Short Columns Formed

Famous quotes containing the words short, columns and/or formed:

“If true that notion, which but few contest,
That in the way of wit short things are best,
Then in good epigrams two virtues meet,
For ‘tis their glory to be short and sweet.”
—Anonymous. From A Collection of Epigrams (1727)

“We are a race of tit-men, and soar but little higher in our intellectual flights than the columns of the daily paper.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Continuing to live that is, repeat
A habit formed to get necessaries
Is nearly always losing, or going without.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)