Wilson Follett Quotes
Prose is not necessarily good because it obeys the rules of syntax, but it is fairly certain to be bad if it ignores them.Wilson Follett
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I'm a better polemicist in prose.
Ted Rall -
Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won. So I think on that one I trump you.
Barack Obama -
Guantanamo will be closed no later than one year from now.
Barack Obama -
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
Oscar Wilde -
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain -
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain
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Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
Mark Twain -
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain -
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
Mark Twain -
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain -
Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
Mark Twain -
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
Mark Twain
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A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
Mark Twain -
The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
Mark Twain -
Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
Mark Twain -
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain -
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
Mark Twain -
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
Mark Twain
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Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.
Robert Frost -
I surrounded myself with people who indulged my ego. They treated me as though I was Ziggy Stardust or one of my characters, never realising that David Jones might be behind it.
David Bowie -
I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger. 'No, and if he were I would burn my library.
William Shakespeare -
The young woman who brought me acquainted with Captain Murderer had a fiendish enjoyment of my terrors, and used to begin, I remember - as a sort of introductory overture - by clawing the air with both hands, and uttering a long low hollow groan. So acutely did I suffer from this ceremony in combination with this infernal Captain, that I sometimes used to plead I thought I was hardly strong enough and old enough to hear the story again just yet.
Charles Dickens -
Prose is not necessarily good because it obeys the rules of syntax, but it is fairly certain to be bad if it ignores them.
Wilson Follett