Age
Age sits with decent grace upon his visage,
And worthily becomes his silver locks;
He bears the marks of many years well spent,
Adversity
Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from our impatience. Bishop Horne
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. Horace
Actions
Our actions are our own; their consequences belong to Heaven. Francis
The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interr’d with their bones. Shakespeare
All our actions take
Their hues from the complexion of the heart,
As landscapes their variety from light. W. T. Bacon
Actions of the last age are like almanacs of [...]
Action
We should often be ashamed of our very best actions, if the world only saw the motives which caused them. La Rochefoucauld
When we cannot act as we wish, we must act as we can. Terrence
The end of man is an action, and not a thought, though it were the noblest. [...]
Acting
All the world’s a stage. Shakespeare
Account
No reckoning made, but sent to my account
With all my imperfections in my head. Shakespeare
Abuse
The bitter clamour of two eager tongues. Shakespeare
Absence
In my Lucia’s absence
Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, and grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me. Addisoon
O thou who dost inhabit in my breast,
Leave not the mansion, so long tenantless;
Lest growing ruinous the building [...]
