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POPSDid You Know These Words and Phrases? # We had a face-to-face meeting. We met later in the elevator and again were face-to-face. (Hyphenate as a compound adjective and a compound adverb, according to Merriam-Webster. But AP style insinuates no hyphenation as an adverb.) # I sent an up-to-date memo to George. I want to keep him up to date.
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POPSLie of the century? Mark Twain said it best: "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
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POPSIf “Mark Twain Said It,” He Probably Didn’t In America, Shapiro said that “people associated with folksiness” such as Twain, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, and Yogi Berra are the big quote magnets. Another folksy fellow is George W. Bush, who often gets credit for the supposed Bushism “strategery,” which was actually coined by Bush impersonator Will Ferrell on Saturday Night Live. Similarly, the Sarah Palin one-liner “I can see Russia from my house” is a Tiny Fey-ism, not a Palinism. Shapiro believes that Palin could be the next big quote magnet, and that “stupid quotes in the future will get pinned on her.”
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POPSTop 50 Atheism Quotes Quotes from everyone from George Carlin to Ben Franklin to Isaac Asimov A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows. - - Mark Twain
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POPSMark Twain’s Top 9 Tips for Living a Kick-Ass Life “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did so. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” “It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.” “Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.” “When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.” You may know Mark Twain for some of his very popular books like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He was a writer and also a humorist, satirist and lecturer. Twain is known for his many " and often funny " quotes.
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POPSTrue facts #1 © 2009 compiled from many sources by Howard Daughters quite interesting...still more on the site..
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POPSMythbusters: Famous Sayings more: British PM Jim Callaghan never said “Crisis? What crisis?” – a hostile press invented the career-killing phrase on his behalf. Headline writers can also claim Harold Macmillan’s “You’ve never had it so good”. Sadly, nobody really thought JFK said “I am a doughnut” on a visit to Berlin; pedantically, his attempt at “I am a Berliner” should have left out the indefinite article, but the crowd reaction showed that no one doubted what he meant.
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