“Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.” MenWorldWantThreeLanguageKnowingSourcePrideFoolIllMannersBehaveDefects Book:The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions
“Betray mean terror of ridicule, thou shalt find fools enough to mock thee; but answer thou their language with contempt, and the scoffers will lick thy feet.” MeanEnoughLanguageAnswersFeetFoolTerrorTheeContemptBetrayRidiculeMockScoffers Author:Martin Farquhar Tupper
“One of the benefits of being a mature well-educated woman is that you're not afraid of expletives. And you have no fear to put a fool in his place. That's the power of language and experience. You can learn a lot from Shakespeare.” WellsLanguageFoolBenefitsEducatedMatureNot AfraidNo FearHave No FearWell EducatedExpletivesPower Of LanguageEducated Women Author:Judi Dench
“Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?” WarLanguageFoolCurseMagnificentDiscourseProfanity Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“Four. That's what I want you to remember. If you don't get your idea across in the first four minutes, you won't do it. Four sentences to a paragraph. Four letters to a word. The most important words in the English language all have four letters. Home. Love. Food. Land. Peace. . .I know peace has five letters, but any damn fool knows it should have four.” IfsKnowsWantShouldFirstsImportantIdeasHomeRememberLanguageFiveFourLandMinutesFoolLettersShould HaveSentencesDamnI Want YouEnglish LanguageParagraphFood LoveImportant Words Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“The narrators get into trouble and make fools of themselves with their perversely impulsive fondlings of the language. These people have retreated from the world, in which they keep falling short, and into language, where they fall even shorter. The narrators aggrandize their every plaint and lurid insight into verbal formations that betray their fatuity as speakers and even as hosts of their own bodies and souls.” PeopleWorldSoulFallLanguageTroubleFoolInsightHostBetraySpeakersImpulsive Author:Gary Lutz