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Show The AARDVARK REVIEW Weber State College Volume 2, Number 1 A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug. George Borrow, 1803-1881. Much reading is an oppression of the mind and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many useless scholars in the world. Wm. Penn, 1644-1718. What do you read, my Lord? Words, words, words. Wm. Shakespeare, 1564-1616. All words are pegs to hang ideas on. Henry Ward Beecher, 1813-1887. Learn to read slowly; all other graces will follow in their proper places. W. Walker, ca 1600. To turn events into ideas is the function of literature. G. Santayana. All I know is what 1 read in the papers. Will Rogers. The intolerable wrestle with words and meanings. Thomas Stearns Eliot, 1888-1965. It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. Henry James, 1843-1916. It is the glory and merit of some men to write well, and of others not to write at all. Jean de la Bruyere, 1646-1696. How many a man has dated a new era in his life with the reading of a book? H. D. Thoreau, 1817-1862. Words may be false and full of art. Thomas Shadwell, 1642?-1692. A barren superfluity of words. William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879. Words, like nature, half reveal / And half conceal the soul within. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892. And weigh thy words in a balance, and make a door and bar for thy mouth. The Bible. Short words are best and the old words when short are the best of all. Winston Churchill, 1874-1965. Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824. It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written. Andre Gide. Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words. Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882. Man does not live by words alone despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. Adlai Stevenson. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. George Orwell, 1903-1950. A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct; / The language plain, and incidents well link'd. Wm. Cowper, 1731-1800. All words are prejudices. Friedrick Wilhelm Nietzsche, 1844-1900. No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except, for money. Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784. I love words but I don't like strange ones. Will Rogers. The words of some men are thrown forcibly against you and adhere like burrs. H. D. Thoreau. Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. Samuel Johnson. Language is part of man's character. Francis Bacon, 1561-1626. When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing but the scratch of a pen can cure it. Samuel Lover, 1797-1868. Words are the tokens current and accepted for conceits, as moneys are for values. Francis Bacon. When 1 use a word it means just what 1 choose it to mean, - neither more nor less. Lewis Carroll, 1832-1898. How every fool can play upon the word! Wm. Shakespeare. Woord is but wynde; leff woord and tak the dede. John Lydgate, 1370. What so wild as words are? Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806-1861. Never pursue literature as a trade. Coleridge. |