Showing posts with label Hesketh Pearson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hesketh Pearson. Show all posts

Friday, August 14, 2009

Quotes

"Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and
privilege of the learned. A widely- read
man never quotes accurately, for the rather
obvious reason that he has read too widely."
- Hesketh Pearson

"A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought,
and then be welcomed only for some propriety of
felicity justifying the intrusion."
- Robert Chapman

All love that has not friendship for its base,
is like a mansion built upon sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004

"God, I can push the grass apart
and lay my finger on Thy heart."
- Edna St. Vincent Millay

"A little government and a little luck
are necessary in life, but only a fool
trusts either of them."
- P. J. O'Rourke

"When you encounter seemingly good
advice that contradicts other seemingly
good advice, ignore them both."
- Al Franken