Good ideas are common - what's uncommon are people who'll work hard enough to bring them about

Good ideas are common - what's uncommon are people who'll work hard enough to bring them about

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

And beauty, for confiding youth,
Those shocks of passion can prepare
That kill the bloom before its read more

And beauty, for confiding youth,
Those shocks of passion can prepare
That kill the bloom before its time,
And blanch, without the owner's crime,
The most resplendent hair.

Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the read more

Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.

The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make. •Vice read more

The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make. •Vice President Dan Quayle Quoting: the act of repeating erroneously the words of another. •Ambrose Bierce You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writes in the world.

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of read more

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.rn

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.