Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.~Dorothy Sayers

Next word: mastery

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Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, our one duty is to furnish it well~Peter Ustinov

It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.
~ James Lowell



Next word: fortuitous

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Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was. ~ Will Rogers

To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
~Oliver Goldsmith, Vicar of Wakefield

Next word; convenience

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He wrapped himself in quotations—as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
—Rudyard Kipling

The "control of nature" is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.~Rachel Carson

Next word: arrogance

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Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, our one duty is to furnish it well~Peter Ustinov

When men are the most sure and arrogant they are commonly the most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation and suspense which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.
~ David Hume



Next word: absurdities

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Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was. ~ Will Rogers

A sense of humour keen enough to show a man his own absurdities as well as those of other people will keep a man from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those that are worth committing.
~Samuel Butler

Next Word; commission

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He wrapped himself in quotations—as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
—Rudyard Kipling

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.~Plutarch

Next word: reprehensible

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Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, our one duty is to furnish it well~Peter Ustinov

If the underdog were always right, one might quite easily try to defend him. The trouble is that very often he is but obscurely right, sometimes only partially right, and often quite wrong; but perhaps he is never so altogether wrong and pig-headed and utterly reprehensible as he is represented to be by those who add the possession of prejudices to the other almost insuperable difficulties of understanding him.
~Jane Addams

Next word; insuperable

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He wrapped himself in quotations—as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
—Rudyard Kipling

Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensible.
~ John Grigg



Next word: adultery

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Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was. ~ Will Rogers

What men call gallantry and gods adultery, Is much more common where the climate's sultry.~lord Byron, Don Juan

Next word: sultry

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Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, our one duty is to furnish it well~Peter Ustinov

He that travels in theory has no inconveniences; he has shade and sunshine at his disposal, and wherever he alights finds tables of plenty and looks of gaiety. These ideas are indulged till the day of departure arrives, the chaise is called, and the progress of happiness begins. A few miles teach him the fallacies of imagination. The road is dusty, the air is sultry, the horses are sluggish, and the postilion brutal. He longs for the time of dinner that he may eat and rest. The inn is crowded, his orders are neglected, and nothing remains but that he devour in haste what the cook has spoiled, and drive on in quest of better entertainment. He finds at night a more commodious house, but the best is always worse than he expected.
~ Samuel Johnson



Next word: sluggish

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Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was. ~ Will Rogers

Do not put off your work until tomorrow and the day after. For the sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor the one who puts off his work; industry aids work, but the man who puts off work always wrestles with disaster.
~Hesiod, Works and Days

Next word; disaster

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He wrapped himself in quotations—as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
—Rudyard Kipling

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.~Walt Disney

Next word: financial

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Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, our one duty is to furnish it well~Peter Ustinov

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.
~ Romain Rolland



Next word: distinguish(es)

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Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was. ~ Will Rogers

For the most part we stupidly confound one man with another. The dull distinguish only races or nations, or at most classes, but the wise man, individuals.
~Henry David Thoreau

Next word; confound

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He wrapped himself in quotations—as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
—Rudyard Kipling

The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they carry off a few things they can use, soil and confound the rest, and revile all.~Friedrich Nietzsche

Next word: plunder(ing)

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Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, our one duty is to furnish it well~Peter Ustinov

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.
~ Richard Cobden



Next word: aristocrat(ic)

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Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was. ~ Will Rogers

The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Next word: ripe

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Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, our one duty is to furnish it well~Peter Ustinov

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
~Samuel Butler

Next word; atmosphere

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He wrapped himself in quotations—as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
—Rudyard Kipling

What we provide is an atmosphere ... of orchestrated pulse which works on people in a subliminal way. Under its influence I've seen shy debs and severe dowagers kick off their shoes and raise some wholesome hell.
~Meyer Davis, about his orchestra

Next word: orchestrated