What did Rex Stout mean by: I try to know what I need to know. I make sure to know what I want to know. (Nero Wolfe) - Rex Stout Author Copy
+ A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Rex Stout, Control, Flexibility, 0 - Rex Stout Author
+ There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Rex Stout, Data, Statistics, 0 - Rex Stout Author
+ What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature? Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Rex Stout, Literature, Obscenity, 0 - Rex Stout Author
+ Everything in a story should be credible. Feraz Zeid, June 27, 2023December 12, 2023, Rex Stout, Stories, 0 - Rex Stout Author
+ Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts. Feraz Zeid, October 10, 2023December 26, 2023, Rex Stout, Mind, Shadow, Writing, 0 - Rex Stout Author
+ A hole in the ice is dangerous only to those who go skating. Feraz Zeid, September 12, 2023December 24, 2023, Rex Stout, Ice, Safety, Skating, 0 - Rex Stout Author
+ As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Rex Stout, Choice, 0 - Rex Stout Author
+ Dignities are like faces; no two are the same. Feraz Zeid, November 5, 2023December 26, 2023, Rex Stout, Dignity, Faces, 0 - Rex Stout Author
Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure. - Jean Kerr Playwright · USA
The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it. Explain - Leonardo da Vinci Painter · Italy
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people’s weaknesses. - William Hazlitt Essayist · England
It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of. - Jean Rostand Biologist · France
