A soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty. |
A solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity |
A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once not oftener. |
A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it |
A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes |
A thoroughly beautiful woman and a thoroughly homely woman are creations which I love to gaze upon, and which I cannot tire of gazing upon, for each is perfect in her own line |
A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught. |
Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors. |
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often |
Adam and Eve had many advantages but the principal one was, that they escaped teething |
Adam was but human-this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. |
Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it. |
Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law. |
Adam was the only man who, when saying a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before him. |
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. |