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Familiar Quotations

Add

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.–Douglas Adams

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.–Joseph Addison

Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.–Mario Andretti

Stopping at third base adds nothing to the score.–Anonymous

Satan subtracts and divides. God adds and multiplies.–Anonymous

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.–James Baldwin

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.–Arthur James Balfour

What is high finance? It’s knowing the difference between one and ten, multiplying, subtracting and adding. You just add noughts. It’s no more than that.–John Bentley

Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.–John Berger

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.–Marcus Porcius Cato

• Preface xii
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Add 1
• Add – "Addition" 3
• Add – "Additional" 3
• Add – "Life" 3
• Add – "Man" 4
• Add, as opposed to "Deduct" 4
• Add, as opposed to "Detach" 4
• Add, as opposed to "Take" 4
• Use in Literature 6
• Add 6
• Add – "Above" 25
• Add – "Account" 26
• Add – "Act" 27
• Add – "Advantage" 27
• Add – "Afterward" 28
• Add – "Air" 28
• Add – "Appeared" 30
• Add – "Art" 30
• Add – "Attended" 31
• Add – "Bad" 32
• Add – "Beating" 32
• Add – "Beautiful" 34
• Add – "Beginning" 36
• Add – "Being" 36
• Add – "Believed" 38
• Add – "Best" 38
• Add – "Bitterness" 39
• Add – "Black" 39
• Add – "Bound" 40
• Add – "Boys" 41
• Add – "Business" 41
• Add – "Butter" 42
• Add – "Carried" 43
• Add – "Cases" 44
• Add – "Cause" 45
• Add – "Changes" 46
• Add – "Characteristic" 46
• Add – "Children" 48
• Add – "Circumstance" 49
• Add – "Class" 50
• Add – "Clear" 50
• Add – "Close" 51
• Add – "Clouds" 51
• Add – "Color" 52
• Add – "Comforts" 52
• Add – "Came" 53
• Add – "Condition" 55
• Add – "Confidence" 56
• Add – "Confusion" 56
• Add – "Constant" 57
• Add – "Cook" 58
• Add – "Cost" 58
• Add – "Cream" 59
• Add – "Cut" 59
• Add – "Day" 60
• Add – "Dealer" 63
• Add – "Desire" 63
• Add – "Details" 64
• Add – "Difficulties" 64
• Add – "Distress" 66
• Add – "Dollars" 67
• Add – "Done" 67
• Add – "Don't" 68
• Add – "Double" 68
• Add – "Doubt" 69
• Add – "Dress" 70
• Add – "Duty" 70
• Add – "Dying" 71
• Add – "Early" 71
• Add – "Easily" 72
• Add – "Effect" 72
• Add – "Egg" 73
• Add – "Element" 74
• Add – "Everything" 74
• Add – "Experience" 75
• Add – "Expression" 76
• Add – "Eyes" 77
• Add – "Facts" 78
• Add – "Far" 79
• Add – "Father" 79
• Add – "Feared" 80
• Add – "Feeling" 81
• Add – "Felt" 82
• Add – "Few" 82
• Add – "Fifty" 85
• Add – "Figures" 85
• Add – "Final" 86
• Add – "Flower" 87
• Add – "Following" 87
• Add – "Force" 88
• Add – "Former" 89
• Add – "Fortune" 91
• Add – "Found" 91
• Add – "Friends" 93
• Add – "Fuel" 93
• Add – "Full" 94
• Add – "Go" 94
• Add – "Goods" 95
• Add – "Graces" 95
• Add – "Great" 96
• Add – "Growing" 101
• Add – "Habitual" 102
• Add – "Hair" 103
• Add – "Hand" 103
• Add – "Happiness" 104
• Add – "Hard" 104
• Add – "Having" 105
• Add – "Heat" 106
• Add – "Herself" 107
• Add – "Home" 107
• Add – "Hoped" 108
• Add – "Horse's" 109
• Add – "Hours" 109
• Add – "House" 110
• Add – "Ideas" 111
• Add – "Imagination" 112
• Add – "Increased" 113
• Add – "Intellectually" 113
• Add – "Interesting" 114
• Add – "Justice" 115
• Add – "Kept" 115
