Authority

1. Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
                                                                 -Huxley, Lay Sermons

2. All authority belongs to the people.
                                                                                       -Jefferson

3. The highest duty is to respect authority.
                                                                             -Pope Leo XIII

Audacity

1. Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.
                                                             -Danton, during French 
                                                              Revolution

2. Fortune favors the audacious.
                                                                                   -Erasmus

Atheism

1. I am an atheist, thank God!
                                                                                 -Anonymous

2. I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
                                                                         -Clarence Darrow

3. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.
                                                                                 -Psalms. CIV. I

4. That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
                                                                                           -Swift

5. By night an atheist half believes in God.
                                                                   -Young, Night Thoughts

Associate

1. When a dove begins to associate with crows its feathers remain white but its heart grows black.
                                                                          -German Proverb

2. If you always live with those who are lame, you will yourself learn to limp.
                                                                             -Latin Proverb

3. He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.
                                                                      -Proverbs. XIII. 20

Art

1. Art for art's sake.
                                                                             -Victor Cousin

2. Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
                                                                              -Dante, Inferno
 
3. A picture is a poem without words.
                                                                                         -Horace

4. Art hath an enemy called ignorance.
                                                                                  -Ben Jonson
    
5. Great art is as irrational as music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
                                                                    -George Jean Nathan,
                                                                        House of Satan

6. Its clever, but is it art?
                                                             -Kipling, The Conundrum
                                                                of the Workshops

7. Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.
                                                                        -M. P. Moussorgsky

8. Art is kind of illness.
                                                                          -Giacomo Puccini

9. Art is not the bread but the wine of life.
                                                                       -Jean Paul Richter  

10. Art is difficult, transient is her reward.
                                                                                        -Schiller

11. The artist does not see things as they are, but as he is.
                                                                          -Alfred Tonnelle

Argument

1. Arguments out of a petty mouth are unanswerable.
                                                                                        -Addison

2. Many can argue; not many converse.
                                                                                          -Alcott

3. Wise men argue causes, and fools decide them.
                                                                                   -Anacharsis

4. When Bishop Berkeley said,"there was no matter", and proved it-'twas no matter what he said.
                                                                           -Byron, Don Juan

5. Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.
                                                                                 -Rufus Choate

6. I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but no with comprehension.
                                                                                       -Disraeli

7. How agree the kettle and the earthen pot together?
                                                                    -Ecclesiastes. XIII. 2

8. Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
                                                                                 -Victor Hugo

9. Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.
                                                                                      -Ingersoll

10. Myself when young did eagerly frequent
      Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument
      About it and about: but evermore
      Came out by the same door where in I went.
                                                                            -Omar Khayyam
                                                                                 Rubaiyat

11. Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
                                                                                       -Whately

12. When people agree with me I always fell that I must be wrong.
                                                                -Wilde, The Critic as an
                                                                  Artist

Architecture

1. Old houses mended,
    Cost little less than new before they're ended.
                                                                              -Colley Cibber

2. Architecture is frozen music,
                                                                                   -Goethe 

3. Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all arts.
                                                                             -Longfellow 
                                                                                   Michelangelo

Applause

1. The echo of a platitude.
                                                                      -Bierce, The Devil's 
                                                                            Dictionary

2. Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
                                                                             -Colton, Lacon

3. About the only person we ever heard of that was not spoiled by being lionized was a Jew named Daniel.
                                                                              -G. D. Prentice   

 

Appetite

1. Animals feed, man eats; the man of intellect alone knows how to eat.
                                                                               -Brill at-Savarin

2. All philosophy in two words,-sustain and abstain.
                                                                                        -Epictetus

3. If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.     
                                                                                           -Seneca     

Appearance

1. O wad some power the giftie gie us
    To see ourselves as others see us!
                                                                        -Burns, To a Louse

2. All the glisters is not gold.
                                                                -Cervantes, Don Quixote

3. Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.
                                                                                  -Chesterfield

4. Handsome is that handsome does.
                                                                     -Fielding, Tom Jones

5. Things are seldom what they seem,
    Skim milk masquerades as cream.
                                                                     -W.S. Gilbert , H.M.S.
                                                                        Pinafore

6. Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have gift of penetration.
                                                                                   -Machiavelli 

7. Whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead man's bones.
                                                                        -Mathew. XXIII. 27

8. She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.
                                                            -Swift, Polite Conversation

Apology

1. No sensible person ever made an apology.

                                                                                  -Emerson

2. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

                                                                                 -Holmes

Animals

1. Animals are such agreeable friends; they ask no questions, pass no criticisms.

                                                                                  -George Eliot

2. If it were not for my cat and dog, I think I could not live.

                                                                             -Ebenezer Elliott

3. A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity

                                                                                      -Ingersoll

4. Men show their superiority inside; animals, outside.

                                                                           -Russian Proverb

Anger

1. Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
                                                                             -W. R. Alger

2. Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
                                                                        -Francis Bacon

3. An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes.
                                                                                        -Cato

4. Never answer a letter while you are angry.
                                                                    -Chinese Proverb

5. When angry, count four;when very angry, swear.
                                                                 -Samuel L. Clemens 
                                                                      (Mark Twain),
                                                                  Pudd'nhead Wilson

6. Heaven has no rage, like love to hatred turned,
    Nor Hell a fury, like a women scorned.
                                                                                   -Congreve

7. Beware the fury of a patient man.
                                                                  -Dryden, Absalom and
                                                                             Achitophel

8. Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
                                                                          -Horace, Epistles

9. Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm.
                                                                                      -Ingersoll
 
10. He that is slow to anger is better than mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit then he that taketh a city. 
                                                                            -Proverbs. XVI. 32  

Ancestry

1. A degenerate nobleman, or one that is proud of his birth, is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.
                                                                      -Butler, Characters

2. My father was a creole, his father a Negro, and his father a monkey; my family, it seems, begins where yours let off.
                                                                -Dumas, on being asked
                                                                "Who was your father?"

3. There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
                                                                 -Helen Keller, Story of 
                                                                  My Life

4. Noble ancestry makes a poor dish at table.
                                                                          -Italian Proverb

5. People who take no pride in noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.
                                                                              -Macaulay

6. Who so ever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
                                                                                 -Voltaire

America

1. O beautiful for patriot dream
           That sees beyond the years
    Thine alabaster cities gleam
           Undimmed by human tears!
     America! America!
           God shed his grace on thee,
     And crown thy good with brotherhood
          From sea to shinning sea!
                                                                  -Katharine Lee Bates,
                                                                  America the Beautiful

2. I pledge the allegiance to the flag of United States and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
                                                                 -James B. Upham And 
                                                                       Francis Bellany,
                                                                       Pledge to the flag

3. America is a country of young men.
                                                                                    -Emerson

4. Hail, Columbia! happy land!
    Hail, ye heroes! heaven born band!
    Who fought and bled in freedom's cause.
                                                           -Joseph Hopkinson, Hail,
                                                                          Columbia

5. America is a tune it must be sung together.
                                                                    -Gerald, Stanley Lee,
                                                                             Crowds

6. Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State!
    Sail on, O Union, strong and great!
    Humanity with all its fears,
    With all the hopes of future years
    Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
                                                              -Longfellow, Building of
                                                                            the Ship

7. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
                                                                 -Douglas MacArthur

8. I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American.          
                                                                           -Daniel Webster

9. Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drop of its own weight out of his name.
                                                                        -Woodrow Wilson

10. The generations of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
                                                                           -F. D. Roosevelt,
                                                                               Speech, 1936

11. America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming!...The real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the crucible, I tell you-he will be the fusion of all races, the common superman.
                                                                              -Israel Zangwill   

Ambition

1. When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

                                                                        -Cicero, De Oratore

2. Hitch your wagon to a star.

                                                                   -Emerson, Society and

                                                                               Solitude

3. Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

                                                                  -Longfellow, Driftwood

4. Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

                                                                     -Milton, Paradise lost

5. When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:

    Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:

   Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;

   And Brutus is an honuorable man.

                                                                      -Shakespeare, Julius

                                                                      Caesar.  Act. IV. Sc. 3

6. If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.

                                                                                 -Syrus, Maxims

7. Ambition destroys its processor.

                                                                          -The Talmud, Yoma

8. Ambition has but one reward for all:

    A little power, a little transient fame,

    A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

                                                                       -William Winter, The 

                                                                            Queen's Domain