803 Quotes by Bill Bryson

A year in Vermont, according to an old saw, is "nine months of winter followed by three months of very poor sledding.

and let's face it, the French Army couldn't beat a girls hockey team

...and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that's really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things.

Noting the lack of crime or security in the Netherlands, the author asked a native who guarded a national landmark. He got the replay, "We all do.

Накратко - животът просто иска да го има. Но - и тук е интересната част - в повечето случаи не иска да е кой знае какво.

From this I think we can conclude that the definitive English holorime has yet to be written. However, an old children's riddle does seem to come close. It is the one that poses the question "How do you prove in three steps that a sheet of paper is a lazy dog?"The answer: (1) a sheet of paper is an ink-lined plane; (2) an inclined plane is a slope up; (3) a slow pup is a lazy dog.

Just because a word or expression has an antiquity or was once widely used does not confer on it some special immunity

If we should be worrying about anything to do with the future of English, it should not be that the various strands will drift apart but that they will grow indistinguishable. And what a sad, sad loss that would be.

She would only make me take my seat if I didn't act calm and Swiss about it all.