The covers of this book are too far apart.
- Ambrose Bierce

This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas (1900-1966) in a review

Reading makes a full man, conversation a ready man, and writing an exact man.
- Francis Bacon.

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
- Flannery O'Connor

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
- Voltaire

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
- Abraham Lincoln

Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain

 I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain

 The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

 He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
-Abraham Lincoln

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon

Take no notice of what the critics say. No one ever put up a statue to critic
- Sibelius

When one word leads to another, it generally ends up in a quarrel, a speech, or a dictionary.
- Edmund Burke

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
- F.Scott Fitzgerald, U.S. novelist

 It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain