Logo
Idly curious race of grammarians, ye who dig up by the roots the p

Idly curious race of grammarians, ye who dig up by the roots the poetry of others; unhappy bookworms that walk on thorns, defilers of the great… away with you, bugs that bite secretly the eloquent. – Antiphanes of Macedonia, in The Greek Anthology, Volume IV, “Book XI: The Conviv

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Quotations
category

Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings. – William R. Alger

Category:
Quotations

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made. – Samuel Johnson, quoted in The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Joh

Category:
Quotations

Quotations cause all kinds of trouble. – Willis Goth Regier, Quotology, 2010

Category:
Quotations

He repeated to himself an old French proverb that he had made up that morning. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Category:
Quotations

Random Quotes

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of effort is the measure of the results. – James Allen

Category:
Determination

Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death hath no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever. – J. Swartz

Category:
Books

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Category:
Learning

From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture. – W. Somerset Maugham

Category:
Generations