program.
- Alan Alda
Battle
Interest
A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.
- Alan Cumming
Thought
Play
I started to itch to do a play again and 'Macbeth' came to the surface in my mind. I never thought I would do it in a conventional way. A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.
- Alan Cumming
Shut
How
A good lawyer knows how to shut up when he's won his case.
- Alan Dershowitz
Extraordinary
Lot
My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.
- Alan Garner
Rubber
Million
He's a million rubber bands in his resilience.
- Alan K. Simpson
Son
Chance
Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps.
- Alan Ladd
Thoughts
Toast
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
- Alan Perlis
Measure
Vitality
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
- Alan Perlis
Always
How
The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.
- Alanis Morissette
Desire
Will
Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
- Albert Camus
Devils
Even
Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.
- Albert Schweitzer
Activity
Directed
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
- Albert Schweitzer
Will
Reverence
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer
Mind
Does
Whatever man does he must do first in his mind.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Never
Fulfill
The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.
- Albrecht Durer
Pet
Napoleon
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
- Aldous Huxley
Strength
Soul
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
- Aldous Huxley
Organs
Servitude
Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
- Aldous Huxley
Computer
Works
My dad's a biophysicist. My brother is a computer guy. His wife works at Microsoft.
- Alec Berg
Artist
Person
Every person, every artist makes his life an artwork.
- Alejandro Jodorowsky
Artist
Always
A true artist is always out of his time.
- Alejandro Jodorowsky
Principle
Method
Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Path
Encouraged
My father was a professional artist all his life who encouraged my path as an artist.
- Alex Grey
Death
Movies
Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies.
- Alex Winter
Work
Will
We all work for the president, and we all will ultimately follow his direction.
- Alexander Acosta
Home
Castle
A man's home is his wife's castle.
- Alexander Chase
Over
Will
Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.
- Alexander Hamilton
Trust
Fifty
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
- Alexander Hamilton
Faith
Modes
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
- Alexander Pope
Fate
Blind
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
- Alexander Pope
Laws
Give
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
- Alexander Pope
Memory
Else
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
- Alexander Smith
Liking
Marked
Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.
- Alexander Smith
Arrived
Departed
His huff arrived and he departed in it.
- Alexander Woollcott
American
Addressing
An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say 'Gentlemen' to the person with whom he is conversing.
- Alexis de Tocqueville
Will
Ever
Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.
- Alfred A. Montapert
Fiction
Nailed
The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.
- Alfred Adler
Never
Symptoms
We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.
- Alfred Adler
Patriotism
Patriotic
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
- Alfred Adler
History
Born
On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
- Alfred de Vigny
Love
Work
When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.
- Alfred Kazin
Happiness
Does
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Reason
Longs
Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.
- Alfred Nobel
Actor
Get
One has to get rid of his inhibitions, being an actor.
- Ali Fazal
Think
I Think
I think every filmmaker has his way of working, and I respect that.
- Ali Fazal
Country
Like
A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.
- Ali ibn Abi Talib
Measure
Will
A man's measure is his will.
- Ali ibn Abi Talib
Ever
Suffered
No one has ever suffered from his people as I have.
- Ali ibn Abi Talib
Like
Envied
The holder of authority is like the rider on a lion - he is envied for his position, but he well knows his position.
- Ali ibn Abi Talib
Like
Making
That's like making fun of a maniac because his brain isn't completely right, because he isn't in the norm.
- Alice Cooper
Going
Bizarre
We got on his label, and the Bizarre organization is just going up and up. So we have faith.
- Alice Cooper
Like
Someone
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
- Alistair Cooke
Habit
Incurable
Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.
- Alistair Cooke
Critic
Poem
The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.
- Allen Tate
Movies
Always
Rao Ramesh always gives his best shot in all his movies.
- Allu Arjun
Sings
Works
Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.
- Alma Gluck
Desire
Fallen
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
- Alphonse de Lamartine
God
Delights
Since His delights are to be with you, let yours be found in Him.
- Alphonsus Liguori
Philosopher
Delusions
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce
Person
Give
Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
- Ambrose Bierce
Legs
Perilous
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
- Ambrose Bierce
Fall
Over
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
- Ambrose Bierce
Ready
Ambitious
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
- Ambrose Bierce
American
State
Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.
- Ambrose Bierce
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