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""I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?" »George Carlin
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"Fix this sentence: He put the horse before the cart." »Stephen Price
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"From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put." »Winston Churchill
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"Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice." »Henry David Thoreau
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"It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The longer and the deeper the thought, the shorter the sentence of wisdom will be." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"When you want to say something very important, tell it with a short sentence! There is no time for long stories!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward in my actions and not from them." »Hugh Prather
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"Whoever said Marriage is a 5-5 proposition laid the foundation for more divorce fees than any other short sentence in our language." »Austin Elliot
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"Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth." »Mark Twain
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"The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead." »e. e. cummings, on the death of Warren G. Harding, 1923
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"I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man he fornicated and read the papers." »Albert Camus
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"With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs." »James Grover Thurber
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"Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year." »Horace Mann
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"A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds." »Chinese proverb
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"For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing it." »Malcom Gladwell
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"It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words And this, too, shall pass away." »Abraham Lincoln
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"There is a word that is so old fashioned -- I feel compelled to dust it off just to use it in this sentence -- RECIPROCITY -- the “soul-coal” that stoked many barn raisings, harvests and roundups." »Chase LeBlanc
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"I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether." »Alfred North Whitehead
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"Jean Paul Sartre says that ‘Hell is other people!’ In the name of completing this sentence we must also say this: ‘Heaven is other people too!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The Scripture vouches Solomon for the wisest of men; and his proverbs prove him so, The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence, consisting of two or three words." »South
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"It is said an eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him with the words, 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses How chastening in the hour of pride How consoling in the depths of affliction" »Abraham Lincoln
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"These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. (describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial)" »Jeff Greenfield
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"You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done." »Ronald Reagan
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"Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell." »William Strunk Jr., Elements of Style
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"A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For maximum comprehension, do not start listening until the first clause is concluded. Begin instead at the word "but" which begins the second, or active, clause. This is the way to tell a liberal from a conservative -- before they tell you.
Thus: "I have always believed in a strong national defense, second to none, but ... " (a liberal, about to propose a $20 billion defense cut)." »Frank Mankiewicz
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"Existence, as we know it, is full of sorrow. To mention only one minor point every man is a condemned criminal, only he does not know the date of his execution. This is unpleasant for every man. Consequently every man does everything possible to postpone the date, and would sacrifice anything that he has if he could reverse the sentence. Practically all religions and all philosophies have started thus crudely, by promising their adherents some such reward as immortality. No religion has failed hitherto by not promising enough the present breaking up of all religions is due to the fact that people have asked to see the securities. Men have even renounced the important material advantages which a well-organized religion may confer upon a State, rather than acquiesce in fraud or falsehood, or even in any system which, if not proved guilty, is at least unable to demonstrate its innocence. Being more or less bankrupt, the best thing that we can do is to attack the problem afresh without preconceived ideas. Let us begin by doubting every statement. Let us find a way of subjecting every statement to the test of experiment. Is there any truth at all in the claims of various religions Let us examine the question." »Aleister Crowley
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