New Orts # 99
December 7 MMXXV
Half the world’s troubles are caused by incorrect metaphors.
— Lord Palmerston (1784-1865)
Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.
— Walter Bagehot (1826-1877)
He that uses many words for explaining any subject doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.
— John Ray (1627-1705
Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
— Meister Eckhart (c. 1260-1327)
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
— Thomas Mann (1875-1955)