Definition of said

"said" in the verb sense

1. state, say, tell

express in words

"He said that he wanted to marry her"

"tell me what is bothering you"

"state your opinion"

"state your name"

2. allege, aver, say

report or maintain

"He alleged that he was the victim of a crime"

"He said it was too late to intervene in the war"

"The registrar says that I owe the school money"

3. suppose, say

express a supposition

"Let us say that he did not tell the truth"

"Let's say you had a lot of money

4. read, say

have or contain a certain wording or form

"The passage reads as follows"

"What does the law say?"

5. order, tell, enjoin, say

give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority

"I said to him to go home"

"She ordered him to do the shopping"

"The mother told the child to get dressed"

6. pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say

speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way

"She pronounces French words in a funny way"

"I cannot say `zip wire'"

"Can the child sound out this complicated word?"

7. say

communicate or express nonverbally

"What does this painting say?"

"Did his face say anything about how he felt?"

8. say

utter aloud

"She said `Hello' to everyone in the office"

9. say

state as one's opinion or judgement declare

"I say let's forget this whole business"

10. say

recite or repeat a fixed text

"Say grace"

"She said her `Hail Mary'"

11. say

indicate

"The clock says noon"

"said" in the adjective sense

1. aforesaid, aforementioned, said

being the one previously mentioned or spoken of

"works of all the aforementioned authors"

"said party has denied the charges"

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Quotations for said

No sooner said than done. [ French ]

It is sooner said than done. [ Proverb ]

Little said is soon amended. [ Proverb ]

A mass is as good said as sung. [ Italian Proverb ]

The fool hath said in his heart,
There is no God. [ Bible ]

Much might be said on both sides. [ Addison ]

A whet is no let, said the mower. [ Proverb ]

Have you not heard it said full oft,
A woman's nay doth stand for nought? [ Shakespeare ]

I'll dream no more - by manly mind
Not even in sleep is will resigned.
My midnight orisons said o'er,
I'll turn to rest, and dream no more. [ Scott ]

'Tis said that absence conquers love;
But oh! believe it not.
I've tried, alas! its power to prove,
But thou art not forgot. [ Frederick W. Thomas ]

I didn't really say everything I said. [ Yogi Berra ]

It is said the lion will turn and flee
From a maid in the pride of her purity. [ Byron ]

Breathes there the man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
"This is my own, my native land?" [ Scott ]

And therefore is love said to be a child,
Because in choice he is so oft beguiled. [ William Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I. Sc.1 ]

Nothing is well said or done in a passion. [ Proverb ]

Be thou assured, if words be made of breath,
And breath of life, I have no life to breathe
What thou hast said to me. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

Many books,
Wise men have said, are wearisome; who reads
Incessantly, and to his reading brings not
A spirit and judgment equal or superior,
Uncertain and unsettled still remains -
Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself. [ Milton ]

O bees, sweet bees! I said; that nearest field
Is shining white with fragrant immortelles,
Fly swiftly there and drain those honey wells. [ Helen Hunt ]

Music is well said to be the speech of angels. [ Carlyle ]

Whom the gods love die young, was said of yore. [ Byron ]

Some said, John, print it, others said. Not so;
Some said, it might do good, others said, No. [ Bunyan ]

No one can be said to be happy until he is dead. [ Solon ]

Heaven, the perfection of all that can
Be said, of thought, riches, delight or harmony.
Health, beauty; and all those not subject to
The waste of time, but in their height eternal. [ Shirley ]

Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow. [ Colton ]

The raven said to the rook, stand away black coat. [ Proverb ]

Whatever good is said of us, we learn nothing new. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Like will to like, as the devil said to the collier. [ Proverb ]

Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Better fed than taught, said the churl to the parson. [ Proverb ]

The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. [ Emerson ]

The frying-pan said to the kettle, avant black brows. [ Proverb ]

One could make a great book of what has not been said. [ Rivarol ]

And God said, Let there be light, and there was light. [ Bible ]

Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself. [ Swift ]

Said to no purpose; irrelevant to the question at issue.

