Famous quotes containing the word wrote:
“What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see what a work this comparatively unread and unlettered man wrote within six weeks. Where is our professor of belles-lettres, or of logic and rhetoric, who can write so well?”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Ah, yes, I wrote the Purple Cow
Im sorry, now, I wrote it!
But I can tell you, anyhow,
Ill kill you if you quote it.”
—Gelett Burgess (18661951)
“He wrote in prison, not a History of the World, like Raleigh, but an American book which I think will live longer than that. I do not know of such words, uttered under such circumstances, and so copiously withal, in Roman or English or any history.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)