Related quotes
- Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
- An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
- Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
- There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
- Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
- When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.