Quotes by Henry Watson

“Pretentious quotations [are] the surest road to tedium.””

“Anyone who uses that phrase [] lives in a grammarless cavern.””

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.””

“These are days that require us to wake up to the realities of an ever-darkening world. Elder Henry B. Eyring recently warned, “As the forces around us increase in intensity, whatever spiritual strength was once sufficient will not be enough.” (Ensign, October 1999, 9.)””

“After the battle the hotel was put out of bounds, for serving drinks in forbidden hours. Indeed, A.P.M.’s have no souls. It reopened later, and continued to flourish until the German attack of April 1918, when the enemy shelling became too insistent. The hotel has not been badly hit, and, if it be rebuilt, I beseech all those who visit the battlefields of Arras to lunch at the Hôtel de Commerce”

“should be so spelt. In a cumbrous word whose length can only be excused if it is at least significant to the learned, it is absurd not to correct the misspelling for ; the at once puts the Greek scholar off the track by suggesting or (Greek βρύω , ), and forbids him to think of μεσημβρία , which is what he ought to be thinking of. When a word like that is familiar to everyone has settled itself into our hearts and minds with a wrong spelling, there is much to be said for refraining from correction; but with the of no one has tender associations.””