There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner. [ Hosea Ballou ]

Fools are all the world over, as he said that shod the goose. [ Proverb ]

Even God is said to be unable to use force against necessity. [ Plato ]

The tyrant, it has been said, is but a slave turned inside out. [ Samuel Smiles ]

What is said upon a subject is gathered from an hundred people. [ Dr. Johnson ]

There are cases where little can be said and much must be done. [ Johnson ]

Every one as they like, the woman said when she kissed her cow. [ Proverb ]

Aristotle said ... melancholy men of all others are most witty. [ Burton ]

He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

All that's said in the parlour, should not be heard in the hall. [ Proverb ]

To plough and sow, to reap and mow, my father bred me early,
For one, he said, to labour bred, was a match for fortune fairly. [ Burns ]

Saying things that should be, and things that should not be, said. [ Horace ]

Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion. [ Bovee ]

Tale-bearers, as I said before, are just as bad as the tale-makers. [ Sheridan ]

Great cry but little wool, as the devil said when he shear'd his hogs. [ Proverb ]

It has been very truly said that the mob has many beads, but no brains. [ Rivarol ]

The secret of tiring is to say everything that can be said on the subject. [ Voltaire ]

I thought I had given her rope enough, said Petley when he hanged his mare. [ Proverb ]

Such is the constitution of man that labor may be said to be its own reward. [ Dr. Johnson ]

As the Greek said, Many men know how to flatter, few men know bow to praise. [ Wendell Phillips ]

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. [ Henry D. Thoreau ]

No friend like to a bosom friend, as the man said when he pulled out a louse. [ Proverb ]

To praise great actions with sincerity may be said to be taking part in them. [ Rochefoucauld ]

God said. Let us make man in our image. Man said, Let us make God in our image. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak. [ Longfellow ]

In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered. [ Cicero ]

There is no book so bad, said the bachelor, but something good may be found in it. [ Cervantes ]

Love is composed of so many sensations, that something new of it can always be said. [ Saint-Prosper ]

A pious man said: If I ignored the existence of God, I would adore the sun and women.

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night; God said. Let Newton be; and all was light. [ Pope ]

A cock, having found a pearl, said that a grain of corn would be of more value to him. [ Pierre Leroux ]

It is pleasing to be pointed at with the finger and to have it said, There goes the man. [ Persius ]

Those glorious days, when man said to man, Let us be brothers, or I will knock you down. [ Le Brun ]

If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it. [ Epictetus ]

When I am dead, may earth be mingled with fire! Ay, said Nero, and while I am living, too. [ From a Greek Tragedian ]

Goethe said there would be little left of him if he were to discard what he owed to others. [ Charlotte Cushman ]

Hatred is nearly always honest - rarely, if ever, assumed. So much cannot be said for love. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

There will always remain something to be said of woman, as long as there is one on the earth. [ Boufflers ]

He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy. [ L'Estrange ]

The chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue. [ Swift ]

Jesus does not want us to say, dead, for. He said, all live unto Him, though they seem dead to us. [ Babcock ]

Gratitude which consists in good wishes may be said to be dead, as faith without good works is dead. [ Cervantes ]

A man cannot be cheerful and goodnatured unless he is also honest; which is not to be said of sadness. [ Steele ]

Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children. [ Horace Mann ]

Nature has said to woman: Be fair if thou canst, be virtuous if thou wilt; but, considerate, thou must be. [ Beaumarchais ]

We find ourselves less witty in remembering what we have said than in dreaming of what we would have said. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

Those only who know little, can be said to know anything. The greater the knowledge the greater the doubt. [ Goethe ]

Women are shy of nothing so much as the little word Yes, at least they say it only after they have said No. [ Jean Paul ]

The eloquent blood spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, you might have almost said her body thought. [ Donne ]

One should sympathize with the joy, the beauty, the color of life - the less said about life's sores the better. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Give me the character and I will forecast the event. Character, it has in substance been said, is victory organized. [ Bovee ]

It hath been well said that the archflatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self. [ Bacon ]

In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy dying, in which human happiness consists. [ Montaigne ]

If eminent men whose history has been written could return to life, how they would laugh at what has been said of them. [ De Finod ]

There is none but he whose being I do fear; and, under him, my genius is rebuked, as it is said Antony's was by Caesar. [ William Shakespeare ]

