“Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Big Curmudgeon. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2007
“Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Big Curmudgeon. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2007
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes
Tagged humor, literary oddities, philosophy/religion
“There are three reasons for becoming a writer. The first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; and the third is that you can’t think what to do with the long winter evenings.”
Excerpted from: Sherrin, Ned, ed. The Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations. New York: Oxford University Press. 1996.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes
Tagged humor, lgbtq history, literary oddities
“Aspen Institute: A supermarket of conventional wisdom for middle-level executives. Corporate life, particularly for those not on the fast track, has all the bureaucratic pitfalls of directionless boredom. To distract these confused but loyal servants from what Thoreau called their ‘lives of quiet desperation,’ they are periodically shipped off to rest camps where, over the period of a few days, they are taught important things which can change their lives, their company, the world. Failing that, the experience may help them hold on a bit longer.”
Excerpted from: Saul, John Ralston. The Doubter’s Companion. New York: The Free Press, 1994.
Posted in Quotes, Social Sciences
Tagged humor, literary oddities, philosophy/religion
“If hypocrisy were gold, the Capitol would be Fort Knox.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Big Curmudgeon. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2007.
“Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Big Curmudgeon. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2007.
“Journalism consists largely in saying ‘Lord Jones died’ to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.
“Sleep is death without the responsibility.”
Fran Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life “Why I Love Sleep” (1978)
Excerpted from: Schapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes
Tagged humor, united states history, women's history
“Speaking of Hollywood money, Mrs. Parker said: ‘It’s congealed snow; it melts in your hand.’”
Excerpted from: Drennan, Robert E., ed. The Algonquin Wits. New York: Kensington, 1985.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes
Tagged fiction/literature, humor, poetry, women's history
“Demean for Debase or Degrade. ‘He demeaned himself by accepting charity.’ The word relates, not to meanness, but to demeanor, conduct, behavior. One may demean oneself with dignity and credit.”
Excerpted from: Bierce, Ambrose. Write it Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2010.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference
Tagged diction/grammar/style/usage, humor, literary oddities
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