Whenever I find a great quote I put it here. My favorites are highlighted.
- The reason God made woman last was that he didn't want any advice while creating man.
- If you're not big enough to stand criticism, you're too small to be praised.
- I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. --Woody Allen
- The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it. --William James
- The only thing you get for nothing is failure.
- Don't be unhappy if your dreams never come true--just be thankful that your nightmares don't.
- A man's consience takes up more room than all the rest of his insides. --Huck Finn
- God made children cute so they could be tolerated until they get some sense.
- A child only educated at school is an uneducated child. --George Santayana
- Bravery is fear sneering at itself. --Maxwell Bodenheim
- The wastebasket is a writer's best friend. --Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Ink and paper are sometimes passionate lovers, oftentimes brother and sister, and occasionally mortal enemies. --Emme Woodhull-Bäche
- A metaphor is like a simile.
- The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. --Mark Twain
- A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. --Karl Kraus
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. --Isaac Asimov
- Do not put statements in the negative form.
And don't start sentences with a conjunction.
If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a
great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing.
Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.
Unqualified superlatives are the worst of all.
De-accession euphemisms.
If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is.
Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky.
Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.
--William Safire, "Great Rules of Writing" - An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. --Sir Winston Chirchill