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 ...
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- 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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