A Quotations

Themes Starting with the Letter A

A Quotations is a list of quotations themes starting with the letter A.

This is based on research from books of quotations that are about 50 years old. You may find a quotation that is from a source much older, for instance, the Bible.

What is important is that these are quotations that were used and known to a generation that is not far removed from us.

Older ones in the audience will perhaps know and even remember many of these you choose to use.

Younger ones will have a feeling of familiarity with them as they may have heard them in passing.

It is hoped that these are uncommon and as such, are fresh to the audience even though they are recycled.

A Quotations

Absence

Absence makes the heart grow fonder,
Isle of Beauty, Fare thee well!

-Thomas H Bayly, Isle of Beauty

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Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was, that they escaped teething.

-Mark Twain Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar

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Adversity

Sweet are the uses of adversity;
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

-Shakespeare, As You Like It, II,I

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Age

As a white candle in a holy place,
So the beauty of an aged face.

-Joseph Campbell, The Old Woman

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Ambition

All ambition are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

-Joseph Conrad, A Personal Record

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Anger

I was angry with my friend;
I told my wrath, my wrath did end,
I was angry with my foe;
I told it not, my wrath did grow

-William Blake, A Poison Tree

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Art

All passes, Art alone
Enduring stays to us,
The Bust outlasts the throne,

The Coin, Tiberius.

-Austin Dobson, Ars Victrix

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Art is long and time is fleeting.

-Longfellow, a Psalm of Life

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Art lies in concealing art.
(Ars est celare artem.)

-Ovid, Art of Love

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All art is but imitation of nature
(Omnis ars naturae imitation est.)

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B Quotation...Topics Starting with the letter B

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