A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Benjamin Franklin
A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.
Jose Bergamin
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Sophocles
A wise man's question contains half the answer.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
Alexander Pope
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
Philip Johnson
All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it, an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.
Peter Conrad
All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
David Herbert Lawrence
American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.
Herbert Croly
An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.
Charles Baudelaire
An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.
E. F. Schumacher
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance.
Marguerite Gardiner
As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains.
Nicolas Malebranche
Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Margaret Fuller
Before the reader turns his back upon the Grand Basin once for all, I should like to put a name upon the glacier it contains - since it is the fashion to name glaciers.
Hudson Stuck
Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this?
Mark E. Smith
Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
Louis E. Boone
Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
Samuel Beckett
Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.
G. I. Gurdjieff
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