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| Oxymorons by Subject: Skills (42)
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| Oxymoron Quotes and Sayings: Skills (47) |
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- Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use. - Wendell Johnson
- Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. - Ambrose Bierce
- By learning to obey, you will know how to command. - Italian Proverb
- Chronoscopy is the observation and exact estimation of time. - Exact estimation
- Common sense is not so common.
- Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. - Winston Churchill
- Do not put statements in the negative form.
And don't start sentences with a conjunction.
It is incumbent on one to avoid archaisms.
If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.
Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.
Unqualified superlatives are the worst of all.
De-accession euphemisms.
If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is.
Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky.
Never, ever use repetitive redundancies.
Also, avoid awkward or affected alliteration.
Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague. - Great Rules for writing from William Safire in the New York Times
- Everyone writes on the walls except me. - Said to be graffiti seen in Pompeii
- Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
- Half of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at.
- He talks right and runs left. - Bob Dole, on Clinton's changing-political positions
- I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is much better to prophesy after the event has already taken place. - Winston Churchill
- I distinctly remember forgetting that. - Clara Barton
- I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead. - Samuel Goldwyn
- I have made mistakes, but have never made the mistake of claiming I never made one. - James G. Bennet
- I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. - Winston Churchill
- I know that I know nothing.
- I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? - Benjamin Disraeli
- I only know one thing: That I know nothing. - Socrates
- I read part of it all the way through. - Samuel Goldwyn
- I think I'm having deja vu all over again.
- I was dying to know that...
- If common sense is so common, why is there so many people with out it?
- If I look confused it's because I'm thinking. - Samuel Goldwyn
- If you haven't made any mistakes recently, you must be doing something wrong. - Paulo Coelho
- I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong. - Samuel Goldwyn
- It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. - Mark Twain
- I've told you for the fifty-thousandth time, stop exaggerating.
- May I ask a question?
- Not only am I redundant and superfluous, but I also tend to use more words than necessary.
- Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
- Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before.
- Spontaneity is good as long as it is controlled.
- Stop stabbing yourself in the back. - Judith Briles
- Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill
- Talk less. Say more.
- The more I know, the more I know I don't know!
- The way to succeed is to double your error rate. - Thomas J. Watson
- This report is filled with omissions.
- To lead the people, walk behind them. - Lao-Tzu
- We are not anticipating any emergencies.
- We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.
- What did I tell you last time about not listening?
- When asked how to achieve success more rapidly, came the quick reply, 'Double your failure rate'. - Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
- You fail to overlook the crucial point. - Samuel Goldwyn
- You have to be clever to know that you're dumb!
- You win big when you lose right.
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