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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
Friends and Friendship
Aristotle

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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.
Business
P. D. Armour

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It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.
Conversation
Richard Armour

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The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Religion
Matthew Arnold

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Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.
Education
Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley

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Hard pounding, gentlemen: but we shall see who can pound the longest.
Endurance
Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley

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I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they terrify me.
Army and Navy
Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley

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The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!
Spirit and Spirituality
Sholem Asch

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Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.
Absence
Elizabeth Ashley

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You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.
Perseverance
J. Askenberg

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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
Books - Reading
W. H. Auden

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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
Fame
W. H. Auden

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Healing, Papa would tell me, is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.
Convalescence
W. H. Auden

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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
Games
W. H. Auden

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God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.
God
John H. Aughey

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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Adversity
St. Augustine

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I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.
Creation
St. Augustine

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Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
Miracles
St. Augustine

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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
Understanding
St. Augustine

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
Death and Dying
Marcus Aurelius

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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Fear
Marcus Aurelius

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Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
Good and Evil
Marcus Aurelius

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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
Losers and Losing
Marcus Aurelius

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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Money
Jane Austen

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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
Neighbors
Jane Austen

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun