A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread.

A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread.

Shakespeare, who never could think up a plot by himself, found this one [Macbeth] in Holinshed's Chronicles, changing it just enough so that no one would recognize the source. He didn't count on the resourcefulness of modern scholars, who have to discover things like this to become associate professors.

That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'.

[Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required.

Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.

(Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short.