Linux Literature: 20 of 256 |
Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.
-- William Shakespeare, "As You Like It"
|
|
|
Linux Literature: 21 of 256 |
"... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often
picturesque liar."
-- Mark Twain
|
|
|
Linux Literature: 22 of 256 |
An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.
-- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"
|
|
|
Linux Literature: 23 of 256 |
And do you think (fop that I am) that I could be the Scarlet Pumpernickel?
|
|
|
Linux Literature: 24 of 256 |
Anyone who has had a bull by the tail knows five or six more things
than someone who hasn't.
-- Mark Twain
|
|
|
Linux Literature: 25 of 256 |
April 1
This is the day upon which we are reminged of what we are on the other three
hundred and sixty-four.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
|
|
|
Linux Literature: 26 of 256 |
As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
-- Shakespeare, "King Lear"
|
|
|
Linux Literature: 27 of 256 |
As to the Adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
|
|
|
Linux Literature: 28 of 256 |
At once it struck me what quality went to form a man of achievement,
especially in literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously
-- I mean negative capability, that is, when a man is capable of being
in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching
after fact and reason.
-- John Keats
|
|
|
Linux Literature: 29 of 256 |
AWAKE! FEAR! FIRE! FOES! AWAKE!
FEAR! FIRE! FOES!
AWAKE! AWAKE!
-- J. R. R. Tolkien
|
|