rrr-8 rrr r5<r-8 rrpr(:r.pr*|r 8 r+ r rr + r +`r rr3Zr5r++~ V$VdvWaj@+1@@E W**MO@M 4X X 1J+&1J+4 ,1 0*0j+-$,.,/h+) Y (`Zd)z~/ /*,9+? Y (`]dJ,9+?",d ` (`ad *0d,98,5+?,","# &,d 8i[ Q*A``cd,B(R!6>,B,bvf3Jf+C`gd ,3JhLD@ <`h8\9~VMM` (EHECHY@g&~@  @@g&~@  @ H`@g&~@ @@g&~@ nItMP@e@h@M&ut@ g>e{S]<>_~;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 ;p ~`I2 Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest. - Mark Twain +nTD,xiIx ~`S3 When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred. - Thomas Jefferson "xSafxjS (]4 When angry, count four; when very angry, swear. - Mark Twain r]mQxjH]8 3e5 Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. - Mark Twain 0(b2-xk`eP ;~pm6 Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it. - Mark Twain ^pC=xk@m0 D(v7 All the modern inconveniences. - Mark Twain A9Hf\xl0v N~@{8 Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience -- four thousand critics. - Mark Twain `fglxl8{( U~`9 Base eight is just like base ten, really -- if you're missing two fingers! - Tom Lehrer +ATxm  b~10 Vulgar of manner, overfed, Overdressed and underbred; Heartless, Godless, hell's delight, Rude by day and lewd by night. - Byron RufusCc88 Newton, "Owed to New York" (1906) }yb-Uxm x 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 avariBl ~H4ce, lust, and rum, New York, thy name's Delirium. - Byron Rufus Newton, "Owed to New York" (1906) vL?xn8%( ~x?12 In war there is no second prize for the runner-up. Omar Bradley (1950) 8I^exn? ~HH13 I am a member of the rabble in good standing. - Westbrook Pegler "The Lynching Story" (1894 -) {LZxoxHh &~ S14 Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead. - James Thurber "Fables for Our Time" (1940) 7uUxoHS8 3~(a15 Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the 'phone? - James Thurber New Yorker cartoon (1894-1961) q#=!Mxp a B~@o16 I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you? - James Thurber New Yorker cartoon (1894-1961) 1H%PBxp0o P~8{17 He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes. - James Thurber New Yorker cartoon (1894-1961) x9&xq`{P ]~H 18 It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. - James Thurber (1894-1961) *\\ixq  k~ 19 The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra la, Have nothing to do with the case. - William Gilbert "The Mikado" (1885) #k;xr p w~( !20 On a cloth untrue With a twisted cue And elliptical billiard balls. - William Gilbert "The Mikado" (1885) h'xr0 ! ~ /21 There's a fascination frantic In a ruin that's romantic; Do you think you are sufficiently decayed? - William Gilbert "The p<3n` >Mikado" (1885) &DKdxs 0 / ~ @22 The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well. - William Gilbert "Iolanthe" (1882) J|;xs ( @  '~ 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) 14SYxtH O8 7~ f24 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~P uong to other nations, He remains an Englishman. - William Gilbert "H.M.S. Pinafore" (1878) \+mjkxt fp 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%20  - William Gilbert "H.M.S. Pinafore" (1878) h @;xu @ 0 k~0 26 Darwinian Man, though well-behaved, At best is only a monkey shaved! - William Gilbert "Princess Ida" (1884) LaX?%xux h ~h !27 I can't help it. I was born sneering. - William Gilbert "The Mikado" (1885) ICxvh !X ~ +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`xv H + 8 ~ =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]z>{~ Lght 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 loo)KVf~ jk 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. - Wil3yBjb8 yliam 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. RY00 - William Gilbert "H.M.S. Pinafore" (1878) h ',;xw @ ~ 0 m~ 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 vq[~ 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 Gi9S'@ Nlbert "H.M.S. Pinafore" (1878) CxD[Fxx'h 'X ~X R32 Books, the children of the brain. - Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) "A Tale of a Tub" (1704) +gGxx@ R0 C~ \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#+KWX karious Subjects" (1711) Y1Ik!xy x \ h O~@ n34 A nice man is a man of nasty ideas. - Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) "Thoughts on Various Subjects" (1711) eY`gtxy( n a~ z35 The burden of the incommunicable. - Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859) "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" (1822-1856) Tp&@xz  zx n~ 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} ` & (1827) ?Dxzp ` ~~X (37 The time ain't far off when a woman won't know any more than a man. - Will Rogers (1879-1935) tbjyx{H (8~ 338 Peace, peace, thou hippopotamus! We really look all right to us, As you no doubt delight the eye Of other hippopotami. - Ogden Nash (1$O2]h B902-1971) b.lkpx{  3 x*~ C39 She should have died hereafter; There would have been a time for such a word. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pacei|- ~ R 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~ ale! 