An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject. – Robert Brault
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser — in case you thought optimism was dead. – Robert Brault
An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject. – Robert Brault
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser — in case you thought optimism was dead. – Robert Brault
It is a sad lament — the happiness you might have found if you had taken the path that still lies right there in front of you. – Robert Brault
The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions. – Robert Brault
A true quotation cannot be divorced from the character who uttered or scribbled it; it should say as much about the person quoted as about the particular subject referred to, and for this reason an anthology of quotations should be a kind of portrait gallery. – Robert Andrews, The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations, “Introduction”
A learned historian declared to me of a contemporary, that the latter had appropriated his researches; he might, indeed, and he had a right to refer to the same originals; but if his predecessor had opened the sources for him, gratitude is not a silent virtue. – Isaac D’Israeli, “Quotation,” A Second Series of Curiosities of Literature