Abigail Quote by David McCullough Download Open image “You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition.” — David McCullough ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abigail Argument Erudition Ostentatious
You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition." Spoken by Abigail Adams — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“The volume of your voice does not increase the validity of your argument.” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
If you can’t reduce your argument to a few crisp words and phrases, there’s something wrong with your argument. — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. The jargon of the philosophers not seldom conceals an… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you interrupt, you've stopped listening. People need to be heard. — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Steamboats by this time were becoming a familiar presence on the rivers and coastal waters of America, but not until 1838 did steam-powered ships… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I feel that history is in many ways the most important of all subjects because it is about everything and because it's about who… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Even mighty states and kingdoms are not exempted. If we look into history, we shall find some nations rising from contemptible beginnings and spreading… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
History isn't just what happened, but what happened to whom and why and what would have been different if the cast of characters had… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Only TR openly declared his love for the job. “Nobody ever enjoyed the presidency as I did,” he boasted, and by all evidence that… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“s ships Phoenix and Rose, in the company of three tenders, cast off their moorings at Staten Island and started up the harbor under… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“a people may let a King fall, yet still remain a people, but if a King let his people slip from him, he is… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Why limit yourself to the experience of your own relatively brief time on earth, according to your biological clock, when the whole realm of… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“He worked at a plain, tall desk at which he wrote standing up or perched on a high stool,” — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Nothing happens in isolation. Everything that happens has consequences. We” — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the heart played its own tune, and it was deaf to what the head tried to tell it.’ – Abigail — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The Language of Sand has something for everyone: myths, mystery, community, humor, grief, and ultimately healing. I found myself not only rooting for Abigail… — Brunonia Barry Copy Share Image
Now what other evil powers do you have that I should know about?” – Abigail “I can roll my tongue.” – Sundown “I’m serious,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I also listen… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
You get some sleep, Abigail," Townsend told her. "I'll keep watch." "That's very gracious of you, but being that we're on an airplane..." Even… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“Your chest is surprisingly hairy.’ ‘I hope I can’t say the same thing about you.” — Gemma Burgess Copy Share Image
What are you people talking about?” – Abigail “Nothing important. Just the end of the world as we know it, and for the record,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“Sorry. Did you know you giggle in your sleep, by the way?’ ‘Really? How adorable of me.” — Gemma Burgess Copy Share Image
All right, everyone. Fess up. Who just shat in their pants? C'mon. Admit it." He raised his hand. I know I did and I'm… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Miss Abigail, I want to be an author because writers know when a person is lonely. I mean, when Molly read me some books,… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
