Proverbs accordingly are somewhat analogous to those medical Formu

Proverbs accordingly are somewhat analogous to those medical Formulas which, being in frequent use, are kept ready-made-up in the chemists’ shops, and which often save the framing of a distinct Prescription. – Richard Whately, Elements of Rhetoric

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

Ah, yes, I wrote the Purple Cow — Im sorry, now, I wrote it! But I can tell you, anyhow, Ill kill you if you quote it. – Gelett Burgess

Category:
Quotations

It’s such a pleasure to write down splendid words—almost as though one were inventing them. – Rupert Hart-Davis

Category:
Quotations

But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it’s lyric verse. – Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy, 1948

Category:
Quotations

In quoting others we cite ourselves. – Julio Cortázar (1914–1984), Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

Category:
Quotations

Random Quotes

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. – Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

Category:
Alcohol

Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure. – Bill Clinton

Category:
Excuses

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food. – Cyril Connolly

Category:
Food

I can do small things in a great way. – James Freeman Clarke

Category:
Excellence