It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them. [ Izaak Walton ]

No man can be said to have the spirit who does not walk in it, or to be born of the spirit until the spirit is born of him. [ Ed ]

A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by which it was created. [ Tuckerman ]

As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil. [ Dr. Johnson ]

There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives. [ Burke ]

Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading. [ Vanbrugh ]

That was a judicious mother who said, I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me. [ Beecher ]

Mr. Bettenham said that virtuous men were like some herbs and spices, that give not out their sweet smell till they be broken or crushed. [ Bacon ]

We can say nothing but what hath been said. Our poets steal from Homer. Our storydressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best. [ Burton ]

Nothing is so embarrassing as the first tête-à-tête when there is everything to say, unless it be the last, when everything has been said. [ N. Roqueplan ]

Hannah More said to Horace Walpole: If I wanted to punish an enemy, it should be by fastening on him the trouble of constantly hating somebody. [ John Bate ]

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves. [ George Eliot ]

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give no peace. [ Emerson ]

Follies committed by sensible people, extravagances said by clever people, crimes committed by honest people: this is the history of revolutions. [ De Bonald ]

Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce. [ Barrow ]

I guess we were all guilty, in a way. We all shot him, we all skinned him, and we all got a complimentary bumper sticker that said, I helped skin Bob. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Great attention to what is said and sweetness of speech, a great degree of kindness and the appearance of awe, are always tokens of a man's attachment. [ Hitopadesa ]

Tom hinted at his dislike at some trifle his mistress had said; she asked him how he would talk to her after marriage if he talked at this rate before. [ Addison ]

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that it may be said to possess him. [ Bacon ]

Die when I may, I want it said of me, by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower when I thought a flower would grow. [ Lincoln ]

When the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common words he said turn oracles, the common thoughts he yoked like horses draw like griffins. [ Mrs. Browning ]

A vulgar man is captious and jealous; eager and impetuous about trifles. He suspects himself to be slighted, and thinks everything that is said meant at him. [ Chesterfield ]

In order that a love-letter may be what it should be, one should begin it without knowing what he is going to say, and end it without knowing what he has said. [ Raison ]

Jealousy is said to be the offspring of love. Yet, unless the parent makes haste to strangle the child, the child will not rest till it has poisoned the parent. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]

That is, in a great degree, true of all men, which was said of the Athenians, that they were like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one. [ Whately ]

The difference between you and me, said a philosopher, is that you say to masked hypocrites, I know you, while I leave them with the idea that they have deceived me. [ Chamfort ]

It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Few of us appreciate the number of our everyday blessings; we think they are trifles, and yet trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle, as Michael Angelo said. [ Sir John Lubbock ]

To the diamond is attributed the virtue of the talisman, and it is even said that he who wears the stone is always assured of victory, however numerous his enemies may be. [ Garcias ab Horto ]

When the age of the Vikings came to a close, they must have sensed it. Probably, the gathered together one evening, slapped each other on the back and said, Hey, good job. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Madness is consistent, which is more than can be said for poor reason. Our passions and principles are steady in frenzy, but begin to shift and waver as we return to reason. [ Sterne ]

Extremes touch: he who wants no favors from Fortune may be said to have obtained the very greatest that she can bestow, in realizing an independence which no changes can diminish. [ Chatfield ]

The old pool shooter has won many a game in his life. But now it was time to hang up the cue. When he did all the other cues came crashing to the floor. Sorry, he said with a smile. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

I met a brother who, describing a friend of his, said he was like a man who had dropped a bottle and broken it and put all the pieces in his bosom where they were cutting him perpetually. [ H. W. Beecher ]

Without enjoyment, the wealth of the miser is the same to him as if it were another's. But when it is said of a man "he hath so much," it is with difficulty he can be induced to part with it. [ Hitopadesa ]

Lord Melbourne was so accustomed to garnish his conversation in this way that Sydney Smith once said to him, We will take it for granted that everybody is damned, and now proceed with the subject. [ L'Estrange ]

Well was it said by a man of sagacity that dancing was a sort of privileged and reputable folly, and that the best way to be convinced of this was to close the ears and judge of it by the eyes alone. [ Gotthold ]

