All Quotes

A promise made is a debt unpaid.
‐‐ Robert W. Service

A promise made should be a promise kept.
‐‐ Steve Forbes

A promise must never be broken.
‐‐ Alexander Hamilton

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.
‐‐ Robert Byrne

A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven.
‐‐ Jean Chretien

A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.
‐‐ Lafcadio Hearn

A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.
‐‐ Morris Kline

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
‐‐ David Hume

A proper family diary with everyone's events and parties in it really helps organise the household.
‐‐ Anthea Turner

A proper respect for nature means that you can't pollute the air, poison the rivers and chop down the forests indiscriminately without suffering greatly.
‐‐ Jay Parini

A properly designed tax system can strike a balance between helping the poor and, at the same time, giving people the incentive to work.
‐‐ Eric Maskin

A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability.
‐‐ Earl Blumenauer

A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name.
‐‐ Annie Besant

A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.
‐‐ Sun Ra

A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.
‐‐ Oswald Mosley

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
‐‐ Samuel McChord Crothers

A prose writer never sees a reader walk out of a book; for a playwright, it's another matter. An audience is an invaluable education. In my experience, theatre artists don't know what they've made until they've made it.
‐‐ John Lahr

A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.
‐‐ Anne Bradstreet

A Protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns Christian, is far from being secure.
‐‐ John Foxe

A protracted legislative fight will not move us closer to where the music industry wants to be - delivering music to fans through a variety of different, innovative Web sites.
‐‐ Hilary Rosen

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
‐‐ Henry Ward Beecher

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
‐‐ Miguel de Cervantes

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
‐‐ John Morley

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
‐‐ R. Buckminster Fuller

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
‐‐ Lord John Russell

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
‐‐ Joey Adams

A psychic once read my palm and told me I was my mother's mother in a past life. Isn't that weird?
‐‐ Chynna Phillips

A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton

A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.
‐‐ Harold Ramis

A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.
‐‐ Carl Jung

A pub can be a magical place.
‐‐ Rhys Ifans

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
‐‐ Seamus Heaney

A public figure cannot control what people say in open meetings.
‐‐ Jim Bridenstine

A public is a necessary fiction.
‐‐ Rowan Williams

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
‐‐ Richard M. Nixon

A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something for the public.
‐‐ Franklin Knight Lane

A public option is essential to creating the cost-savings necessary to offset the cost of providing all Americans access to affordable health care.
‐‐ Diana DeGette

A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.
‐‐ Tibor Fischer

A publisher - and I write as one - does far more than print and sell a book. It selects, nurtures, positions and promotes the writer's work.
‐‐ Jonathan Galassi

A publisher many years ago asked if I'd like to write a novel for £50. And I said, 'Absolutely.'
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

A publisher saw one of my historical novels and thought I would write an admirable detective story, so she offered me a two-book contract, and I grabbed it.
‐‐ Kerry Greenwood

A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage.
‐‐ Cass Canfield

A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar.
‐‐ Arthur Koestler

A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.
‐‐ Otto Penzler

A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
‐‐ Charles Lamb

A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.
‐‐ Doug Larson

A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.
‐‐ Billie Joe Armstrong