Quotes by : Jacques Barzun

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence,....

"Plain English" - everybody loves it demands it - from the other fellow.

In any assembly the simplest way to stop the transacting of business and split the ranks is to appeal....

The root difficulty in all cases was the state of being blind and deaf to words-- not seeing the words....

Whoever wants to know the hearts and minds of America had better learn baseball.

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral....

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty....

Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.