He who excels in his art so as to carry it to the utmost height of perfection of which it is capable may be said in some measure to go beyond it: his transcendent productions admit of no appellations. [ La Bruyere ]

Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over. [ Colton ]

Judge every word and deed which is according to nature to be fit for thee, and be not diverted by the blame which follows; but if a thing is good to be done or said, do not consider it unworthy of thee. [ Marcus Aurelius ]

The celebrated Boerhaave, who had many enemies, used to say that he never thought it necessary to repeat their calumnies. They are sparks, said he, which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves. [ Disraeli ]

Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from the ties and objects that recall them: but we can be said only to fulfill our destiny in the place that gave us birth. [ Hazlitt ]

Delusive ideas are the motives of the greatest part of mankind, and a heated imagination the power by which their actions are incited. The world in the eye of a philosopher may be said to be a large madhouse. [ Mackenzie ]

The emperor one day took up a pencil which fell from the hand of Titian, who was then drawing his picture; and upon the compliment which Titian made him on that occasion he said, Titian deserves to be served by Caesar. [ Dryden ]

What was your dream? It seemed to me that a woman in white raiment, graceful and fair to look upon, came towards me and calling me by name said: On the third day, Socrates, thou shalt reach the coast of fertile Phthia. [ Plato ]

There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told. [ Lowell ]

There was, it is said, a criminal in Italy who was suffered to make his choice between Guicciardini and the galleys. He chose the history. But the war of Pisa was too much for him; he changed his mind, and went to the oars. [ Macaulay ]

It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former quality, knowledge of the past is uninstructive; without the latter it is deceptive. [ Whately ]

We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did; and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. [ Izaak Walton ]

Any man shall speak the better when he knows what others have said, and sometimes the consciousness of his inward knowledge gives a confidence to his outward behavior, which of all other is the best thing to grace a man in his carriage. [ Feltham ]

It has been shrewdly said, that when men abuse us we should suspect ourselves, and when they praise us, them. It is a rare instance of virtue to despise censure which we do not deserve; and still more rare to despise praise which we do. [ Colton ]

It is the passions which do and undo everything; if reason ruled, nothing would get on. It is said that pilots fear beyond everything those halcyon seas where the vessel obeys not the helm, and that they prefer wind at the risk of storms. [ Fontenelle ]

He said - and his observation was just - that a man on whom heaven hath bestowed a beautiful wife should be as cautious of the men he brings home to his house as careful of observing the female friends with whom his spouse converses abroad. [ Cervantes ]

I have often heard it said, and I believe it to be true, that even the most eloquent man living, and however deeply impressed with the subject, could scarcely find utterance if he were to be standing up alone, and speaking only against a dead wall. [ Erskine ]

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it. [ Voltaire ]

The man makes the circumstances, and is spiritually as well as economically the artificer of his own fortune, but the man's circumstances are the element he is appointed to live and work in; so that in a no less genuine sense it can be said circumstances make the man. [ Carlyle ]

As Plato entertained some friends in a room where there was a couch richly ornamented, Diogenes came in very dirty, as usual, and getting upon the couch, and trampling on it, said, I trample upon the pride of Plato. Plato mildly answered, But with greater pride, Diogenes! [ Erasmus ]

There is a false gravity that is a very ill symptom: and it may be said, that as rivers, which run very slowly, have always the most mud at the bottom: so a solid stiffness in the constant course of a man's life, is a sign of a thick bed of mud at the bottom of his brain. [ Saville ]

To men addicted to delights, business is an interruption; to such as are cold to delights, business is an entertainment. For which reason it was said to one who commended a dull man for his application: No thanks to him; if he had no business, he would have nothing to do. [ Steele ]

Style is the physiognomy of the mind. It is more infallible than that of the body. To imitate the style of another is said to be wearing a mask. However beautiful it may be, it is through its lifelessness insipid and intolerable, so that even the most ugly living face is more engaging. [ Schopenhauer ]

When Anaxagoras was told of the death of his son, he only said, I knew he was mortal. So we in all casualties of life should say I knew my riches were uncertain, that my friend was but a man. Such considerations would soon pacify us, because all our troubles proceed from their being unexpected. [ Plutarch ]

