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"During a lecture the Oxford linguistic philosopher J. L. Austin made the claim that although a double negative in English implies a positive meaning, there is no language in which a double positive implies a negative. To which Morgenbesser responded in a dismissive tone, 'Yeah, yeah.'"
"Arnold muttered, 'Kerensky, that jerk—if only he’d shot a few people, millions would be alive.'
-Richard Brookhiser, National Review Online, reflecting on the demise of long-time anti-communist Arnold Beichman. The occasion was a visit to the Winter Palace in the late 1980's.
"Sully was not popular. He was hated by most Roman Catholics because he was a Protestant, by most Protestants because he was faithful to the king, and by all because he was a favorite, and selfish, obstinate and rude." -Wikipedia, Maximilien de Béthune, duc de Sully
"Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit, and I suppose that this is neither innocent nor praiseworthy. Of that lamentable company am I. Conversation after a time bores me, games tire me and my own thoughts, which we are told are the unfailing resource of a sensible man, have a tendency to run dry. Then I fly to my book as the opium-smoker to his pipe. I would sooner read the catalogue of the Army and Navy Stores or Bradshaw's Guide than nothing at all, and indeed I have spent many delightful hours over both these works. At one time I never went out without a second-hand bookseller's list in my pocket. I know no reading more fruity. Of course to read in this way is as reprehensible as doping, and I never cease to wonder at the impertinence of great readers who, because they are such, look down on the illiterate. From the standpoint of what eternity is it better to have read a thousand books than to have ploughed a million furrows? Let us admit that reading with us is just a drug that we cannot do without—who of this band does not know the restlessness that attacks him when he has been severed from reading too long, the apprehension and irritability, and the sigh of relief which the sight of a printed page extracts from him?—and so let us be no more vainglorious than the poor slaves of the hypodermic needle or the pint-pot." - W. Somerset Maugham, The Book-Bag:
“Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression.” -Flann O’Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds
"They were still dancing when, just before dawn on October 19th, 1930, the Azay le Rideau came into harbour at Djibouti." - Evelyn Waugh, Remote People.
"The flesh of a Greenland shark is poisonous. This is due to the presence of the toxin trimethylamine oxide, which, upon digestion, breaks down into trimethylamine, producing effects similar to extreme drunkenness. Occasionally, sled dogs that end up eating the flesh are unable to stand up due to the neurotoxins. However, it can be eaten if it is boiled in several changes of water or dried or rotted for some months to produce Kæstur Hákarl, often Hákarl for short. Traditionally this was done by burying the shark in boreal ground, exposing it to several cycles of freezing and thawing. It is considered a delicacy in Iceland and Greenland." Wikipedia, Greenland Sharks as Food
"A fact is a holy thing and ought not to be sacrificed on the altar of a generality."
- Arthur Darby Nock, quoted in William M. Calder III, "Arthur Darby Nock 1902-1963," Classical Outlook 70 (1992) 8-9, rpt. in Men in Their Books: Studies in the Modern History of Classical Scholarship (Hildesheim: Olms, 1998), pp. 233-234 (at 234)
"To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness; though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless." --Gustave Flaubert
"Kipling believed civilization to be something laboriously achieved which was only precariously defended. He wanted to see the defenses fully manned and he hated the liberals because he thought them gullible and feeble, believing in the easy perfectibility of man and ready to abandon the work of centuries for sentimental qualms."
“We have read your manuscript with boundless delight. If we were to publish your paper, it would be impossible for us to publish any work of lower standard. And as it is unthinkable that in the next thousand years we shall see its equal, we are, to our regret, compelled to return your divine composition, and to beg you a thousand times to overlook our short sight and timidity.”
-- Rejection letter, allegedly from a Chinese economic journal
“Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression.” -Flann O’Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds
"A Basque noun-phrase is inflected in 17 different ways for case, multiplied by 4 ways for its definiteness and number. These first 68 forms are further modified based on other parts of the sentence, which in turn are inflected for the noun again. It's been estimated that, with two levels of recursion, a Basque noun may have 458,683 inflected forms." - Wikipedia "Basque Language"
24 comments:
"During a lecture the Oxford linguistic philosopher J. L. Austin made the claim that although a double negative in English implies a positive meaning, there is no language in which a double positive implies a negative. To which Morgenbesser responded in a dismissive tone, 'Yeah, yeah.'"
- Wikipedia, "Sidney Morgenbesser"
"Arnold muttered, 'Kerensky, that jerk—if only he’d shot a few people, millions would be alive.'
