Gerry Adams ~ 1948-
"It might or might not be right to kill, but sometimes it is necessary"
Henry Brooks Adams ~ 1838-1918
"Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds"
"Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral"
"All experience is an arch to build upon."
"Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit."
"No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."
Alfred Adler ~ 1870-1937
"The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth."
Polly Adler ~ 1900-1962
"A house is not a home."
Aeschylus
"And from your policy do not wholly banish fear. For what man living, freed from fear, will still be just?"
Herbert Agar ~ 1897-1980
"The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear."
James Agate ~ 1877-1947
"My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made."
Agesilaus
"Every honourable action has its proper time and season, or rather it is this propriety or observance which distinguishes an honourable action from its opposite."
Agnolo di Tura
"No one wept for the dead, because everyone expected death itself."
Alain (Emile-Auguste Chartier) ~ 1868-1951
"Rien n'est plus dangereux qu'une idee, quand on n'a qu'une idee"
Edward Albee ~ 1928-
"I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humour."
Brian Aldiss ~ 1925-
"Science Fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts."
Alfonso 'the Wise'
"Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe."
Ali Ibn-Abi-Talib ~ c.602-661
"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere."
Fred Allen (John Florence Sullivan) ~ 1894-1956
"Commitee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done."
Anonymous
"Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same."
"Death, nature's way of telling you to slow down."
"Le monde est plein de fous, et qui n'en veut pas voir doit se tenir tout seul, et casser son mirroir."
"I did the worst to him I loved the most."
Jean Anouilh ~ 1910-1987
"Mourir, mourir...Mourir ce n'est rien. Commence donc par vivre. C'est moins drole et c'est plus long."
Aristotle
"We make war that we may live in peace"
"Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly."
W.H. Auden ~ 1907-1973
"To save the world you asked this man to die: Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?"