#rude

It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms. ↗

— Jean Racine

#before #behooves #everything #make #person

This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television. ↗

— Dan Rather

#art #best #blow #crude #day

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature. ↗

— Herbert Read

#anarchism #any #basis #claim #direct

The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word. ↗

— Herbert Read

#came #derived #equity #evidence #first

I mean, I'll say the filthiest things in the world, but when it comes down to it, I'm kind of a prude. ↗

— Andy Richter

#down #i #kind #mean #prude

But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background! ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#ballot #ballot box #box #confession #contact

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#cracked #crude #dance #human #kettle

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#one-half #prudent #question

Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#displaying #famille #living #maximum #motives

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#excitement #important #important ways #intrudes #over