Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.
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The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity so have some little frocks but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.
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Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
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A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, and such a society is a house built upon sand.
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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
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As I grow older and older And totter towards the tomb, I find I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.
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He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.
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I always have a quotation for everything-- it saves original thinking.
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A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
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She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.
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The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.
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I always have a quotation for everything, it saves original thinking.
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