70 Quotations with Prose.
- 1. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parl ...
- 2. Ambrose Bierce: EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by ...
- 3. Ambrose Bierce: FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person -- a method by which a ...
- 4. Ambrose Bierce: RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable ...
- 5. Ambrose Bierce: RIME, n. Agreeing sounds in the terminals of verse, mostly bad. The verses thems ...
- 6. Ambrose Bierce: SUCCESS, n. The one unpardonable sin against one's fellows. In literature, and p ...
- 7. Unknown: A novel is a piece of prose of a certain length with something wrong with it.
- 8. Beverly Nichols: Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaini ...
- 9. Louis Kronenberger: The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose ...
- 10. Samuel McChord Crothers: A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins ...
- 11. Aldous Huxley: At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice an ...
- 12. Aquaviva: Let us be resolute in prosecuting our ends, and mild in our methods of so doing.
- 13. Mario Cuomo: You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
- 14. Paul Valery: In song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at th ...
- 15. Beverly Nichols: Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remai ...
- 16. Law & Order: In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet e ...
- 17. George W. Bush: In any conflict, your fate will depend on your action. Do not destroy oil wells, ...
- 18. Raymond Chandler: Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the ...
- 19. Victor Hugo: Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible wo ...
- 20. Lionel Trilling: Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carr ...
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