• Add – "Kind" 116
• Add – "Knowledge" 117
• Add – "Labor" 119
• Add – "Ladies" 119
• Add – "Land" 120
• Add – "Large" 121
• Add – "Laugh" 121
• Add – "Law" 122
• Add – "Led" 123
• Add – "Leaving" 123
• Add – "Let" 125
• Add – "Line" 128
• Add – "List" 129
• Add – "Little" 130
• Add – "Lived" 134
• Add – "Look" 135
• Add – "Loss" 137
• Add – "Lost" 138
• Add – "Love" 138
• Add – "Made" 139
• Add – "Manner" 145
• Add – "Materials" 145
• Add – "Matter" 146
• Add – "Means" 147
• Add – "Meat" 148
• Add – "Methods" 149
• Add – "Milk" 149
• Add – "Minute" 151
• Add – "Misery" 151
• Add – "Momentous" 152
• Add – "Morning" 153
• Add – "Mother's" 154
• Add – "Motives" 155
• Add – "Mystery" 155
• Add – "Name" 156
• Add – "National" 157
• Add – "Natural" 157
• Add – "Need" 159
• Add – "Night" 160
• Add – "Notes" 161
• Add – "Nothing" 162
• Add – "Number" 165
• Add – "Objects" 167
• Add – "Observation" 168
• Add – "Old" 168
• Add – "Once" 170
• Add – "Opportunity" 171
• Add – "Order" 171
• Add – "Others" 172
• Add – "Pain" 173
• Add – "Papers" 173
• Add – "Particular" 174
• Add – "Pass" 176
• Add – "Paste" 176
• Add – "Peculiar" 177
• Add – "People" 177
• Add – "Perfect" 178
• Add – "Period" 179
• Add – "Persons" 179
• Add – "Piece" 181
• Add – "Pitied" 182
• Add – "Place" 182
• Add – "Pleased" 183
• Add – "Points" 185
• Add – "Position" 185
• Add – "Possess" 186
• Add – "Possible" 187
• Add – "Power" 188
• Add – "Presence" 188
• Add – "Present" 189
• Add – "Principle" 191
• Add – "Process" 191
• Add – "Proper" 192
• Add – "Qualify" 192
• Add – "Quantity" 193
• Add – "Questions" 194
• Add – "Rain" 194
• Add – "Readily" 194
• Add – "Real" 196
• Add – "Reasonable" 196
• Add – "Remained" 197
• Add – "Respects" 198
• Add – "Rest" 198
• Add – "Result" 199
• Add – "Return" 200
• Add – "Richness" 200
• Add – "Salt" 201
• Add – "Satisfaction" 202
• Add – "Savings" 202
• Add – "Season" 202
• Add – "Second" 203
• Add – "Sense" 204
• Add – "Servants" 204
• Add – "Shaded" 205
• Add – "Shall" 205
• Add – "Showers" 207
• Add – "Simple" 208
• Add – "Society" 209
• Add – "Son" 209
• Add – "Soon" 210
• Add – "Sound" 211
• Add – "Spoke" 212
• Add – "Special" 212
• Add – "Spirits" 213
• Add – "Standing" 214
• Add – "Statements" 214
• Add – "Steps" 215
• Add – "Stock" 216
• Add – "Stones" 216
• Add – "Story" 216
• Add – "Strain" 217
• Add – "Strange" 218
• Add – "Strength" 218
• Add – "Strong" 219
• Add – "Successful" 219
• Add – "Sugar" 220
• Add – "Suggestions" 222
• Add – "System" 222
• Add – "Talk" 223
• Add – "Ten" 223
• Add – "Thing" 224
• Add – "Think" 226
• Add – "Third" 228
• Add – "Thus" 229
• Add – "Tomatoes" 230
• Add – "Touch" 230
• Add – "Trouble" 231
• Add – "True" 232
• Add – "Truth" 233
• Add – "Value" 234
• Add – "View" 234
• Add – "Virtue" 235
• Add – "Voice" 235
• Add – "Waited" 236
• Add – "Warm" 237
• Add – "Waters" 237
• Add – "Way" 239
• Add – "Wealth" 241
• Add – "Weight" 242
• Add – "Whatever" 242
• Add – "White" 243
• Add – "Wife" 244
• Add – "Wish" 244
• Add – "Woman" 245
• Add – "Wonderfully" 246
• Add – "Words" 247
• Add – "Work" 250
• Add – "World" 251
• Add – "Writing" 252
• Add – "Year" 253
• Add – "Young" 255
• Nonfiction Usage 257
• Lyrical Usage 257
• Script Usage 257
• Historical Usage 261
• Spoken Usage 261
• Presidential Usage 262
• Bible Usage 265
• Qur'anic Usage 268
• Journalism Usage 269
• Encyclopedic Usage 394
• Lexicographic Usage 539
• Index 654