There is a great discovery still to be made in Literature: that of
paying literary men by the quantity they do NOT write.
paying literary men by the quantity they do NOT write.
Related:
- No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
Sir Isaac... - There are three things men can do with women:
love them,
suffer for them, or turn them into literature. -... - He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Samuel... - Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Samuel... - Before man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- On the Capture... - It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
Henry... - ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear.
In Virginia City, Nevada, he is called the Washoe Canary... - The discovery of this strange society was a curiously
refreshing thing;
to realize that there were ten new trades in ... - Everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better
to be made in that way than not to be made at all.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- The Autocrat...
From the same category:
- The past always looks better than it was.
It's only pleasant because it isn't here... - You can create your own opportunities this week.
Blackmail a senior executive... - If you hit two keys on the keyboard,
the one you don't want will get to the screen first... - Eleanor Rigby
Sits at the keyboard and waits for a line on the screen
Lives in a dream
Waits for a signal,
finding some code that will make the machine do ... - Old programmers never die.
They just branch to a new address...
