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L 1,[1 In Boston they ask, How much does he know?
In New York, How much is he worth?
In Philadelphia, Who were his parents?
- Mark Twain
]
L 1,[2 Always do right. This will gratify some people,
and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
]
L 1,[3 When angry, count ten before you speak;
if very angry, an hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
]
L 1,[4 When angry, count four;
when very angry, swear.
- Mark Twain
]
L 1,[5 Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- Mark Twain
]
L 1,[6 Truth is the most valuable thing we have.
Let us economize it.
- Mark Twain
]
L 1,[7 All the modern inconveniences.
- Mark Twain
]
L 1,[8 Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a
Boston audience -- four thousand critics.
- Mark Twain
]
L 1,[9 Base eight is just like base ten, really --
if you're missing two fingers!
- Tom Lehrer
]
L 1,[10 Vulgar of manner, overfed,
Overdressed and underbred;
Heartless, Godless, hell's delight,
Rude by day and lewd by night.
- Byron Rufus Newton,
"Owed to New York" (1906)
]
L 1,[11 Purple-robed and pauper-clad,
Raving, rotting, money-mad;
A squirming herd in Mammon's mesh,
A wilderness of human flesh;
Crazed with avarice, lust, and rum,
New York, thy name's Delirium.
- Byron Rufus Newton,
"Owed to New York" (1906)
]
L 1,[12 In war there is no second prize for the runner-up.
Omar Bradley (1950)
]
L 1,[13 I am a member of the rabble in good standing.
- Westbrook Pegler
"The Lynching Story" (1894 -)
]
L 1,[14 Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and
wealthy and dead.
- James Thurber
"Fables for Our Time" (1940)
]
L 1,[15 Well, if I called the wrong number,
why did you answer the 'phone?
- James Thurber
New Yorker cartoon (1894-1961)
]
L 1,[16 I love the idea of there being two sexes,
don't you?
- James Thurber
New Yorker cartoon (1894-1961)
]
L 1,[17 He knows all about art,
but he doesn't know what he likes.
- James Thurber
New Yorker cartoon (1894-1961)
]
L 1,[18 It is better to know some of the questions
than all of the answers.
- James Thurber
(1894-1961)
]
L 1,[19 The flowers that bloom in the spring,
tra la,
Have nothing to do with the case.
- William Gilbert
"The Mikado" (1885)
]
L 1,[20 On a cloth untrue
With a twisted cue
And elliptical billiard balls.
- William Gilbert
"The Mikado" (1885)
]
L 1,[21 There's a fascination frantic
In a ruin that's romantic;
Do you think you are sufficiently decayed?
- William Gilbert
"The Mikado" (1885)
]
L 1,[22 The House of Peers, throughout the war,
Did nothing in particular,
And did it very well.
- William Gilbert
"Iolanthe" (1882)
]
L 1,[23 When you're lying awake with a dismal headache,
and repose is tabooed by anxiety,
I conceive you may use any language you choose
to indulge in, without impropriety.
- William Gilbert
"Iolanthe" (1882)
]
L 1,[24 For he might have been a Roosian,
A French or Turk or Proosian,
Or perhaps Itali-an.
But in spite of all temptations
To belong to other nations,
He remains an Englishman.
- William Gilbert
"H.M.S. Pinafore" (1878)
]
L 1,[25 And so do his sisters, and his cousins,
and his aunts!
His sisters and his cousins,
Whom he reckons up by dozens,
And his aunts!
- William Gilbert
"H.M.S. Pinafore" (1878)
]
L 1,[26 Darwinian Man, though well-behaved,
At best is only a monkey shaved!
- William Gilbert
"Princess Ida" (1884)
]
L 1,[27 I can't help it. I was born sneering.
- William Gilbert
"The Mikado" (1885)
]
L 1,[28 Mere corroborative detail intended to give artistic verisimilitude
to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
- William Gilbert
Pooh Bah, in "The Mikado" (1885)
]
L 1,[29 BUT: Red, am I? and round -- and rosy! May be, for I have
dissembled well! But hark ye, my merry friend -- hast
ever thought that beneath a gay and frivolous exterior
there may lurk a canker-worm which is slowly but
surely eating its way into one's very heart?
BOAT: No, my lass, I can't say I've ever though that.
DICK: I'VE thought it often. (All recoil from him.)
BUT: Yes, you look like it! What's the matter with the
man? Isn't he well?
BOAT: Don't take no heed of HIM, that's only poor Dick Deadeye.
- William Gilbert
"H.M.S. Pinafore" (1878)
]
L 1,[30 DICK: From such a face and form as mine the noblest
sentiments sound like the black utterances of a
depraved imagination.
- William Gilbert
"H.M.S. Pinafore" (1878)
]
L 1,[31 RALPH: I am poor in the essence of happiness, lady -- rich
only in never-ending unrest. In me there meet a
combination of antithetical elements which are at
eternal war with one another. Driven hither by
objective influences -- thither by subjective
emotions -- wafted one moment into blazing day, by
mocking hope -- plunged the next into the Cimmerian
darkness of tangible despair, I am but a living
ganglion of irreconcilable antagonisms. I hope I
make myself clear, lady?
JOS: Perfectly. (Aside.) His simple eloquence goes to my
heart.
- William Gilbert
"H.M.S. Pinafore" (1878)
]
L 1,[32 Books, the children of the brain.
- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
"A Tale of a Tub" (1704)
]
L 1,[33 We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough
to make us love one another.
- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
"Thoughts on Various Subjects" (1711)
]
L 1,[34 A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
"Thoughts on Various Subjects" (1711)
]
L 1,[35 The burden of the incommunicable.
- Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859)
"Confessions of an English Opium-Eater"
(1822-1856)
]
L 1,[36 If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think
little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and
Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
- Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859)
"Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts"
(1827)
]
L 1,[37 The time ain't far off when a woman won't know any more than a man.
- Will Rogers (1879-1935)
]
L 1,[38 Peace, peace, thou hippopotamus!
We really look all right to us,
As you no doubt delight the eye
Of other hippopotami.
- Ogden Nash (1902-1971)
]
L 1,[39 She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more; it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
- Shakespeare (1564-1616)
"Macbeth" V, v, 17.
]
L 1,[40 Out, damned spot! out, I say!
- Shakespeare (1564-1616)
"Macbeth" V, i, 38.
]
L 1,[41 Lay on, Macduff,
And damn'd be him that first cries,
"Hold, enough!"
- Shakespeare (1564-1616)
"Macbeth" V, vii, 62.
]
L 1,[42 'Tis an old maxim in the schools,
That flattery's the food of fools;
Yet now and then your men of wit
Will condescend to take a bit.
- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
"Cadenus and Vanessa" (1713)
]
L 1,[43 Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a
style.
- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
"Letter to a Young Clergyman" (1720)
]
L 1,[44 Black as the devil
Hot as hell,
Pure as an angel,
Sweet as love.
- Talleyrand (1754-1838)
Recipe for coffee
]
L 1,[45 [Of the Bourbons] They have learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.
- Talleyrand (1754-1838)
Letter to Mallet du Pan (1796)
]
L 1,[46 The United States has thirty-two religions but only one dish.
- Talleyrand (1754-1838)
Attributed
]
L 1,[47 Tobacco is a filthy weed,
That from the devil does proceed;
It drains your purse, it burns your clothes,
And makes a chimney of your nose.
- Benjamin Waterhouse (1754-1846)
]
L 1,[48 But, in case signals can neither be seen or perfectly
understood, no captain can do very wrong if he places his
ship alongside that of the enemy.
- Horatio Nelson (1758-1805)
Memorandum to the fleet, off Cadiz (1805)
]
L 1,[49 One should always be a little improbable.
- Oscar Wilde
]
L 1,[50 The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is
the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
- Oscar Wilde
]
L 1,[51 Whenever you find that you are on the side of the
majority, it is time to reform.
- Mark Twain
]
L 1,[52 Logic is like the sword -- those who appeal to it,
shall perish by it.
- Samuel Butler
]
L 1,[53 One of the advantages of being disorderly is that
one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
- A.A. Milne
]
L 1,[54 The world was made before the English language and
seemingly on a different design.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
]
L 1,[55 You see things and you say "Why?" But I dream things
that never were and I say "Why not?"
- George Bernard Shaw
]
L 1,[56 You think that because you have a purpose, Nature must
have one. You might as well expect it to have fingers
and toes because you have them.
- The Devil (in Shaw's Man and Superman)
]
L 1,[57 A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
]
L 1,[58 This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.
