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Atephobia- Fear of ruin or ruins.
Atelophobia- Fear of imperfection. Ataxophobia- Fear of disorder or untidiness. Ataxiophobia- Fear of ataxia (muscular incoordination) Asymmetriphobia- Fear of asymmetrical things. Astrophobia- Fear of stars and celestial space. Astraphobia or Astrapophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning. Asthenophobia- Fear of fainting or weakness. Arsonphobia- Fear of fire. Arrhenphobia- Fear of men. Arithmophobia- Fear of numbers. Arachnephobia or Arachnophobia- Fear of spiders. Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth. Apotemnophobia- Fear of persons with amputations. Apiphobia- Fear of bees. Aphenphosmphobia- Fear of being touched. (Haphephobia) Apeirophobia- Fear of infinity. Anuptaphobia- Fear of staying single. Antlophobia- Fear of floods. Anthropophobia- Fear of people or society. Anthrophobia or Anthophobia- Fear of flowers. Ankylophobia- Fear of immobility of a joint. Angrophobia - Fear of becoming angry. Anglophobia- Fear of England, English culture, etc. Anginophobia- Fear of angina, choking or narrowness. Anemophobia- Fear of air drafts or wind. Androphobia- Fear of men. Ancraophobia or Anemophobia- Fear of wind. Anablepobia- Fear of looking up. Amychophobia- Fear of scratches or being scratched. Amnesiphobia- Fear of amnesia. Ambulophobia- Fear of walking. Amaxophobia- Fear of riding in a car. Amathophobia- Fear of dust. Altophobia- Fear of heights. Allodoxaphobia- Fear of opinions. Alliumphobia- Fear of garlic. Alektorophobia- Fear of chickens. Albuminurophobia- Fear of kidney disease. Ailurophobia- Fear of cats. Aichmophobia- Fear of needles or pointed objects. Agyrophobia- Fear of streets or crossing the street. Agrizoophobia- Fear of wild animals. Agraphobia- Fear of sexual abuse. Agoraphobia- Fear of open spaces or of being in crowded, public places like markets. Fear of leaving a safe place. Agliophobia- Fear of pain. Aeronausiphobia- Fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness. Aeroacrophobia- Fear of open high places. Aerophobia- Fear of drafts, air swallowing, or airbourne noxious substances. Acrophobia- Fear of heights. Acousticophobia- Fear of noise. Achluophobia- Fear of darkness. Acerophobia- Fear of sourness. Acarophobia- Fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching. Ablutophobia- Fear of washing or bathing. My theory on evolution is that Darwin was adopted.--Steven Wright There are only two forces that can carry light to all corners of the globe--the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press.--Mark Twain '640K ought to be enough for anybody.' -- Bill Gates, 1981. 'Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction'. --Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872. 'Everything that can be invented has been invented.' --Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899. 'Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.' --Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre. 'Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.' --Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929. 'Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy.' --Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859. 'Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.' --Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895. 'We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.' --Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962. 'A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make.' --Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies. 'I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper.' --Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in 'Gone With The Wind.' 'The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible.' --A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.) 'The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?' --David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s. 'This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.' --Western Union internal memo, 1876. 'There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.' --Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977. But what ... is it good for?' --Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip. 'I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year.' --The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957. Never enough time, unless you're serving it. -- Anu's Word Server Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. -- George Carlin I hope life isn't one big joke, because I don't get it. -- Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works. -- Fortune TV is chewing gum for the eyes. -- Frank Lloyd Wright 'I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use language that makes him the dominant species on the planet. That may be. But I think there's one other thing that separates us from animals. We aren't afraid of vacuum cleaners.' - Jeff Stilson 'I don't know what's wrong with my television set. I was getting C-Span and the Home Shopping Network on the same station. I actually bought a congressman.' - Bruce Baum 'Ever wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?' - John Mendoza 'I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.' - Elayne Boosler 'I voted for the Republicans because I didn't like the way the Democrats were running the country. Which is turning out to be like shooting yourself in the head to stop your headache.' - Jack Mayberry When you have shot and killed a man you have in some measure clarified your attitude toward him. You have given a definite answer to a definite problem. For better or worse you have acted decisively. In a way, the next move is up to him. -- R. A. Lafferty Immortality -- a fate worse than death. -- Edgar A. Shoaff I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. -- Victor Hugo 'I have just read your lousy review buried in the back pages. You sound like a frustrated old man who never made a success, an eight-ulcer man on a four-ulcer job, and all four ulcers working. I have never met you, but if I do you'll need a new nose and plenty of beefsteak and perhaps a supporter below. Westbrook Pegler, a guttersnipe, is a gentleman compared to you. You can take that as more of an insult than as a reflection on your ancestry.' -- President Harry S Truman 'If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.' -- Muhammad Ali I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. -- Groucho Marx I could dance till the cows come home. On second thought, I'd rather dance with the cows till you come home. -- Groucho Marx Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. -- Charlie Brown She is not refined. She is not unrefined. She keeps a parrot. -- Mark Twain Truth is the most valuable thing we have -- so let us economize it. -- Mark Twain 'I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.' --Mark Twain, 'The Innocents Abroad' Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month. -- Wernher von Braun 'The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views ... which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.' -- Doctor Who, 'Face of Evil' 'There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.' -- Dr. Who 'It's kind of fun to do the impossible.' -- Walt Disney 'The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey.' -- Andy Warhol 'Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.' -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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