I once asked a distinguished artist what place he gave to labor in art. Labor, he in effect said, is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art. Turning then to another - And you, I inquired, what do you consider as the great force in art? Love, he replied. In their two answers I found but one truth. [ Bovee ]

Two grand tasks have been assigned to the English people--the grand Industrial task of conquering some half, or more, of the terraqueous planet for the use of man; then, secondly, the grand Constitutional task of sharing, in some pacific endurable manner, the fruit of said conquest, and showing all people how it might be done. [ Carlyle ]

Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into a little universe in itself. Art may be said to draw aside the veil from nature. To those who are perfectly unskilled in the practice, unimbued with the principles of art, most objects present only a confused mass. [ Hazlitt ]

Truth does not consist in minute accuracy of detail, but in conveying a right impression; and there are vague ways of speaking that are truer than strict facts would be. When the Psalmist said, "Rivers of water run down mine eyes, because men keep not thy law," he did not state the fact but he stated a truth deeper than fact and truer. [ Dean Alford ]

The only thing that has been taught successfully to women is to wear becomingly the fig-leaf they received from their first mother. Everything that is said and repeated for the first eighteen or twenty years of a woman's life is reduced to this: My daughter, take care of your fig-leaf; your fig-leaf becomes you; your fig-leaf does not become you. [ Diderot ]

He was a cowboy, mister, and he loved the land. He loved it so much he made a woman out of dirt and married her. But when he kissed her, she disintegrated. Later, at the funeral, when the preacher said, Dust to dust, some people laughed, and the cowboy shot them. At his hanging, he told the others, I'll be waiting for you in heaven - with a gun. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

We speak of persons as jovial, as being born under the planet Jupiter or Jove, which was the joyfullest star and the happiest augury of all. A gloomy person was said to be saturnine, as being born under the planet Saturn, who was considered to make those who owned his influence, and were born when he was in the ascendant, grave and stern as himself. [ Trench ]

In Goethe's drama, Iphigenia defends her chastity, ascribing her firmness to the gods. No god hath said this: thine own heart hath spoken, answered Thoas, the king. They only speak to us through our heart, she replies. Have not I the right to hear them too? he rejoins. Thy storm of passion drowns the gentle whisper, adds the maiden, and closes all debate. [ Bartol ]

Plutarch tells us of an idle and effeminate Etrurian who found fault with the manner in which Themistocles had conducted a recent campaign. What, said the hero in reply, have you, too, something to say about war, who are like the fish that has a sword, but no heart? He is always the severest censor on the merits of others who has the least worth of his own. [ E. L. Magoon ]

After having said, read, and written what we have of women, what is the fact? In good faith, it is this: they are handsomer, more amiable, more essential, more worthy, and have more sensibility than we. All the faults that we reproach in them do not cause as much evil as one of ours. And, then, are their faults not due to our despotism, injustice, and self-love? [ Prince de Ligne ]

There was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped the schools they would not save anything, because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. He'll never get fat. I believe it is better to support schools than jails. [ Mark Twain, "Public Education Association" Speech ]

There is nothing so remote from vanity as true genius. It is almost as natural for those who are endowed with the highest powers of the human mind to produce the miracles of art, as for other men to breathe or move. Correggio, who is said to have produced some of his divinest works almost without having seen a picture, probably did not know that he had done anything extraordinary. [ Hazlitt ]

If flowers have souls, said Undine, the bees, whose nurses they are, must seem to them darling children at the breast. I once fancied a paradise for the spirits of departed flowers. They go, answered I, not into paradise, but into a middle state; the souls of lilies enter into maidens' foreheads, those of hyacinths and forget-me-nots dwell in their eyes, and those of roses in their lips. [ Richter ]

There have been many men who left behind them that which hundreds of years have not worn out. The earth has Socrates and Plato to this day. The world is richer yet by Moses and the old prophets than by the wisest statesmen. We are indebted to the past. We stand in the greatness of ages that are gone rather than in that of our own. But of how many of us shall it be said that, being dead, we yet speak? [ Beecher ]

In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term abandonment, to describe the self-surrender of the orator. Not his will, but the principle on which he is horsed, the great connection and crisis of events, thunder in the ear of the crowd. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Mr. Johnson had never, by his own account, been a close student, and used to advise young people never to be without a book in their pocket, to be read at bye-times, when they had nothing else to do. It has been by that means, said he to a boy at our house one day, that all my knowledge has been gained, except what I have picked up by running about the world with my wits ready to observe, and my tongue ready to talk. [ Mrs. Piozzi ]

Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Domitian said, that nothing was more grateful; Aristotle afirmed that beauty was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature, and Ovid, alluding to him, calls it a favor bestowed by the gods. [ From the Italian ]

It is the saying of an old divine, Two things in ray apparel I will chiefly aim at - commodiousness and decency; more than these is not commendable, yet I hate an effeminate spruceness as much as a fantastic disorder. A neglected comeliness is the best ornament. It is said of the celebrated Mr. Whitfield that he always was very clean and neat, and often said pleasantly that a minister of the gospel ought to be without a spot. [ J. Beaumont ]

As monarchs have a right to call in the specie of a state, and raise its value, by their own impression; so are there certain prerogative geniuses, who are above plagiaries, who cannot be said to steal, but, from their improvement of a thought, rather to borrow it, and repay the commonwealth of letters with interest again; and may more properly be said to adopt, than to kidnap a sentiment, by leaving it heir to their own fame. [ Sterne ]

Columbus died in utter ignorance of the true nature of his discovery. He supposed he had found India, but never knew how strangely God had used him. So God piloted the fleet. The great discoverer, with all his heroic virtues, did not know whither he went. He sailed for the back door of Asia, and landed at the front door of America, and knew it not. He never settled the continent. Thus far and no farther, said the Lord. His providence was over all. [ David James Burrell ]

How fitting to have every day, in a vase of water on your table, the wild flowers of the season which are just blossoming. Can any house be said to be furnished without them? Shall we be so forward to pluck the fruits of Nature and neglect her flowers? These are surely her finest influences. So may the season suggest the thoughts it is fitted to suggest. Let me know what pictures Nature is painting, what poetry she is writing, what ode composing now. [ Thoreau ]

The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge - conscious, rather, of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him. [ Ruskin ]

If I live in the Wild West days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That was if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like, Hey look. He's carrying a soldering iron! and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice. Then everyone would get real quiet and ashamed, because they made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Let us now suppose that in the mind of each man there is an aviary of all sorts of birds some flocking together apart from the rest, others in small groups, others solitary, flying anywhere and everywhere. . . . We may suppose that the birds are kinds of knowledge, and that when we were children, this receptacle was empty; whenever a man has gotten and detained in the enclosure a kind of knowledge, he may be said to have learned or discovered the thing which is the subject of the knowledge: and this is to know. [ Dialogues, Theaetetus ]

I smoke in bed until I have to go to sleep; I wake up in the night, sometimes once, sometimes twice; sometimes three times, and I never waste any of these opportunities to smoke. This habit is so old and dear and precious to me that I would feel as you, sir, would feel if you should lose the only moral you've got - meaning the chairman - if you've got one: I am making no charges: I will grant, here, that I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

Once when I was in Hawaii, on the island of Kauai, I met a mysterious old stranger. He said he was about to die and wanted to tell someone about the treasure. I said, Okay, as long as it's not a long story. Some of us have a plane to catch, you know. He started telling his story, about the treasure and his life and all, and I thought: This story isn't too long. But then, he kept going, and I started thinking, Uh-oh, this story is getting long. But then the story was over, and I said to myself: You know, that story wasn't too long after all. I forget what the story was about, but there was a good movie on the plane. It was a little long, though. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. You don't have to tell me, I said. I'm off the team, aren't I? Well, said Coach, you never were really ON the team. You made that uniform you're wearing out of rags and towels, and your helmet is a toy space helmet. You show up at practice and then either steal the ball and make us chase you to get it back, or you try to tackle people at inappropriate times. It was all true what he was saying. And yet, I thought something is brewing inside the head of this Coach. He sees something in me, some kind of raw talent that he can mold. But that's when I felt the handcuffs go on. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

said in Scrabble®

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said in Words With Friends™

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Words containing the sequence said

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