Quotations Quote by Willis Regier Download Open image “Quotations calcify into clichés.” — Willis Regier ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Quotations
“Everyone can write a cliche. What's rare is to write them often and unashamedly enough that people quote it as if it's some deep… — Jimmy Lo Copy Share Image
The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Clichés are static, the emotion behind them long spent. If you are tempted to use them, here is a saying of my mother’s: Fang… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Say what you want without saying it yourself: quote. Very useful, this, sometimes lovely, and versatile, too: big thoughts in small pieces, neatly wrapped… — Willis Regier Copy Share Image
At its best, flattery is truth well dressed, and it is best dressed with fine see-through fabrics. Honest flattery can caress a lover, cover… — Willis Regier Copy Share Image
Maria Edgeworth grumbled against vandals who ruined immortal works by quoting the life out of them. "How far our literature may in future suffer… — Willis Regier Copy Share Image
Excellent flatterers welcome attentive audiences; mighty potentates enjoy public praise. In the most pleasing situation, a flatterer would genuinely admire the flatteree, please that… — Willis Regier Copy Share Image
A little flattery, like a warm bath and soft towel, will let you get along with yourself, lie down with yourself, and sleep. — Willis Regier Copy Share Image
Quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding, for adding iron as well as eye appeal. — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience....A Journey With My Girl — Luckybannu Copy Share Image
You're trying too HARD to convince me that you're a TRUE friend & DEEP Down Inside you know you're not but you stick around… — Ta'Nisha Marie Copy Share Image
That quotation about not having time to stand and stare has never applied to me. I seem to have spent a good part of… — James Herriot Copy Share Image
Don't get anger, force yourself, complain others, waste time, thing much, compare yourself, except, sad, silent, stop thinking. — Jayanthi AJ Copy Share Image
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A Beautiful Saying Do Not Wish For Less Problems, Always Wish For More Skills. — Vinesh Copy Share Image
Pay attention and listen to the sayings of the wise; apply your heart to what I teach, for it is pleasing when you keep… — Bible Copy Share Image
“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