-Richard Brookhiser, National Review Online, reflecting on the demise of long-time anti-communist Arnold Beichman. The occasion was a visit to the Winter Palace in the late 1980's.
"Sully was not popular. He was hated by most Roman Catholics because he was a Protestant, by most Protestants because he was faithful to the king, and by all because he was a favorite, and selfish, obstinate and rude."
-Wikipedia, Maximilien de Béthune, duc de Sully
"Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit, and I suppose that this is neither innocent nor praiseworthy. Of that lamentable company am I. Conversation after a time bores me, games tire me and my own thoughts, which we are told are the unfailing resource of a sensible man, have a tendency to run dry. Then I fly to my book as the opium-smoker to his pipe. I would sooner read the catalogue of the Army and Navy Stores or Bradshaw's Guide than nothing at all, and indeed I have spent many delightful hours over both these works. At one time I never went out without a second-hand bookseller's list in my pocket. I know no reading more fruity. Of course to read in this way is as reprehensible as doping, and I never cease to wonder at the impertinence of great readers who, because they are such, look down on the illiterate. From the standpoint of what eternity is it better to have read a thousand books than to have ploughed a million furrows? Let us admit that reading with us is just a drug that we cannot do without—who of this band does not know the restlessness that attacks him when he has been severed from reading too long, the apprehension and irritability, and the sigh of relief which the sight of a printed page extracts from him?—and so let us be no more vainglorious than the poor slaves of the hypodermic needle or the pint-pot." - W. Somerset Maugham, The Book-Bag:
“Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression.”
-Flann O’Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds
"They were still dancing when, just before dawn on October 19th, 1930, the Azay le Rideau came into harbour at Djibouti." - Evelyn Waugh, Remote People.
"The flesh of a Greenland shark is poisonous. This is due to the presence of the toxin trimethylamine oxide, which, upon digestion, breaks down into trimethylamine, producing effects similar to extreme drunkenness. Occasionally, sled dogs that end up eating the flesh are unable to stand up due to the neurotoxins. However, it can be eaten if it is boiled in several changes of water or dried or rotted for some months to produce Kæstur Hákarl, often Hákarl for short. Traditionally this was done by burying the shark in boreal ground, exposing it to several cycles of freezing and thawing. It is considered a delicacy in Iceland and Greenland."
Wikipedia, Greenland Sharks as Food
"A fact is a holy thing and ought not to be sacrificed on the altar of a generality."
- Arthur Darby Nock, quoted in William M. Calder III, "Arthur Darby Nock 1902-1963," Classical Outlook 70 (1992) 8-9, rpt. in Men in Their Books: Studies in the Modern History of Classical Scholarship (Hildesheim: Olms, 1998), pp. 233-234 (at 234)
"Yesterday I was in Nerchinsk, not exactly a brilliant little place, but one could live there, I suppose."
- Anton Chekhov, letter to the Chekhov family, 20 June 1890, on the Shilka River in Siberia, aboard the steamer Ermak.
"Hablo el español con Dios, el italiano con las mujeres, el francés con los hombres y el alemán con mi caballo."
- Carlos I de España
"Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase."
-- P. G. Wodehouse
"The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it."
--Samuel Johnson
"The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it."
--Samuel Johnson
"To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness; though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless."
--Gustave Flaubert
"Kipling believed civilization to be something laboriously achieved which was only precariously defended. He wanted to see the defenses fully manned and he hated the liberals because he thought them gullible and feeble, believing in the easy perfectibility of man and ready to abandon the work of centuries for sentimental qualms."
-- Evelyn Waugh
"A tense and peculiar family, the Oedipuses, were they not?"
- Max Beerbohm
“We have read your manuscript with boundless delight. If we were to publish your paper, it would be impossible for us to publish any work of lower standard. And as it is unthinkable that in the next thousand years we shall see its equal, we are, to our regret, compelled to return your divine composition, and to beg you a thousand times to overlook our short sight and timidity.”
-- Rejection letter, allegedly from a Chinese economic journal
"At the end of the day, it gets dark." - attr. Groucho Marx
"I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book." - attr. Groucho Marx
"It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy." attr. Groucho Marx
Βρεκεκεκέξ κοάξ κοάξ
“Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression.”
-Flann O’Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds
Proletarier aller Länder, vereinigt euch!
"A Basque noun-phrase is inflected in 17 different ways for case, multiplied by 4 ways for its definiteness and number. These first 68 forms are further modified based on other parts of the sentence, which in turn are inflected for the noun again. It's been estimated that, with two levels of recursion, a Basque noun may have 458,683 inflected forms."
- Wikipedia "Basque Language"
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