Richard Harding Davis Famous Quotes
The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.
Richard Harding Davis Quotations
"There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same."
Norman Mailer
"Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and there is no knowledge that is not power."
Jeremy Taylor
There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Diane Ackerman
"There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing."
Roger Caras
That's the fourth extra base hit for the Padres -- two doubles and a triple.
Jerry Coleman
There is no such thing as a solitary Christian.
John Wesley
"Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and archive mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement, against that past."
George Steiner
"Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man."
Francis Bacon
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
T S Eliot
"I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps."
Peggy Noonan