(1) Everything depends. (2) Nothing is always. (3) Everything is sometimes.
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A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that balances are correct.\n-- Princess Irulan, "Manual of Maud'Dib"
A bird in the bush usually has a friend in there with him.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.\n-- Cervantes
A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring.
A bird in the hand makes it awfully hard to blow your nose.
A boy spent years collecting postage stamps.  The girl next door bought an album too, and started her own collection.  "Dad, she buys everything I've bought, and it's taken all the fun out of it for me.  I'm quitting."  Don't, son, remember, 'Imitation is the sincerest form of philately.'"
A certain amount of opposition is a help, not a hindrance. Kites rise against the wind, not with it.
A chicken is an egg's way of producing more eggs.
A chronic disposition to inquiry deprives domestic felines of vital qualities.
A clever prophet makes sure of the event first.
A closed mouth gathers no foot.
A couch is as good as a chair.
A day without orange juice is like a day without orange juice.
A day without sunshine is like a day without Anita Bryant.
A day without sunshine is like a day without orange juice.
A day without sunshine is like night.
A dead man cannot bite.\n-- Gnaeus Pompeius (Pompey)
A farmer is a man outstanding in his field.
A farmer with extremely prolific hens posted the following sign.  "Free Chickens.  Our Coop Runneth Over."
A father gave his teen-age daughter an untrained pedigreed pup for her birthday.  An hour later, when wandering through the house, he found her looking at a puddle in the center of the kitchen.  "My pup," she murmured sadly, "runneth over."
A fool and his money are soon popular.
A fool and your money are soon partners.
A fool must now and then be right by chance.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.\n-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend in need is a pest indeed.
A full belly makes a dull brain.\n-- Ben Franklin [and the local candy machine man.  Ed]
A girl spent a couple hours on the phone talking to her two best friends, Maureen Jones, and Maureen Brown.  When asked by her father why she had been on the phone so long, she responded "I heard a funny story today and I've been telling it to the Maureens."
A gleekzorp without a tornpee is like a quop without a fertsneet (sort of).
A good memory does not equal pale ink.
A good name lost is seldom regained.  When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever.\n-- J. Hawes
A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.\n-- Patton
A good reputation is more valuable than money.\n-- Publilius Syrus
A good scapegoat is hard to find. A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.\n-- Carolyn Wells
A handful of friends is worth more than a wagon of gold.
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
A hermit is a deserter from the army of humanity.
A homeowner's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a weekend for?
A horse breeder has his young colts bottle-fed after they're three days old.  He heard that a foal and his mummy are soon parted.
A hundred thousand lemmings can't be wrong!
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.\n-- Lao Tsu
A journey of a thousand miles starts under one's feet.\n-- Lao Tsu
A king's castle is his home.
A lie in time saves nine.
A lie is an abomination unto the Lord and a very present help in time of trouble.\n-- Adlai Stevenson
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.\n-- Aristotle
A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.
A little inaccuracy saves a world of explanation.\n-- C.E. Ayres
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.\n-- H.H. Munro, "Saki"
A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time never.
A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.\n-- Alexander Smith
A man who carries a cat by its tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
A man with one watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never quite sure.
A man's best friend is his dogma.
A man's house is his castle.\n-- Sir Edward Coke
A man's house is his hassle.
A mind is a wonderful thing to waste.
A mushroom cloud has no silver lining.
A penny saved has not been spent.
A penny saved is ridiculous.
A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.
A place for everything and everything in its place.\n-- Isabella Mary Beeton, "The Book of Household Management" [Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4.4, when referring to memory management system services.]
A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.\n-- Stanley Baldwin
A plethora of individuals with expertise in culinary techniques contaminate the potable concoction produced by steeping certain edible nutriments.
A plucked goose doesn't lay golden eggs.
A pound of salt will not sweeten a single cup of tea.
"A radioactive cat has eighteen half-lives."
A rolling stone gathers momentum.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.\n-- Publilius Syrus
A shortcut is the longest distance between two points.
A sinking ship gathers no moss.\n-- Donald Kaul
A Smith & Wesson beats four aces.
