Mash 4077 Quotes & Sayings

Who cares what a man's style is, so it is intelligible,
as intelligible as his thought. Literally and really, the style is no more than the stylus, the pen he writes with; and it is not worth scraping and polishing, and gilding, unless it will write his thoughts the better for it. It is something for use, and not to look at. The question for us is, not whether Pope had a fine style, wrote with a peacock's feather, but whether he uttered useful thoughts. — Henry David Thoreau

And I, uh, I wonder how anybody can think his personality changes with his success. I've had quite a bit of success but I feel that I'm just the same person as I always was. — Rube Goldberg

If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes. — Leon Trotsky

We can't fight AIDS unless we do much more to fight TB as well. — Nelson Mandela

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic. — Bill Cosby