“Ability is a poor man’s wealth” – Anonymous

“The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators”- Edward Gibbon

“Ability is of little account without opportunity” – Napoleon

“Behind an able man there are always other able men” – Chinese Proverb

“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done”- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“They are able because they think they are able” – Virgil, Aeneid

“Ability is a poor man’s wealth” – Anonymous

“The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators”- Edward Gibbon

“Ability is of little account without opportunity” – Napoleon

“Behind an able man there are always other able men” – Chinese Proverb

“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done”- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“They are able because they think they are able” – Virgil, Aeneid

“Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation” – Mahatma Gandhi

“There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed especially if he sees that all those around him live the same way” - Leo Tolstoy

“Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem” – Eric Hoffer

“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature’s inexorable imperative” – H.G. Wells

“I dance to the tune that is played” –Spanish Proverb

“Admiration is a very short lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its objectives” – Joseph Addisson, The Spectator

“Admiration – our polite recognition of another’s resemblance to ourselves” – Ambrose Bierce, The Devils Dictionary

“For fools admire, but men of sense approve” – Alexander Pope, Essays on Criticism

“We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire” – Francois De La Rouchefoucauld

“There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion” – Charles Caleb Colton

“God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them” – Aughey

“Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a prosperous jewel in his head” William Shakespeare, As You Like it.

“He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity” – Ben Johnson

“Adversity is the first path too truth”- Lord Byron

“Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture” – Charles Caleb Colton

“That which does not kill me makes me stronger” – Friedrich Wilhem Neitzsche

“One gives nothing so freely as advice” – Francois De La Rouchefoucauld

“I intend to give you some advice but now I remember how much is left over from last year unused” – George Harris

“There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice” – Joseph Addison

“He that wont be counselled cant be helped” – Benjamin Franklin

“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t” – Erica Jong

“This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe” – Phyllis McGinley

“I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it” – Mary Wortley Montagu

“The true secret of giving advice is after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right”- Hannah Whitehall Smith

“We turn not older, but newer everyday”  - Emily Dickinson

“I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old-or being young for that matter” – Katherine Hepburn

“Age is not a handicap. Age is nothing but a number. It is how you use it” – Ethel Payne

“Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety” William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“Hitch your wagon to a star” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Most people would succeed in small things, if we were not troubled with great ambitions” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Driftwood

“A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position”. Jean De La Bruyere

“Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace” – John Cowper Powys

“If you take big paces, you leave big spaces”- Burmese proverb

“Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture as creeping” – Jonathan Swift

“Too low they build, who build beneath the stars” – Edward Young

“When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honourable to reach the second or even the third rank” – CICERO, De Oratore

“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

“Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason” – W.R.Alger

“Of all the bad things by which mankind are cursed, Their own bad tempers surely are the worst” – Richard Cumberland

“Never answer a letter while you are angry” – Chinese Proverb

“Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you”- HORACE, Epistles

“Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours” – Frank Moore Colby

“To be angry is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves” – Alexander Pope

“Anger as soon as fed is dead

Tis starving makes it fat”

                               -Emily Dickson

“A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good” – Henry Ward Beecher

“In free society, art is not a weapon… artists are not engineers of the soul” – John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Art is long and time is fleeting” – Henry Wordsworth Linlithgow

“Art Necessarily presupposes knowledge” – John Staurt Mill

“Art is always and everywhere the secret confession and at the same time an immortal movement of its time”. Karl Marx

“Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life” – Jean Paul Richtier

“Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity” – M.P.Moussorgsky

“Art hath an enemy called ignorance” – Ben Johnson

“Great Artists have no country” – Alfred De Musset

“Art lies in concealing art” – Ovid

“Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures” – George Braque

“It depends little on the object, much on the mood, in art”. Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea” – Andre Gide

“Art changes all the time, but it never ‘improves’. It may go down, or up, but it never improves as technology or medicine improves” – Alfred Kazin

“Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth” – Pablo Picasso

“Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible” – Paul Klee

“Art teaches nothing except the significance of life” – Henry Miller

“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable” – George Bernard Shaw

“ Art, like life, should be free, since both are experimental.” George Santayana

“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known” – Oscar Wilde

“Art is the only way to run away without leaving home” – Twyla Tharp

“The artist does not see things as they are, but as he is” – Alfred Tonnelle

“ An artist is a creature driven by demons”. – William Faulkner

“As soon as you talk about social or political responsibility, you’ve amputated the best limbs you’ve got in an artist”- David Cronenberg

“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have” -  Andy Warhol

“Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man” – Francis Bacon

“An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support” – John Buhan

“If there is a God, atheism must strike him as less of an insult than religion”-Edmond and Jules Goncourt

“The equal toleration of all religions is the same as atheism” – Leo X111

“Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist” – S.T.Coleridge

“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” – Jonathan Swift

“By night an atheist half believes in god” – Edward Young, Night Thoughts

“I am an atheist, Thank God!” – Anonymous

“If there is a god, we must see him, if there is a soul, we must feel it, otherwise it is better not to believe it. It is better to be an atheist than to be a hypocrite” – Swami Vivekananda

“A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth man’s mind about to religion” – Francis Bacon

“He who considers himself free is free indeed, and he who considers himself bound remains bound. As one thinks, so one becomes” – Ashtavakra Samhita

“Do not ask for the position of authority, for if you are granted this position as a result of your asking for it, you will be left to discharge it yourself; but you are given it without asking, you will be helped (by God)!” – Hadith Muslim

“Authority is never without hate” – Euripides

“Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt” – Robert Linder

“Every great advance in Natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority” – Thomas Huxley

“If you wish to know what a man is, place him in an authority”. – Anonymous

“All authority belongs to the people” – Thomsa Jefferson