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«Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at the claims of patent medicines!»
Author: Frances Parkinson Keyes
| About:
Advertising
| Keywords:
advertisements, claims, lay claim, medicines, pack, patent, patented, patent medicine, wits
«In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.»
Author: Northrop Frye
| Keywords:
conventional, copyright, disguised, distinctive, elaborately, element, patented, pretending, work of art
«An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?»
Author: Rutherford B. Hayes
(President, Statesman)
| About:
Inventions
| Keywords:
Alexander, Alexander Graham Bell, amazing, bell, graham, invention, march, patented, Pennsylvania, telephone, telephones, telephone bell, telephone call, Washington
«English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin -- a language with which it has precious little in common. In Latin, to take one example, it is not possible to split an infinitive. So in English, the early authorities decided, it should not be possible to split an infinitive either. But there is no reason why we shouldn't, any more than we should forsake instant coffee and air travel because they weren't available to the Romans. Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football. It is a patent absurdity. But once this insane notion became established, grammarians found themselves having to draw up ever more complicated and circular arguments to accommodate the inconsistencies.»
Author: Bill Bryson
(Writer)
| Keywords:
absurdity, accommodate, accommodates, air travel, become available, circular, Coffee and, common language, conform, conform to, confusing, draw up, forsake, grammar, inconsistencies, infinitive, infinitives, instant coffee, Latin, patent, patented, Romans, Rules of, simple language, split, Take One, terminology, the Romans
«It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.»
«GEOLOGY, n. The science of the earth's crust --to which, doubtless, will be added that of its interior whenever a man shall come up garrulous out of a well. The geological formations of the globe already noted are catalogued thus: The Primary, or lower one, consists of rocks, bones or mired mules, gas-pipes, miners' tools, antique statues minus the nose, Spanish doubloons and ancestors. The Secondary is largely made up of red worms and moles. The Tertiary comprises railway tracks, patent pavements, grass, snakes, mouldy boots, beer bottles, tomato cans, intoxicated citizens, garbage, anarchists, snap-dogs and fools.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
added, anarchists, antique, antiques, beer bottle, boots, bottles, cans, catalogued, catalogues, comprise, comprises, comprising, doubtless, formations, garbage, garrulous, geological, geology, globe, intoxicated, miner, miners, minus, mired, mole, moles, mouldy, mules, noted, patent, patented, pipes, railway, railways, snakes, snap, snaps, Spanish, Tertiary, The Globe, The Mole, The Mule, The Nose, tomato, tomatoes, tracks, worms
«No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.»
«This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.»
«Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics of the chips that were left.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
chips, manufactured, patented
«To prevent famine, one plow is worth a million sermons, and even patent medicines will cure more diseases than all the prayers uttered since the beginning of the world»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
diseases, Evening Prayer, famine, famines, medicines, patent, patented, patent medicine, plow, sermons, uttered
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