Famous quotes containing the words original, score and/or written:
“The real antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.”
—Eric Hoffer (19021983)
“A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (18741965)
“He has been described as an innkeeper who hated his guests, a philosopher, and poet who left no written record of his thought, a despiser of women who gave all he had to one, an aristocrat, a proletarian, a pagan, an arcadian, an atheist, a lover of beauty, and, inadvertently, the stepfather of domestic science in America.”
—Administration in the State of Colo, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)