Pedants Split Quotes & Sayings

It felt good doing a physical job, and going home each evening feeling like I had really done a day's work. — James D'arcy

There are all kinds of pedants around with more time to read and imitate Lynne Truss and John Humphrys than to write poems, love-letters, novels and stories it seems. They whip out their Sharpies and take away and add apostrophes from public signs, shake their heads at prepositions which end sentences and mutter at split infinitives and misspellings, but do they bubble and froth and slobber and cream with joy at language? Do they ever let the tripping of the tips of their tongues against the tops of their teeth transport them to giddy euphoric bliss? Do they ever yoke impossible words together for the sound-sex of it? Do they use language to seduce, charm, excite, please, affirm and tickle those they talk to? Do they? I doubt it. They're too farting busy sneering at a greengrocer's less than perfect use of the apostrophe. Well sod them to Hades. They think they're guardians of language. They're no more guardians of language than the Kennel Club is the guardian of dogkind. — Stephen Fry

Let's deal with each other honestly. — Robert Torricelli

There is a difference between happiness, the supreme good, and the final end or goal toward which our actions ought to tend. For happiness is not the supreme good, but presupposes it, being the contentment or satisfaction of the mind which results from possessing it. — Rene Descartes

Pride is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive. — Anne Rice

My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see. — Gunter Grass

When World AIDS Day was first observed in 1988, there was no truly effective treatment for what was almost always a deadly disease. — Bernie Sanders

Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left. — Robert A. Heinlein

I can't manage without homeopathy. In fact, I never go anywhere without homeopathic remedies. I often make use of them. — Paul McCartney

There is no difference between being an artist and being in love. — Marty Rubin

She was young-looking--most because of the impression she gave of still being on happy sensuous terms with life. — Elizabeth Bowen

Be inspired but not proud. — B.K.S. Iyengar

We should blunt our sharp points, and unravel the complications of things; we should attemper our brightness, and bring ourselves into agreement with the obscurity of others. — Lao-Tzu