An old ape hath an old eye. [ Proverb ]

The accident of an accident. [ Lord Thurlow ]

An old man is twice a child. [ Shakespeare ]

Do not sanction an absurdity. [ Mme. de Genlis ]

An undevout astronomer is mad. [ Young ]

A true book is an inspiration. [ Alexander H. Everett ]

Angling is an innocent cruelty. [ George Parker ]

Old age is an incurable disease. [ Seneca ]

Every artist was first an amateur. [ Emerson ]

I am sure care's an enemy to life. [ William Shakespeare ]

An equal has no power over an equal. [ Law Maxim ]

A child is an angel dependent on man. [ Count de Maistre ]

An ill father desires not an ill son. [ Proverb ]

Better an ugly face than an ugly mind. [ James Ellis ]

An ill wound is cured, not an ill name. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation. [ Milton ]

Give him an inch and he'll take an ell. [ Proverb ]

He that steals an egg will steal an ox. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

An ill receiver makes an ill paymaster. [ Proverb ]

Better half an egg than an empty shell. [ Proverb ]

An inch in missing, is as bad as an ell. [ Proverb ]

No sensible person ever made an apology. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

By night an atheist half believes a God. [ Young ]

To be conquered by an hero is an honour. [ Proverb ]

Better an empty house than an ill tenant. [ Proverb ]

As good be an addled egg as an idle bird. [ Proverb ]

An artist should have more than two eyes. [ Lamartine ]

Put not an embroidered crupper on an ass. [ Proverb ]

Amusement, to an observing mind, is study. [ Beaconsfield ]

An handful of trade is an handful of gold. [ Proverb ]

None but an author knows an author's cares. [ Cowper ]

An evil tongue is the proof of an evil mind. [ Publius Syrus ]

Youth isn't an affectation. Youth is an art. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

When a new book comes out, I read an old one. [ Rogers ]

Charity is an eternal debt and without limit. [ Pasquier Quesnel ]

An hour may destroy what an age was building. [ Proverb ]

An Englishman fears contempt more than death. [ Goldsmith ]

An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold. [ Proverb ]

An inch in an hour, is a foot in a day's work. [ Proverb ]

It happens in an hour that comes not in an age. [ Proverb ]

Everything that has a beginning comes to an end. [ Quintilian ]

A pretty fellow, to make an axle-tree for an oven! [ Proverb ]

An ass is beautiful to an ass, and a pig to a pig. [ Proverb ]

Send not for an hatchet to break open an egg with. [ Proverb ]

An honest and diligent servant is an humble friend. [ Proverb ]

Commonsense is nature's gift, but reason is an art. [ Beattie ]

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes. [ Cato ]

An ass is the gravest beast, an owl the gravest bird. [ Proverb ]

The ignorant hath an eagle's wings and an owl's eyes. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom. [ William Pitt ]

An atheist-laugh's a poor exchange For Deity offended! [ Burns ]

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

No one is so much alone in the universe as an athiest. [ Richter ]

If you make your wife an ass, she will make you an ox. [ Proverb ]

Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom. [ Bovee ]

An honourable death is better than an ignominious life. [ Tac ]

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

A contented heart is an even sea in the midst of all storms.

Never do an act of which you doubt the justice or propriety. [ Latin ]

If an ass goes a travelling, he will not come home an horse. [ Proverb ]

An empty human heart is an abyss earth's depths cannot match. [ Anne C. Lynch ]

In an hundred ells of contention there is not an inch of love. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

An indiscreet man is an unsealed letter: every one can read it. [ Chamfort ]

Strange an astrologer should die without one wonder in the sky. [ Swift ]

It will come to pass that every braggart shall be found an ass. [ Shakespeare ]

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. [ Aristotle ]

Government is an art above the attainment of an ordinary genius. [ South ]

An inherent sense of man makes him long for an eternal paradise. [ James Ellis ]

Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons. [ A. B. Alcott ]

Every great book is an action, and every great action is a book. [ Luther ]

A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit. [ Hannah More ]

A third salt; a neutral salt; the union of an acid and an alkali.

An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions. [ Chesterfield ]

When love begins to sicken and decay it useth an enforced ceremony. [ Shakespeare ]

That gentleman who sells an acre of land, sells an ounce of credit. [ Lord Burleigh ]

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason. [ Publius Syrus ]

A young woman married to an old man, must behave like an old woman. [ Proverb ]

God strikes not as an enemy, to destroy; but as a father, to correct. [ Aughey ]

Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious. [ Colton ]

Fortify yourself with contentment for this is an impregnable fortress. [ Epictetus ]

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur. [ Disraeli ]

The universe would not be rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man. [ St. Gregory ]

Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character. [ Froude ]

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. [ Fuller ]

Conversation is an art in which v. man has all mankind for competitors. [ Emerson ]

Character is moral order seen through the medium of an individual nature. [ Emerson ]

The end of man is an action and not a thought, though it were the noblest. [ Carlyle ]

An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly. [ Whipple ]

There is no courage but in innocence, no constancy but in an honest cause. [ Southern ]

I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility. [ Beaconsfield ]

Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument. [ Dr. Watts ]

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

Sculpture and painting have an effect to teach us manners and abolish hurry. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

On her cheek blushes the richness of an autumn sky with ever-shifting beauty. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

The loss of a beloved connection awakens an interest in heaven before unfelt. [ Bovee ]

Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

It is nearly an axiom that people will not be better than the books they read. [ Dr. Potter ]

The soul on earth is an immortal guest, compelled to starve at an unreal feast. [ Hannah More ]

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. [ Emerson ]

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded. [ Pope ]

I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding. [ Samuel Johnson ]