The covers of this book are too
far apart.
This book fills a much-needed gap.
Reading makes a full man, conversation a ready man, and writing an exact
man. Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think
the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough
of them.
Anything that is too stupid to be
spoken is sung.
If I were two-faced, would I be
wearing this one?
Few things are harder to put up
with than a good example.
I have never let my schooling
interfere with my education.
The only thing necessary for
the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
He can compress the most words
into the smallest idea of any man I know.
It is the mark of an educated mind
to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Life is what happens to you
while you're busy making other plans.
Take no notice of what the critics
say. No one ever put up a statue to critic
When one word leads to another,
it generally ends up in a quarrel, a speech, or a dictionary.
First you take a drink, then the
drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
It's not the size of the dog
in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
The man who does not read good books
has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Ambrose Bierce
- Moses Hadas (1900-1966) in a
review
- Francis Bacon.
- Flannery O'Connor
- Voltaire
- Abraham Lincoln
- Mark Twain
- Mark Twain
- Edmund Burke
-Abraham Lincoln
- Aristotle
- John Lennon
- Sibelius
- Edmund Burke
- F.Scott Fitzgerald, U.S. novelist
- Mark Twain
- Mark Twain
Maybe you have a quote to share with me.
Updated: July 24, 2002.
Home
Bible
Articles Prophecy Books
Links Travel
Words
& Anagrams Language Photos
Artwork Family