Quotes for 12-21

[Warmsoul/Jeanie13]

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
-- W. C. Fields

Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
-- E. B. White, Some Remarks on Humor, introduction

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
-- Ring Lardner, "How to Write Short Stories"

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.
-- John Cage

Stepehn, ty