"It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't."

Writing, Lawyers, Man, Words, Years

0

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't."

Explore more quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

"Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it."

Being, Sin

"No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves."

Thought, Idea, Will

"A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles."

Humor, Defense, Sense

"Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show."

Strength, Weakness

"Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers."

Society, Living

"The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime."

Heart, Crime, Rules

"The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next."

Courage,

"The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it."

Humility, Man, Will

"The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it."

Pretty,

"There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them."

Money, People

Exlpore more Writing quotes

"If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it."

Anais Nin, American Author

Writing, Culture

"I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

Writing, Read

"Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own."

Mark Twain, American Author

Writing, Order

"I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense."

Robert Frost, American Poet

Writing, Music, English, May, Sense

"Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream."

Mark Twain, American Author

Writing, Lady, Old

"If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

Writing, Mother, Ladies, Old, Will

"The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter."

Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher

Writing, Leisure, Present

"Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."

Mark Twain, American Author

Writing, Time, Will

"Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts."

Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher

Writing, Thoughts, Eloquence, Painting

"My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water."

Mark Twain, American Author

Writing, Books, Drinks, Water, Wine