Measures which serve to abridge the free competition of foreign Articles, have a tendency to occasion an enhancement of prices.
Dinner theater is anti-culture.
Robert Creely's poems have two main characteristics. 1) They are short; 2) they are not short enough.
Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.
The pressure on language to deteriorate does not come merely from below, from the "democratic" lev-elers. It comes also from above, from the fancy jar-gonmongers, idle game players, fashionable coteries for second-rate intellectuals.
It's wonderful to be hated by idiots.
If you love language, it will love you back.
The great joke is that a realist is an optimistic pessimist. That's very witty. Whether it's truthful or not, that I don't know.
We've been around long enough and have been to enough award shows to know that it is easy to lose to Phil Collins at any time.
Love is our response to our highest values.
This is the gospel of labour, ring it, ye bells of the kirk! The Lord of Love came down from above, to live with the men who work. This is the rose that He planted, here in the thorn-curst soil: Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil.