Cherries Quote by Nicolas Chamfort

Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.

— Nicolas Chamfort

“It’s easy to cherry-pick passages from scripture and use them for your own purposes, without considering a verse’s original context.”

— Daniel D. Maurer

All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.

— Joseph Joubert

What are the precise characteristics of an epigram it is not easy to define. It differs from a joke, in the fact that the…

— William Matthews

And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.

— James Payn

It was said of Euripides, that every verse was a precept; and it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be…

— Samuel Johnson

Verse is a set of specially related sounds, repeated aloud.

— Sidney Lanier

The first thing Jesus tells the church of Ephesus that He loves about them is they have sound doctrine.

— Matthew Carter

The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Whitman and the Bible are no more obscene than Nature herself—no more obscene than a manure pile, out of which come roses and cherries.…

— Franklin J. Meine

“Ephesians bids us to shod our feet with the preparation of the gospel. One of my aims as a young man was to commit…

— Patrick Davis

All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.

— Denis Johnson