Chiefly Quotes


Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools. - John Tillotson



You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length. - Carl Friedrich Gauss



Writing good editorials is chiefly telling people what they think, not what you think. - Arthur Brisbane



Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God. - Erica Jong



When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser. - Marianne Moore



We sought out and visited all the Indians hereabouts that we could meet with, in number about twenty. They were chiefly in one place, about a mile from where we lodged. - John Woolman



Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge. - Max Beerbohm



Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing. - Henry David Thoreau



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