- Churchill (attributed)
]
L 1,[59 The grammar has a rule absurd
Which I would call an outworn myth:
"A preposition is a word
You mustn't end a sentence with!"
- Berton Braley (1882-1966)
]
L 1,[60 Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.
- Wolcott Gibbs (1902-1958)
]
L 1,[61 Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
- Churchill
]
L 1,[62 What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual
state of inelegance.
- Jane Austen
]
L 1,[63 For we are like tree trunks in the snow. In appearance they lie
sleekly and a little push should be enough to set them rolling.
No, it can't be done, for they are firmly wedded to the ground.
But see, even that is only appearance.
- Franz Kafka (1884-1924)
]
L 1,[64 I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most
pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to
crawl upon the surface of the earth.
- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
"Gulliver's Travels. Voyage to Brobdingnag"
(1726)
]
L 1,[65 He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of
cucumbers, which were to be put in vials hermetically sealed, and let
out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.
- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
"Gulliver's Travels. Voyage to Laputa" (1726)
]
L 1,[66 I said the thing which was not.
- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
"Gulliver's Travels. Voyage to the
Houyhnhnms" (1726)
]
L 1,[67 So, naturalists observe, a flea
Hath smaller fleas that on him prey;
And these have smaller still to bite 'em;
And so proceed ad infinitum.
Thus every poet, in his kind,
Is bit by him that comes behind.
- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
"On Poetry. A Rhapsody" (1733)
]
L 1,[68 She wears her clothes, as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.
- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
"Polite Conversation" (1738)
]
L 1,[69 May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
"Polite Conversation" (1738)
]
L 1,[70 It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.
- Alain Rene Le Sage (1668-1747)
Gil Blas (1715-1735)
]
L 1,[71 Facts are stubborn things.
- Alain Rene Le Sage (1668-1747)
Gil Blas (1715-1735)
]
L 1,[72 Facts are contrary 'z mules.
- James Russell Lowell
"Biglow Papers" (1862)
]
L 1,[73 Music has charms to soothe a savage breast,
To soften rocks, or ben a knotted oak.
- William Congreve (1670-1729)
"The Mourning Bride" (1697)
]
L 1,[74 By magic numbers and persuasive sound.
- William Congreve (1670-1729)
"The Mourning Bride" (1697)
]
L 1,[75 I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country.
- William Congreve (1670-1729)
"The Way of the World" (1700)
]
L 1,[76 Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.
- William Congreve (1670-1729)
"The Way of the World" (1700)
]
L 1,[77 Possession is eleven points in the law.
- Colley Cibber (1671-1757)
"Woman's Wit" (1697)
]
L 1,[78 Off with his head -- so much for Buckingham.
- Colley Cibber (1671-1757)
"Richard III (altered)" (1700)
]
L 1,[79 Perish the thought!
- Colley Cibber (1671-1757)
"Richard III (altered)" (1700)
]
L 1,[80 Stolen sweets are best.
- Colley Cibber (1671-1757)
"The Rival Fools" (1709)
]
L 1,[81 A man that could look no way but downwards with a muckrake in his
hand.
- John Bunyan (1628-1688)
"Pilgrim's Progress" (1678)
]
L 1,[82 And torture one poor word ten thousand ways.
- John Dryden (1631-1700)
"Mac Flecknoe" (1682)
]
L 1,[83 Judging by the virtues expected of a servant, does your Excellency
know many masters who would be worthy valets?
- Pierre de Beaumarchais (1732-1799)
"Le Barbier de Seville" (1775)
]
L 1,[84 If you are mediocre and you grovel, you shall succeed.
- Pierre de Beaumarchais (1732-1799)
"Le Mariage de Figaro" (1784)
]
L 1,[85 You went to some trouble to be born, and that's all.
- Pierre de Beaumarchais (1732-1799)
"Le Mariage de Figaro" (1784)
]
L 1,[86 Prefer geniality to grammar.
- H.W. and F.G. Fowler
"The King's English" (1906)
]
L 1,[87 HACKNEYED PHRASES.... but their true use when they come into the
writer's mind is as danger signals; he should take warning that when
they suggest themselves it is because what he is writing is bad stuff,
or it would not need such help; let him see to the substance of his
cake instead of decorating with sugarplums.
