Stephen's Quotes for the Depression Forums 3-4
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 7:20 pm
...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
-- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes)
A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.
-- Robert Chapman
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.
-- Hesketh Pearson, Common Misquotations (1934), Introduction
Thank you
-- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes)
A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.
-- Robert Chapman
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.
-- Hesketh Pearson, Common Misquotations (1934), Introduction
Thank you