Particulars Quotes by William Strunk, Jr.

More Particulars Quotes

Popular Particulars quotes from across the collection:

• Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies… — Joseph Addison
• He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite,… — William Blake
• A family from Mexico who arrived here this morning, legally, has as much right to the American dream as the direct descendants… — Bob Dole
• When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars. — E. W. Howe
• There is no room in your mind for negative thoughts. The busier you keep yourself with the particulars of shot assessment and… — Jack Nicklaus
• One of the curious effects of a bad hangover is that you think you're wrong whether you are or not. Not wrong… — Jim Harrison
• Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars. — Heraclitus
• You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• After painting comes Sculpture, a very noble art, but one that does not in the execution require the same supreme ingenuity as… — Leonardo da Vinci
• No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories… — Francis Bacon
• In all matters of opinion and science ... the difference between men is ... oftener found to lie in generals than in… — David Hume
• There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars… — Francis Bacon

See all Particulars Quotes »