- H. W. Fowler (1859-1933)
"A Dictionary of Modern English Usage" (1926)
]
L 1,[88 QUOTATION.... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used
before because they give his meaning better than he can give it
himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects
them to touch a chord of association in his reader, or because he
wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to
the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader
detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps
impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious
quotations being the surest road to tedium.
- H.W. and F.G. Fowler
"A Dictionary of Modern English Usage" (1926)
]
L 1,[89 It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of
work to do.
- Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859-1927)
"Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow:
On Being Idle" (1889)
]
L 1,[90 The greatest invention of the nineteenth century wa the invention of
the method of invention.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
"Science and the Modern World" (1925)
]
L 1,[91 There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying
to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
"Dialogues of..." (1953)
]
L 1,[92 The vitality of thought is in adventure. IDEAS WON'T KEEP. Something
must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have
fervor, live for it, and, if need be, die for it.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
"Dialogues of..." (1953)
]
L 1,[93 Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which
is capacity to act wisely on the thing aprehended.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
"Dialogues of..." (1953)
]
L 1,[94 Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic
enjoyment in recognition of the pattern.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
"Dialogues of..." (1953)
]
L 1,[95 Children, behold the Chimpanzee:
He sits on the ancestral tree
From which we sprang in ages gone.
I'm glad we sprang: had we held on,
We might, for aught that I can say,
Be horrid Chimpanzees today.
- Oliver Herford (1863-1935)
"The Chimpanzee"
]
L 1,[96 The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great
height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make
people stumble than to be walked upon.
- Franz Kafka (1884-1924)
"The Great Wall of China"
]
L 1,[97 There are two cardinal sins from which all the others spring:
impatience and laziness.
- Franz Kafka (1884-1924)
"Letters".
]
L 1,[98 Tobacco is a dirty weed. I like it.
It satisfies no normal need. I like it.
It makes you thin, it makes you lean,
It takes the hair right off your bean.
It's the worst darn stuff I've ever seen. I like it.
- Graham Lee Hemminger (1896-1949)
"Tobacco" (1915)
]
L 1,[99 The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two
opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the
ability to function.
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
"Tender Is the Night" (1933)
]
L 1,[100 Since those whose duty it was to hold the sword of France have
let it fall, I have picked up its broken point.
- Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970)
"Radio address" (1940)
]
L 1,[101 I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
From "Einstein, His Life and Times" (1947)
]
L 1,[102 The Lord God is subtle, but malicious he is not.
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Inscription in Fine Hall, Princeton.
]
L 1,[103 The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of
everyday thinking.
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Physics and Reality" (1936)
]
L 1,[104 The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and science.
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"What I Believe" in Forum. (1930)
]
L 1,[105 A vile beastly rottenheaded foolbegotten brazenthroated
pernicious piggish screaming, tearing, roaring, perplexing,
splitmecrackle crashmecriggle insane ass of a woman is practising
howling belowstairs with a brute of a singingmaster so horribly, my
head is nearly off.
- Edward Lear (1912-1888)
]
L 1,[106 Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.
- P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975)
]
L 1,[107 He's a little man, that's his trouble. Never trust a man with
short legs -- brains too near their bottoms.
- Noel Coward (1899-1973)
]
L 1,[108 The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox -- the
unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
]
L 1,[109 His mind is a muskeg of mediocrity.
- John Macnaughton (1858-1943)
]
L 1,[110 Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of
nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.
- John Ruskin (1819-1900)
]
L 1,[111 Funny without being vulgar.
- W. S. Gilbert (1836-1911)
On Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's performance as
Hamlet.
]
L 1,[112 Very nice, though there are dull stretches.
- Antoine de Rivarol (1753-1801)
On a two-line peom.
]
L 1,[113 I played over the music of that scoundrel Brahms. What a
giftless bastard!
Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
]
L 1,[114 Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that
is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
]
L 1,[115 You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935)
]
L 1,[116 From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I
was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
- Groucho Marx
]
L 1,[117 Clergyman: How did you like my sermon, Mr. Canning?
Canning: You were brief.
Clergyman: Yes, you know I avoid being tedious.
Canning: But you WERE tedious.
- George Canning (1770-1827)
]
L 1,[118 Optimism, said Candide, is a mania for maintaining that
all is well when things are going badly.
- Voltaire [Francois Marie Arouet] (1694-1778)
"Candide" (1759)
]
L 1,[119 [Bernard Shaw sent Churchill 2 tickets for the opening of his
new play with the invitation:]
Bring a friend -- if you have one.
[Churchill regretted that he was engaged, and asked for tickets for
the 2nd performance:]
If there is one.
- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
]
L 1,[120 They have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken
untruths; secondarily, they are slanderers; sixth and lastly, they
have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and
to conclude, they are lying knaves.
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
"Much Ado About Nothing"
]
L 1,[121 Clare Boothe Luce [at doorway]: Age before beauty!
Dorothy Parker [gliding through]: Pearls before swine!@
- Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
]
L 1,[122 In the first place God made idiots; this was for practice;
then he made school boards.
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
]
L 1,[123 I am not an editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do
right and be good so that God will not make me one.
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
]
L 1,[124 Katherine Hepburn ran the whole gamut of emotions from A to B.
- Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
]
L 1,[125 This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be
thrown with great force.
Tonstant Weader fwowed up.
- Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
On "The House at Pooh Corner" in her column
"Constant Reader".
]
L 1,[126 [Asked to distinguish between a misfortune and a calamity]
If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune, and if
anybody pulled him out that, I suppose, would be a calmity.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
]
L 1,[127 He has not a single redeeming defect.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
On William Gladstone
]
L 1,[128 He is a self-made man, and worships his creator.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
On John Bright.
]
L 1,[129 As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench, the Ministers reminded
me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of
South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes, not a flame
flickers ona single pallid crest, but the situation is still
dangerous. There are occasional earthquakes and ever and anon the
dark rumbling of the sea.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
On the Liberal ministry.
]
L 1,[130 How long will John Bull allow this absurd monkey to dance on
his chest?
- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
On Benjamin Disraeli
]
L 1,[131 He looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a
municipal drainpipe.
- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
On Neville Chamberlain
]
L 1,[132 He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.
- Harold Macmillan (1894-)
]
L 1,[133 His mind was a kind of extinct sulphur-pit.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
On Napoleon III.
]
L 1,[134 Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any
address on it?
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
]
L 1,[135 [Asked how he became a hero:]
It was involuntary. They sank my boat.
- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
Quoted in "A Thousand Days" (1965)
by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
]
L 1,[136 Achievement, n. the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
"The Devil's Dictionary" (1906)
]
L 1,[137 Cynic, n. a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as
they are, not as they ought to be.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
"The Devil's Dictionary" (1906)
]
L 1,[138 Edible, adj. good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm
to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a
man to a worm.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
"The Devil's Dictionary" (1906)
]
L 1,[139 Habit, n. a shackle for the free.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
"The Devil's Dictionary" (1906)
]
L 1,[140 Prejudice, n. a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
"The Devil's Dictionary" (1906)
]
L 1,[141 Saint, n. a dead sinner revised and edited.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
"The Devil's Dictionary" (1906)
]
L 1,[142 Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
- Minna Antrim
]
L 1,[143 Wit has truth in it;
wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
- Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
]
L 1,[144 The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.
- Anna Letaitia Barbauld
]
L 1,[145 Man is a tool-using animal ...
Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
"Sartor Resartus" (1834)
]
L 1,[146 A whiff of grapeshot.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
"The French Revolution" (1837)
]
L 1,[147 [In a debate, Lord Sandwich confessed himself at a loss to
know the precise definitions; Warburton whispered back:]
Orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy is another man's doxy.
- William Warburton, Bishop of Gloucester (1698-1779)
]
L 1,[148 The difference between Orthodoxy or My-doxy and
Heterodoxy or Thy-doxy.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
"The French Revolution" (1837)
]
L 1,[149 "The secret of being a bore is to tell everything."
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
"Sept Discours en Vers sur l'Homme"
]
;;; Following from The Page A Day Wall Calendar (Workman Publishing, NY):
L 1,[150 "All human actions have one or more of these seven causes:
chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire."
- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
"Rhetoric"
]
L 1,[151 "Use it up, wear it out;
Make it do, or do without."
- New England maxim.
]
L 1,[152 "Memory is the power to gather roses in winter."
- Anonymous.
]
L 1,[153 "We'll use a signal I have tried and found far-reaching and
easy to yell. Waa-hoo!"
- Zane Grey (1875-1939)
"The Last of the Plainsmen"
]
L 1,[154 "I find confusion always creative,
although it drives the crew crazy."
- Louis Malle (1933- )
Quoted in "Saturday Review" June 1982.
