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«I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.»
Author: Bill Hirst
| Keywords:
bacon, collected, Francis, Francis Bacon, Monkeys, plays, Shakespeare, typewriters
«Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Information,
Intelligence,
Judgement,
Manners,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
a great deal, collected, collects, great deal, information, judgment, manner, smart
«And then the clock collected in the tower / Its strength and struck.»
«A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
| Keywords:
aspiring, Assemblies, collected, commons, constitutional, enterprise, Martial, nobility, preserving, stubborn, tenacious
«Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about.»
Author: Joseph Heller
| Keywords:
alphabetical, alphabetical order, collected, delay, diseases, fatal, finger, Joe, lists, Lists of, without delay, without worrying
«The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!»
Author: General George S. Patton
(General)
| Keywords:
Ahead Of Their Time, ahead of time, collected, counsel, decision, go ahead, take counsel, turn off
«By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| Keywords:
abroad, collected, faithfulness, multiplicity, scattered, unity, wound, wound up
«After cutting away its branches, its feet are bound together into bundles, and then, it is placed between the wooden rollers and crushed. What punishment is inflicted upon it! Its juice is extracted and placed in the cauldron; as it is heated, it groans and cries out. And then, the crushed cane is collected and burnt in the fire below. Nanak, come, people, and see how the sweet sugar-cane is treated!»
«As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs, thinking that as the sayings used in a nation mark its character, so the Proverbs of Hell show the nature of Infernal wisdom better than any description of buildings or garments.»
«It is most meet we arm us 'gainst the foe; For peace itself should not so dull a kingdom, Though war nor no known quarrel were in question, But that defences, musters, preparations, Should be maintain'd, assembled and collected, As were a war in expe»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
arm, assembled, assembling, collected, defences, foe, in question, musters, muster up, preparations, quarrel
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