rrD-8 rrD r5<D-8 rrpDr.pD _rD + r rD+ r+`Drr3ZDr+`~ V dvWaj@+1@@E**M 4X 1J+&1J`i ,1 0*9+-$,.,/`S (`Zd)z~/ ,9+? (`]d,9+?K (`ad ,98,5+?,"c 8icQ*A`d(R!6>,B,bvfr+C`gd ,r <`h.9~VM9(EHECHY@g&~@  @@g&~@  @ H`@g&~@ @@g&~@ zM@e@@M&ut@ >~;1 In Boston they ask, How much does he know? In New York, How much is he worth? In Philadelphia, Who were his parents? - Mark Twain }ayxi ;8 2 Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest. - Mark Twain +nTD,x 3 When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred. - Thomas Jefferson "xSafxj (4 When angry, count four; when very angry, swear. - Mark Twain r]mQ$8 3e5 Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. - Mark Twain 12[xk`e( w~pm6 Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it. - Mark Twain ^pC=@mX (v7 All the modern inconveniences. - Mark Twain A9Hf\xl0v 8 Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience -- four thousand critics. - Mark Twain  ( U9 Base eight is just like base ten, really -- if you're missing two fingers! - Tom Lehrer cxm b#10 Vulgar of manner, overfed, Overdressed and underbred; Heartless, Godless, hell's delight, Rude by day and lewd by night. - Byron RufusCc8A Newton, "Owed to New York" (1906) q-# h m~%11 Purple-robed and pauper-clad, Raving, rotting, money-mad; A squirming herd in Mammon's mesh, A wilderness of human flesh; Crazed with avari[~H4ce, lust, and rum, New York, thy name's Delirium. - Byron Rufus Newton, "Owed to New York" (1906) vL?xn8% 12 In war there is no second prize for the runner-up. Omar Bradley (1950) H ~HH13 I am a member of the rabble in good standing. - Westbrook Pegler "The Lynching Story" (1894 -) LxoxH M14 Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead. - James Thurber "Fables for Our Time" (1940) B$8 315 Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the 'phone? - James Thurber New Yorker cartoon (1894-1961) q#=!Mxp B~@o16 I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you? - James Thurber New Yorker cartoon (1894-1961) 2Ѕ0o ~8{17 He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes. - James Thurber New Yorker cartoon (1894-1961) x9&xq`{ 18 It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. - James Thurber (1894-1961) W  k~ 19 The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra la, Have nothing to do with the case. - William Gilbert "The Mikado" (1885) Hkwxr 8 C20 On a cloth untrue With a twisted cue And elliptical billiard balls. - William Gilbert "The Mikado" (1885) h' C ~ /21 There's a fascination frantic In a ruin that's romantic; Do you think you are sufficiently decayed? - William Gilbert "The ` >Mikado" (1885) %ɇxs 0 / +~ @22 The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well. - William Gilbert "Iolanthe" (1882) w ( @L O~ O23 When you're lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to A~~>~x ^ indulge in, without impropriety. - William Gilbert "Iolanthe" (1882) -)3xtH O o 24 For he might have been a Roosian, A French or Turk or Proosian, Or perhaps Itali-an. But in spite of all temptations To bel"Rn ong to other nations, He remains an Englishman. - William Gilbert "H.M.S. Pinafore" (1878) \+mjk p P 25 And so do his sisters, and his cousins, and his aunts! His sisters and his cousins, Whom he reckons up by dozens, And his aunts! bk%2  - William Gilbert "H.M.S. Pinafore" (1878) h @;xu  0 k )26 Darwinian Man, though well-behaved, At best is only a monkey shaved! - William Gilbert "Princess Ida" (1884) LaX?% )h C27 I can't help it. I was born sneering. - William Gilbert "The Mikado" (1885) ICxvt CX ~ +28 Mere corroborative detail intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative. - William Gilbert \d/H : Pooh Bah, in "The Mikado" (1885) PaKE` H + 1 {29 BUT: Red, am I? and round -- and rosy! May be, for I have dissembled well! But hark ye, my merry friend -- hast ever thou> ght that beneath a gay and frivolous exterior there may lurk a canker-worm which is slowly but surely eating its way into one's ve3V^ ry heart? BOAT: No, my lass, I can't say I've ever though that. DICK: I'VE thought it often. (All recoil from him.) BUT: Yes, you looje k like it! What's the matter with the man? Isn't he well? BOAT: Don't take no heed of HIM, that's only poor Dick Deadeye. - Wil3yBjb liam Gilbert "H.M.S. Pinafore" (1878) OKhxw  {( ,~ ~30 DICK: From such a face and form as mine the noblest sentiments sound like the black utterances of a depraved imagination. G,a0 - William Gilbert "H.M.S. Pinafore" (1878) h ',; @ ~ ~ 31 RALPH: I am poor in the essence of happiness, lady -- rich only in never-ending unrest. In me there meet a combination of antithetical elemez8u7~ !nts which are at eternal war with one another. Driven hither by objective influences -- thither by subjective emotions -- wafted one moment x~ 0into blazing day, by mocking hope -- plunged the next into the Cimmerian darkness of tangible despair, I am but a living ganglion of irreconcHI[wS~ ?ilable antagonisms. I hope I make myself clear, lady? JOS: Perfectly. (Aside.) His simple eloquence goes to my heart. - William Gii9@ Nlbert "H.M.S. Pinafore" (1878) CxD[Fxx'h  ~X R32 Books, the children of the brain. - Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) "A Tale of a Tub" (1704) Jg@ R 33 We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. - Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) "Thoughts on VB#+KW arious Subjects" (1711) ,dCxy hO~@ n34 A nice man is a man of nasty ideas. - Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) "Thoughts on Various Subjects" (1711) pg( n ~ z35 The burden of the incommunicable. - Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859) "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" (1822-1856) Tp&@xz  z< 36 If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbat)QA /h-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. - Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859) "Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts"Ws} M (1827) % `~ Q37 The time ain't far off when a woman won't know any more than a man. - Will Rogers (1879-1935) yx{ Q8~ 338 Peace, peace, thou hippopotamus! We really look all right to us, As you no doubt delight the eye Of other hippopotami. - Ogden Nash (12h B902-1971) b.lkp  3|U 39 She should have died hereafter; There would have been a time for such a word. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace? from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candHA2 w le! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more; it is a tale Told by&vRD an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. - Shakespeare (1564-1616) "Macbeth" V, v, 17. ':KGx| #(< 40 Out, damned spot! out, I say! - Shakespeare (1564-1616) "Macbeth" V, i, 38. pglY?t Xv~41 Lay on, Macduff, And damn'd be him that first cries, "Hold, enough!" - Shakespeare (1564-1616) "Macbeth" V, vii, 62. ]tCx} @~42 'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit. -\P9o$ Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) "Cadenus and Vanessa" (1713) (L! U43 Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style. - Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) "Letter to a Young Clergyman" (1720)} G" s xx~` U 0'~0:44 Black as the devil Hot as hell, Pure as an angel, Sweet as love. - Talleyrand (1754-1838) Recipe for coffee JP{O:o~G45 [Of the Bourbons] They have learned nothing, and forgotten nothing. - Talleyrand (1754-1838) Letter to Mallet du Pan (1796) 5R$:xhG, 46 The United States has thirty-two religions but only one dish. - Talleyrand (1754-1838) Attributed % U~a47 Tobacco is a filthy weed, That from the devil does proceed; It drains your purse, it burns your clothes, And makes a chimney of your nose. ;"@p - Benjamin Waterhouse (1754-1846) IUM\x pa~t48 But, in case signals can neither be seen or perfectly understood, no captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemV~py. - Horatio Nelson (1758-1805) Memorandum to the fleet, off Cadiz (1805)  zht 49 One should always be a little improbable. - Oscar Wilde +DFZx  ~(50 The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream. - Oscar Wilde Ypa( -A51 Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. - Mark Twain IxAX%W52 Logic is like the sword -- those who appeal to it, shall perish by it. - Samuel Butler y+W1~8653 One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. - A.A. Milne *Ix~xX6y54 The world was made before the English language and seemingly on a different design. - Robert Louis Stevenson anp;@J~0O55 You see things and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were and I say "Why not?" - George Bernard Shaw _+h1xpO~\56 You think that because you have a purpose, Nature must have one. You might as well expect it to have fingers and toes because you have them. UP40k - The Devil (in Shaw's Man and Superman) f6(DX 0\~xp57 A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde QixpD58 This is the sort of English up with which I will not put. - Churchill (attributed) WA5U x`~59 The grammar has a rule absurd Which I would call an outworn myth: "A preposition is a word You mustn't end a sentence with!" - BertonF8z`X Braley (1882-1966) 4Lx X'60 Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind. - Wolcott Gibbs (1902-1958) 3 T'!