Quotes 3601 till 3620 of 3662.
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His vocation was orderliness, which is the basis of creation. Accordingly, when a letter came, he would turn it over in his hands for a long time, gazing at it meditatively; then he would put it away in a file without opening it, because everything had its own time.
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History: An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
The Devil's Dictionary -
I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain.
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I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
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I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.
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I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.
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I've left Boro in the Premiership, which was always what I wanted to do. Actually that's not quite true. I took them to three cup finals, where they'd never been before. But I had set my eyes on being the first manager in their history to deliver a major trophy.
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Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.
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In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.
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In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.
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Insurance: An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
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It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
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It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.
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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.
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Learning hash gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
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Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but the smell makes the garden a place of joy.
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.
The Devil's Dictionary (1911) -
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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