A child correct behind, and not before. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Every form as nature made it is correct. [ Propertius ]
They love us truly who correct us freely. [ Proverb ]
Then, rising with Aurora's light,
The muse invoked, sit down to write;
Blot out, correct, insert, refine.
Enlarge, diminish, interline;
Be mindful, when invention fails.
To scratch your head and bite your nails. [ Swift ]
Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue:
His faults lie open to the laws; let them.
Not you, correct him. [ William Shakespeare ]
So work the honey-bees;
Creatures, that by a rule in nature teach
The art of order to a peopled kingdom.
They have a king and officers of sorts;
Where some, like magistrates, correct at home;
Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad;
Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings,
Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds;
Which pillage they, with merry march, bring home.
To the tent royal of their emperor;
Who, busied in his majesty, surveys
The singing masons building roofs of gold;
The civil citizens kneading up the honey;
The poor mechanic porters crowding in
Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate;
The sad-ey'd justice, with his surly hum.
Delivering over to executors pale
The lazy yawning drone. [ William Shakespeare ]
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. [ Earl Of Beaconsfield ]
Nothing is more ordinary than for vice to correct sin. [ Proverb ]
God strikes not as an enemy, to destroy; but as a father, to correct. [ Aughey ]
Whatever you dislike in another person take care to correct in yourself. [ Sprat ]
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure is to correct ourselves. [ Demosthenes ]
Travellers should correct the vice of one country by the virtue of another. [ Proverb ]
Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct. [ La Roche ]
Philosophers call God the great unknown.
The great misknown
would be more correct. [ Joseph Roux ]
If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it. [ Epictetus ]
To correct the faults of man, we address the head; to correct those of woman, we address the heart. [ Beauchene ]
Often turn the stile (correct with care) if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [ Horace ]
The style of letters should not be too highly polished. It ought to be neat and correct, but no more. [ Blair ]
Correct opinions well established on any subject are the best preservative against the seduction of error. [ Bishop Mant ]
It is no great advantage to possess a quick wit, if it is not correct; the perfection is not speed, but uniformity. [ Vauvenargues ]
Not to be provoked is best; but if moved, never correct till the fume is spent; for every stroke our fury strikes is sure to bit ourselves at last. [ William Penn ]
We never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand we mark such ideas as strike us by their novelty, or correct those we already possess. [ Zimmermann ]
Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly - should still be new. [ Goldsmith ]
He that will have no books but those that are scarce evinces about as correct a taste in literature as he would do in friendship who would have no friends but those whom all the rest of the world have sent to Coventry. [ Colton ]
Plead or Pleaded? He plead not guilty
or He pleaded not guilty.
Pleaded, not plead, constitutes the imperfect tense and the perfect participle of the verb to plead. Hence, in the example quoted the correct word is pleaded. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]
The productions of a great genius, with many lapses and inadvertences, are infinitely preferable to the works of an inferior kind of author which are scrupulously exact, and conformable to all the rules of correct writing. [ Addison ]
Philosophers and men of letters have done more for mankind than Orpheus, Hercules, or Theseus; for it is more meritorious and more difficult to wean men from their prejudices than to civilize the barbarian: It is harder to correct than to instruct. [ Voltaire ]
Partake or Eat? Partake, meaning to take a part of in common with others, to participate, is often affectedly used as a synonym of eat. It is correct to say that two or more persons partake of dinner, as they may partake of anything else. But, for the individual who eats alone, to say he partook of refreshments is an egregious blunder. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]
No man was ever endowed with a judgment so correct and judicious, in regulating his life, but that circumstances, time and experience would teach him something new, and apprize him that of those things with which he thought himself the best acquainted he knew nothing; and that those ideas which in theory appeared the most advantageous were found, when brought into practice, to be altogether inapplicable. [ Terence ]