A snake lurks in the grass.\n-- Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil)
A soft answer turneth away wrath; but grievous words stir up anger.\n-- Proverbs 15:1
A soft drink turneth away company.
A song in time is worth a dime.
A stitch in time saves nine.
A violent man will die a violent death.\n-- Lao Tsu
A watched clock never boils.
A wise man can see more from a mountain top than a fool can from the bottom of a well.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.
A wise person makes his own decisions, a weak one obeys public opinion.\n-- Chinese proverb
A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention.
A witty saying proves nothing.\n-- Voltaire
A word to the wise is enough.\n-- Miguel de Cervantes
Above all else -- sky.
Above all things, reverence yourself.
Absence makes the heart forget.
Absence makes the heart go wander.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder -- of somebody else.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.\n-- Sextus Aurelius
Absence makes the heart grow frantic.
Absolutum obsoletum.  (If it works, it's out of date.)\n-- Stafford Beer
Ad astra per aspera.\n[To the stars by aspiration.]
Adde parvum parvo manus acervus erit.\n[Add little to little and there will be a big pile.]\n-- Ovid
Advice from an old carpenter: measure twice, saw once.
After the game the king and the pawn go in the same box.\n-- Italian proverb
Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill.
Age before beauty; and pearls before swine.\n-- Dorothy Parker
Aim for the moon.  If you miss, you may hit a star.\n-- W. Clement Stone
Ain't no right way to do a wrong thing.\n-- The Mad Dogtender
Alas, I am dying beyond my means.\n-- Oscar Wilde [as he sipped champagne on his deathbed]
Alimony is the high cost of leaving.
All a man needs out of life is a place to sit 'n' spit in the fire.
All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous.
All I kin say is when you finds yo'self wanderin' in a peach orchard, ya don't go lookin' for rutabagas.\n-- Kingfish
All is fear in love and war.
All is well that ends well.\n-- John Heywood
All that glitters has a high refractive index.
All that glitters is not gold; all that wander are not lost.
All things are possible, except for skiing through a revolving door.
All things being equal, you are bound to lose.
All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.
All's well that ends.
An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.\n-- Karl Kraus
An apple a day makes 365 apples a year.
An apple every eight hours will keep three doctors away.
An idle mind is worth two in the bush.
An ounce of clear truth is worth a pound of obfuscation.
An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.\n-- Michael Korda
An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.\n-- Spanish proverb
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of purge."
And tomorrow will be like today, only more so.\n-- Isaiah 56:12, New Standard Version
Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.\n-- Proverbs, 26:5
Any philosophy that can be put "in a nutshell" belongs there.\n-- Sydney J. Harris
Any road followed to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.\n-- Bene Gesserit proverb, "Dune"
Anything is possible on paper.\n-- Ron McAfee
Anything is possible, unless it's not.
Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently.  Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.\n-- Max Beerbohm, "Mainly on the Air"
Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
As well look for a needle in a bottle of hay.\n-- Miguel de Cervantes
Ask not for whom the Bell tolls, and you will pay only the station-to-station rate.\n-- Howard Kandel
Ask not for whom the telephone bell tolls... if thou art in the bathtub, it tolls for thee.
Avoid cliches like the plague.  They're a dime a dozen.
Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.\n-- Homer
Be sure to evaluate the bird-hand/bush ratio.
Beggars should be no choosers.\n-- John Heywood
Better dead than mellow.
Better hope you get what you want before you stop wanting it.
Better late than never.\n-- Titus Livius (Livy)
Better living a beggar than buried an emperor.
Better to be nouveau than never to have been riche at all.
Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.\n-- motto of the Christopher Society
Better tried by twelve than carried by six.\n-- Jeff Cooper
Beware of friends who are false and deceitful.
Beware of geeks bearing graft.
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.\n-- Indian proverb
Charity begins at home.\n-- Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
Cheap things are of no value, valuable things are not cheap.
Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.\n-- P.J. O'Rourke
Cleanliness is next to impossible.
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am."\n-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
"Cogito ergo I'm right and you're wrong."\n-- Blair Houghton
Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought her back.