]
L 1,[155 "Anybody who is any good is dif from anybody else."
- Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965)
"Felix Frankfurter Reminisces"
]
L 1,[156 "There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it."
- Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
"De Divinatione"
]
L 1,[157 "People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading."
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946)
"Afterthoughts"
]
L 1,[158 "Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Lady Windermere's Fan"
]
L 1,[159 "Strictly speaking, not touching on other subjects,
I must state about myself, in passing, that fate treats me
mercilessly, as a storm does a small ship."
- Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
"The Cherry Orchard"
]
L 1,[160 "The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech."
- Clifton Fadiman (1904- )
Quoted in "Reader's Digest", Sept. 1956.
]
L 1,[161 "There is one difference between a tax collector
and a taxidermist -- the taxidermist leaves the hide."
- Mortimer Caplan (1916- )
Quoted in "Time", Feb. 1, 1963.
]
L 1,[162 "No great thing is created suddenly."
- Epictetus (c. 50-120)
"Discourses"
]
;;; End of page-a-day bunch.

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TITLE LIMERICK PROGRAM
VERSIO==.FNAM2
TYOC==2 ; TTY OUTPUT CHANNEL
.INSRT SYSENG;$CALL MACRO
.INSRT EAK;MACROS >
LIMERICK:
MOVE P,[-LPDL,,PDL-1]
.OPEN TYOC,[.UAO,,'TTY]
.LOSE 1000
.SUSET [.ROPTION,,A] ; CHECK IF THERE IS A COMMAND LINE TO READ
TLNN A,OPTCMD
JRST RND
SETZM CMD ; ZERO THE COMMAND BUFFER
MOVE A,[CMD,CMD+1]
BLT A,CMD+LCMD-1
SETOM CMD+LCMD ; -1 (NONZERO) WILL STOP WRITING INTO BUFFER
.BREAK 12,[5,,CMD] ; SUPERIOR WILL DEPOSIT INTO BUFFER
MOVE D,[440700,,CMD]
SPACE: ILDB A,D ; IGNORE LEADING SPACES
CAIN A,40
JRST SPACE
CAIN A,"*
JRST ALL
NUMBER: MOVEI B,0
CAIA
NUM1: ILDB A,D
CAIL A,"0
CAILE A,"9
JRST NUM2 ; NO. IS TERMINATED BY NON DIGIT
IMULI B,10.
ADDI B,-"0(A)
JRST NUM1
NUM2: SOUT #TYOC,#%TJDIS,"C"
MOVE A,B
SUBI A,1
PUSHJ P,PRINT
JRST QUIT
RND: SOUT #TYOC,#%TJDIS,"C"
.RDTIME A,
PUSHJ P,PRINT
JRST QUIT
ALL: MOVNI B,NLIMS
AL1: SOUT #TYOC,,"
"
MOVEI A,NLIMS(B)
PUSHJ P,PRINT
AOJL B,AL1
JRST QUIT
PRINT: PUSH P,B
PUSH P,C
MOVM B,A
IDIVI B,NLIMS ; TAKE NO. MOD THE NO. OF LIMS WE HAVE
MOVE A,LIMTBL(C)
HLRZ B,A
HRLI A,440700
$CALL SIOT,[#TYOC,A,B]
.LOSE 1000
POP P,C
POP P,B
POPJ P,
QUIT: .SUSET [.RXJNAME,,A]
CAMN A,[SIXBIT/./]
JRST DEATH
$CALL FINISH,#TYOC ; WAIT FOR OUTPUT TO REACH TTY
.LOSE 1000
MOVEI B,50.
CAMN A,[SIXBIT/SOLONG/]
.SLEEP B,
DEATH: .CLOSE TYOC,
.LOGOUT
.BREAK 16,160000
.VALUE
LCMD==<80./5>+1
CMD: BLOCK LCMD+1
DEFINE L N,TEXT
%.TMP1==.
ASCII TEXT
%.TMP2==.
LOC LIMTBL+NLIMS
REPEAT N,[
.LENGTH TEXT,,%.TMP1
]
LOC %.TMP2
NLIMS==NLIMS+N
TERMIN
NLIMS==0
LPDL==20
PDL: BLOCK LPDL
LITRAL: CONSTANTS
VARIABLES
LIMTBL: BLOCK 1700.
.INSRT LIMS >
END LIMERI