ABILITY
? The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators – Edward Gibbon
? No one knows what he can do till he tries – Publillus Syrus
? Ability win the esteem of the true men,luck that of the people – La Rochefoucauld
ABSENCE
? Absence from whom we love is worse than death – William Cowper
ABSOLUTE
? Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely – Lord Action
ACCUSE
? Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prenent it seldom has justice enough to accuse –Oliver Goldsmith
? Accuse not Nature,she hath her part,Do thou but thine – John Milton
ACT
? The best portion of a good man’s life, His little,nameless,unremembered act of kindness and of love – P.B. Shelley
ACTION
? Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action – Lowel
? Nobody can become perfect by merely ceasing to act – Bhagavad Gita
? Action makes more fortunes than caution – Vevuvenargues
? The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last recourse of those who know not how to dream - Oscar Wilde
ADAM
? In Adam’s fall,We sinned all – New England Primer
ADVENTURE
? Without adventure civilization is in fully decay – Alfred North Whitehead
ADVERSITY
? Sweet are the uses of adversity;Which like the toad,ugly and venomous,Wears yet a precious jewel in his head – Shakespeare
? When fate is adverse, a wise man can always strive for happiness and sail against the wind to attain it - Rousseau
ADVICE
? Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks in to the mind – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
? If a man loves to give advice , it is a sure sign that he himself wants it - Lord Halifax
? Advice is a drung in the market, the supply always exceeds the demand – Josh Billings
AFFECTION
? A woman’s whole life is a history of affections – Washinton Irving
AFRAID
♠ You are afraid to die, and you’re afraid to live. What a way to exist – Neale Donald Walsch
AGE
? We do not count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count. - Emerson
? Crabbed age and youth cannot live together – Shakespeare
? Your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions – Old Testament
ALONE
? The strongest man upon earth is he who stands most alone – Henrik Ibsen
? I'll fortune seldom comes alone – John Dryden
AMBITION
? All ambitions are lawful expect those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind – Joseph Conrad
? Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven – Milton
? If you wish to reach the highest ,begin at the lowest - Syrus
ANCENSTRY
? I have often noticed that : Ancestors never boast : of the descendants who boast : of ancestors, I would rather : start a family than finish : one blood will tell but : often it tells too much - Don Marquis
ANGER
? I was angry with my friends; I told my wrath,my wrath did end; I was angry with my foe; I told it not, my wrath did grow – William Blake
? I never work better than when I am inspired by anger; when I am angry, I can write pray,and preach well , for them my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharp – ened, and all mundance vexation and temptation depart - Martin Luther
? Anyone can become angry.That is easy. But to be angry with the right person,to the right degree , at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way – that is not easy –Aristotle
ANIMAL
? Man is by nature a political animal - Aristotle
ANXIETY
? There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood –William Somerset Maugham
APPEARANCE
? Men is a general Judge more from appearance than from reality. All men have eyes , but few have the gift of penetration – Machiavelli
APPETITE
? Animals feed, man eats; the man of intellect alone knows how to eat – Brillat Savarin
APPRECIATION
? By appreciation we make excellence in others our own property – Voltaire
APRIL
? April is the cruellest month , breeding; Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing; Memory and desire, stirring; Dull roots with spring rain - T.S Eliot
ARCHITECTURE
? Architecture is frozen music – Goethe
ARMY
? An army is a nation within a nation; it is one of the vices of our age – Alfres De Vigny
ART
? Art is long and time is fleeting - Longfellow
? Art lies in concealing Art – Ovid
? All art is but imitation of nature – Seneca
? Great art is as irrational as great music . It is mad with its own loveliness – George JeanNathan
? Art hath an enemy called ignorance – Ben Jonson
? An art can only be learned in the workshop of those who are winning their bread by it –Samuel Butler
? Fine art is that in which the hand , the head, and the heart of man go together – John Ruskin
ARTIST
? The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go bare foot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art – George Bernard Shaw
? The artist does not see things as they are ,but as he is – Alfred Tonnelle
? No great artist ever sees things as they are, if he did he would cease to be an artist – Oscar Wilde
ASPIRATION
? What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me – R.Browning
ATHEISM
? A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth man’s mind to religion – Francis Bacon
? Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people – Voltaire
AUTHOR
? Choose an author as you choose a friend – Earl of Roscommon
