Quotes starting with A
Below you will find our collection of inspirational quotes and sayings starting with the letter A, collected over the years from a variety of sources.
Quotes
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A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
A wild goose never laid a tame egg. -- Gaelic (on authenticity)
A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again. -- Horace (65-8 BC)
A work ill done must be twice done. -- Welsh (on business)
A year's care; a minute's ruin. -- Tagalog (Filipino) (on perversity)
Ability may get you to the top but it's character that will keep you there. -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Absence is to love as wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small and enkindles the great. -- Comte de Bussy-Rabutin (1618-1693)
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. -- Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797-1839)
Accidents will happen -- George Colman (1732-1794)
Actions speak louder than words. -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Adapt the remedy to the disease. -- Chinese Proverb
Adversity is a gift. -- unknown
Adversity makes strange bedfellows. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Advice after mischief is like medicine after death. -- Danish (on advice)
Advise no one to go to war or marry. -- Spanish (on advice)
After crosses and losses, men grow humbler and wiser. -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
After dinner rest a while; after supper walk a mile. -- T. Cogan (1584)
After the war, aid. -- Greek Proverb
Aim for the stars. -- unknown
Aim high in your career but stay humble in your heart. -- Korean (on ambition)
Ain't no pot so crooked, you can't find a lid to fit. -- unknown
All are not saints, who go to church. -- Italian (on hypocrisy)
All cats are grey in the dark. -- John Heywood (c.1497-1580)
All experience is education for the soul. -- unknown
All food is fit to eat but not all words are fit to speak. -- Haitian (on discretion)
All good things must come to an end. -- H.H. Riley (1857)
All happiness is in the mind. -- English (on attitude)
All in good time. -- Horace (65-8 BC)
All of us, the great and the little have need of each other. -- Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
All that glitters is not gold. -- Latin Proverb
All the world's a stage. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
All truth passes through three stages: First it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed and third it is accepted as being self-evident -- ent. - unknown
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy -- unknown, courtesy of Leah Cummings
All's well that ends well. -- John Heywood (c.1497-1580)
Almost only counts in horseshoes. -- unknown
Always be prepared. -- unknown
Always keep an open mind. -- unknown
Ambition begets vexations. -- Singhalese (on ambition)
Ambition destroys its possessor. -- Hebrew (on ambition)
Ambition is a good servant but a bad master. -- unknown
An apple a day keeps the doctor away. -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
An army of a thousand is easy to find but ah how difficult to find a general. -- Chinese Proverb<
An hour may destroy what an age was building. -- English (on permanence and change)
An old error has more friends than a new truth. -- Danish (on habit)
An old ox makes a straight furrow. -- Spanish (on experience)
An open foe may prove a curse but a pretended friend is worse. -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. -- unknown
Anger is a short madness. -- Horace (65-8 BC)
Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it. -- English (on anger)
Anger is one letter short of danger. -- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
Another day, another dollar. -- unknown
Any plan is bad that cannot be changed. -- Italian (on planning)
Any port in a storm. -- unknown
Any water in the desert will do. -- Arabic (on practicality)
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. -- Publilius Syrus (c.42 B.C.)
Anyone can stand adversity but to test a person's character, give them power. -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Anyone who will gossip to you, will gossip about you. -- unknown
Anything with scales counts as a fish. -- Malay (on appearance and reality)
Appearances are deceptive. -- Italian Proverb
As long as you live, keep learning how to live. -- Latin proverb (on the conduct of life)
As the day lengthens, the cold strengthens. -- E. Pellham (1631)
As the spokes of a wheel are attached to the hub, so all things are attached to life. -- Sanskrit (on life and living)
As the sun's shadow shifts, so there is no permanence on earth. -- Afghan (on permanence and change)
As you shall sow, so shall you reap. -- Bible
At high tide, fish eat ants; at low tide, ants eat fish. -- Thai (on permanence and change)
At the bottom of patience one finds heaven. -- Kanuri (West African) (on patience)
At the gate of patience there is no crowding. -- Moroccan (on patience)
Avoid a cure that is worse than the disease. -- Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice. -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)