~p61 Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all. - Churchill PZgxP`U~H%62 What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. - Jane Austen HR3_x%ia63 For we are like tree trunks in the snow. In appearance they lie sleekly and a little push should be enough to set them rolling. No, it can't >EoD.be done, for they are firmly wedded to the ground. But see, even that is only appearance. - Franz Kafka (1884-1924) dŇxPaA64 I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon tÈ|khe surface of the earth. - Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) "Gulliver's Travels. Voyage to Brobdingnag" (1726) H^~h65 He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in vials hermetically sealed, and let outI +~(w to warm the air in raw inclement summers. - Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) "Gulliver's Travels. Voyage to Laputa" (1726) U=8Zx `hh 66 I said the thing which was not. - Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) "Gulliver's Travels. Voyage to the Houyhnhnms" (1726) {q_+$ 8%67 So, naturalists observe, a flea Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller still to bite 'em; And so proceed ad infinitum. C Thus every poet, in his kind, Is bit by him that comes behind. - Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) "On Poetry. A Rhapsody" (1733) j~iVx %'_68 She wears her clothes, as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork. - Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) "Polite Conversation" (1738) 2D_xE~H>69 May you live all the days of your life. - Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) "Polite Conversation" (1738) I~ix >70 It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory. - Alain Rene Le Sage (1668-1747) Gil Blas (1715-1735) '`W(a~`W71 Facts are stubborn things. - Alain Rene Le Sage (1668-1747) Gil Blas (1715-1735) ek|^;x W|~ha72 Facts are contrary 'z mules. - James Russell Lowell "Biglow Papers" (1862) RCXad73 Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. - William Congreve (1670-1729) "The Mourning BridIe" (1697) z0{-x x~H{74 By magic numbers and persuasive sound. - William Congreve (1670-1729) "The Mourning Bride" (1697) !i{- 75 I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country. - William Congreve (1670-1729) "The Way of the World" (1700) R+Z)xD x#~76 Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants. - William Congreve (1670-1729) "The Way of the World" (1700) pL+7 He~X$77 Possession is eleven points in the law. - Colley Cibber (1671-1757) "Woman's Wit" (1697) 5tQxH$]78 Off with his head -- so much for Buckingham. - Colley Cibber (1671-1757) "Richard III (altered)" (1700) jn]0Nu79 Perish the thought! - Colley Cibber (1671-1757) "Richard III (altered)" (1700) EDsx|uh[~hD80 Stolen sweets are best. - Colley Cibber (1671-1757) "The Rival Fools" (1709) "6s^J!hDl81 A man that could look no way but downwards with a muckrake in his hand. - John Bunyan (1628-1688) "Pilgrim's Progress" (1678) D$UGx@pp~P\82 And torture one poor word ten thousand ways. - John Dryden (1631-1700) "Mac Flecknoe" (1682) u{R#h\~g83 Judging by the virtues expected of a servant, does your Excellency know many masters who would be worthy valets? - Pierre de Beaumarchais YeNWY0v(1732-1799) "Le Barbier de Seville" (1775) Dʉx 8g~ {84 If you are mediocre and you grovel, you shall succeed. - Pierre de Beaumarchais (1732-1799) "Le Mariage de Figaro" (1784) K%P{ A~  85 You went to some trouble to be born, and that's all. - Pierre de Beaumarchais (1732-1799) "Le Mariage de Figaro" (1784) QRyHx@ _~`86 Prefer geniality to grammar. - H.W. and F.G. Fowler "The King's English" (1906) a'x}~!87 HACKNEYED PHRASES.... but their true use when they come into the writer's mind is as danger signals; he should take warning that when they sug56$xZ~0gest themselves it is because what he is writing is bad stuff, or it would not need such help; let him see to the substance of his cake instead oftC~H? decorating with sugarplums. - H. W. Fowler (1859-1933) "A Dictionary of Modern English Usage" (1926) e!xx!t88 QUOTATION.... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, s,q Cor because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a chord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show tha"[t he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuou.s; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium. ǜ - H.W. and F.G. Fowler "A Dictionary of Modern English Usage" (1926) (_}?) *(t89 It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. - Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859-1927) "Idle Thoughts of; an Idle Fellow: On Being Idle" (1889) n+LJx (9E90 The greatest invention of the nineteenth century wa the invention of the method of invention. - Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) "Siccience and the Modern World" (1925) 0O#+E HNk91 There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil. - Alfred North WT{637hitehead (1861-1947) "Dialogues of..." (1953) %x(k @b~J92 The vitality of thought is in adventure. IDEAS WON'T KEEP. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervߒ~8Yor, live for it, and, if need be, die for it. - Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) "Dialogues of..." (1953) -xJ493 Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing aprehended. - Alfred North WYUj~hitehead (1861-1947) "Dialogues of..." (1953) %x( @~z94 Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment in recognition of the pattern. - Alfred North Whitehead (1861-)@ 1947) "Dialogues of..." (1953) / XzS~95 Children, behold the Chimpanzee: He sits on the ancestral tree From which we sprang in ages gone. I'm glad we sprang: had we held on, We mN];~8ight, for aught that I can say, Be horrid Chimpanzees today. - Oliver Herford (1863-1935) "The Chimpanzee" CvLa#x8{Q96 The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stum n5oble than to be walked upon. - Franz Kafka (1884-1924) "The Great Wall of China" vCMrP1QZ~A97 There are two cardinal sins from which all the others spring: impatience and laziness. - Franz Kafka (1884-1924) "Letters". ^'HxpA098 Tobacco is a dirty weed. I like it. It satisfies no normal need. I like it. It makes you thin, it makes you lean, It takes the hair right o/aff your bean. It's the worst darn stuff I've ever seen. I like it. - Graham Lee Hemminger (1896-1949) "Tobacco" (1915) f-߭3tX~l99 The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to fu~p{nction. - Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) "Tender Is the Night" (1933) hxxlA~100 Since those whose duty it was to hold the sword of France have let it fall, I have picked up its broken point. - Charles de Gaulle (1890-c9H1970) "Radio address" (1940) ѩk5 Hs-101 I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) From "Einstein, His Life and Times" (1947) >aCxP- MK102 The Lord God is subtle, but malicious he is not. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) Inscription in Fine Hall, Princeton. |7K]~3103 The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) "Physics and Reality" (19]xB36) mx X3d104 The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)K "What I Believe" in Forum. (1930) Ƨ9 p|~V105 A vile beastly rottenheaded foolbegotten brazenthroated pernicious piggish screaming, tearing, roaring, perplexing, splitmecrackle crashmecrigY~egle insane ass of a woman is practising howling belowstairs with a brute of a singingmaster so horribly, my head is nearly off. - Edward Leˇ`tar (1912-1888) oD?)-x`V!~Xv106 Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum. - P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) A.)o;8vc107 He's a little man, that's his trouble. Never trust a man with short legs -- brains too near their bottoms. - Noel Coward (1899-1973) [xP =108 The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) zA=DxM109 His mind is a muskeg of mediocrity. - John Macnaughton (1858-1943) faK=xx4~&110 Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer. - John Ruskin (1819-1900) x5 x,? @&Xk111 Funny without being vulgar. - W. S. Gilbert (1836-1911) On Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's performance as Hamlet. Гx kv~HC112 Very nice, though there are dull stretches. - Antoine de Rivarol (1753-1801) On a two-line peom. # Z2(AC 113 I played over the music of that scoundrel Brahms. What a giftless bastard! Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) 6ۇx!`114 Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. - Samue=l Johnson (1709-1784) `T|*C X~Pm115 You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable. - Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935) "I?Nx"`mc~x116 From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. - Groucho Marx MrqpE 0xP{~117 Clergyman: How did you like my sermon, Mr. Canning? Canning: You were brief. Clergyman: Yes, you know I avoid being tedious. Canning: Bui`" t you WERE tedious. - George Canning (1770-1827) 75Hdx# x4~118 Optimism, said Candide, is a mania for maintaining that all is well when things are going badly. - Voltaire [Francois Marie Arouet] (1694u]$)P+-1778) "Candide" (1759) oG ~.119 [Bernard Shaw sent Churchill 2 tickets for the opening of his new play with the invitation:] Bring a friend -- if you have one. [Churchill WAo~=regretted that he was engaged, and asked for tickets for the 2nd performance:] If there is one. - Winston Churchill (1874-1965) x$.120 They have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanderers; sixth and lastly, they have beliedy 8~ a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and to conclude, they are lying knaves. - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) "Much Ad]0co About Nothing" ]/q-!I`121 Clare Boothe Luce [at doorway]: Age before beauty! Dorothy Parker [gliding through]: Pearls before swine!@ - Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)b0. x/x%` 06~0{122 In the first place God made idiots; this was for practice; then he made school boards. - Mark Twain (1835-1910) FKx{~123 I am not an editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one. - Mark Twain (1835-1910)* cp}x x0]x& @X/124 Katherine Hepburn ran the whole gamut of emotions from A to B. - Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) +YM/0e~"125 This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. Tonstant Weader fwowed up. - Dorothy Parker (1P]~x1893-1967) On "The House at Pooh Corner" in her column "Constant Reader". č!x'P"s126 [Asked to distinguish between a misfortune and a calamity] If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune, and if anybody pulle7#jd him out that, I suppose, would be a calmity. - Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) hrOsX 127 He has not a single redeeming defect. - Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) On William Gladstone lOsx(P"128 He is a self-made man, and worships his creator. - Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) On John Bright. Xl's Dictionary" (1906) Ez/x- pu 138 Edible, adj. good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a w@<1+orm. - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) "The Devil's Dictionary" (1906) }x[ b;139 Habit, n. a shackle for the free. - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) "The Devil's Dictionary" (1906) x x.;xz~)140 Prejudice, n. a vagrant opinion without visible means of support. - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) "The Devil's Dictionary" (1906) W;2g] )< o141 Saint, n. a dead sinner revised and edited. - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) "The Devil's Dictionary" (1906) rxkx/oH~pD142 Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. - Minna Antrim EL_PD`G~HM143 Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words. - Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) "x0M[144 The dead of midnight is the noon of thought. - Anna Letaitia Barbauld MQaH:~a145 Man is a tool-using animal ... Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. - Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) "Sartor Resartus" (18I0Wxp34) m Շx1 Xad146 A whiff of grapeshot. - Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) "The French Revolution" (1837) 3~WcT147 [In a debate, Lord Sandwich confessed himself at a loss to know the precise definitions; Warburton whispered back:] Orthodoxy is my doxy; {_ heterodoxy is another man's doxy. - William Warburton, Bishop of Gloucester (1698-1779) F3 x2 _'148 The difference between Orthodoxy or My-doxy and Heterodoxy or Thy-doxy. - Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) "The French Revolution" (1837) YB&E ?6e\' (y~0#149 "The secret of being a bore is to tell everything." - Voltaire (1694 - 1778) "Sept Discours en Vers sur l'Homme" B}x3#~0150 "All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire." - Aristotle (384-s|P?322 B.C.) "Rhetoric" mz(<g 0/~pB151 "Use it up, wear it out; Make it do, or do without." - New England maxim. \JIHOx4@BXUK152 "Memory is the power to gather roses in winter." - Anonymous. 'kYiPK i153 "We'll use a signal I have tried and found far-reaching and easy to yell. Waa-hoo!" - Zane Grey (1875-1939) "The Last of the Plains\4b+men" γCx5p P=154 "I find confusion always creative, although it drives the crew crazy." - Louis Malle (1933- ) Quoted in "Saturday Review" June 1982.:= x7k` 0N~(r155 "Anybody who is any good is dif from anybody else." - Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965) "Felix Frankfurter Reminisces" 7) SSx6 r156 "There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it." - Cicero (106-43 B.C.) "De Divinatione" .m0m157 "People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading." - Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946) "Afterthoughts" z\Bbx7hz1158 "Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) "Lady Windermere's Fan" t8B2o1`K159 "Strictly speaking, not touching on other subjects, I must state about myself, in passing, that fate treats me mercilessly, as a storm does a \3U_ismall ship." - Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) "The Cherry Orchard" o@x8Kx~<160 "The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech." - Clifton Fadiman (1904- ) Quoted in "Reader's Digest", Sept. 1956. 