Quotes by Authors - Page 39

I want a house that has gotten over all its troubles I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
Jerome K. Jerome
A good horse should be seldom spurred.
Thomas Fuller
Every utterance is an event and no two events are precisely alike. The extreme view therefore is that no word ever means the same thing twice.
Louis B. Saloman
The grossest thing in our gross national product today is our language. It is suffering from inflation.
James Reston
Change is legitimate and inevitable for our language is a mighty river picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there but growing ever wider and richer.
Robert MacNeil
Even if language is a living evolving organism we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is so alive it can get sick.
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.
Gerald Brenan
Man's command of the language is most important. Next to kissing it's the most exciting form of communication.
Oren Arnold
The downtrodden who are the great creators of slang hurl pithiness and colour at poverty and oppression.
Anthony Burgess
Like stones words are laborious and unforgiving and the fitting of them together like the fitting of stones demands great patience and strength of purpose and particular skill.
Edmund Morrison
In certain trying circumstances urgent circumstances desperate circumstances profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.
Mark Twain
A word after a word after a word is power.
Margaret Atwood
The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out communication is getting through.
Sydney J. Harris
I wonder what language truck drivers are using now that everyone is using theirs?
Beryl Pfizer
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.
Mark Twain
Some words are like the old Roman galleys large-scaled and ponderous. They sit low in the water even when their cargo is light.
William Jovanovich
The word is half his that speaks and half his that hears it.
Michel de Montaigne
A language is a dialect with its own army and navy.
Max Weinreich
One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words." When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a "weasel word" after another there is nothing left of the other.
Theodore Roosevelt
Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling
Our words have wings but fly not where we would.
George Eliot
Mum is the word.
Miguel de Cervantes
A fool there was and he made his prayer (Even as you and I!) To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair (We called her the woman who did not care) But the fool he called her his lady fair - (Even as you or I!)
Rudyard Kipling
Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long a-doing So much time is saved in the billing and cooing.
R. H. Barham
Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
Samuel Lover
Go ahead with your life your plans.... Don't waste time by stopping before the interruptions have started.
Richard L. Evans
Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes work never begun.
Christina Rossetti
Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.
Sandra Day O'Connor
There is clearly much left to be done and whatever else we are going to do we had better get on with it.
Rosalynn Carter
A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o' clock runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
Emily Brontë
Never mistake motion for action.
Ernest Hemingway
When it comes to betting on yourself ... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
B.C. Forbes
It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.
Joanna Field
More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin.
Anonymous
How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination?
Jeremy Collier
The distance doesn't matter only the first step is difficult.
Madame Marquise du Deffand
All glory comes from daring to begin.
Anonymous
There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say "Yes I've got dreams of course I've got dreams." Then they put the box away and bring it out once in a while to look in it and yep they're still there. These are great dreams but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line to hold them up and say "How good or how bad am I?" That's where courage comes in.
Erma Bombeck
Action springs not from thought but from a readiness for responsibility.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
There is no such thing as romance in our day women have become too brilliant nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.
Oscar Wilde
Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life and avoid it as much as possible.
Leo Tolstoy
In the beginning said a Persian poet - Allah took a rose a lily a dove a serpent a little honey a Dead Sea apple and a handful of clay. When he looked at the amalgram - it was a woman.
William Sharp
It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women.
Rochebrune
O wild dark flower of woman Deep rose of my desire An Eastern wizard made you Of earth and stars and fire.
C. G. D. Roberts
A rag and a bone and a hank of hair.
Rudyard Kipling
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
Rudyard Kipling
The colonel's lady and Judy O'Grady Are sisters under their skins.
Rudyard Kipling
An' I learned about women from 'er.
Rudyard Kipling
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
Rudyard Kipling
It is God who makes woman beautiful it is the devil who makes her pretty.
Victor Hugo
The crown of creation.
Herdeb
Women forgive injuries but never forget slights.
Thomas Haliburton
Cbercbez lafemme. (Find the woman.)
Alexander Dumas
You see dear it is not true that woman was made from man's rib she was really made from his funny bone.
Sir James Matthew Barrie
Women always have some mental reservation.
Louis Ferdinand Destouches
Oh the shrewdness of their shrewdness when they're shrewd. And the rudeness of their rudeness when they're rude But the shrewdness of their shrewdness and the rudeness of their rudeness Are nothing to their goodness when they're good.
Anonymous
When Eleanor Roosevelt was asked if she had any regrets about her life she replied "Just one. I wish I had been prettier."
Anonymous
The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist her hand. The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement. Remember all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful and it's best to take the gesture the shadow of the branch and let the mind create the tree.
William Faulkner
If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance very various heroic and mean splendid and sordid infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme as great as a man some think even better.
Virginia Woolf