Desist from enumerating your fowl prior to their emergence from the shell.
Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.\n-- Aesop
Do unto others before they undo you.
Do, or do not; there is no try.
Doing gets it done.
Don't get even -- get odd!
Don't get mad, get even.\n-- Joseph P. Kennedy Don't get even, get jewelry. -- Anonymous
Don't get mad, get interest.
Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.
Eschew obfuscation.
Every path has its puddle.
Every silver lining has a cloud around it.
Every solution breeds new problems.
Expedience is the best teacher.
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.\n-- Minna Antrim, "Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions"
Familiarity breeds attempt.
Flattery will get you everywhere.
Flee at once, all is discovered.
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.\n-- Alexander Pope
Forgive and forget.\n-- Cervantes
Fortune and love befriend the bold.\n-- Ovid
Fortune favors the lucky.
Fortune finishes the great quotations, #12\nThose who can, do.  Those who can't, write the instructions.
Fortune finishes the great quotations, #3\nBirds of a feather flock to a newly washed car.
Fortune finishes the great quotations, #9\nA word to the wise is often enough to start an argument.
Freedom from incrustation of grime is contiguous to rectitude.
Genius is pain.\n-- John Lennon
Given sufficient time, what you put off doing today will get done by itself.
God gave man two ears and one tongue so that we listen twice as much as we speak.\n-- Arab proverb
Happiness adds and multiplies as we divide it with others.
Happiness is the greatest good.
Haste makes waste.\n-- John Heywood
Have a nice day!
Have a nice diurnal anomaly.
Have an adequate day.
He that bringeth a present, findeth the door open.\n-- Scottish proverb.
He who fears the unknown may one day flee from his own backside.\n-- Sinbad
He who fights and runs away lives to fight another day.
He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over.
He who has a shady past knows that nice guys finish last.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.\n-- Giacomo Leopardi
He who hates vices hates mankind.
He who hesitates is last.
He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.\n-- Bertolt Brecht
He who laughs last -- missed the punch line.
He who laughs last didn't get the joke.
He who laughs last hasn't been told the terrible truth.
He who laughs last is probably your boss.
He who laughs last usually had to have joke explained.
He who laughs, lasts.
He who lives without folly is less wise than he believes.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.\n-- Dr. Johnson
Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.
Honesty's the best policy.\n-- Miguel de Cervantes
Honi soit qui mal y pense.\n[Evil to him who evil thinks.]\n-- Motto of the Order of the Garter (est. Edward III)
How sharper than a hound's tooth it is to have a thankless serpent.
How you look depends on where you go.
I am a man: nothing human is alien to me.\n-- Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
I doubt, therefore I might be.
I know on which side my bread is buttered.\n-- John Heywood
I think, therefore I am... I think.
I'll turn over a new leaf.\n-- Miguel de Cervantes
If a fool persists in his folly he shall become wise.\n-- William Blake
If anything can go wrong, it will.
If at first you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
If at first you don't succeed, quit; don't be a nut about success.
If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.\n-- W.E. Hickson
If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average.\n-- Leonard Levinson
If happiness is in your destiny, you need not be in a hurry.\n-- Chinese proverb
If I cannot bend Heaven, I shall move Hell.\n-- Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil)
If in doubt, mumble.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
If it heals good, say it.
If the shoe fits, it's ugly.
If the thunder don't get you, then the lightning will.
If there is no wind, row.\n-- Polish proverb
If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.\n-- Laurence J. Peter
If wishes were horses, then beggars would be thieves.
If you wish to be happy for one hour, get drunk. If you wish to be happy for three days, get married. If you wish to be happy for a month, kill your pig and eat it. If you wish to be happy forever, learn to fish.\n-- Chinese Proverb
If you wish to succeed, consult three old people.
If you would keep a secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.
In charity there is no excess.\n-- Francis Bacon
In God we trust; all else we walk through.
In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.\n-- Benjamin Franklin
Inspiration without perspiration is usually sterile.
Integrity has no need for rules.
It doesn't matter whether you win or lose -- until you lose.