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~@ p an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. - Shakespeare (1564-1616) "Macbeth" V, v, 17. ':KGx|#8 C#(<~h |40 Out, damned spot! out, I say! - Shakespeare (1564-1616) "Macbeth" V, i, 38. pglY?x|h |Xv~ 41 Lay on, Macduff, And damn'd be him that first cries, "Hold, enough!" - Shakespeare (1564-1616) "Macbeth" V, vii, 62. :wt!x}   ~ 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) Ogx} (  ~ *43 Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style. - Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) "Letter to a Young Clergyman" (1720)} G"x 9 psx~ @ * 0'~0 :44 Black as the devil Hot as hell, Pure as an angel, Sweet as love. - Talleyrand (1754-1838) Recipe for coffee JP{Ox~ :7~ G45 [Of the Bourbons] They have learned nothing, and forgotten nothing. - Talleyrand (1754-1838) Letter to Mallet du Pan (1796) 5R$:xh GXE~H U46 The United States has thirty-two religions but only one dish. - Talleyrand (1754-1838) Attributed  7Jx UU~ 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. od"P@ p - Benjamin Waterhouse (1754-1846) IUM\x p a `a~ 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 enemc*VJ~py. - Horatio Nelson (1758-1805) Memorandum to the fleet, off Cadiz (1805)  zxh tXu 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 $}2p0x(~P 51 Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. - Mark Twain "'_*xh X%~X+52 Logic is like the sword -- those who appeal to it, shall perish by it. - Samuel Butler V rx(+1~8653 One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. - A.A. Milne *Ix~xX6H<~8B54 The world was made before the English language and seemingly on a different design. - Robert Louis Stevenson anp;xPB@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`W~\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(DXx 0\ e~xp57 A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde RES2Axpz~hx58 This is the sort of English up with which I will not put. - Churchill (attributed) WA5Uxpx`~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) EoD.~0?be done, for they are firmly wedded to the ground. But see, even that is only appearance. - Franz Kafka (1884-1924) cUbx 0A~L64 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 t>|5~8[he surface of the earth. - Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) "Gulliver's Travels. Voyage to Brobdingnag" (1726) df3 xL^~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 `hPz~ 66 I said the thing which was not. - Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) "Gulliver's Travels. Voyage to the Houyhnhnms" (1726) { q_+x H8~67 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. '~}~ ! 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) /xe*Qx /xE~H>69 May you live all the days of your life. - Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) "Polite Conversation" (1738) f~4x >pT~(I70 It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory. - Alain Rene Le Sage (1668-1747) Gil Blas (1715-1735) '`Wx 8I(a~`W71 Facts are stubborn things. - Alain Rene Le Sage (1668-1747) Gil Blas (1715-1735) ek|^;x Wxo~ha72 Facts are contrary 'z mules. - James Russell Lowell "Biglow Papers" (1862) zKxCRx XaHz~j73 Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. - William Congreve (1670-1729) "The Mourning Brid:IThye" (1697) z0{-x j x~H{74 By magic numbers and persuasive sound. - William Congreve (1670-1729) "The Mourning Bride" (1697) QSOpx {~75 I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country. - William Congreve (1670-1729) "The Way of the World" (1700) 2HVZx 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+7x  2~X$77 Possession is eleven points in the law. - Colley Cibber (1671-1757) "Woman's Wit" (1697) 5tQxH$8B~@.78 Off with his head -- so much for Buckingham. - Colley Cibber (1671-1757) "Richard III (altered)" (1700) +)]l@x@.0N~h:79 Perish the thought! - Colley Cibber (1671-1757) "Richard III (altered)" (1700) EDsxx:h[~hD80 Stolen sweets are best. - Colley Cibber (1671-1757) "The Rival Fools" (1709) "6s^JxhDXe~M81 A man that could look no way but downwards with a muckrake in his hand. - John Bunyan (1628-1688) "Pilgrim's Progress" (1678) D$UGx Mpp~P\82 And torture one poor word ten thousand ways. - John Dryden (1631-1700) "Mac Flecknoe" (1682) u{Rxh\X~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) j!JDx 8g ( ~ {84 If you are mediocre and you grovel, you shall succeed. - Pierre de Beaumarchais (1732-1799) "Le Mariage de Figaro" (1784) $nqP%xP{@ ~  85 You went to some trouble to be born, and that's all. - Pierre de Beaumarchais (1732-1799) "Le Mariage de Figaro" (1784) QRyHx@ 0/~`86 Prefer geniality to grammar. - H.W. and F.G. Fowler "The King's English" (1906) .]C txp>~!87 HACKNEYED PHRASES.... but their true use when they come into the writer's mind is as danger signals; he should take warning that when they sug56$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!jxx!hI~J88 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 C~Yor 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[Hx  =~108 The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) zAx xM109 His mind is a muskeg of mediocrity. - John Macnaughton (1858-1943) faK=xxh\~&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)-D50x5 p,jx @& 0e~(5111 Funny without being vulgar. - W. S. Gilbert (1836-1911) On Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's performance as Hamlet. o$ PIx  5v~HC112 Very nice, though there are dull stretches. - Antoine de Rivarol (1753-1801) On a two-line peom. # Z2(x C~0N113 I played over the music of that scoundrel Brahms. What a giftless bastard! Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) f[r6mx!pN`~[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. - Samue1vaPzXjl Johnson (1709-1784) `T|*x! h[ X~Pm115 You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable. - Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935) "I?Nx"`mP1~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 Mrqpx" 0x =~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# x hM~118 Optimism, said Candide, is a mania for maintaining that all is well when things are going badly. - Voltaire [Francois Marie Arouet] (1694u]$)P+-1778) "Candide" (1759) ;>Outx#  c~.119 [Bernard Shaw sent Churchill 2 tickets for the opening of his new play with the invitation:] Bring a friend -- if you have one. [Churchill WAo~=regretted that he was engaged, and asked for tickets for the 2nd performance:] If there is one. - Winston Churchill (1874-1965) 0$ x$.v~K120 They have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanderers; sixth and lastly, they have beliedy 8~~Z a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and to conclude, they are lying knaves. - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) "Much Ad]0c`io About Nothing" ]/q-!x$pK`~k121 Clare Boothe Luce [at doorway]: Age before beauty! Dorothy Parker [gliding through]: Pearls before swine!@ - Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)K`.uxz p/ux% @k 06~0{122 In the first place God made idiots; this was for practice; then he made school boards. - Mark Twain (1835-1910) ,m $Ix%x{hF~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 p0.x& @ 0T~X124 Katherine Hepburn ran the whole gamut of emotions from A to B. - Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) +Yx&@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 (1.q ]L~x1893-1967) On "The House at Pooh Corner" in her column "Constant Reader". .! x'P"@p~9126 [Asked to distinguish between a misfortune and a calamity] If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune, and if anybody pulle7#j~pHd him out that, I suppose, would be a calmity. - Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) !dzx'h9X ~PQ127 He has not a single redeeming defect. - Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) On William Gladstone #1o9x(`QP"~H\128 He is a self-made man, and worships his creator. - Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) On John Bright. q)X.x(\.~h129 As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench, the Ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South AmerbQhZ~wica. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes, not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest, but the situation is still dangerous. There are o`~ccasional earthquakes and ever and anon the dark rumbling of the sea. - Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) On the Liberal ministry. ) ETx)Ph@:~130 How long will John Bull allow this absurd monkey to dance on his chest? - Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) On Benjamin Disraeli gq2f/x)hXh~#131 He looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe. - Winston Churchill (1874-1965) On Neville Chamberlain M *x2 p2dx* 8# (w~`2132 He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion. - Harold Macmillan (1894-) Qw`x*2~P<133 His mind was a kind of extinct sulphur-pit. - Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) On Napoleon III. xuox+X<H~HG134 Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it? - Mark Twain (1835-1910) Nk4w<x+Gp~S135 [Asked how he became a hero:] It was involuntary. They sank my boat. - John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) Quoted in "A Thousand Days" (1 ;8b965) by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. mAUmsx, xS h+~f136 Achievement, n. the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust. - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) "The Devil's Dictionary" (1906) +ny~sx,xfh@~u137 Cynic, n. a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) "The DeviN>Xl's Dictionary" (1906) Ez/x- pu `O~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 wZy)orm. - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) "The Devil's Dictionary" (1906) EqzxJx-(b~H139 Habit, n. a shackle for the free. - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) "The Devil's Dictionary" (1906) ev2xx.xz~)140 Prejudice, n. a vagrant opinion without visible means of support. - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) "The Devil's Dictionary" (1906) W;2gx. )x~87141 Saint, n. a dead sinner revised and edited. - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) "The Devil's Dictionary" (1906) rxkx/X7H~pD142 Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. - Minna Antrim ELx/PD@#~HM143 Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words. - Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) z" x0Mp-~xX144 The dead of midnight is the noon of thought. - Anna Letaitia Barbauld B7(x0X:~a145 Man is a tool-using animal ... Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. - Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) "Sartor Resartus" (18$az+xp34) 34Bjx1 Xa HC~`p146 A whiff of grapeshot. - Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) "The French Revolution" (1837) 3~Wx1pT~z147 [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) :b3x20z _~148 The difference between Orthodoxy or My-doxy and Heterodoxy or Thy-doxy. - Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) "The French Revolution" (1837) YB&x" p6Ex2 8 (y~0#149 "The secret of being a bore is to tell everything." - Voltaire (1694 - 1778) "Sept Discours en Vers sur l'Homme" B U>x3# ~0150 "All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire." - Aristotle (384-]Qf|NP?322 B.C.) "Rhetoric" mz(<x3 0 x~pB151 "Use it up, wear it out; Make it do, or do without." - New England maxim. \JIHOx4@B0*K152 "Memory is the power to gather roses in winter." - Anonymous. IW ,x4PK@4~R153 "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 +pamen" eK3!x5 `R P=~b154 "I find confusion always creative, although it drives the crew crazy." - Louis Malle (1933- ) Quoted in "Saturday Review" June 1982.!joxq p7cx5 @b 0N~(r155 "Anybody who is any good is dif from anybody else." - Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965) "Felix Frankfurter Reminisces" 7) SSx6 r^~@156 "There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it." - Cicero (106-43 B.C.) "De Divinatione" &]x6@0m~0 157 "People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading." - Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946) "Afterthoughts" z\Bbx7x hz~0158 "Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) "Lady Windermere's Fan" t8B 2x7p`~%159 "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_4small ship." - Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) "The Cherry Orchard" o@x8% x~<160 "The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech." - Clifton Fadiman (1904- ) Quoted in "Reader's Digest", Sept. 1956. 0I 8W ( S~l172 "An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Essays: First Series. (1841) "Self Reliance"0!Tx{ p;wx> @l 0 j~|173 "Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish." - William Allen White (1868-1944) "Emporia Gazette", Nov. 17, 1923. XDx? |x z~ 174 "Q. E. D." ["Which it was necessary to demonstrate." Translated into Latin as "Quod erat demonstrandum."] - Euclid (fl. 300 B.C.) W&=@x? 0 ! ~8175 "Mine is yesterday, I know tomorrow." - "Book of the Dead" (c. 3500 B.C. - ) [First quote in Bartlett's.] ~Xb'x@XH!~&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." n[#85 - "Maxims of Ptahhotep" (c. 3400 B.C.) \+sqx@ & !'~9177 "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|X~8H a tight place." - William Strunk, Jr. (1869-1935) and E. B. White (1899 - ) "The Elements of Style" uc**]xAx9h!<~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{ xA pU `!X~f179 "Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny." - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) "Hamlet" (1600-1601),1SDhu III, i, 142. x)njJxB (f !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. -VxB Pw @!|~( 181 "The lady doth protest too much, methinks." - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) "Hamlet" (1600-1601), III, ii, 242. q/c3xC "~H182 "By and by is easily said." - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) "Hamlet" (1600-1601), III, ii, 411. ^aWyxC"~@#183 "Example is always more efficacious than precept." - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) "Rasselas" (1759) Ug#`JxD #"+~ /184 "He delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning." - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) "Lives of the Poets: Dryden" (1779-1781) 9d  xDX/H"8~8=185 "Tomorrow I purpose to regulate my room." - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) "Prayers and Meditations" (1764) 1*;OxEP=@"G~I186 "By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) "Letters and Social Aims: Quotatioz ?PXn and Originality" (1876) dT6hxE I x"U~[187 "'Tis well said again; And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well. And yet words are no deeds." - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) =p(WHj"Henry VIII" (1613) III, ii, 153. Bl5%xF H[ 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 ma}RU&~`}de with ideas." - Godfrey Harold Hardy (1877-1947) "A Mathematician's Apology" (1940) R|VwxFHn8"{~ 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 h#~ 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." E>(1P~ $ - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) "Recent Work on the Principles of Mathematics" (1901) in "International Monthly" vol 4. p 84. V[))xG #%~ 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 mathematics9^ 3~ 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) $AXNyxH$@ 3$0#C~ m192 "Although the logos is common to all, the many live as if they had private understanding." - Heraclitus (c. 540-480 B.C.) Fragment 2@+Gx |. . zAyxH H m 8#~ }193 "It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking." D6HC! - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) "Metaphysics", book XII, ch. 9. S}4xI P } @$~!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 _&cdh!131, 1498. =6e|fxI@!0$&~!2195 "I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who haveF_S~!A written on this subject demonstrate and prove, as do the eclipses of the moon and other experiments that are made from east to west, and the elev J~!Pation of the North Star from north to south." - Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) "Letter to the Sovereigns on the Third Voyage", Octo%S,h!_ber 18, 1498. 5&y5xJ!2x$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