Aides: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases
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- Published 2010-07-30
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Introduction
Excerpt
Familiar Quotations
Aides
A wise person escapes temptation and leaves no forwarding address.–Anonymous
Why is it that when you're driving and looking for an address, you turn down the volume on the radio?–Anonymous
The tear that is wiped with a little address may be followed, perhaps, by a smile.–Cowper
It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.–Ernest Hemingway
My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.–Mother Jones
There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.–Carson McCullers
Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.–Lane Olinghouse
Aides – "Abode"
Only in states in which the power of the people is supreme has liberty any abode.–Cicero
Aides – "Applying"
To cool a hot attitude, apply nice. To melt a cold attitude, address warmly.–Anonymous
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the greatest innovator.–Francis Bacon
Table of Contents
- Preface x
- Familiar Quotations 1
- Aides 1
- Aides – "Abode" 1
- Aides – "Applying" 1
- Aides – "Approach" 2
- Aides – "Assistance" 3
- Use in Literature 4
- Aides 4
- Aides – "Accost" 23
- Aides – "Afterwards" 24
- Aides – "Answer" 25
- Aides – "Appearance" 26
- Aides – "Arms" 28
- Aides – "Ask" 28
- Aides – "Assembled" 29
- Aides – "Attended" 30
- Aides – "Audience" 30
- Aides – "Bear" 31
- Aides – "Beg" 31
- Aides – "Beginning" 32
- Aides – "Being" 33
- Aides – "Believed" 34
- Aides – "Best" 35
- Aides – "Brief" 36
- Aides – "Cab" 37
- Aides – "Called" 37
- Aides – "Camp" 39
- Aides – "Captain" 39
- Aides – "Card" 40
- Aides – "Care" 41
- Aides – "Carried" 42
- Aides – "Case" 43
- Aides – "Change" 43
- Aides – "Closed" 44
- Aides – "Came" 45
- Aides – "Communicate" 48
- Aides – "Conclusion" 49
- Aides – "Confided" 49
- Aides – "Conversing" 50
- Aides – "Counting" 50
- Aides – "Court" 51
- Aides – "Dared" 51
- Aides – "Day" 52
- Aides – "Delivered" 55
- Aides – "Desired" 56
- Aides – "Directed" 56
- Aides – "Done" 57
- Aides – "Don't" 58
- Aides – "Doubt" 59
- Aides – "Drew" 60
- Aides – "Drive" 60
- Aides – "Early" 61
- Aides – "Easy" 62
- Aides – "Effect" 62
- Aides – "Emperor" 63
- Aides – "End" 64
- Aides – "Eyes" 65
- Aides – "Familiar" 65
- Aides – "Far" 66
- Aides – "Father's" 67
- Aides – "Fear" 68
- Aides – "Felt" 68
- Aides – "Few" 69
- Aides – "Finally" 70
- Aides – "Finished" 71
- Aides – "Follows" 71
- Aides – "Force" 72
- Aides – "Formed" 73
- Aides – "Forward" 74
- Aides – "Found" 75
- Aides – "Friendship" 76
- Aides – "Gentleman's" 78
- Aides – "George" 79
- Aides – "Going" 80
- Aides – "Gone" 81
- Aides – "Greater" 82
- Aides – "Hand" 84
- Aides – "Handwriting" 86
- Aides – "Harry" 87
- Aides – "Having" 87
- Aides – "Head" 88
- Aides – "Hearers" 89
- Aides – "Heart" 92
- Aides – "Henry" 93
- Aides – "Herself" 93
- Aides – "Home" 94
- Aides – "Honour" 94
- Aides – "Hopes" 95
- Aides – "Hotel" 96
- Aides – "Hours" 96
- Aides – "House" 97
- Aides – "Hurriedly" 98
- Aides – "Ideas" 98
