Richard Lederer famous quotes

There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.
-- Richard Lederer

#Dark #People #Religion

English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. Its the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning.
-- Richard Lederer

#Latin #Vocabulary #Way

Quotations are powerful tools. Michel de Montaigne, the father of all essayists, observed, 'I quote others only to better express myself.' Intrepid quotations detective Ralph Keyes helps us to discover the clear truth about exactly what was said and who exactly said it.
-- Richard Lederer

#Powerful #Father #Tools

It is indeed acceptable practice to sometimes split an infinitive. If infinitive-splitting makes available just the shade of meaning you desire or if avoiding the separation creates a confusing ambiguity or patent artificiality, you are entitled to happily go ahead and split!
-- Richard Lederer

#Writing #Practice #Confusing

In A Midnight Carol Patricia Davis illuminates the dark and brilliant humanity of Charles Dickens -- the man who lived a rags-to-riches life more remarkable than any of his stories.
-- Richard Lederer

#Dark #Men #Humanity

The most colossal display of wise, inspiring, and humorous metaphors ever exhibited in one place.
-- Richard Lederer

#Wise #Humorous #Metaphor

Today we speak, but first we spoke; faucets leak, but never loke. Today we write, but first we wrote; we bite our tongues, but never bote.
-- Richard Lederer

#Writing #Today #Tongue

When I travel on an airplane, I like to be served TWA milk and TWA coffee. But I love to be served TWA tea.
-- Richard Lederer

#Coffee #Airplane #Tea

If you can socialize from the privacy of your desk at night in a dark room, you can be a smoother, cooler, funnier, sexy, more everything person than you actually are in real life.

George Bush is just as much in the dark as I am, and it scares me.

Dark energy is incredibly strange, but actually it makes sense to me that it went unnoticed, because dark energy has no effect on daily life, or even inside our solar system.

Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.

Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.

It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former.

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

The national Government sees in both Christian denominations the most important factor for the maintenance of our society.