Famous Quotations for Today

Today's Famous Quotations:

Albanian Proverb


When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Lily Tomlin


Thank God kids never mean well

Elizabeth Janeway


We don't get offered crises, they arrive.

Oliver Wendell Holmes


There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight.

William Strunk Jr., Elements of Style


Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.

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More quotes from Will Rogers (Standard-Examiner)

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:05:21 GMT
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