Quotes of Written - somelinesforyou

“ A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. ”

- Samuel Goldwyn

“ I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it. ”

- Steven Wright

“ Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. ”

- Herman Wouk

“ I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true. ”

- Dorothy Parker

“ Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ”

- Truman Capote

“ The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. ”

- Frank Zappa

“ Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy. ”

- Charles Peters

“ What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject is found in the three monosyllables: 'Do not try.'. ”

- Dan Parker

“ Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. ”

- Dean Acheson

“ Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written. ”

- Yevgeny Zamyatin

“ Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content. ”

- Alfred de Musset

“ If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth . ”

- Dr. Joyce Brothers

“ Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded… ”

- Plato

“ Sigmund Freud was a half baked Viennese quack. Our literature, culture, and the the films of Woody Allen would be better today if Freud had never written a word. ”

- Ian Shoales

“ Do Not Disturb signs should be written in the language of the hotel maids. ”

- Tim Bedore

“ Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. ”

- Beverly Nichols

“ Courtly love-poetry may first have been written during long periods of abstinence on the Crusades, but it would not have flourished in the cold of northern Europe without some help from the chimney. ”

- James Burke

“ The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. ”

- Walter Bagehot

“ An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ Chaos is the score upon which reality is written. ”

- Henry Miller

“ Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. ”

- Aristotle

“ History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. ”

- James A. Forude

“ An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God has written all the books. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide. ”

- Jeff Melvoin

“ Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. ”

- Lord Acton

“ Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe. ”

- Galileo Galilei

“ A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers. ”

- Hans Christian Andersen
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