Category: Quotations

The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore.  We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.James Davis Nicoll

Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side.Hugh Prather

The trouble with most folks isn’t so much their ignorance.  It’s know’n so many things that ain’t so.Josh Billings, 19th century humorist

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.Chinese Proverb

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the Earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.Bertrand RussellAnd in the 21st Century altering the position of electrons became popular as a work activity.Dr. Wingnut

We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.Aristotle