Enlargement Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of language.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Enlargement Language Quotations Stability
“Quote' is a verb; 'quotation', a noun. Lazy tongues attached to empty minds have taken the distinction from us. Before we lament, let us… — D.F. Downing Copy Share Image
The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying. — John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn Copy Share Image
I'm a discursive thinker, so quotation has played an active role in the structure and content of my books from the beginning. — Masha Tupitsyn Copy Share Image
We sometimes think of quotations as extracts from larger texts, but some quotations originated complete unto themselves. — Gary Saul Morson Copy Share Image
The more fluent the experience of reading a quote - or the easier it is to grasp, the smoother it sounds, the more readily… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
Using quotations was at first quite spontaneous for me, but then this use became strengthened through reflection. But originally this practice came out of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have "quotation" thrust upon them. — Gary Saul Morson Copy Share Image
A good quotation must be a complete entity. It must be like a headline - sharp, clear, whole. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Quotation, like much better things, has its abuses. One may quote till one compiles. The ancient lawyers used to quote at the bar till… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
When I decided to stop using quotation marks, it presented technical challenges: you have to conceive of dialogue differently and structure it differently for… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Sooner or later a democracy which is to survive has to be able to rely upon that enlargement of vision and purpose of those… — Ordway Tead Copy Share Image
Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . . — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements… — William Bligh Copy Share Image
The love of God is like himself – equal, constant, not capable of augmentation or diminution; our love is like ourselves – unequal, increasing,… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Foreign policy can mean several things, not only foreign policy in the narrow sense. It can cover foreign policy, relations with the developing world,… — Romano Prodi Copy Share Image
The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
The feeling of an evolution is a constant for every artist who is pursuing the search of refinement and enlargement of his/her own means… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
I then wrought at my trade as a tailor; carefully attended meetings for worship and discipline; and found an enlargement of gospel love in… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
“It is one of the defects of modern higher education that it has become too much a training in the acquisition of certain kinds… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
We're strongly in favor of the U.N. plan for a solution to the Cyprus conflict. Hopefully a solution can be found before the end… — Anders Fogh Rasmussen Copy Share Image
First, we believe that God is a being with a body in form like man's; that he possesses body, parts and passions; that in… — B. H. Roberts Copy Share Image