0IHTEx=Pw  6170 "He was a man of an unbounded stomach." - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) "Henry VIII" (1613), IV, ii, 33. ,-+{P F~W171 "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." - Ralph Waldo Emerson UhJf(1803-1882) Essays: First Series. (1841) "Self Reliance" ;L{Kmx>8WT 172 "An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Essays: First Series. (1841) "Self Reliance"0!T x;}` 0 j~|173 "Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish." - William Allen White (1868-1944) "Emporia Gazette", Nov. 17, 1923. XDx? |< 174 "Q. E. D." ["Which it was necessary to demonstrate." Translated into Latin as "Quod erat demonstrandum."] - Euclid (fl. 300 B.C.) =X ! 3175 "Mine is yesterday, I know tomorrow." - "Book of the Dead" (c. 3500 B.C. - ) [First quote in Bartlett's.] 1'-x@3H!~&176 "Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and a speech is mightier than all fighting." m85 - "Maxims of Ptahhotep" (c. 3400 B.C.) \+sq &!Os177 "Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place." - William Strunk, Jr. (1869-1935) and E. B. White (1899 - ) "The Elements of Style" uc**]xA<sh!<~U178 "It's broccoli, dear." "I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it." - E. B. White (1899 - ) Caption for cartoon by Carl Rose g'Os@Xd in The New Yorker. +UI{  pU!179 "Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny." - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) "Hamlet" (1600-1601),1SD III, i, 142. wjxB !k~w180 "Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh." - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) >bQ@"Hamlet" (1600-1601), III, i, 166. -V Pw!~( 181 "The lady doth protest too much, methinks." - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) "Hamlet" (1600-1601), III, ii, 242. q/c3xC "!/182 "By and by is easily said." - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) "Hamlet" (1600-1601), III, ii, 411. ^aWy/"~@#183 "Example is always more efficacious than precept." - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) "Rasselas" (1759) xD #"W~ /184 "He delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning." - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) "Lives of the Poets: Dryden" (1779-1781) 9d  X/$"q~8=185 "Tomorrow I purpose to regulate my room." - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) "Prayers and Meditations" (1764) U;xEP="186 "By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) "Letters and Social Aims: Quotatio n and Originality" (1876) dTh x"U187 "'Tis well said again; And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well. And yet words are no deeds." - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) W="Henry VIII" (1613) III, ii, 153. Bl5%xF 8"h~n188 "A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are maUM~`}de with ideas." - Godfrey Harold Hardy (1877-1947) "A Mathematician's Apology" (1940) VHn"~ 189 "I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning." - Plato (c. 428-348 B.C.) "The Republic", bk. VII. !)N!RxGx 4#+ +190 "Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true." 1 I - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) "Recent Work on the Principles of Mathematics" (1901) in "International Monthly" vol 4. p 84. 򕭩S +#%~ 3191 "Philosophy is written in this grand book -- I mean the universe -- which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unlRWM2x~ Bess one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics7g~ Q, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of sJn~( `it; without these, one is wandering about in a dark labyrinth." - Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) "Il Saggiatore" (1623) lNxH$@ 3 # 192 "Although the logos is common to all, the many live as if they had private understanding." - Heraclitus (c. 540-480 B.C.) Fragment 2 . =Ad 8#~ }193 "It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking." D6HC! - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) "Metaphysics", book XII, ch. 9. S}4xIP }`$~!194 "I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown. I am greatly supported in this view by reason of this greVVt~!"at river [Ozama], and by this sea which is fresh." - Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) "Journal of the Third Voyage", May 30 - August cɇh!131, 1498. =6e|f@!$M!e195 "I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who haveF_S! written on this subject demonstrate and prove, as do the eclipses of the moon and other experiments that are made from east to west, and the elevÁ!ation of the North Star from north to south." - Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) "Letter to the Sovereigns on the Third Voyage", Octo/!ber 18, 1498. kxJD!ex$G~!a196 "There is no arguing with Johnson: for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it." - Oliver Goldsmith (1-J