"The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument."

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Source : Arthur Guiterman (1924). “A Poet's Proverbs: Being Mirthful, Sober, and Fanciful Epigrams on the Universe, with Certain Old Irish Proverbs, All in Rhymed Complets”, New York, E.P. Dutton [1924]

Arthur Guiterman

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“Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.”
“It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?”
“Sometimes I have no choice but to wear my hair and I try to make it look as normal as possible, but no, there's no chance.”
“We know next to nothing with any certainty about Pythagoras, except that he was not really called Pythagoras. The name by which he is known to us was probably a nickname bestowed by his followers. According to one source, it meant â€˜He who spoke truth like an oracleâ€™. Rather than entrust his mathematical and philosophical ideas to paper, Pythagoras is said to have expounded them before large crowds. The worldâ€™s most famous mathematician was also its first rhetorician.”
“The girls I've dated hate me a little because I can't remember anything about first dates or when we kissed. I have the worst memory in the world!”
“It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.”
“She knew I could tell with one glance, one look, one simple instant. It was her eyes. Despite the thick makeup, they were still dark-rimmed., haunted, and sad. Most of all though, they were familiar. The fact that we were in front of hundreds of strangers changed nothing at all. I'd spent a summer with those same eyes-scared, lost, confused-staring back at me. I would have known them anywhere.”
“He never leaves my side. And I know he never will.”

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