Sabur Quotes & Sayings

Glass. A broad resembles the a of the German; as all, wall, call. Many words pronounced with a broad were anciently written with au; as sault, mault; and we still say, fault, vault. This was probably the Saxon sound, for it is yet retained in the northern dialects, and in the rustick pronunciation; as maun for man, haund for hand. The short a approaches to the a open, as grass. The long a, if prolonged by e at the end of the word, is always slender, as graze, fame. A forms a diphthong only with i or y, and u or w. Ai or ay, as in plain, wain, gay, clay, has only the sound of the long and slender a, and differs not in the pronunciation from plane, wane. Au or aw has the sound of the German a, as raw, naughty. Ae is sometimes found in Latin words not completely — Samuel Johnson

Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore. — B.B. King

WHAT FOR IS THIS BOX PADDED? IS IT TO BE SAT ON? CAN IT BE THAT IT IS CAT-FLAVOURED? — Terry Pratchett

Do you know what elegance is? It is not only what you're wearing. It is how you wear it. who you are inside. — Carolina Herrera

I swear by swadeshi as it affords occasion for ample exercise of all our faculties and it tests every one of the millions of men and women, young and old. — Mahatma Gandhi

Pickup's washed and you just got paid, with any luck at all you might even get laid. — Jimmy Buffett

Angry people cannot create a peaceful planet — Marianne Williamson

Short first pregnancies do not occasion criticism in our valley, for it is widely known that the good Lord often makes first pregnancies mercifully brief as His reward to the girl for having preserved her chastity until marriage. Subsequent pregnancies, however, usually run their full terms, which only makes sense, as the very fact that they are not first pregnancies means that the mother was not chaste at the moment of conception. — Trevanian

Mia Thermopolis, 1005 Thompson Street, #4A — Meg Cabot

What's your angle?" I asked, trying to sound more playful than demanding.
"Isosceles," Jack quipped. — Amanda Hocking