- Aides – "Interest" 99
- Aides – "John" 100
- Aides – "Jury" 100
- Aides – "Kept" 100
- Aides – "Kind" 101
- Aides – "King" 102
- Aides – "Knew" 103
- Aides – "Lady" 109
- Aides – "Large" 110
- Aides – "Learned" 111
- Aides – "Leaving" 112
- Aides – "Letters" 116
- Aides – "Line" 121
- Aides – "Listened" 122
- Aides – "Little" 122
- Aides – "London" 124
- Aides – "Look" 125
- Aides – "Lord" 128
- Aides – "Lose" 129
- Aides – "Madame" 130
- Aides – "Made" 130
- Aides – "Men" 135
- Aides – "Manners" 140
- Aides – "Master" 142
- Aides – "Meaning" 142
- Aides – "Meeting" 143
- Aides – "Member" 145
- Aides – "Memory" 146
- Aides – "Minister" 146
- Aides – "Miss" 147
- Aides – "Moment" 148
- Aides – "Months" 150
- Aides – "Mother" 150
- Aides – "Moved" 151
- Aides – "Myself" 152
- Aides – "Name" 153
- Aides – "Natural" 157
- Aides – "Need" 158
- Aides – "New" 158
- Aides – "Night" 160
- Aides – "Note" 161
- Aides – "Nothing" 162
- Aides – "Notice" 163
- Aides – "Officers" 163
- Aides – "Old" 164
- Aides – "Once" 166
- Aides – "Opens" 168
- Aides – "Order" 169
- Aides – "Ourselves" 170
- Aides – "Paper" 170
- Aides – "Paris" 171
- Aides – "Parliamentary" 172
- Aides – "Part" 172
- Aides – "Pen" 175
- Aides – "People" 175
- Aides – "Person" 177
- Aides – "Philip" 178
- Aides – "Place" 179
- Aides – "Please" 180
- Aides – "Point" 181
- Aides – "Prayer" 182
- Aides – "Presented" 183
- Aides – "President" 184
- Aides – "Prince" 185
- Aides – "Promised" 186
- Aides – "Proof" 186
- Aides – "Public" 187
- Aides – "Purposely" 188
- Aides – "Queen" 188
- Aides – "Read" 189
- Aides – "Reason" 191
- Aides – "Remember" 191
- Aides – "Report" 193
- Aides – "Requested" 193
- Aides – "Respected" 194
- Aides – "Returned" 194
- Aides – "Rose" 195
- Aides – "Saying" 196
- Aides – "Sealed" 196
- Aides – "Second" 197
- Aides – "Secured" 197
- Aides – "Seeing" 198
- Aides – "Send" 198
- Aides – "Servant" 201
- Aides – "Served" 202
- Aides – "Shall" 202
- Aides – "Show" 204
- Aides – "Silence" 205
- Aides – "Simplicity" 205
- Aides – "Sir" 206
- Aides – "Sisterly" 207
- Aides – "Soon" 207
- Aides – "Spoke" 209
- Aides – "Spirit" 211
- Aides – "Stay" 212
- Aides – "Step" 212
- Aides – "Stranger" 213
- Aides – "Street" 214
- Aides – "Strongly" 215
- Aides – "Style" 215
- Aides – "Subject" 216
- Aides – "Success" 216
- Aides – "Sure" 217
- Aides – "Surprised" 217
- Aides – "Talked" 218
- Aides – "Thing" 218
- Aides – "Thought" 219
- Aides – "Thou" 222
- Aides – "Thus" 223
- Aides – "Tone" 224
- Aides – "Tried" 224
- Aides – "Trouble" 225
- Aides – "Trusty" 225
- Aides – "Truth" 226
- Aides – "Understood" 227
- Aides – "Used" 227
- Aides – "Ventured" 228
- Aides – "Visit" 229
- Aides – "Voice" 229
- Aides – "Want" 230
- Aides – "Washington" 231
- Aides – "Week" 232
- Aides – "Wife" 233
- Aides – "Wish" 233
- Aides – "Women's" 235
- Aides – "Word" 235
- Aides – "Work" 237
- Aides – "Write" 238
- Aides – "Year" 243
- Aides – "Young" 244
- Nonfiction Usage 246
- Journalism Usage 246
- Legal Usage 332
- Governmental Usage 333
- Patent Usage 333
- Bibliographic Usage 335
- Encyclopedic Usage 385
- Lexicographic Usage 442
- Index 600
